Pilots Confirmed For Jet Racing Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE- A NASA astronaut who has completed six space shuttle flights has been confirmed as one of the pilots taking part in high-speed jet racing at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow next Easter.Colonel Curtis Brown of the United States was flight commander on two of his six space missions and is also a five times Reno Jet Air Race Champion.Alongside Curtis in the “Reno” team contesting the #GigatownWanaka Jet races will be three times Red Bull World Air Race champion, Mike Mangold.
Happy Birthday To The Consolidated B-24 Liberator · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | Seventy-four years ago today, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator took flight for the first time. Newer, more efficient and more versatile than the B-17 Flying Fortress, more Liberators were built than any other military aircraft in American history. In addition to being used as a heavy bomber, the B-24 also served as a long-range maritime patrol and transport aircraft...
Remembering another war hero - Bayou Renaissance Man | Those who inspired the World War II 
generation are leaving us faster and faster now, as they get on in years. A few weeks ago we lost Wing Commander James 'Jimmy' Flint of the Royal Air Force, at the age of 100...
Remembering aviator Alex – Spitfire-testing extraordinaire - East Lindsey Target | It was following the Kings Cup Air Race of 1933 that people began to take notice when he won the Siddely Trophy flying a Comper Swift. The Comper Aircraft Company, while based at Hooton Park Aerodrome near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, has an...
Rare Rutan aircraft donated to the Institute for Aerospace Education · General Aviation News Staff By SaVannah Rash | Spirits were high at the Mayer household in Nelson County on Saturday, Nov. 2. Students from all across Kentucky were scrambling in frenzied excitement over the generous donation made by John Mayer to the Institute for Aerospace Education, a rare Rutan Defiant...
Exploring the Wright Stuff in Ohio - Philly.com | Start out in the West Side neighborhood at the Aviation Trail Visitor Center, a unit of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. It's located across a brick plaza from the ... With a little exploration, the stone foundations of the ...
America’s first airplane factory reappears · General Aviation News Staff | After nearly a century in obscurity, America’s first airplane factory began to reappear in 2013 as demolition crews peeled away surrounding buildings in Dayton, Ohio. The original Wright Company factory began to emerge on the 54-acre, former Delphi Home Avenue plant in west Dayton as demolition crews razed other buildings to prepare the site for redevelopment. The Wright Company factory was the first in the United States built for the purpose of producing airplanes...
Spitfire Mk FR.XVIIIe SM845 (G-BUOS) Made Its First Flight · Warbirds News | As reported on Global Aviation Resource Spitfire Mk FR.XVIIIe SM845 (G-BUOS) made its first flight from IWM Duxford . On Tuesday, 17 December 2013, Richard Lake’s Spitfire Mk FR.XVIIIe SM845 took to the skies for the first time since summer 2010, following its rebuild to flying condition by Historic Flying Limited (HFL) at IWM Duxford in conjunction with Airframe Assemblies Ltd on the Isle of Wight. Both have been responsible for several high-profile Spitfire restorations in recent years, with their projects now flying in the UK, Europe and USA...
Antique Airfield:
- Time - 2013 Fly-In Video by Brent Taylor
- J-2 On Skis - Last Flight of the Year at Antique Airfield
- American Eaglet Project Fuselage Paint
FlightTime Radio Show 310 | Milford and Charlie were in the Renegade Light Sport Studio for their 310th FlightTime Radio Show!! Spent a lot of time talking about all the different places we have broadcast from and the exciting people we have talked to! We talked a bit about the companies that stand behind us, propping … no pun intended… us up through the years. We are excited about some great news for FlightTime Radio coming up soon!... Stay tuned!!! We’ll be right back to start our 7th year on the air!!
"Bowing Boeing" UCAP #342 - Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | A Triple-Seven makes a successful go-around… Shell has an idea… and transitioning to ultralights. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded December 8, 2013. Alt titles: "Hit the TOGA button", "other-illities", "drag monsters"
The Curse of the Cargomaster - Air & Space Magazine | They’d fly it again, if they had the chance. Among the group gathered at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base, there’s a man for every crew station at the ready. They flew, maintained, navigated, and sometimes cursed one of the least understood aircraft in the history of the U.S. Air Force, the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster. In a conference room at Dover’s Air Mobility Command Museum, papers are shuffled—Where was that article from the base news? Smudgy documents, their margins trailing off the page from copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy Xeroxing, are offered. A small stack of VHS tapes forms a centerpiece. The men, some slowed by age and ailment, chatter and argue. A clamor of “There I was” stories fills the room, accompanied by hand flying. Then, with quiet authority, Hank Baker, a retired C-133 flight engineer, holds his hand up, as if to take an oath...
The Bomber on the Golf Course - Air & Space Magazine | On the night of may 31, 1944, my brother and I were awakened by engine noise—overhead. We were up and outside in an instant. I was nine,
and in my mind, nothing ever happened in Enterprise, a small town in northeastern Oregon. Hearing what sounded like a big multi-engine airplane circling Enterprise in the middle of the night was thrilling. The few airplanes we had seen were small, single-engine varieties. Our father ran to the car and drove off...Fighting Hitler’s Jets by travelforaircraft | ...This is not a book which discusses in-depth the grand strategy the Allies developed to defeat the Luftwaffe's jet powered aircraft in the latter part of World War II in Europe. Fighting Hitler's Jet's is a text rich with historical insight, experiences of American as well as German pilots, and knowledge of aircraft and their designers not commonly found in other books...
The usefulness of IRST - Bayou Renaissance Man | A reader asked me whether the IRST (infra-red search and track) sensors mounted on many modern fighter aircraft (such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Russian Sukhoi Su-27 family, the Swedish Saab Gripen and the US F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-35 Lightning II) was of any real utility compared to radar and other sensors. Here's a picture of the IRST sensor (circled in red) on a Eurofighter Typhoon...
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