Celebrating 45th Anniversary, RSAF Bring Black Knights Back at 2014 Singapore Airshow - 
The Long Road Back to Abu Dhabi - Australian Flying | Four years is a long time in the air race game, especially when there's no air racing to be done. When the Red Bull Air Race series went into sabbatical for a refit after the 2010 season, Matt Hall went into caretaker mode; forging a temporary career...
Tom Poberezny To Return To AirVenture - Midwest Flyer Magazine | OSHKOSH, WIS. – A growing number of members of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) have realized that something important is now missing at EAA and AirVenture; namely, Tom Poberezny. He led EAA for over 20...
Tuskegee Airman to speak at FCTC Thursday - St. Augustine Record | A member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of men who became the nation’s first black military airmen during World War II, is speaking at First Coast Technical College on Thursday. Ret. Lt. Col. Hiram Mann served in the 332nd Fighter Group, flying P51-D Mustangs and providing escort for heavy-bomber aircraft during the war. The Tuskegee Airman broke down the barriers against black pilots serving in the military. The pilots became known as “Red Tails,” a reference to the red painted tails of their planes...
Timeless Voices - Harold Hagerty · eaavideo.org | Harold Hagerty (1924-2011) flew combat missions as a B-17 waist gunner with the 560th Bomb Squadron of the 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force during WWII. He survived a midair collision with another B-17 on his 18th mission. (recorded in 2002)
Seven decades later, WWII ball turret gunner returns to the air - Naples News | Shortly after the B-17 Flying Fortress touched down in Naples, Calvin Harvey, 90, emerged from the tiny hatch in the side of the World War II era bomber. His eyes welled up, on the verge of tears....
P-40 Warhawk new exhibit in National War II Museum - WWL | NEW ORLEANS -- Even resting on a flat-bed truck, temporarily stripped of its wings, the shark's face with the menacing smile makes the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter instantly recognizable, especially to a World War II veteran. "Pretty cool, pretty cool, yep," was veteran Tom Blakey's reaction....
Howard Hughes plane/boat floats on - AOPA Pilot | I had forgotten about this old Howard Hughes airliner that was made into a boat and later dubbed the Cosmic Muffin by singer Jimmy Buffet who happened to float by one day and entered the craft into a novel he was writing. Looks a little beaten up, but still as interesting as when it was on “Oprah” and CNN.
Britain from Abobe, New Exhibition at the RAF Museum · Warbirds News | In 1919, in the area where the RAF Museum now stands in Hendon, North London, the world’s first firm of commercial aerial photographers – Aerofilms – was established.Aerofilms was founded by two pioneers who married the fledgling technology of flight with the discipline of photography- Claude Grahame-White and Francis Lewis Wills For the next 80 years Aerofilms captured Britain’s villages, towns, cities and landmarks from the air which provided unique and stunning views of the development of Britain’s rural and urban landscape throughout the 20th century....
AIR FORCE: 'If We Don’t Keep F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant' - Business Insider | ...“If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22,” Hostage told the Air Force Times....
Applications open for Girls With Wings, other scholarships - AOPA Pilot | “The Wichita Aero Club Dean Humphrey Scholarship will not only honor Dean's memory but is designed to support students who wish to follow his example into communications, administrative or other non-technical roles in aviation-related organizations,”...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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