Wheels up: Air Show a hit - Florida Today | TITUSVILLE — South Carolina pilot Greg Connell zoomed his rotating blue biplane over the runway at low altitude and rolled upside-down, leaving behind a billowing trail of white smoke. Then a silver A-4C Skyhawk roared past the Space Coast Regional Airport crowd, demonstrating noisy Vietnam War-era aerobatic maneuvers...
New acts wow crowds at 10th annual Jasper Air Show - KTRE | JASPER, TX (KTRE) -The weather didn't stop hundreds from coming out to see the planes flip, fly, twist and turn through the skies of East Texas. These pilots rip and roar through the sky defying gravity and performing dangerous and thrilling stunts. Nearly all the acts were new to the Jasper Air Show this year and each brought their own unique style and planes to the show....
Warbirds Coming Back To Martinsville Speedway For STP 500 Flyover - SpeedwayMedia.com | MARTINSVILLE, Va. (March 18, 2014) – The Warbirds will offer up an encore flyover performance for the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway, repeating their amazing effort from last fall. The Warbirds, a group of five former military pilots flying vintage post-World War II-type aircraft, will present the pre-race flyover for the STP 500 on March 30...
Australian Centenary of Military Aviation Air Show Report · Warbirds News | An F/A-18F Super Hornet from No. 6 Squadron during a demonstration for the Centenary of Military Aviation Air Show held at Point Cook. ( Image credit CPL Glen McCarthy © Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence)...
No airshow at Chennault this year - Sacramento Bee | LAKE CHARLES, La. -- Chennault International Airport has decided not to host airshow this year. Randy Robb, president of the airshow's board of directors and Chennault's executive director, said Monday that the nonprofit organization needs more time to gather resources and recruit committee members before the airshow will return....
Purchase a ride in our P-51C Mustang THIS week! - CAF Red Tail Squadron | Is taking a trip of a lifetime in a fully-restored WWII-era warbird on your bucket list? Well then now’s your chance to hop on board our P-51C Mustang – the Tuskegee Airmen – and soar through the skies with one of our very own pilots!...
Goodyear unveils new blimp, launches contest to find name - General Aviation News | AKRON,
Ohio — The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company recently unveiled an all-new, state-of-the-art version of its world-famous icon, the Goodyear Blimp. The new airship is larger, faster, and more maneuverable, according to company officials.The new blimp was introduced to media, Goodyear associates and dealers at an event held at Goodyear’s Wingfoot Lake hangar in Suffield, Ohio. The blimp is scheduled to begin test flights over Northeast Ohio later this month before going into service in the summer...US Silver Star awarded to Aussie airman - Ninemsn | The US military decided all five aboard the B-25 Mitchell should posthumously receive the Silver Star for bravery, with the four Americans duly awarded the medal in 1942 and 1943. But in an administrative oversight not unsurprising for that desperate time, Flying Officer Mobsby's medal was never presented to his widow Erica...
Timeless Voices - Victor Tatelman - eaavideo.org | Victor Tatelman flew B-25s with the 499th Bomb Squadron of the 345th Bomb Group during WWII. While flying combat missions in the South Pacific, Victor was selected for a special operation to attack and destroy Japanese radar installations.
‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ was Bill Grant’s plane - War Tales | ...The young airman flew as a gunner aboard a C-47 transport plane of World War II vintage converted into a “Dragon Ship” for the Vietnam War. This was the plane the troops on the ground called “Puff the Magic Dragon.” The low and slow flying twin-engine transport bristled with a trio of Gatling guns that could each spew out 1,500 rounds of ammunition in 15 seconds....
Handley-Page Hampden Resurrection at RAF Museum Cosford - Warbirds News | Hampden
P1344
joined the RAFas a standard medium bomber variantin December 1939.
After passing through 14 OTU (Operational Training Unit), the aircraft
underwent major modifications for conversion into a torpedo bomber,
being re-designated as a Hampden TB Mk.I. She then joined Coastal
Command with 144 Squadron at RAF Leuchars in Scotland. Whilst at
Leuchars she flew a mission to Kristiansand, Norway. The weeks of...Hollywood films to screen at Air Force Museum Theatre on fourth Sunday of each month - USAF Museum | ...April is the anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, which makes it a perfect chance to catch Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris. Three astronauts must devise a strategy to return to Earth safely after their spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage. "Houston, we have a problem." Apollo 13 is one of the top space movies of all time and a winner of more than 20 awards including two Oscars. This is a film you will want to see again on Southwest Ohio's largest digital screen....
C-47 coastal survey plane of the National Oceanographic Office by travelforaircraft | A C-47 modified from the original radial reciprocating engines to turboprop engines — and painted in a lively looking livery...
First flight of the E-Fan Airbus Innovations Group - Translated | March 11, Didier Esteyne, technical director of ACS, made the first flight with the prototype all-electric twin E-Fan from the Bordeaux-Merignac. It was designed by the Charente SME Aero Composites Saintonge (ACS) and Airbus Innovations Group...
Wanted: A few more women aviators - WTOP | Ruby Sheldon, 92 years-old from Phoenix, checks her plane before the 34th Annual Air Race Classic, the longest all-women transcontinental air race in the world, with a history that dates back more than 80 years. Air Race Teams consist of two female...
Gift of Flight Continues! - Flight To Success | Victoria, TX — Over 450 girls and women of all ages took to the skies the week of March 3rd – 9th with the pilots of Calhoun Air Center. This marks the fourth year the air center has taken part in Women of Aviation Worldwide (WOAW) Week. WOAW aims to foster diversity in aviation by celebrating history, raising awareness, and sparking vocations among the female population....
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