Sun 'n Fun 2011 - Air Show Photography - Final Gear | Some airshow pics from this year's Sun 'n Fun. I got too many good ones this time around to post them all, but here's the best of in various categories:
History Takes Flight In WWII Bomber, Fighter Tour - Fredericksburg Standard | Starting this afternoon, the skies over Gillespie County will be home through Friday to several aircraft from World War II and the Vietnam War as part of a three-day “Wings of Freedom Tour”...
Bomber highlighting show - Ennis Daily News | A storied World War II-era bomber will be one of the centerpieces of next month’s Corsicana Airshow. With the distinction of being just one of 12 flyable B-17 Bombers from World War II, Texas Raiders is the most recent to emerge from an eight-year extensive restoration at Houston’s Hobby Airport...
Swoop Champion SFC Greg Windmiller - US Army Golden Knights | When asked as a child, what do you want to be when you grow up? I, unlike other children, had no reservations, no doubt in my mind and no hesitation in answering the question as to what I wanted to do with my life. I longed to be one of my favorite childhood toys. It wasn’t Stretch Armstrong, The Lone Ranger and not even Evel Knievel. Well, ok maybe a little bit of Evel Knievel, but mostly I wanted to be one of those little green army men that came in the plastic bags that we would play with as a child...
Cosford Air Show to get sneak preview of aerobatic display team routine - Flightline UK | Visitors to this year’s Cosford Air Show will be treated to a first look at the new moves of aerobatic flying team The Blades. Comprising four Extra 300 stunt planes flown in an array of intricate manoeuvres, The Blades – now in their sixth consecutive display season...
Airport to honor Bill Walker with plaque - Herald-Citizen | SPARTA -- A memorial plaque will be dedicated at the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport to commemorate a long-time pilot who died recently while performing stunts at a Florida airshow...
FRED CAMPBELL: The few POWs remaining in the Concho Valley represent history - Go San Angelo | SAN ANGELO, Texas — Recently after church my wife and I entered the drive-thru at the Burger King on Knickerbocker Road. The line was long as we moved up to get our hamburgers. When we finally got to the window to pay, the cashier said, "The people in the car behind you are paying for your lunch, and they want to thank you for your service."...
Focke Wulf to fly our skies - Marlborough Express | A vintage Ferrari of the skies is being reassembled at Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre at Blenheim. The Focke Wulf Fw190 should be airworthy and ready to face off against its rival, the Supermarine Spitfire, at the Classic Fighters Airshow at Omaka Airfield during Easter weekend...
Heritage centre has 'good chance' of getting free Skyhawk - Marlborough Express | The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim has made it clear it wants one of the mothballed air force Skyhawks, centre chief executive Jane Orphan says. Defence Minister Wayne Mapp yesterday announced nine of the air force's 17 Skyhawks will be sent to eight aviation museums in New Zealand and one to an Australian museum...
Podcast: WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE! - Warbird Radio | The WIX guys are back tonight with an all new show...
U.S. Navy Battle Cats Land at American Heroes Air Show - Rotor.com | Buckle up for high-flying excitement when the U.S. Navy HSL-43 Battle Cats arrive from their base in San Diego to team up with the American Heroes Air Show – just one part of the admission-free American Heroes Weekend at the Texas Military Forces’ historic Camp Mabry in the heart of Austin...
Friends line up for space shuttle bids - BizJournals.com | In the bid to land one of NASA’s three retired space shuttles, due to be announced next week, it appears as though everyone has a friend in the fight. Earlier today, Washington’s Congressional delegation released a joint statement asking NASA to award Seattle’s Museum of Flight one of the retiring space shuttles...
“Gagarin” Spacecraft Flew Into Space - English Russia | The 50th anniversary of the first manned flight into space is coming up. All Russia is preparing for its celebration. And yesterday, on the 5th of April, the Soyuz-FG rocket and Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft (named after Yuri Gagarin) were launched from ...
International Space Station Expedition 27: Soyuz launch (big photo gallery) - Boing Boing | The Russian Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Ronald Garan, Russian cosmonauts Alexandr Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko, blasts off at the...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
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Air Show Rock Star, Michael Goulian, Warns GA Pilots Not To Be ... by mwflyer | MADISON, WIS. – Air show performer and pilot for the Red Bull Air Races, Michael Goulian, urged a group of 80 fellow general aviation pilots, March 21, 2011, to learn from his example. Like all pilots, Goulian has at times become complacent and told pilots that this complacency can get them into trouble!...
Breaking: FAA confirms Gulfstream G650 Roswell test accident from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower | 5:45 PM ET: The Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed a Gulfstream G650 test aircraft crashed at 9:30 AM MT on its takeoff roll on runway 15 at Roswell International Air Center Airport in Roswell, New Mexico, killing all four aboard…
What Sun ’N Fun Is All About by Joe Clark | Sun ’N Fun is all about camaraderie. Pure and simple, it boils down to people who like flying and building airplanes getting together in fellowship. There is not one group of people to better “hang out” with than those who like working on and flying airplanes. I was at the hangar one evening, sitting underneath the wing of the 170 with a student. He wanted an airplane, but he didn’t have the money to buy an airplane of his own. I suggested that he start building one…
Coastal Carolina Air Show | Wilmington NC - coastalnc-wilmington ... by Kim | Come join us as we celebrate the 100th year of Naval Flight and the 70th anniversary of the Battleship North Carolina. On Saturday April 16th and Sunday…
Family and Friends Honor "Wild Bill" Walker - NewsChannel5.com | Walker died in Florida last Saturday when his stunt plane crashed during an air show. Family members say he was a great pilot, but an even better father. "But he was good natured from the core. And he was a great father from beginning to end. ...
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Announces Finalists for 2011 Grants ... - Lakeland, FL (Vocus/PRWEB) April 02, 2011 The Lightspeed Aviation Foundation has announced the names of 20 charities, selected from hundreds of nominees, that will benefit from grants to be award…
Palm Springs embraces its modern past - Denver Post | The rest of the year, you'll have to make do with the B-17 Flying Fortress that hangars at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Caveat: Most of the collection at the museum is flyable, so the plane you're dying to see might be away. palmspringsairmuseum.org ...
Selfridge Military Air Museum kicks off new season with interactive displays - The Detroit News | Harrison Township— New interactive displays will be dedicated today during a ceremony for the kick off of visitors season at the Selfridge Military Air Museum. The displays are part of an expansion of the museum, which features a full-sized replica of ...
"Life Is Short, So Fly Fast" UCAP #230-delta from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | UCAP Daily! Jeb is back, and the gang talk with James Wyndbrant who just went flying with an aviation legend. Lopresti Fury…
"Life Is Short, So Fly Fast" UCAP #230-delta from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | UCAP Daily! Jeb is back, and the gang talk with James Wyndbrant who just went flying with an aviation legend. Lopresti Fury…
Taking flight in Port Lavaca: Dianna Stanger talks about life on the ranch, in ... - Victoria Advocate | You'll be competing in the Women's Air Race Classic in June. Tell us a little about the competition and what you must do to prep for it. In the middle of June, I will be doing a total of 2365 nautical miles in the Husky for the Women's Air Race Classic ...Saudi Arabian C130 Hercules from Military Photos by Military-G | Was up the local airport yesterday and this fat beast plopped in out of the sky, If anyones interested in C130 Hercules.. Just thought I'd share. He was bumping and bouncing in sideways all over the place against the winds…
Rocket women from High Power Rocketry by R2K | Why are you not reading The Rocket Dungeon right now?
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