Spirits soar as Yankee Air Museum celebrates grand reopening six years after devastating fire - AnnArbor.com
'The Star-Spangled Banner' played as the event, celebrating the grand reopening of the Yankee Air Museum, got under way. Korean War veteran Lee Bassett ...
Legendary Pilot Clay Lacy Honored With Prestigious Pathfinder Award For ... - PR Newswire
An airline captain, experimental test pilot, air race champion, aviation record-setter, aerial cinematographer and entrepreneur, Lacy has touched upon more ...
Aviation Hall of Honor to induct state greats - McMinnville News-Register
By News-Register Staff The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is honoring aviation leaders with induction into the Oregon Aviation Hall of Honor again this ...
2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show - November 11, 12 & 13 Naval ...
Rob Reider Announcer F-15E Strike Eagle Demo Team Airboss, Inc Lone Star Flight Museum Vertigo Airshows C-17. F/A-18F Super Hornet The public is invited to join sponsors and military for the night air show held on Thursday evening. ...
Super Sonic - San Francisco Chronicle
I found the perfect spot to catch the Blue Angels down at the foot of Hyde Street on the grassy knoll. I was not the only one in that spot when the Navy ...
Photo Gallery: Riding Shotgun With the Blue Angels at San ... by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren
NYCAviation was allowed access to some of the best seats in the house for San Francisco Fleet Week: Fat Albert Airlines. Here's the view through our lenses.
Photo of Note: United 747-400 over San Francisco Bay from FlightBlogger
This Boeing 747 Didn't Crash On the Golden Gate Bridge [Video] from Gizmodo
PHOTOS: United Airlines Boeing 747 Buzzes Over the Golden Gate Bridge at FleetWeek
from Airline Reporter
FLYABOUt is the opening night film of the 2-day film festival. The film will be shown approx. 7:00 PM please check website to confirm. Flyabout is the heartfelt, personal story of a young woman who gets a pilot's license and inspires her father to do the same. Together with him, she follows her dream to fly a plane around the continent of Australia. Her introduction to the Aboriginal Walkabout brings on the realization that piloting the plane won't be the hardest part of the trip. Film duration: 74 min. Filmmaker will be present. Contact: Ron Kaplan, info@reelstufffilmfest.com
P-63F King Cobra In San Marcos, TX from I Love Planes
This plane used to be with the Commemorative Air Force wing in Houston. It is one of 2 P-63F models ever built. The plane now resides with the Centex Wing of the CAF and is hangared in San Marcos.
According to USWarplanes.net there were 3303 P-63s of all variants made. Over ...
Video: B-17 Sally B. 65th Birthday Flypast With P-51s & F-15s. Duxford Museum..
from Theo Spark
Maj. Louis Sebille from Air Force Link Top Stories
On Aug. 5, 1950, Maj. Louis J. Sebille was killed in action flying a severely damaged F-51 Mustang against an enemy force concentration in Korea. Sebille, described by his contemporaries as "easy-going" and "friendly," sacrificed his life in battle to help save the United Nations stronghold at Pusan, Korea. He was the first member of the newly independent ...
Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Castle from Air Force Link Top Stories
Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Castle was born in Manila, Philippine Islands, in October 1908. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in June 1930 after serving two years in the New Jersey National Guard. He was detailed immediately to the Air Corps for flying training which he completed at March Field, Calif., and Kelly Field, Texas, earning his wings in 1931. He served as a pilot and assistant operations officer with the 17th Pursuit Squadron at Selfridge Field, Mich., until February 1934 when he returned to civilian life, holding reserve status with the New York National Guard. ...
An Entire DVD Of Warbird Engine Sounds And Nothing Else from Parrothead Jeff
Have you ever watched a cool video of warbirds starting, taxiing, and flying but found the narration and background music annoying? I know I have. Well, now there’s something just for you :) Living Warbirds has an entire 103 minute DVD that’s nothing but video and audio of warbirds with no music or narrator. This is right up my alley – It’s like being at an airshow 8) Now if they could only add the smells of an airshow…
Doolittle's granddaughter will speak at Crowell Library - Pasadena Star-News
Dolittle Hoppes grew up an Air Force brat and developed a passion for preserving military and aviation history. She has written two books: "Calculated Risk ...
Battle of Britain Hangar Ball raises funds for charity - International Finance Centre
The event, the brainchild of RAFA (Guernsey branch) and Guernsey Supporting 201, was held in the Guernsey Aero Club Hangar and was attended by 260 guests, ...
Grumman F9F-5 Panther gets new home - Bowling Green Daily News
Magda became the commander of the Blue Angels flight demonstration squad in 1950. He was killed
in action in 1951 during the Korean War at age 32. ...Lieutenant Commander John J. Magda, Jr. - Aviation Heritage Park
... n September, 1949, he was assigned to fly with the “Blue Angels”, the navy’s flight exhibition team and he became their Commander in January, 1950. ...
Museum receives major donations - Wapakoneta Daily News
Three Auglaize County businesses have pledged major donations to the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum's capital campaign to construct a ...
Italian stallion gives the Helicopter Museum a colourful new star in Somerset ... - Culture24
... rotary-wing aircraft at the museum, more than 60 percent of which are listed in the highest "Benchmark" category on the National Aviation Heritage Register.
Lost 1927 flight may have ended off Canada - CBC.ca
New evidence has surfaced in one of aviation history's most puzzling mysteries that shows it may have ended on North American shores. ...
F-86 Sabre from AF.mil Photos
F-86 Sabre flown by Col. Fred Ascani at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
C-14B from AF.mil Photos
The three occupants of the C-14B and their plane, which made history's first automatic landing, were Capt. Carl J. Crane, who invented the system, Capt. George V. Holloman, who flight tested it, and Raymond Stout, a Wright Field civilian electronic engineer who assisted in developing the system.
10 Stunning Abandoned Aircraft Photos from ASB.tv
There is something to be said for abandoned aircraft. While this collection often troubles people who love aircraft, these haunting images remind of us the planes’ former glory and how occasionally a few breathe a new life once again: ...
Tragic B-2 Crash from Aviation
On February 23rd, 2008, the Spirit of Kansas, 89-0127, crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. This was the first ever crash of a B-2 bomber and ...
50 years ago this week - Jacksonville Daily Record
An estimated 75000 spectators jammed the base to see the Blue Angels flight demonstration team and examine displays of missiles and other weapons, ...
300 Girls Hit Up NYC For The Second Annual Tween Summit - Just So You Know
Jill "Raggz" Long pepped the girls up by talking to them about confidence and what it's like being a powerful woman in today's society. ...
Helping 'eagles' take flight - Post Tribune
Pilots gathered at the Porter County Municipal Airport on Saturday morning joked about how fear quickly turns to joy when they take a child on his first small aircraft flight.
A perfect example of this was Christina Hatchett, 12, of Portage, who denied being afraid but was visibly more than nervous as she got into the back seat of Valparaiso pilot Rick Schreiber's aircraft. To calm her, Schreiber, a pilot of 21 years, promised they'd do just one pass and then if she wanted to, they'd land.
"Within 15 seconds, 20 seconds of liftoff, she was giving her friend (sister) the thumbs up," Schreiber said. ...
The Virgin Galatic news continues to flow - We've started a page dedicated to it!
Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic, Mark Greenberg
President Signs NASA Authorization Today from Spaceports
President Barack Obama codified a new course for NASA today when he signed into law a plan for the agency that ends NASA’s aims of returning to the moon and instead puts the agency on a course to one day put astronauts on an asteroid, according to reports from the White House, NASA, and the Orlando Sentinel. Next on the agenda, appropriations.
Smokin touchdown photos: Behemoth Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan visits Bangalore from Bangalore Aviation
It is essentially the world's largest cargo airplane. Capable of carrying 120 metric tonnes it is surpassed by only the Antonov An-225 of which only one aircraft is in existence. It is the Antonov An-124-100M-150 Ruslan.
Last Saturday, a Ruslan registration RA-82078, operated by Volga Dnepr Airlines, visited Bangalore to carry ...
Flying dune buggy approved for production
Wired.co.uk
When the Maverick first appeared at Airventure Oshkosh in 2009, many were sceptical about its practicality. But its inventor says it is designed for use in ...
With Sunday 10.10.10 being such a great day at the Mojave Air and Space Port with the first free flight of VSS Enterprise, I figured Caption Contest #38 should pick up on a ‘space’ theme. So here ya go!
You've got til Wednesday evening 10.13.10 at 9pm EDT to ...
"Observatory" UCAP #208
Amy joins the boys this weeks as they return from summer vacation for a long overdue session in the virtual hangar. All this and more in Uncontrolled Airspace #208 "Observatory".
