Showing posts with label Airshow China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airshow China. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Indy Transponder 20-NOV-2010 1130z

Raptor pilot confirmed killed in Alaska crash from F-22 Raptor news | November 20, 2010 (by Lieven Dewitte) - The U.S. Air Force confirmed on Friday that the F-22 Raptor pilot that crashed in Alaska earlier this week during a nighttime training mission perished in the accident. Air Force officials initially had held out hope that the pilot, Captain Jeffrey Haney, might have ejected from the plane and survived Tuesday night's crash. "Based on evidence recovered from the crash site, and after two days of extensive aerial and ground search efforts, we know that Captain Haney did not eject from the aircraft prior to impact," Colonel Jack McMullen, commander of the Air Force 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, said in a statement…

Continuous Updates on the F-22 Down story here

Drones, Stealth Aircraft Steal the Air Show in China - AOL News | China's J-10 fighter jets perform Wednesday during Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai, China. But it's the drones that are catching people's attention. ...

MCAS to test air show pyrotechnics - Yuma Sun | In preparation for a possible performance event at next year's Yuma Air Show, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma will conduct ...

World Record Flight | Naval History Blog by Proceedings | It was among the first in aviation history. Dubbed "The Flying Coffin" because of its shape, it consisted of a cylinder about seven feet long, with rounded ends and a diameter of approximately three feet. Inside was room for one man, ...

Washington, DC, air museum overhauls Amelia Earhart exhibit – HeraldNet | WASHINGTON — Amelia Earhart was, of course, a famous pilot and pioneer for women. Her time as a fashion designer, though, usually isn't ...

EAAer Flies Curtiss Pusher Replica In Navy Centennial Ceremony from Aviation Blogs by flyer98 | On November 14, 1910, barnstorming pilot Eugene Ely made what's recognized as the first takeoff from a ship, the USS Birmingham, near what is now Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Nearly 100 years later to the day, last Friday, November 12, retired Naval Commander Bob Coolbaugh, who built a replica of the plane Ely flew that day, was at NAS Norfolk to take part in a commemorative ceremony for that occasion…

BD-5 Microjet Returns to Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Today from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The BD-5 Microjet returned to its hangar at the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum today.  Here are some scenes from the delivery - come to the museum to see it in person!

The Rogers Family: Air Show by Tina K Rogers | Air Show. Scott and Phillip were asked to perform before the Airshow the weekend of Absolutely Andalusia Homecoming. Posted by Tina K Rogers at 12:13 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment…

Fly a piece of history  - Tulsa World | GK Gentis, a former B-17 bombardier, waits for a ride on the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" as it sits on a ramp at Jones Riverside Airport on Thursday. ...

Too Hot to Handle: McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine from http://www.airspacemag.com/ Man cannot zoom by blended wing alone; he must have an engine that, well, works…

Space tourism vid from RLV and Space Transport News | Here's a MSNBC video about space tourism with an emphasis on Virgin Galactic and travel agents: msnbc video: Adventurers pay big bucks for space tour.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

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F-22 crash site found, search for pilot continues from F-22 Raptor news | November 18, 2010 (by Luke Waack) - Search-and-rescue aircraft have discovered the apparent wreckage of an Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. (Alaska time) yesterday while on a nighttime training mission. To continue searching for the missing pilot, a rescue team is being dispatched to the area, approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage, by the Alaska Air National Guard Rescue Coordination Center, the 3rd Wing and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson…

F-22 Wreckage Found in Alaska, Pilot Still Missing from Defense Tech by John | Air Force rescue personnel have found the wreckage of what they believe to be the F-22 Raptor that went missing on Nov. 16 from Elmendorf Air Force base in Alaska, according to a statement put out by the service tonight. Search and rescue crews have found the apparent wreckage of an F-22 Raptor Nov. 17 that was assigned to the 3rd Wing here. However, the pilot is still missing…

Continuous Updates on the F-22 Down story here

2010 China Air Show Pilots and Air Hostess by peterpan03 | I attended 2010 China Air show photo competition. I had a chance to take pictures for the August 1st's pilots and got a closer look of J-10 aircraft…

"Dick & All" UCAP #212 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

Race to space in Mojave - KGET 17 | He says even after Mojave's Burt Rutan claimed the coveted X-Prize in 2004, efforts to build on that success, to bring commercial space tourism operations…

X-38 to the Rescue from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | NASA- This unique, close-up view of the X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of the lifting-body research vehicle was taken from the observation window of the B-52 bomber as it banked in flight. The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) research project helped develop the technology for a prototype emergency crew return vehicle, or lifeboat, for the International Space Station.

Successful test run restored P51-D Mustang Aviation News | Before the unit in 1993 was in the hands of the SVV, was called 'Miss Ashley' take part in the Reno Air Races. Then the plane ...


Interview with Milton Erdmann, WWII B-24 Pilot from All Things Aviation | Milton Erdmann, former B-24 Liberator pilot, describes his experiences flying during World War II. I met Milt at a church outing when he sat across from me wearing a B-24 ball cap which, of course, started our conversation. On 9-11-42 while attending Michigan State University Milton enlisted in the Army Air Corps to be trained [...]

RAF received its seventh C-17 Globemaster III from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | "The addition of a seventh C-17 to our fleet is a significant milestone that strengthens our support of operations worldwide, especially in Afghanistan," said Peter Luff, UK Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology. "And next year, in May, we'll mark the 10th anniversary of the delivery of the RAF's first C-17, which continues to perform superbly — anytime and anywhere."…

The Very Unorthodox Bartini/Beriev VVA-14/14M1P from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | I had posted back in August about how in the 1960s, the Soviet Union's lack of a blue-water navy in countering the American ballistic missile submarine fleet led to a Beriev proposal for a unique multirole ocean-going flying boat, the A-150…

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Indy Transponder 17-NOV-2010 2330z

USAF launches search for missing F-22 Raptor - Flightglobal
The US Air Force launched a search operation last night after one of its Lockheed Martin F-22 fighters failed to return to its base following ...    Here's what everyone is saying.

UAE aerobatics team nears readiness with new aircraft deliveries - Arabian Aerospace
The UAE's new Al Fursan (The Knights) aerobatic team, has started to receive its upgraded Alenia Aermacchi MB-339A(NAT) aircraft, and all ten are expected to be delivered by the end of the year.
The ten aircraft are being upgraded by Alenia at its Venegono factory and comprise six legacy MB-339As that were already in the UAE Air Force and Air Defence inventory, together with four ex-Italian air force examples.
The upgrade brings the aircraft to a similar standard to those used by the ...

Air Show organized at Kpong Airfield - Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
This year's Expresso Air Show has been organized at the Kpong Airfield in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The air show was sponsored by Expresso, ...

J-10 jet fighters of Bayi Aerobatic Team of PLA Air Force seen at China's ... - People's Daily Online
J-10 jet fighters of Bayi Aerobatic Team of the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) are seen at the 8th China International Aviation and ...

Frecce Tricolori 50th anniversary airshow – Rivolto 2010 – 3. part: Krila Oluje, AMX International AMX, AB-212, Royal Jordanian Falcons - Rotor Shutter Photography

Photos from the Ft. Worth Alliance Air Show 2010 - Capital Ideas

Flying Fortress - El Dorado News-Times
Photo by Jason Ellis Taking flight The pilot and co-pilot of this B-17 bomber escort area media representatives and World War II veterans on a flight from ...

Reno Air Racing Foundation Hosts Pathways to Aviation Speaker Series Dec. 3 By ThisIsReno
The Reno Air Racing Foundation will host the next forum in their Aviation Speaker Series which focuses on space exploration, aeronautical engineering and the love of flight.  The free forum will highlight the science teams behind the Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM and MARCI/CTX instruments.  Pathways to Aviation will take place Friday, Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Sparks High School.
“Educating students about the science of aviation is so important and we are grateful to be able to provide Pathways to Aviation as an additional resource to enhance their learning experience,” said Steve Carrick, chairman for ...

RENO AIR RACES 2010 by EVA PACHE
My great passion is aviation and aerospace love what has not dreamed of going to the races in Reno. I realized this dream. United States, October 1924: National Air Races launch the principle of "Pylon races," sprints where all aircraft are released simultaneously on a closed circuit embodied by the pylons. It's in the best tradition of these races before the war, that is run every year since 1964, t ...

Extreme Airshow - Air & Space
In 37 years of flying aerobatics, I have come to think of airshows as a great place to hang out with my friends. Much of the flying has been a backdrop for parties and picnics, but every once in a while, I have been grabbed and held in a time-stopping moment as I watched someone fly. When it has happened, I recall the color ...

Taking Jared's flight from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories 
As one of his young soldiers lay defenseless on a mountain path, Army Staff Sgt. Jared Monti dropped his radio and stepped in front of the enemy forces pinning down his unit -- exposing himself to a barrage of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades as he attempted to pull his wounded comrade out of harm's way.
"He was always the type of kid who stood up to bullies," his mother, Janet, said.
But on June 21, 2006, Jared was no longer the young boy who helped a child from the neighborhood recover his bike after it was thrown into a pond. ...

Extreme wheelchair jumping from Photoblog
Joelene Van Vugt of Canada, Erik Roner of the USA and eight friends perform some extreme skydiving manuevers with a wheelchair to launch their extreme sport '2011 Nitro Circus Live New Zealand Tour' on November 16, 2010 in Matamata , New Zealand. 

Air Force Museum Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary with Museum Store, IMAX® Theatre discounts from National Museum of the USAF
The Air Force Museum Foundation is celebrating its 50th anniversary on Monday, Nov. 22 with discounts for the Museum Store, IMAX Theatre and Morphis MovieRide.
Throughout the day, cookies and punch will be served in the Museum Store, and visitors will receive a 20 percent discount in the store and for tickets to the IMAX Theatre and Morphis MovieRide.
The Foundation was established as a non-profit, philanthropic organization on Nov. 22, 1960, when ...

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force announces student writing competition
from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories 
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has announced its first Air Force Heritage and History Writing Competition, providing students the opportunity to showcase their writing talents while vying for $2,000 in scholarship funds.
The competition is open to public, private school or homeschooled students between the ages of 13-18. Those interested in participating must notify the museum's Education Division no later than Jan. 14, 2011, by sending an e-mail to erin.craig@wpafb.af.mil. Final submissions must be submitted via e-mail and are due by Feb. 25, 2011. The competition will accept only the first 250 entrants. ...

Photoblog: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, National Mall Building from Ask My Sky Mom  

Being a woman and driver in the pioneering days by Xavier (translated)
The Reims Damien Rocha is equally passionate about early aviation that by the contemporary aviation. It contributes to the history of airplanes and the first figures who have dared to fly.
It naturally became interested in the first female pilot who obtained his patent in the Marne, in the sky Mourmelon. This is Elisa Leontine Deroche born August 22, 1882 in Paris. It comes to devote a biography illustrated in this particular context if the end of the Edwardian era, before the First World War.
The sassy young woman for her time and in full opposition to this ...

Newly Refurbished BD-5 Microjet Set to Return to Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum in Cahokia This Week from The Aero Experience 
A BD-5 Microjet will soon arrive at the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum in its new red, white and blue paint scheme. The aircraft, donated by Mike Kohnen, was refurbished and painted by members of the 126th ARW sheet metal shop at Scott AFB. Mark Nankivil, VP of the Museum, commented, "What a great bunch of guys and what a simply wonderful job they did...If I did not know better, I'd say they went and bought a ...

November 17 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

$10,000 Grant for CAP - CAP Volunteer Now - News
Civil Air Patrol is one of the first nonprofit aviation organizations to receive a $10,000 grant from the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation’s new gift and grant program.
Foundation officials from the aviation headset company in Lake Oswego, Ore., made the contribution to Civil Air Patrol on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the AOPA Aviation Summit at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. ...

Larger-Than-Life Space Adventure by Bruce
NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Complex uses large screens to take visitors into the exciting future of space travel.
When BRC Imagination Arts, world-renowned designer and producer of immersive educational, entertainment, and brand experiences, was looking for an out-of-this-world custom frame and screen supplier for NASA’s latest attraction at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, it turned to Harkness Screens. ...

KLM to Offer Space Flights from Airline Industry Review 
Now that’s a first for an airline. A number of media reports that sprung today have been confirmed by KLM.
The Dutch airline is planning to offer space flights by 2014 as part of Space Experience CuraƧao.
The Space Experience project website states that ...

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Indy Transponder 17-NOV-2010 1130z

Patriots Jet Team Expanding to Six Jets for 2011 - San Francisco Chronicle | The group was founded in 2002 with a mission to entertain air show and special events audiences, while encouraging the nation's youth towards careers in the ...

Alaska military base says F-22 fighter overdue - Washington Post | AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A spokeswoman for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson says an F-22 fighter jet based at the military facility near Anchorage is overdue. ...

USAF F-22A Raptor - Nellis AFB 2010  by Britt Dietz www.warbird-photos.com | Probably my favorite shot of the 2010 Nellis AFB Airshow, and one of my favorite F-22A Raptor shots of all time... and it was all by accident! I'll have a blog post talking about how I got this shot during sunset this week! www.warbird-photos.com/airshows/2010-NellisAFB-2/Nellis10D2_F-22A_Raptor_5297.jpg 

75th Anniversary Celebrations Mark China Clipper's First Flight - Business Wire | Ongoing exhibits are open to the general public at the Oakland airport, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos and at the Alameda Naval Air Museum, ...

J-10 Fighter - Airshow China 2010 from Military Photos by DefenceTalk.com by The Watcher:

Mason Co. native inducted into aviation hall of fame - Lexington Herald Leader | James Graybill, a pilot who has logged more than 33000 flying hours in his career, was inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame on Nov. ...

Picture(s) A Day – Aviation Nation 2010 – Sunday At Nellis AFB from Parrothead Jeff | Sorry for the delay everyone, but I was just flat worn out Sunday night and yesterday wasn't the greatest day, either.  I managed to get the pictures for this post edited and the panoramas stitched together, and uploaded, but getting them built into the post and captioned took a bit too much time…

World War II veteran paints 'City of Savannah' B-17 nose art - Savannah Morning News … the World War II veteran painted the nose art on the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum's B-17, the "City of Savannah. ...

A real D-Day survivor by shortfinals | I have no idea how I resisted posting about the C-47/C-53/R4D/DC-3/Dakota family for so long………….and here is one of the most historically significant aircraft I have ever seen. The Great Vintage Flying Weekend is a wonderful weekend of classic and vintage aviation in all its forms. Last year saw the lunchtime flying display portion of the programme feature the immaculate C-47A, N1994A, 'J8-B'.

History Major's Dream Vacation – Udvar Hazy part II - Reaching ... by Redfokker | It does not look like much, but it is another rare piece of aviation history and I was excited to see it. The airplane/spacecraft geek in me got all weepy in viewing some of the most mundane artifacts of the space race of the 1960s. ...

Airplane Geeks - Episode 123 - Listener Mailbag | Airplane Geeks ... by maxflight | We also have David's This Week in Aviation history segment, the Australia Desk report by Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and Pieter Johnson's latest Across the Pond segment. Mentions: The World Airport Data App ...

Greatest Generation: James Mulder - WSAV-TV | On October 6th on a bomb run to take out a ball bearing factory in Berlin Mulder's B-17 was shot down. "The two guys in the waist got killed and the guy in ...

Seahawk helicopter retires to Pacific Aviation Museum - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Its last mission was a short jaunt — from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay to the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor this morning. ...

Liberator — Consolidated B-24M walkaround from Travel for Aircraft | The Liberator was a contemporary of Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress in the European Theater and the unchallenged heavy bomber for the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific Theater until the advent of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-24 is one of the most produced airplanes in history, partly because its design better envisioned mass production methods of the day. It was also known to be heavy on the controls and Liberator pilots famously had well developed muscles in their left arms to demonstrate that characteristic…

The Lockheed L-1011 Flies Into It's 40th Year from Flying With Fish | The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar took to the skies for the first time forty years ago today, November 16th 1970. To me is the L-1011 is the airplane that started my love of airplanes, airlines, travel and the smell of jet fuel.   The L-1011 was not only an airplane that flew over my house day and night growing up next New York's JFK Airport, it was also the plane that flew me to Grandma (usually Delta and sometimes Eastern). On the windowsill next to my bed I had a collection of little white plastic Delta Air Lines L-1011s collected from every flight…

The Anatomy of the Airbus A380 QF32 near disaster from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | The Airbus presentation to accident investigators of the damage done to QF32 on November 4 gives new technical insights into this near disaster involving a Qantas A380 with 466 persons on board. The examination of the damage is far from complete, as the presentation makes clear. It doesn't deal with the other dimensions of this serious incident, which are the loss or impairment of various systems on the giant airliner, and the emerging difficulties the crew faced from fuel load imbalance caused by some of those failures…

'GatwickSpotting' Airliner Videos Are Awesome! by Martt | Jordi Blumberg is GatwickSpotting on youtube, and wow, these are some really awesome videos of airliners at Gatwick Airport, London's second airport. You might have already seen the fabulous slow motion 747 video I posted a while back, and now, I highly suggest you experience these two videos.

Airship Bullet™ Class 580 Successfully Completes 2nd Inflation Test for Pre-Flight Demonstration at NASA Ames Research, Moffett Field from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -MONTGOMERY AL- E Green Technologies, Inc. / 21st Century Airships today announced that it has successfully completed the 2nd Inflation Test of its Airship, the BulletTM Class 580 at the Montgomery, Alabama Garrett Coliseum. The 1-hour Airship inflation took place inside the Garrett Coliseum, one of the few facilities large enough to host the operation.  With the inflation, the mission is to complete pre-flight engineering fit checks for attachments in preparation for the Company's near term maiden flight of the BulletTM Class 580 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California…

World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | On Nov. 3, 1944, the Japanese started launching balloons with bombs attached, hoping the jet stream would carry them eastward across the Pacific to the United States.  More than 9,000 of them were released during the war, with approximately 1,000 reaching the destination.  The bombs were meant to start forest fires, produce chaos and divert manpower from the war effort in the U.S. They were a reprisal for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo…

Aero-TV: The Voice Of Fiesta -- Glen Moyer's Love Of Ballooning from Aero-News Network | Long-Time Enthusiast Has Become One Of The Voices Of An Amazing Aerial Pursuit The ANN crew has known Glen Moyer for a long time... enjoying his emails and calls with news of the ballooning world, as well as an accompanying passion for all things flight. So... it was no surprise that when we showed up, in force, to cover the extraordinary sights and sounds of the 2010 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, that Glen Moyer was the principal voice for this lofty gathering.

The Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The first production group of Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transports, designated the C-5A, were built in the 1970s and even then, there were issues with the jet's reliability. When the production line was reopened during the Reagan-era defense buildup in the 1980s, the C-5B was produced to introduce a variety of systems improvements aimed at boosting the jet's reliability…

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Indy Transponder 16-NOV-2010 1130z

Frightening Airshow Crashes Where Pilots Walked Away from ASB.tv by bwallace | Airplane crashes are scary.  Luckily, there are those where pilots are able to walk away to tell the tale and fly another day.  Check out some stunningly close calls below – you'll likely breathe a sigh of relief knowing that these brave pilots walked away unharmed and no one on the ground was hurt either…

Request a Race Kit for the 2011 Race from Air Race Classic, Inc. | Request your race kit for the 2011 race! *This link will take you to a new website. Don't be worried, it's part of our efforts to move to a new site.

2010 China Air Show Zhuhai I by peterpan03 | I have been in Zhuhai for a few days. Today I finally have chance to get a closer look of the aircraft listed for this year's event…

Airshow China 2010 exhibition opens in Zhuhai - RIA Novosti | China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, is opening in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Tuesday. ...


China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition 2010 from fox2magazine by deepred001:

Chat live with scientists flying over Antarctica from Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker | What's it like to live and work in Antarctica? What do we learn by studying the frozen continent? We've dug into it a little here at BoingBoing. But this Wednesday, you can get the story straight from the scientists themselves. NASA is sponsoring a live chat with researchers on a DC-8 flying science laboratory. It starts at 1:00 pm Eastern. The chat window will open a half hour before…

Pioneers of Flight Family Day - Annapolis Capital | See actors portray famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and African American aviation pioneer William J. Powell, Jr. Meet Tuskegee Airmen; members of the women's ...


NASCAR invades Goodyear Airport from PHXspotters by Jason Bong | This is a busy time for KGYR having hundreds of private planes coming in this weekend for the NASCAR races out at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR). Phxspotters was out on Friday for a majority of the arrivals. KGYR was tied with Atlanta for the best Airport when it comes to NASCAR…

Collings Foundation Mission Briefing from collingsfoundation.org | Celebrating our 21st year - The Wings of Freedom Tour has completed 2,499 national stops since we started! This is all made possible by the dedication and hard work of volunteers and stop organizers around this great country of ours. At each stop there are volunteers who promote the tour, arrange accommodations for the crew, manage logistics, contact the local schools and help "turn the props." Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who helped keep these treasures of American history alive for all to see and experience…

CoolPix - Vintage Military: Curtiss-Wright AT-9 (Racy Trainer!) by Martt |  Nearly 800 of these cute little Curtiss-Wright AT-9's (Advanced Trainer) were built between 1941 and 1943 for the purpose of getting new pilots up to speed with the more demanding larger twin engine aircraft such as the Martin B-26 Marauder and the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The goal was to produce a small aircraft that could be challenging enough to make sure the pilots were ready…


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Friday, November 12, 2010

Indy Transponder 12-NOV-2010 1130z

Long Beach abuzz with aviation enthusiasts - #AOPA Pilot - It's a sunny beautiful day in southern California, but no one wants to be outside--unless it's at the airport--because Long Beach is hosting AOPA Aviation ...

Watch AOPA Summit 2010 Online from PropBlast by mjg | Can't get to Long Beach for AOPA Summit 2010? You can get the best of it by watching AOPA Live…

Blue Angels honor heroes with show - WALA-TV FOX10 | The military's flight demonstration team is performing its homecoming show this weekend, which also coincides with Veterans Day. The Blue Angels performed ...

Blue Angels thrill thousands at air show - Pensacola News Journal | About 35000 people turned out Thursday for the first day of the Blue Angels 2010 Homecoming Air Show at Pensacola Naval Air Station. ...

Local vet gets pleasant surprise - Times-Georgian
As his family wheeled him across the tarmac after the spectacular Blue Angels Air Show, Walter Tallman still did not expect the reception he was about to ...


USMC Harriers at KIWA from Airline Pilot Central Forums by AZFlyer | Happened to catch a few transient devil dog jump jets shoving off....

Airshow set for Saturday in Andalusia - Montgomery Advertiser | The South Alabama Regional Airport Authority and cities of Andalusia and Opp will host an airshow Saturday. The free event will feature the US Air Force ...

A show of support for veterans - San Diego Union Tribune | Several hundred people squinted skyward to watch the Navy's Leap Frogs parachute team drop into Poway Veterans Park, blue and red smoke streaming behind ...

20101111-Tomcat!   from Air & Space Magazine

Racing Mustangs. Art by Taichiro Yamashita (prints of individual aircraft are available) :

Museum takes over Stuart air show - Hometown News | MARTIN COUNTY - When spectators attend this year's events at the Stuart Air Show, they will be seeing a show put on, for the first time, ...

Sikorsky Aircraft to debut at air show – TCPalm | STUART — Sikorsky Aircraft plans to bring to the Stuart Air Show this year a 3-D mock-up of the X2 Raider helicopter that broke the land ...

U.S. Navy pilot and Boxford veteran flew many missions over Okinawa - Wicked Local Middleton | P-38 fighters and B-25 bombers were using the nearby Westover Army Air Base as a refueling stop before flying across the Atlantic. ...

The Youngest WWII Naval Aviator Still Flies - MyStateline.com | The youngest naval aviator of WWII lives right here in the stateline. As dive bomber, he survived kamikaze attacks and bombing runs at Japanese destroyers. ...

Young woman inspires Alaska youth to embrace aviation - Alaska Dispatch | Jessica Cox, the first armless person to receive a Sport Pilot license, visited Alaska to help inspire young people to pursue aviation. ...

Airshow China flying display schedule is out from Alert 5 - Military Aviation News by alert5 | Organizers for this year's Airshow China has released the flying program. The A380 will only fly for 2 days from Nov. 16-17.

Airshow China 2010 -------------- Nov16--Nov 21 from Military Photos by shiphone | Airshow China 2010 Nov.16th - 21st.2010 ZHUHAI.GUANGDONG.CHINA China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition (namely Airshow China) is the only international aerospace trade show in China that is endorsed by the Chinese central government. It features the display of real-size products, trade talks, technological exchange and flying display. Since 1996, the show has been successfully held in Zhuhai in every even-number year for seven sessions. Airshow China 2010 will take place from Nov.16th – 21st, 2010 in Zhuhai…

The TSA's Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous - This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet? In case you don't recognize the image in the wallpaper, it's this fake children's book cover:

Colton Harris-Moore Indicted On Aircraft Theft, Flying Without Airman's Certificate from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | Colton Harris-Moore, 19, of Camano Island, Washington, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington in connection with his lengthy crime spree in the Pacific Northwest. Harris-Moore is charged with interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, interstate and foreign transportation of a stolen firearm, being a…

Global Space Launch Plans Reviewed from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy)