Airspeed Online: It's Up! Airspeed Posts "Tuskegee 3" to Complete its "Inside Airshows" Series

Check out a classic Airspeed episode like Making Good on a Deal. Visit the Airspeed website at  www.airspeedonline.com. Visit the Acro Camp website at www.acrocamp.com. Share Tweet Forward to Friend Facebook Twitter Tuskegee 3 Hits the Airspeed Feed A note from Steve: It's up! The third and final installment of the Inside Airshows series. It's called Tuskegee 3 and it's the story of a nine-month period during which I began ab initio training in TG-7As and then followed the opportunity all the way into the waivered airspace, performing for airshow crowds. If you know me, you know that I'm a huge airshow fan. Airshows are why I started Airspeed almost eight years and more than 200 episodes ago. But even though you might have stood right next to me at the fence as we cheered for our favorite performers - or even if you're a performer who's taken me up on a media ride - you probably didn't know what was really on my mind. I wanted to do more than just watch. I wanted to climb over that fence and go see for myself what it was like to fly in an airshow. Prior to that time, I was a private pilot, CAP SAR/DR pilot, and aerobatic competitor at the IAC Primary (most basic) level.  Nothing wrong with that mix of general aviation flying but, at the end of the day, it's not airshow flying.  Then, through an unlikely set of circumstances, a huge amount of work, and the trust and efforts of many people, I flew show performances as part of a three-ship demo team.  This two-hour episode contains the story of that journey, complete with cockpit and other audio, music, and lots of commentary.   Epic stuff?  Yes and no.  And the end of the day, you could point out that I'm flying USAF Academy surplus motorgliders that suffer bird strikes from behind, that what my team does in the box isn't that flashy or complicated, and that I'm way too into this. And you'd be right. But that's the point of the story. This is what happens when a fan becomes a player.   For airshow fans: This is two hours of answers to the questions that you probably never thought to ask about heat, humidity, peer pressure, standards, desire, effort, sweat, Nomex, avgas, loneliness, quiet, focus, flow, glory, and excitement - all in good measure. For airshow pilots: This is the story of a guy who admires you so hard it hurts and who understands that perfection is expected and excellence will be accepted. A guy who wanted to demonstrate the most sincere form of flattery by imitating you as best he's able. We each choose our heroes.  A very lucky few of us find ourselves suddenly and unexpectedly walking a ramp or sharing a box with those heroes.  This is an ode to those heroes.  Especially to those who turn out to be as human as any airshow fan, but are all the more heroic because of it.  And for all of the above: This is a story about what every one of us owes to his or her 10-year-old self. The show notes to the episode, complete with pictures and credits, are right here and there's even a direct link to the MP3 audio.  You can listen right there on the Airspeed website or subscribe and download it through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. I'm very proud of this episode and of the series.  I think that Tuskegee 3 in particular is the best stuff I've ever put in the feed.  It took more than a year to fully write, edit, and record it and it includes cockpit audio, briefing audio, character voicing, specially-licensed music, and everything else that I thought it would take to tell this story of what it's like to be a first-time airshow pilot.  I hope that you'll listen to it and, if you like it, I hope that you'll pass it along to others. In the meantime, thanks for letting me fly for you and with you.  And for listening when I tell you the stories that you inspire.  I'll fix my safeties and I'm glad to be here. Smoke on! - Steve __________________________________________ You can listen to the entire Inside Airshows series by subscribing to the Airspeed feed or by checking out the show notes page for each episode: Part 1 - Running Away to Join the Circus (Ramp Crew and Pyro) Part 2 - With a Mic in My Hand - (Team Narrator) Part 3 - Tuskegee 3 (Airshow Pilot)

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HEMET: Excitement in the air for Hemet-Ryan Air Show - Press-Enterprise | Some came to look back at their past, others came to glimpse into their future. No matter their motive, the thousands of people in attendance appeared to enjoy the Hemet-Ryan Air Show on Saturday, Nov. 2. The crowd spread out across the grounds of the Hemet-Ryan Airport, many in lawn chairs, others on blankets and some seeking shade under the wings of planes on display on a beautiful sunny day with temperatures in the low 70s...

Inside Airshows – Part 1: Running Away to Join the Circus – Airspeed Online | There are three things you need to know about yourself.  Who you are, what you want to be, and, if there’s a difference between the two, what you’re going to do about that difference every day for the rest of your life...

GALLERY, VIDEO: Dubbo cadets fly away on the ride of their lives - Daily Liberal | AIR FORCE cadets from Dubbo were treated to the highlight of their careers with a ride on a Hercules C-130J aircraft to the Temora Warbirds Downunder airshow on Saturday...

Barnstorming: Innovating A Future - Aero-News Network | Excerpts From Jim Campbell's Speech At the 2013 Redbird Migration Flight training Conference | Aviation would seem to be an innovative industry... look at it... cool flying machines everywhere, space-age electronics, and don't get me started on the cool way we pilots get to talk to the ground hogs... and yet this industry is held prisoner to a well-worn phrase and attitude... that of, "that's the way we've always done it."...

Dubai Airshow - CNN International | From November 17 to 21, Dubai will be the center of the aviation world as the city hosts its biennial airshow. From the latest technology and trends to deals and developments, CNN will be on the ground to bring you all the buzz from the event...

50th Reno Air Race Unlimited Video - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Few would disagree that the 50th Anniversary of Reno Air Racing Championships was the best if not the best ever.  The Unlimited class (make that the new Unlimited & Warbirds class) did not disappoint loyal fans. Defending champion, Steve Hinton flew #5 Voodoo past the home pylon for his 5th Breitling Unlimited Gold Championship at the 50th Reno Air Races...

B-17 Bomber set to land at airport Monday - Salisbury Post | One of the few flying B-17 Bombers, “The Aluminum Overcast,” is set to land at the Rowan County Airport on Monday morning about 11 a.m. “The schedule is subject to change, but 11 a.m. is the best estimate at this time. The public is invited to attend the landing,” said Jack Neubacher, EAA President...

ROC vet recounts WWII comradery with US allies in Yunnan - WantChinaTimes | ...The US fighters and bombers from the 14th Air Force, commanded by general Claire Lee Chennault, performed very well during the Salween campaign. "Without the support of General Chennault, I think more Chinese soldiers would have lost their lives during the siege of Tengchong," stressed Yang....

Alabama Must Not Abandon Our Aviation Hall of Fame - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -Editorial- For decades our aviation heroes have been honored and enshrined in the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame, permanently housed in the Birmingham Southern Museum of Flight.   Their stories tell a personal history of extraordinary aviators and Alabama aviation. Established as a public agency of the state, seven politically appointed board of directors are entrusted to promote and encourage the growth and public support of aviation, especially general aviation within the state. It provides official and public recognition and honor to individuals, living or dead, who by extraordinary achievement and service have made outstanding and substantial contributions to aviation in Alabama...

War Eagles Air Museum’s TF-51″Friendly Ghost” · Warbirds News | If you have heard the song that says “out in the west Texas town of El Paso,” you are mighty close to Santa Teresa, NM.  For it is there, perched atop a windswept, arid mesa that you will find the War Eagles Air Museum.  The museum has one of the largest collections of historic military and civilian aircraft, classic automobiles, and aviation and automotive artifacts in the Southwest. There are 36 World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam-era aircraft on display and 49 American, British, German, Japanese, and Italian automobiles from days gone by...

Historic African bi-plane flight commences - defenceWeb | The weather may not have played along, but female pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor has finally commenced her solo Cape Town to UK flight in a vintage Boeing Stearman biplane. Curtis-Taylor is recreating the 1928 flight by English aviatrix Lady Mary Heath by covering more than 7 000 miles in an open cockpit Stearman over seven weeks. Heath was the first person to fly this rout, which later became the Imperial Airways route....

Devin's third essay as the Girls With Wings Private Pilot Scholarship Winner! - The Girls With Wings Blog | Congratulations to Devin who has resumed her flying lessons thanks in part to the generous donations that people have made to Girls With Wings. The Private Pilot Scholarship is to help defray the cost of flight training lessons in pursuit of a private pilot certificate. This scholarship, an award in the amount of $1000.00, targets those individuals who have soloed but have not completed the Private Pilot Course...

Max Q Live - Air & Space magazine | ...The group on stage, in Hawaiian shirts and baggy shorts, looks like a typical middle-aged cover band. But Max Q is anything but typical. Its members are active-duty astronauts...

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Patriots Jet Team speeds up Seafair - The Seattle Times | The way Mojo tells it, a tail slide sounds harrowing. “The jet goes vertical,” he says, demonstrating with his hand angled up at the sky. “Then the engine stops, and the plane starts flying backward” in a free fall. Mojo, also known as Jeff Jess, is a support pilot and ground-crew member for the Patriots Jet Team, which will perform over Lake Washington in place of the popular Blue Angels during this weekend’s Seafair festivities....

Spectators savor Seafair hoopla, but miss Blue Angels - The Seattle Times | It’s not that anybody was dissing the Patriots Jet Team, with their acrobatic aerial stunts and colorful smoke plumes. But they just weren’t the Blue Angels. “We’re spoiled,” said Kelly McGrath, of Auburn, a lifelong resident of the Puget Sound area and a Seafair devotee who attended the annual summer celebration Saturday on Lake Washington....

Blue Angels select former Miss Ramona for 2014 team - Ramona Sentinel | Navy Lt. j.g. (junior grade) Amber Lynn (Scott) Daniel, a former Miss Ramona, is the public affairs officer for the 2014 U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels. The 32-year-old Daniel is the daughter of John and Lorrie Scott of Ramona. She was crowned Miss Ramona in 1999, the same year she graduated from Julian High School, and is a 2004 graduate of Southern Oregon University....

Airspeed GWL RapidCast – AC-47 Spooky   - Airspeed Online | The American Flight Museum brought its AC-47 out onto the ramp for the Gathering of Warbirds and Legends this weekend.  Ed Van Morlan talked to us at length about the aircraft and its mission.

Airspeed GWL RapidCast – Greg Smith and his Beech 18
Airspeed GWL RapidCast – Karl Stoltzfus and C-47 Miss Virginia
Airspeed GWL RapidCast – Bill Whiteman and the T-28 Trojan

Reno Air Races’ New Warbird Unlimited Class Attracts Top Flight Entrants Warbirds News | While the organizers of the Reno Air Races announced the disbandment of their original “Unlimited Class” races earlier this summer, the replacement, the “Warbird Unlimited Class,” designed to accommodate the demands of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the organizers’ insurance carriers to maximize crew and spectator safety has attracted entries from the former participants of the old “Unlimited Class.” The races will be held September 11-15 at Stead Airport, a few miles north of Reno, Nevada....

21st annual Fly-In Aug. 17 at airport - Chillicothe Constitution Tribune | The EAA Chapter 944 Fly-In/Drive-In is set for Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Chillicothe Municipal Airport, east of Chillicothe

Fly-in set in Oologah - Journal Record | OOLOGAH – The annual Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 18 at the Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch northeast of Oologah. Pilots will land on the 2,000-foot grass airstrip adjacent to the house where Rogers was born.

We missed a bunch of great EAA Videos on the previous post!

• Sean D. Tucker eaavideo.org 
• Honor Flight Returns eaavideo.org 
• Flightline JumboTrons eaavideo.org 
• Salute to Veterans at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 eaavideo.org 
• Planes Debuts on Friday Night eaavideo.org 
• In the Cockpit with Kirby Chambliss eaavideo.org 
• EAA's B-17 eaavideo.org 
• Don Smith's Aviat Husky A-1B at the Seaplane Base eaavideo.org 
• Five Questions with Gary Sinise eaavideo.org 
• Five Questions with Klay Hall eaavideo.org 
• KidVenture Celebrates 15 Years eaavideo.org 

Airspeed Update: Behind the Scenes at Airshows, Acro Camp, A Pilot's Story, and Team Tuskegee

Updates about upcoming Airspeed coverage, the Acro Camp film, other film projects, and Team Tuskegee. Visit the Airspeed website at  www.airspeedonline.com. Visit the Acro Camp website at www.acrocamp.com. Check out a classic Airspeed episode like Making Good on a Deal. Share Tweet Forward to Friend Facebook Twitter Welcome to the first Airspeed Update of 2013!  2012 was a big year.  Huge, in fact!  And Airspeed has been aggressively gearing up for 2013.  Here's a quick update to let you know about some projects in process. Behind the Scenes at Airshows – Episodes Coming Soon! Airspeed set out last year to do a series from behind the scenes at airshows.  Climbing over the airshow fence and actually getting into the box to give you an insider's perspective on what it takes to put on one of our favorite forms of entertainment. In March, Steve went to the TICO Valiant Air Command Airshow in Titusville, Florida and spent parts of three days as ramp crew for Mark Sorenson's Tiger Airshows and The Ringmasters.  Everything from wiping down the aircraft to heading out to show center with the pyro crew and helping to make those big smoke rings through which Mark flies.  And, yeah, Steve had to put out the airport several times when it caught fire.  It you though he looked funny running already, you should see him run with a large water-based fire extinguisher in tow.  Later, in April, Steve crewed and played video guy for Paul Wood, who brought the Warbird Heritage Foundation's A-4 Skyhawk to Thunder Over Louisville. In June and July, Steve returned to the Battle Creek Field of Flight Airshow and Balloon Festival for the seventh year, this time arriving in formation as pilot of one of the three USAFA-surplus TG-7A motorgliders of the Tuskegee Airmen Flight Demo Team.  Steve's Battle Creek coverage centered around being the team narrator for the weekend, as well as ferry pilot, videographer, and crew dog. Then, things got entirely out of hand.  A mere two days after completing his commercial glider checkride, Team Tuskegee asked Steve to join the team as a demo pilot.  He flew shows at Rogers City, Michigan and Scott Air Force Base near St. Louis as Tuskegee 3, breaking out of the figure-eight to perform 180-aborts ("the impossible turn") back and forth in front of the crowd while 1 and 2 gaggle-climbed up in the Tuskegee Tornado to return engine-off. We're putting together a whole series on the airshow experience and you can expect to hear it soon in the Airspeed feed. Acro Camp Progresses The first Acro Camp film is nearing completion!  Believe it when you actually sit down with a bucket of popcorn, but there really is a light at the end of the tunnel. Will Hawkins is fond of saying something to the effect that "the movie's done, it's just 40 hours long."  We don't know who said, "it's 80% finished, all we need to do is get the other 80% done," but that captures it equally well. All 41 sorties and all ground footage is logged, the entire soundtrack is complete, and all eight airshow performer cameos are edited and ready to go.  A rough cut of the ground school (including the parachute inspection) is done.  The process is largely in storyboard mode now, with figuring out what goes in, where it goes, and how best to punch it up with the piles of great music that we've amassed.  In parallel with that, we're writing narration to make it all hang together. We'll be out with a release date as soon as we're really sure of it.  The idea all along has been to eschew vapor media and only announce things that we know will happen.  We haven't taken any pre-orders or made any promises and that has taken a lot of the heat off.  We think that a better movie will come out the other end.  We know that that has meant a whole lot of silence over the last couple of years, but it also means that, when you hear stuff, it'll be a reliable indication that you'll soon have a DVD in your hands. In the meantime, you can check out some of the sneak peeks that we've posted on Vimeo as we've edited material. Smoke on the Weaver With Friends Like These Formation A Pilot's Story Progresses Even Faster We recently watched a full rough cut of Will Hawkins and Rico Sharqaui's film, A Pilot's Story.  It's really going to be great.  It's an aviation documentary that tells the story of the state of general aviation.  Airplanes, helicopters, balloons, you name it.  And who's in it?  It would take less time to tell you who's not in it. Airspeed's Steve Tupper has been heavily involved with the film, contributing B-roll, original music (some of which you'll recognize from Airspeed), and writing.  And Steve (and his son, callsign FOD) even appears on screen in a few places. Steve and Will have a bet.  Whomever gets his movie out first gets a shot of Jeramiah Weed.  Second place?  Two shots of Jerehiah Weed. Check out trailers and other information about A Pilot's Story at www.apilotsstory.com. Team Tuskegee Prepares for 2013 Airshow Season Steve has been flying regularly with the Tuskegee Airmen Glider Club, a program of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum and the organization from which the Tuskegee Airmen Flight Demo Team draws its members. Sequestration and its potential adverse effects on airshows is on everyone's lips and we're watching developments as closely as anyone.  But, in the meantime, Team Tuskegee is diligently preparing for another airshow season. Team leads John "Outhouse" Harte and Mark "Granite" Grant have become the first two pilots ever to receive FAST cards in the glider category.  Both hold FAST wingman cards and plan to upgrade as soon as possible to FAST lead cards.  Steve has been training diligently (35 hours in formation to date) for his wingman card and at least two other Tuskegee pilots will likely be ready for checkrides when the opportunity rolls around. Although the team performed at many airshows last year, it is in the strange position of being able to do much more outside waivered airspace than it can inside waivered airspace.  The largest single factor is that, unless team members have FAST cards, team aircraft must be separated by at least 500 feet while in the box.  Once all of the airshow team members have fast cards, the team will be able to take its show demo to the next level by flying formation passes and doing different ingresses and egresses. In the meantime, if you live near Detroit (or fly into or out of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW)), watch the skies for a three-ship of yellow motorgliders.  The team is practicing hard so that it can bring you exciting, beautiful, and safe demos in 2013.                            Copyright © 2013 Airspeed, LLC, All rights reserved. You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up or otherwise expressed interest in receiving updates from Airspeed. 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Writing Progresses on Airspeed’s Behind-the-Scenes Series about Airshows from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | I’m bouncing back from a laptop problem that caused be to lose the in-process scripts for four Airspeed episodes. I’m aggressively trying to re-write them so that I can get a few of these episodes out by the end of the year. In the meantime, this little chunk of prose struck me as a tasty [...]

St. Louis Aerospace Community Mourns the Passing of Albert J. Morgan, McDonnell Douglas Machinist from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Albert retired from McDonnell Douglas after approx 30 years as an All-Around machinist fir aircraft in Building 27. He trained machinist for getting upgraded to the All-Around Classification, and at one time or another he operated every machine from the smallest to the largest, from the most simple to the most complex, in his Department, as well as working in the EC room many years on all contracted programs and special projects....

A Great Falls Man Receives Recognition 70 years after Saving his B-17 Crew - KFBB NewsChannel 5 | A Great Falls Man Receives Recognition 70 years after Saving his B-17 Crew. By Rachel Ousley. Story Created: Dec 22, 2012 at 11:03 PM MST. Story Updated: Dec 22, 2012 at 11:03 PM MST. Yesterday Senator Jon Tester honored Jack Gamble of Great ...

Historic 'Memphis Belle' Leaves Salisbury Behind For Now - Salisbury Post | The big B-17 World War II bomber that was in the movie "Memphis Belle" sits in the morning sunshine at the Rowan County Airport waiting to fly out later in the day on Saturday. This photo shows the tail gunner postion on the bomber. photo by Wayne ...

Stories, artifacts assure that World War II generation not forgotten - Plain Dealer | If you want a glimpse of what life was like for a B-17 tail-gunner from Cleveland, go to the 301st Bombardment Group website (www.301bg.com), where you'll find the flight log for James M. Sennish, who flew 32 missions over Europe. The log was found by...

Restoring pieces of history - Burlington Times News | He is progressing in aerobatic flying and would like to perform air shows in the near future. Visit bullyaero.com for more details on Minnis, his business and the planes he restores. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re...

Dale E. Albright - LimaOhio.com | On March 24, 1945 his B-17 “Laetitia” was shot down and he was captured as a POW. Dale was a member of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Lima. Survivors include a son Mark (Deb) Albright of Ada; a daughter Sherrie (Terry) Tucker of Orrville; three ...

Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk (1948) from AIRBOYD.TV | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk (previously designated the XP-87) was a prototype American all-weather jet fighter interceptor and the company’s last aircraft project. Designed as a replacement for the World War II-era propeller-driven P-61 Black Widow night/interceptor aircraft, the XF-87 lost in government procurement competition to the Northrop F-89 Scorpion. The [...]

Grumman Albatross Landing Demo on Lake Tahoe from TAKEOFF TUBE

Elementary students get a merry Christmas from Angel Flight - Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City | MONROE, Utah – Santa left the reindeer at home Thursday for a special delivery in Sevier County. Monroe Elementary received book, school supplies and, of course, toys. “It's really nice of him to come help our school and give us supplies,” says Monroe ...

The Dungeon's Top-10 for 2012 from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | I see Chris Michielssen posted his top ten for 2012. So, I see no reason to wait to post mine:...

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Blues' season finale wows crowd of 50000 at NAS - Pensacola News Journal | “I tell people not to try that at home,” said Collmer, who spent 12 years as a Navy aviator after taking his flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1954, before any members of the Blue Angels elite flight demonstration team were born ...

South Florida Seaplane Splash-In this Sunday from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The South Florida Seaplane Splash-In will be held this Sunday, Nov. 11, at Lake Jackson in Sebring, Florida. An incorrect date had been run on our Calendar pages...

Challenge Air Fly Day gives 104 special needs children flights from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | DALLAS LOVE FIELD, Texas — FBO Business Jet Center recently hosted Fly Days, a one-day event for special needs children and youth provided by Challenge Air, a non-profit organization. During the event, held Nov. 3, 104 special needs children were given flights in both single and multi-engine aircraft provided by...

Long-Time Colorado Aviator Inducted Into CO Aviation Hall Of Fame from Aero-News Network | Took His First Plane Ride In 1933 Jack Grenier's love of aviation began at age 13 when his father took he and his sister to the Minneapolis airport where a group of barnstormers was selling airplane rides. His sister got that first ride, as his dad could only afford one, but Greiner was undaunted. He returned as often as he could to sell tickets for the barnstormers in exchange for a small commission ... and airplane rides.

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Parys Pylon Time Trials from Latest Vlog | This was without doubt the most exciting event this year, the Parys Pylon Racing organized by Scully Levin and the members of Parys. Safety was of course a serious concern and was addresses during the safety briefing before the event commenced. The rules...

Aerobatic Pilot Pete McLeod from Apron 6

B-17 from film 'Memphis Belle' in Tampa available for rides, tour  - Tbo.com | Seen through the top hatch, the B-17 that portrayed the historic Memphis Belle in the 1990 film makes a demonstration flight over Hillsborough Bay and the Tampa area Monday. It will be available for flights this weekend at $450 a seat, which covers the ...

Chickasaw Nation celebrates National Aviation month - Daily Ardmoreite | By age 14, she was flying her father to business appointments and performing aerobatic maneuvers at air shows all over Oklahoma. The film "Pearl" produced by The Chickasaw Nation, chronicles those early years in her life. It has garnered many accolades ...

Today in 1930: Capt. Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker was awarded the Medal of Honor... from National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian's Facebook Wall | Today in 1930: Capt. Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker was awarded the Medal of Honor for boldly attacking seven enemy airplanes alone and shooting down two of them on September 25, 1918. He was...

Memorial Service for Marilyn York - News in photos | Marilyn York was a Navy WAVE stationed at Alameda Naval Air Station where she worked for 33 years as an aircraft mechanic, and after retirement she helped found the Alameda Naval Air Museum. York died at age 90 on October 26, and a memorial service ...

Pacific Aviation Museum to dedicate F-5A fighter from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | HONOLULU — Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor will dedicate its Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter on Monday, Nov. 12. The 4 p.m. dedication ceremony will take place at the Museum on Historic Ford Island...

Chopper Stops Traffic During Air Museum Move - Jamestown Post Journal | Monday morning downtown commuters saw something a little out of the ordinary while on their way to work. As part of the move from the Jamestown Airport to 300 N. Main St., the Lucile M. Wright Air Museum transported a helicopter and an aircraft from ...

You Don’t Know Jack: Airspeed Completes the UCAP Trifecta – Audio Episode Show Notes from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | These are the show notes to an audio episode. You can listen to the show audio by clicking here.  Better yet, subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your other favorite podcatcher. It’s all free! Even if...

F-35 celebrates 500th sortie as program grows from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Force's premier fighter, the F-35 Lightning II, surpassed its 500th sortie only 16 days after reaching the 400 mark and only 238 days from the beginning of the program.  Maj. Matthew Johnston of the 58th Fighter Squadron completed the 500th combined sortie for both the F-35A and F-35B at the 33rd Fighter Wing Nov. 2, marking a continued progress in sortie generation rates since the wing started flight operations March 6....

Couple Takes Vows In The Air ... Skydives Into Their Honeymoon from Aero-News Network | Both Jumped With An Instructor Following The Airborne Ceremony A couple in Utah wanted to do something a little different for their wedding, so they hopped into the back of an airplane, exchanged vows at 13,000 feet, and then exited the aircraft ... each strapped to a skydiving instructor as they plunged into matrimony.

Pilot Makes Post-Crash Video Floating On The Gulf Of Mexico from Aero-News Network  | Events Lead To Major Donation To His Aviation-Focused Charity A pilot who ditched his airplane in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Lousiana had the presence of mind to grab his iPad as he was getting out of the sinking airplane. While floating in the water with the person who had been his passenger in the airplane, he made a 1 minute 22 second video with the device, which he said he didn't think anyone would ever see. Pilot T.R. Wright said making the video was just a "way to pass the time."