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Blue Angels Homecoming Show - NAS Pensacola | Official Website

Pumpkin Drop a smashing success - Santa Cruz Sentinel | WATSONVILLE -- People can learn to fly. Pumpkins can't. That was the message, basically, for Sunday's annual Pumpkin Drop at Watsonville Municipal Airport. The event is geared to highlight the joys of flying and allows people a free flight in a small plane to hoist that old pumpkin out the window toward a target near...

Podcast: The Last Biplane Fighters – Warbird Radio | MONDAY – Grumman biplane expert Rich Dann joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Rich is the author of Grumman Biplane Fighters in Action and is also an accomplished aviation artist....

Stuart Air Show returns with world's fastest helicopter, WWII re-enactors  - TCPalm | STUART — The Stuart Air Show is coming back to Witham Field on Saturday and Sunday for two days of air stunts and the chance to see a record-breaking aircraft.  Manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft is the presenting sponsor this year and will...

Stuart Air Show - Official Website

Rutan starts work on new light aircaft  - Flightglobal | Aircraft designer Burt Rutan is working on a new aviation project in the Idaho lake house where he retired only seven months ago after a 45-year career that produced SpaceShipOne, Voyager and dozens of other ground-breaking air vehicles.  "I found after working on 40 airplanes in 40 years it probably is impossible to stop," Rutan said in an exclusive interview. "So I'm working on a new one."  Rutan provided few details about the...

Brigadier General Dick Lord - The Telegraph | Brigadier General Dick Lord, the Fleet Air Arm pilot who has died aged 75, was instrumental in the development of America’s Top Gun fighter pilot academy, made famous by the film of the same name....

Retro Monday: Flying the SR-71 Blackbird - Defense Tech | Sister site Kit Up! just published this great vignette about operating an all-time classic of military technology — the legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. Former Blackbird driver Maj. Brian Shul describes pushing his SR-71 past Mach 3.5 over Libya to outrun Gadhafi’s surface-to-air missiles in April 1986. Shul’s fascinating account gives a pilot’s perspective on flying the big black jet at the edge of space at speeds...

Honor the Veterans, including the women - You Fly Girl | The second story informed us that the Marine's first female striker pilot is from Meridian Mississippi. These two events took me back in memory to a high school girl at Randlett, Okla. In those days, classes were...

History: the Start of CG Aviation - Military.com News | One hundred years ago, during the dawn of the twentieth century, a technological revolution took place that ushered in the use of steel, internal combustion engines and new sources of power. During this era, American visionaries rose to the...

Fallen pilot laid to rest after 43 years - Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Public Affairs | 11/7/2011 - DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFNS) -- Since 1977 a marker in memory of Air Force Col. Gilbert S. Palmer Jr. sat upon a hill for the pilot who went missing in action Feb. 27, 1968. Now, more than 43 years later, Palmer's remains have been returned to his family for proper burial in Arlington with full military honors....

USAF in the 2020s -- F-15s, F-16s ... and U-2s? - Ares by Graham Warwick | ...This will extend their airframe life to 10,000hr from 8,000hr, another eight years of service life keeping the F-16 on the front line until 2030. The life-extension could be expanded to up to 600 F-16s if there are further F-35 delays, but Carlisle said he did not believe the Air Force would have to go that far....

Who Wants to Buy a Rare RAF Fighter? - Defense Tech | Anyone want to buy a rare British fighter jet?  This old Supermarine Swift fighter is going for a little over $400,000 on eBay. The plane has been sitting exposed to the elements outside of a clothing store in the English countryside since the 1960s, accumulating who knows what kind of weather damage.  The 200 Swifts that were built, out of nearly 500 that were ordered, only saw...

'Young Eagles' Event Introduces Young People To Flight - Greenville Sun | Dennis Smith is hoping to join the Air Force after high school. His friend Jeffrey Newkirk plans a career in aeronautical engineering.  So it's no surprise the Greeneville teenagers were among the first to arrive Saturday...

Protecting Apollo artifacts on the Moon - The Space Review | Within the next few years, one of the 26 teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) competition will hopefully claim the $20-million grand prize by successfully landing its privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, traveling at least 500 meters across the lunar...

Museum Seeks State Money for Space Shuttle’s Home - NY Times | We have liftoff on the quest for more than $40 million of public financing for a new museum that would house Enterprise, the prototype for the space shuttles. Officials of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan have taken their pitch for government support of the proposed museum out from behind closed doors. To bolster their appeal, they have armed themselves with a...

The breaking of the fellowship (NASA, not Lord of the Rings) - Cron.com | NASA as we know it ended last week in Building 9 on the campus of Johnson Space Center.  The final four, the last crew to fly aboard a space shuttle, quietly met for the last time, officially, as a group before they go their separate ways. They did so for the purpose of meeting with the original shuttle duo, John Young and Robert Crippen, who flew on STS-1 lo those many years ago....

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Air race a success - Taylor Daily Press | The Taylor Municipal Airport hosted the fifth annual Rocket 100 Air Race with over 40 pilots from Texas to California to Canada taking part. ...

No airshow for Dawson Creek in 2011 – CJDC | Dawson creek City Council decided that it will pass on hosting next year's air show, unless corporate sponsors step in to foot the bill. ...

2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow by joekates | The 2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow was the latest of a long line of grand finales that the Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron has presented, and with it comes mixed emotions. Sadly, the final performances of the year means that ...

Our view: Memorial - Anchorage Daily News | Last summer, right before the Arctic Thunder air show, four airmen died in the crash of a C-17 cargo jet on a flight in preparation for the show. ...

Open-air Aircraft Museum to be Open in Irkutsk in 2011 - Russia-InfoCenter | Open-air Museum of Aircrafts will be opened in Irkutsk for the 350th anniversary since the city's foundation to be marked in September, 2011. ...


This Enormous Flying Boat Made Transcontinental History, 75 Years Ago Today [Techversaries] from Gizmodo by Sam Biddle | The China Clipper left San Francisco as a huge seaplane full of mail—110,000 pieces of it. But was responsible for the first transpacific flight in history, and became one of the world's first technological celebrities. More »

The Polish Aviation Museum - The Polish Air Museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego) may not be one museum that every tourist wants to go to, but if you like aviation history and old airplanes, it's worth a visit. It is in a suburb of Krakow at a historic airfield about ...

Class of 2010 – Robert Mitchell from San Diego Air & Space Museum Blog by bbernasconi | The biographical information below was compiled by Nelson Chase, Assistant Archivist, for the 2010 International Air & Space Hall of Fame Gala. For more information on the Museum's Library and Archives, click here. You can also view our new online Air & Space Hall of Fame exhibit by clicking here…

Warbird T-Shirt Quilt from Another Time by Dan Linn |  In this day and age of reuse and recycle it is always fun to see something repurposed, especially when it pertains to our own personal interests.  My mom is an avid quilter.  I grew up staying warm in the winter months under her handiwork, and over the years our family has shared her interest in quilting.  As a matter of fact, we even owned a small quilt shop years ago.  It was a lot of fun learning how to run a small business, and have the opportunity to meet new people who shared the love of quilting…

Flight tests of a Mono Tiltrotor (MTR) - Flight Test Video#1 - Video clips from Mono tiltrotor functional flight demonstrations…

U.S. Army's Cobra Retirement Program coming to end from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | A Fort Drum-based operation that brought in tens of millions of dollars for the Army by rebuilding and selling AH-1 Cobra helicopters is about to ship its last four aircraft, bringing a successful and profitable venture to a close. About 10 years ago, every Cobra in the U.S. fleet began arriving at Fort Drum to be retired through the post's Foreign Military Sales shop near Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield. Some were gutted for parts and used as military training apparatus; most were refurbished here and sold to military customers overseas…

Today In Aviation History – November 23 « Calgary Recreational and ... by bikeal | Today In Aviation History – November 23. 23 11 2010. The sole Vought V-173 in test flight. In 1942... Dubbed "Flying Flapjack," the most radical conventionally-engined aircraft ever built makes its 1st flight when Chance Vought test ...

Space Tourism - a final frontier worth exploring? - Business Green | That's a significant discrepancy, given Ross's estimate that conventional large-scale rocketry, as used by the Space Shuttle and European Ariane programs, ...

Episode 124 – Body Scanners & Cougars, Oh My! from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) Guest Kelly Skyles is the National Safety and Security Coordinator for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants which represents about 17,000 American Airlines Flight Attendants. We talk about the past week's aviation news, especially all the recent airport security problems, and David has his This Week in Aviation history segment. Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast sent their Australia Desk report and Pieter Johnson brings us his latest Across the Pond segment. Plus, Harriet drops by to say hello! The week's aviation news…

Tactics Over Technology: The Thach Weave from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | One little known aspect of the June 1942 Battle of Midway was that it wasn't just the turning point in the Pacific War that started to roll back the Japanese Empire, but it also was a turning point in fighter tactics that changed the way air combat was conducted. At the start of the Second World War, US Navy fighter squadrons had eighteen aircraft that were divided into six sections of three planes each- each section was composed of a flight leader and two wingmen. However, well before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy fighter squadrons VF-2 and VF-5 experimented with two-plane sections with a flight leader and a single wingman…

DAV brings message to the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show on the Wings of a B-25

NAS Pensacola, Florida – The Disabled American Veterans will once again take to the skies to advance its message of service to disabled veterans.  Now, in its eighth season, the DAV Airshow Outreach Program featuring the B-25 Mitchell Bomber of World War II notoriety appears nationwide at over 25 airshows and reaches over 3 million airshow spectators annually in an effort to promote the DAV’s mission of building better lives for America’s disabled veterans.  The DAV is proud to announce The DAV Flight Team will be making an appearance at the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show at NAS Pensacola  on November 11-13.

The DAV Airshow Outreach Program was developed to increase public awareness of disabled veterans and to serve veterans in communities across the nation. Using B-25 medium bombers, the program reminds the public of the sacrifices veterans have made and continue to make to keep our nation free.

The B-25 Bomber enjoys the reputation of achieving the impossible during one of America’s darkest hours in World War II.  The medium size bomber was made famous by the daring Doolittle Raid on Tokyo which helped rally America after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  The B-25 went on to become the most versatile bomber of World War II, seeing combat in every theater of operation.

“The DAV is thrilled to bring our message of volunteerism and support to our nation’s sick and disabled veterans to this air show. We believe the men, women and children who will visit this air show are the patriotic, military-friendly citizens that have helped make this nation so great,” said DAV National Commander Wallace Tyson. “The DAV is proud to be among this crowd, and meet those who want to know more about our service to veterans.”

While at the show, plan to visit the Disabled American Veterans display where you can see the 2010 American Veterans Disabled for Life Silver Dollar.  You can honor our brave veterans by purchasing this commemorative coin at www.usmint.gov.  A portion of every coin sold will help build the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington D.C.   Also at the display, veterans are encouraged to autograph a DAV Flight Team poster which will be presented to the show on behalf of all those veterans living in the community.

For more information on the Disabled American Veterans, visit www.dav.org.  And for more information on the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, visit www.avdlm.org.

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