Eyes to the skies for Air & Water Show test flights - WGNtv.com | The military heroes of the sky say people like O'Malley are also key to keeping America safe. "While we're deployed around the globe, they're the ones that are keeping our families and friends safe," said Captain Greg McWherter of the U.S. Navy Blue ...
This is the weekend for the airshow - The West Milford Messenger | The engines of flying machines of the era will go from rumble to roar, as some of the best air show performers take to the sky. There 
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator (via) from x planes
Blades wow crowds of 25000 in Falmouth - DCA (press release) | The Blades are a leading display team of former Red Arrows pilots renowned worldwide for flying precision close formation aerobatics to the highest level, within a dynamic and cutting edge display. Some of the country's most experienced display pilots ...
Replacement Snowbirds aircraft to cost $755 million - Ottawa Citizen | The aerobatic aviation team is seen as a key public relations tool for the military. But some in the Canadian Forces have privately questioned spending money on the Snowbirds since it does not directly contribute combat capabilities to the air force.
Sky's the limit at Chilliwack Flight Fest - Chilliwack Progress | Mayor Sharon Gaetz prepares to go on an aerobatic flight with Dave Mathieson at the Chilliwack Airport on Wednesday morning. 'Super Dave', as he is know, will be performing during this weekend's Flight Fest.
Rocky Mountain Airshow takes off next week from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Rocky Mountain Airshow, set for Aug. 24-26, at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, Colorado, promises to be bigger than ever this year with the addition of hot air balloons and the expansion of the kid-friendly Adventure Zone...
Stallion 51 celebrates silver anniversary from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | As Lee Lauderback taxied to the Warbird Ramp on opening day of this year's SUN ’n FUN, a group of students immediately began pointing at his P-51 “Crazy Horse” and waving to him. He waved back with a big smile on his face. It's a reaction he's used to getting. “Everybody recognizes the P-51,” he said. “It's an amazing airplane.” And even after 25 years of heading up Stallion 51, his company at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) in Florida that offers training and rides in the P-51, Lauderback is still that 10-year-old boy who saw Bob Hoover flying a P-51. “I thought, 'wow, that is so cool,'” he remembered. “I am truly blessed to get to fly one every day.” And he shares that blessing with his customers, who travel from all over the world for the chance to fly — not just ride — in a Mustang.
Air Racers 3D to fly high in Reno theaters from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | 3D Entertainment Distribution has inked an agreement to present "Air Racers 3D," in Reno exclusively at Cinemark Century Theatres from Sept. 7-20. The two-week theatrical engagement will coincide with the 2012 National Championship Air Races at Reno-Stead Airport, which will see the young star of the 3D film, pilot Steven Hinton, in competition for the fourth consecutive time...
Peek Inside Rare WWII Bomber 'Aluminum Overcast' [VIDEO] - New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio | TRENTON - A rare B-17 bomber made a stop at the Trenton Mercer Airport Monday during a national “Salute to Veterans” tour and members of the public were able to get an inside look at the fully-restored war plane. The Experimental Aircraft Association's ...
B-17 tour lands at Lewis University Airport, honors veterans of WWII - The Bugle | Try, if you can, to imagine yourself on the battlefields of Europe in the opening months of 1942. If you were a German soldier or industrial worker at that time, there would have been few sights more frightening than that of an approaching B-17 bomber...
Tuskegee Airmen to be remembered in traveling Brunswick exhibit - Press Herald | Suzanne Krauss, Deputy Air Show Director, said the exhibit is sponsored by the Commemorative Air Force “Red Tail Squadron” whose pilots and planes will perform during the three-day-long airshow. The traveling exhibit, which is housed inside a ...
WWII P-51 Pilot and Author, Richard K. Curtis to be Guest Speaker at Indiana Warbird Campaign. - - Indiana Warbird Campaign | Richard K. Curtis, a WWII P-51 fighter pilot, retired IUPUI School of Liberal Arts professor and author of “Dumb But Lucky!”, is set to be this year’s special guest speaker on Saturday, September 1st at 7:00 p.m. You can...
Podcast: Justin Peterson – The Warbird Rescue Show - www.warbirdradio.com | WARBIRD RADIO – Join the Warbird Rescue crew for a very special guest. Justin Peterson, a 12 year old student in Washington state who studies World War II history has raised over $26,000 to send WWII veterans to Washington D.C. All this has been made possible by the Memorial Flight Program to ens...
Loring Military Heritage Center’s unique memorabilia to be reunion attraction - Bangor Daily News | Loring Air Force Base was a mysterious place in 1991 when Matt Cole of Washburn was an Eagle Scout. He always looked forward to the annual Boy Scout Winterama campouts on the base, one of 
the few times civilians were allowed through the patrolled gates that limited access to the Strategic Air Command facility in Limestone...
Davis D-1 Restoration from Another Time by Dan Linn | Terry Wallace ... just rolled out the completed restoration of another Davis D-1, NC15785...
Avro Anson MKI maiden flight July 2012, Nelson, New Zealand. from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | We stumbled across this little gem and thought it well worth sharing.
Boeing Marks 50 Years of Delivering Chinook Helicopters - pilotnewsmag.com | As Boeing [NYSE: BA] marks the 50th anniversary of delivering the first H-47 Chinook military helicopter, the company is nearing completion of a $130 million renovation of its production line near Philadelphia that will help it meet global demand for the latest model, the CH-47F. “The Chinook has...
Last of Their Kind - Airspacemag.com | Airplanes without equal at the National Air and Space Museum.
“A member of the 439th Troop Carrier looks over a captured... from x planes | "...captured German Junkers Piggy Back Plane..."
EAA Young Eagles Take Flight, 2012 Northeast LSA Expo, and BBQ with WWII ... - Londonderry News | From 9am to 1pm, the EAA Young Eagles will take flight at Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover, MA. From 9am – 4pm the 2012 Northeast LSA Expo(Light Sport Aircraft) will also be at Lawrence Municipal Airport. Finally, at 5pm an all you can eat ...
Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), re-purposed from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | During the Shuttle program, the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) was used for training purposes and to integrate changes to hardware and flight software into the orbiters...
Historic Images: Two Space Shuttles Together - Universe Today | This event took place today at the National Air & Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in April, 2012 as space shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA's shuttle fleet, met up with its prototype sister, Enterprise as they switch spots ...
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Friday, August 17, 2012
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Salinas Airshow performers to fill skies - The Salinas Californian | Kirby Chambliss, former Red Bull Air Race World Champion. The Airshow is not just about aircraft, of course. On Friday night, The Wall of Fire and a choreographed frenzy of fireworks will light the night. Rockets and streamers galore will set ablaze ...
Salinas airshow to honor victims of Reno crash - The Salinas Californian | Amador Agabo works to build the President's Club Tent on Tuesday for this weekend's California International Airshow at the Salinas Municipal Airport. Conner Jay/The Salinas Californian Amador Agabo works to build the President's Club Tent on Tuesday ...
USAF Thunderbirds and Texas Natives Discuss 2011 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show - www.youtube.com | USAF Thunderbird #1 Lt. Col. Case Cunningham and #7 Lt. Col. Jason Koltes discuss their excitement to be coming home to perform in their hometown air show at the 2011 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show October 22 & 23 at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport. ...
Pilot's legacy lives on during Gunfighter Skies - Mountain Home News | Photo by Brian S. Orban For more than 10 years, pilot Greg Poe dedicated his life to helping children turn their lives around and to help them reach their goals and dreams. It was the one way he coped with the pain he endured after son died from years ...
Ga. Air Show Organizer Talks Event Safety - MyFox Atlanta | The director of the Great Georgia Air Show says she's been fielding a lot of questions about spectator safety in light of the recent tragedy in Reno. The state's largest air show is scheduled in just a couple of weeks. Director Angie Faulise said it's ...
Friend of Reno Pilot Looks at Air Show Crash Clues - The Ledger | LAKELAND | Retired pilot Howie Keefe has taken a close look at what might have led to the deaths of fellow racing pilot and friend Jimmy Leeward and spectators at a Reno airshow; it's what risk-takers tend to do in the aftermath of ...
Jerome Resident Remembers Pilot Killed During Air Races - Twin Falls Times-News | Lane participated in the Reno air races as the crew chief for three planes from the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. Crew members at the Reno air races are like a close-knit family, Lane said, and most everyone knows each other. ...
Page Field slates Aviation Day from General Aviation News | Aviation Day 2011 will be held Saturday, Nov. 5, at Florida's Page Field (FMY) and the Lee County Port Authority is looking for exhibitors who would like to display and/or sell aviation-related memorabilia or show their aircraft at the event. Exhibit space is free. ...
Air show may come to Rome next year - Rome News Tribune | An air show may take place at the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport next year, according to Airport Manager Mike Mathews. JLC Airshow Management of Kennesaw told members of the Airport Commission on Tuesday night that they ...
Happy 50th Birthday Chinook from Flight Image of the Day | Although debate rages between the US and UK parts of the office as to whether it's pronounced 'shinook' or 'chinook', what is certain is that Boeing's venerable Chinook turns 50 today. To celebrate this, Boeing has also opened its recently renovated, for a cost of $130 million, production site in Ridley Township, PA. Pictured is a CH-47A belonging to the US Army in about 1961. ...
Remains of WWII servicemen buried in single casket - Washington Examiner | ... Wednesday's burial brings a close to the remarkable story of the Naughty but Nice, a B-17 Flying Fortress that was shot down in 1943 and earned its nickname from a painting of a scantily clad woman on its side. Nine of the 10 airmen on board were killed and buried in unmarked graves. The lone survivor, Lt. Jose Holguin, was taken as a Japanese prisoner of war but made it his mission after the war to find his lost colleagues. ...
USAF F-22 fleet is operational again from Warplanes Online Community The Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz have recently approved an implementation plan developed by Air Combat Command officials that will allow the F-22 Raptor to resume flight operations after a four-month stand down. “We now have enough insight from recent studies and investigations that a return to flight is prudent and ...
BBH Rebrands British Airways in Grand New Campaign from Adweek : Advertising & Branding | Here's the lavish, poetic 90-second brand spot from BBH London that launches a big new British Airways ad campaign—its largest in 11 years. The planed $30 million campaign will largely be about customer service, and introduces a new tagline, "To fly. To serve," which is actually an old line—it comes straight from ...
NASA Will Give $1.6 Billion to Private Companies to Design a Shuttle Replacement [Space] from Gizmodo | After announcing its new deep space rocket and Apollo program heir, NASA says that they will give $1.61 billion to private companies to design a full system and a spacecraft capable of ferrying cargo and astronauts to the ISS ...
Friday, August 26, 2011
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Blue Angels: Real stars are pilots in the war - WCSH-TV | BRUNSWICK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Thousands of Mainers and tourists will be heading to Brunswick this weekend for the Great State of Maine Air Show. The highlight, of course, is the return appearance of the Navy's Blue Angels precision flying team. ...
Red Arrows decision 'on day of show' - U.TV | The appearance of the world-famous RAF team was put in doubt after one of its pilots was killed in a crash at the Bournemouth Air Festival last weekend. Flight Lieutenant Joe Egging, 33, died when his Hawk T1 aircraft came down in a field just minutes ...
Aircraft and MiG-Sparks and the ducats on the occasion of Air Show - PAP | For the first time in Poland there is a team of Swiss Air Force aerobatic "Patrouille Suisse", on six airplanes flying Northrop F-5E Tiger II, a team of Croatian Air Force and Defence "Krila Oluje" ...
Prairie Air Show not returning to Peoria airport -- for now - Peoria Journal Star | By DAVE HANEY A contract remains severed between the Peoria airport and the all-volunteer group that has brought in the likes of the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds to the River City over nearly a decade. But officials from both sides say an agreement to ...
War veteran sharing history at air show in West Milford - NorthJersey.com | A B-29 navigator in the 393rd bomb squad, 509th Bomb Wing, and member of crew B-8, Widowsky will be at the Greenwood Lake Air Show this weekend. World War II veteran Jack Widowsky shares memories with Greenwood Lake Airport Manager Tim Wagner at the ...
Tuskegee Airman shares stories of training for war - The Desert Sun | A painting of Tuskegee Airman Rusty Burns, of Sun City, is displayed on a mural honoring the World War II Tuskegee Airmen at Palm Springs Air Museum. Burns was the guest speaker at an educational workshop at the museum on the World War II Tuskegee ...
EAA AirVenture 2011 Demo Air Race TBM 850 vs P-51 Mustang Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -Pembroke Pines, Florida- DAHER-SOCATA has released video highlights of the air race challenge between its TBM 850 very fast turboprop aircraft and a World War II P-51 Mustang fighter, which occurred during the 2011 EAA AirVenture aviation event in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. The race was held July 29 as part of DAHER-SOCATA's celebration marking 100 years of continuous aircraft by the company and its predecessors ...
Former Air Force Two now part of AMC Museum from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Mobility Command Museum here has long been home to many landmarks of American avionic innovation. The retired military and civilian airframes are restored to historically accurate quality by museum volunteers and displayed for the enjoyment of several generations of patrons. If the planes could talk, they might be asking, "Who's the new guy?" because a special Douglas-built VC-9C aircraft,
formerly known as Air Force Two, joined their ranks Aug. 18. "(The aircraft) is another gem in the crown at the AMC Museum," said Michael Leister, the director of the AMC Museum. ...Winged Chinook — Boeing Vertol Model BV-347 walkaround -Travel for Aircraft | These images of this rare Chinook were taken April 2011 at the U.S. Army Aviation Museum* but for more photos, as well of images of the interior showing the retracted gondola, please go to this Chinook Helicopter web site**. The gondola must have been a good piece of engineering since a pilot was lowered with a set of flying controls but it must have been a risky proposition for that pilot. The gondola pilot would ...
Monday, May 2, 2011
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Helicopters Central to Bin Laden Raid from Aviation Today - A small U.S. Special Ops team, including CIA and Navy SEALs using Boeing Chinooks and Sikorsky Black Hawks, assaulted a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Sunday, killing Osama Bin Laden. Reports indicate that one Chinook experienced a mechanical failure resulting in a hard landing, with no...
Flying formation - Charleston Post Courier | A pair of US Navy Blue Angels, one flying upside down, appear almost to be a single aircraft as they roar past in tight formation during the 2011 MCAS Beaufort Air Show on Sunday. A pair of US Navy Blue Angels, one flying upside down, appear almost to ...
Paris Air Show 2011 preview | Aerospace Insight | The Royal ... by Tim Robinson | A preview of what to look forward to at this year's Paris Air Show on 20-26 June - the aerospace industry showcase…
SR-71 that is flying today! from Travel for Aircraft by | People who builds scale models and dioramas from scratch amaze me with their ingenuity and attention to detail. Many aircraft can only be seen as models as, sadly, examples were not saved — and, palpably, dioramas give us a sense of what the time was like. Many models and dioramas have been subjects of posts in the blog…
Bomber brings back WWII memories for Nipomo man - Santa Maria Times | Nipomo resident Joel Johnson flew 30 missions over Germany during World War II as the pilot of a B-17. He sat for a picture Tuesday at the Santa Maria Airport with traveling display B-17, Aluminum Overcast.//Mark Brown/Staff High winds sweeping along ...Celebrating 70 years since first jet engine took to the skies from RAF Cranwell - This is Lincolnshire | Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre will commemorate the historic moment with an exhibition of displays, archive footage and information on Sir Frank. Light refreshments will also be available on the day. The Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre is based at ...
Air museum re-opens after almost two years - UpperMichigansSource.com | The KI Sawyer Heritage Air Museum is in a new location, the corner of Avenue A and Third Street. SAWYER -- It's been nearly two years since the KI Sawyer Heritage Air Museum was open for visitors. And Sunday, the museum was able to open its doors again ...
A minature menace – the W.A.R. Replicas International Fw 190 from Shortfinals's Blog | It is the dream of all private pilots to walk into a hangar, perform a pre-flight check, and taxy out in their very own WW2 fighter aircraft. Unfortunately, the cost of acquisition of, say, a P-51 Mustang, can be up to $2 million and the running costs are quite staggering. Flying a Second World War fighter, then, has had to remain a pipe-dream for most pilots…Today in Aviation History – May 2 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
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