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Blue Angels to soar above Lincoln - Omaha World-Herald | LINCOLN — It's been five years since the famed Navy aerobatic team the Blue Angels dazzled tens of thousands of spectators in the skies above the Lincoln Airport. On Sept. 10 and 11, the blue-and-yellow F/A-18 Hornets will return to the capital to ...

The sky's the limit at Waukegan Air Show - Lake Forester | Flights of fancy and more will be the order of the day when the Waukegan Air Show returns to Waukegan Regional Airport Saturday. Planes old and new will be in the air and on the ground. ...

Showdown on the Plains to be filled with aerobatics, delectable BBQ - Liberal Southwest Daily Times | Numerous vintage and experimental aircraft will be on display – including rides for purchase in Commemorative Air Force airplanes - as well as various motorcycles and classic cars. A delicious barbeque lunch will be prepared by Fifth Street BBQ ...

"Thunder of Niagara" features strongman – WIVB | NIAGARA FALLS, NY (WIVB) - The "Thunder of Niagara" air show comes to the Falls this weekend. But on Tuesday at the Niagara Falls Airbase, an airplane was propelled by human strength. Mark Krisch of Strongman Entertainment will be one of the performers ...

Sick children get private air show at Hill – StandardNet | The kids, who all have some kind of life-threatening illness, joined 421st Fighter Squadron members for breakfast, received personal flight suits, helmet bags and dog tags, flew in an F-16 flight simulator and attended a private F-16 air show performed ...

A Match for Men in the Skies - Wall Street Journal | Patty Wagstaff, a champion US aerobatic flier, said Ms. Skelton was an inspiration to generations of women pilots. "She was really gorgeous and a really attractive 'girly girl,' but could sit down and talk about breaking a land-speed record or flying a ...

QuickPic: Strega - The Beast That'll Be Tough To Beat! (Reno 2011)  by Martt: 

Aviation film producer to receive award for Breaking Through the Clouds from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The National Aviation Hall of Fame will present an award and $20,000 cash prize to filmmaker Heather Taylor, of Columbia, Md., for her documentary about a 1929 race between female pilots flying from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio.  The aviation hall, based in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, said Tuesday it will present its Combs Gates Award to Taylor on Oct. 11 at the National Business Aviation Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. The award is given in recognition of aviation history research and preservation efforts…

Episode 163 – Bits and Pieces VII  from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks)  The Geeks take the week off in celebration of the Labor Day holiday, so instead of our normal format, we bring you these segments:  Rob Mark speaks with Louis Smith from FltOps.com about the hiring outlook for pilots. Louis was our guest back in Episode 102, Outlook for Professional Pilots. Rob Mark caught up with him at the Regional Airline Pilot Job Fair in Chicago.  David Vanderhoof provided some interviews from AirVenture 2011 at Oshkosh: Jonathan Hartman on the Firefly all-electric technology demonstration helicopter from Sikorsky, Dave Walsh, program Test Director for the Sikorsky X-2 record-breaking helicopter, Kevin Bredenbeck, Chief Pilot and director of flight operations at Sikorsky, and Audrey Schnur from Marketing Communications at GE Aviation (@GEaviation) about GE’s use of social media and their presence at Oshkosh. Also, at the Pax River show, David talked with S-3B Viking pilot Lieutenant John McElroy, who brought in one of three flying…

Boeing 40 and DC-2 Formation at Paine Field  from Antique Airfield News …pictures taken by Liz Matzelle at the Historic Flight museum during the wonderful "vintage airplane weekend" hosted by the very kind and generous John Sessions at Paine Field north of Seattle. As you can see I had the good fortune to fly formation with Clay Lacy in his DC-2 with the Boeing 40 which show these to historic aircraft in their true element… 

A historic landing for an old aircraft - The Warner Robins Patriot | The maintenance crew along with the flight crew signed the panel of the aircraft inscribing their names in Aviation history. The plane will eventually be displayed next to the c-141 air lifter at the Museum of Aviation. According to John Jr. its a ...

The Search for A-12 Article #125  from Roadrunners of Groom Lake by TD Barnes, President Roadrunners Internationale | A-12 (60-6928 / 125) was lost on 5 January 1967 during a training sortie flown from Groom Lake. Its pilot, Walter L. Ray became the first CIA pilot killed in the line of duty and is so honored in the "Book of Honor", CIA Headquarters in McLean, Va. …

Huey Insertion — full scale diorama  from Travel for Aircraft | SSGT Howard C. Breedlove photographed a hilltop insertion of troops on 24 April 1967. These photographs — taken during Operation Oregon and about 3km west of Duc Pho, Vietnam — give us an intimate view during the hilltop landing of one of the squads belonging to Rifle Platoon B, 1st Squadron, 9th Air Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division — and became one iconic images that now symbolize the Vietnam War.  Crossed sabers on the Huey’s nose denote the Air Cavalry and this diorama shows what helicopters do best, landing where no one else can quickly go…

What’s foxy and French, and a ‘Friend’ of Sally B? The Fennec  from Shortfinals's Blog by shortfinals | ‘Sally B and Friends’ at the Imperial War Museum’s Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire on July 31st was a thunderous success. There was the thunder of heavy piston engines, with several unique formations flying by (B-17, DC-3, Beech 18, Beech Staggerwing, for example) and thunderous applause from the crowd for everything from the aerobatic displays to the period music. I was delighted to be there, and I can confidently state despite the fact that it was billed as ‘not a flying display’, that I have attended flying displays that had less flying (especially warbirds), and much less in the way of ‘ground entertainment’ including period vehicles, re-enactors in uniform and music of the WW2 era…

PICTURES: Will Concorde come back to life in time for 2012 Olympics  from Alltop | A successful attempt to bring a British Airways Concorde "back to life" in time for the London Olympics has been thwarted by health and safety concerns.  A group of Concorde enthusiasts - Heritage Concorde - has for several months been carrying out repairs to the cockpit windows and visor of G-BOAC at Manchester Airport's Runway Visitor Park, its home since 2003…

Today in Aviation History – September 7  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

New Composite Airbus Approaching Final Assembly from Autopia by Jason Paur | Several large composite pieces for the new Airbus passenger jet have been delivered over the past month as the airplane maker prepares for assembly of the first A350XWB. The new airplane is expected to make its first flight some time next year and is a competitor against Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. Both the A350XWB and 787 feature significant use of composites. But each company chose very different ways to incorporate the materials into the airframe…

DC-3 75th Anniversary

Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the DC-3, the aircraft that literally changed the world. Get a behind the scenes look at the world's largest gathering of DC-3's and C-47's as well as the world's only flying C-41, and C-41A. one of only two flying DC-2's, along with the highest-time aircraft still flying and the lowest time DC-3.

This once in a lifetime gathering of such a great aircraft is illustrated within these pages along with a brief history of each aircraft in attendance. In addition, learn the history of D-Day veterans, "Tico Belle" and C-47 42-32832 as well as "Spooky", the AC-47 Gunship.

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NORTH AMERICAN P-51 OVERALL WINNER AT THE NATIONAL AVIATION HERITAGE INVITATIONAL

Stead, Nev. National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinees joined presenting sponsor Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. in awarding the Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage trophy to the 1945 North American P51-D.

Owned by William Allmon of Las Vegas, Nev. and restored by Pacific Flyers, the NACA 127 P-51D (N51YZ) was used by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1945 to 1952 to get transonic data in addition to wind tunnel information, to pave the way for supersonic flight. The airplane retains the heavy machined plates used to accelerate the airflow to speeds needed for research. On these plates are mounted both original and recreated test models. It is a very accurate restoration of a historic Mustang.

Winners in other categories are:
• Antique Category (Orville and Wilbur Wright Trophy): 1929 Hamilton Metalplane, owned and restored by Pole Pass Airways of Seattle, Wash.
• Classic Category (Paul E. Garber Trophy): 1945 Grumman G44A , owned and restored by Bill Scott of Reno, Nev.
• Warbird Category (Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold Trophy): 1945 Goodyear Corsair FG-1D, owned by John O’Connor of Downers Grove, IL, and restored by Airpower Unlimited.
• Large Aircraft (Howard Hughes Trophy): 1934 Douglas DC-2, owned by Clay Lacy of Van Nuys, Calif. and restored by Pete Regina.
• The National Aviation Hall of Fame People’s Choice Award: 1928 Boeing 40C1 owned by Addison Pemberton and restored by Pemberton and Sons Aviation.

Assisting in the trophy presentations to the winning owners were National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinees Patty Wagstaff, R.A. Bob Hoover, Dick Rutan, Clay Lacy, Herb Kelleher and Bud Anderson. Joining them were Hoot Gibson, National Aviation Heritage Invitational Ambassador; General Jack Daily, Director -Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Chris Cyr, Executive Vice-President, Rolls-Royce North America, Inc., Linda Shiner, editor of Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine; Ken Perich, Executive Director of the National Aviation Heritage Invitational and Mike Houghton, CEO of the Reno Air Racing Association.

The Heritage is held in conjunction with the Reno National Championship Air Races and celebrates aviation treasures. This endeavor is a joint effort under the auspices of Rolls-Royce North America Inc., the National Aviation Hall of Fame, and the Reno Air Racing Foundation, with support from the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Air Transport World, PilotMAG, World Airshow News, Airmail Greetings, Super 98, Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine, Perform Air, LiveAirShowTV and The Perich Group.

The National Aviation Heritage Invitational encourages preservation of aviation history through the restoration of aircraft to original flying condition. The Invitational was founded in 1998. A five-member panel, including representatives of the National Air and Space Museum, judges each aircraft on its technical merit and how well it represents the aircraft early in its career. Authenticity to the original manufacturer’s condition is the “gold standard” for each plane.

More information can be found at www.heritagetrophy.org


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The DC3 - Step back in time!

A feature aircraft at the Wide Bay Australia International Air show to be held at Bundaberg Airport over the weekend of 3-5 July 2009 will be one of the most popular aircraft ever built. The DC3 Was the RAAF'S WW2 General Transport & Cargo aircraft and gained quite a reputation for its reliability and dependable service. The DC3 and Hercules will be in attendance at the Airshow and the general public will be able to get up close to the ‘Herc’ while it is on public display.

Over 15,000 aircraft, known as The DC3/C47/Dakota/Gooney Bird/Sky Train and many other nick names, were built from the1940’s. General Eisenhower is recorded as saying the success of the aircraft was a major reason for the WW11 victory. It was the foundation aircraft for many airlines following the war and an earlier version, the DC2 was a star in the 1934 London/Melbourne Air Race for KLM.

The aircraft flying at the Airshow has quite a history. Delivered to the USAAF in 1942, it saw active service in the Pacific region with the name of Shanghai Lil and still has evidence of several bullet holes in the fuselage. In 1944 it was purchased by the Australian Government and became the start up aircraft for TAA in 1946 when it made the inaugural Laverton/Sydney flight. The name of 1838 Explorer Joseph Hawdon is the man the aircraft is named after. It flew the entire TAA network until retired in 1970 and later was placed on a pole outside the TAA Tullamarine terminal for eight years.

Because of the historical importance of the plane, it was restored by volunteers in 1987 and today is operated by Qantas Foundation Memorial Ltd for charitable and promotional services. Pilots Alan Searle and Chris Pennycuick, who originally flew this aircraft in New Guinea, will be at the controls.

To be at the Airshow to view this piece of aviation history, purchase your tickets from any branch of the Wide Bay Australia Bank or RACQ office. Further information from the Airshow hotline on 4155 0044 or the website at www.widebayairshow.com.au