Blues kick off centennial bash - Pensacola News Journal | Aviation Week air show: The Blue Angels took to the sky for a special air show celebrating the centennial of Naval Aviation. Greg Walker points out the approaching Blue Angel F/A-18 jets to his three-year-old son, Nathan Walker, during the Centennial ...
More interesting developments about the bin Laden raid from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | More and more information is coming to light following the mission to kill Osama bin Laden last weekend. I wrote about some areas yesterday. I've found four more points of interest today. 1. Most interesting to aviation enthusiasts is that the raid appears to have revealed the existence of a previously-unknown 'stealthy' variant of the Sikorsky MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Ares reports…Stealth Helo from Neptunus Lex | Navy went downtown hi-tech in Abbottabad, no doubt courtesy of the Army’s 160th SOAR, according to Aviation Leak: (The downed aircraft) was a secretly developed stealth helicopter, probably a highly modified version of an H-60 Blackhawk. Photos published in the Daily Mail and on the Secret Projects board show that the helicopter’s tail features stealth-configured shapes on the boom and tip fairings, swept stabilizers and a “dishpan” cover over a non-standard five-or-six-blade tail rotor. It has a silver-loaded infra-red suppression finish similar to that seen on some V-22s…
AirFest is just plane ol' fun for Abilene families - ReporterNews.com | Since Ethan Peacock likes to watch airplanes fly over his home in eastern Abilene, his parents brought him to the Dyess Big Country AirFest on Saturday morning to experience all the adventure a young aviation buff could handle. ...
Annual Dreams on Wings Event Cancelled Due to Severe Weather from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- When a child is faced with a serious illness it affects the entire family. Dreams On Wings, an annual event, is designed to give those children and their families a day to forget about the issues they're dealing with and do something few people get to do-FLY!...
Pilot's daughter takes trip down memory lane at the Air Station - Montrose Today | In October, 1936, Captain Findlay and three of his crew took part in the Johannesburg Air Race flying a twin-engined Airspeed Envoy. Unfortunately a decision to fly in inclement weather was to cost him his life and he died when the plane crashed taking ...Foundation, tourist center plans given hard look by Havelock commissioners - ENC Today | HAVELOCK — Havelock commissioners have taken a hard look at future plans for the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation and its plans for expansion at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center. In the end, they voted to provide most, but not all, ...
Astronaut Al Shepard, and Me from Flight Monkeys | May 5, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of sending the first American into space. Ask most people who were around during the golden age of American space flight, and they will tell you that the first American in space was none other than, John Glenn. While John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, he was not the first American to be shot out of our atmosphere. That honor goes to, Alan Shepard…The second cruise missile — the Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1) from Travel for Aircraft | As posted before* during WW I the Kettering aerial torpedo — nicknamed the “Kettering Bug” — was developed but not placed into use. As well all know the V-1 was placed into use during WW II. Both weapons are more accurately described as aerial torpedos since they followed a compass course upon launch and were gyroscopically stabilized to maintain horizontal flight…
Welcome Virgin Australia – Pictures from flight.org by Marty | Virgin Blue re-branded its domestic and narrow-body international operation (excluding the one Polynesian Blue operation that consists of just one aircraft) into Virgin Australia. We have lots of information coming – including video of the Sydney press conference with Richard Branson and John Borghetti. In the meantime, here’s a few photos from today’s event. We’ll upload hundreds of photos to Facebook…Today in Aviation History – May 4 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
