Aviator Jim Maroney involved in Monroe County plane crash - WATE-TV | VONORE (WATE) - The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says they have located the plane that went down Sunday night in the Indian Boundary area within the Cherokee National Forest. The pilot, Jim "Fang" Maroney, was found dead. He was a retired military pilot an airline pilot and popular air show pilot...
Blue Angels return home today - WEAR | The team has spent the two months at their winter base in California getting their precision flying skills back up to speed. They have already flown two shows in California this year. They typcially do about three dozen shows annually. But last year...
Saugus pilot breaks world record for inverted flat spins - on purpose * Santa Clarita Valley Signal | 
Annual Sun-n-Fun Fly-in and Airshows just Over a Week Away By D Robert Curry | In just a matter of days, Lakeland Florida will once again become the temporary Mecca of aviation as the flying community, and thousands of spectator, descend on the area creating the 2nd largest airshow and fly-in in the world known as Sun-n-Fun....
Jumps Schedule For the Dakotas Over Normandy Is Set · Warbirds News | The Jumps schedule for the much anticipated “Daks over Normandy” event is slowly materializing. For the first time since 1944 the skies over Normandy will be filled with Dakotas to drop paratroopers. Throughout Europe about 15 of these aircraft are still flying and...
Wings Over Flagler gets lift from tourism board - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Wings Over Flagler, the popular air show held at the Flagler County Airport, is set to return to the Flagler County Airport April 25 and 26. The two-day event featuring aerobatic displays will also include a variety of other events, including music...
Camarillo service honors 2 Commemorative Air Force members - Ventura County Star | Two members of the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force killed in a January airplane crash were memorialized Saturday during a service at the group’s Camarillo Airport facility. David Casey, of Avila Beach, and Alan Gaynor, of Los Angeles, were killed in an afternoon crash Jan. 14 in the ocean near Oceano in San Luis Obispo County. The crash is still being investigated...
National Air and Space Museum Trophy Award winners named · General Aviation News | The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Trophy for 2014 will be awarded in the Lifetime Achievement category to Norman R. Augustine, while the Current Achievement category to the Dawn Flight Team. They will be presented their awards March 26 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C....
PHOTOS: B-17 Takes the Skies Over Phoenix - KFYI | (KFYI News) Nearly 70 years ago, Boeing B-17 aircraft flew from bases far from home in an attempt to bring freedom around the world. The mission of the B-17 today is to educate Americans about courageous World War II veterans and remember those brave aircrew who never made it home...
Climate and Deterioration claims the ARC LIGHT Memorial’s B-52D Stratofortress · Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews has learned that the B-52D Stratofortress 56-0586, long on display at the Arc Light Memorial Park on Guam is due to be scrapped. The airframe has simply deteriorated too far to save, despite the dedicated efforts of local airmen over the past thirty years. This is the second B-52D to succumb to the...
Ohio museum volunteers constructing vintage B-17 - Fayetteville Observer | URBANA, Ohio - They got one part for the World War II-era bomber from under an elderly woman's porch in the next town. Another was bought from someone who had it hanging in a bar in Colorado. One chunk was a prop in a 1960s TV show, and the tail section was salvaged from a wreck deep in the Alaska wilderness...
1940s planes to make dead-of-night trip on Wichita's streets - Kansas.com | In the black of night, two vintage planes will be moved early Wednesday from Yingling Aviation at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport to the Kansas Aviation Museum. It will take about three hours to make the 14-mile trip, museum officials said. The planes, a 1949 Rawdon T-1 single-engine trainer and a 1948 Allied A-2 experimental aircraft, will be moved into a new restoration storage facility at the museum...
WWII fighter plane recovered from New Guinea has York County ties - York Daily Record | Led by a shoeless and scantily clad group of reformed cannibals, Russ Strine and his dad hiked for over eight hours up a jungle mountain to find a treasure buried under tangled vegetation and infested with snakes...
Commemorative envelope to mark the centenary of the BA 102 Dijon - Translated | 102 Dijon Air Base is one of the oldest in France since it was created in 1914. It was renamed "Captain Guynemer", named after one of its pilots, heroes of the Great War, died in combat mission September 1917 111. Military renowned served the BA 102, like the Caroline Aigle , who worked in this place from 2000. To commemorate the centenary of the base, a souvenir was published...
Ore. AG asks IRS to investigate Evergreen aviation museum - KATU | PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says the state won't take enforcement action against the McMinnville-based Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. But Rosenblum said Thursday an investigation revealed significant concerns regarding the governance of the museum, and she will ask the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether its operations comply with its tax-exempt status...
“DISCOVER YOUR FUTURE IN AVIATION” 5th Year at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor * Warbirds News | Young people interested in aviation as a career or hobby, schools, Scouts, and families will want to attend Discover Your Future in Aviation at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Saturday, March 29 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.This is the fifth year for the special aviation day, which will feature hands-on workshops, a career fair, flight lab, and interactive science exhibits. Guests can venture into the open cockpits of some of history’s greatest aircraft and learn to fly on the Museum’s flight lab simulators...
AOPA awards scholarships at Women in Aviation show · General Aviation News | The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) awarded a scholarship worth $3,000 to a student pilot during the annual Women in Aviation, International (WAI) Conference in Orlando, Florida earlier this month...
Space Expo At NEAM - The Courant | Piloting a space craft simultor is part of the New England Air Museum's annual Space Expo, Sunday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Exhibits include demonstrations and hands-on activities, such as rocket building, designing a mission patch, donning a real space suit, meeting R2D2 and more...
Remembering William Reid “Bill” Pogue by The National Air and Space Museum | Bill Pogue may be best known as an astronaut who served on America’s Skylab space station and author of the book he titled with the perennial question astronauts are asked to answer, How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space?...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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Monday, March 24, 2014
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Annual Sun-n-Fun Fly-in and Airshows just Over a Week Away By D Robert Curry | In just a matter of days, Lakeland Florida will once again become the temporary Mecca of aviation as the flying community, and thousands of spectator, descend on the area creating the 2nd largest airshow and fly-in in the world known as Sun-n-Fun....
Jumps Schedule For the Dakotas Over Normandy Is Set · Warbirds News | The Jumps schedule for the much anticipated “Daks over Normandy” event is slowly materializing. For the first time since 1944 the skies over Normandy will be filled with Dakotas to drop paratroopers. Throughout Europe about 15 of these aircraft are still flying and...
Wings Over Flagler gets lift from tourism board - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Wings Over Flagler, the popular air show held at the Flagler County Airport, is set to return to the Flagler County Airport April 25 and 26. The two-day event featuring aerobatic displays will also include a variety of other events, including music...
Camarillo service honors 2 Commemorative Air Force members - Ventura County Star | Two members of the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force killed in a January airplane crash were memorialized Saturday during a service at the group’s Camarillo Airport facility. David Casey, of Avila Beach, and Alan Gaynor, of Los Angeles, were killed in an afternoon crash Jan. 14 in the ocean near Oceano in San Luis Obispo County. The crash is still being investigated...
National Air and Space Museum Trophy Award winners named · General Aviation News | The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Trophy for 2014 will be awarded in the Lifetime Achievement category to Norman R. Augustine, while the Current Achievement category to the Dawn Flight Team. They will be presented their awards March 26 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C....
Climate and Deterioration claims the ARC LIGHT Memorial’s B-52D Stratofortress · Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews has learned that the B-52D Stratofortress 56-0586, long on display at the Arc Light Memorial Park on Guam is due to be scrapped. The airframe has simply deteriorated too far to save, despite the dedicated efforts of local airmen over the past thirty years. This is the second B-52D to succumb to the...
Ohio museum volunteers constructing vintage B-17 - Fayetteville Observer | URBANA, Ohio - They got one part for the World War II-era bomber from under an elderly woman's porch in the next town. Another was bought from someone who had it hanging in a bar in Colorado. One chunk was a prop in a 1960s TV show, and the tail section was salvaged from a wreck deep in the Alaska wilderness...
Commemorative envelope to mark the centenary of the BA 102 Dijon - Translated | 102 Dijon Air Base is one of the oldest in France since it was created in 1914. It was renamed "Captain Guynemer", named after one of its pilots, heroes of the Great War, died in combat mission September 1917 111. Military renowned served the BA 102, like the Caroline Aigle , who worked in this place from 2000. To commemorate the centenary of the base, a souvenir was published...
Ore. AG asks IRS to investigate Evergreen aviation museum - KATU | PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says the state won't take enforcement action against the McMinnville-based Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. But Rosenblum said Thursday an investigation revealed significant concerns regarding the governance of the museum, and she will ask the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether its operations comply with its tax-exempt status...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
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After cancellation, Canadian Forces Snowbirds back on for Oregon International Air Show - The 
A safer Red Bull Air Race returns to Abu Dhabi - The National | ABU DHABI // The Red Bull Air Race returns to Abu Dhabi for the first time since 2010, coming back safer and with more parity in competition. Management and safety concerns at past races led organisers to make changes and set more regulations, said ...
Blue Angels Visit MCAS Miramar To Plan For Air Show (Video) - KPBS | Pilots from the U.S. Navy Blue Angels visited Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Wednesday to discuss their role in the 2014 Miramar Air Show. The Blue Angels will headline this year's show, which is scheduled for Oct. 4-5. According to a Miramar news ...
Blue Angels prepare for return to Seafair - KING5.com | SAN FRANCISCO - OCTOBER 09: U.S. Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornets practice their performance ahead of the Fleet Week air show October 9, 2009 in San Francisco, California. San Francisco kicks off its annual Fleet Week celebration October 10 with the ...
Thunderbirds visit new Airsho site - what's up | 24, Airsho organizers toured the new site in southern New Mexico at the Doña Ana County International Jetport at Santa Teresa with Major Michael Fisher from the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds. The Thunderbird jet team will headline this year's event which will...
Air show to take off from Melbourne International - Florida Today | The Northrop Grumman Air & Space Show at Melbourne International Airport will take place Oct. 4 and 5 and will feature the return of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds to Brevard County air space. Lilley presented a schedule to the board that alleviated...
Sporty’s 10th annual fly-in set for May 17 · General Aviation News Staff | Sporty’s annual fly-in will be held Saturday, May 17, at the Clermont County/Sporty’s Airport (I69) in Batavia, Ohio. In addition to the usual festivities, at this year’s fly-in, the winner of Sporty’s 2014 Van’s RV-12 sweepstakes airplane will be announced at noon...
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Bahrain International Air Show | With an ever smaller world the time that you could use a long winter to sort out your photos of the previous year is well behind us. Nowadays there is an air show in reach every month of the year.But usually in the more sunny areas of the planet. Like for example the middle east. Having said that aviation spotting...B-29 Superfortress still carries memories - Daily Commercial | A B-29 nicknamed “Fifi” was on display Tuesday at the airport, and will continue to be on display today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to the event's organizers, the Commemorative Air Force. The B-29 Superfortress is the last flying version of the...
Red Flag 14-1 | Las Vegas, NV- The 414th Combat Training Squadron of Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) hosted the first of its 2014 series of Red Flag training exercises from January 27th -February 14th. Red Flag is a series of high intensity air to air combat exercises that include various participants from all over the world as well as the United States. Having
2014 Luke AFB Open House & Air Show | For the most current information for this event please visit the official Luke Air Force Base 2014 Open House Air Show web page General Info: March 15 & 16, 2014 (Saturday and Sunday) Time: 9A – 6P 9 a.m. – gates open, static aircraft viewable, vendors open 11 a.m. – air show begins 4 p.m. – air show ends 6...
B-29 bomber among vintage warbirds at Leesburg International Airport - Orlando Sentinel | LEESBURG — Norman Beauchesne of The Villages, above, toted his camera with him to see the B-29 Superfortress that stopped this week at Leesburg International Airport as part of the 2014 Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour. The B-29 was a...
"Salute To Veterans" Tour Flies Into North Georgia - MyFox Atlanta | The tour will bring the WWII Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Movie Memphis Belle" and a restored North American P-51 Mustang to the skies, with public flights and ground tours available to the public. The Flying Fortress is one of only 14 B-17's still ...
Flying Fortress celebrates freedom | Henry Daily Herald - Henry Herald | WWII Veteran Albert McMahan was all smiles after his flight on the historic Memphis Belle B-17 bomber plane, similar to the ones he served on as a gunner in the war. (Staff Photo: Jim Zachary). photo. The Memphis Belle being prepared for flight at ...
Veterans give ninth graders a history lesson - Royal Oak Daily Tribune | WWII veteran Bill Duthie shakes hands after he spoke to students at Clarkston Junior High School, Wednesday February 26, 2014. Duthie, a resident of Sanctuary at Bellbrook in Rochester Hills, was a 1st Lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps, flying a B-25 ...
Whirly-Girl Joni Schultz Awarded the Bell 206 Factory Flight Training Scholarship at HELI-EXPO - Broadway World | Schultz joined the Women In Aviation (WAI) organization and then got involved in the local Houston Chapter. Shortly after joining, she became the membership chairperson, in 2010, she was voted in as the chapter President and held that position until ...
Another Evergreen Aviation Museum plane faces sale as talks continue on Spruce Goose fate - The Oregonian | A buyer has snapped up a gem in the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum’s collection, a Ford Trimotor plane flown in 1929... Other potential buyers are eyeing a Grumman TBM-3 Avenger in the McMinnville museum’s collection... And now another plane has gone up for sale, a 1945 Lockheed P-38L Lightning warbird....
CAF Names Smith as Executive Vice President of Strategic Developement - aviationpros.com | During his tenure, he was responsible for overseeing the EAA AirVenture Museum, the Young Eagles and Chapter programs, Membership, and ultimately, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh – “the World's Greatest Aviation Celebration.” Prior to his arrival in the United ...
Monday, January 6, 2014
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Gilbert Buekenberghs receives ICAS award - airhows.org.uk | During the annual Convention of the International Council of Air Shows (www.airshows.aero), which was held in Las Vegas, Gilbert Buekenberghs received the ‘special achievement award’ from ICAS ‘ President Judy Wily. This prize is awarded to exceptional personalities from the airshow world for their special contribution. Gilbert Buekenberghs receives this award because of his commitment in turning the small International Sanicole Airshow into one of the main annual European Airshows and for bringing together participants, organisers and governmental bodies from...
Whitianga Warbirds and Wheels airshow - Waikato Times | The Whitianga airfield was buzzing with excitement - and the sound of numerous aircraft engines - on Saturday for the Warbirds and Wheels 
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The acrobatics of the Frecce sponsored by Fastweb - Translated | TRIESTE. In times of crisis even national pride should be sponsored. The fatal hour of private funding is taken yesterday for the Arrows tricolor, which will appear in the next month in a series of commercials as spokesperson for Fastweb. The telecom operator will be the first private sponsor in the history of the aerobatic team....
The Red Arrows: Meet the team behind the team - Lincolnshire Echo | The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, are world famous but little is known about the 100 strong team behind the 11 pilots. Rachael Cousins was invited to find out more. Squadron Leader Ruth Shackleton, 37, has been the team manager for the Red Arrows since September 2012. Ruth was the first female cadet in the College Combined Cadet Force....
Wings Over North Georgia Air Show Release Info - Coosa Valley News | JLC AirShow Management makes it official, the GEICO Skytypers and Smoke-n-Thunder Jet Car teams are returning in 2014 to perform at the Wings Over North Georgia air show on October 18-19, 2014 along with the USAF Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Squadron. The GEICO Skytypers are a squadron of six vintage World War II airplanes performing a low-level precision flight demonstration at air shows across the United States. The Smoke-n-Thunder Jet Car team celebrates their 30th year in the air show industry performing nationwide as the fastest jet dragster act accelerating from 0-400 MPH in 8.5 seconds...
What Future For The Evergreen Aviation Museum? · Warbirds News | The world-class air museum developed by Evergreen International Aviation founder Del Smith may be in for some painful losses in the wake of the apparent collapse of Smith’s network of for-profit operation.The McMinnville, Oregon, museum housing Howard Hughes’ mammoth H-4 Hercules (better known as the “Spruce Goose”) is facing financial scrutiny, and the ownership of the historic airplane is in question.First envisioned by Capt. Michael King Smith, son of Evergreen International Aviation founder Delford Smith, the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum is the realization of his dream. The museum began...
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Mercy Flight Southeast to raffle off flight in a P-51 · General Aviation News Staff | Stallion 51 is partnering with Mercy Flight Southeast to raffle off a chance to fly in the P-51 Mustang “Crazy Horse.” Mercy Flight Southeast’s network of 650 volunteer pilots provides free air transportation to life-saving medical appointments for people who otherwise could not get there. While pilots donate their airplanes, fuel and flight hours to complete more than 3,000 flights each year, the non-profit organization relies on donations and fundraising to pay for support services and to keep passengers and pilots in the air...
XP-82 Restoration December Update · Warbirds News | Another step closer towards the completion of the XP-82 TWIN MUSTANG #44-83887.Since January 2013 Tom and Weezie have been installing systems in the center section and both fuselages at a rapid pace. They started...
Drone from beneath the sea — reality beyond even Jules Verne’s imagination by travelforaircraft | The U.S. Navy, through the Naval Research Lab (NRL) has developed a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which can be launched from a submerged submarine. The Naval Research Lab (NRL) uses unfamiliar acronyms such as XFC UAS (eXperimental Fuel Cell Unmanned Aerial System) to describe the drone proper and Sea Robin for the launch system. It would be more convenient if the UAV was named Sea Robin but that is not the Navy way...
Watch this: amazing Post-Cold War low pass compilation - The Aviationist | The following video shows several low passes performed by aircraft in service with the Polish Air Force. Footage was shot at Biała Podlaska airbase (in eastern Poland, near the boundary with Belarus) and the datespan is 1990-1996...
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to base at Kennedy - Spaceports | A spy plane used by the U.S. Air Force is about to get a new home: a garage at Kennedy Space Center that once housed NASA orbiters during the space shuttle era. The move was announced Friday by Boeing, the Chicago-based company that built the X-37B spy plane and is in charge of repairing the spacecraft whenever it returns to Earth, writes Mark K. Matthews, at the Orlando Sentinel...
Saturday, January 4, 2014
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Whitianga abuzz for Warbirds - Manawatu Standard | All eyes will be on the skies above Whitianga today - and not just because of the threat of forecast bad weather. The inaugural Warbirds and Wheels event, a joint venture between the Mercury Bay Aero Club and the New Zealand Warbirds Association, will ...
Sports-car racer Max 'The Ax' Angelelli flies high in a MiG-29
- Auto Week | Defending Daytona Prototype champion travels to Russia
for the thrill of a lifetime | Please allow me to introduce myself:
I am Max Angelelli, and I race in the Tudor United SportsCar
Championship for Velocity Worldwide Wayne Taylor Racing behind the wheel
of the No. 10 Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype. Last season my
co-driver Jordan Taylor and I won the class championship. In October, I
traveled to Russia and took flight in a MiG-29 -- and had the experience
of a lifetime!...
Havasu Balloon Festival and Fair - Arizona Republic | Up, up and away, in a beautiful balloon over London Bridge and Lake Havasu. The Havasu Balloon Festival and Fair has been designated one of the Top 100 events in North America by national tourism-industry leaders. Mass ascensions each morning and afternoon and night glows set to music are just the beginning. There will be more than 150 vendors, entertainment and activities for visitors of all ages...
Wichita Aero Club taking reservations for annual gala - Wichita Business Journal | The event features the presentation of the Aero Club Trophy, which will be awarded to Russ Meyer, chairman emeritus of Cessna Aircraft Co. Meyer led Cessna for more that 25 years as its CEO and is one of the most recognizable figures in Wichita's ...
General Goddard (USAF RET) Working To Restore “His” Vietnam F-100 - Warbird Radio | As a young fighter pilot, Goddard completed 226 combat missions in F-100s, 180 of them in this exact aircraft (#56-2995) from September 1968 to October 1969 while assigned to the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Vietnam. The aircraft was eventually retired from active service in 1978 and put on display at Otis AFB, Massachusetts. The General found out about it from a web site and notified the Museum of Aviation...
How two F-14 Tomcats shot down two Gaddafi’s MiG-23s, 25 years ago today - The Aviationist | After two F-14 Tomcats from the VF-41 Black Aces shot down two Su-22 Fitters on Aug. 19, 1981 and, above all, after Operation El Dorado Canyon, the air strike launched on Apr. 15 1986 against Libya, Colonel Gaddafi and its regime went off the U.S. high priority agenda...
Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part Five · Dave "Bio" Baranek, Photorecon.net | PART 5: Supplemental Notes | By the mid-1960s, the dogfight was considered a dying art due to the advent of air-to-air missiles, and was not emphasized in training American fighter aircrews. In the real world, however, factors such as rules of engagement that required US aircrews to visually identify targets meant that...
A Full Retaliatory Response - Air & Space Magazine | STANDING ON A STEPLADDER IN THE GLOOM of the B-52’s cavernous bomb bay, I squeezed between the lower pair of torpedo-shaped nukes—B28FI thermonuclear weapons— and aimed an inspection mirror and flashlight at the circular viewports on each: “safe” indicators visible, yield settings correct. Satisfied that our bomb load was dormant, the navigator and I connected the mechanical bomb door actuators and backed carefully out of the bay. With the pilot and gunner, we shouldered the heavy doors, sticky with hydraulic fluid, and slammed the latches home with a solid thunk...
Evergreen air museum may lose planes, despite claims it is unaffected - Portland Tribune | The annual payments amounted to $500,000, but Aero Club is still due a percentage of the museum's earnings, amounting to at least $50,000, as per the sales agreement. The statement also said the museum is in no danger of losing its displays and has ...
Alaska's Era Aviation announces new corporate idenity - Aero Pacific Flightlines | The three air carriers currently flying as Era Alaska announced a major rebranding effort Thursday. According to a statement from the regional air group, which says it’s the largest such concern in Alaska, the entities now operating under the Era Alaska name -- Era Aviation, Hageland Aviation Services and Frontier Flying Service -- will collectively be known as Ravn Alaska. The shift in names is expected to take several months...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Super Legend On Track for Oshkosh Appearance - AMTOnline.com |SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, JULY 12, 2011 – American Legend Aircraft Company announced today its prototype Super Legend is undergoing final preparations for a public debut at AirVenture Oshkosh on July 25th. Announced at Sun 'n Fun 2011, the Super Legend ...
BRIG. GEN. CHUCK YEAGER TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE AT EAA AIRVENTURE 2011
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"Blue Angels" Edition Ford Mustang to be auctioned at EAA's Gathering of Eagles - YouTube
Caption Contest: Walk the Line to Oshkosh from Nuts About Southwest | The latest edition of EAA Oshkosh AirVenture is just weeks away, and we want to give five lucky aviation enthusiasts the opportunity to ride on a Southwest flight directly into the Oshkosh AirVenture festival grounds. Each of those five winners gets to take a guest. ...
Harrison Ford, George Lucas to appear at EAA AirVenture 2011 - Green Bay Press Gazette | Ford, an avid pilot and former EAA Young Eagles chairman, will introduce his 1993 hit, “Clear and Present Danger,” on July 27. Additional featured presenters include actor and private pilot Robert Hays introducing the 1980 comedy classic “Airplane!,” ...
Selfridge Announces Air Show Performers - Patch.com | Cold War-era Russian-built Mig-17, an F-86 Sabre, and World War II aircraft including the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-25 Mitchell and the P-51 Mustang will be on display. The Air Show and Open House will be 8 am – 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 20-21. ...
Tickets to air show take off - Record-Searchlight | "Once again we've loaded up with a jet team, military aircraft and warbirds, which fans across the country rate as the top three attractions at an air show." The air show also will feature the first-ever appearances in Redding of the Canadian Force ...
RIAT: Vulcan, Voyager to star at 40th anniversary show from Flightglobal Events | To take place from 16-17 July, RIAT 2011 will mark 40 years of the Air Tattoo, and attract military aircraft from around the globe ...
Airshow Koksijde (Belgium) 2011 - YouTube
And We Are Off! from US Army Golden Knights | The journey to the 5th Counseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM) begins today. The Golden Knights 8-way and 4-way competition teams hit the road today for Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the 26th largest city in the world and home to the 5th CISM World Games. The Parachuting Championships section of the games will take place [...]
B-17 not making Bellingham visit, B-25 arrives Thursday - Bellingham Herald | BELLINGHAM - A B-25 bomber is still scheduled to fly in to Bellingham International Airport Thursday morning, July 14, for a weekend visit, but its companion B-17 won't be making the trip. The B-17 nicknamed "Sentimental Journey" is undergoing an ...
The race was on - Belgrade News | The race, sanctioned by the Sport Air Racing League, is mostly for sport. The pilots were competing primarily for bragging rights. But it's an opportunity for amateur and some professional pilots to gather and share their common interests with one ...
Tuskegee Airmen, WWII plane visiting AF Academy from Air Force Times - News | AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Seven members of the Tuskegee Airmen are visiting the Air Force Academy at the same time a World War II trainer airplane stops there on a trip to one of the Smithsonian museums.
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Trip to Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum Puts Local Air Museum President Among Giants from The Aero Experience | The Aero Experience contributor Jeremy Cox, President of the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum and Author of St. Louis Aviation (see right column for details), was among giants today as he visited the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum near McMinnville, Oregon. GIANTS, like the Boeing 747-100 on top of the Water Park, a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress heavy bomber from ...
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e | The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is a single-seat, twin-engine fifth-generation supermaneuverable fighter aircraft that uses stealth technology. It was designed primarily as an air superiority fighter, but has additional capabilities that include ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence roles. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is the prime contractor and is ...
July 12, 2011 ATC's 75th Anniversary from Ely Air Lines | Linda: The press release from Washington hit my inbox a few days ago heralding the 75th anniversary of federal air traffic control. Our nation's Air Traffic Control system has grown from just three air traffic control centers, housing a total of 15 workers in 1936 to 313 federally operated air traffic control facilities housing more than 15,000 workers. There are also control towers staffed by contract employees. Conroe is one example. Those 15 original employees worked in Newark, Chicago, and Cleveland. ...
EAA hosts Young Eagles Flight Day - Bemidji Pioneer | The Bemidji Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting its annual Young Eagles Flight Day from 7 to 11 am Saturday, July 16, at the Bemidji Regional Airport. Young people between the ages of 8 and 17 who are interested in aviation are ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Blue Angels Return To El Centro - KXO Radio | The US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron , The Blue Angels , will arrive at Naval Air Facility El Centro Sunday. The Blue Angels F-18 Hornets are expected ...
Navy photog to give Blue Angels program - Online Athens | By Staff Reports - news@onlineathens.com A ex-Navy photographer who spent three years on tour with the Blue Angels precision flight team will present a ...
Stars of the Sky, Legends All, by Ann Cooper from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Many years ago, when I was thirteen or so, I wandered through libraries looking for books to read. I would look at the titles first of course, and if one interested me, I would pluck it from the shelf and look at the cover. And if I liked the look of the cover, then I'd read the back of it for the plot (for I was mainly looking for fiction) or description of what was within…
Florida Air Museum receives grant - News Chief | LAKELAND - The Florida Air Museum at Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland has received a $30000 grant that will be used to build facilities to support its growing ...
Sky's the Limit for China's DIY Aviators - Wired News | Aviation is by no means an exception, and it has its share of shanzhai builders. But there is more to it than that. China's emerging aviator class is ...
Duxford restoration hangar residents. from Gary Watson's Posts - Stick and Rudder by Gary Watson
Aero-TV: The Spruce Goose: Evergreen Museum's Crown Jewel from Aero-News Network | Educational Director, Larry Wood, Profiles the Infamous Spruce Goose In July of 1942, while the United States remained embroiled in World War II, famed industrialist Henry Kaiser proposed a fleet of flying transports to safely protect troops and supplies from German U-boats. Joining forces with Howard Hughes, Kaiser obtained an $18,000,000 government contract to construct three "Flying Boats."
Same time, same place, same level…21 from Roger-Wilco by steve | Flying to freedom - This chapter had been written well before the fall of the Berlin wall and the famous opening of the border by Hungary, allowing thousands of East Germans to flee to the West. It is a nice quirk of history that the place where this story took place is just a few miles East of the place where the mass escape happened several years later…
On This Day in Aviation History: December 29th | NYCAviation.com ... by Phil Derner Jr. | The crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Florida Everglades in 1972, as well as the crashes of a Tarom AN-24 in 1974 and Turkish Airlines Flight 278 in 1994. In 1921, two men fly a plane over NY for over 26 hours.
Episode 79 – Aviation Photos by Skippyscage from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) Guest Paul Filmer joins the Airplane Geeks to talk about current aviation news. Paul is Stateside Editor and Database Administrator for Global Aviation Resource, he contributes to Combat Aircraft Magazine, and you can find his personal page at skippyscage.com/. Paul is an accomplished aviation photographer and you can find his work at those sites…
Christina C. Photography from FenceCheck Forums - Blues @ Tyndall 2007
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