EAA Young Eagles Program Gives Provides Look at Aviation Careers in New Video Series - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Ten-part video series premieres at EAA AirVenture- EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH - A new video series showing the wide variety of careers the aviation industry offers will debut at EAA AirVenture, which runs from July 29 - Aug. 4. The series was created in partnership with the EAA Young Eagles, the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) Foundation and LiveAirShowTV....
EAA Airventure is almost upon us · Julie In The Sky | EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2013 WELCOMES BACK COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ‘GHOST SQUADRON’ B-29 AND B-24! | Historic World War II aircraft to participate throughout week at Oshkosh EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. Two of World War II’s most iconic aircraft, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, will be back at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2013 as part of the Commemorative Air Force’s “Ghost Squadron” at The World Greatest Aviation Celebration....
Sing With Chicago at AirVenture and Help Fight Cancer< - News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | July 23, 2013 - When the legendary band Chicago hits the stage on opening day, one person will have an opportunity of a lifetime - to Sing With Chicago on stage during the concert. Chicago is again partnering with the American Cancer Society to raise funds and awareness in the fight to end breast cancer. Sing With Chicago is an online charity auction that gives music lovers the chance to win the ultimate VIP fan experience and sing their hit song "If You Leave Me Now" live on stage with the band....
Archer flown on autogas makes its way to Oshkosh · General Aviation News Staff | A Piper Archer, powered by a 180-horsepower Lycoming O-360 fueled with Airworthy AutoGas 93 Premium unleaded, was successfully flown from Vero Beach, Florida — Piper Aircraft’s home base — to Oshkosh, Wis., and will be on display at Airventure next week....
Vintage planes shown off at Flathead air show - KPAX-TV | KALISPELL - Budget cuts couldn't ground aviation enthusiasts as members of the Flathead Chamber of Commerce banded together with the help of the community and some high-ranking U.S. Air Force members to put on an unforgettable show in the skies above Flathead Lake. Five vintage planes put on a show for the Flathead in lieu of 
Wing-Walking is her passion
- Translated | Peggy Krainz from South Baden is one of ten stunt women
who walk on wings of flying aircraft in the world. On weekends she shows
off her stunning show at the Flugtag flight sports club in Kelheim
Hienheim.
“Mormon Mustang” to perform P-51 Fly By - Idaho State Journal | “Mormon Mustang” to perform P-51 Fly By at 13th Annual POW*MIA Awareness Rally and Motorcycle Rodeos “Tribute Ceremony” | In December of 2006, the Mormon Mustang experienced a forced landing on the highway median in Rexburg following an engine failure. John Bagley walked away with minor injuries from a very damaged P-51 Mustang. We are very thankful that John walked away from this one. The Mormon Mustang has been rebuilt and is again airworthy...
Comox air show ready for take-off - Campbell River Mirror | Tickets to the 2013 Comox Armed Forces Day and Air Show are available to the public at www.comoxairshow.ca and Thrifty Foods. Tickets will also be available at the CFB Comox CANEX retail store in the coming weeks. Advance ticket prices are $20 for adults, $10 for Youth and Seniors and $5 for Veterans (with certificate of 
Volunteer Call 2013 - Vintage Wings of Canada | This September 14-15, Vintage Wings of Canada will host the Wings over Gatineau-Ottawa en vol air show at the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport. We need your help to make it safe, enjoyable and memorable for the many thousands of spectators we expect. Our team of dedicated volunteers work hard to make Vintage Wings the most friendly, best run and most knowledgeable outfits in the historic aircraft world and this extends to our premier event....
Slow Motion Video Captures Coastguard SAR Demo at Bray Air Show - Afloat | Irish Coastguard | The Irish Coast Guard recorded its busiest year in 2012 since its formation, working with the RNLI, CRBI and the other first response agencies; the Coast Guard has been involved with nearly 2000 incidents nationally. The Irish Coast Guard (IRCG) makes up one arm of the Irish Maritime Safety Services, the other being the Irish Maritime Safety Directorate. Both arms are poised to merge into a reformatted agency for all maritime safety matters....
Aviation Week: Tour and fly in Historic Aircrafts from World War II By: Jasmyne Humble [w/video] - | Chicago Rockford International Airport- The B-29 is the last remaining flying example of the aircraft in the world! Along with the rare B-24 Liberator, a P-51 Mustang and other historic World War II military airplanes, the aircraft will be on display for cockpit tours and rides....
Video: Record Setting Electric Airplane Preparing For 250 MPH Flight - Wired | Electric vehicle 
pioneer Chip Yates is back in the air with his record-setting airplane. He spent much of the past year testing his electric Long-EZ for a series of flights this summer, and in the process broke his own speed records, all while testing new equipment for his grand plan of flying across the Atlantic in an electrified plane....
Short Decks and Swordfish - Air & Space Magazine | Barely two hours after Great Britain declared war on Germany at the start of World War II, a U-boat torpedoed the British ocean liner SS Athenia, killing more than 60 of the 1,500 aboard and beginning the long, harrowing Battle of the Atlantic. From that sinking on September 3, 1939, until three weeks before the German surrender in May 1945, the U-boats struck. The worst year was 1942, when more than 1,000 Allied ships were lost, along with their cargoes of fuel, food, and materiel on which Britain depended for survival. The British had a shocking answer to the submarine menace: a 1934 open-cockpit biplane with fixed landing gear and a cruise speed of around 100 mph. The bigger shock: It worked....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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NAHF Selects “Class of 2012” - Flying Magazine | With the year coming to an end, the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) has selected the “Class of 2012,” the new members which will be enshrined into the NAHF in a ceremony next fall. Like most years in the 50-year history of the NAHF, four aviation pioneers are being honored for their contributions to aviation. These pioneers were selected by the NAHF Board of Nominations, which includes 120 air and space professionals nationwide....
AirFest 'air boss' Cutshall dies at 62 - Tampa Bay Online | If you have ever been to AirFest at MacDill Air Force Base, watched fighters zoom over Raymond James Stadium or heard the thumping drone of military helicopters over your house in Brandon, you have witnessed the handiwork of Richard "Dick" Cutshall, a retired Air Force captain and aviation pioneer. Cutshall — who helped launch AirFest in 1987 and since then served as its "air boss," running the show — died on Christmas Day after more than a decade battling breast cancer. He was 62....
A difficult promise and a lot of hard work… are you game? - Flying with Amelia | Never before, in 
my nearly twenty-nine years have I experienced such a straight line of learning in direct coordination with practical application of a skill. Just three months ago I was sitting in my downtown apartment, feeling like my aviation goals were out of reach. I knew I wanted to do something big but I didn’t know what it would be. The flight around the world will come in time, but there had to be ways that I could become a smarter, more flexible pilot in the meantime. When the...
Award Winning Skydiver and Aviator to Speak at Amelia Earhart Museum Benefit Luncheon - Alabama Aviator | ...the Alabama Ninety Nines and the Birmingham Zonta Club joined to help support Amelia Earhart's Birthplace Museum with a benefit luncheon. On Saturday, January 7, 2012, the Ninety-Nines continue their fund-raising efforts to maintain and improve this treasured National Historic landmark and its contents. Despite living in many different citie...
WATCH: 2011 USN Year in Review - YouTube via AirShowBuzz
Reno Air Racing Association Thanks Nevadans for Their Strength - News4 | The Reno Air Racing Association wrote the following letter thanking fellow Nevadans. The year 2011 brought unprecedented adversity to northern Nevadans. And, while we have shared in the collective grief of our friends and neighbors over the numerous tragic events that have befallen us, we have been absolutely humbled and awe-inspired at the resiliency and...
2011 Year in Review - By Kevin Garrison | AVweb | ...Reno air racing pilots and fans have known the risk and done it anyway for decades because they are Americans who knew the risks and love it. Let's all hope they keep racing and don't let anybody shut them down....
F2Gs. Yes. As in "multiple." - AAFO | I think we were the first to shoot both flying F2Gs today... (I could be wrong, but listening to the logistics today, it seems like it...)...
Wild ride for UCRA this year - Herald-Citizen | 2011 was a year of ups and downs for the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport. The community mourned the death of a local pilot who was killed when his plane crashed during an airshow in Florida. Lightning struck twice at the airport causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. Adults and children alike delighted in an airshow that attracted large crowds....
Gov't to Pay Family $17.8M for Military Jet Crash - ABC News | A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to pay $17.8 million to a family that lost four members when a Marine Corps fighter jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008....
McAllister Museum donation to help expand display space - Yakima Herald-Republic | YAKIMA,
Wash. -- The McAllister Museum of Aviation accepted a $5,000 donation Wednesday with an eye toward bringing home a piece of local aviation history. The donation from PepsiCo. and the Noel Corporation, the local Pepsi bottler, will help start a museum expansion effort aimed at creating a suitable display...Museum Hosts Fun Events During Vacation Week - Patch | On Tuesday, the New England Air Museum was filled with families checking out the planes and engines, climbing into airplane cockpits and testing flight simulators. Gina Marie Alimberti, gift shop manager at the New England Air Museum, said the holiday week...
St. Louis County Lewis & Clark Branch Features Display of World War II Japanese Airplane Models By Carmelo Turdo | The Lewis & Clark Branch of the St. Louis County Library featured a display of World War II Japanese model aircraft in remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. The models, in1:72 scale, were made by Mr. Frederick Busse, and have been in a handsome case in...
Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Builds Relationship With St. Louis Science Center -
News | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum is building a mutually positive relationship with the nearby St. Louis Science Center. The two organizations have worked together in the past, with the Science Center previously exhibiting space memorabilia from the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum’s premier Mercury and Gemini space program artifact...Monocopter Mk2 - The Original Rocket Dungeon | Check out this cool carbon fiber monocopter. If you click through you will find additional photos.
He helps Young Eagles fly - Democrat Herald | Tim Corban of Brownsville has reached a goal he set last year, to put 200 youngsters in the air by the end of 2011....
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Indy Transponder 27-AUG-2011 1545z
AcroCamp — Jack flies in the Pitts from UCAP Blog | They backed me into a corner. I had no choice.
Big air show in Santa Maria over the weekend - KSBY San Luis Obispo News | The Santa Maria Museum of Flight has been putting on this air show for about 15 years and it features vintage and modern-day warbirds. It's taking place at the Santa Maria Public Airport. We found 69-year-old Evan Wolfe getting his North American T-28C ...
Air show to wrap up busy season for airport - The Record-Courier | The Lake in the Sky Air Show will mark the end of the airport's busy season, which, as it turns out, wasn't all too busy. And it's a chance for airport staff to invite the community out to have a look around. “It's an opportunity for ...
Air show set to take off in Pirmasens - Stars and Stripes | PIRMASENS, Germany – Whether in flight or on display, vintage planes are a draw. Aero-Club Pirmasens will hold its annual air show this weekend, featuring old gliders, single-engine aircraft and historical planes, according to a club news release. Among the planes on display will be the popular Junkers Ju 52, a three-motor passenger planedeveloped prior to World War II from an earlier military transport model. The version that will be on display at Pirmasens debuted in Switzerland in 1939, the release said. ...
SkyHawks ready to fly in Slemon Park - The Guardian | SLEMON PARK — Jumping from a plane thousands of feet in the air, three members of the Canadian Forces Skyhawks release their parachutes and link one on top of each other. The top parachuter climbs down the others' lines, locking legs with the middle ...
Red Arrows pull out of air show - BBC News | The RAF Red Arrows have pulled out of their appearance at Portrush air show after a pilot died in a crash in Dorset. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, was killed when his Hawk T1 aircraft crashed following a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival ...
Red Arrows jet wreckage removed from Bournemouth site - BBC News | Part of the wreckage of a Red Arrows jet has been removed from the site where it crashed in Dorset. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, died when his plane came down at the end of a display near Bournemouth airport on Saturday. ...
2011 Wings Over Camarillo Airshow Gallery Added from Randy Rothhaar Photography | I added a gallery with images from the 2011 Wings Over Camarillo Airshow to the site today. This was the last summer airshow before I finish out the airshow season with 7 airshows in a 9 week stretch.
Spitfire heading TODAY to Henstridge - Yeovil Express | The Hurricane, Spitfire and the Lancaster will do a fly past, or two, over this historic ex-Naval airfield. This will be a great display over the Wings and Wheels show staged at Henstridge Airfield later today (Saturday, August 27). ...
Vintage Stearman aircraft are all abuzz in Oshkosh from The Oshkosh Northwestern | Theres a reason for the buzz over Oshkosh this weekend.
My life as a Rear Gunner on Vulcans. - from PPRuNe Forums | The fact that Vulcans carried a Rear Gunner was a closely guarded secret, with many air crew being terminated should they have inadvertently disclosed their knowledge of such. Termination being initiated by requiring them to exit the aircraft at altitude with a malformed parachute. If the termination was carried out ...
Slide show: Aviation stars laud Boeing Jr. at Space Gallery - Bizjournals.com | Aviation people gathered to celebrate Bill Boeing Jr., recipient of the Museum of Flight's first Red Barn Heritage award, on Aug. 25. Left to right: Brien Wygle, at one time Boeing VP flight operations, head test pilot, hydro driver; Dick Taylor, ...
Today in Aviation History – August 27 - CRUFC
F-22 Raptor pilot hosts pizza fundraiser for Chico Air Museum - Enterprise-Record | CHICO — Major Henry Schantz, a pilot with the US Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team, will be hosting a pizza dinner as a fundraiser for the Chico Air Museum. Schantz will be talking about his experiences as commander of the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demo Team ...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
#OSH11 - Saturday's AirVenture News Summary
Super Saturday lit up sky at AirVenture - Oshkosh Northwestern | Appleton resident Ryan Van Helden kicked back with friends as he watched the night air show followed by fireworks at the EAA AirVenture gathering. "It's great. I've never seen anything like it," Van Helde said about the night air show. ...
Photo: Vintage Wings of Canada
Honor Flights are the least we can do for WWII veterans - nwitimes.com | Honor Flights is a program to recognize the service of our veterans, especially World War II veterans, with a day of celebration and remembrance for their service. Part of that is to transport those veterans to Washington DC, with the best possible ...
Aerostar Jet - AVweb | Christy flew the jet to AirVenture Oshkosh for the jet's first major public debut and says he's testing the market with eyes on certification. The engines improve performance in every way but fuel flow, and take advantage of the Aerostar's aerodynamics ...
Video: Mitsubishi A6M3 Model 22 Zero WWII Fighter by AVwebFlash Current Issue | One of three flying examples left in the world, this rebuilt Mitsubishi A6M3 Model 22 Zero WWII Japanese fighter on display at the AirVenture air and trade show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This aircraft is owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force's (CAF) Southern California Wing, based at Camarillo.This video is brought to you by Bose Corporation and WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather.
A first timers impressions of OSH 2011 by Darren S | ... Instead I want to share some of the different things I experienced and encountered during my first trip to OSH. These high lights and low lights are in no particular order and hopefully they will answer some questions for future Airventure goers. To say I was excited to go would be an understatement. I read the Notam through a bunch of times and watched all the youtube videos I could on the approaches. I felt I had a pretty good handle on things but nothing beats doing it yourself. This is a good segway into my first notation. ...
Meet the cast of Flying Wild Alaska by EAA News | The cast of Discovery Channel's Flying Wild Alaska has infiltrated EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Flying Wild Alaska follows the Tweto family, of Unalakleet, Alaska, who run cargo airline Era Alaska. The show premiered in January 2011 with six million viewers, the best-rated debut ever for Discovery
AirVenture Oshkosh 2011 QuickCast 2 by The Pilot's Flight PodLog | David is at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2011, and he is bringing you some daily QuickCast from the the grounds! ...
"Fore!" UCAP #244-golf by Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Saturday Morning, July 30. From the convention grounds near the legendary brown arch. The Boeing Dreamliner, Meet the Administrator, and Noah's Ark.
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- A 10-year tower veteran in a pink shirt
- Around the Field: A lazy afternoon in the Vintage campground
- Meet the cast of Flying Wild Alaska
- Composite dream: B-787 experimental visits AirVenture 2011
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