Shake, Rattle, and Roar - NBC San Diego
Marines are used to pulling off the impossible and making it look easy, but as the sun set day two of the Miramar Air Show, you could tell ...
Credo: Retired Marine Corps Major General Mike Myatt - San Francisco Examiner
Mike Myatt is a retired Marine Corps major general and the chairman of this year’s Fleet Week, which runs Thursday through Sunday. The annual event, headlined by the Navy’s Blue Angels, draws 1 million people to The City’s waterfront. Myatt is also president and chief executive officer of Marines’ Memorial Association in San Francisco. ...
Help for Heroes Charity Fly-in - Demotix
Air Cadets were out in force to welcome, The Spirit of Great Britain, Vulcan XH558, as she touched down at the Coventry Airport Charity Fly-in. ...
Cool Military Formation Flying 1 from Aviation Blogs
Wright "B" Flyer re-enacts world's first cargo flight from AviationDayton
DAYTON, Ohio – Wright "B" Flyer Inc. volunteers today re-enacted the world's first cargo flight, following close to the original route from historic Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio, to Rickenbacker International Airport near Columbus. Phil Parmelee made the original flight on Nov. 7, 1910. Full story | Photos
USAF C-17A arrives at John Wayne from Aero Pacific Flightlines
On Thursday September 30, C-17A (P-169) 07-7169 arrived at approximately 1140 to drop off the support vehicles for Vice President Joe Bidens visit the following day October 1st. This was the first time that a C-17A has landed at John Wayne Orange County Airport (SNA/KSNA). There have been ...
"Air Force 2" at Orange County Airport (SNA/KSNA) from Aero Pacific Flightlines
Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell from Air Force Link Top Stories
Billy Mitchell is one of the most famous and controversial figures in American airpower history. Mitchell was the first prominent American to publicly speak about his vision of strategic airpower that would dominate future war. He believed that aircraft were inherently offensive and were strategic weapons that revolutionized war by allowing a direct attack on the "vital centers" of an enemy country. These vital centers were the mighty industrial areas that produced the vast amount of armaments and equipment so necessary in modern war. ...
The Lockheed Skunk Works U-2S/TU-2S Spy Plane from Aviation Blogs
The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or night, in direct support of U.S. and allied forces. It delivers critical imagery and signals intelligence to decision makers throughout all phases of conflict, including peacetime indications and warnings, low-intensity conflict, and large-scale hostilities. ...
Air refueling pioneers honored at Scott AFB from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind.
The air refueling pioneers responsible for the United States' first air-refueling flights in 1923 and 1929 were honored in a ceremony Sept. 23 at Scott AFB's "Walk of Fame" as part of a presentation by the Airlift-Tanker Association Hall of Fame officials.
Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr., commander of Air Mobility Command; retired Gen. Walter Kross, former AMC commander and A-TA chairman; and Dr. Ted Hine, a World War II Navy veteran and nephew of one of the original air-refueling aircrew members, were the main speakers for the event. They also unveiled a two-sided bronze medallion highlighting "the pioneers of air refueling" who were the 2009 A-TA Hall of Fame inductees. ...
Historic And Rare Photo Available from Pacific Flyer
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Douglas DC-3, Mayfield Artists is offering a large, 36-inch wide, full-color digital print of the Douglas DC-3 and DC-2 aircraft. ...
AF Pilot’s Remains Found At Last from Pacific Flyer
... He was just two months into his second tour in Vietnam.
Her mother, Bonnie, was left with three children and countless unanswered questions. Over time, three generations of the Shine family came together to bring light to the POW/MIA issue.
The family lived with the uncertainty of Anthony Shine’s fate for 14 years but they never gave up trying to find out what happened to him. Finally, in 1987, Shine was told of a crash site that was possibly linked to her father, and a helmet that may have belonged to him. ...
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Flying Car Ready For Production, Appealing to a Pilot’s Inner Princess
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Formation flight Sunday from Planeshots
PBJs, TBD-1s, AR-79s, CF-104s, and more...
Typhoons in Southern California from PPRuNe Forums
Ploesti Raid 1943 from AF.mil Photos
When Stewardesses Were Hot and Jets Were Cool from Aviation Blogs
By Hugh Hefner | When I was growing up in Chicago I didn’t travel much. I started to commute between Chicago and Los Angeles a lot in the mid-’60s. In 1966 I traveled to London for the opening of the London Playboy club. I saw the future when I was in London: The sexual revolution was going on and the miniskirt had just arrived. I decided then and there to get the jet. ...
EAA News - Young Eagle/Sporty's Grad Passes Checkride
The flight inspired the teen to take up the Sporty's Complete Online Pilot Training Course, which prepares student pilots for the FAA written exam and is provided free to all Young Eagles. Daniel, who soloed on his 16th birthday, ...
Brooklyn Father And Son Launch Homemade Spacecraft from Slashdot
Adair writes "A father and son team from Brooklyn successfully launched a homemade spacecraft nearly 19 miles (around 100,000 feet) above the Earth's surface. The craft was a 19-inch helium-filled weather balloon attached to a Styrofoam capsule that housed an HD video camera and an iPhone. The camera recorded video of its ascent into the stratosphere, its apogee where the balloon reached its breaking point, and its descent back to earth. They rigged a ...
The Shuttle With Nose Art from The Unwanted Blog
A few days back (just before things went to hell out here), I recieved some photos and a first-hand account of the delivery of external tank ET-122 (which is due to be launched on STS-134, the probable next-to-last shuttle flight) to KSC. Something unique about this tank, nicknamed the “Katrina tank” since it was at Michoud when Katrina hit, damaging some of the insulating foam, is that it has “nose art.” The art is on the intertank access door, and the assumption is that it will be left in place through launch. However, normal practice is to foam over the door, so while the art might still be there, it may be hidden behind inches of foam. ...
O'Brien Discontinues "This Week in Space" from Spaceports
Throttle Down - Air & Space
How Florida’s Space Coast is bracing for the end of the space shuttle program.
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