Opening Day Flyover is Picture Perfect - Dallas Morning News | Thanks to the good folks at 
Plenty of seating options open for Thunder Over Louisville - WAVE | LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Thunder Over Louisville is just days away. This is the 25th year for the event and organizers are promising an amazing show. This year's theme is Throwback Thunder, and will give those who attend a musical taste of the past 24 years...
DM to host 'Thunder and Lightning over AZ' open house - Tucson News Now | Everyone is invited to 
Lamborghini VS Sukhoi 29 at Warbirds Over Wanaka · Warbirds News | Warbirds News has covered in a couple of occasion the fascinating challenge between the airplane and cars, click HERE. The upcoming Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow will propose another challenge.World aerobatic champion Jurgis Kairys has decided to give four-time Bathurst V8 Supercar winner, Greg Murphy, a chance in a head-to-head clash at Easter’s Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow.Murph will be behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Supercar when he takes on Jurgis flying a Sukhoi 29 aircraft, in a dash along the runway at Wanaka Airport at lunchtime on both Airshow days.The Highlands Motorsport Park Lamborghini Superleggera is capable of going from ?0 to 100kph in 3.4 seconds and has a top speed of 325kph while the Sukhoi has a similar maximum speed....
VIDEO: Biplane fun promotes airshow - Illawarra Mercury | One hundred and fifty metres above the Illawarra coastline and a world away from the stale cabins of everyday aircraft, limitless fresh air feeds into the open cockpit of the retro red Lilly Warra. Like the blonde bombshell mascot painted on 
her side, the biplane is carefree and all style....
X-29 S/N 2 plans to attend * Mojave Experimental Fly-in | Visit their site, even more attendees announced!
Bournemouth Air Festival set to grow in 2014 as spectacular line-up is revealed - Bournemouth Echo | THIS year’s Bournemouth Air Festival is set to be bigger and better than ever before. That was the message from organisers at the 2014 Bournemouth Air Festival launch as they revealed what’s lined up for this year’s four-day spectacle....
Lubao hot-air balloon festival filling up hotels in Bataan - Business Mirror | CLARK FREE- PORT—The more than 150 hotels in Balanga City and others in Bataan are almost all booked next week in time for the staging of the Philippine International Balloon Festival in Prado Siongco, Lubao town, Pampanga. Gov. Albert S. Garcia of Bataan, who was recently interviewed, said the celebration of Bataan Day on April 9 prompted those who want to attend the hot-air ballon festival to book early in the hotels and inns in the area....
Aviator Jeremiah Denton was tortured in Vietnam - The Globe and Mail | Jeremiah Denton, a former U.S. senator from Alabama and a celebrated U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam and tortured in his years as a prisoner of war, at one point signalling Americans of the abuse by blinking in Morse code during a televised interview, died Friday in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 89....
Former Denver resident Hugh Andrew receives French Legion of Honor medal for WWII service - Denver Post | It took a long time, but Lt. Col. Hugh Andrew finally has his Legion of Honor medal. Andrew, 92, a former Denver resident and Denver Post carrier, on March 26 in Washington, D.C, received the French Legion of Honor medal for his World War II service. He was one of 14 to receive the award that day....
Historic Aviator Harriet Quimby * airplanes.com | Born in Arcadia, Michigan, on May 11, 1875, Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a pilot’s license in 1911. On April 16, 1912, she became the first woman to successfully pilot an airplane across the English Channel – an event which earned her the moniker of “America’s First Lady of the Air”. As a journalist, Quimby described her experience in detail and it was printed in the New York-based magazine she wrote for – Leslie’s Weekly....
Dakotair Takes Delivery of Their First Douglas Dakota · Warbirds News | The RAF Transport Command Memorial is dedicated to keeping the history of RAF Transport Command alive and relevant. As such, the team formed Dakotair Ltd. to acquire a Douglas Dakota and certify it for carrying paying passengers. This is not at all an easy thing to do anywhere in Europe due to post-9/11 regulations, so it will be quite a feat when Dakotair achieves their aims. They eventually intend to operate three Dakotas around the UK on passenger flights, and at air shows and flyover events...
Jerome Technicians Restore WWII Planes - Twin Falls Times-News | JEROME, Idaho • Fewer than 40 of the 12,571 Corsair warplanes churned out in the U.S. during World War II and the Korean War are airworthy today. One sits in a hangar at Jerome County Airport, its nose up against a roll-up metal door, waiting for its chance to fly again...
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Valkaria AirFest Scheduled for Takeoff on April 20 | VALKARIA, Fla. -- The friendly skies over Brevard County will play host Saturday, April 20, to the 7th annual Valkaria Air Fest 2013. This 
NBC - Miramar's commanding officer discusses plans for the airshow post-sequestration - YouTube | MCAS Miramar's commanding officer, Col John Farnam, discusses with NBC's Lea Sutton what the 2013 Miramar Air Show will look like without the Blue Angels, as well as what defense budget cuts mean to the air station and especially its civilian employees.
International Air Meet | 2013 is the year for the first Air Meet of the 21st Century to take place. Set aside June 6-9 and head to Durant, OK for the International Air Meet-Championship Cross Country Air Races. What started in 1909 has seen over a century of invention, innovation and the arrival of the airplane as a normal part of our everyday life. Air racing has come forward to become a relevant, viable sport for all pilots. Those of us with kindred passions thrive on sharing their innate love with others similarly afflicted. For over a century aviators have...
SUN ‘n FUN 2013 – Day 2 from Other People's Airplanes by David
As final reunion looms, flight engineer Ed Saylor looks back on the Doolittle ... - Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald | In planning, the operation called for a temporary squadron of volunteers to launch modified B-25 bombers — aircraft normally unsuitable for carrier transport — from the USS Hornet 400 miles off the Japanese coast, hit 10 military and industrial ...
How Twenty Female Pilots from 1929 Guide Me in Business Today - Story Exchange | Heather Taylor started her own production company Archetypal Images to spread the inspiration of her personal role models — the pilots of the first national women’s air race. She shared her story on our 1000 Stories Campaign....
How I Made My First Big Flight Abroad My Flight Across the English Channel by Harriet Quimby | While flying in Mexico, at President Madero's inauguration, last December, an ambition to be the first woman aviator to cross the English channel alone entered my mind. The more I thought of it, the less formidable the feat seemed to be. Without mentioning the matter to a soul, for fear that some one across the sea might anticipate my idea, I waited until my return to New York. There I secured a letter of introduction to Louis Bleriot and prepared to present it to him at his factory in Paris....
Special "Huey" Helicopter Makes Stop at Farmington Regional Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A very special Vietnam-era "Huey" helicopter 
made a fuel stop at Farmington Regional Airport recently - Bell UH-1H s/n 70-16369 - from the American Huey 369 Organization. This 501(c)3 non-profit group has lofty ambitions, namely to preserve the history of the Bell "Huey" helicopter through the establishment of The National American Huey History Museum. Currently...
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Visit: Airpark in Winter - Northrop YC-125B Raider from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Our last stop on the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Airpark in Winter Series is the Northrop YC-125B Raider, a tri-motored military troop transport adaptation of the civil N-23 Pioneer once championed by former TWA President Jack Frye. The first of...
World War One - Part IV from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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Snowbirds nesting at Waukegan Air Show - Lake County News Sun | But 
Thunder Over Utah puts a buzz in the air - St. George Daily Spectrum | The Blue Angels will be part of the Thunder Over Utah Air Show on Saturday and Sunday. Photo Courtesy of mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rachel McMarr / US Navy ST. GEORGE - It's going to be a busy week in Southern Utah....
Red Arrows air show for Volvo week is shot down - Galway News
There will be no air show as part of the Volvo Race this year. “We'd asked them to be involved and they've not confirmed one way or the other but it is my belief that it (Galway) is not part of the RAF's schedule. It is not part of our programme ...
CALENDAR OF PERFORMANCES OF PAN-YEAR 2012 Comments for this picture - Translated | 2012 events program tricolor arrows aerobatic team It 'was officially announced by the Ministry of Defence Staff Air Force calendar of performances of Aerobatic Training Squadron 313 - Tricolour Arrows - Aerobatic Team for 2012. The following dates this year....
One dead in military plane crash in Turkey - Aviation News | A pilot died today (13) when their training aircraft crashed in the province of Konya, in the region of Central Anatolia, Turkey, reported the Doğan news agency. The plane Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter, the Air Force in Turkey, fell around noon (local time) on a tractor factory, killing the pilot....
Air display ready for lift-off - This is Grimsby | Festival director and MD of Cleethorpes Air Show Limited, Adam Johnson, said: "Today is the culmination of a lot of hard work from the organising committee and we are delighted that the festival has finally got the green light....
Air Force Jet Joins Air Show Lineup - Patch.com | “We are thrilled to welcome back the renowned F-22 to the Bethpage Air Show lineup," said Rose Harvey, the commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historical Preservation. "Tri-state area residents are in for a treat with an ...
Women Aviators Recognized at Harriet Quimby Celebration | | Daily Event Blog - Across the Channel:. - www.womenofaviationweek.org | Women of Aviation Worldwide celebrated Harriet Quimby's 1912 English Channel crossing at Headcorn Aerodrome and Le Touquet Airport.
Women in Aviation Are Doing Big Things. Dallas 2012, Nashville 2013. from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | We told you last week about Girls with Wings and the effort they’re putting into inspiring and motivating girls to get involved with aviation. Well this week it’s time for us to wave the flag for another estrogen rich organization with some very aviation friendly goals. We’re talking about Women in Aviation, International. Their International Conference just wrapped up in Dallas, with the next one planned for Nashville in 2013....
The Women Fly it Forward Frederick Recap from Toriaflies | Although her parents always told her she could do anything she put her mind to, Madeleine, age seven, told her father that she didn’t think she could become a pilot because “it was a boy thing”. So Madeleine’s family came out to Frederick Municipal Airport for the 2nd annual Women Fly it Forward event aimed at introducing women to aviation...
Episode 189 – Darryl Jenkins from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Guest Darryl Jenkins is a seasoned airline analyst, Chairman of the American Aviation Institute, and author of the Handbook of Airline Economics....
In for the Spin! Shot at 1/15th of a second hand held... from TVR 
How to take pictures through a canopy from Apron 6 | After taking the Pitts pictures I remembered a blogpost I once wrote for another blog. It was titled: ‘how to take pictures through a canopy’. The Pitts pictures were taken from the Extra 300. Ideal for...
Experimental Plane loses brakes and exits the runway at Atlanta - Translated | Mechanical testing of engines did when they had problem with the brakes. | Without passengers, aircraft suffered damage and stopped lying on the bank. | A model airplane company Boeing 737 Delta Airlines suffered serious damage after escaping from the runway in Atlanta International Airport, one of the world's busiest, officials said on Tuesday (13). A spokesman said the company's mechanics were doing a test when the plane's engines had a problem with the brakes at about 5 am....
The Boneyard Project from Bayou Renaissance Man | A rather 'different' aviation-related art project is on display in Arizona until the end of May....
Truesdale’s Neptune Finds from Travel for Aircraft | Reader John Truesdale is 
F-22 Crash Widow Sues Lockheed Martin for Wrongful Death - ABC News | The widow of the F-22 Raptor pilot who died after a malfunction in his jet cut off his oxygen system during a training mission in Alaska is suing the F-22 manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, and other major defense contracting companies for wrongful death,...
Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport Officially Gets The Axe from Aero-News Network | City Informs FAA That The Facility Will Close Pilots in the greater Cincinnati, OH, area are about to lose an airport. Cincinnati City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. has sent a letter to the FAA expressing the city's intention to close Blue Ash Airport no earlier than June 8th....
Dream Prize from Randy's Journal | Most of you know I’m a music lover. That’s why I was thrilled to learn the 787 Dreamliner has taken home the equivalent of a Grammy. The airplane was honored today with the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 2011. This is the pinnacle— one of the most prestigious honors in our...
St. Louis Science Center First Friday in March Offers Space Activities for the Whole Family from The Aero Experience | The St. Louis Science Center hosted its March First Friday event last week as an on-going promotion of Star Trek, The Exhibition. The monthly event provides a variety of science education activities for all ages in the...
China paving the way for first female taikonaut from NASASpaceFlight.com by Chris Bergin | China appears to be on the brink of selecting female taikonaut for the up-coming Shenzhou 9 mission, likely to launch in early June. Following the success of last year’s Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 unmanned docking, 2012 is expected to mark another first, with a crewed Shenzhou-9 set to launch and dock with Tiangong 1....
Saturday, January 28, 2012
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American Heroes Air Show returns to Lee County - News-Press | Helicopters from all facets of law enforcement and public safety will roar into Lee County. The American Heroes Air Show, the nation's premier helicopter-only air show, makes a return visit to the Lee County Sports Complex from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday. The Lee County Sheriff's Office is assisting in the set up and coordination of the event....
The EXTRA 330SC Gets a Fresh Look for 2012 - Mike Goulian Airshows | Taken at Oxford 
Aviation. The EXTRA 330SC will have a brand new look for 2012. The experts at Oxford Aviation will apply a stunning new finish to our airplane.
Forced landing takes Red Checkers out of show - Bay of Plenty Times | One of the leading aerial displays scheduled for the Tauranga City Air Show this weekend will not go ahead after a Defence Force aerobatics plane made a forced landing yesterday afternoon. A Royal New Zealand Air Force CT-4E Air Trainer, part of the Red Checkers aerobatic display, was en route to Tauranga when it...
Heli-Expo Preview: Helicopter Industry To Gather in Dallas in February - AINonline | A cornucopia of copters and rotorcraft-related gizmos, conference sessions and conversations awaits attendees at the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo, to be held in Dallas February 11 to 14. This year, HAI is expecting more than 18,000 visitors, 65 helicopters and 600 exhibitors at the Dallas Convention Center. The location has the unique feature of being the...
Air show to highlight this weekend’s veterans tribute - Cape Coral Daily Breeze | The Cost of Freedom Tribute and American Heroes Air Show continues today and Sunday at the Lee County Sports Complex. The Traveling Vietnam Wall and other memorial war displays will be on view all day today while the all-helicopters air show is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A group Naturalization Ceremony is set for 11 a.m....
Photos: Airshow: Lethbridge - CRUFC
Meet Harriet Quimby, the Groundbreaking Aviatrix Who Was Completely Overshadowed by the Titanic Sinking - The Mary Sue | In the chilly April of 1912, a major story was spread across the world’s newspapers concerning a groundbreaking vessel of transportation. We know exactly what story you’re thinking about: aviator Harriet Quimby, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel! That happened on April 16, 1912. Then there was that other thing that...
Tuskegee Airmen Movie -Red Tails Day- Alabama Success from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ...Alabama National Guard Squadron Commander, 187th Fighter Wing. (Governor's Office, Jamie Martin) On opening day of the movie, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley held a signing ceremony honoring the Tuskegee Airmen with Tuskegee Airmen Lt. Col. Herbert Carter and Oscar Gadson proclaiming January 20, 2012, as The Tuskegee Airmen “Red Tails” D...
CoolPix: Memphis Belle Restoration Progress At The Air Force Museum - AirPigz | The 2nd 
Aviation first introduced in Cleveland in 1911 - Cleveland Daily Banner | Although Cleveland’s Hardwick Field was constructed in the late 1940s and used as a training site through the early 1950s, aviation was first introduced to the community more than 30 years earlier. A Curtiss biplane, a Wright Brothers-like aircraft, was the...
Greatest fighter pilot of WW2 - Indian Defense | Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), nicknamed "Bubi" (the hypocoristic form of "young boy") by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions. He engaged in aerial combat 825 times while serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career,...
Marine MV-22B Osprey Stops for Fuel and Food at St. Louis Downtown Airport - The Aero 
Experience | A Marine MV-22B Osprey stopped in at St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, IL today for a brief fuel stop on a delivery flight from the Bell Helicopter plant in Amarillo, Texas. The inter-service crew parked in front of the Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum in Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 and received fuel from neighboring Ideal Aviation. After getting...
Lockheed Vega to Fly Again - Antique Airfield | Many will remember the Lockheed Vega owned for years by AAA Founder and President, Robert Taylor....
Florida Cub Flyers January 2012 Newsletter - Antique Airfield
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Named ‘Aircraft of Legend’ - By Rob Vogelaar | The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been honored with the “Aircraft of Legend” Award presented by the Living Legends 
Already legendary - Randy's Journal | I’ve used many adjectives over the years to describe the 787. Now there’s a new one to add to the list - legendary. During a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Living Legends of Aviation presented the 787 Dream Team with a special award— the very first Aircraft of Legend award. While the group has...
January 28 – Aviation History - CRUFC
Podcast: Young Eagles for Grown-Ups - AVweb | Jeff Skiles, known as the first officer for the "Miracle on the Hudson" flight, served as co-chair of EAA s Young Eagles program for a...
‘Barefoot Bandit’ sentenced to 6 1/2 years - Pilot News Magazine | A federal judge on Friday sentenced “Barefoot Bandit” Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010. Harris-Moore hopscotched his way across the United States...
Iranian F-14 Fighter Jet Crashes Near Persian Gulf, Killing Both Crewmen - NYC Aviation | Two people were killed early Thursday morning when a fighter jet crashed in the southern region of Iran, state-run media reported on Friday. There were no survivors....
The race to send civilians to space - 17KGET | Ground has already been broken at the Mojave Spaceport on a huge hanger, funded by Paul Allen of Microsoft and X-Prize fame. Congressman Kevin McCarthy toured the site Friday, right next...
Friday, January 27, 2012
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National Aviation Hall of Fame Adds Aerospace Pioneers to Board - ASB | The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) today announced the addition of two outstanding aviation professionals to their Board of Trustees, Jack Pelton and George Saling. Jack is the retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cessna Aircraft Company. A native of California, Jack has over three decades of aviation experience. He joined Cessna in 2000 as Vice President of Product Engineering. He was named President and Chief Executive Officer in 2003 and Chairman in 2005. Prior to joining Cessna he was Senior Vice President of Engineering for Dornier Aircraft. He started his career at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, California....
Air show set to return to Boundary Bay this July - Delta Optimist | The air show will return to Boundary Bay Airport this summer after a oneyear hiatus. Delta council approved a request earlier this month from Alpha Aviation, the company that has the longterm lease to operate the municipally-owned airport, to once again host an air show. The event is to...
RAF Tucano and Hawk Displays 2012 on the web - Flightline UK | The 2012 RAF Display Team are starting to appear on the internet. The RAF Tucano Display will be flown by by Flt Lt Jon Bond and the aircraft is currently recieving some ‘Diamond Jubilee’ markings. You can...
Pioneering aviator Harriet Quimby centenary approaches - Flightglobal | A centenary is soon upon us but this event had been overshadowed by a tragedy which shares the same anniversary month. Harriet Quimby was the first female aviator to fly an aeroplane solo across the English Channel from an airfield at Whitfield to land near Boulogne Sur Mer on the 16th April 1912. But this pioneering and inspirational achievement by a female aviator was...
WWII hero Kuroki enters Neb. Aviation Hall of Fame - Kearney Hub | ...Kuroki, 94, was born in 
Pearl Harbor aviation museum to screen documentary on Flying Tigers pilot shot down in China - The Republic | The Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor will host an event celebrating the legacy of the Flying Tigers, the famed volunteer force of U.S. pilots who fought in China at the start of World War II. Li Xiaolin is the president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and will present her documentary, Touching the Tigers, at the museum Monday....
Monrovia's Own Tuskegee Airman - Patch | The Monrovia Historical Museum's exhibit on a Tuskegee Airman from Monrovia is on display at the Krikorian Theater in conjunction with the release of a movie about the famous African-American WWII pilots....
"Was The Movie Accurate?" - CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | Today’s blog was going to be about history and landing gear, but a great opportunity for our readers “landed” here instead! It was announced just two days ago that the CAF Red Tail Squadron will host two FREE webinars (think seminar on a website) on February 1 and 4 - that’s next Wednesday and a week from tomorrow. The webinars will be in the same format and with the same guests; we’re just running it live twice so that people have a choice as to when they want to participate....
Red Tails Disappoints - Airspeed | ...I just got home from seeing Red Tails. I had heard that the film had received less than stellar reviews, but I made it a point to avoid others’ opinions and go see the film for myself....
Two killed in Tiger Moth plane crash at Maryborough - The Courier | TWO men, including the pilot, are dead after the Tiger Moth plane they were flying in, hit trees at Maryborough yesterday. The pilot was the owner of the plane. Police said witnesses reported seeing the vintage Tiger Moth crash shortly after take-off about 5pm. The Tiger Moth burst into flames in trees at the northern end of the bitumen runway....
Mosquito TT.35, TA719, ‘AirSpace’, IWM Duxford – the film star that inspired a movement! 
My E-Book Library - tdbarnes - Roadrunners Internationale | Thornton D. "TD" Barnes and Colonel Sam Pizzo have uploaded Kindle e-books Velma and the Desert Fox and A Man of Many Hats for download and review....
January 27 – Aviation History - CRUFC
Norah O'Neill | Friday's Fabulous Flyer - Flight to Success | ...This is how Norah’s aviation 
adventure began. 23-years-old, and no home to return to, she’d made her decision to learn to fly. She found a nighttime job in Kodiak Alaska’s most prominent bar, frequented by prostitutes. She worked all night, slept for a few hours in the morning, and took flying lessons in the afternoon before she went back to the bar to work. Living in a furnace room of an old house, she exchanged housework for rent, so every penny could go to the airport. She learned to fly, became an instructor, then became a charter pilot....
Thirsty work for Italian Eurofighters - Flightglobal's Image of the Day | This striking image of a formation of four Italian air force Eurofighters being supported by a Lockheed Martin KC-130J tanker during a...
Drone will use energy from the sun and wind - NEWS ABOUT AVIATION AVIATION NEWS | 
Barge Carrying Atlas Rocket Crashes Into Bridge from SPACE.com | The two launch vehicles are apparently undamaged.
Slingshot around the moon for US$150m - CNET Australia | According to the Smithsonian magazine Air & Space, anyone with a spare US$150 million laying around may have the opportunity to hop aboard a future lunar flight. One person has already bought the first ticket, Air & Space reports....
What do you Make of the “Houston, we have a problem” Film Claiming that a Secret Yugoslavian Space Program was the Source of American Success in the Space Race? - The National Air and Space Museum | They have got to be kidding! At least that’s what I thought, but apparently not. I received a call from Richard Solash, a reporter with Radio Free Europe about ten days ago to discuss a film being made by Slovene director Ziga Virc and writer Bostjan Virc that alleges that Tito’s Yugoslavia had a secret space program and secretly sold space knowledge to NASA, in the process making Tito rich and making if possible for the U.S. to achieve its Apollo program. Here is...
Apollo 1 - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | January 27, 1967 Tragedy struck on the 
Astronaut Jerry Ross, First Seven-Time Space Flier, Retires - PRNewswire | Jerry Ross, the first person to launch into space seven times, has retired from NASA. In a career that spanned more than three decades, Ross spent almost 1,400 hours in space and conducted nine spacewalks to rank third on the list of most extravehicular activity time in space....
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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Could the Blue Angels be grounded -- forever? - The Blue Angels, the Navy's elite exhibition flight squadron, have thrilled Seafair audiences for decades with their precision maneuvers and aerial acrobatics at speeds reaching 700 mph. But could the Angels face the axe in upcoming federal budget cuts?...
Liked this shot I took of this crewman sitting atop the main... from You like airplanes, too? | Liked this shot I took of this crewman sitting atop the main rotor of his MH-53 whilst enjoying the sites and sounds at AirVenture 2011. Photo by myself…Wings of Freedom tour lands in Jeffersonville – WDRB | A trio of World War Two-era planes -- a B-17, a B-24 and a P-51 Mustang -- arrived Wednesday at the Clark Regional Airport in Jeffersonville. It's part of the Wings of Freedom Tour. It was a special moment for Shelbyville resident Edmund Myles. ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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Blue Angels to hold private showing for those with special needs - Lincoln Journal Star | The US Navy Blue Angels perform an intricate manuever at a previous Lincoln airshow. (Journal Star file photo) The US Navy's Blue Angels flight-stunt team will give a private performance for people with special needs or disabilities that prevent them ...
Crews Try To Clear Air Space Of Gulls Before Air, Water Show - WISN Milwaukee | "If an airplane strikes a bird, it causes significant damage to the plane, and especially this year with the Thunderbirds. They're single engine aircraft, so if we were to take out an engine, they wouldn't have no way to make it back to the airport ...
Sikorsky to be Stuart Air Show's presenting sponsor - TCPalm | Sikorsky Aircraft will be the presenting sponsor of the 2011 Stuart Air Show, set for Nov. 11 through 13. Last year was the first year that Sikorsky participated in the airshow, where it displayed a replica of its new X2 helicopter, ...
GOLDEN KNIGHTS’ Bring Home Gold from 36th World Military Championships from US Army Golden Knights | The U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights’ competition teams returned from the 36th World Military Championships adding Gold, Silver and bronze medals and these medals are the first for the USA in the 5th World Military Games. The team competed in Accuracy at the Brazilian Military Academy in Resende, Brazil and 4-Way at Sky [...]
Golden Hawk lands in Abbotsford - Abbotsford Times | The team's legacy lives on through Canada's Snowbirds Air Demonstration team. To keep the history and excitement alive, the Hawk One often appears alongside the Snowbirds, as it will at the Abbotsford Airshow from Aug. 12 to 14. ...
Turkish Air Force F-16 Demo Team - from Articles | The Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Turkish Air Force, or TurAF, celebrates the centennial of its air force this year with the creation of an F-16 demonstration team called Solo Turk. The single-ship team with three demo pilots flies an F-16C Block 40 from 141 Filo or Squadron (also known as Anatolian Wolfs), which is ...
Watch my AOPALive Interview from AirVenture ’11 from Mike Goulian Airshows | Had a chance to chat with AOPA’s Editor in Chief, Tom Haines, during AirVenture to discuss what our air show team has been doing to promote aviation to young aviators and also how we work with EAA to host new AirVenture air show pilots to bring new and fun performers to the scene here in Oshkosh. ...
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#OSH11: Rolls Royce offers scholarships
from General Aviation News | At last week's AirVenture, Rolls-Royce pledged financial support for the 2011 EAA Young Eagles Scholarship Program. The scholarships fund flying lessons and flight experiences for teenage student pilots. ...
Quickcast 3 – Osh11 Day 3 - The Pursuit of Wings | This post contains the notes for a quickcast podcast episode. If you don't want to use iTunes, the audio file can be downloaded using this link. This is quickcast Day 3 from EAA's Oshkosh Airventure 2011.
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Lynchburg air show donates $25000 to Centra pediatric unit - Lynchburg News and Advance | Stanley said they should know by December whether the premiere flight demonstration team would return. Show organizers reimbursed the city for more than $86000 in costs, according to the city manager's office. Those costs included nearly $37000 from ...
Historic aircraft coming to Dayton next week on annual tour - Dayton Daily News | MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County — The Wings of Freedom Tour, which annually brings historic aircraft including the B-17 and B-24 bombers and the P-51 Mustang fighter for public displays across the country, makes its annual visit to Dayton-Wright ...
Brodhead Pietenpol Fly-In Photos - Antique Flying Field | Besides Blakesburg, there's another "B" fly-in place that's all about grassroots flying and that's Brodhead, Wisconsin. EAA Chapter 431 was kind enough to send us some photos of the recent Pietenpol fly-in. ...
Last of the Few - Air & Space Magazine | The Battle of Britain in the words of the pilots who won it.
Fear the Zippy Zapping Robo-Chopper from Danger Room | It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a fast-flying stun-gunning robocopter? You better believe it. The Shadowhawk is the latest development in automated grenade flinging ...
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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US Navy Leap Frogs 2011 Performance Schedule from Milcom Monitoring Post
The US Navy Leap Frog Parachute Team has announced their performance schedule for the 2011 season. This schedule on the blog is subject to change without notice and is weather permitting, for everyones safety. ...
WWII pilot makes daring escape in China - Flying Tigers News
... The Flying Tigers were initially part of the American Volunteer Group, serving with the Chinese army to drive the Japanese back. Later, the group became the Chinese American Task Force, which eventually became the 14th Air Force.” ...
Mystery of the ‘Frozen Airmen’ from General Aviation News
At a Jan. 15 appearance at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, author and mountaineer Peter Stekel will tell the story of a mysterious 1942 military plane crash that did not begin to unfold until decades later, when the mummified remains of an airman in a World War II uniform — with an unopened parachute — were found entombed in ice in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. ...
Pima Air and Space Muesum Tucson from Helikopter Hysterie
Look at today's picture or this bird's-eye-view of the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. If that's not convincing, I don't know what is. My plan is to pay the museum a proper visit soon. Keep your ...
Expanded Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa seeks bigger role in aviation and community - Ottawa Citizen
A $7-million addition to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum signals an expanded role for the museum as a hub for aviation in Canada and as a community centre, the museum’s director-general Stephen Quick said on Thursday.
“Forward thinkers and culture have always been linked to aviation,” he said during a tour of the new wing currently under construction. ...
A tryst with the world's first nuclear war-bird - International Business Times
In fact, the aviation history would have undergone a radical change with the introduction of the first nuclear-powered bomber, the XB-70 Valkyrie; ...
Americans 'reverse engineer' German V-1 - Alamogordo Daily News
The P-80 pilot's orders in June 1948 at Holloman Air Force Base were unmistakable. The errant JB-2 Loon in his sights had an unstable gyro and was on course to bomb Tularosa. Just 1,200 feet from the cruise missile, the pilot "opened fire with his six .50 (caliber) machine guns," retired U.S. Air Force Col. Wayne Mattson wrote in the New Mexico Space Journal (Summer 2007). ...
Euan's Blog
Classic Flyers Museum # 4 Hawker Hunter
Grumman Ag-Cat & Boeing Stearman
Classic Flyers Museum # 2 F-86 Sabare
Classic Flyers Museum # 1: DH Heron
Foley's year in review - Wicked Local Westport
This photo was shot in anticipation of the RI National Guard's annual air show. I had fun
shooting it, but I'm sure Herald News reporter Kevin O'Connor had ...See the Focke Wulf-190 in flight from General Aviation News
Germany’s infamous Focke Wulf-190, aka the “Butcher Bird,” will be the subject of Planes of Fame Air Museum’s first Living History Flying Event of 2011 Jan. 8. Although 20,000 FW-190 fighter planes were made during World War II, none had flown after the war until Focke Wulf Flugzeugbau began to manufacture new examples for collectors a few years ago, according to officials with the Chino, California museum, who advise aviation enthusiasts to not miss this chance to see this rare aircraft in flight. ...
2011 should be a year of celebration for the ladies among us from GlobalAir.com
August 2011 will be the 100th Anniversary of the first U.S. woman to qualify as an aviator. Ms. Harriet Quimby was her name, and she was a photojournalist from San Francisco, California. After being assigned by a weekly journal to cover the Belmont Park (New York) International Aviation Tournament for a feature story, like many of us today, Harriet immediately became smitten by aviation, and soon started taking flying lessons. ...
Military Aviation Museum / Fighter Factory in Virginia Beach and Suffolk, VA from FenceCheck Forums
Top Gear - Spitfire Magic from TAKEOFF TUBE
Clarkson, Hammond, and May have a go in Spitfires before facing the Germans in Zolder.
January 2 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Today in Aviation History – January 2 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
Adventure on their New Year calendar - DNAindia
... Anita Malik, who runs a paragliding centre with her husband, says, “Children find it easier to learn and they’re wonderful to teach as they listen and pick up faster.” She takes the Young Eagles workshop, a two-day course to introduce children to flying and help them experience their first instructional tandem flight. ...
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Thunderbirds 2010 schedule includes Maxwell air show - Maxwell Gunter Dispatch
Officials from the US Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, "Thunderbirds," here announced its 2010 air show schedule, which includes Mar. ...
Thousands expected for Thunder Over the Blue Ridge over Labor Day weekend - Martinsburg Journal
4 and 5, 2010, featuring the US Air Force's Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Squadron and the US Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team. "For five years or so, ...
Blue Angels To Take Flight In Brunswick - WMTW.com
Unlike previous air shows, which were free, spectators will be charged admission, Mayo said. The Blue Angels last performed in Maine in September 2008.
Thumbs up to air show, PHS hoops on radio - Seacoastonline.com
Thumbs up, up and up to the Navy's precision flight team, the Blue Angels, which will come to Pease International Tradeport in August. ...
Editorial: Festival's prospects looking up with Blue Angels' return - MLive.com
The announcement Wednesday that the Blue Angels jet team will return to Muskegon during Summer Celebration 2011 is a giant step ...
The pictures tell the myth of Arrows Aloisi Tricolori - The Arena
An exhibition of shots taken on board Arrows Tricolori. È questa l'iniziativa che Giorgio Aloisi, quarantenne di Pai, ha allestito al Gardaland Hotel Resort, e che sarà inaugurata stamattina alle 10. This is the beginning that George Aloisi, forty Pai, has set up at Gardaland Hotel Resort, which will be inaugurated this morning at 10.
News - Coney Island Air Show August 2010 - Google
I found out the contact for the air show in Coney, but he did not get back to me with any comment. So the sponsor is still a question mark. My guess is the air show is part of a larger event and the folks in charge aren't ready to go ...
Fort Smith Airshow Canceled in 2010 - KFSM
According to a release from the 188th Fighter Wing headquarters, war training and inspection schedules have prompted the Fort Smith Airshow officials to ...
Drunk steals plane at airshow - Fear of Landing
The pilot is Kyle Franklin from Franklin's Flying Circus & Airshow. He is married to the beautiful Amanda Younkin, who manages Franklin's Flying Circus and Younkin Airshows. Kyle and Bobby Younkin are the pilots – although Amanda can ...
Harriet Quimby: May 16, 1911 from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
The Daily News, Frederick, Maryland. May 16, 1911
Harriet Quimby, well-known to the reading public through her writings in Leslie's Weekly Paper (which were syndicated and thus appeared in other, daily, newspapers around the country), wants to become a "skyscraper." ...
CAF Member Hall of Fame Established 12/11/09 - KOSA
Midland, Texas - They may not have been in battle, but the Commemorative Air Force wants to make sure that those who have made the caf a success are not ...
New deputy director announced for National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
Air Force officials announced Dec. 10 that Lt. Gen. (Ret.) John L. Hudson will become the new Deputy Director of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
The position of Deputy Director is newly established, and Gen. Hudson is the first to fill the position. The establishment of a Deputy Director position reflects the continuing growth of the Museum and its inestimable value to the Air Force. Attendance at the museum is at an all-time high, drawing about 1.3 million visitors annually.
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In new hands: Local group takes control of NAASM - Wapakoneta Daily News
John Zwez, president of the Armstrong Air and Space Association, stresses a point regarding the management takeover of the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum ...
Museum's Annual "Holiday Air Affair" to Feature Santa and Stormtroopers - WOWT
The Strategic Air & Space Museum is located at Exit 426 off I-80, halfway between Omaha and Lincoln. The Museum is open M, T, TH, F, S, SU, ...
"Detroit: Our Greatest Generation" features several Ann Arbor residents who ... - AnnArbor.com
These days, Bodycombe spends his time helping out at the Yankee Air Museum at the Willow Run Airport. In his last public speech, a Memorial Day address to a ...
Wings & Wheels gives £20,000 to Help for Heroes - from Flightline UK
From getSURREY
MONEY raised at this year's Wings & Wheels airshow at Dunsfold Park near Cranleigh will help build a series of Army Recovery Centres across the UK.
Help for Heroes chief of staff Mark Elliott, accompanied by soldiers who have been seriously injured on active duty and undergone intensive treatment at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court near Epsom, made a special visit to the airfield on Wednesday to thank Dunsfold Park Ltd and local people for raising £20,000 for the charity.
Museum of Aviation's Eagle Building going green - Macon Telegraph
Starting this month, green energy will power the Eagle Building at the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base. ...
Solar Impulse Takes Off into History - Solar Power News and Info
Less than a month after Solar Impulse passed its first runway test, the solar-powered airplane made aviation history with its first test flight. Given the plane's nearly 200-foot wingspan and complete lack of conventional fuel, ...
Love of aviation drew veteran to Air Corps - The Desert Sun
Soon after, he landed a job at Sacramento Air Depot, repairing the B-25 Mitchell and British Hudson bombers. In 1942, when he learned all the boys in his ...
Lady Houston and her necklace - Spitfire Site News
... What does it have to do with a Spitfire? The connection is indirect, but very tangible. Lady Houston made a pivotal contribution to aviation history when in 1931, she donated £100,000 to Supermarine, preventing the company from withdrawing from the contest due to the lack of government funding. Without her, Britain would not have won the contest that year. There would be no Supermarine S.6B and World Speed Record, nor the Trophy permanently won for Britain. And without the S.6B, Supermarine would not be entrusted with designing and producing a new monoplane fighter for the RAF. Perhaps they would have stayed with the flying boats. There would be no Spitfire.
X-51A WaveRider gets first ride aboard B-52 from Air Force Link Top Stories
The X-51A Waverider was carried aloft for the first time Dec. 9 by an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress
over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
The test was a key milestone in preparation for the X-51 to light its supersonic combustion ramjet engine and propel the WaverRider at hypersonic speed for about five minutes, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean. ...
What a superb landing Ed Strongman made in the A400M today from Unusual Attitude by Kieran Daly
Ed StrongmanWhen I was hired for this Airbus A400M communications contract, I was told early on "it'll be good if you can liaise closely with the test pilot - Ed Strongman (seen left discussing the flight with his British customers) - very nice chap, you'll like him". What I quietly thought was "Oh Lord...". Here's the story.
So a few days into my time here in Seville the time came when Ed had a moment in his frantic schedule and we agreed to meet for an introductory chat. We'd not met before. So I wandered down to the flight-test building and we had a good conversation about how the first taxying trial had gone, what was coming up next, and how the programme in general was going. ...
On This Day in Aviation History: December 12th - NYCAviation.com ...
Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger Auctions Captain's Hat - ABC News
Here's your chance to own a little bit of aviation history: Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the US Airways pilots who made the ...
Nellis commander completes 6-show run on 'Jeopardy!' - from Air Force Link Top Stories
The set wasn't the same as he remembered from watching the show in its inaugural season more than 25 years ago. The chalkboard scheme has been replaced by liquid crystal display screens; the money at stake has doubled; and contestants are no longer limited to just five wins.
From the first day Col. Dave Belote walked onto the set of "Jeopardy!" for familiarization to six shows and $134,801 later, he described the experience as almost surreal. ...
Dayton International Airport gets new mural - Dayton Daily News
Airport management assembled Dayton aviation heritage leaders earlier this year to help develop the mural and hired Nova Creative Group, of Washington Twp., ...
Aviation Podcast #166 - Questions To The Max - Part II from The Finer Points - Aviation Podcast
This week we wrap up our 2 part question and answer series with Max Trescott. Please enjoy The Finer Points!
How to Photograph an Airshow - Best Digital Camera Blog
Each summer, at air shows across the globe, awestruck spectators enjoy the power and precision of aerial demonstration teams and individual performers. In addition to what is happening in the air, there are often static displays on the ...
Lancaster… from Planeshots
Red Bull Air Race 2009 Highlights Video - Oveoo
"G.W Bealby, B-Type Wright" (circa 1909) from x planes
The Albessard tandem monoplane, 1914. (another view) from x planes
