World’s largest air show team to perform at Sun ‘n Fun from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Team RV, the world’s largest air show team, will fill the sky at Sun ‘n Fun with 11 homebuilt aircraft in a display of close formation, formation aerobatics, and difficult rejoins on March 30. Read more...Blue Angels to miss Commissioning Week in 2012 - Annapolis Capital | Joshua McKerrow — The Capital / file The Blue Angels will miss their annual flight demonstration during the Naval Academy's Commissioning Week next year because of scheduling conflicts. AP VIDEO more>> After performing for decades at Naval Academy ...
Welshpool air show to go ahead after cuts fears allayed - BBC News | Fears that a popular Mid Wales air show would be cancelled this year because of cuts in military spending have been allayed. Welshpool Air Show will go ahead with the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic display team opening the show. ...
Hill AFB air show won't be held this year – StandardNet | The Top of Utah Military Affairs Committee has always played a major role in assisting Hill AFB with their biennial two-day open house and air show. Utah and Hill AFB is slated to have another open house in September 2011. ...
Kiwi Connections at Avalon 2011 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon: Aviation High School Receives $7 Million In Grants Toward New ... by Scott Schaefer | Des Moines Aviation High School received $7 million in grant money this week, to be used toward construction of a new facility to be located next to Boeing…
Clay Lacy to speak at Aero Club - Wichita Business Journal | Wichita native Clay Lacy will be the speaker at the next Wichita Aero Club luncheon. The event will begin at noon on March 22 at the Wichita Airport Hilton. He flew his first plane when he was 12 years old and went on to log 28000 hours as a commercial ...
IMAGEM DA SEMANA: Piloto da USAF em seu F-16 com bandeira do Brasil no macacão de voo from CavokBlog - Notícias de Aviação, Tecnologia e Fotografia by Fernando Valduga | O piloto da USAF, a bordo de um F-16C Fighting Falcon, com a bandeira do Brasil no seu macacão de voo. (Foto: Wagner Damasio / Cavok)
A few prayers folks....... - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion from http://www.aafo.com/ | I met Mr. Summers last September when I invited him to our local fly-in here in Elko. He did not even hesitate to say yes to my invite despite the fact that we didn't have a huge budget to pay him from. All he asked for was enough money to cover his fuel expenses, which in the Skyraider, is huge! Anyhow, when the day of our fly-in arrived, here came Danny in that beautiful bird of his! After shut-down he greeted us all with a smile and an apology for being slightly late. After introducing myself, I was honored by being allowed to climb up on the wing and eventually into the cockpit of his AD-5. The others on the ground far below were so jealous! Later during the day, I had the opportunity to take a break from my duties and cruise over to the Skyraider to chat with Mr. Summers and Ms. Wyatt. I had a great conversation with him talking about his love of aviation and his experiences flying warbirds and cropdusters. We even chatted about friends we had in common. Mr. Summers was a great man who loved sharing what he had with others. I am always impressed with warbird owners who are willing to spend the money and time to share with those of us who don't have those same opportunities. Thank you Mr. Summers! Blue Skies and Calm Winds!
The Last Sikorsky JRS-1 Makes A Move to the Udvar-Hazy Center from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | On December 7, 1941, a US Navy squadron consisting of ten Sikorsky JRS-1 amphibious seaplanes was on station in the Hawaiian Islands. Shortly after the Japanese attack that Sunday morning, the planes were launched in an effort to locate enemy submarines and ships near Oahu. Initially not armed, the first missions included riflemen positioned on board near open windows and doors to shoot potential adversaries in case any were discovered. Later, these ten JRS-1 craft were armed with depth charges, one under each wing that could more effectively attack Japanese submarines…Florida museum to raise rare plane from ocean floor from Aviation eBrief | The National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Fla., plans to raise a rare plane from beneath the sea. -More-
Classic warbirds stir memories - Shreveport Times | A B-17 and a P-51 also flew in, and the public can pay to tour the planes or fly on them. / Val Horvath Davidson/The Times The Collings Foundation B-24, B-17 and P-51 are on display at the Royal Air facility until the tour leaves at noon Friday. ...
B-17 missions are topic of roundtable - Post-Bulletin | Three Rochester men who flew B-17 missions for the 8th Air Force in Europe will describe their experiences Monday at the Scott Hosier World War II Roundtable meeting. Joyce Johnson, Dwayne Schacht and Ken Strom were based in England during ...Fighting FIVE Takes the US Navy into the Jet Age from J Clark | VF-51 Panthers aboard the USS Essex | Sixty-three years ago today, Fighter Squadron FIVE became the first Navy squadron to land jet fighters aboard an aircraft carrier. On March 10, 1948, they took their brand new North American FJ-1 Fury jets to sea to land aboard the USS Boxer…
Flying high in Pensacola - Winnipeg Sun | We couldn't have had a better guide than Charles Ellis, a retired navy captain with a lifelong passion for aviation history, who shared some amazing personal anecdotes (make sure to ask him about the O-1 Bird Dog). Very few aircraft that were combat ...
Flying it Forward Out of the Blue! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Out of the Blue Aviation - Fly It Forward Free Flights | Saturday March 12th, 2011 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 12, at 9:30 AM, girls and women are invited to go on a FREE short flight in one of the most beautiful locations in Washington State: Arlington. Click HERE to register. Various types of aircraft will be involved. Pilots will be on hands to answer all your questions about flying. Helicopter Flights will also be available for the highly discounted fee of $30...Celebrating International Women's Day with an Aviation Bent from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | The news story below is a great one. But WAI member and "Women of Aviation Worldwide" instigator Mireille Goyer tells us that what the video does not mention is that the last three phases of the flight (Approach, Land, Taxi) were handled by female controllers as well. "I even had the female police clerk make PA announcements in the terminal about the important arrival," laughs Goyer, who is…
Pilot ready to soar over Australia - Hawke's Bay Today | Late last month, along with fellow Hawke's Bay and East Coast Aero Club team members, he flew at the National Wigram Trophy championships in Christchurch and at the end of the competition he was approached and asked if he would like to go to Australia. ...
Boeing conducts broad avionics review after Wi-Fi interference from Runway Girl by Mary Kirby | Boeing's investigation into why in-flight connectivity interfered with Honeywell's Phase 3 Display Units (DU) during electro magnetic interference (EPI) testing is not merely limited to those particular Honeywell parts. The US airframer, which has offered the Phase 3 DUs on aircraft since July 2009, is currently mired in the laborious process of determining whether any other airplane part numbers have the same issue, RWG can reveal. There are three categories of systems being studied - critical, essential and nonessential required. Boeing is reviewing these systems to ensure they are not susceptible to Wi-Fi or cellular devices…
Rescue wing Airmen launch entire fleet during hurricane exercise from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil (Staff Sgt. Annamarie Wyant) Airmen from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing here launched the wing's entire fleet of aircraft March 6 during their drill training weekend. The mission simulated a mass hurricane evacuation prior to the start of Florida's storm season, as well as the 920th RQW's busy deployment schedules. Three HC-130P/N King fixed-wing aircraft were launched at approximately 9 a.m. Immediately following their takeoff, Airmen launched six HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters. more...
Corporates at Avalon 2011 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | There was some 20 bizjets at Avalon over the course of the biennial exposition and the photos below are but a few of those present…
Flypast: Kissing the concrete - Skyport Heathrow | Stern words, and plenty of them, have come winging my way from the plane-mad brigade for stating that DC-3 N1350M (featured in Fly Past last week) had served with BEA. Unfortunately, I misread the construction number 14897/26342 as 14987/26432. ...
Acrosport : Post a Picture of your Acro Sport!!! from The Biplane Forum | This one was built by Mike Finney and now owned by Steve Smith near me in Naperville, Illinois. This is a view you do not see and i got some cowling info from it…
Acrosport : Post a Picture of your Acro Sport!!! from The Biplane Forum | This one was built by Mike Finney and now owned by Steve Smith near me in Naperville, Illinois. This is a view you do not see and i got some cowling info from it…
