Team RV to Make First Appearance at EAA AirVenture 2012 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, WI- Team RV, the world's largest air show team that combines precision formation flying and formation aerobatics, makes its first Oshkosh appearance in 2012 when it flies during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh - "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration" - which is July 23-29 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh....
Air show is gift to our community - Yuma Sun | Comments are still coming in about the Marine 
Corps air show that took place last month. What a magnificent performance that was! More than 50000 attended and many more enjoyed it from outside MCAS. Many of us would choose it as the top performance of ...
Kirby Chambliss – Lauderdale Air Show | Kirby Chambliss has spent so much time up flying his Zivko Edge 540's he now jokes that the plane controls and wings are a mere extension of his own arms. It's second nature. The former Red Bull Air Race World Champion, ...
Air show planned to save KZN airports - Independent Online | By Sharika Regchand A string of air shows is being planned to generate funds for six KwaZulu-Natal airports which are in financial trouble. The six municipal airports are in Newcastle, Pietermaritzburg, Margate, Richards Bay, Ulundi and Durban North...
Mission Briefing: Doolittle Raiders 70th Anniversary Flight Prepares for Departure from 
Here's a rare beauty for those who are looking for a special reason to donate... from Warbird Radio's Facebook Wall | Here's a rare beauty for those who are looking for a special reason to donate $500 to the Doolittle Raiders Reunion. This is 1 of only 6 prints signed by 4 of the surviving VMF-214 "Blacksheep" from WWII....
WWII Aircraft 'Executive Sweet' to Moberly airport - Moberly Monitor Index | A B-25 World War II aircraft “Executive Sweet” has been selected as one of 25 aircraft to attend the final Doolittle Raiders Reunion. Executive Sweet will be arriving sometime between noon and 12:30 pm at Omar Bradley Airport....
AIRSHOW NEWS: Falkland’s Figurehead Roars Back To RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day by Flightline UK | The participation of the mighty Avro Vulcan B2 XH558 in Air Day 2012 is an integral part of RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day’s commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Campaign. Only recently pressed into service, the Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier FRS1s spearheaded the strike force sent by the UK armed forces to the South Atlantic region and the effectiveness of their involvement was recorded and celebrated. But the Falkland Campaign also saw a fleet of five aircraft, in the twilight of their UK military careers,...
Breckenridge aviator receives final salute - ReporterNews.com | On Wednesday afternoon, Pardue, 77, crashed shortly after taking off and performing a maneuver in his 1940s Grumman F8F Bearcat in preparation for an upcoming air show. Pardue's plane is reported to have made it off the runway before hitting the ground ...
FAA: Stunt plane victim was air traffic controller - Sacramento Bee | The two were flying a single-engine Extra Flugzeugbau EA-300 designed for aerobatic competitions. It's unclear if the men were performing stunts when the crashed occurred. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kinitzer told the Salinas ...
Ready for a Regional WAI Conference? from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | If you are planning to participate in the AeroExpo UK at Sywell, England, in May, save May 25th and be a part of the WAI Regional Conference at AeroExpo UK. Secure online registration for WAI members is available...
Search for Amelia Earhart intensifies as 75th anniversary of aviator’s disappearance nears - Washington Post | Jon Thompson has traveled the world collecting art and artifacts for museum exhibits, seen the remains of the Titanic on the sea floor and participated in two unsuccessful missions to find Amelia Earhart. Now 72 and battling prostate cancer, Thompson is convinced he and a team from deep-sea exploration company Nauticos will finally be successful in finding the Kansas-born aviator’s plane, which disappeared with Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in July 1937. He’s...
Helicopter Museum to hold 30th Anniversary Falklands Weekend from HeliHub.com News | An extra special Falkland’s Conflict commemorative event is to take place at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare on 19th and 20th May as part of the national ‘Museums at Night 2012′ campaign. Visitors to the museum will be able to meet the ‘troops’ at a living history encampment and military vehicle display on site before the [...]
The Red Hawks from Featured by Russ Albertson | U.S. Navy’s Premiere Advanced Training Squadron | Lieutenant Junior Grade Wes Tanner breaks away from us landing at NAS Kingsville. (Russ Albertson)VT-21, the “Red Hawks,” is one of the US Navy’s premiere advanced training squadrons, located at NAS Kingsville in southern Texas. Along with VT-22, this base is home to Training Air Wing 2 and provides advanced jet training for new Navy and Marine Aviators....
LSA news from Sun ’n Fun from General Aviation News by Dan Johnson | Whew! It’s over. Sun ’n Fun can be the busiest six days of one’s life — until the next one. I wanted to skim the very top of what I found interesting at the recently concluded show. Today I'll cover airframe manufacturers and follow up this week with more...
Enter AOPA Keep Em Flying Challenge from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Last week, AOPA announced the launch of the "AOPA Keep ‘Em Flying Challenge." The new AOPA challenge was inspired by the Georgia Air Challenge, which was hosted by the Atlanta Aero Club. It had 308 participants who flew an estimated 1,500 hours from July 1, 2011, through Aug. 12, 2011. Steve Champness, president of the Atlanta Aero Club, felt the Georgia effort could be expanded, and worked with AOPA to create the national challenge....
Street-legal aeroplane unveiled at New York Auto Show - The Independent | A small aviation company has created the first car licensed to fly as well as drive. The Transition, made by Massachusetts-based Terrafugia, features two seats, four wheels and retractable wings, and was unveiled at the New York International Auto Show ...
PAL-V flying car must have commercial version in 2014 from AVIATION AVIATION NEWS NEWS (translated) | Dutch company seeks investors to get 15 million euros. | It is estimated that the vehicle will cost between 250,000 and 500,000 euros. | The Dutch company PAL-V broke the famous phrase of Calderon de la Barca says that "the dreams, dreams are" the fantasy come true to create a flying car, whose commercial version can go on sale in 2014. "We are looking for investors worldwide to achieve the 10 million or 15 million missing to launch the commercial version of the flying car, and we expect this to happen in 2014 ', told Efe, Robert Dingemanse, a co-founder the firm....
NASA Jumbo Jet Arrives to Ferry Shuttle Discovery to Smithsonian - Space.com | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery's chartered ride to retirement has arrived. The modified-Boeing 747, known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here Tuesday (April 10). The jumbo jetliner came in from Dryden Flight Research Center in California to ferry Discovery to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., ...
Space Shuttle Discovery will fly over Washington area April 17 – Washington Post from Planenews Aviation News by gil | Weather permitting, the craft will fly at about 1,500 feet and the local flight is scheduled to occur between 10 and 11 a.m. that day, according to NASA. The agency will also be streaming the flight. After the flyover, the aircraft will land at Dulles International Airport. The aircraft is expected to fly near a variety of landmarks,...
Virgin Galactic is coming … but how will space tourism work? - The Conversation | The idea to air-launch came from Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites. Rutan is an aerospace engineer who is well known for winning the Ansari X-Prize in 2004, when his company successfully launched SpaceShipOne: the first privately-funded ...
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Extreme aerobatics - Kingsville Record | Former world aerobatic champion Rob Holland takes 
aerobatic performance to its extreme in his MX-2 Veterans Home Loan aircraft. Holland has been flying in air shows professionally since 2002, making him one of the youngest professional air show pilots ...
Thousands flock to air show - Radio New Zealand | The start of the Warbirds over Wanaka international air show has attracted the biggest crowd in years. The event's chief executive, Roger Clark, says about 35000 usually attend the event on Easter Saturday, but fine weather has brought more people than ...
Vintage warplanes thrill World War II vets in Oklahoma City - NewsOK.com | 'Wings of Freedom' gives World War II veterans a chance to ride on B-17 and B-24 bombers and a P-51 Mustang fighter at Wiley Post Airport. A P-51 Mustang fighter also is on display. By Matt Patterson | Published: April 7, 2012 Leave a comment After ...
Local aviation assets shown at Lone Star show - Rome Sentinel | Representatives of Mohawk Valley EDGE, Griffiss International Airport and the airport-based aircraft technician training school pressed the flesh this week at a major aviation Maintenance trade show in Dallas, Texas. The MRO Americas Conference ...
Red Arrows roar into town for Pirate Day - Hastings and St. Leonards Observer | The Red Arrows have dropped their annual display at neighbouring Eastbourne's annual Airbourne show in favour of a performance in Russia. Their upcoming visit, expected to start between 5pm and 5.30pm, comes after successful negotiations with Pirate ...
Jeff Lee from LiveAirshowTv sent in the link to this local story about Howard Pardue. It gives us some more insight into what a friend he was to everyone he met.
History takes to the air - Kingsville Record | Sponsored by the US Air Combat Command, this year's Heritage Flight promises to be a memorable event. Maj. Dylan Thorpe will pilot a US Air Force A-10 “Thunderbolt II” alongside The Horsemen Flight Team members Steve Hinton in the P-38 Lightning and ...
Fourth of July Seaplane Adventure To The Sub Arctic from Midwest Flyer by mwflyer
Sun 'n Fun At the Crossroads - AVweb (blog) | By Paul Bertorelli Walking around in our bright green AVweb newsteam shirts at shows like Sun 'n Fun has a certain advantage I had never figured on when I picked that color out of a catalog. People stop us all the time to ask questions, offer opinions...
SUN ‘n FUN 2012 – Day 3, Splash-In from Other People's Airplanes by David | Today, we head on over to the Splash-In to watch airplanes land on the beautiful waters of Lake Agnus. I’m David Allen, and I’m about to take you into the cockpit … of Other People’s Airplanes. Each year, SUN ‘n FUN hosts a Splash-In at the annual fly-in and expo. this event always takes place on Thursday, and for the last four years, has been hosted by Fantasy Of Flight on the beautiful waters of Lake Agnus...
Forensic Analyst From Woodinville, Wash. Aids Search For Amelia Earhart - OPB News | The trailblazing aviatrix disappeared over the South Pacific in 1937. Glickman reviewed grainy, black-and-white photos of an uninhabited coral atoll called Nikumaroro. "I noticed something in this one image that just wasn't quite right," he says...
At the helm of history: Two generations of Marine aviators share pilot perspective - DVIDS | On this day, in early military aviation history, the pilot's skills can be credited with the outcome of the mission, and the same holds true throughout the last century. “The airplane itself has capabilities, but the pilot has to know how to use those ...
90th birthday marked for beloved principal, WWII vet - Winston-Salem Journal | He served as a Navy pilot in World War II, flying fighter planes off aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean. He called that "just a normal thing Navy pilots do." After Japan's surrender, Gibson stayed on duty, flying reconnaissance missions over China...
Aviation Kept Veteran Motivated, Involved - The Ledger | ...Black wanted to be a pilot, but instead became an aircraft mechanic and a waist gunner on naval bombers in the Pacific. Yet his career would become deeply entwined in aviation and rocketry, going from tiny spotter aircraft to the giant Saturn 5 rockets and participating in five decades of aviation and war....
Pilots in fiery Navy jet crash faced tough choices - Seattle Post Intelligencer | The Navy did not immediately return telephone messages left by The Associated Press, but media reports indicate the two aviators were able to eject from the jet before it crashed. They were being treated for injuries that were not considered life ...
Mechanical failure causes jet crash - CNN.com Video - www.cnn.com | Navy Capt. Mark Weisgerber says a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" caused the F-18 jet crash in Virginia Beach...
Fargo Air Museum To Expand - Valley News Live | For Roers, planes are a big deal, that's why he plans to have his birthday at the Fargo Air Museum... It's a place for people who just plain love planes and can't get enough. Roers says, "Always moving to something bigger, better and newer...
Watch Brick by Brick : Rebuilding The Past - RAF Museum | On Good Friday at 9pm BBC2 showcased the Museum's Grahame-White Watch Office Restoration Project in a documentary that explored its dismantling brick by brick from its original site, relocation to the Museum's site and its restoration back to its former glory...
York Suburban grad named admiral - York Daily Record | ... Chip Miller's parents took him to watch naval service members graduate from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Chip sat in an airfield and watched the Navy flight demonstration squadron known as the Blue Angels rip across the sky.
F-22 SCIENTIFIC BOARD FINDINGS ANNOUNCED - Avionics Intelligence | Air Force leaders provided an update on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board study into the F-22 Raptor life support systems and flight operations during a briefing in the Pentagon March 29. Retired Gen. Gregory Martin, an aviator and a former ...
Who wants a big X-15? from The Unwanted Blog | A professional colleague of mine has produced a 1/15 scale model of the X-15A-2, and can make a few more. The first part of the photos below show 
My Last Post as Editor of FlightBlogger: A Thank You Note from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower | ...This is my final post for this blog, my labor of love this past half-decade and today will be my final day as author of FlightBlogger and as a reporter for Flightglobal. FlightBlogger will continue in good hands, aerospace journalists Stephen Trimble and John Croft, who will be taking over the Boeing beat, will contribute to this page....
Kids Can Fly – And They Love it! from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | Perhaps the most compelling stories we find at the airports we visit have to do with the people we encounter, not the aircraft they fly. After all, flight is natural to a whole host of natures creatures. But to mankind, it is a gift of education, respect, technology, and sharing. One of the best examples of this phenomenon that we’ve found lately is embodied in the father and son team of Michael and Benjamin Greenblatt....
Miracle On The Lake! - Midwest Flyer | So at last year's EAA Young Eagles dinner at EAA AirVenture, Lakeshore Aviation's seaplane instructors Curt Drumm and Dave Schmutzler donated a silent auction seaplane ride with Skiles riding along. Beau Bradley, a ...
Friday, April 6, 2012
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US Navy Commemorates Bicentennial of the War of 1812 - MarketWatch | A series of public events will continue in additional cities across the nation this year, featuring Sailors and Marines, US Navy & international warships, the Navy's Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team, as well as equipment and static displays...
It’s airshow season, baby! TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (March 30,... from You like airplanes, too? by 
Landfair arranges Blue Angels flyover for Wahoos' opener - Gulf Breeze News | Landfair Thanks to Gulf Breeze City Councilman David G. Landfair, the famed Blue Angels US Navy flight demonstration squadron will execute a patriotic flyover prior to today's inaugural The ...
Local Latin singer Jennifer Peña to sing National Anthem at 'Wings Over South ... - Corpus Christi Caller Times | While Peña will sing the National Anthem US Navy Leap Frogs will do a fly over carrying the National Ensign to the flightline center stage. Peña, known for her Tejano/Pop music, has sold more than 3.5 million records internationally...
Crowds build for Warbirds - Stuff.co.nz | ... tractors and amazing aircraft including the C-130 Hercules, an aircraft carrier, which has arrived. Today, all aircraft will be going through flying practise in preparation for the launch of the two-day event starting tomorrow. stimes 6april warbirds...
Catch a flight into aviation history over skies of South Florida - MiamiHerald.com | Jack Lombardi was so stoked to fly in the co-pilot seat of a 1929 passenger plane at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport that he arrived on the tarmac two hours earlier than scheduled. “I've been interested in aviation since I was a ...
Paul Poberezny Takes Granddaughter Up for Likely His Last B-17 Flight from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA Founder Paul Poberezny has flown nearly 500 aircraft types and logged more than 30,000 flight hours in his 90-plus years, but he called his 30-minute flight on mid-day Wednesday morning in EAA's B-17 Aluminum Overcast 'the highlight of my career.'...
Crash Claims Warbirds Hall of Famer Howard Pardue from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA Warbirds of America Hall of Fame member and veteran Reno race pilot Howard Pardue, 77, died Wednesday as a result of a plane crash in Breckenridge, Texas. According to reports, Pardue took off in his Grumman F8F Bearcat from the Stevens County Airport (KBKD), but immediately developed a problem that caused the plane to crashed and catch fire less than 2 miles away from the runway...
Podcast: Randy Ferris’s P-47 Project – The Warbird Rescue Hour – Thursday – 8pm (EASTERN)
from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | WARBIRD RADIO – Join the Warbird Rescue gang tonight at 8PM EST as they talk with Warbird Rescuer Randy Ferris. Randy has been on several excursions to the Solomon Islands, and has recovered a very rare P-47B Thunderbolt. Find out how the restoration is...
Ghosts of the Air Age Harald Penrose was born at the dawn of... from x planes | 
Little-known or rarely cited facts about Hampton - Daily Press | The 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie "Test Pilot" starred Clark Gable, Myrna Long, Spencer Tracy and Langley Field B-17 Flying Fortresses and their crews. While the majority of the movie was shot at March ...
The Sky's No Limit - Girls Fly Too! - Canadian Skies | As it turns out, WOAW is the invention and initiative of another Ninety-Nine and fellow Canadian, Mireille Goyer, who was disappointed at the lack of international awareness and interest in the centennial anniversary of French aviatrix Raymonde de...
Lester Matthew Fritz - The Wenatchee World Online | He had many memorable flights: one, a flight in Stan Bryant's open cockpit WWII Biplane (with aerobatics) in his 70's, and last summer's ride in a vintage warbird B-25 Bomber "Maid in the Shade" at the tender age of 87. He sure had "pudding face" after ...
Solar Impulse Aims For 1,500-Mile Flight from AVweb Top News | It has already set three world records and now the solar and battery powered aircraft Solar Impulse will attempt a two-day flight covering 1,500 miles flying out of Switzerland for Morocco. That flight is scheduled for May or June. The aircraft will stop in Spain so the crew can switch pilots and won't use a single drop of fuel during the flight. Solar Impulse has already set endurance and altitude records during an earlier 26-plus hour flight and another record earned in 2010 for manned flight powered only by sunlight. The Solar Impulse team is stepping up toward significantly higher goals...
Last flight of the last Vimy from Apron 6
Navy’s Newest Squadron Prepares for New F-35 Fighters from Pilot News Magazine | Navy personnel are busy preparing to teach the next generation of Sailors how to work with and fly the newest military aircraft, the F-35C Lightening II Joint Strike Fighter, as Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101) readies for its stand-up ceremony on Eglin Air Force Base May 1. The F-35 is a single seat, multi-role fighter aircraft with the capability to perform...
NASA T-38 Supersonic Jets Fly Over US Capital from SPACE.com | The T-38 jets flew about 1,500 feet over the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Terrafugia's Transition Makes Maiden Flight from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Terrafugia announced Monday morning that the production prototype Transition roadable aircraft made its maiden flight on March 23 at the Plattsburgh International Airport in Plattsburgh, New York. The same vehicle, which earlier conducted initial drive and conversion testing, qualifies as a light-sport aircraft. The company calls the flight 'a significant step' toward bringing the Transition to market, which is expected to occur 'within the next year.'...
Pilot Describes Amazing Talk-Down Landing from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
On Monday afternoon Robert Vuksanovic was out mowing the lawn at his Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, home when suddenly a low-flying twin-engine airplane streaked over his property. He noticed it but thought nothing particularly unusual about it....
Recordings capture drama of 80-year-old Wisconsin woman’s emergency airplane landing - pilotnewsmag.com | If Capt. Chesley Sullenberger was the Hero of the Hudson, Helen Collins is the Savior of Sturgeon Bay. Collins, 80, remained cool and collected as she safely landed a twin-engine plane in Wisconsin on Monday after her pilot husband suffered a fatal heart attack mid-flight, newly released radio...
Pilot Finds Snake Down Under from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Branden Blennerhassett, a 26-year-old pilot for Air Frontier, Australia, thought he was flying alone in a company Beechcraft Baron G58 out of Darwin Tuesday when he saw a head pop out from behind the instrument panel. According to a local ABC news affiliate that contacted Blennerhassett, the pilot quickly contacted a controller to explain his concerns. "I'm going to have to return to Darwin. I've got a snake on board the plane." Blennerhassett couldn't identify the snake and didn't want to risk too much movement. He imagined that could elicit a venomous bite. Unfortunately for him, during the approach, things got a bit more intimate...
NAA SST concepts from The Unwanted Blog | A photo of unfortunate quality showing a collection 
New Build A Plane Program Challenges Kids from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
Build A Plane, a nonprofit organization that solicits aircraft donations and redirects them to schools across America, announced Kids Across America at Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland last week - a program that encourages kids to find sponsors who will pledge per-mile donations for their journeys to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012....
Breaking Barriers: Q&A with Space-Bound Tuskegee Airman Le Roy Gillead from SPACE.com
Le Roy Gillead hopes to take his free trip to suborbital space next year.
NASA Extends Kepler Mission Through 2016 from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Kepler Mission for NASA will continue its mission following a program extension through 2016...
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Howard Pardue Dies in Bearcat Crash - Flying Magazine | A former Marine Corps pilot and instructor, Pardue was a veteran Reno air racer, airshow performer and member of an historical tribute flying team, the Navy Legacy Flight team, which performs formation flights with front line Navy 
Howard Pardue…Gone West from classicwarbirds.net by davebudd
On April 4, 2012 just after 2PM, Howard Pardue left us before his time had come. He was 77 years young. His XF8F-1 Bearcat NL14HP crashed shortly after takeoff from Breckenridge Texas. We send our sincerest condolences from the staff here at PhotoRecon to his family and friends and we shall remember him in our prayers....
BREAKING: NTSB to provide investigative update on Air Race crash - KRNV My News 4
WASHINGTON, DC – (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will provide an investigative update on the fatal crash of a modified Mustang P-51D airplane during the 2011 National Championship Air ...
Red Steel Jet Team to headline ShrinersFest - Evansville Courier & Press | Last year, ShrinersFest organizers scrambled to make up for the last minute loss of the Blue Angels, which canceled due to emergency training issues. The Blue Angels are scheduled to return to Evansville next year, said Brian Ball, Hadi spokesman...
2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show Scavenger Hunt ‘Discover’ the Heritage - DVIDS | Participate in the 2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show Scavenger Hunt “Discover” the Heritage, April 16-April 22, without leaving the comfort of your personal Facebook page.This scavenger hunt will be conducted utilizing various Facebook pages ran by units of MCAS Cherry Point, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Community Services Cherry Point, other official military pages and air show performer pages...
Air show fireworks training scheduled for Thursday - New Bern Sun Journal | CHERRY POINT – Residents near the air station can expect to see and hear fireworks about 8 pm Thursday as practice begins for the 2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show scheduled for May 4-6. Cherry Point's explosive ordinance disposal team will conduct night ...
LATEST NEWS: Red Arrows will return to Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | The distinctive aircraft of the RAF display team are scheduled to fly on both the Saturday and Sunday of airshow weekend. Sunderland City Council leader Paul Watson said: “The Red Arrows are the RAF's premier display team and they have a track record ...
Red Arrows return to resort's air show - This is Bristol | THE Red Arrows will return to Weston-super-Mare this summer at the resort's annual air show. The Royal Air Force aerobatic team, right, will perform on day one of the two-day show, which is being organised by the owners of the resort's Grand Pier and ...
Russian Knights to get new jets - The Voice of Russia | Russian aerobatic performance demonstration teams, the “Russian Knights” and “Swifts,” will get new jets in the upcoming years, an air forces official told journalists who today attended the Knights' anniversary show. He added the teams may switch to ...
Academy parachute team breaks own record from Air Force Times - News | AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — The Air Force Wings of Blue Parachute Demonstration Team has set another record, the Air Force Academy said.
WW2 flying museum comes to Grayson County - KXII-TV | The "Wings of Freedom" tour lets people see WW2 planes up close and inside. Today Jalah Gray talked with a few local veterans who came to see the planes they flew in many years ago. "Any of the WW2 planes that are restored it kind of hits ya right here ...
P-38 Lightning topic of Planes of Fame Museum program - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The Lightning flight demonstration will be at noon. Eight veterans of the 475th Fighter Group will present the group's history and their stories of courage and sacrifice, as well as their experience flying one of America's premier fighters...
Anniversary of the Lady Be Good’s demise and her heroic crew from Travel for Aircraft | The Consolidated B-24D Liberator known as “Lady Be Good” was lost in the night upon returning to base 
Doolittle Raid airman honored in Missoula - KAJ18 Kalispell Montana News | MISSOULA - Seventy years ago this month, 16 B-25 bombers made the first air raid on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the raiders is from Missoula and Wednesday afternoon he was honored at Fort Missoula. David Thatcher is one of the five ...
Podcast: Texas Tornado “Warbird Update” from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | WARBIRD RADIO – Charlie Wood joins Zane Adams tonight on the WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE with a full update on the tornadoes that struck Texas...
Air Racers 3D Movie Opens Today from AVweb Top News | A new 3D film currently scheduled for a handful of IMAX theaters offers unique visual perspectives of the Reno Air Races, good engine noise and a bit of aviation history. The filmloosely follows Steve Hinton, Jr.'s 2009 bid to succeed his father's record as the youngest pilot to win the Unlimited Gold championship at the races in the modified P-51, Strega. Filming was done at...
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Fancy your own helicopter gunship? from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | It may not be as technologically gee-whiz as a current-model Apache, but if you're so inclined (and moderately
well-heeled), you can own a Vietnam War-era 'Huey', a Bell UH-1E model helicopter gunship. It must be one of the more unusual auctions in eBay's recent experience!...Diary of a Spy - airspacemag.com | Events that made the U-2 the world's most famous player in the game of espionage....
Thursday, April 5, 2012
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Friends fete Hoover with Texas-sized 90th birthday party - AOPA Pilot | Among those attending were various FAA officials, including former administrator Randy Babbitt; leaders from among the FBO and fuels business; air racing aficionados; and astronauts and fellow aviators Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, the first and ...
Snowbirds, fighter jets part of air show - Cambridge Times | Highlighting the show will be spectacular displays by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, Canada's CF-18 fighter jet, daring aerobatics, warbirds and more. This two-day family event is complemented by a static display – additional aircraft parked for the ...
Air base marks 75th anniversary - Marlborough Express | Base Woodbourne trainees performed a moving Beating the Retreat ceremony last night to mark 75 years of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Retired and serving members, including a former base commander, stood in silence as the air force ensign was ...
West Texas pilot of vintage World War II plane killed shortly after takeoff - The Republic | ...The pilot, 77-year-old Howard Pardue, was pronounced dead soon afterward....
Fantasy of Flight Hosts Seaplane "Splash-In" During Sun N Fun from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | POLK CITY, Fla. - Fantasy of Flight once again hosted one 
Aviation company displays Clearwater man's restored Piper Cub to mark 75th ... - Tampabay.com | That all changed last week after Piper Aircraft asked her to bring her late husband's restored Piper J-3 Cub to the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In, an annual air show that attracts tens of thousands to the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. Piper Aircraft wanted to ...
Sun 'n Fun 2012: News Coverage Round-Up from AVweb Top News | AVweb attended the 38th annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Florida from March 27 to April 1, 2012 and brought back an assortment of news and interviews. Click here for a handy index to all our coverage from the show, including podcasts, videos, and blogs.
Sun n’ Fun 2012 air show from David Cenciotti | Sun ‘n Fun is a “Fly-in” and airshow held each annually at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida, usually in April. Participants include pilots flying their own homebuilt, vintage, restored ex-military aircraft, as well as some current display team and soloist. Among the...
Vintage plane tour concludes today at East Texas Regional Airport - Longview News-Journal | Clower was one of several area WWII veterans who made the trip Tuesday to East Texas Regional Airport to get what may be their last look at the airplanes of their youth: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” WWII Heavy Bomber; a Consolidated B-24 ...
World War II planes visit Amarillo - Amarillo.com | Visitors will be able to tour and fly in a vintage World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that will be in Amarillo for three days as part of the Wings of Freedom Tour. By Chip Chandler Another unusual landing will occur Monday at Rick Husband ...
Fun with MAXshot/EXAscan – Digitizing “The Racer” Fuselage - Better Living through CNC (via AAFO) | Last week we were up in Reno, doing among other things, a digitization of a plane that is simply called “The 
Salvation of a Spitfire: For 40 years it lay decaying but thanks to one man's passion (and £3m) it's soaring again from Kathryn's Report | Cleared for take-off: The rare Mk1 Spitfire was painstakingly restored at Biggin Hill Taking to the skies again over the green fields of England for the first time since it was downed during World War II, this Spitfire in its British standard camouflage colours epitomises the heroic defiance...
Memories of the end of an era at Boeing from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | ...September
18, 2010. An early Saturday morning in a rainy Seattle. 0300 hrs local time. The location: Boeing's historic Plant II - about to be torn down after three quarters of a century producing thousands of the most significant and historic airplanes ever built. In preparation for demolition, three airplanes that have been undergoing Museum of Flight restoration in the factory's assembly bays will...Geriatric Pilots on a mission for members - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | WWII B-17 tail gunner Charlie Corea,90, of East Rochester talks about his experiences in Germany at a Geriatric Pilots Association luncheon at the Holiday Inn across from the airport in Rochester, NY on Thursday March 15 2012...
CAP Alabama Wing Conference and Awards Banquet from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Members of Civil Air Patrol's Central Alabama Senior Squadron 132 recently attended the Alabama Wing Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. Col. J Bradford Lynn assumed command of the Alabama Wing in a ceremony presided over by Col. Alvin Bedgood, SER Region Commander...
Transition Maiden Flight from eaavideo.org | Watch as Terrafugia's Transition roadable aircraft goes from the home garage to the gas station to the airport, makes its first flight on March 23, then is driven home. - Video from Terrafugia
‘NASA Social’ scheduled for May 4 from General Aviation News | EDWARDS, Calif. - 75 fortunate social media followers will go behind-the-scenes and learn more about NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base. The Dryden facility is NASA's primary center for atmospheric research and operations. The "NASA Social" will begin at 7:30 am and will include tours of current aircraft and presentations on cutting-edge aeronautical research and science projects. Not only...
