Chuck Aaron's 2011 Show Schedule - Red Bull USA | Chuck Aaron, pilot of Red Bull's aerobatic helicopter and a certified (but calculated) madman at the controls, is slated to perform all over the country again in 2011 at air shows and other events from coast to coast. If he's going to be anywhere near where you live, we strongly suggest you grab some tickets and watch hiim deliver backflips, 360-degree rolls and his signature Chuckcilvak, and so much more. Chuck's the only guy in the States pulling these incredible maneuvers - heck, he's the only civilian pilot even licensed to do it - so missing his show would be a big mistake. Check the schedule ...and find out just what Chuck and his chopper can do...
Blue Angels at Rest in El Sweato - TwitPic
Historic air mail flight to be celebrated in Petaluma - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | Displays at the Sonoma Jet Center Redwood Hangar from noon to 3 pm Tickets are $5 for ages 6-21, $10 for air museum members, $15 for adults in advance and $20 at the event to benefit the Pacific Coast Air Museum. Saturday: Smithsonian Institution ...
Streaming colors of the Italian flag over Sanremo from Photoblog | The Italian Air Force aerobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) leave trails of smoke in the colors of the Italian flag over Sanremo on Feb. 17 to celebrate 150 years of Italian unification.
Tuskegee Airmen speak to students - WZZM | Thursday morning, surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen spoke at GE Aviation's Grand Rapids facility as part of Black History Month. It was an inspiring day for students like 15-year-old Austin Wilson who is a freshman at the West Michigan Aviation ...
WWII female veteran from AF.mil Photos | At the age of 103, Mildred McDowell is one of the Air Force's oldest female veterans. She resides in Vandalia, Ill. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Desiree N. Palacios) [And here is an article in the
Leader Union about Mildred from last year]
Women are flying high in the sky - Oshawa Express | It’s been 100 years since Raymonde de Laroche of France became the first woman to earn a pilot license worldwide. That same year in 1910, Bessica Medlar Raiche from Wisconsin became the first woman credited to have soloed an airplane on the American continent. To celebrate these momentous events, pilots introduced 1,647 girls and women to flying in 29 countries on four continents and Oshawa came out flying high in a number of award categories. ...
Career advice from a Snowbirds pilot to local birds from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ... Carmichael, 39, is the remarkable pilot and officer in the Canadian Armed Forces who, in 2000, became the first woman to fly with the elite Canadian Snowbirds military aerobatics team. She is now commanding officer of the Snowbirds, based in Moose Jaw, Sask. - the first woman to lead the squadron in its 40-year history. ...
A lifetime of flying from General Aviation News | Deb McFarland is the proud owner of Lester, a 1948 Luscombe 8E, and part of the “Front Porch Gang” at Pickens County Airport in Georgia. Young Bobby Burns was infatuated with flying and airplanes, and on his 13th birthday his parents fed the fire with a 10-minute flight in an Aeronca Champ at San Fernando Airport in San Fernando, Calif. He was prepared. He had memorized a little book called “Let’s Fly,” and when the pilot of the Champ gave him the controls, he was sure Bobby had flown before. ...
Video: Heritage Flight Museum - KVOS
Excellent photos of the HL-10 Lifting Body (plus more) from The Original Rocket Dungeon | I grabbed this photo from a thread on the Replica Prop Forum. Although it focuses on the HL-10, the thread also has some photos of other lifting bodies and X-Planes. I have seen a lot of them, but many were new to me. It's well worth wading through. I also need to see what else is on that forum.
With an F-16 over Alaska from Roger-Wilco | For fans of the F-16, here is a great set of pics from Ted Carlson made over Alaska. Enjoy!
Air Force Museum Foundation receives $5 million donation from Boeing | from Air Force Link Top Stories | Officials from the Air Force Museum Foundation announced their acceptance of a $5 million donation from The Boeing Company. The funds will be used to help construct a new 200,000 square-foot building to house the museum's presidential aircraft collection; the space gallery; and the global reach gallery, featuring cargo and tanker aircraft. The facility will provide educational opportunities in collaboration with NASA and a variety of other educational organizations and institutions focusing on history, science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based programs. ...
Yankee Air Museum - FB Page | We are an aviation museum that is celebrating its 30th year of helping preserve our local history. Throughout that time we have evolved as an institution in what we have to offer our visitors. However, our main goal, which continues to this day, is to tell the story of World War II through the eyes of Metro Detroit and the Willow Run Bomber Plant. History was made at this airport and we want to do everything we can to preserve it. ...
Jean Boulet Former Record Breaker And Test Pilot Dies At Age 90 from AvStop | First hired in 1947 by the SNCASE, which would later become Sud Aviation and then the Helicopter division of the Aerospatiale Group, Jean Boulet was one of the greatest pioneers in the history of rotorcraft flight testing, he died on February 15, 2011. Just a few highlights from his illustrious career include the first flights of the SE3000, the ...
Oakland Aviation Museum — two models from Travel for Aircraft | There are several models in the Oakland Aviation Museum but two stand out the most to me, one since it is a remarkable display of a Wright Flyer and the other due to its professional quality display of am exotic aircraft I had not known f before the day I visited this great museum.
Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photo highlights feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force. View the slideshow.
Latest Uploads from the Chicken Works | Pan American Seversky Super Clipper, Northrop N-63 VTOL Fighter
Twin-body 747 from The Unwanted Blog |A highly theoretical idea from NASA-Langley, 1976, was to build a freighter aircraft using two 747 fuselages. This would create an aircraft with twice the payload of the 747, but at less than twice the gross weight and ...
Empire State Flashback - WNYC | In one of the most dramatic incidents to ever involve the Empire State Building, in July of 1945, a B-25 crashed into the 79th floor of the building as it made its way to Newark Airport in heavy fog. A total of 14 people died in the incident. ...
Today in Aviation History – February 18 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | In 1832… Octave Chanute (1832-1910), first great historian of aviation, is born in Paris, France. Brought to the US when young, Chanute was a civilian engineer before turning to aviation. In 1894 he published Progress in Flying Machines. The book became a bible for the Wright brothers. ...
Cars Spins Off Planes - IGN | It revolves around a small-town plane known as Dusty, who marvels at the big-city air shows and dreams of entering the most epic around-the-world air race -- despite his fear of heights. Production will begin soon with an aim for release on DVD and ...
Disney's “Planes” - Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation | PLANES takes off with an international cast of the fastest air racers around, in a comedy packed with action and adventure starring Dusty, a small town dreamer who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air race … despite his ...
NASA chief Bolden makes call on where shuttles will stay - Florida Today | The National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, traditionally has first dibs on NASA artifacts, and Discovery might be headed there. The orbiter Enterprise, which was used in shuttle approach and landing tests in the 1970s, is located at the ...
Japan Plans to Send its Own Tweeting Humanoid Robot to the ISS in 2013 - POPSCI | When the humanoid Robonaut takes off for the ISS next week aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, his days as the sole humanoid in orbit may already be numbered. JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has announced that it plans to send its own humanoid ‘bot to the ISS in 2013. ...
Google Lunar X PRIZE: 'Official Private Race To the Moon Is On' - Neon Tommy | Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Sep 13, 2007. Photo from X PRIZE Foundation For part of a $30 million prize, privately-funded teams across the globe are competing to put a robot on the moon by 2015 that could explore and ...
