Air show brings out young and old alike - Rapid City Journal | On one of the rare beautiful days Rapid City has seen all spring, the moderate wind was a boon for spectators gathered at the 2011 Dakota Thunder air show at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Zooming overhead in his F-16, Capt. ...
Tea Party airshow altered after biplane crash - Peninsula News Review | Airshow participants and Oak Bay Tea Party organizers' thoughts were with a veteran airshow performer yesterday, after well-known pilot Bill Phipps of Campbell River crashed his biplane during the Wings and Wheels event at the Nanaimo airport. ...
Julie Clark Joins Lineup at Golden West Airshow - Yubanet | Marking her 32nd year as a solo aerobatic air show pilot, Julie has earned the admiration of fans everywhere and garnered many awards and honors. In 2007 Julie was named, "Woman of the Year" by Senate District 1, ...
[photo via Julie's website ]
NEW Pilots, planes fly in to Martin Field - Walla Walla Union-Bulletin | COLLEGE PLACE — More than 50 planes from across the Pacific Northwest took part in Martin Field's Learn To Fly Day on Saturday. The annual event is an opportunity for pilots to meet, show off their planes and even put up a for-sale sign in some cases. ...
Whew! from The Big Muddy Air Race | The 2011 Big Muddy Air Race is now in the bag! Several entries scratched before the race, so we ran with a field of 17 aircraft for the 162 nm course. The winds were low, so most people stayed low. The flooding along the rivers was still apparent, but had gone ...
New and Aggressive Air Racing Program Raises Questions And Concerns from Aero-News Net | A press call and subsequent info released to ANN, Wednesday, about a new air racing event is already raising eyebrows throughout much of the airshow, aero-association and warbird community -- especially as some of the major players in ...
Legendary Aviation Heroes Visit Air Command and Staff College Gathering of Eagles from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Maxwell AFB ALABAMA- Among the inspiring fourteen 30th Anniversary Eagles aviation stories, Arieh Oz's is one of a lifelong testimony of courage, honor, strength, and a desire to help those in need. Graduating from Israeli Air Force (IAF) Flying School, he earned his pilot wings in 1956. In 1960, Oz was assigned to the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force, their missions focused on transport, airlift, patrols, and special missions abroad, particularly to Africa. This African flying experience would later make him invaluable in the legendary and heroic Entebbe Raid. ...
Love in the clouds - Murfreesboro Post | For Nashville aviator Louie Gasser and Woodbury teenager Nora Lee Davenport, it was love at first flight. Around 1926, Gasser, Nashville's first civilian commercial pilot, was making extra money barnstorming, flying into small towns across the ...
Preserving the Past: Melvin Thompson helped county's aviation history get off ... - Herald Times Reporter | If you're in Manitowoc today, step outside and look up. You'll see plenty of planes flying overhead as part of the Thunder on the Lakeshore air show. But 100 years ago, the sight of planes sailing in the sky was very rare. The first recorded plane came ...
The Caproni Campini N.1 from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e | The Caproni Campini N.1 (sometimes referred to as the CC.2) was an experimental aircraft built by the Italian aircraft manufacturer Caproni. It was considered the first jet-powered airplane to take flight, before the He 178 was made public. ...
Ka-52 “Alligator” from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e | In the early 1980s, while the comparative tests of the V-80 (Ka-50 prototype) and the Mi-28 were still ongoing, the Kamov design team came up with a proposal to develop a dedicated helicopter to conduct battlefield reconnaissance, provide target designation and support group attack helicopter operations. However, the economic hardships that hit the nation in the late 1980s hampered the development ...
Airplane Repo premieres on Discovery Channel from The Kathryn Aviation Report | In a nail-biting two-part special, Discovery Channel presents AIRPLANE REPO, June 26 at 8 and 9 p.m. ET/PT. Popovich is a super repossession man, one of a handful of specialists who get the call when a bank wants its Gulfstream II jet back from, say, a small army of Colombian rebels. With his crew – consisting of spotters, pilots and technicians – Popovich first locates the plane, and then ...
The Real X-Jet - Air & Space Magazine | From Transformers to the X-Men, the Blackbird is still Hollywood's favorite futuristic jet. Here's the real story of its birth. ...
Connecticut's History and Affection for Hot Air Ballooning - Patch.com | In June, Goshen hosts a hot air festival in and in August Bristol holds its own balloon festival. In Fairfield, A Yankee Balloon's owner and operator Bill Colyer takes people high over Litchfield Hills, Central Connecticut, and the Housatonic and ...
James Cameron Going Around the Moon? from Spaceports | Blockbuster movie film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor James Cameron has been reported by NewsCore as the most likely candidate to have purchased one of the two $150-million contract tickets to fly around the Earth's moon in 2015 from Virginia-based Space Adventures. ...
Video: Expedition 28 Crew to Launch on Soyuz from Spaceports | NASA Astronaut Mike Fossum and his fellow Expedition 28 flight engineers, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa, participate in crew activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. They're scheduled to launch ...
