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Video (Blue Angels Ride) Damon Singleton Previews Air Show From Cockpit - WDSU | Meteorologist Damon Singleton takes a wild ride with the Blue Angels.

USAF Thunderbirds Pilot Taxis With US Navy Blue Angels - I Love Planes | EL CENTRO, Calif. (March 3, 2011) Lt. Cmdr. Jim Tomaszeski, a pilot assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, taxis with Maj. John Gallemore, assigned to the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds...

Warbirds Land at John Wayne: Fly for $435! (With Video) - Fountain Valley Patch | Three vintage warbirds will be at John Wayne Airport through Monday, and those willing to fork out $425 can take a flight in B-17 Flying Fortress. Alongside the World War II bomber at the Lyon Air Museum will be P-51 Mustang, the hotrod fighter of its day, and a lesser-known B-24J, a bomber known as a "flying coffin" because of its tendency to catch fire, as part of  the 110-city Wings of Freedom tour...

Plane Crazy in Mojave - May 21st - Hobby Space | Mojave Air & Spaceport tenant Orbital Sciences will showcase the Lockheed Tri-Star “Stargazer” at the May Plane Crazy Saturday! Come and see one of only a few L-1011’s left in airworthy condition! "Stargazer" is an L-1011-200 commercial transport aircraft modified to serve as the launch platform for Orbital’s air-launched Pegasus rocket...

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Kemble show flies high with jet display - Gazette and Herald | Visitors to Kemble’s Cotswold Airshow are in for an aviation first, when a foreign team displays in the UK for the first time. Next month’s show, on June 18 and 19, will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Hawker Hunter jet and is set to feature a spectacular diamond nine formation flypast...

Want to visit the Red Arrows for the day and help a charity? - PPRuNe | Following their recent annual spring training camp in Cyprus, the Red Arrows have donated a great prize for charity to BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service). You and three buddies will visit the team during their winter training programme at their base at RAF Scampton. You'll meet the team, sit in on briefings, enjoy a buffet lunch with the team and get the chance to have pictures taken with the famous red Hawk aircraft and pilots...

End of a Legend—Harrier Farewell - Pacific Wings Mag | Britain led the world with the introduction of the V/STOL jet but despite its second-to-none capability, after 41 years of successful operation, the Harrier is now a thing of the past in British service. Peter Cooper looks back at the Harrier’s genealogy and offers images of the final day of Harrier operations at RAF Cottesmore...

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You call this work? - Girls With Wings | I am interrupting this regularly scheduled update on my flight training for this important message… I have just returned from a Women in Aviation Day at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinneville, Oregon, and I must say, I had so much fun!...

Second RV-7A on Floats, well sorta - VansAirForce | I always wanted a plane on floats but this is not what I had in mind. These pictures were taken on Tuesday, the water has risen another 14+ inches since. By the time I received the call, it was to late, I could not fly the plane out, I was at mother natures mercy...

‘Aviation Day’ at Griff sponsored by MVCC - Rome Sentinel | Swoop in and land at Aviation Day — Mohawk Valley Community College’s free public event that takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 21. The program will be held on Apron One off Ellsworth Avenue, near the Family Dollar distribution center on the east side of Griffiss International Airport...

Aerial Intelligence - The LEMV Modern Blimp - WebAviation |  The US military gave Northrop Grumman a $ 517 million contract to create an LEMV or Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle. The LEMV is basically a giant airship that will provide long term aerial reconnaissance and surveillance support for ground troops...

VIDEO: “Bo” Bobko Becomes  Astronaut Hall of Famer - CRUFC | Karol J. “Bo” Bobko became a NASA astronaut in September 1969.

Indy Transponder 20-JAN-2011 0200z

Blue Angels Return To Magic Valley - 96.5
Twin Falls will be hosting the Blue Angels jet team the summer of 2012 at the Magic Valley Regional Airport. The date for the “Air Magic Valley” air show will be Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th, 2012.
Air Magic Valley Committee Chairman Phil Hafer is excited the Blue Angels are returning. “It’s an honor to have them at our air show again,” Hafer said. “The Blue Angels loved the community support we showed during their 2008 performance, and ...

2011 Fort Smith Airshow to feature Thunderbirds, JetBus - The City Wire
The US Air Force Thunderbirds may be the featured act of the 2011 Fort Smith Airshow, but a jet-powered school bus — the JetBus — that can reach speeds of ...

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds execute a maneuver while... from You like airplanes, too?
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds execute a maneuver while visitors watch from Falcon Stadium after the graduation ceremonies of the Class of 2009. This was the 51st graduating class, and consisted of 1,046 newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenants. Photo by Dennis Rogers. ...

56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
With more than 100 years of combined performance experience, the Air Force Thunderbirds and Army Golden Knights will perform at the 70 Years of Thunder Luke ...

Longtime EAA VP Dick Matt Passes Away - EAA
Former Hollywood film producer created EAA video department
Dick Matt, who was EAA’s first director and vice president of the marketing and communications departments, died on Sunday at Winter Haven, Florida. He was 84. ...

2011 Australia Day celebrations - Northern Rivers News 
January 26 has always seemed a strange day to celebrate Australia Day. While it is the day Captain/Governor Arthur Phillip planted a Union Jack in the sand at Sydney Cove in 1788, he was only claiming a bit of the continent for the British king. And surely we didn’t become a nation anyway until the colonies all got together and sorted out their differences in 1901? Even the name ‘Australia’ wasn’t adopted until 1824. ...

LSA Expo This Week, Florida Tour To Follow from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The sixth annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo runs Thursday through Sunday this week, in Sebring, Fla., offering the year's first big aviation event. The expo features forums and exhibits, but the main attraction is the easy access to sport airplanes and demo flights, along with a first look at the latest new models and accessories. After the event, several of the LSA manufacturers and distributors will stage a "road show," flying their demo aircraft to six  ...

Petaluma honors WWII 'ace' - Petaluma Argus Courier
The exhibit will trace American aviation history, including the 100th anniversary of first airmail flight, when the young flyer Fred Wiseman braved dicey ...

Doolittle Raiders Highway named to honor war heroes (PHOTO) - Destin Log
NICEVILLE — Fort Walton Beach resident Jorge Palerm once asked an Okaloosa County commissioner to rename Hollywood Boulevard after the Doolittle Raiders. ...

World War II pilot training center at Pryor Field named a state landmark - al.com (blog)
Eric Schultz / The Huntsville TimesPolly Jo Fitzgerald, 10, of Decatur looks at the B-17 as it arrives at Pryor ...

How do you solve a problem like Minoru Honda? - x planes
What happens when a fighter pilot amazingly and unexpectedly returns from the dead? Well, in Ensign Minoru Honda’s case, you send him immediately back out to his death..
In September 1942, Honda - of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service was forced to make an emergency landing on Kolombangara - one of the Solomon Islands, where ...

Terry Bowden's Blog: What the heck is "Dry Rigging" from Antique Airfield News
I don't know if it is the correct terminology or not, but Dad always considered one of the most important steps in aircraft restoration to be the "Dry Rigging" check. What is this you ask? Well before you go to the trouble of covering your airplane with fabric, you ...
Skagit Aero's Blog: Piper PA-15 Vagbond Restoration Nearing Completion

The Achilles Heel of the Douglas B-66 Destroyer from Aviation Trivia of the Day 
The B-66 Destroyer ended up only resembling the A-3 Skywarrior
In January 1952 when the US Air Force issued its official General Operational Requirement (GOR) for a tactical bomber and reconnaissance jet aircraft to replace the Douglas B-26 Invader and the "interim" Martin B-57 Canberra, the selection of a minimum change version of the Douglas A3D Skywarrior as the B-66 Destroyer made sense. Douglas's proposed changes weren't all that major- deletion of the folding wings, catapult gear and arresting gear, addition of ...

RAFs Oldest Aircraft Retire At Cranwell from AVIATION-NEWS 
The Hawker Siddeley 125 Dominie aircraft, the oldest aircraft in the Royal Air Force (RAF), is to retire from service at the end of January. Operated by 55 (Reserve) Squadron at RAF Cranwell, the Dominie currently provides training for all rear crew in the RAF. However the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 and a reduction ...

DOMINIE fairwell PHOTO. tribute from PPRuNe Forums 
I visited Cranwell yesterday 18th Jan, to photograph the six aircraft "Flyby" event. ...

Heavens to Betsy - The Aucklander
Betsy was bought from the Mackay Air Museum by NZ investors in 1987. Grounded for four years, it needed a rebuild and new paint. ...

Area aviators travel to Ocala to get up-close look at HH-60G Pave Hawk - Villages Daily Sun
Helicopter crew members were on hand to speak with local aviation club members and aircraft enthusiasts about the helicopter and their jobs. ...

Back In The Day Video: Lockheed L-1011's At LAX from AirPigz
This little 3-and-a-half-minute video that was relatively recently uploaded by youtube user RyanBomar shows Lockheed L-1011 TriStars from several different airlines operating out of LAX way back in the day. It's funny how something so common to see in the 70's and 80's is now a bit of a precious moment. The L-1011 was ...

Jump. Fly. Land. from Aviation Blogs 
A wing suit he calls Stealth 2 gives Jeb Corliss (in May 2010 over southern California) enough lift for a three-minute flight from 12,000 feet ...

Gas turbine jetpack – test pilots wanted - from Hack a Day 
Feeling brave and ready to strap on this jet pack? Well, that’s not all of it. What you see above is just the manifold with two nozzles that can be aimed for control. The gas turbine engine that is being designed for the project will attach to the large circular coupling on top. The finished suit, called a Monocopter, should weigh in at ...

Mach 1.5 Nuclear Powered Bomber from The Unwanted Blog 
A design reported on by Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project staff at Oak RidgeNational Laboratory in mid 1952. The report dealt with the reactor program, not the airframe, so there’s limited data… including who designed the thing. Could be an in-house Oak Ridge design, it might be a Fairchild NEPA design. There is even limited ...

What will your plane look like in 2025? from Plane Talking 
The name Lockheed has not been heard in relation to commercial passenger aircraft for some time. Their last passenger aircraft, the L1011 TriStar, ended production in 1984 and the company, now called Lockheed Martin, has since focused on the military (although it does provide many civil transport systems and components). It was interesting, therefore to see that they were one of the teams to be tasked with developing NASA's vision of the future of commercial aviation, along with our friends at Boeing and Northrop Grumman (another mainly military supplier). The design above is their proposal for an aircraft that meets NASA's goals for ...

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Indy Transponder 19-NOV-2010 1130z

Resort air show schedule depends on participants - Ocean City Today | This is not a complicated question, as it all comes down to what kind of air show Ocean City wants: a good one, or a better one. The show's promoter must ...

Air Zoo plans 50000-square-foot addition for exhibits, aircraft and library - MLive.com | PORTAGE — The Air Zoo is planning a $1.8 million expansion that will add about 50000 square feet to the flight and aviation history museum. ...

Missing F-22 pilot identified from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | The pilot of the F-22 aircraft that crashed Tuesday night has been identified as Capt. Jeffrey Haney, assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron. Capt. Haney's current status is missing. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday, while on a nighttime training mission. Search and rescue teams discovered the wreckage of the F-22, assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. Rescue teams from the 11th Rescue Coordination Center, Alaska Air National Guard, the 3rd Wing and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson continue to search the area, approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage.
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Missing F-22 pilot one of top in the country, former university instructor says - The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com | Air Force Capt. Jeffrey A. Haney distinguished himself as one of the top pilots in the country while attending Western Michigan University College of ...

Continuous Updates on the F-22 Down story here

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | 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.

Ross A. Calvert, 89 - Kitsap Sun | He attended Bradley University & then joined the Army Air Corps becoming a Tail Gunner on a Boeing B-17. He was stationed at Snetterton-Heath Air Force Base ...

200000 people worldwide celebrate Guinness World Records Day – Sify | And Thomas Lackey completed his wing walk across Cirencester, Gloucestershire, at the record age of 90 years and five months, for Guinness World Records Day ...

The Jenny and the Barnstormers by Joe Clark | One of my favorite airplanes is the Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny."  Benjamin Thomas, an Englishman working for Thomas Sopwith of Sopwith aeroplane fame, designed the Jenny and the airplane went into production in 1915.  It became the most important Army training aircraft of World War I.  More importantly, the Jenny was the airplane that gave aviation a beginning in America…

Taylor air show Saturday - Taylor Daily Press | This year has the most air race entries in the history of the Taylor event. The show lasts until 4 pm with food vendors and arts and crafts available to the ...

How the Last Star was Born - Part 1 from AirSpace by Orion | This week marked the 40th anniversary of the first flight of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (hat tip to Max Kingsley-Jones). The TriStar was the last in a long line of Lockheed commercial aircraft, including geat names like the Electra and Constellation, and the last new Lockheed aircraft (I think) to have a star-themed name…

PLAAF's 6th Gen Fighter? from Ares by Robert | During the Airshow China here at Zhuhai, Avic Defense and one of the country's aeronautics academic institutions, launched a competition with the Chinese air force for new UAV designs. The prize is to be awarded next year and to spur some innovative thinking. On one of the Chinese CD handouts were a couple of concept drawings. Where they are from or what they represent is unclear, but they are nonetheless entertaining…

Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Aces Its 3rd Glide Flight - Space.com ... especially due to the sweeping graceful planform of its wing and boom tails," said Scaled's chief technical officer Burt Rutan, the veteran aerospace ...

Hansen Authors Prize Winning Book on Space Shuttle Accident from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | AUBURN - History professor James Hansen of Auburn University will receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2011 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award for his book, "Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster." Published by the University Press of Florida in 2009, the book was co-authored by Alan J. McDonald, the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol Inc. at the time of the Challenger accident.

Aero-TV: Albuquerque Balloon Museum -- Where Ballooning Comes Alive - Preserving The History Of An Amazing Facet Of Aviation ANN's phenomenal trip to Albuquerque for the 2010 ABQ Balloon Fiesta is the gift that keeps on giving... both with the memories we have of the extraordinary visual delights of that week as well as the tremendous opportunities our Aero-TV crews had to experience so much of the world of ballooning, its people and its history…

Look for EAA Young Eagles on Nemechek's No.87 Car this Weekend from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The EAA Young Eagles program, which is already the largest youth aviation education program in history, is reaching an even higher profile this weekend as a featured sponsor on Joe Nemechek's NEMCO Motorsports race cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races at Homestead Motor Speedway near Miami…

Chesley Sullenberger, 'Hero of the Hudson', Promotes Aviation to ... by Kane Farabaugh | Now Sullenberger is heading up the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) Young Eagles program. "Young Eagles is a program of volunteers who give young people who are interested in aviation a first flight," he says, "It's a chance to ...

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Patriots Jet Team Expanding to Six Jets for 2011 - San Francisco Chronicle | The group was founded in 2002 with a mission to entertain air show and special events audiences, while encouraging the nation's youth towards careers in the ...

Alaska military base says F-22 fighter overdue - Washington Post | AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A spokeswoman for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson says an F-22 fighter jet based at the military facility near Anchorage is overdue. ...

USAF F-22A Raptor - Nellis AFB 2010  by Britt Dietz www.warbird-photos.com | Probably my favorite shot of the 2010 Nellis AFB Airshow, and one of my favorite F-22A Raptor shots of all time... and it was all by accident! I'll have a blog post talking about how I got this shot during sunset this week! www.warbird-photos.com/airshows/2010-NellisAFB-2/Nellis10D2_F-22A_Raptor_5297.jpg 

75th Anniversary Celebrations Mark China Clipper's First Flight - Business Wire | Ongoing exhibits are open to the general public at the Oakland airport, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos and at the Alameda Naval Air Museum, ...

J-10 Fighter - Airshow China 2010 from Military Photos by DefenceTalk.com by The Watcher:

Mason Co. native inducted into aviation hall of fame - Lexington Herald Leader | James Graybill, a pilot who has logged more than 33000 flying hours in his career, was inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame on Nov. ...

Picture(s) A Day – Aviation Nation 2010 – Sunday At Nellis AFB from Parrothead Jeff | Sorry for the delay everyone, but I was just flat worn out Sunday night and yesterday wasn't the greatest day, either.  I managed to get the pictures for this post edited and the panoramas stitched together, and uploaded, but getting them built into the post and captioned took a bit too much time…

World War II veteran paints 'City of Savannah' B-17 nose art - Savannah Morning News … the World War II veteran painted the nose art on the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum's B-17, the "City of Savannah. ...

A real D-Day survivor by shortfinals | I have no idea how I resisted posting about the C-47/C-53/R4D/DC-3/Dakota family for so long………….and here is one of the most historically significant aircraft I have ever seen. The Great Vintage Flying Weekend is a wonderful weekend of classic and vintage aviation in all its forms. Last year saw the lunchtime flying display portion of the programme feature the immaculate C-47A, N1994A, 'J8-B'.

History Major's Dream Vacation – Udvar Hazy part II - Reaching ... by Redfokker | It does not look like much, but it is another rare piece of aviation history and I was excited to see it. The airplane/spacecraft geek in me got all weepy in viewing some of the most mundane artifacts of the space race of the 1960s. ...

Airplane Geeks - Episode 123 - Listener Mailbag | Airplane Geeks ... by maxflight | We also have David's This Week in Aviation history segment, the Australia Desk report by Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and Pieter Johnson's latest Across the Pond segment. Mentions: The World Airport Data App ...

Greatest Generation: James Mulder - WSAV-TV | On October 6th on a bomb run to take out a ball bearing factory in Berlin Mulder's B-17 was shot down. "The two guys in the waist got killed and the guy in ...

Seahawk helicopter retires to Pacific Aviation Museum - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Its last mission was a short jaunt — from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay to the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor this morning. ...

Liberator — Consolidated B-24M walkaround from Travel for Aircraft | The Liberator was a contemporary of Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress in the European Theater and the unchallenged heavy bomber for the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific Theater until the advent of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-24 is one of the most produced airplanes in history, partly because its design better envisioned mass production methods of the day. It was also known to be heavy on the controls and Liberator pilots famously had well developed muscles in their left arms to demonstrate that characteristic…

The Lockheed L-1011 Flies Into It's 40th Year from Flying With Fish | The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar took to the skies for the first time forty years ago today, November 16th 1970. To me is the L-1011 is the airplane that started my love of airplanes, airlines, travel and the smell of jet fuel.   The L-1011 was not only an airplane that flew over my house day and night growing up next New York's JFK Airport, it was also the plane that flew me to Grandma (usually Delta and sometimes Eastern). On the windowsill next to my bed I had a collection of little white plastic Delta Air Lines L-1011s collected from every flight…

The Anatomy of the Airbus A380 QF32 near disaster from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | The Airbus presentation to accident investigators of the damage done to QF32 on November 4 gives new technical insights into this near disaster involving a Qantas A380 with 466 persons on board. The examination of the damage is far from complete, as the presentation makes clear. It doesn't deal with the other dimensions of this serious incident, which are the loss or impairment of various systems on the giant airliner, and the emerging difficulties the crew faced from fuel load imbalance caused by some of those failures…

'GatwickSpotting' Airliner Videos Are Awesome! by Martt | Jordi Blumberg is GatwickSpotting on youtube, and wow, these are some really awesome videos of airliners at Gatwick Airport, London's second airport. You might have already seen the fabulous slow motion 747 video I posted a while back, and now, I highly suggest you experience these two videos.

Airship Bullet™ Class 580 Successfully Completes 2nd Inflation Test for Pre-Flight Demonstration at NASA Ames Research, Moffett Field from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -MONTGOMERY AL- E Green Technologies, Inc. / 21st Century Airships today announced that it has successfully completed the 2nd Inflation Test of its Airship, the BulletTM Class 580 at the Montgomery, Alabama Garrett Coliseum. The 1-hour Airship inflation took place inside the Garrett Coliseum, one of the few facilities large enough to host the operation.  With the inflation, the mission is to complete pre-flight engineering fit checks for attachments in preparation for the Company's near term maiden flight of the BulletTM Class 580 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California…

World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | On Nov. 3, 1944, the Japanese started launching balloons with bombs attached, hoping the jet stream would carry them eastward across the Pacific to the United States.  More than 9,000 of them were released during the war, with approximately 1,000 reaching the destination.  The bombs were meant to start forest fires, produce chaos and divert manpower from the war effort in the U.S. They were a reprisal for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo…

Aero-TV: The Voice Of Fiesta -- Glen Moyer's Love Of Ballooning from Aero-News Network | Long-Time Enthusiast Has Become One Of The Voices Of An Amazing Aerial Pursuit The ANN crew has known Glen Moyer for a long time... enjoying his emails and calls with news of the ballooning world, as well as an accompanying passion for all things flight. So... it was no surprise that when we showed up, in force, to cover the extraordinary sights and sounds of the 2010 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, that Glen Moyer was the principal voice for this lofty gathering.

The Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The first production group of Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transports, designated the C-5A, were built in the 1970s and even then, there were issues with the jet's reliability. When the production line was reopened during the Reagan-era defense buildup in the 1980s, the C-5B was produced to introduce a variety of systems improvements aimed at boosting the jet's reliability…

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