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F-22 Raptor returns to Sun ‘n Fun from General Aviation News | The world’s only operational fifth-generation fighter aircraft – the F-22 “Raptor” – will return to the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In & Expo, which will be held March 29-April 3 on its campus at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) in Florida. ...

Mark Kirsch – World’s Strongest Man - Fiargo AirSho | There has always been an innate fascination in cultures throughout history in who is the World’s Strongest Man. The Strongman Sport is the modern culmination of this fascination, and is the ultimate test of Human Strength, Speed, and Coordination.  We are excited to announce that Mark Kirsch will be displaying his amazing strength at this year’s air show.

Community invited to Air Show forum - Clacton and Frinton Gazette | A FORUM to come up with ideas to develop the Clacton Air Show is being held next week. Residents, businesses and community groups are all invited to attend the meeting to brainstorm ways to help the event bring more money to the district. ...

3 World War II planes to land in Hattiesburg - Hattiesburg American | Flights on the B-17 or B-24 are $425 per person for 30 minutes. Visitors can also fly the P-51 themselves for $2200 for a half hour or $3200 for an hour. Officials say about 90 percent of the cost to visitors goes toward keeping the planes flying. ... 

Vintage Fighter Jet Crashes Into Hudson River, Pilot Missing - nycaviation | A Cold War-era British BAC 167 Strikemaster crashed into the Hudson River near Kingston, NY Saturday afternoon. 

30000 take joy flight to Wings Over Illawarra - Illawara Mercury | The 24-year-old pilot was one of more than 30000 who visited the annual Wings Over Illawarra air show yesterday. While most people took public transport or drove to Illawarra Regional Airport for the show, Ms Burt flew her flight school's Piper Warrior ...

Aviation history takes flight with celebration in Plainville - The Bristol Press | In May of 1911, less than eight years after Orville and Wilbur Wright got their airplane off the ground in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Nels Nelson of New Britain flew his “flying machine” at Tyler’s buckwheat field.  Nelson went on to perform at various air shows and the field went on to become Robertson Airport.  To commemoratee the 100th anniversary of Nelson’s flight, the airport plans to hold a celebration May 21. ...

Sightseeing tour of aviation sites could increase visitors - Dayton Daily News | Re “Interstate signs promote Dayton's aviation heritage,” Feb. 11: The signs that promote Dayton aviation heritage are a good start, but for years Dayton has passed up the golden opportunity to keep travelers and vacationers here for more than one day. ...

Carolinas Aviation Museum Acquires "Miracle on the Hudson" Flight 1549 ... - Live-PR.com | The Carolinas Aviation Museum today announced that it has acquired the "Miracle on the Hudson" Flight 1549 Airbus A-320 Airframe from Chartis, a world leading property-casualty and general insurance organization. President of the Museum. ...

Nice Reno Shots - Big Nevada | Air racing, aviation history

Hamilcar Glider from War and Game | On Britain’s huge Glider aircraft the Hamilcar, which the Germans believed to be a troop carrier depended much of the success of the Allied airborne landings on the Continent from D-Day onwards. Tremendous punch was given to ground operations, by the use of these gliders which towed by heavy bombers of the R.A.F carried a [...]

WWII vet shares bomber stories - In-Forum | He flew 54 bombing missions in a B-25 over China. Dave Wallis / The Forum Bazil “Bud” Murray's experience aboard bomber aircraft in World War II got off to a bumpy start. First, his five-man Air Force crew had to wait a week for their airplane while ...

The Cucumber Bomber - General Aviation News | Imagine running an FBO that provides flight instruction, maintenance services, charter flights, and cargo services with a stable of planes that includes a B-17. Before your mind flashes to a recent warbird parade at Oshkosh, think again. This story begins in 1959, when surplus warbirds could still be operated on the cheap. At that time, it wasn’t unusual for ordinary folks like Jack Kalemba to try and make a living by putting a surplus bomber to work. ...

Aircraft Never Before seen Vintage images - YouTube | A rare glimpse of Vintage images from Skyworld Kool Air Pics

Lockheed R6V Constitution. RATO test part two from Planeshots

February 27 from Cut and Paste Aviation
 Nice! Very Appropriately Named 'Seastar' From Dornier Seaplane from AirPigz | I got several pictures like the one above of the Dornier Seaplane Company's 'Seastar' at Oshkosh 2010. It was a hard airplane to miss since it's pretty large and rather unusual. Well, unusual since we don't see very many new production seaplanes these days. But, there was a time when much of the really amazing stuff  ...

Genesis of the Predator UAV from Aviation Trivia of the Day | Leading Systems' Amber UAV, grandfather of the Predator.  In the mid-1970s, Abraham Karem, a designer of high-tech weaponry for the Israeli Defense Forces, emigrated to the United States but despite his credentials working with the Israeli military, found himself unable to get employment with any of the major American defense contractors. Karem had some innovative ideas for unmanned aerial vehicles ...

DVD Review: British Airshows 2010 by Flightline UK | If you buy just one airshow DVD a year, this is the one! British Airshows 2010 covers a multitude of events up and down the country. Narrated by Sean Maffett, this production includes all the best bits from Planes TV’s  ...

P-40 in Combat from War and Game | The Curtiss P-40 achieved its greatest fame with the Flying Tigers, but it also proved itself in every theater of war. Rarely the fastest or most maneuverable aircraft in a combat, it was often the most rugged and served its nation well.   World War II U.S. fighter. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, made famous by [...]

PC Pilot's Platinum Award for DC-3 Legends of Flight! - Just Flight | We were delighted to read in the new issue of PC Pilot magazine that DC-3 Legends of Flight has been deemed worthy of the coveted Platinum Award, with the reviewer concluding: "Just Flight and Aeroplane Heaven have started 2011 with a tour-de-force. This is their finest release yet, bar none, and equally one of the most impressive packages yet to be seen for FSX"  The review also looks at the additional aircraft and the ability to tow the Waco glider in the Expansion Pack, which it calls "an extremely worthwhile additional purchase".  ...

Young Eagles rally kicks off new year - General Aviation News | Orlando Gateway Sport Pilot Flight Training Center at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) in Florida will host an Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagles Flight Rally Jan. 8. ...

Video: Robonaut-1: Balloon pop and recovery! from Spaceports

NACA takes first steps toward space - Alamogordo Daily News | "The first operable big airplane in aviation history" had four 100 horsepower engines; as did Sikorsky's "five-ton Il'ya Muromets," said "Milestones of Aviation." Three times as large as a Wright Brothers flyer, and able to carry 2425 pounds of fuel, ...

Astronaut Sad to See Shuttle Era Come to a Close - WJTV | The Stafford Air & Space Museum has external tiles, a shuttle main engine, a payload pallet, wheels, part of a solid rocket booster and other items. "The public definitely can have a feeling for what the shuttle is and what it is doing," museum ...

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Sky-high top guns ready to roar - Herald Sun | The event, to run at Avalon Airport between March 1 and 6, will boast a range of high-flying attractions, including the F-22 Raptor and the B-1 Bomber (pictured), which arrived yesterday. Russian triple world unlimited aerobatic pilot Nikolay Timofeev ...

It's lift off for Weymouth Carnival and Air Show - Dorset Echo | Carnival favourites the Red Arrows have already confirmed they'll be at the event on Wednesday August 17 – surprising organisers who usually get the nod in April. The Arrows – the RAF's world-famous aerobatic display team and carnival ...

Kemble air show salute to Hunters - Wiltshire Gazette and Herald | The 2011 Cotswold Air Show is planning a flypast consisting of nine of the iconic jets, many of which were built and maintained at the airport. From 1954 to 1989, RAF Kemble became known as the Hunter HQ, as virtually every UK Hunter, more than 1200 ...

The largest aviation event in the country - in August in Radom - News 24 | In August in Radom gets known throughout the world aerobatic teams, including Italian - FrecceTriColori, French - Patrouille de France and the Croatian Wings of Storm. According to the organizers, for the first time in Poland there is also the team ...

About the Snowbirds - Great Falls Tribune | The Malmstrom air show this weekend was the first outing of the season for the Canadian Snowbirds. The nine red and white Canadair CT-114 Tutors flew in from Canada to show off the skill and teamwork of the Canadian Forces during the Malmstrom Air ...

Air Show lineup to be unveiled - Delmarva Now | Last year's event featured the US Air Force Thunderbirds jet demonstration team, several civilian prop plane demonstrations and parachute jumps by the US Navy Seals' Leap Frogs and the US Army's Golden Knights teams. The Thunderbirds are not available ...

Swellendam Airshow - Sout African Air Force Museum | The year's first and the Cape's largest air show will be hosted at the Swellendam air field on 5 March 2011. The air in the Overberg area will be ...

Sen. Reid Joins the National Championship Air Races as They Announce 2011 Event Theme and Entertainment - This is Reno | Today, in a joint press conference with Sen. Harry Reid, the National Championship Air Races announced that military fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, will be the headline entertainment for the 2011 event. The Air Races also publicly recognized the U.S. military as well as congressional leaders in Washington, most notably Sen. Reid for the continued support and help in making the event a success. In addition, the Air Races announced they will welcome the L-39 Patriot Jets Team,  ...

13 Florida mayors skydive with the Army - NBC2 News | The mayors of Cutler Bay, South Miami, Coral Gables, Sweetwater, Miami Gardens, Surfside, Biscayne Park, Southwest Ranches, Deerfield Beach, Minneola, Belle Isle, Ocoee and Madison will tandem jump with members of the Army's Golden Knights Parachute ...
   
High flying ladies take their message to the sky -  KLTV | The times have changed, as there are a number of growing opportunities for women in aviation. "More and more women are becoming pilots, flying for the military and our armed services and this was all because of some of the pioneering women like Amelia ...

The Great Race - Air & Space Magazine | When the Air Mail Service decided to establish a route between New York City and Chicago, two pilots competed to fly it first. 

Vintage Fighter Jet Crashes Into Hudson River, Pilot Missing - NYCAviation | A Cold War-era British fighter jet crashed into the Hudson River near Kingston, NY Saturday afternoon, according to an AP report. Rescuers found the plane partially submerged with the pilot unaccounted for. ...

About the Frontiers of Flight Museum - Dallas, Texas - Official website | Embark on a memorable aviation journey - a tour of the Frontiers of Flight Museum. During your experience, you will bridge several lifetimes starting with the pioneers who realized their earliest dreams of flying; identifying with the aviators of the 20's and 30's, known as the "Golden Age of Flight"; understanding the sacrifices of the fliers of World War II; and progressing to the jet and rocket age of today. By virtue of these chronicles of time, you will also find a new appreciation for the role the Dallas/Fort Worth area (known today as the Aviation Capital of the World) has played in the unfolding global aviation story. At the Frontiers of Flight Museum you will see, hear, and touch some of the rare artifacts that have contributed to this exciting history. On display is a World War I Sopwith "Pup" biplane along with hundreds of models, uniforms, decorations, engines and propellers. You will long remember your "Flight Thru Time". ...

Ejection Seats - Historical collection of escape systems - YouTube | The Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas (@ Love Field) has a large collection of escape systems on display. This short video is seveal years old but it gives an impression of the collection. Many more seats and better signage are currently on display. The collection is intended to preserve some of the amazing equipment that has been saving lives for decades. The museum has 100,000 square feet of space and over 35 aircraft, plus the Apollo 7 Command Module on display. www.flightmuseum.com

The World’s First Supersonic Ejection from J Clark | In 1955, George Smith was 31 years old, unmarried, stood 6’1” and weighed 220 pounds.  It was a Saturday morning just like today.  He was off work and on his way to the grocery store, but he stopped by his office to drop off some flight test reports on some acceptance flights he performed earlier in the week.  The North American Aviation dispatcher, Bob Gallahue, saw George walking to his car in the parking lot.  He called out to George and asked if he would perform an acceptance flight for an F-100A in need of delivery to the Air Force. ...

Warbirds & pilots of WW2 Photos via Facebook

Warbirds need new nest - St. George Daily Spectrum | Scheduled for March 19 at the Barn at Cotton Town Village in Washington City, the gala will feature a variety of aviation legends and a keynote address by Thunder Over Utah Director Kevin Walsh, who works with Michigan's Yankee Air Museum. ...
 

The Red Baron from Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics

Officials aim to complete the $7.5M Ford Island Control Tower restoration before the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor's bombing from The Kathryn Report | Officials are hoping that a badly needed project to stabilize and restore one of the enduring symbols of World War II can be completed in time for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor this Dec. 7. A blessing was held yesterday for the Ford Island Control Tower restabilization project being spearheaded by the nearby Pacific Aviation Museum with the help of the Navy and Ford Island  ...

Stored in Kearny, the 'Miracle on the Hudson' jetliner will move to an ... - The Jersey Journal | The "Miracle in the Hudson" US Airways Airbus 320 that carried the passengers of Flight 1549 about two years ago will be a permanent exhibit this summer in the at the Carolinas Aviation Museum Charlotte, North Carolina, NBC-TV reports. ...

FlightTime Radio Show 163 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Charlie and Milford had Roxy and Rhonda on the show. They talked about the New Smyrna Beach Balloon and Sky Fest coming to the New Smyrna Beach Airport on April 8th, 9th and 10th!  There will be fun and aviation of all sorts to be enjoyed by all that attend! Next week, join us to hear Cloudy talk about his books, CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles!  He has three books about his adventures in Alaska.  Does anyone  ...

International Society for Aviation Photography - Official Website | International Society for Aviation Photography, Inc. is an international non-profit professional society whose broad range of member contributions span a wide variety of fields including: professional photographers, writers, historians, publishers, trade representatives, pilots and amateur photographers. ...

William H. Gerhold - Marietta Times | He was a member of the Experimental Aviation Association and worked closely for several years with the Young Eagles program which exposes young people to aviation through a hands-on process that culminates in a flight with a private pilot. ...

Friends of Minute Man Airfield Stow plan for the future - Harvard Post | The EAA 196 also sponsors Young Eagles, a program designed to help young children discover and explore the world of aviation. Every second Saturday from spring until fall, there are free rides in planes for children age 8 to 17. ...

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Muskogee was part of the first transcontinental flight - Muskogee Daily Phoenix | One possibility for the new aeroplane was mail delivery. Would it be possible to fly clear across the continental United States and cut delivery time by many days? Many businessmen wanted to find out. It was just eight years after the Wright brothers ...

World War II: Douglas Bader Born from About.com Military History | February 21, 1910 - Future Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader (right) is born.  The son of a civil engineer, Bader entered the Royal Air Force in 1928.  An unruly student, he graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell and flew his first solo in 1929.  Two years later, he was badly injured in a crash that resulted from prohibited aerobatics.  Losing both his legs, Bader received artificial limbs and returned to flying the following year.  Invalided out of the RAF in April 1933, he worked for the Asiatic Petroleum Company until the outbreak of World War II.  Admitted back into the RAF, Bader secured permission to return to flying.  Taking part in the RAF's operations to support the Dunkirk Evacuation, he scored his first kill on June 1, 1940.  Given command of No. 232 Squadron, he ably led them through the Battle of Britain...   

World War II gunner takes to the skies once more - Detroit Free Press | Norbert Swierz, 90, prepares for a ride in a B17 on Feb. 11 -- his first time in the World War II-era bomber since he was shot down more than 60 years ago. "Wonderful," he kept saying during the flight.
   
Book details wartime drills in Rutherford - The Daily News Journal | A B-24 crew was in bomber training in Smyrna; a B-17 crew trained in Dyersburg. Tennessee had one of four Air Force (Army Air Corps) classification centers in the United States. Thayer General Hospital, a convalescent hospital for soldiers, ...

James Harding, 1918-2011 - Columbia Daily Tribune | He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served as a B-17 master navigator in Europe during World War II, flying in 31 missions. He married Adelaine “Tat” Tattersall on May 31, 1952, at Rapid City Air Force Base in South Dakota. Jim continued to serve in ...
   
Ralph Huffstutter, 1920-2011 - Columbia Daily Tribune | He was a flight engineer in both a B-17 and a B-24. After his military service, he joined his father-in-law in the commercial orchard business in St. Joseph. He formed Huffstutter Orchards in 1957 and purchased orchards in New Franklin, Boonville and ...

Photos: Falcon's Roost 30 - From many moons ago from MRC Aviation | Back in 1992 Hokitika played host to the annual Falcons Roost 30, a RNZAF jet trainer deployment.  This particular year saw a mix of the soon to be retired Strikemaster's (4 aircraft) and recently inducted Macchi's (6 aircraft).  The exercise was held from 31 March until 08 April and was preempted with the visit on 12 February of Strikemaster's NZ6361 and NZ6362.

Bristol Type 152 Beaufort from Planeshots

Women in ATC – Echoes from the past from Roger-Wilco | The subject of women in air traffic control is dear to my heart for several reasons one of which is that I did play a small role in setting the scene for girls to be eventually accepted as ATC cadets in Hungary. The real achievement belongs to the ladies themselves who completed the fight but I do have fond memories of the first steps we took and which were anything but easy.  Anyway, with this background it was only natural that my blog should also take up the subject and it is with real pleasure that I noted just how much interest there is for it amongst you. ...

Today in Aviation History – February 20 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | In 1915… During the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, Allan Loughead is allowed to launch an air service and flies 600 passengers across the bay during 50 days. The 10-minute flight costs $10 per passenger. ...

Mi-34C1 maiden flight set for May-June - The Voice of Russia | The Mi-34C1 is the only light helicopter capable of performing aerobatic maneuvers. Initially oriented for the Russian market, the aircraft is going to be supplied to Africa, Latin America and the Asian countries in the future. The first Mi-34C1 flight ...

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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 ...

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Centennial of Naval Aviation Update – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday from WarbirdRadio.com  | WENDESDAY - Captain Richard Dann (USN)  joins us with an update on the plans for the Centennial of Naval Aviation celebration.  CAPT Dann will also be taking your calls and questions…so join the conversation by using the contact info  [...]

Some good info on kick off events on THIS POST.

Navy to celebrate 100 years of flight with huge air show - San Diego Union Tribune | In a majestic choreography of planes, boats and automobiles, more than 120,000 people are likely to gather around San Diego Bay on Saturday for an historic parade of Navy air power. ...

Centennial of Naval Aviation - Heritage Paint Schemes from FenceCheck Forums

Navy jets create buzz with Seattle fly-by - KING5.com | SEATTLE -- Three jets soared over the Seattle skyline Tuesday, causing people on the ground to wonder whether there was an emergency.  But the flights were a photo opportunity, said Kim Martin from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Photographers were getting shots of the EA-6B Prowler, and two EA-18G Growlers with Pacific Northwest scenery in them for the Navy.  The jets are painted in World War II themes to celebrate the centennial of naval aviation, said Martin.

St. Augustine Air Show announces new acts, sponsors for 2011 event - Florida Times-Union
Team MS760 is a new two-ship aerobatic formation jet airshow team. The pilots, retired US Navy Capt. Dale "Snort" Snodgrass and retired US Air Force Lt. ...
   
'Scaled-down' air show planned for Arnold Palmer airport - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | "Our hope is to put on a smaller version of the air show. There won't be any US Navy Blue Angels or US Air Force Thunderbirds," said Donald Rossi, ...

Aero India-2011 creates history as largest ever - Sify | The present-day version of Aero India, deemed the biggest air show in Asia, had begun as a modest display of a few aviation assets as Avia-India in 1993. ...

Aero India 2011: How the show grew by leaps and bounds - Daily News & Analysis | Of the 100 aircraft participating in the air show, 27 belong to the civil aviation sector. Barring Avia-India 1993, the growth in Aero-India since 1998 to ...

Russia stands out in Aero India-2011 - The Voice of Russia | The Aero India-2011 Air Show gets under way in Bangalore featuring the latest in aircraft technology from more than 600 companies from 29 countries. ...

Cable Airshow from Pacific Flyer | Cable Airport in Upland, Calif. kicked off the 2011 airshow season last month with another great show despite the cloudy, overcast weather.  The throngs of airshow fans were greeted by crisp temperatures and, while the overcast hung around all of ...

Petaluma Honors Early Air Mail Pilot from Pacific Flyer | The Petaluma, Calif. aviation museum will honor through April the first local airmail flight on Feb. 17, 1911 when a young pilot braved bad weather and flew from Petaluma to Santa Rosa ... even though it took two days.  According to the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission the post office of Petaluma had flying enthusiast Fred Wiseman fly that 18 miles to Santa Rosa, carrying ...

New Private MiG29 from FenceCheck Forums

A3D being rebuilt from Pacific Flyer | In January 2010, retired Navy Master Chief Mike Glenn assembled several former squadron mates from VP65 to help in the restoration of A-3D (BuNo 135434), which had been stored at Edwards AFB on an abandoned runway since the late 1960's.  The Douglas A-3 Skywarrior was designed by Ed Heinemann as a strategic bomber for the United States Navy and was among the longest serving carrier-based jet aircraft. ...
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World War II: Eyewitness to the Raid on Ploesti - thelevantandthebalkanswwii.devhub.com | On August 1, 1943, a Consolidated B-24D Liberator bomber named the Vagabond King and its American crew took part in a massive bombing raid on the oil refinery complex at ...

Oakland Aviation Museum — the military aircraft 1 of 2 from Travel for Aircraft | This post, the third in series on this museum, is about the aircraft on exhibit outside next to the main hangar. These aircraft are almost all military with a few exceptions such as the Short Bros. Solent* as well as the NASA McDonnell-Douglas TAV-8A Harrier. Walking the grounds is an easy affair and the exhibits are extremely approachable. Here are images of several of the aircraft there: ...

How the USS Wasp Defeated Rommel's Afrika Corps on Just Two Operations from Aviation Trivia of the Day | From 1940 to 1942 the Italian Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe mounted over 3,000 sorties against the British fortress island of Malta in the Mediterranean in an effort to secure their supply lines to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa. Despite repeated attacks, the Allies managed to keep Malta supplied, even with Axis airfields only sixty miles to the north in Sicily. With the coming of the harsh Russian winter in 1941, poor flying conditions put a temporary hold  ...

The "Wright" Stuff - Summer Rocket Camp Comes to Acworth! - Examiner.com | Rocketry Club are sponsoring “The Wright Stuff” this summer at Allatoona High School in Acworth. The Museum will bring its F-15 Fighter Jet Cockpit On SITE ...

Nation's first drone test pilot trainee has the right-click stuff - Los Angeles Times | Nicholas "Hammer" Helms is in line to be the next aviator to make history at Edwards. But he won't be breaking any speed records or risking his life to push ...

Aircraft companies Submit New Designs from Pacific Flyer | NASA recently awarded contracts to three teams to study concepts for more-efficient airliners that could enter service by 2025 and the three companies competing have released artist concepts of their proposals.  The designs come from teams led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
"Each design looks very different, but all final designs have to meet NASA's goals for less noise, cleaner exhaust and lower fuel consumption," NASA noted after reviewing the artists' conceptions. ...

Burt Rutan to speak at Robotics Team fundraiser - Tehachapi News | Tehachapi High School Robotics Team advisor Danielle Evansic announced that famed aviation designer Burt Rutan will speak at the team's chili cookoff ...

Video: Buzz Aldrin Explains The ALSRC from San Diego Air & Space Museum Blog | During a visit to the Museum, astronaut and author Buzz Aldrin took the time to explain the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container (ALSRC), currently on display in a case next to the Apollo 9 spacecraft, that he used during his trip to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. ...

Episode 134 – Lots of Listener Mail from Airplane Geeks Podcast  | Pieter Johnson, our Geek in Europe and producer of our Across the Pond segment, joins us in this listener mail episode. That’s right, pretty much nothing but listener mail. Oh, and the Australia Desk Report by Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast. ...

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Aviation buffs to rebuild RAF plane - Belfast Telegraph
An old RAF reconnaissance plane is being rebuilt on the site of a former top security jail in Northern Ireland where it was once called in to help check for IRA escape tunnels.
Volunteers from the Ulster Aviation Society are reassembling the aircraft at the former Maze Prison at Long Kesh, near Lisburn, Co Antrim.
After nearly 50 years ...

Centennial of Air Mail service salute will honor early aviation pioneers at EAA AirVenture 2011
Vintage aircraft and attractions, along with special programming, will honor early aviation pioneers through a commemoration of centennial of air mail service during EAA AirVenture 2011. The 59th annual edition of “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration” will be held July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. ...

Watching Your New Best Friends Having the Time of Their Lives from Let's Go Flying 
... I’m having a great time re-living some of those experiences as I edit footage from Acro Camp, a movie that I and some friends in the general aviation community shot in May.  We brought in four pilots from around the country.  Two men and two women.  Each had between 300 hours and 12,000 hours total time.  But none ...

This Jet-Powered Outhouse Makes Poop Fly [Video] from Jalopnik  | An Indianapolis-based company with too much time on its hands attached a 750-pound Boeing jet engine to a portable toilet, making it capable of reaching speeds up to 70 miles per hour. ...

DH Hornet & Sea Hornet from Let Let Let - Warplanes 
The De Havilland DH.103 Hornet was a Spec. F.12/43 long-range day  fighter capable of reaching a top speed of at least 480 mph (772.5 km/h). Although it arrived too late to participate in the Second World War, it was ordered both by the RAF and by the Royal Navy. For the Royal Navy it was intended to operate from aircraft carriers, fitted with an arrester hook and foldable wings. Royal Navy also used a two-seat version  as ...
   
Images of 2010: News - Hickory Daily Record
87, served on as navigator on board a Boeing B-17 G. Parker flew on 30 missions over the European Theater. ....

The year 2010 in pictures (500th blog post) by David Cenciotti
As of tradition, the annual debrief can’t be introduced with different words from those I used last year: “It’s only when you get to the end of the year that you get the full picture of what has happened in the previous 12 months. Images collected during worlwide travels, flights and base visits, used to illustrate the most different stories dealing with the World of Aviation, provide a means to get a snapshop on the most important topics discussed on this site [...]“. So, once again after 2008 and 2009 editions, pictures taken by me and by the site’s official photographer Giovanni Maduli during the last year will guide us along some of the most important things we have happened in the world of Aviation. ...

Top Ten PICTURE stories of 2010 - Flight Global
Top ten VIDEO stories 2010 - Flight Global

ZWRRWWWBRZR from Air & Space Magazine
That's the sound of the prop-driven XF-84H, and it brought grown men to their knees. It didn't fly all that great either. ...

Zephyr solar-powered UAV breaks three more world records from Engadget 
The Zephyr is a winning machine. Last we reported, QinetiQ's solar-powered drone had just completed 7-days in the air, and counting. Now, the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) has confirmed that Zephyr completed that record-breaking flight with a solid 2-weeks in the air (336 hours). If that wasn't enough to put other drones to shame, FAI found that Zephyr also destroyed records for flight duration for a UAV of its ...

December 29 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

The World's Smallest Airport - Flagpole Magazine
... recognition in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was the innovative and outrageous 1940s air show known as The Thrasher Brothers' Aerial Circus. ...

New Chengdu J-20 photos from Black Horizon 
More photos of the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter are popping up on the internet.
It remains to be seen if the West will view it as a threat. Althiough there are indications it hasn't flown yet, the J-20 is already being compared to the F-22.  ...
   
First human-like robot to fly in space - SiliconValley.com
3 aboard the space shuttle Discovery on a flight to its permanent home on the International Space Station, will be the first humanoidlike robot to fly in ...

"The Big A's" UCAP #219 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Happy New Year to all from the entire UCAP Gang.

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Organizer: Air show not returning in 2009 - Rome News-Tribune
Eugene Schayer, an organizer with the car and air show that has come to Rome the past three years, said there will not be a 2009 installment.

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Greg Koontz - Takeoff - - by youtubelatest
Battle Creek Field of Flight Airshow 7/4-6/08: For more airshow videos, pho....

A Rare Chance To Bid On A Tri-Motor from AVwebFlash Current Issue
One lucky bidder on Jan. 17 will get to be the new owner of a completely restored 1929 Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor, after an auction to be held in Scottsdale, Ariz., during a car show, EAA said on Wednesday. It's not very often an airplane of this pedigree becomes available on the open market, according to EAA. The airplane, NC9612, is one of only six in the world that is known to be airworthy. It has flown many different missions in several different mission configurations, including a stint as a transport in Hawaii in the early 1940s, and was hit by bullets during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was fully restored in 2005, with a reworked airframe and an all-new interior. The fuselage and wings were completely re-skinned. The landing gear is complete and original. A special buyer's preview and inspection is scheduled for Dec. 6 and 7 at Goldsboro-Wayne Municipal Airport in North Carolina. The airplane will not be on site at the January auction in Arizona.

Organizers cancel 2009 Great Outdoors Festival held at EAA in Oshkosh
from The Oshkosh Northwestern Local News
The Great Outdoors Festival will not be returning to Oshkosh next year after being held here annually for 10 years, allowing outdoor enthusiasts to participate on hands-on sporting events, such as fly-fishing clinics and sharp shooting activities.

Suggested reading: Air mail airplanes from Letters from Flyover Country by Bob Collins
Air & Space Magazine from the Smithsonian has a captivating story and slideshow from the Blakesburg, Iowa fly-in last September airplanes that were once the backbone of the U.S. Mail system. I'll have to put that on my list of things to do in September. The article is called "You've Got Mailplanes."

Mail Planes Visit Lee Bottom - Nordo News
The first thing they did was to bring their oldest flying Boeing which is also the only flying Model 40, Stearman Speedmail, and oldest flying Stearman to Lee Bottom while enroute to New York where they were to start a re-enactment of the Transcontinental Airmail Run.. But what makes their stop even more incredible ...

Dec 8, 2008: Christmas Dinner and Slide Show from Fly-In Calendar -
KRMY: Brooks Field Airport - Marshall, MI

"Gathering of Mustangs & Legends" DVD to be released November 28
from RSS Feed: News
The long-anticipated "Gathering of Mustangs & Legends Commemorative DVD" is available now for pre-order. The 90-minute long DVD commemorates the once-in-a-lifetime Gathering of Mustangs & Legends air show, held at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio in September of 2007.

YAY! PLANES - A DVD for kids who love airplanes
Welcome to the home of YAY! PLANES, the best DVD for kids about airplanes! Order online today!
Come along as Argyle and Jim teach us about airplanes and introduce us to the parts of an airplane, the shapes that airplanes are made from, and even how planes fly! ...

YAY! PLANES was just recently endorsed by the fine folks at JetWithKids.com. Jet With Kids.com was created as an informative site for anyone flying with children. From important documentation requirements to the best toys on planes, even the true hard facts about infant safety on planes, this site is dedicated to changing aviation travel from a dreaded transportation necessity and "nightmare" to an enjoyable and safe part of the trip for all involved. ...

New Book Holds Hope for Aviation’s Future from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler
...It continues the saga begun in his first book, You Want to Build & Fly a What?, about his learning to fly, the construction of his VW-powered Nieuport replica, and the birth of Kansas City Dawn Patrol in 1985. Fokkers starts, more or less, with the Great Flood of ‘93, which inundated Liberty Landing International, a grassroots private strip about 15 miles northeast of Kansas City Downtown Airport and 20 miles east southeast of Kansas City International. It ends with the Starks’s hauling their Morane to Canada in June 2008 for its role in the forthcoming movie, Amelia. ...

MUROYA PUTS JAPAN AND ASIA INTO RED BULL AIR RACE from Red Bull Air Race News
Japan’s Yoshihide Muroya is proud to be the first pilot from Asia in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship and is confident his entry will help galvanise interest in the sport across the continent even if it might take him a while to get into the points.

Snowbirds fly over 2008 Vanier Cup, Hamilton, Ont. from Aviation.ca News
The Snowbirds were thrilled to honour Canada's great student athletes by flying over the 2008 Vanier Cup before a crowd of almost 14,000 who gathered to watch the University of Western Ontario Mustangs battle the Rouge et Or from Université...

"Centennial of flight" program announcement from Aviation.ca News
2009 is the 100th Anniversary of flight in not only Canada but Alberta as well. It is a little known fact that only a few short months after the historic flights in Baddeck Nova Scotia an Albertan, Reg Hunt, made...

Flights of fancy... - The Statesman, India
Nine Suryakiran aeroplanes of the Hasimara Base took off today. “We have 12 Suryakiran aeroplane in our base of which nine were in the show today. ...

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International Women's Air & Space Museum playing Cards
from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Got my playing cards today, the second edition...

Abandon In Place: Apollo 1 launch table from The Unwanted Blog by admin
A few years back I went ona business trip to Kennedy Space Center. While there I got a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the less-seen spots of aerospace interest. By far the most impressive was a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building…

In the Neighborhood - Battle Creek Enquirer, MI
USS Indianapolis survivor Dick Thelen will be the special guest speaker at the Cereal City Sunrise Rotary Club meeting, 7 to 8 am Dec. 4. ...

Aviation museum in Moscow: part II - by rumrussia
VTOL Sabreliner from The Unwanted Blog by admin
Rare Aircraft - United States from rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us


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