Blue Angels will appear at 2011 ESL International Airshow - EmpireStateNews.net
“The ESL International Airshow is one of the most highly anticipated events in our region, and Monroe County is honored to have been selected again as one ...
Blue Angels returning to Twin Falls - KTVB
by KTVB TWIN FALLS -- The Blue Angels are making their way back to Twin Falls again in 2012. Known for their extreme choreography and graceful aerobatic ...
Fargo AirSho gets ready for big year - In-Forum
Fargo AirSho organizers are predicting a “big year” for the show as the Blue Angels return and the Navy celebrates the centennial of naval aviation. ...
“With less than four months to go to the 2011 Abingdon Air & Country Charity Show, planning is now well under way by the ll-volunteer organising team.
Taking place on Sunday 8th May, at Abingdon airfield, Dalton Barracks, Oxfordshire, the event will once again be supporting the RAF Benson-based Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance, a Charitable Trust which relies wholly on public donations. ...
Former Edwards test pilot inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame - Edwards Air Force Base
The four inductees will join the 207 legends of flight previously honored by the NAHF on the night that's often referred to as "America's Oscar Night of ...
30 Years Honoring Freedom's Heroes Air Command & Staff College- Gathering of Eagles from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
-MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE AL- . The Gathering of Eagles program is an annual aviation event that traces its origin back to 1980, when retired Brigadier General Paul Tibbets was invited to visit the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), Maxwell AFB, Alabama to share some of his experiences with the students. This visit became the genesis for the Gathering of Eagles program. ...
Migs,Mils and Sandor 12-1-2011 by Gary Watson
... Sandor replied to a request for info, on, when the HAF museum will get retired examples of the Mig 29s, which were retired on the 28th of December last year. Sandor, tells me that the museum ...
Acro Camp
Todd Ames deploys one of the #AcroCamp parachutes during pre-camp filming in May. Photo via twitpic
Rare warbird arrives in region - The Record
BRESLAU — A rare bird was spotted in the skies over Waterloo Region Wednesday.
A warbird, actually. A Canadair F-86 Sabre 5 jet fighter, to be precise.
The Cold War-era plane touched down at the Region of Waterloo International Airport, but not before pilot Rob Fleck put the jet through its paces with a handful of high-speed flypasts. ...
Fort Worth Air & Space Museum Plans Vultee BT-13 Valiant Display - Museum Publicity
Though the Fort Worth Air & Space Museum is years away from opening, the Foundation leading its development has already acquired two aircraft.
One is the Vultee BT-13 Valiant, a mono-plane used extensively to train U.S. military pilots during World War II. The Museum Foundation acquired the plane when the Fort Worth Aviation Heritage Association dissolved earlier this year and generously transferred its assets to the Foundation. ...
Convair B-36 Peacemaker from Planeshots
Cold War: MiG-17 Takes Flight from About.com Military History
January 14, 1950 - The MiG-17 (right) flies for the first time. A follow-on to the earlier MiG-15, the MiG-17 entered service in October 1952. Too late for the Korean War, the type quickly began equipping Warsaw Pact air forces and was also built under license in Poland and China. Seeing service with Egypt and ...
The British Knock Out the Italian Fleet with Biplanes from Aviation Trivia of the Day
... With the threat of war looming, captain of the HMS Glorious, Capt. Lumley Lyster, was asked to draw up an attack plan to knock out the Italian fleet while it sat in harbor. Essential to any attack given the strength of the defenses of the harbor would be surprise, necessitating a night attack. By the time 1940 had come around and maintaining the sea links with the British forces in North Africa took added importance, the need to proceed with the attack, codenamed "Operation Judgement", the trained Fairey Swordfish aircrews that trained aboard the HMS Glorious were now serving aboard the HMS Illustrious and under strict secrecy, the attack was planned for 12 October 1940 on Trafalgar Day. Unfortunately, a fire in the ...
Today in Aviation History – January 13 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
In 1906… The first air exhibition of the Aero Club of America opens for eight days in the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory in New York City. The Wrights are asked to send the motor that powered their 1903 flying machine but can only salvage the crankshaft and flywheel. ...
Ready, Set, Flap! - Air & Space Magazine
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT TWO GUYS named Jim. Both were born in the 1940s, both grew up in the same neighborhood of Park Forest, a town on the south edge of Chicago, and both attended the same church, but neither knew about the other until one of those one-in-a-billion coincidences. They became acquainted through a seminar at the 1999 Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and discovered they were probably the two people in the world closest to achieving an aeronautical dream that has eluded humans since the dawn of time. ...
Poll: 80's Era Lear Fan - Love It, Hate It, Or Just Don't Care? from AirPigz
The last project that Bill Lear attempted to advance was the Lear Fan. Combining a carbon fiber airframe, two turbine engines driving one pusher prop, and extreme efficiency at 350 knots for 8 souls was some pretty hot thinking for the late 70's and early 80's... in fact, that's still some pretty hot thinking. But for whatever reasons, the Lear Fan just ...
"Katie is a Private Pilot!" UCAP #220 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Ruminations on the Beech Duke... some less than stellar journalism about flying... and a video from Will Hawkins.
Thunderheads - Smithsonian Channel from www.smithsonianchannel.com
In a daredevil quest into the eye of the storm, an intrepid group of scientists, researchers, and top-gun pilots-armed with the best high-tech gadgets money can buy-embark on a treacherous journey to understand the role of thunderstorms in the global warming puzzle. The 250 experts who comprise I.C.E. (the International Cloud Experiment) converge on Darwin, Australia, the lair of "Hector," one of the planet's largest thunderstorms. As the pilots perilously edge closer, they battle life-threatening turbulence, lightning, grapefruit-sized hail, microbursts, mysterious "gravity waves," mechanical mishaps, and the scientists themselves.
There's nothing quite like it, says flying teen - The Marlborough Express
The first time 16-year-old Affrica Stein flew in a helicopter she knew it was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.
Affrica, from Wellington, is one of 35 Air Training Corps cadets in Marlborough taking part in an flight training course at Base Woodbourne which ends next Thursday.
She flew solo in a Piper Tomahawk, which cadets use to train in, for the first time on Tuesday when the course began and hoped to get as many hours under her belt as possible before the camp finished.
Flying was Affrica's "favourite thing ever" and she had plans to become a pilot in the air force. ...
Soyuz Back in Orbital Passenger Business with Virginia-based Space Adventures from Spaceports
Vienna, Virginia-based private spaceflight marketing firm Space Adventures announced Wednesday that it had struck a deal with the Russian space agency to offer three passenger seats to the International Space Station beginning in 2013. The trip aboard a Soyuz spacecraft is made available through Russia’s increase in production of spacecraft to a rate of five per year from four. ...
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