Fat Albert Delivers For Marine's Toys For Tots Program - NOLA.com | Dignitaries and the crowd welcome the crew as "Fat Albert", the Marine-crewed C-130 cargo plane of the US Navy's Blue Angels ...
Hudson named Air Force Museum director - Bizjournals.com | The Dayton Development Coalition — along with the National Aviation Heritage Alliance and the Air Force Museum Foundation — have been spearheading efforts ...
Sunset at 2010 MCAS Miramar Airshow from Randy Rothhaar Photography | A couple of sunset shots from the second day of the 2010 MCAS Miramar Airshow:
Women in Aviation, International Represented at Zhuhai China Air Show 2010 from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | There's a great interview found on Sina.com of Women in Aviation, International members Melissa Rudinger (Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs at AOPA), Denise Waters (President, AWAM), and Amy Laboda (Editor, Aviation for Women). It was a great opportunity for Women in Aviation, International to participate in the air show at which Chinese officials announced the opening of areas of…
MEBA 2010 Expected To Smash Previous Records - Aviation International News | Airshow organizer F&E Aerospace is expecting some 7000 attendees–a record number–at the Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) show next week in Dubai. ...
Farnborough International Airshow 2010 » Airstrike Aviation ... by Justin | Every two years, the airfield of Farnborough becomes the largest aviation trade show in the world. There you can buy anything from an airliner to a missile to shoot it.
F-111 flies into history - Australian Aviation | The RAAF retired the F-111 on December 3 after 37 years of service, with a flypast of Ipswich, Brisbane, and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts by six F-111s ...
Royal Australian Air Force Retires Its F-111 Fleet from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) retires its F-111 strike fighters effective today after 43 years of service. Developed in the 1960s and first entering service in 1967, the United States Air Force (USAF) variants were officially retired by 1998. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) was the last operator of the F-111. The F-111 pioneered…
Exercise Vega 2010 @ Decimomannu airbase – part 4 from David Cenciotti's weblog | Below, more pictures about Vega 2010 exercise taken by Giovanni Maduli in Decimomannu. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 …
Sage-Popovich's Nick Popovich: Business Jet Traveler Online from http://www.bjtonline.com/ Nick Popovich looks like a bouncer and can talk like a longshoreman. But he also has a keen understanding of geopolitics, international finance and commercial trends. He runs a far-flung global aviation business, Sage-Popovich, from his 120-acre ranch near Valparaiso, Ind. He drives a Bentley, breeds thoroughbred Rocky Mountain horses and enjoys fine cigars. For more than 30 years, when a banker anywhere in the world has had an aviation loan or lease that was circling the bowl, Popovich has often been the go-to guy. This ex-airline pilot and his team have grabbed more than 1,400 airplanes…
Remembering Pearl Harbor - Abilene Reporter-News | The Big Country Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force invites these and all readers to attend our annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Hour on Sunday at 2 pm ...
Airman, Attorney, Author: Bay area legend writes it all down ... by GNR | The 89-year-old has seen it all, including fighting with the Flying Tigers during World War II in China and later becoming the longest serving city attorney in U.S. history. The details are sorted out in Johnson's self-published book ...
The last aerial torpedo attack in history from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I was researching air-dropped torpedoes for an upcoming Weekend Wings article, and discovered that the last recorded use of aerial torpedoes was in 1951, during the Korean War. It was a unique operation in many ways, including the fact that the torpedoes were not aimed at a ship, but at a dam, and were dropped in fresh water, not into the sea!...
This Recruit did its duty.......the Ryan PT-22 by shortfinals | Bright colours, a distinctive sound – it has to be a Ryan PT-22 Recruit! The Ryan Aeronautical Corporation was always seeking to re-invent itself and 'build a better mousetrap' or airplane, in their case. In the 1930s it looked like they had come up with a winner at last, the Ryan Sport Trainer (or ST)…
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…
How To Repaint a Boeing 777 in Under Three Minutes from Telstar Logistics | This nifty time-lapse video shows the first United Airlines Boeing 777 (N222UA) being repainted in the airline's new combined United/Contintental livery. Kindly refrain from huffing the fumes. PHOTO: N222UA departing LAX, by Peter Spence THANKS: @adamfritzler
Student Rocketeers Nationwide Reach for New Heights in 2010-11 NASA Student Launch Projects from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News -HUNTSVILLE AL - The annual NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge, now under way, promises to send aloft more rockets than ever before in its 11-year history. And some of them, for the first time ever, will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean instead of dropping into a North Alabama cornfield…
Million Dollar Donation Helps Aviation Students - KFYR-TV | Sean is one of about 50 students in the Bismarck school district taking aviation classes at the Career and Technical Academy on the Bismarck State College ...
December 3 - This Day In Aviation History from Aviation Earth | December 3, 1945 - A de Havilland Sea Vampire fighter becomes the first purely jet-powered airplane to operate from an aircraft carrier, when Lieutenant-Commander E. M. "Winkle" Brown lands his aircraft on the HMS Ocean in England. December 3, 1958 - An aircraft exchange, which will function like the stock markets and commodity exchanges, opens in [...]
The 1982 Air Battles Over the Bekaa Valley from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In 1976, the Lebanese Civil War had been raging for a year when the Syrian military poured across the border into the region to ostensibly stabilize the situation. Securing the Bekaa Valley and the main Beirut-Damascus highway that crossed the central part of the country with massive numbers of troops and armor, soon the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its Muslim allies in Lebanon were receiving support from the Syrians…
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Get into the holiday spirit in an uplifting setting as EAA hosts Christmas in the Air from 2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7, at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh.
This free community event for all ages will feature a festive holiday atmosphere, complete with holiday performances by local musical, choral, and dance groups plus a special performance by Those Funny Little People, Wally and Victor. Refreshments are also provided along with Just Plane Chocolate Holiday treat sampling that begins at 5 p.m. ...
Five new riders for 2011 season of the Snowbirds from CavokBlog
Five new riders have been announced for the 2011 season of Air Demonstration Squadron, Canadian Forces, the Snowbirds, based at 15 Wing in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. ...
Midland Airsho from CAF Minnesota Wing Blog
Airsho is always a great time! You get a chance to see old friends, meet new ones and see some of the rarest aircraft fly! This year, the B-25, P-51 and Harvard made the trip down. There was a slight feel of political tension, but nothing that overshadowed the excitement of having FIFI fly overhead!
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Earlier in the year I posted a number of pics of the P-61 Black Widow at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. They are restoring it to airworthy condition, and are making some great progress! This series of pictures was found while surfing around Warbirdinformationexchange.com. I can't wait to see this fly! ...
A Ride in the PT-22 from CAF Minnesota Wing Blog
The PT-22 took to the air this year for the first time, and is being touted by the two current pilots as one of the ... Read also: Around the Hangar
VIDEO: New Zealand Company restores Mosquito to fly in 2011 from CavokBlog
Have Drill, Have Doughnut, the MiG Projects of Area 51 and Groom Lake
In the late 1960's, the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and a number of U.S. federal agencies undertook a program at Groom Lake to evaluate the MiG-17 to help fight the Vietnam War during a period of anti-Vietnam War protests and the North Vietnamese MiG-17s and MiG-21s having a kill rate against the U.S. air assets was 9:1. These programs were code-named HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY under The Defense Intelligence Agency Project "HAVESoviet MiG parked outside its hangar at Groom Lake - 1960 DRILL." At Groom Lake a small, highly specialized group of engineers and technicians had just wrapped up the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart program and continued on for Projects HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY involving trials of MiG-17F Frescos over the skies of Area 51 at Groom Lake, and Project DOUGHNUT, an ...
The Origins of Red Flag from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
I had started this blog out as a way of sharing a lot of the interesting aviation history I come across in the course of my reading. I'm a bit attention-deficit when it comes to reading, I usually jump between numerous books at once as I've really never been able to read one book straight through then start another. The benefit of this little quirk of ...
PICTURES: Australia's F-111 retirement to close chapter of aviation history - Flightglobal
As the last operator of the swing-wing, long-range strike aircraft, the event will close a chapter in aviation history that began with the first flight of ...
Algie Composite Aircraft 'LP1' - 385 MPH At FL290 & 14.5 GPH? from AirPigz
The LP1, or 'Light Pressurized 1', began over 15 years ago in the mind of David Algie. It wasn’t just an idea 15 years ago tho, work actually began on this airplane that far back, and the basic shape has been frozen for quite a long time. The LP1 is a two-place, pressurized, carbon fiber kit aircraft powered by an adapted Chevy Corvette LS engine that is intended to operate at altitudes as high as ...
Read also: Caption Contest #43 - Ends Wednesday 12.1.10 At 9PM EST
The flights of 50 years ago from Plane Talking
... The arrival of the jet age was as much a visible, and insistent signal of change as television and satellites.
The jets were a homework disrupting event. We’d rush outside to watch. Just as the ear splitting noise of a Super Constellation grinding its way into the air was an event that would unpack a practice scrum, or completely silence a classroom. ...
B757 Supertanker ground test from TAKEOFF TUBE
Evergreen Aviation's B747 Supertanker performing a ground test. Watch the plane flex during the blast! That's about 40,000lbs of pressure, and 20,000gallons exiting in about 10 seconds. This platform will be used to fight fires among other things....stand clear and watch out!
An RQ-4 Global Hawk gets all pre-flight checks accomplished from maintenance technicians before a mission while deployed Nov. 23, 2010, at an air base in Southwest Asia. The Airmen and the RQ-4 are assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Andy M. Kin)
Tree festival soars at air museum - The Columbian | Others came to see the planes and displays at the Pearson Air Museum, which for the first time hosted the Vancouver Rotary Foundation's annual fundraising ...
CBS Sports Reporter Goes Sky High from FishbowlDC
On Sunday when many people were still recovering from Thanksgiving gorging, CBS Sports
Correspondent Kaylee Hartung was preparing to jump out of an airplane.The jump was an early Christmas present from her younger brother, Tyler, who has done nearly ...
Interesting rocketry photo album from The Original Rocket Dungeon
I just found an interesting Flickr album containing scans of some photos of the Space Services Inc Conestoga I and related facilities. ...
Dragons (on aircraft and in movies) from The Original Rocket Dungeon
Private Rocket Builder to Launch Demo Flights From Florida - Space.com
"While we are preparing for a flight demonstration in Florida, there are enough new space ports around the country that evaluating them will take time. ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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Champion aerobatic pilot Tom Moon killed in NSW Riverina - Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
By Karen Davis ONE of Australia's best aerobatic pilots has died in a fiery plane crash in the NSW Riverina. Tom Moon was killed when the single-engine ...
Champion pilot killed - Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
John Sharpe, an aerobatic pilot and friend, said Moon was one of the great airshow pilots. "[Tom] taught me and many others such a lot about flying, ...
Aerobatics champ killed in plane crash - ABC Online, Australia
A former national aerobatics champion has died in a light plane crash in the New South Wales Riverina. Tom Moon was flying an aerobatics plane at Temora ...
One dead in aerobatic plane crash - The Australian, Australia
Article from: Australian AP ONE person has died when an aerobatic plane crashed in the NSW Riverina, the Ambulance Service of NSW says. ...
Aerobatic champion killed - Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
The community has suffered a massive loss... my phone has been ringing off the hook with people that just can't believe it A champion aerobatic pilot and ...
Airshow lacks performers, sponsors - The Bridgeton News - NJ.com, NJ
Duffy's collection includes a B-25 Mitchell bomber, a Supermarine Spitfire CR2 and one of the few remaining air-worthy P-47 Thunderbolts. ...
National Warbird Operator Conference from http://www.warbirdconference.com/
Founded in 1993, the annual NWOC event brings together warbird owners, operators, and museum directors to address particular events facing warbird owners and to discuss common goals related to the ever-changing economics, operations and regulations pertaining to flying ex-military aircraft. NWOC focuses on the exchange of ideas and information concerning the safe operation and restoration of warbird aircraft. This unique educational conference offers programs to enhance pilot skill and knowledge, expand aircraft maintenance technician and restorer knowledge, develop awareness of medical and insurance facts, and address aircraft-specific topics to ensure continued flight for these unique historic aircraft. As one participant remarked, "…we are not owners of these treasures, but rather caretakers who ensure that future generations can better understand history." That statement emphasizes the importance of the educational goals of NWOC.
CHALLENGE COIN SECRETS – AirShowBuzz.com
As the United States prepares for its presidential inauguration, the media has picked up on the value of challenge coins, which are measured not in dollars but in history and community. Understanding Coins
Reds to visit Air Force museum - Xenia Gazette
The National Museum of the United States Air Force is located on Springfield Street, six miles northeast of downtown Dayton.
WAAAM opens new building By Meg Godlewski
Although it hasn’t been open for very long, the Western Antique and Aeroplane Automobile Museum, located at Oregon’s Hood River Airport/Ken Jernstedt Airfield (4S2), just celebrated a major milestone: the opening of a 45,000-square foot hangar. “It adds to the nearly one acre of space we already have,” says the museum’s Donna Davidson. The new hangar holds the museum’s 1940s-era aircraft, including L- Birds, a PT-22, an N3N on floats, a Cessna T-50 “Bamboo Bomber,” an HE-1 Navy air ambulance, and automobiles, both civilian and military, as well as guns and fire trucks, according to Davidson. Read More→
Wings Over Wairarapa # 11: Curtis P-40E Kittyhawk, North American P51-D Mustang & Goodyear FG-1D Corsair from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
While each of these aircraft deserve their own post, they are all so closely related due to service in various theatres of World War 2 and their combined displays at the airshow. In addition, each of these types were operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force [RNZAF] at various times.
Wings Over Wairarapa # 12: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Although not flying in the display, there were three De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunks on display, as per the following pictures. It would appear that the first two are operated by Old Stick and Rudder. The third is registered to a Palmerston North address, but I'm not sure where it is flown.
Wings Over Wairarapa # 13: World War One from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
An eagerly anticipated part of the airshow were the planned displays of various World War One aircraft. Masterton [and Omaka, across Cooks Strait] is a home to these rare aircraft, newly built to original standards, with original construction techniques - right down to replica machine guns and authentic paint schemes.
Wings Over Wairarapa # 14: Microlights from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Masterton has a healthy range of homebuilt and microlight aircraft. While the airshow did not appear to be designed for showing off these aircraft, I did get a few photos of these types. There were also a couple of gyrocopters and various other "lighties" on display, but I was too busy photographing on the flightline and resting in the shade to get the others :-).
Wings Over Wairarapa # 15: The End from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Finally we come to the end of the show. Over the past few days, these posts have generated a number of comments, so here's what I think. Highlights? The Yak 52 displays had to be right up there and along with the Corsair, the MX2 and RNZAF displays, that's my top 4.
Air Austral to take 840-seat A380s in 2014 from Flight Image of the Day by Barbara Cockburn
Aircraft Photography - Orange Glow from Serious Amateur Photography by Jeff Lynch
One of the great things about photographing aircraft is the wonderful colors and unusual shapes and textures you’ll find. It may be the engineer in me but I love looking at a well built piece of machinery that’s been lovingly restored and maintained.
F-22 Raptor from Fence Check
General Aviation from Fence Check - This Waco came out to play this weekend
Stearman's from Fence Check - A couple from this weekend
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6th Annual 'Living Legends of Aviation' Awards Ceremony to Honor Harrison Ford, Sir Richard Branson and Other Aviation Legends Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-- The 6th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards are taking flight on January 22nd at the Beverly Hilton. Harrison Ford will receive with the Legends Aviation Legacy Award for his countless hours of service introducing thousands of young people to flight. In the words of Harrison Ford on his passion for aviation: "Those who are bound to the Earth by gravity -- and are without an airplane -- don't really see the world the way a pilot does. There's so much beauty in flight."
6th Annual 'Living Legends of Aviation'(R) Awards Ceremony to ... PR Newswire (press release), NYBill Anders, Bud Anderson, Tony Bill, Dr. Forrest Bird, Linden Blue, Neal Blue, Sir Richard Branson, Gene Cernan, Joe Clark, Julie Clark, Pat Epps, ...
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Missing Pilot Schrenker Captured from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
QUINCY FL- Alabama Aviator has learned Marcus Schrenker, the man suspected of parachuting out of a plane in midair over Childersburg, is captured in Quincy, according to the Gadsden County Florida Sheriff's Office.
Legendary Spitfire is to fly again - Manawatu Standard, New Zealand
Having become a private pilot, it was about 10 years ago that the idea of getting involved in the warbirds movement began to develop - but the great leap ...
International air show in Bangalore from Feb 11-15 - India Today
Nearly a hundred civilian and military aircraft will take part in a five-day international air show at the Indian Air Force station at the Yelahanka airbase on the outskirts of the city. The seventh edition of the biennial international air show Aero ...
Water Follies Gets Airshow Funding WA
This year's show will include a B-25 WWII bomber, a coast guard helicopter, a special op's sky diving team and an F-15 fly-over for opening ceremonies. ...
STS-119: Discovery set for early morning crawl to Pad 39A from NASA SpaceFlight.com by Chris Bergin
Shuttle Discovery is due to depart from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at 4am Wednesday morning, for a dawn crawl to Pad 39A ahead of STS-119’s launch next month. There she will join her payload, which has been installed into the Payload Changeout Room (PCR).
SpaceShipOne replica hung at flight museum - HeraldNet, WA
"It just reminds me again what a genius Burt Rutan is, in a class by himself," Isaac said. Rutan, a native of the Portland, Ore., area, ...
Air Force museum honors local 'Warrior Airman' – OCRegister
After a discussion with his wife, the father of four came up with the idea of offering it to the museum. "I wanted to give it to my kids but I thought, 'What would be better than donating it to the Air Force museum?'" he recalled.
Amelia Earhart – TIME
The Kansas native achieved a number of "firsts" as a female aviator, becoming an icon to women around the world in the process. By the time she was 40, ...
Final Flights... from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
WASP Jeannette Kapus passed away on January 8, 2009. A very moving tribute appears to her at the Wasp Final Flight blog kept by Nancy Parrish, the daughter of WASP Sue Parrish, who was great friends with Jeannette "Jan" Kapus. http://waspfinalflight.blogspot.com/2009/01/wasp-jeannette-jan-kapus-44-4.html
cyberpioneer - News - RSAF Black Knights all ready to wow ... - The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) military aerobatics team, the Black Knights, is back to thrill the crowds with their tight formation flying and daring manoeuvres. This twelfth Black Knights team will be flying six F-16C ...
Video of P-51 Mustang "Six Shooter" flown by Chuck Hall from Military Photos by livingwarbirds - Video of P-51 Mustang "Six Shooter" flown by Chuck Hall..
United States - California - Cable Air Show 2009 - Upland - 01/10/09 from Fence Check
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2009 Civilian Performer Schedules from Fence Check - Trojan Horseman - http://www.trojanhorsemen.com/Site%20pages/tourdates.html
Moths ... from Fence Check
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