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Air Races Crash NTSB Hearing Agenda Announced - My News 4 | More answers about just what caused the deadly National Championship Air Races crash are expected early next month according to a hearing agenda just announced by the National Transportation Safety Board.  The hearing will take place in Washington D.C. on January 10, 2012. NTSB spokesperson Terry Williams wrote in a news release to News 4:...

Air Races Still Need to Nail Down Stead Location - My News 4 | ...Air Race CEO Mike Houghton says it's true there has been no formal request made, but RARA would like to sit down and talk about all this as soon as the airport is open to that. And he says RARA hasn't been led to believe there will be any problems in moving forward with securing the Stead airfield as the location for next year's air race event.
 
Stunt Pilot Flying in for Singapore Air Show - Jakarta Globe | Aviation buffs are in for a real treat when the next Singapore Air Show flies into town in February.  For the first time in the show's 30-year history, spectators will be wowed by a solo stunt-flying segment.  In an Asian debut, Australian pilot Tony Blair, 41, will perform daredevil stunts in his single-propeller Rebel 300.  He said: "The Rebel is capable of just about anything....

Old school is good school…or not ! - Bonjour Bluesky

Air show slated to return - The Journal | There will be a 2012 Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Air Show, according to a release sent out Tuesday.  The West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th Airlift Wing will partner with the local community and Thunder Over the Blue Ridge, Inc. to host the annual event, currently slated for the Sept. 15 to 16, 2012 weekend....

Air show tickets selling like hot cakes - Gult weekly | Batelco has reported high demand for tickets for the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) 2012. They are being sold at all Batelco retail shops and are selling fast.  Due to the success of the inaugural event in January 2010, there is increased demand for tickets for BIAS 2012, which will take place at the Sakhir Airbase on January 19-21.  Batelco, Bahrain’s leading integrated communications provider, is a major sponsor of the event for the second time....

Tribute to Arizona’s Tuskegee Airmen CAF Arizona Wing Aviation Museum at Falcon Field - Fighter Country | The Tribute event is timed to coincide with Lucasfilm’s release of “Red Tails” on January 20, 2012. See www.redtails2012.com. However, the Tribute event is presented an entire week earlier — at the start of the 2012 MLK Holiday weekend — to raise awareness of the significance of the Tuskegee Airmen’s experience not just in aerial combat over Europe in World War II, but as a major driver in the movement for civil rights and equality which, in the decades following World War Two, reshaped America’s military in particular and American society on the whole..... 

Air Museum offers plenty of special all-ages events during vacation week - NewsTimes.com | No matter your age, if you love anything remotely to do with flying, airplanes or avionics, a place to visit between Christmas and New Year's Day is the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks.  Jason Archer, the museum's assistant director of education, said the museum has scheduled "five days of special activities during the holiday break," designed to "show that aviation is accessible to a lot people."  "There is such variety within aviation, from history, to...

B-26 Invader and the Monument to the Bay of Pigs Aviators — Now Completed I - Travel for Aircraft | ...located on the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport public access property, primarily honors those aviators who had a part in this battle...

The Epicenter of General Aviation – as Seen From Space - Airplanista | Google Earth's satellite images of the crust of our planet are a marvel of modern technology. I am forever amazed at how detailed they have become, and that makes me wonder what even more precise detail our country's spy satellites can achieve.  Despite the many uses for...

Hawk jet crash with the Royal Saudi Air Force - Translated | A Hawk jet trainer of the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) fell on Tuesday in the Tabuk region, northwest of the country, according to information from the state news agency SPA.  Hawk The aircraft was conducting a training mission in the area of ​​Tabuk, when it collided with a bird, the report said, citing an unidentified official of the Ministry of Defence....

Zero-Zero - Neptunus Lex | What do you do in C-124 Globemaster when all your destination and divert fields are below approach minima, you don’t have ejection seats and the fuel tanks are running dry?...

Episode 178 – Bill English from the NTSB - Airplane Geeks Podcast | Bill English is a commercial pilot, multi and instrument CFI, and he’s flown corporate, charter, and was an air traffic controller in Boston and NY. Bill has written for IFR Magazine and worked on.... 

There's a bit of Howard Hughes in Paul Allen’s space dream - Tech Flash | A wealthy entrepreneur with a reclusive streak pours his money into a dream to build a record-sized aircraft to conquer the heavens.  That describes Paul Allen’s latest quest to reach space, a venture with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to build the world’s largest airplane that will launch a rocket to carry payloads — and eventually humans — beyond Earth’s atmosphere.  But it also describes an earlier time in the 1940s, when the...

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Air Tattoo debutant takes ‘Pole’ position - Flightline UK | A rare Russian-built helicopter never before seen in the UK is among the first aircraft to confirm participation in next summer’s Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford.  The Polish Navy will be sending one of its Mi-14 ‘Haze’ helicopters, which are used in Anti-Submarine Warfare and Search and Rescue, to the Air Tattoo on July 7-8 along with a maritime and reconnaissance variant of the Soviet-made Antonov An-28....

CAF Member & L-19 Pilot Kim Pardon - Warbird Radio LIVE! - 10am (EASTERN) | MONDAY – Matt Jolley is joined by L-19 Pilot and Commemorative Air Force General Staff member Kim Pardon on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Tune in and find out what it takes to fly the “Bird Dog” and hear the latest news from Kim’s local wing of the CAF…The Heart of America Wing in Kansas City.... 

Puppy named in memory of Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging - Daily Echo | MEET Red Four – a hound named after a hero, who will be helping heroes.  Red Four is one of six pedigree puppies recruited for charity Hounds for Heroes and has been named after Flt Lt Jon Egging, who was killed when his Red Arrow Hawk jet crashed near Bournemouth Airport shortly after a display at August’s Air Festival.... 

Army Parachute Team to Join Magic Valley Air Show - Times News Magic Valley | TWIN FALLS • The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team will join the Navy Blue Angels among the performers at the Air Magic Valley Air Show, held July 28-29 in Twin Falls.  The team's appearance will be its first at the show held at Joslin Field, Magic Valley Regional Airport. Team member Sgt. Paul Sachs was with the team that performed in Twin Falls while the Olympic Torch passed through to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....

An outstanding flight display - Bayou Renaissance Man | ...I posted a video clip of one such display, involving a World War II-vintage South African Air Force C-54 Skymaster, a few months ago. Here's another, from this year's Paris Air Show, given by a C-130J Super Hercules tactical transport. This is the latest version of a venerable aircraft that's been in production...

JAMES HORNER'S HORSEMEN MUSIC NOW ON ITUNES - airshowbuzz | Now you can download the 12-minute Horsemen performance music, as well as a special piece Horner wrote to capture his love of flying.

Hot-air balloon fans try to restart Ohio balloon festival - Smart Brief | Hot-air balloon enthusiasts are attempting to revive the Hot Air Affair in Van Wert, Ohio. "I've heard for years people say that they sure wished the Hot Air Affair would come back. A lot of people," said former balloon pilot Frank Conn.... 

Those Intrepid Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) - The Moderate voice | On the eve of this most recent Veterans Day, I had the privilege of accompanying World War II veteran John Tschirhart to a reception hosted by the Texas Veterans Land Board at the Capitol Visitors Center, in Austin, Texas.  Tschirhart, a B-17 bombardier with 35 bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe under his belt, is...

Superfortress low pass - Planeshots

Cold War U-2 pilot to be awarded Silver Star - Air Force Times | WASHINGTON — The Air Force will award a Silver Star posthumously to Francis Gary Powers, the pilot whose spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union in a defining moment of the Cold War.  The Air Force determined that the U-2 pilot showed “steadfast loyalty” while under harsh interrogation in Soviet prisons. In a report obtained by...

Life after death: 45 tumors didn't slow this airman down - DVIDS | JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. -- For Master Sgt. Scott Kapanke, 437th Maintenance Squadron flight chief at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., cancer wasn't a death sentence, no matter how unfavorable his odds were. To him, it was just another challenge to face.  In 1995, Kapanke was a 23-year-old, C-130 maintenance student at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., when doctors' detected he had testicular cancer and it had spread throughout his body.... 

Amy's Message to GWW - Girls with Wings | My name is Amy Blechman and I am the 2008 Scholarship recipient. Winning the Girls with Wings scholarship meant the world to me because it allowed me to further my training and I was able to afford my first solo flight! That was the best experience of my... 

Amelia Earhart Update on Oakland to Miami flight - YouTube

First "real" intervention of the Caiman Marine - Military Photos | A NH90 'Caiman marine' helicopter flies over TK Bremen cargo ship which ran aground, spilling oil off the coast of France's northwestern region of Brittany and lies stranded on Kerminihy beach in Erdeven on December 16, 2011. An oil slick was reported to be floating toward the...

Students practise the trades - NNSL | ...There were some differences between the day for the girls and the day for the boys, said Fullerton. For example, the Women in Aviation activity hosted by Arctic Sunwest Charters on Dec. 6 featured a female pilot, and the program on Dec. 7 was hosted by a male pilot and dubbed Men in Aviation for the boys....

Refueling interest in space - Heraldnet | Boldly going where no billionaire has gone before, Paul Allen has launched a futuristic business venture that within a decade could put private enterprise in the pilot's seat of manned space flight.  The Microsoft co-founder joined famed aeronautical pioneer Burt Rutan at a press conference in Seattle on Tuesday to announce their innovative plan for commercial space travel. The idea is to...

NASA Shuts Doors, Pulls Plug on Shuttle Discovery - Space.com | NASA powered down the space shuttle Discovery for a final time Friday (Dec. 16), more than 28 years after the agency's retired fleet leader first came alive. The vehicle was "unplugged" inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  The electrical shutdown, which...

2011 - Spaceflight's Monumental Moments - space.com video | End of a Shuttle era, on-orbit & launch failures, space station completion, and private space growth highlight an exciting year in spaceflight.

Rutan And Allen To Build World’s Largest Plane - Pacific Flyer | It wasn't enough that they won the Ansari X prize, or that they going to start hauling rich folks to the edge of space, now Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have formed a new venture to carry cargo and people into orbit.  To do it, Allen and Rutan have announced they're building a gigantic new plane and forming a new...

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Thunderbirds for 2012, Blue Angels for 2013 OC Air Shows - WBOC | OCEAN CITY, Md.- The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will return for the 2012 OC Air Show, according to organizers.  The next high-flying demonstration is scheduled for June 9-10, which coincides with "Senior Week" in Worcester County....

Pulling G's over the Blue Langkawi Sky - New Straits Times | IT was something I had been waiting for, for a long, long time. This year was the sixth time I had covered the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition (Lima) and I had all the while wanted to be able to fly in one of the aircraft on aerial display. This year, I got my chance, thanks to a lucky draw during a media luncheon hosted by Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.  I wouldn't be flying in a jet, as I had always dreamed about. Instead, it would be a little German-made prop plane, the Extra 300L, which has a top speed of 220 knots.... 

Toys For Tots Event Takes Flight at the CAF - News West 9 | MIDLAND- The Commemorative Air Force Museum held a Toy Fly-In on Saturday.  Pilot-to-be Nacoma Sauls attended the event. After just a short flying lesson, the boy was ready to get his wings.  Sauls tells us, "You can do spins and circles in the sky and you think you're so cool in the air. It feels like you're flying like a bird."  For the event, the Commemorative Air Force Museum, Experimental Aircraft Association and the Amateur Modelers came together under one roof.  Steve Clinton with the Experimental Aircraft Association says, "We have....

4195: The Final F-22 Raptor YouTube.com (via ASB) | Commemorating the production of the final F-22 Raptor, number 4195, with a look a back from the people behind the development of the aircraft.

Blue Angel F/A-18B Hornet Is Placed on Display at St. Louis Science Center By Carmelo Turdo | The James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center has placed on display a U.S. Navy F/A-18B Hornet formerly used by the Blue Angels aerial demonstration team.  Blue Angel No.7 is the two-seat Hornet flown by 2008 Team Narrator Lt. Frank Weisser and Events Coordinator Lt. Dan McShane.  The acquisition of the aircraft was coordinated by... 

Avro CF-100 Canuck — Canada’s first and Canada’s last - Travel for Aircraft  A.V. Roe and Company, Avro, gave the world many fine aircraft. Not the least of these aircraft are the Lancaster and Vulcan with their Canadian subsidiary assisting in the manufacturing of many of the aircraft, especially in WW II.  The Canuck is historic for its trend setting, serving as an integral part of the new defense system called NORAD in the 1950s, and was designed for a single purpose — as an interceptor to vie against strategic bombers flying over the Arctic from Russia to targets in Canada and the USA. Flying at high sonic...

Final Flight Col. “Gimo” Yang - Roadrunners Internationale | With deep regret I again must inform you of the passing of one of our Roadrunner members. Departing on his final flight, Colonel 'Gimo' Yang, former pilot and commander of The Black Cat Squadron on Taiwan, died at his home here in Las Vegas yesterday. Yang was one of the first six Chinese pilots chosen for U-2 training at Del Rio to fly for the CAF in Taiwan. Prior to that Yang was flying RF-84 photorecon missions at low-level over the mainland from Taiwan. At Taiwan, he then served in Project Tackle, a joint CIA U-2 operation....

We Remember- USAF Heritage Flight - Airshowbuzz | Country music recording artist performed his song "We Remember" live at the ICAS Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. He produced this video to be projected on the screens behind him while he sang. We hope that you'll share this link widely with friends and family who appreciate America's aviation legacy and all that our country's airborne warriors have done to defend our country. And, of course, many thanks to Dwayne O'Brien for both performing his wonderful song and producing this moving video.

Tuskegee Airmen Open Fantasy Of Flight's 'Legends & Legacies' Series - Aero-News Net | Fantasy of Flight in central Florida plans to celebrate Black History Month in February 2012 in a memorable way by kicking off its Fourth Annual Legends & Legacies Symposium Series with a visit from famed World War II heroes, the Tuskegee Airmen. There will also be a student essay contest honoring the aviators' leadership, excellence, advocacy and determination (LEAD)....During this three-day event called "They Dared to Fly," the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first African-America military aviators, will relate their personal experiences of what it was like to serve as a pilot in the military during segregated America. The pilots will share stories about...

Courtney Carroll and Footprints in the Sky - Ely Air Lines | Many kind hearted souls have jumped at the chance to help Courtney Carroll. Prayer, support, encouragement, and assistance have come from people in many industries. A benefit last year in The Woodlands raised money to help offset medical costs not covered by insurance, and as Courtney prepares for her third kidney transplant at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore the costs continue to be incurred, and so does the help....

CF-18s airworthy 'til end of decade: Lt-Gen. - Toronto Sun | OTTAWA - Canada's recently upgraded Hornet fighter jets will keep their sting for longer than many expect.  Lt-Gen. Andre Deschamps said the Royal Canadian Air Force is ready to keep flying the 30-year-old fighter planes for almost another decade.  "We are confident that we will be able to maintain our current commitments all the way to 2020 with the current fleet of F-18s," said Deschamps in testimony to the Commons defence committee Tuesday....

Paul Allen-backed Stratolaunch Systems promises flexible, low-cost access to space - Engadget | When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, legendary aerospace designer Burt Rutan and private spaceflight proponent Elon Musk team up on something, folks are bound to pay attention -- especially when they're promising nothing short of a "revolution in space transportation." At the center of that ambitious goal is a new company backed by Allen, Stratolaunch Systems, and a massive new aircraft to be designed and built by Rutan's Scaled Composites. If all goes as planned, it will be the size of two 747s (with a wingspan...

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Unique WWII German fighter reassembled in Everett - Seattle PI | The German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter plane shocked its adversaries when it debuted in World War II. Just getting the one that Everett’s Flying Heritage Collection owns flying again took more than a decade of restoration work. And then they took it apart. The airplane rotted in a marsh outside of Leningrad from 1943, when pilot Paul Ratz crashed there, until someone found it in 1989. After a Soviet helicopter pulled it out of the muck, the plane traveled to England and then Arizona, where the Flying Heritage Collection had it restored...

VIDEO: AirVenture 2011 promo - EAA | An exciting look ahead to AirVenture 2011, July 25-31. Tributes to Hoover and Rutan! Concerts by REO Speedwagon, Aaron Tippin, and the Lt Dan Band! Daily airshows—including an even BIGGER nighttime show than last year!

F-35's 1st air show appearance will be ... - Flightglobal | ... maybe later this year, says Adm David Venlet, F-35 program executive officer, who briefed reporters this morning at Joint Strike Fighter headquarters on the 6th floor of a a typically non-descript office building in Crystal City...

Second F-35 Production Jet Takes First Flight - Defense Update | AF-7, the second F-35 Lightning II production jet, takes off on its first flight Friday, March 4, from Naval Air Station Fort Worth JointAF-7, the second F-35 Lightning II production jet, takes off on its first flight Friday, March 4, from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base...

Blackburn Buccaneer – the last British bomber - Shortfinals Blog | I once had the great privilege of living (and working) at the Royal Air Force’s premier navigation school. Inevitably, one met members of the instructing staff who had been in contact with the Blackburn Buccaneer. To say that this aircraft was held in affection would be a massive understatement...

Primeira mulher a pilotar um Gripen na Suécia (First woman to fly a Gripen in Sweden) - Cavok | A capitã Anna Dellham recentemente completou seu primeiro voo solo num caça Gripen tornando-se a primeira mulher piloto de um Gripen na Força Aérea da Suécia. O voo ocorreu junto ao Esquadrão F7 na Base Aérea de Satenas...

VIDEO: Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (1945) - AIRBOYD | The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (Curtiss-Wright CW-24), was a 1940s United States prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss. Along with the XP-54 and XP-56, it resulted from United States Army Air Corps proposal R-40C issued on 27 November 1939 calling for unconventional aircraft designs. A highly unusual design for its time, it had a canard configuration, a rear mounted engine, swept wings and two vertical tails...

VIDEO: Stinson L-5 Sentinel (1942) - AIRBOYD | The USA light aircraft L-5 Sentinel began life as the pre-war Stinson Model 105. The model 105 was nicknamed Voyager, built by the Stinson division of Consolidated Vultee. When World War II broke out, the Voyager was redesigned and then entered into service as a liaison aircraft. It also flew in the artillery spotter role and as an air ambulance...

Open Line Friday – Warbird Radio LIVE! - Warbird Radio | FRIDAY – It’s time once again for an open line show on Warbird Radio LIVE!  This means it’s your turn to call in and discuss whats on your mind…this Friday at 10am (EASTERN).  FYI…we have some cool stuff for give aways …so call in.

FAA administrator to speak at Atlanta Aero Club - General Aviation News | Randy Babbitt, administrator for the FAA, will be the featured guest speaker at the regular bi–monthly meeting of the Atlanta Aero Club scheduled for May 5. Babbitt, a veteran pilot who flew 25 years for Eastern Airlines, is an internationally recognized expert in aviation and labor relations...

Warbird Restoration Enthusiast and Aviation Experience of Clyde Zellers - Covington Aircraft | Covington Aircraft believes that remembering and honoring the history of aviation is vital to our daily operation in Okmulgee, OK.  We highlight an important figure in Aviation, in this blog post, Clyde Zellers...

More Books About Flying - Joe Clark | After finishing yesterday’s blog about books on the subject of the Doolittle Raid, I began thinking of other books written of flying that all serious pilots should read. There are so many great novels and historical accounts written of flying that once started, many become very difficult to put down until finished...

All female pilot group encourages women to take to the sky - KTRE | LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - In 1929 men told them they could never be pilots. With the help of pioneers like Amelia Earhart, women from around the world formed their own group- the Ninety-Nines, Inc. Their mission is to mentor other female pilots. They hope high flying inspires more women to take to the sky...

Heliboarding Copter? - Yanko Design | Have you heard of heliboarding? I haven’t but apparently it’s the hot new thing with adventurists. The AvA 299 DROP is a helicopter designed to take crazy snowboarders to locations not accessible by normal lifts. The entire cabin can lower them just enough to leap out and carve their stake across a mountain...

Amateur High-Altitude Balloon DOES NOT Launch Tonight - MT Utility | The Project Blue Horizon 5 high-altitude transatlantic balloon flight originally scheduled for Friday, April 22 [UTC, tonight in Pacific time], has been postponed to April 27 - 29...

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Planes Arrive For Thunder Over Louisville Air Show (with video) - WLKY | LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Military planes are roaring into town for Thunder Over Louisville. The F-22 Raptor demo team was first to arrive flying in Thursday morning. Maj. Henry Schantz isn't new to Thunder Over Louisville, but there's an added thrill this visit. It's his first time as a performer...

Weather forces officials to change Thunder lineup (with video) - Fox 41 | LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41)--Thunder over Louisville organizers are now changing the show because the weather just won't cooperate. Officials are not just concerned with the safety of patrons on the ground, but with the performers up in the air...

High Flying Weekend in Fort Worth (with Blue Angels video)- 33 TV | FORT WORTH, Texas — “It’s going be a great air show,” said Blue Angels Pilot Lt. CJ Simonsen. This weekend the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron will make a stop at Fort Worth’s Naval Air Station.  While members of the Blue Angels Crew are from all over the U.S., the locals may notice some familiar faces...

Wings Over Wayne County Airshow This Weekend - WCTI | WAYNE COUNTY North Carolina - Wings Over Wayne County is coming to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base April 16-17. The Air Force Thunderbirds, Seymour Johnson's F15-E Strike Eagle Team, the US ARMY Golden Knights Parachute Team, and more aerial attractions will be on base for a day's worth of family entertainment...

An F-22 Raptor pilot lines up his aircraft March 31, 2011, to be refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker - (U.S. Air Force photo) - wow!

9 OYS aboard Wings Over Wayne refueling mission - WNCT | GOLDSBORO, N.C. - If the Thunderbird pilots are the rock stars of the Air Force, the people that keep those planes flying are the roadies and they are just as important. For instance, to keep the birds in the air, you have to have gas... (with Thunderbirds refueling video)


Massive air show sneak peek at Ford Island - Hawaii News Now | FORD ISLAND (KHNL) - It's called "The Biggest Little Air Show on Ford Island." Massive remote controlled model military aircraft dating from world war two are on display before the big show...

Golden Knights Competition Team Training Camp at Skydive Arizona - ArmyGK | Training is well underway for the 2011 competition season.  This month, both the Golden Knights 8-Way Team and Women’s 4-Way Team traveled to Skydive Arizona in Eloy, Arizona.  The purpose?  The first training camp of 2011...

Some of Victoria's aerospace success stories - Aviation Business | Avalon Airport now hosts two domestic airlines, Tiger and Jetstar, as well as the long-established biennial Australian International Airshow. The Lindsay Fox-owned airport has recently expanded the terminal to allow for Tiger’s operations from 10 November last year...

Wings and Waves Waterpark To feature 747 Wave pool - ASB.TV | Get your waterproof cameras ready. Planning to open this June 2011, the Evergreen Wings and Waves Waterpark offers an incredibly unique, one-of-a-kind waterpark. Not only is there a retired Boeing 747 jetliner neatly placed on top of the waterpark’s building but you actually go into the airplane and...

A Couple Of Interesting Aviation Jobs - Leaving Terra Firma | I’ve got a couple of interesting job openings to pass on today. These are very interesting opportunities for people with the right backgrounds (i.e. not me).  If I thought I had an ice cubes chance in hell of getting either job I would apply for both these jobs, sell everything, and move. Unfortunately, I’m not even remotely qualified for either...

Copeland was aviator, educator and Anglican priest - My San Antonio | The Rev. Donald Edward Copeland, a former Marine aviator, acknowledged flaws as a pilot. Landing a plane on an aircraft carrier wasn't one of them. That calm under pressure proved critical on a flight in a small experimental plane in San Antonio. When his Zodiac's engine stalled, he did not panic...

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Paul Allen buys a MiG-29 fighter (Herald)  from Aerospace News by Aubrey Cohen | Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has bought a restored Soviet MiG-29 fighter jet, The (Everett) Herald reported Tuesday. Here’s a photo gallery of the jet. The two-seat MiG-29UB was built in the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991 and saw service with the Ukrainian Air Force after the U.S.S.R. dissolved in 1991. In 2005, Ukraine demilitarized [...]

Goodyear firefighter to fly F-16 at Luke Air Force Base - AZ Central.com | Oscar Navarro was chosen as the "hometown hero" of the year by the US Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 Demonstration Team. He was chosen because of his involvement with the community through the Goodyear Firefighter Association's charity organization and ...

Sun ’n Fun offers new VIP hospitality options  from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Sun ’n Fun is offering new ways to experience this year’s Fly-In & Expo, which will be held March 29-April 3 on its campus at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) in Florida. Two new VIP Hospitality programs will be made available for the first time during this year’s event that combine the best qualities of membership in an exclusive club with the amenities of a “Skybox” at premier athletic events, according to fly-in officials. Read more...

Roller Derby Gals, Navy Planes And Cupcakes - Patch.com | Good Plane Fun: If you have a high flyer or two under your roof, you may want to reserve part of a Saturday or Sunday to visit the Quonset Air Museum in North Kingstown. You'll find two dozen aircraft, including helicopters to a plane flown by the Blue ...

How to enjoy a Spring "stay-cation" – Prospectus | The Chanute Air Museum houses more than 3000 items, including more than 30 aircraft. It is located on the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul but is easy to get to and worth the trip to see what life was like for soldiers and officers especially ...

Australian Defence Force at Avalon 2011  from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | This year commemorates the Royal Australian Air Force's 90th anniversary and Avalon was an opportunity for the air force and other branches of the ADF to show off their hardware.  Unfortunately the NH90 did not fly and to the best of my knowledge the Tiger attack helicopter employed by the Army was not on location…

Airshow returns to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - Stoney Creek News | There are also plans underway to celebrate the museum's 40th anniversary with the Salute to Allied Veterans Airshow on the same weekend. It's been a day of frantic phone calls and emails to the home country for members of Hamilt. ...

CF-18 Hornet Demo Pilot Bio  by Sounds of Freedom III - 2011 Demonstration Pilot |  Capt Erick O’Connor was born Quebec City and enrolled in the Canadian Forces (CF) in August 1991 while attending Chicoutimi Flight College. In 1994, after completing his Basic Flight Training in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he was selected to fly helicopters. Capt O’Connor trained on the Kiowa before being posted to 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS) in Edmonton where he flew the Twin Huey and Griffon helicopter for 9 years, deploying on multiple domestic operations and training exercises…

RAF Waddington International Airshow bookings 'up' - BBC News | Organisers of the Waddington International Airshow have said that bookings are up for this year's event in July compared with last year. Held each year at RAF Waddington, near Lincoln, the show attracts more than 100000 people over two days. ...

Hill Air Force Base defers popular air show to 2012 - Deseret News | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recent warning that budget priorities might prompt base commanders to cancel the air show this year are now official. "Given our current budgetary environment, I don't believe it would be fiscally responsible for Hill Air Force ...

Airport manager: No Cape Girardeau air show in 2011 - Southeast Missourian | Visitors to the Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival seek refuge from the sun under the wing of an aircraft Sunday, June 20, 2010. Following a successful Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival last year, ...

Intrepid Museum's Shuttle Pitch - myfoxny.com | Susan Marenoff, the president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space museum, stopped by Good Day to talk about the museum's effort to land a retired space shuttle from NASA's fleet. The Intrepid Museum has applied to NASA for consideration to bring the ...

Fokker C.V book  from Let Let Let – Warplanes | On march 3d, 2011 the book “Fokker C.5: ontwikkeling, gebruik en ondergang” was presented at the Militaire luchtvaart museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands). After a period of six years of research and writing, a 256 page work about the use of the Fokker C.5 reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft was complete. This book deals with the intensive use of the type in Dutch service, the “Luchtvaart Afdeling” (which can be translated as army aircorps)…

RetroNews: Diamandis Rallies WAI Crowd Around Private Spaceflight  from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Aero-News.net, 19 Mar 2008: Diamandis Rallies WAI Crowd Around Private Spaceflight  - Hopes To Grow Zero-G Program Significantly by ANN Correspondent Aleta Vinas | The Women in Aviation International Conference always has top speakers in the aviation field, and the messages these speakers impart to the audience have no time limit. So, even though the WAI conference is over for this year (start making plans for Atlanta (GA) February 26 - 28 2009) the speakers' words are worth repeating…

'Smiles for miles': Maryland event takes 185 women aloft - AOPA Pilot | The Joneses had come out to the airport in 2010 to watch women pilots entered in the Air Race Classic land at Frederick, which was the terminus of the race. Victoria said she was “very excited” to take her first flight, while Nancy admitted to being “a ...

Where is My Jetcar?  from J Clark | When the clocks ticked over from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, everyone in the entire world collectively held their breath to see if all of the computers would crash. There had been a great deal written and published about the problems of the internal clocks within the computers; there were questions of whether or not they would recognize the year 2000. Back in the 1970s and 80s, code writers did not think about the turn of the coming century when they incorporated time into their computer software and hardware. Computer software companies wrote code as fast as they could to avoid the problems. As fast as they wrote new code, the world waited and speculated as to how bad the crash would be at the end of New Year’s Eve…

Helicopters Unable to Drop Water Over Japan’s Nuclear Reactor.  from Planenews Aviation News by gil | High levels of radiation prevented helicopters on Wednesday from dropping water over a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear reactor in north-eastern Japan, a news report said…

Classic 58: 2011 Race Team!  by Classic 58 | The ERAU Prescott Women's Air Race Classic team for 2011 has been selected, and we're so excited to race to victory this year! We are Kristine Anthony and Kristen McTee, both ERAU instructor pilots and full-time Master's students. ...