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Chabrian To Be Honored at Wright Brothers Memorial Gala from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Dr. Peggy Chabrian, President and founder of Women in Aviation, International, will be presented with the Amelia Earhart Award at the 84th Annual Wright Brothers Memorial Gala and Golf Tournament, which benefits the GMAA-Bachelor Aviation Scholarship Fund, Inc. The award will be given at the Gala, being held at the Doral Golf & Country Club in Miami, Florida, October 22nd.

WWII Pilot, Astronaut to Speak at Glenn L. Martin Museum - Patch.com | Courtesy of NASA World War II fighter pilot Bernie Sledzik, who flew ground support missions during the Battle of the Bulge, is scheduled to speak at 7 pm Monday at the Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum. Sledzik's appearance is part of the museum's ...  [photo: Valor Studios]

Video: Re-enactment of first Balloon Fiesta includes original pilots - KOB | A re-enactment of the first Balloon Fiesta back in 1972 made it off the ground Friday morning from Coronado Center, the site of the first fiesta.  The re-enactment of the first Balloon Fiesta was a success, even though not all the balloons made it off the ground.  The winds delayed the initial 6:45 am lift off, but about an hour later, balloonist Mike Rice was one of several pilots that made it into the air.  Rice's balloon is the official Albuquerque International Fiesta Balloon.  On Sunday he will take part in a tribute for the fiesta's creator Sid Cutter, who died earlier this year.  The Balloon Fiesta board began planning this ...

Podcast: CAF Week Day 1 – CEO Stephan Brown from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | We’re devoting the entire week of programming to the Commemorative Air Force in honor of AIRSHO 2011.  Commemorative Air Force CEO Stephan Brown ...

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Aviation Heritage Center at Sheboygan County airport gets a piece of history - The Sheboygan Press | Crews mount a Lockheed T-33 jet fighter outside the Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin at the Sheboygan County Memorial Airport last Saturday. The 1950s-era plane was restored over the last six years and will be formally unveiled Saturday in a ...

Hopewell to construct aviation museum at Twin Pines - NJ.com | Somewhere amid the jumble of junk collecting cobwebs in the ramshackle hangar at the old Twin Pine airfield lie a set of wheels from the personal plane of famed American flyer Charles Lindbergh.  At least that’s what Bill Weasner thinks.  The 85-year-old former owner of the airport remembers Lucky Lindy as a ...

Howard Hughes Lockheed Jetstar Refreshed at Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum is sprucing up its Lockheed Jetstar once owned by Howard Hughes.  Members of EAA 64, who meet at the Museum's Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at ...

Jet Age Air Fair Thrilled Huge Connecticut Crowd in 1959 - Patch.com | ... display of the airshow was the precision flying performed by the Thunderbirds, the aerial demonstration team of the United States Air Force. At the time, the Thunderbirds were flying the F-100C Super Sabre. ...

Newark air Museum 2-10-2011 - Stick and Rudder | Shots showing EE Lightning T.5 being worked on. Grey 'primer' coat started and when complete it will back in the 'camo' scheme it was in before the problems with the paint-film. Also Harvard cockpit section restoration in hangar 1. Also GAL Monospar still coming along nice. Also better look at the F4 cockpit section. ...

View Of the Plane Cemetery From Your Apartment from English Russia | Central Aerodrome at Khodynka Field built by N. E. Zhukovsky, was the first aerodrome in Moscow. May 9, 1945, early in the morning, a plane landed there carrying the German Instrument of Surrender. Now, Khodynka Field is a big residential …

Dreamliner on display at Museum of Flight from General Aviation News | Boeing's first 787 Dreamliner will be on public display at Seattle's The Museum of Flight's parking lot Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A Helicopter Display Team | Movie Monday from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt Everett | If I had to guess, I’d say a lot of people are familiar with Chuck Aaron and the Red Bull BO-109. His act is spectacular, but what could you do with something smaller and more mundane? I don’t know, something like a Robinson R22?  If you’re curious, today’s video will interest you. It features a display team founded by Jim Cheatham, the Showcopters, formerly based out of Salinas, California. I say formerly, because unfortunately, as I found in  ...

Bell explores new missions for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor Canada from CavokBlog | Bell Helicopter is exploring new markets for their missions and Bell-Boeing tiltrotor V-22 Osprey. Recently, the company demonstrated the capabilities of search and rescue (SAR) of the V-22 to the Canadian Forces. The V-22 is ideal for the SAR mission in Canada, a country with vast distances and difficult operating environments, and could do the work of several planes in a typical mission, according to a spokesman for Bell. ...

Pennsylvanian Firm Wins Largest Aviation Prize In History - iWeather Online | Image NASA-Bill Ingalls NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history to Pipistrel-USA.com, a company based at State College (Pennsylvania). The CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, was created to inspire the development of more ...

NASA Awards Historic Green Aviation Prize from AVIATION-NEWS | NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation aircraft, spawning new jobs and new industries for [...]

Berlin celebrates largest ever commercial aviation event - Breaking Travel News | A record number of senior industry figures and delegates have arrived in Berlin as the city becomes the centre of the aviation world for three days. The annual World Routes event will be attended by more airlines and airports than any previous event, ...

With New York’s Intrepid Museum Dealing with Issues, Texans Make Another Play for the Space Shuttle from UnBeige | If you thought the battle between museums over space shuttle ownership being over with had long since ended, you are sorely mistaken. Though NASA announced back in the spring which museums would receive the now-decommissioned space craft, and then offered a very thorough report back in August about how it came to pick which lucky museums would get one, late last week the fight revved back up again. The  ...

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Blue Angels' heftier cousin, Fat Albert, takes Glenn Farley for a ride - KING5.com | SEATTLE -- It has a bulbous nose, big feet and a big tail. It is the "other" Blue Angel. "Fat Albert" is a four-propeller cargo plane, specifically a US Marine Corps C-130 Hercules, that thrills the Seafair crowd with big ...

Tedrow selected to the 2012 Blue Angels Team - Hanford Sentinel | Lt. Mark Tedrow has been selected as a member of the 2012 Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels. The Navy and Marine Corps aviators chosen to fly with the Blue Angels are a highly-elite group. The Blue Angels team, which performs before ...

Talent, passion fly high at the Milwaukee Air & Water Show - On Milwaukee | Each year, the Milwaukee Air & Water Show attracts thousands of spectators to the lakefront to watch in awe as aircrafts of all shapes and sizes perform spectacular aerobatics. While it's obvious that it takes years of skill and practice to successfully execute such feats, few people actually  ...

High-speed aerobatics to highlight Wings & Wheels show - Bangor Daily News | The museum's aerobatic air show is held from 1:30 to 3 pm Saturday and Sunday with high-speed stunt-flying demonstrations. The Bangor Daily News encourages comments about stories, but you must follow our terms of service. ...

Spirit of Tuskegee Arrives at Andrews AFB from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | This post is a follow up to Tuskegee Bird Flies North.  …So I was on the phone Monday evening and my wife asked me, “Well, what did you do today?”  With subtle nonchalance I said, “Well, I strapped into the front seat of Matt’s Stearman, ya know, the one that was flown by the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, and flew over ...

Canada Remembers Air Show Today - Saskatoonhomepage.ca | The Snow Birds will be performing as well. The attractions also include Canada's first visit from the United States Air Force Honour guard, who will participate in the opening ceremonies. Following the show today will be a ceremony to honour Canada's ...

Snowbirds In Saskatoon - Discover Moose Jaw | The Canadian Forces Snowbirds Air Demonstration Team, based out of Moose Jaw, will be taking part in the event. They will be in the air at about 2:45pm on Saturday and Sunday. The CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team is also there taking part. ...

Snowbirds air show returns to Charlo - Times and Transcript | Canada's famed Snowbirds aerobatics team along with the CF-18 Demonstration Team are coming to the show and bringing with them a pyrotechnics team, AV8FX lead by April Zalesky. The pyrotechnics are a first for the show and promise exciting effects for ...

Red Arrows dazzle crowds on Swanage Seafront - Bournemouth Echo | The Reds will be back over the Dorset skies during Bournemouth's Air Festival in less than a fortnight. The Diamond Nine, who have been thrilling audiences for more than 45 years, will take to the skies three times during the fourth air festival, ...

The Patrouille de France in the sky of Arcachon - Translator | [VIDEO] The Patrouille de France took place yesterday in Arcachon, despite an uncertain weather. Our readers were ...

2011 Air Race Goals- McDonald Racer #37 Team - Name Tag Experience | Past & Current Team Goals: Through out the years, the McDonald Racer #37 team has had 3 main goals: 1. Actively Encouraging Children Interested in. 

AirVenture Oshkosh 2011 QuickCast 5 from The Pilot's Flight PodLog | David is at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2011, and he is bringing you some daily QuickCast from the the grounds!  David, with the help of Damon Favor of The Pursuit of Wings podcast, is creating videos and posting them to his new show, Other People’s Airplanes. Be sure to check it out.  They are also doing an AirVenture Pick of the Day and posting them on their respective audio podcasts. After you finish listening to David’s pick, be sure to head on over to The Pursuit of Wings to hear Damon’s pick.

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Japanese Zero Aircraft At Owls Head Transportation Museum - WABI | It's scheduled to fly during airshow activities on both days this weekend as part of the museum's Wings and Wheels Spectacular. The plane is owned by the Houston-based Texas Legends Flying Museum, which flies their collection of World War II aircrafts ...

Wartime relic still airworthy - Bend Bulletin | “Sentimental Journey,” a B-17 Flying Fortress, is displayed at the Coeur d'Alene Airport in Hayden, Idaho, on Friday. The vintage aircraft is one of approximately 50 known in existence out of the 12731 built. The Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air ...

Last wishes of WWII bomber crew fulfilled in England - Granite Bay View | In June, she traveled to England to bury eight mugs belonging to the crew of a B-17 bomber that was shot down during World War II. Her husband Tom Parker was a tail gunner on the “Lady Luck” and the last surviving member. He died in March 2010 and his ...

Blake, Lung, Rieser & Timmons Inducted Into Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame! from Midwest Flyer | SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – AOPA Great Lakes Regional Representative, William L. Blake; co-founder of the Ogle County Pilots Association, Francis N. Lung; the longest standing manager at a public airport in Illinois, Robert A. Rieser; and Jet Air founder, Harrel W. …

Minnesota vets restore Vietnam-era medevac helo from Air Force Times - News by Minnesota Public Radio | ST. PAUL, Minn. — A 46-year-old war relic is being brought painstakingly back to life by a group of Minnesota military veterans. The veterans have volunteered hundreds of hours of their time for almost a year to restore an UH-1H helicopter flown in Vietnam.

Profile 56 - ????? as flown by Ken Dahlberg from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles | Today was the first time in two weeks where I could really sit down and indulge myself in this particular airplane.  I'm sorry I can't report more details at this time, but I hope to shortly.  In the meantime, this gorgeously brutal P-47 Thunderbolt of the 354th Fighter Group will likely be finished this weekend.  I just have to mask-in the tail and even out the lighting on the hard-worn fuselage.  Not too many photos of Ken's P-47 exist, ...

Dr. Peggy on AOPA Live from WAI Connect Blog | Here's a nice write up on the annual women pilots photo taken at EAA AirVenture, along with an interview with Dr. Peggy. See it here.

A. Paul Vance Fredericktown Regional Airport Dedicated Today from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | It is an honor for The Aviation Experience to feature General Aviation expert Jeremy R.C. Cox in today's posting on the dedication of A. Paul Vance Fredericktown Regional Airport: ...

Southern Illinois University Takes Home A Win At National Championships from Midwest Flyer | CARBONDALE, ILL. – Students at Southern Illinois University (SIUC) Carbondale won the 2011 National Intercollegiate Flying Association Championship, May 21, at Ohio State University Airport. The team, called the “Flying Salukis,” consisted of 10 team members. Scoring 414 points, they …

EARLY USAF FLIGHT HELMET POST WW2 from Heritage flight gear / flying gear displays | AUGUST 2011 - We all marvel at the high tech fancy bone domes/hardshell flight helmets in use in present times such as the HGU-55/P and HGU-68/Ps etc.....but have you ever wondered how did these get to be so developed and look high tech as the JHMCS??  This article will review the development of the first generation jet pilot flight helmet types leading ...

FlightTime Radio Show 186 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Milford returned safely from AirVenture in his Piper and told us about his trip on todays show. We also had a call from Neal Holland of Eastern Airlines Radio to talk about The Eastern Airlines Radio Show.

Tug-of-War for Special Olympics Indiana - WISH | The FedEx Boeing 757 is the largest aircraft in Special Olympics Indiana's Plane Pull history. “I said 'why can't we do that here?' So I just organized it and we've been doing it ever since” Garrett said. At the event, teams compete in one of seven ...

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US Air Force Thunderbirds perform fly-over at Daytona 500 - MyFoxOrlando.com | The world-renowned US Air Force “Thunderbirds” provided race fans with a flyover during the National Anthem for the 53rd running of the Daytona 500 Sunday. This is the second time the flying squadron perform the flyover at the historic “World Center of ...

USAF Thunderbirds Daytona 2011 - a set on Flickr

Ex-pilots shoot down timeline of Navy - Washington Times | “This timeline offered up the first female naval aviator and first female navy astronaut and first black Blue Angel pilot as major milestones and high-water marks for naval aviation to the exclusion of the real history makers. That just didn't sit well ...

Back to the 'Bushe from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | This great thread here (on the Farnborough Aviation Group forum) has a huge number of photos of the post-war era at Blackbushe airfield by one of the people - Peter Brown - who was clearly key to the airfield's operations. As well as a fascinating insight to general aviation of the era, there's a wonderful selection of (rarely seen) warbird ops. ...

Peggy Chabrian, President of Women in Aviation International from AVWeb Podcast | The annual conference of WAI is coming up this weekend (Feb. 24 to 26) in Reno, Nevada. President Peggy Chabrian explains what the group is all about, what happens at the conference, and why it's a great  ...

The joy of flying from General Aviation News | From air races to commuting for business, Joyce Wilson flies high ...

Freeflight Aviation member pilots offer flights to girls and women in New Jersey - Women of Aviation Worldwide Community | Freeflight Aviation, located at Flying W Airport Resort in Medford, is southern New Jersey’s most friendly and most value oriented flying club. A 35-minute drive east of Philadelphia, they offer a unique flight school and club membership on the promise that flying small airplanes is first and ...

Author, aviator to talk at Daniel Library event - Charleston Post Courier | Eldon Brown will recount his career in the aviation industry and talk about his memoir, "Controlled Crash," at The Citadel on Tuesday. Brown will talk about the humorous and often scary side of working with Braniff, Seaboard World Airlines and Japan ...

Cleaning Atlantic City house yields diaries, letters from famed pilot - Press of Atlantic City | And what she came out of the trash with is history — family history, Atlantic City history, black history and aviation history. She found letters from her father, a man she had never known because Buddy Dickerson, or George Jr., died just six months ...

Plan for plane hits turbulence - San Bernardino County Sun | Norton's 63/445 Veterans Group is finding unexpected twists and turns on its mission to bring a vintage airplane to San Bernardino as a memorial. The nonprofit veterans group, headed by retired Air Force Master Sgt. Ed Jeffries, has undertaken a challenging task: Get the fuselage of a C-141 Starlifter jet cargo plane transported from a Tucson Air Force Base to the former Norton Air Force Base as a memorial honoring both service members and civilians who served aboard the cargo plane and at Norton.  ...

Inspiration in Aircraft Design from Another Time | The fascinating aircraft designs that came out of the 1930s were truly remarkable.  Who dreamed these aircraft up, put them on paper and then built them!?  Where did the designers get their inspiration?  When Zantford "Granny" Granville and Bob Hall walked past the early Gee Bee's sitting in the Grandville Brothers hangar and made their way back to the work table what was on their minds?  Large radial engine, yes.  Small airframe, yes.  Short wings, yes.  Streamlines wheel pants, yes.  Then what!?  I am sure they both  ...

Paleejo's 'prehistoric' aeroplane - The Express Tribune | KARACHI: If Sindh's culture minister Sassui Paleejo is to be believed, an aeroplane dating two centuries back has been discovered at Jharak (Thatta) in Sindh. Jharak's earlier claim to fame was that it was the actual birthplace of the founder of the ...

Today in Aviation History – February 21 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | In 1911… A new 1910 Wright Type B Flyer owned by Collier’s magazine publisher Robert F. Collier, arrives at San Antonio, Texas on rent to the U.S. Army for $1.00 per month to supplement the aging Wright biplane first accepted on August 2, 1909. ...

Video: U Fly It Aircraft Introduces the Sport Storch from AVwebFlash Current Issue | In the 1930s, the German war machine created an amazing STOL aircraft called the Storch. A 3:4 scale version of the aircraft is now available as an LSA or experimental amateur-built plane through U Fly It Sport Aircraft. ...

F-22 Raptor’s Landing At Anderson AFB from AIRBOYD.TV

Red Flag 11-3 kicks off Feb. 21 - Nellis AFB | NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- Southern Nevada residents will notice an increase in military aircraft activity as the Air Force conducts Red Flag 11-3, Feb. 21 - March 11. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise takes place north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range--the U.S. Air Force's premier military training area with more than 12,000 square miles of ...

NASA Dryden Flight Research Highlights 2010 from AIRBOYD.TV  
   
PSC instructor hopes to inspire young black artists - Pensacola News Journal | He served as an art director and photographer for the Blue Angels before becoming the chief of naval operations in London, where he did undergraduate and graduate work in graphic design. In 2010, Hopkins established a four-year graphic design program ...

Designer says his car will soon fly - Emirates 24/7 | Sam Bousfield, inventor of the Switchblade™ spoke to a crowd during a forum at the recent Golden West Regional Fly-In and Air Show in Yuba City with a scale model at his side. (AGENCIES) The science fiction dream of a flying car will soon be realised, ...

Ugliest. Launch. Vehicle. EVER. from The Unwanted Blog | In May of 1962, JPL put out a report on a Nova-class space launcher that was designed to use nothing but solid rocket motors. Such things have been designed from time to time… but never as downright butt-ugly as this horrible monstrocity. ...

Message From Virgin Galactic: Have A Nice Day! from AirPigz | As Virgin Galactic continues to have success with the free flights of SpaceShipTwo, I thought it would be fun to take a nice close look at the area on the mothership (WhiteKnightTwo) where the space craft attaches... mostly because it says Have A Nice Day! I find these kinds of details to be a very important connection ...