Our October issue of The Magazine

 

The October, our latest issue of The Magazine is now available for download from

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 This issue features air shows from the UK: RIAT, Farnborough, Duxford and Waddington, from the USA: Dayton, McCord and more. Also Maple Flag exercise from Canada, and others from Germany, Sweden and Belgium. Enjoy the articles and great images such as about the CF-18 Demo Team.

 

Check out our latest air show review from Airpower over the Midwest, Scott AFB.

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Pilots to wow crowd at airshow - Adelaide Now | Picture: Richard Serong Source: Leader Crowds throng the Barossa Airshow at Rowland Flat. Picture: Craig Malin Source: The Advertiser AUSTRALIA'S leading pilots will take to the sky on Sunday for the annual Barossa Airshow. The Royal Australian Air ...

Air Show explores past, provides thrills By David DeKunder | History, inspiration and appreciation of those who have served in uniform were on display during last weekend's Randolph AFB Air Show.  From static displays of World War II, Vietnam and modern aircraft to re-enactments that wowed audiences on the base's west flight line, the air show lived up to its theme: “From Past to Future ... Freedom's Front Line.”  One of the many re-enactments and...

2011 Alliance Air Show Review - Photorecon

Fly-In grounded (again) - Northern Rivers Echo | Organisers of the Great Eastern Fly-In at Evans Head have cancelled the January event because of uncertainty that remediation and sewerage works at the aerodrome site will be completed on time.  Co-ordinator Gai Taylor said while Richmond Valley Council had said works would be completed in six weeks, weather permitting, with only eight weeks to go they simply couldn't take the risk...

Bahrain airshow set to take off - Trade Arabia | Only one corporate chalet remains unsold for the second Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) at the Sakhir Airbase in January, co-organiser Farnborough International Limted (FIL) has revealed.  FIL and Bahrain's Civil Aviation Affairs (CAA) are continuing preparations for the corporate and public event, which will also now include a gala dinner...

Tickets for RAF Waddington air show go on sale - This is Lincolnshire | Flying aces show off their skills at the active RAF base on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1. People are being encouraged to buy their tickets ahead of the event to avoid disappointment at the gates. Last year more than 140000 attended the two-day ...

17 Reasons Not to Litter in Texas | Warbird Wednesday - Leaving Terra Firma video | If you’re a fan of warbirds and you’re (presumably) not a fan of littering, have I got a treat for you. It’s a long lost (I’m basing this on some of the comments) commercial from Texas. It was born out of a partnership with the State of Texas and the (then) Confederate Air Force. At the time, Texas was running a series of anti-littering commercials based around the tag line, “Don’t mess with Texas.” Well, this particular commercial includes 17 reasons not to litter in Texas, that is to say it includes a B-17....

F8U-3 - The Unwanted Blog | The Vought F8U-3 Crusader III was mentioned in the comments in a recent post, so I figured I’d throw out some images of it. This was a beast of a plane, looking like little more than a giant afterburning turbojet engine, a plethora of blade-like control surfaces, an afterthought of a cockpit and a whole lot of attitude. A competitor to the F-4 Phantom II, the...

6 Squadron RAF complete the longest flight with Typhoon aircraft - Translated | Number 6 Squadron (Sqn No. 6) of the RAF, the Royal Air Force UK, has achieved several firsts for the aircraft with the RAF Eurofighter Typhoon multi, when these were deployed to Malaysia where they will attend the Year 11 marking the LIMA BERSAMA 40th anniversary of the Agreement on the Five Powers Defense (ADIP), comprising the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia....

2 Videos: LOT 767 Lands Wheels Up In Warsaw Poland 11-1-11 - airpigz.com | Here are two different videos of the LOT Airlines wheels up Boeing 767 landing in Warsaw Poland yesterday 11-1-11. Fortunately it was about...

Today in Aviation History – November 3 - crufc.ca

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Sell-out crowds enjoy Waddington International Air Show - This is Lincolnshire | Waddington International Air Show, which has been running since 1995, saw about 65000 people from across the country and beyond flock to the air base. EYES TO THE SKY: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight entertains sell-out crowds during the 2011 RAF ...

Thousands attend 'Wings Over Tyler' – KETK | TYLER — Sunday's air show, the first of its kind in about 15 years, kicked off in a true patriotic fashion with a paratrooper delivering a giant American flag -- all as the Star Spangled Banner played in the background. Soon after, Tora, Tora Tora, ...

Man pulls 150000 pound plane at Kalamazoo air show - Fox 28 | Mark Kirsch pulled a 150000 lb. airplane 120 ft. at a Kalamazoo air show on Friday, July 1. The pull was done in front of dozens of participants from Battle Creek Community Inclusive Recreation, which provides events for people of all ability levels, ...

Two more classics crash!  from Classic Aviation Worldwide by classic-aircraft | In further sad news for the aviation world - Bucker Jungmann, based at Old Warden, crashed upside down in a field while performing at the airfield. Meanwhile Kennet Aviation's Supermarine Seafire was forced to conduct a wheel's up landing with Anna Walker at the controls. Thankfully no major injuries or fatalities occurred in either…

Air Show Fan Now A Pilot - KMOX.com | “Every summer, we'd come up, watch the Cardinals play in that blazing heat, and cap off the 4th of July with an air show. Then it was head back home after saying goodbye to grandma, grandpa, and the uncles,” Capt. Carmean tells KMOX News. ...

Fair St. Louis Airshow for Special Needs Audience a Big Success Depsite Rain from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo:

AMA plans festival for 75th anniversary - Muncie Star Press | There is no cost to the public to attend the event, which will feature aerobatic flying demonstrations, hands-on radio-controlled flight training, national soaring competition, NASA exhibits, RC boats and cars, tethered balloon rides, ...

Warren air show benefits military families – WCAX | The fun was all part of this year's Stars and Stripes Charity Air Show. Pilots from across the country took to the cockpits of all different models including biplanes and sailplanes to volunteer their time. Hundreds of people packed the ...

A celebration of a local hero at Yeovilton Air Day - This is Somerset | Watch that agility in action when the Navy's Lynx display team, the Black Cats, of Yeovilton-based 702 Lynx training squadron perform their superb aerobatic display. This year Lt Chris Chambers, 36, is the lead pilot, with Lt Dave Fleming, 31, ...

Museum members get trip back in time - CTV.ca | As part of a nation-wide tour by an organization dedicated to preserving Canada's aviation history, some vintage airplanes took to the skies over the capital city – demonstrating to members what a flight might have been like in the 1940s. ...

Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships  from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e by pawangkul

Horton family story to be shared at museum - News Chief | CL Chennault and the "Flying Tigers," where he flew more than 50 missions in a B-25 before returning to the US Later, he returned to the US Air Force Reserves as a lieutenant colonel. In November 1941, second son Andrew Smith Horton enlisted in the ...

The B-25N “Panchito”  from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography »  “We owe it to present and future generations to wisely maintain and operate these treasures as living history monuments . . ..Larry Kelley” I think July 4th is the perfect day to reflect on the words of Larry Kelley, owner of Panchito…

Movie about pilot Joe Moser's story of WWII survival to premier in Bellingham - TheNewsTribune.com | Moser, who was in the Air Force, is featured in a World War II documentary about him and 168 airmen being shot down, captured and moved to Buchenwald concentration camp. The movie will premier at 7 pm on July 16 at Mount Baker Theatre. ...

B-47 bomber crews loaded with hydrogen bombs were told it was the real thing  from War Tales by Don Moore | Donald Gatrell of Port Charlotte, Fla. was a crew chief on a B-47 “Stratojet” six- engine nuclear bomber during the early 1960s. One mission stands in his mind after more than half a century. “It was the morning after Thanksgiving Day 1961. About 5 a.m. horns on our SAC base at Little Rock Ark. sounded. [...]

Terrafugia flying car gets road-safety exemptions – Register | The Terrafugia Transition "roadable" aircraft – a stylish combination of light aeroplane and car – has been granted useful exemptions by the US Department of Transportation. It's a car. It can fly. ...

The final shuttle launch  from Spacevidcast by Benjamin Higginbotham

Happy last shuttle launch!  from make the logo bigger by mtlb | The history of the space shuttle, in pictures. For Gen Star Trek, the end of an era:

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Your ticket to the 2011 Beaufort Air Show - Hilton Head Island Packet | The 2011 Beaufort Air Show will be held Saturday and Sunday. Gates at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort open at 9 am and the show begins at 11 am Spectators are encouraged to arrive early and allow time for parking and lines at ...

Thursday's news briefs - Hilton Head Island Packet | The air show will feature performances by the Blue Angels and is expected to draw more than 100000 people to the air station this weekend, according to organizers. The Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn will present a program on South Carolina's ...

Red Arrows to return - Whitby Today | THE WORLD-FAMOUS Red Arrows will once again tear across the sky as part of Whitby's Regatta celebrations in August. This year's display will take place on 15 August, almost 37 years to the day since the RAF's iconic acrobatic team first graced Whitby ...

Red Arrows flying back to Southport Air Show - Maghull & Aintree Star | THE famous Red Arrows have been confirmed to appear on both days at this year's Southport Air Show. In 2011 the air show marks its 20th anniversary and is taking place earlier in the year on July 23 and 24. The date coincides with the start of the ...

Record number of advance tickets sales for RAF Waddington International Air show - This is Lincolnshire | VISITORS to this year's RAF Waddington International Air Show are being urged to buy their tickets in advance because sales have already reached record highs. Organisers of the annual event, set to take place at the base on July 2 and 3, say they have ...

Air Show grounded – Brantford Expositor - More than $400000 in air show proceeds has been raised over the past 11 years for charities within the community. Aviation enthusiasts are reminded that both Hamilton and St. Thomas are hosting air shows in June, followed by Waterloo, …

Air show set to wow big crowd - Mackay Daily Mercury | THE Whitsunday Airport is celebrating 50 years in operation with a jam-packed air show which is expected to draw large crowds on Sunday. Visitors will see amazing sky-high entertainment including the Airforce Roulettes, MaxxG Aerobatics and a skydive ...

Boscobel air show pulls hundreds to St Mary - Jamaica Observer | HUNDREDS of aviation enthusiasts turned out for the inaugural Boscobel Jamaica air show in St Mary on the weekend. The two-day show, which was hosted by the Caribbean Aviation Training Centre (CATC) in collaboration with the Airports Authority of ...

100 years since the first flight demonstration in Edmonton - iNews880.com | Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the first public demonstration of powered flight in Edmonton. It took place back on April 28th, 1911 at the Edmonton Spring Horse Show. As people looked up in amazement from the Edmonton Exhibition Grounds ...

Crusader expands Castle museum's Navy fleet - Merced Sun-Star | ATWATER — As a restoration team towed Castle Air Museum's recently refurbished RF-8 Crusader out of its hangar, Navy veteran Denny Baker stood by and watched, wearing his flight jacket with a patch on the back reading "Unarmed and ...

Microsoft and EffectiveUI Mix Silverlight, HTML5 to Deliver Navy`s Blue Angels ... – eWeek | EffectiveUI, with the help of Microsoft, launched a new website for the Navy's Blue Angels flight squadron using Silverlight, HTML5 and other popular web technologies. Who said using Microsoft's Silverlight or HTML5 was an either/or decision? ...

U.S. Navy Aircraft History: The Blue Angels Aircraft  by Tailspin | 1949-1950, F9F-2: The Blue Angels entered the jet age with the Grumman F9F-2 Panther. They initially thought that removing the Panther's tip tanks would provide better visibility for close formation flying as well as reduce weight. ...

1977 Video Footage Of The YC-14 And YC-15 - Makes Me Happy!  by Martt - You know, I can't really say why I have such a fondness for the ole Boeing YC-14 and McDonnell Douglas YC-15... but I do. I was a teen when these advanced STOL military lifter prototypes were developed and I followed their progress fairly closely at the time…

Radio control air show Saturday - Monroe News Star | Flying will be continuous throughout the day with special demonstrations throughout the day featuring aerobatic flying, helicopters and aerial combat. Adults and children will enjoy watching the airplanes and helicopter. ...

'Space Tourism Turns Ten' - Miles O'Brien  from RLV and Space Transport News | Miles O'Brien reports on "on the 10th anniversary of Dennis Tito's historic flight to the International Space Station, ushering in the era of space tourism."

The shuttle program counts down 'til the end - Scientific American | Next year it'll be off to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of. The collective journalist storyline has already coalesced around how everyone feels about the end of the space shuttle program ...

How schoolkids gave the Endeavour its name - msnbc.com | Of all NASA's space shuttles to fly in orbit, only Endeavour — the youngest in the fleet — received its name in the most unusual way:

For the love of flight go to this regional festival - The Virginian-Pilot | The most notable addition to this year's list of events: On Sunday, weather permitting, children ages 8 through 17 can become Young Eagles by taking a free flight in light airplanes provided by Experimental Aircraft Association pilots. ...

Pixie MacLeod-hodgson freestyling from Bonjour BlueSky: 

Today in Aviation History – April 28  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

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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. ...

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Navy helicopters dip in Lake Tahoe - San Diego Union Tribune | Retired Navy F-14 pilot and San Diego resident Steve Diamond called the punishment just, but "a crushing blow" for an aviator. ...

Navy instructors punished for dipping $33 million helos in water from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | Two Navy instructor pilots have been stripped of flying status and two student pilots will have to repeat training because of a September incident in which they dipped two $33 million aircraft into Lake Tahoe while trying to take photos for the squadron's Facebook page, a Navy official said Wednesday…

Blue Angels To Perform In Brunswick This Summer - WMTW Portland | BRUNSWICK, Maine -- The Blue Angels, a Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, are coming back to Brunswick this summer. Although the Navy will have already ...

MCAS Miramar Air Show - KGTV San Diego | ABC10, and our sister station Azteca America San Diego 15, are proud to be the television sponsors of the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar Air Show. ...

Video pedia World - 2010 MCAS Miramar (Twilight) Air Show ... by sky | 2010 MCAS Miramar (Twilight) Air Show - Shockwave Jet Truck.

Airshow coming back to Hamilton in 2012 - Digital Forum by james99 | Airshow coming back to Hamilton in 2012 News, Weather, Sports and Anything Else.,,

Spitfire Comes To Texas from Aero-News Network | Scale Manufacturer Moving From Australia The website of the Texas Aviation Association indicated that the manufacturer of a two-place scale replica of the Supermarine Spitfire is moving its operation from Brisbane, Australia to Cisco Municipal Airport (3F2) just west of Ft. Worth. A hangar to accommodate the manufacturer is being built this winter…

Give extreme flight - Examiner.com | The thrill ride is customizable and includes loops, rolls, spins, and other common air show maneuvers - all at speeds over two hundred miles per hour! ...

Waddington International Air Show nominated as finalist in business awards - This is Lincolnshire | RAF WADDINGTON'S annual international air show is a proven regional number one for pulling in visitors. And, while thought to be worth a minimum of £12 ...

Air Force museum shows warbirds at peace - Indianapolis Star | The Air Power Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force houses one of the world's top collections of World War II aircraft. ...

Exhibit remembers fallen soldiers from war on terrorism - Lincoln Journal Star | Roy White, of Smith Center, Kansas, walks through the "Remembering Our Fallen" exhibit at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland Monday. ...

Rutan Voyager from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | On December 23, 1986, nine days, three minutes, and 44 seconds after taking off, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager touched down at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, in the Rutan Voyager aircraft to finish the first flight around the world made without landing or refueling.  Rutan's brother Burt had designed Voyager but it was the availability of carbon-fibers coated with epoxy allowing Burt to design an airframe that could lift more than ten times its flying weight (including 3,180 kg, 7,011 lb, of fuel) that made the flight even possible…

More on SpaceShipTwo testing from RLV and Space Transport News | The Aviation Week article on SpaceShipTwo tests that I mentioned earlier is now available in their open section: SS2 Glide Tests Exceed Expected Progress - Aviation Week - Dec.22.10.

The first M-346 "Master" and its future in the Frecce Tricolori display team by David Cenciotti | On Dec. 21, 2010, the first  Alenia Aermacchi M-346 advanced trainer from the first batch of six aircraft for the Italian Air Force rolled out at Alenia's factory at Venegono Superiore, during a ceremony attended by both company executives and representatives of the Aeronautical Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) and local authorities…

How Aleksandr Yakovlev's Rivalry with Pavel Sukhoi Did Him In from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The 1950s and 1960s in Russian combat aircraft development were marked by intense rivalries between the various design bureau (OKBs) heads. Nowhere else was this seen than with the rivalries between the respective OKBs of Artem Mikoyan, Pavel Sukhoi, and Aleksandr Yakovlev…

Today In Aviation History – December 23 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal | In 1907… The chief signals officer of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. James Allen, issues specification no. 486, the first military aircraft specification for which commercial tenders were invited. The specification is written around the capabilities of the Wright Flyer and, though published for bids to conform to army requirements, only the Wrights are expected to respond by the closing date of February 1, 1908…

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Flying High: Planes, aerobats show off during Jacqueline Cochran Air Show - The Desert Sun | Thousands of people turned out Saturday for the seventh annual Jacqueline Cochran Air Show in Thermal. Attendees got to see fast-moving fighter jets speed ...

Thunderbirds inspire kids of all ages at Lackland Airfest - San Antonio Express | Twice, the famed Thunderbirds air acrobatics team visited his base in Hawaii. Both times, Gradel was deployed overseas. "My experience with the Thunderbirds ...

'Daring Birdman' kicked off a century of Naval aviation - The Virginian-Pilot | Ely, meanwhile, returned to barnstorming, delighting crowds across the country with his aerobatic displays. When an interviewer from The Des Moines Register ...

New Pilots Go To Salinas Airshow from Pacific Flyer | Editor's Note: a freshly-minted pilot e-mailed us that he and his brother were going to their first airshow and asked if we'd be interested in a report, no charge. Those were the magic words, since our assigned man took ill. So here's Larry Pemberton's unedited story, with photos by Curt Fargo. - By Larry Pemberton and Bob, Photos By Curt Fargo | Me and my brother Bob decided it was time that we went to an airshow. We are, after all, officially government-certified pilots, tested and approved and have yet to run into anything firm. But, between the both of us, we'd never been to an airshow; can you believe it?...

Aerobatic Racing Challenge from Pacific Flyer | What is the Aerobatic Racing Challenge Series? The Aerobatic Racing Challenge Series (ARC Series) is a new and innovative racing format featuring pilots with high-performance aerobatic aircraft competing against each other on a vertical race course. As a featured Air Show event, pilots race through an aerobatic sequence in a side-by-side dual that challenges each pilot to fly the maneuvers as quickly and cleanly as possible…

The Jet Man does it again! from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I've written about Swiss pilot Yves Rossi before in these pages. He's famous as the 'Jet Man', having built a carbon-fiber 'wing' powered by four jet engines of the type used on small radio-controlled hobby aircraft…

Pilots Fly Onto AF Lakebed from Pacific Flyer | Editor's Note: In September, we published a news release from the FAA and Edwards AFB announcing they were coordinating the first ever civilian fly-in to the historic Rosamond Dry Lakebed. The event, to be held on Friday, Oct. 1, was limited to 100 aircraft and the pilots were to be selected by lottery. A runway was to be "created" on the Dry Lake Bed, located 12 miles west of Edwards' main runway…

Amelia Earhart: the turbulent life of an American icon — a book review from Travel for Aircraft | Amelia Earhart: the turbulent life of an American icon — a book review | Amelia Earhart: the turbulent life of an American icon, Kathleen C. Winters, 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-61669-1, 233 pp. + index | I have been learning about aviation's history from the 1930s and earlier over the previous year or so. I've learned that much of what I learned in my youth has been substantially revised. The academic publisher, Palgrave MacMillan, offered me a prepublication copy of a new title about Amelia Earhart so that I might review and post about it. I happily accepted as there were no strings attached, no requests to edit the post or lavish gifting. Palgrave MacMillan does not work that way, thankfully…

Bombardier Follis shot down over Germany - Bellingham Herald | Our crew was assigned to the Pyote Army Air Base near Pecos, Texas, for training on B-17 Flying Fortresses. Our bomber crew went overseas in a convoy ...

During WW2, this woman veteran taught Army boys to fly. - Susan Rodriguez, who grew up York, Pennsylvania and now lives in Bethesda, Md., sorts through World War II-era papers related to her work as a flight instructor. (Daily Record/Sunday News -- Paul Kuehnel) York, PA - Susan Smith was just out of college and teaching foreign languages in 1942, an emergency replacement because the regular teacher had just gone off to war. Every morning her father…

Gathering Of Mustangs (Well, 5) from Pacific Flyer - Story and Photos By Roger Cain | Although 10 P-51 Mustangs were expected at this year's one-day "Gathering of Mustangs" only five were able to make it to the event October 9th at Nut Tree Airport, about one hour northeast of San Francisco. Hosted by the Travis Air Museum and co-sponsored by its non-profit arm of the Jimmy Doolittle Air and Space Museum Foundation and the Nut Tree Airport, the turnout also attracted the four wheeled kind…

Nearly 100 years since Wiseman's special delivery - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | There will be exhibitions centered on Wiseman's flight at five places (at least) throughout the month of February — the Pacific Coast Air Museum, ...

Some amazing aerial footage of World War I from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The BBC has unearthed some amazing film footage shot from an airship in 1919 over the battlefields of World War I. It's going to form part of a program called 'The First World War From Above'. The director of the program reports: I was approached to direct The First World War From Above earlier this year. Back then, my fantastic production team at the BBC had put together a dazzling array of stories and elements.

B-58 Launcher, Part D'oh from The Unwanted Blog | The second of two illustrations of a B-58 as a carrier for some form of large rocket, from the SDAM via Mark Nankivil. While this sketch shows more clearly that the intention  was to launch the rocket in a direction safely describable as "up," this illustration also displays a number of… anomalies…

Wings of war: Vintage war planes visit Perry airport - Macon Telegraph | On hand at the Perry-Houston County Airport's Open House and Fly-In on Friday and Saturday were a vintage World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, ...

Fort Hood hero speaks at Danville veterans ceremony - GoDanRiver.com | In his speech, Hopewell spoke about his father's wartime experience aboard a B-17 bomber and how that event brought him to Danville. ...

Bombshell Beauties Calendar from Pacific Flyer | Bombshells 2011 is our hottest issue yet featuring gorgeous women and air to air photography of the most rare and unique vintage warbirds flying today. The 2011 theme brings nose art to life with the girls dressed like the very art work that appears on the aircraft with which they are being photographed…

DVD Review: Waddington International Airshow 2010 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The Media Group have once again produced a a very different and interesting interpretation of an airshow DVD. As well as coverage of the flying display highlights there are a number of other background features covering some of Waddington's units as well as airshow preparations. The E-3D Sentry AEW1 crew provide a "video diary" of their own preparations for the opening station flypast while other sections focus on 8 Squadron's Memorial Garden, the Waddington Fire Crews, the Air Traffic Control Caravan  as well as preperations for the Tornado GR4 Role Demo and Harrier GR9 displays amongst others…

Area 51 Movie to be Released in 2011 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The movie Area 51 is a "found footage" take on the secret location in the Nevada desert, that supposedly houses a UFO, as three students try to break in to the secure facility back in 1994. The video cam was later recovered. Production of the movie took place in Utah…

'Super 8' Movie to be released June 10, 2011 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The secretive sci-fi movie "Super 8" will be released in theaters June 10, 2011. The story is set in 1979 when a train is carrying something that came from a section of Area 51. The train is heading for Ohio together with the unknown cargo taken from Area 51. What was taken from Area 51 will eventually escape. Production is now underway in West Virginia. Steven Spielberg is producing "Super 8" with J. J. Abrams and his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk…

SiFi Apollo 18 Movie Coming in March 2011 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) A new SciFi movie Apollo 18 will imagine a world where the mission actually took place and led an encounter between aliens and humans on the surface of the Moon. The early 1970's Apollo 18 moon mission was officially canceled by NASA, but according to urban legend, it actually happened. The movie footage shows signs of alien life taken by the Apollo 18 moonwalkers, and the events of the mission are built into a thriller story line…

Arcadia Publishing from Pacific Flyer | Arcadia Publishing has teamed up with some of the best aviation historians to create the Images of Aviation series. This series focuses on preserving the history of the aviation industry and chronicling its progression throughout the years. Each book contains more than 200 vintage images celebrating the history of flight - from the early experimental, lighter-than-air craft to modern commercial, military and private air machines…

For Sale: The only aviation-themed, all-suites hotel in the Midwest by Jay Honeck | Now's your chance to hang out with pilots all day long, too! As seen in AOPA Pilot Magazine, GA News, and a host of other aviation periodicals, I present for your consideration the Alexis Park Inn & Suites: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_582wt_1135

A quick trip to Masterton: post 2 of 3 from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | In this second post of the quick trip to Masterton, here are a few of the aircraft sitting and flying around…

A big thank you! from From the Flight Deck | These "kids" are now in their late twenties and early thirties. Looks like I was spreading the "word of aviation " for quite some time. I took them up for a tour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Even though none of them pursued aviation, I think they had a great day…

Kids get heads up in the clouds at first annual fly-in - Columbus Telegram | Those who did fly received a Young Eagles certification. Young Eagles is a program of the Experimental Aircraft Association, an international aviation group ...

The Fall of the Concorde from Aviation by K.P. | The Concorde, introduced in 1976, was the first passenger airliner that traveled at supersonic speeds. This was the product of a joint venture between British and French companies and remained in operation until 2003… The Concorde could supercruise at Mach 2.02 and had a top speed of Mach 2.04…

The Ryan FR-1 Fireball and F2R Dark Shark: an Evolutionary Dead-End  - When the US Navy initiated the development of its first jet fighter, the McDonnell FD-1/FH-1 Phantom, in 1942, not only did it hedge its bets on McDonnell's design by carrier testing the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, but it also initiated a back up program at the insistence of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) for a mixed-powerplant fighter that combined a conventional piston radial engine with a jet engine...

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Planes of Oshkosh by Barb | Planes, planes everywhere.  OK, I hear you.  It is called AirVenture after all.  And for airplane lovers far and wide (of which my Dear Hubby is one), it is the place to be in July.  Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  And cool temps for people who live in much warmer locations.  I'm all about the cooler temperature….

OSHKOSH Pic Stream #8 - Departures (Includes C-5 Galaxy - 22 pix) by Martt | Some people drool over a Piper Malibu, Beech Bonanza, or a Cirrus SR22, but if I was able to have any airplane that could take a few friends along and get there kinda quick, I'd want this Mr Mulligan replica! I'm assuming this is the one from the Arkansas Air Museum as I'm not aware of any other replicas of this most amazing aircraft from the mid 1930's. 550 hp hangin' off the nose and room for four... I'm likes it!...

Jack Roush Reported On The Mend from Aero-News Network | The Premier... Didn't Do So Well ANN has learned that Racing Pioneer and Aviation Afficianodo Jack Roush, 68, is apparently healing well after a landing accident, last week, at the 2010 Oshkosh EAA Fly-In. Roush was reportedly trying to land when his aircraft stalled and impacted the airport just off the runway after the close of the daily airshow on July 27th.

RAF Waddington International Air Show from Pacific Wings Magazine - By Peter Cooper | It has been 26 years since its last operational roar, but the Vulcan bomber once again ruled the sky over Lincolnshire at the recent RAF Waddington International Air Show. Just south of the city of Lincoln, ensconced deep inside the renowned World War II Lincolnshire "Bomber County", lies the important Royal Air Force base of Waddington. Today, RAF Waddington has a specific role as the hub of British ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) and not only supports the UK Forces but also NATO…

Rare Zero fighter plane to be filmed for documentary - A Japanese company is flying to Minot on Aug. 23 to film footage of the 1941 A6M2 Model 21 Zero, one of a few Zeros in the world still capable of flying. The late Gerry Beck, former warplane builder, along with Warren Pietsch, Minot, and Tim McPhearson, Page, bought the Zero about 30 years after it was first recovered from the Solomon Islands in 1969. Schreiber-Beck resumed her husband's partnership in the group, referred to as Dakota Blayd Zero, after he died in a plane crash in 2007. "It's such a remarkable airplane in itself, and it gives credit to the technology that the Japanese were using to build it," said Schreiber-Beck. "They had a different mindset than the American population - it was built to be nimble and quick, not necessarily to protect the pilot…

Cataloging, Taking Notes, and Jim's G-Face from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Hey! Bet you've wondered where we've been! All over the place, to be honest. I've hit several airshows, toured the American Champion plant, and been to Beale AFB capturing footage, and other stuff for the movie. With the airshow season winding down here in the northern part of the United States (or at least the northern part of the midwest), I've begun to have time to really sit down and systematically go through the video and audio that we captured in May. Tonight I got all the way through Jim Rodriguez's first flight in the Super D with Don Weaver on 14 May….

Mix of planes will be featured at Flying Circus - Oxford Press | In addition to a space shuttle, this year will feature the Doolittle Raiders of World War II, 200 mph turbine-powered jets, giant scale B-29 and B-17 ...

Thunderbirds to fly at Ventura County air show - Santa Maria Times | US Air Force Thunderbirds lead solo, Maj. Rick Goodman, and Capt. Aaron Jelinek, the opposing solo, perform the crossover break May 1, 2010, during the Big ...

Thunderbirds' support team member has county ties - Ventura County Star | Jason McCree, Thunderbird public affairs officer, discuss details of an airshow. Photo courtesy of US Air Force Tech. Sgt. Russ Martin, a public affairs, ...

Flying Feathered Foe from From the Flight Deck | Well that 3:30 a.m wake up seemed to come extra early this morning. But a straight out departure off runway 25 in Ottawa to a straight in approach on runway 23 in Toronto proved uneventful especially with two large Tim Hortons consumed. Usually, I only have one but this morning I upped the dosage…

Letters From War—Aeroscouts from Pacific Wings Magazine - By Donald Harward | The two young "warrants" (warrant officers) caught my eye as they walked past my aircraft on their way towards their company area. They looked tired—very tired—and I noticed the green canvas boxes, which held their ANVIS night vision goggles, draped over their shoulders. Their faces were streaked with dirt or dust, and trails of tears led from the corners of their eyes—something that is common here, as our eyes are constantly irritated by all the dirt and dust in the air…

Sikorsky X2 Pushes Its Way Into The Rotorcraft Record Book by Martt |  I've never really considered myself a 'rotorhead' before, but after riding recently in a Huey and a Bell 47, and then also seeing what's going on with Sikorsky via their display booth at Oshkosh, I'm warming up to the rotary wing concept. You've probably already seen some news about the fact that on July 26th, Sikorsky's X2 coaxial rigid-rotor demonstrator set an unofficial speed record of 259 mph. That's a pretty big deal…

Senate Passes NASA Authorization Bill from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The United States Senate Thursday passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 as recommended by the Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee. The measure advances while leaving the House NASA Authorization Act of 2010 to be debated on the floor of that body in September and subject to floor amendments…

Cold War: The Peacemaker Takes to the Sky from About.com Military History | August 8, 1946 - The Convair B-36 Peacemaker (right) first flies. Responding to the US Army Air Corps' needs for a very long-range bomber in 1941, Consolidated (Convair after 1943) began work on what was to become the B-36. Delayed due to other wartime needs and various issues, the prototype did not fly until August 1946…

The Equation for a Thriving GA Community: Pilots x Planes + Kids = New Aviators for Future Prosperity from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | [Note, this is part two of a two-part article on the camaraderie that we pilots share.] In part one of this series, I took a look at exactly how rare it is to possess a pilot's license in the United States. The conclusion – while not really news to most flyers – was quite a stunner to non-pilots on the street..