Aviation Pioneer Chip Yates To Accept International Award * Flight of the Century | Yates has been selected to receive the FAI’s Louis Bleriot Medal for his record-setting flights in 2013, which established new international landmarks in speed, altitude and distance for electric flight....
Video: Blue Angels rip through San Francisco skies * KOMO | Footage and commentary on the prep for Fleet Week.
Behind the scenes with the Blue Angels * SF Gate | The Blue Angels were set to head to the skies 
Up, up and away over the San Francisco Bay * Mercury News | It was fun and exhilarating ... until I got sick. When my editor asked me last week -- half jokingly -- if I'd like to go up in a Fleet Week stunt plane, I jumped at the chance, surprising some colleagues who never guessed that this mild-mannered suburban mom is actually a thrill-seeker at heart...
Wings and Waves takes flight this weekend over Daytona Beach * News-Journal Online | A Screamin’ Sasquatch and Thunderbirds will soar through the skies over the World’s Most Famous Beach this weekend. The Wings and Waves Air Show will feature aerial performances by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, a bi-plane beastie known as the Screamin’ Sasquatch Jet Waco, and some 40 other aircraft....
Aero-TV: Kyle Franklin -- Acro Flying With Showmanship * Aero-News Net | One Of the Airshow 
Thomasville Fly-In to Kick Off Today * WCTV | THOMASVILLE, Ga. -- The Thomasville Fly-In, a celebration in the air and a nearly fifty year tradition is taking place today. The Fly-In kicks off today and it will last through Sunday at the Thomasville Regional Airport. It's a free event and open to everyone...
Community Invited to Bryce Canyon Airport for Fly-in, Open House * St. George News | PANGUITCH — The communities of the Bryce Canyon area are preparing to welcome extra pilots and the public to its historic airport with the first-ever Bryce Canyon Fly-in and Airport Appreciation Day happening Friday and Saturday...
Voodoo and Strega are here! * Planes of Fame | Voodoo just arrived! We are excited to have both Strega and Voodoo here on display at Planes of Fame Air Museum!...
Fort Worth Alliance Air Show 2014 * Airplanes.com | The USAF Thunderbirds will be one of the highlights of the program at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show on October 25 & 26, 2014. Also featured on the program of events is the US Special Operations Command Parachute Team, as well as aerobatic pilots Manfred Radius, Kevin Coleman, Dan Buchanan, Rob Holland, and Matt Younkin...
Breitling Jet Team - Belgian Air Force Days 2014 * TakeOffTube.com
Amazing Fireworks Flight With Gene Soucy * TakeOffTube.com
CAF Red Tail Squadron – Event Update – CAF WWII Air Expo * CAF Red Tail Squadron | On October 2-5 the CAF Red Ta 10669334_718067074940971_3513277791046784249_oil Squadron participated in the CAF Air Expo at the Dallas Executive airport (formally Redbird airport). This the location for the National Airbase for the CAF. The Air Expo had an “Open House” feel which was welcomed by the local neighbors. DOTA’s Calvin Spann and Homer Houge joined the audience and shared their memories with the crowd. Gordon Guillory, President of the local Tuskegee chapter (Claude R. Platte Chapter) spent many hours with us...
Photos: Pemberton & Sons Aviation * Crosswind Images | A brief visit with one of the leading families in classic aircraft restoration and operation.
Dennis McCarthy: World War II combat pilot has one final mission * Los Angeles Daily News | ...The B-25 took off from Camarillo Airport on Saturday, Sept. 6, heading 18 miles out toward the Channel Islands....
Kentville woman wins aviation and aerospace award * Nova News Now | ...The award recognizes outstanding Canadian women in aviation and aerospace industries and is named after Elsie MacGill, who achieved many firsts during her lifetime...
LORD, IF YOU’RE UP THERE... * Photorecon | ...Still falling face up, I appeared to be clear of the debris and I saw no sign of the seat between my legs, so I pulled the parachute’s rip cord. No comforting jerk, though....
NASA Partners With X-37B Program For Use Of Former Space Shuttle Hangars * Aero-News Net | NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Program for use of the center’s Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) Bays 1 and 2 to process the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle for launch...
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Veterans meet Blue Angels despite rained-out show * St. George Daily Spectrum | GEORGE – Although rain and lightning caused a special showing of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels to be canceled Friday afternoon, the veteran attendees from the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins City still had the chance to see the planes up close and to...
Moorestown native realizes his dream with the Blue Angels * Philly.com | Flynn will support the flight leader of the Blue Angels - Commander Tom Frosch - "in the day-to-day operations of the squadron. I won't be flying but I'll make sure that we have the people and the parts - everything needed to do the mission," he said...
U S Army Parachute Team Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Enrique Melendez Relinquished Command to Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Weinrich * U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | The day began with extreme hustle and bustle around the area. The local radio and television were continually announcing the Change of Command for the US Army Parachute Team Golden Knights. The Soldiers were taking care of all the final details, reviewing the set up, podium, seating chart and the Aviation section had strategically placed the team aircraft in position for the ceremony. Media Relations was busy greeting and escorting media outlets, preparing camera’s, documenting guest as they were escorted to their assigned seats....
The voice of the air show * KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska | “The air show director asked if anybody had any public speaking experience. Well I spent 10 years of my life in the radio and television business, so I stupidly raised my hand and he said 'you're the air show narrator.' I knew nothing about it...
Rough landing at Friday Harbor Air Show * SanJuanIslander.com | A pilot, his wife and young daughter escaped injury when a mechanical failure caused a rough landing on the runway at Friday Harbor Airport's Open House and Fly-In. He did a great job of landing the plane, said an observer. More information isn't...
Red Arrows: 'This is the coolest job in the world' * Belfast Telegraph | He's talking about the honour of being a member of the Royal Air Force Aerobatics team, the Red Arrows. It's a job that might not induce the level of hysteria Cruise is used to, but it does place those elite pilots, who get to wear the world-famous red...
Screamin’ Sasquatch — the radial and jet engine powered 1929 Taperwing Waco * Travel for 
Magnificent Man in a Flying Machine: The 'finest' first World War work of ... * Express.co.uk | Into that background stepped a dashing aviator called Frederick Warren Merriam whose claim to fame was becoming the first pilot to fly through the clouds. Merriam, then 34 years old, was an instructor at Brooklands Aerodrome near Weybridge in Surrey.
IWM Duxford's Spitfires, Merlins and Motors day attracts thousands * Times 24 | In the foyer entrance of AirSpace, visitors met staff from the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, dressed as 1940s civilians and celebrating the achievements of women in aviation, with a mini-exhibition showcasing the inspirational women who helped to...
Enter the FAI Young Artists Contest and have your share in the FAI World Air ... * World Air Sports Federation | Airplanes and gliders will amaze the crowd with spins, loops, and dives in the aerobatic games, while powered planes will show their skills in an air navigation race. There will also be radio controlled aerobatics: the same spins, loops, and dives, but...
Offutt Air Show attendance put at 150000, but total didn't set record * Omaha World-Herald | Offutt Air Force Base hosted big crowds at last weekend's Defenders of Freedom Open House & Air Show, but the show's return after a one-year hiatus didn't break attendance records. An estimated 150,000 attended the two-day event July 19-20, said Ryan...
AOPA issues call for airports to host 2015 regional fly-ins * AOPA Pilot | Each fly-in also includes a Pilot Town Hall hosted by AOPA President Mark Baker. “We've had a fantastic turnout by our members at our fly-ins this year, with a resounding call for more of the same in 2015,” Baker said. “The airports we're visiting in...
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Consolidated PBY from Mike Fizer | Aviation enthusiast and warbird collector, Jim Slattery, shares his thoughts with AOPA's Barry Schiff on the restoration of a Consolidated PBY for The Greatest Generation Naval Museum in San Diego, CA. The beautiful Lake Mead video footage of this historic WWII amphib was supplied by The Greatest Generation Naval Museum.
Executive Director of the New England Air Museum (NEAM) To Retire at the End of 2014. · Warbirds News | Michael P. Speciale, Executive Director of the New England Air Museum (NEAM), has announced his retirement as of December 1, 2014. Mike has been Executive Director for 29 years and has led the Museum’s transformation from a small one-hangar museum recovering from the effects of a tornado in 1979, to a major cultural, educational, and historical institution serving a world-wide audience.Scott Ashton, President of the NEAM Board of Directors, said “Mike has been an enthusiastic and dedicated leader of the Museum for nearly 30 years. Over that period...
Douglas A-20 Havoc (RE)Discovered in Siberia · WarbirdsNews has learned that the wreck of a Soviet Douglas A-20 Havoc recently re-emerged in the Taiga of western Siberia in Russia. Apparently the lend-lease medium bomber, one of roughly 3400 of the type given to the Soviet Union, went down on its ferry flight from Alaska to the Eastern Front in 1943. The Taiga is a vast boreal forest which is largely uninhabited, and buried under snow and ice for much of the year. Although no photographs have surfaced publicly as of yet, the aircraft (technically designated a DB-7) apparently went down on the slopes of Zelyonaya mountain in the Kemerovo region. Sadly, it appears that the...
The One And Only Stearman M-2 Has Moved · Rich Davidson NORDO News - Aviation Unedited |
I've been watching the Stearman M-2 for some time. I remember when I first laid my hands on it as the restoration neared completion. The thing is massive. In fact, although many people call other Stearmans a "Bull Stearman", this is the actual model Stearman that was called that by her pilots when she was new....Curtiss A-8 — the 1930s attack aircraft experiment * Travel for Aircraft | The U.S. Army Air Corps compared air cooled radial engine powered aircraft versus in-line liquid cooled engines in attack aircraft designs, during the 1930s, and the Curtiss A-8 was one of these designs. Powered by a Curtiss V-1570-31 Conqueror (600 hp/~450kW) the A-8 carried its pilot–observer/rear gunner nearly 500 miles at 153 mph/245kph. Marked by two glazed tandem cockpits it...
"Morgan Fairchild" UCAP #360 · Jack Hodgson, Dave Higdon, Jeb Burnside - Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Every week the UCAP gang gathers to talk about all things GA. You can listen-in as some of General Aviation's most knowledgeable, opinionated, and plain-spoken characters do some online, hangar-flying. Show-notes can be found at http://www.uncontrolledairspace.com/
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
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USAF Thunderbirds are Coming to AirVenture * WBAY | Sequestration kept the Thunderbirds from Oshkosh last year, but the Air Force put AirVenture on its calendar again this year. And all EAA officials need to do now, to ensure the high flying death defying team's performance, is tie up some loose...
Blue Angels to take practice flights this week - WKBT La Crosse | You may have heard some buzzing over La Crosse this afternoon. The Blue Angels are helping bring back Airfest in the area. It's the first time the Angels will be back here in about 7 years...
11th Annual Jones Beach Airshow - Golden Knights | The Black Demonstration Team led by SFC Kevin Presgraves made their third air show appearance of the season at the 11th Annual Jones Beach Airshow in New York. It was an honor to be back in the skies again performing alongside so many prestigious acts including the US Navy Blue Angels and legendary aviation pilot Sean D. Tucker of Team Oracle...
Video: This Guy Put a Jet Engine on a 1929 Airplane and Now Does Insane Stunts for a Living - 
Mashable | ...Boerboon, who was the 2010 U.S. Unlimited Aerobatics champion, flies with John Klatt Airshows, a traveling circus of planes and pilots currently making the rounds across the U.S. He started stunt flying more than 20 years ago while studying aviation at the University of North Dakota. His excitement for flying — and particularly for flying the Screamin’ Sasquatch — is obvious from the moment you meet him....
Making 'the impossible possible' at the Berlin Air Show - Environment & Energy Publishing | BERLIN -- When a Panavia Tornado blasted into the clouds above the Berlin Air Show before swooping back down toward the Earth, the grounds below shook from the roar of the fighter bomber's twin engines. When the next aircraft took to the sky, the air show went eerily quiet. The fully electric E-Fan aircraft, engineered by Airbus Group, made one of its first public demonstrations here last week following it's first-ever flight in France on March 11....
Countdown to Midwest Airport Fun Days: Warbirds Arrive at Museum | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum has begun its “Countdown to Midwest Airport Fun Days” with the arrival of several warbirds that will be on static display during the June 7-8 event. The St. Louis Downtown Airport community recently welcomed a Douglas DC-3 cargo aircraft and the rare Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon...
Interstates and Movie Stars for 2014 Fly-In * Antique Airfield News | We're building a list of movie and TV star airplanes for the 2014 Fly-in, Stars of the Sky and Screen - first registrations below. Also this year's fly-in features Interstate Aircraft....
Pine Hill Airport marking 50th anniversary of fly-in breakfast - The Daily News Online | ALBION — Pine Hill Airport will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its annual pancake breakfast on June 1...
Amelia Project Flight Set for June 23 Launch * Aviation International News | Planning for the project started a year-and-a-half ago, the Denver TV newscaster said, and it was officially announced at EAA AirVenture last year. The east-to-west journey will begin June 23, weather permitting, and make 17 stops along the 24,000-mile...
ONLINE AIR NEWS #4 * Charles Johnson | Warbirds Over the Beach
WACO museum offering bi-plane rides - Dayton Daily News | The WACO Air Museum this summer will offer four opportunities to take a ride in a WACO bi-plane....
Airmen's story inspires - Suffolk News-Herald | A traveling Tuskegee Airmen exhibit that visited the city on Tuesday awed sixth-graders from Suffolk’s public schools with the story of the black combat pilots. The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron, in town for the Festival of Flight this weekend, features a documentary film screened inside a mobile theater....
Meeting Real Life Heroes - Roll Call | I had the privilege of photographing some World War II vets this week. One 98-year-old gentleman was a co-pilot in the initial bombing runs over Japan. He was retired Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, a member of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, who is originally from Ohio. The Raiders were B-25 bomber pilots who volunteered for the first offense action against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor....
The Fighter Collection’s Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat Flying Again * Warbirds News | As reported on Global Aviation Resource, The Fighter Collection’s Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat flew for the first time again in roughly five years on May 23rd. TFC’s Chief Pilot, Pete Kynsey, had the honors of taking her aloft again after a protracted period of maintenance by the collection’s maintenance crew and volunteers. The Hellcat has been with the Fighter Collection at the hallowed Duxford airfield, near Cambridge, England for several decades, so it was a delight to see her flying once more. She wears the...
Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess — only 100 hours of flight time but what a 100! by travelforaircraft | 
DC-7 run up * Crosswind Images's | International Air Response made another effort to fly their DC-7 but unfortunately, gremlins got them again. In lieu of flying, please enjoy this short video featuring all four engines roaring to life. Hoping to get that elusive ferry flight when it finally happens!
German Researchers Build A Plane Controlled By Your Brain * Tech Crunch | ...Called Brainflight, the EU-funded project aims to prove that brain-controlled flight is possible and has already demonstrated that even pilots with little or no experience can easily fly using a direct brain interface. Obviously these novice pilots were “going up” in simulators, but the idea is the same....
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Bose Announces Air Race Classic Sponsorship - AVweb | Oklahoma City, OK -- The Air Race Classic (ARC) is proud to announce a very special three-year sponsorship with Bose(R) Aviation, the leader in headset technology. For Air Race Classic years 2014, 2015, and 2016, Bose will award the Top Champion and Reserve Champion Teams Bose(R) A20(R) Aviation headsets. Recognizing the need for racers to have the best of quiet, clarity, and comfort, Bose has become an ARC Sponsor for years to come....
Three More Precision Formation Acts Announced for South Shore Air Show - PortageLife The South 
Duxford D-Day Anniversary Air Show Aviation Headlines - Airplane-Pictures.net | Commemorating the 70th anniversary of this decisive military campaign, demonstrating the vital role that aerial warfare played in the invasion of Normandy. (May 24-25)
GALLERY: Visitors flock to spectacular displays at Imperial War Museum ... - Royston Crow More than 10,000 visitors watched spectacular aerial displays at the Imperial War Museum’s D-Day Anniversary Air Show, at Duxford...
VIDEO: Red Arrows awarded Public Display Authority for 2014 - Lincolnshire Echo | The Red Arrows team has been given official approval to display in 2014 - its 50th season. The team, based at RAF Scampton, was formally awarded its 2014 Public Display Authority (PDA) earlier today, after months of intensive preparation by its pilots, engineers and support staff....
Red Arrows for Donegal - Donegal Democrat | The world-famous Red Arrows will take to the skies over Donegal at the end of June with their display of daredevil aerial manoeuvres. Brought to the North West by a partnership between Donegal County Council, Limavady Borough Council and Derry City Council, the RAF Red Arrows will perform their thrilling flying display as the stunning send-off to the Clipper 2013-14 Round the World Yacht Race on Sunday 29th June 2014, which will be taking place at Greencastle....
Operation Airshow stages at Kremmling Airport - Sky Hi Daily News | Aircraft enthusiasts will want to be in Kremmling on June 6 to see a display of World War II, Korean War and a few Russian-built airplanes. In addition, the newest and best cars and trucks from Chevrolet will be on display during the aircraft presentation in Kremmling....
DAV brings inspiration to air show - DVIDS | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - As he flew into Cherry Point for the 2014 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show in “Panchito,” a B-25 Mitchell bomber, retired Brig. Gen. George Bartlett felt a sense of nostalgia come over him. “As a sergeant here in 1944, I served as a navigator bombardier,” said Bartlett. “It felt fantastic to fly back here again. The purpose of this is to show the kids of today what it was like during WWII to be in a plane like Panchito.”...
Hartzell Provides Propeller and Support For Jack Link's Screamin' Sasquatch - aviationpros.com | Piqua, Ohio, May 27, 2014 – Hartzell Propeller Inc. has been selected by John Klatt Airshows as the propeller technical partner for upcoming precision power aerobatics air show demonstrations featuring the Jack Link's® Screamin' Sasquatch ™ Jet Waco. Screamin’ Sasquatch is a 1929 barnstormer’s era Taperwing Waco powered by a huge Pratt & Whitney 985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder radial engine and a GE CJ610 turbojet engine for added thrust. As the propeller partner, Hartzell will provide its standard three-blade metal propeller mated to the radial engine and technical support throughout the 2014 air show season....
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Condor Squadron maintains WWII aircraft * news.yahoo.com | Watch the video Condor Squadron maintains WWII aircraft on Yahoo News . The Condor Squadron honors America's veterans by maintaining and flying vintage aircraft used to train pilots during WWII...
Staten Island RC Modelers to host 4th Annual Charity Fly-In on Saturday - SILive.com | STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --The Staten Island Remote Control Modelers will be hosting its fourth annual Charity Fly-In on Saturday, May 31, at the Field of Dreams in LaTourette Park. Model flyers from accross the tri-state area will convene for this year's charity event, in support of the Staten Island Children's Campaign. The fly-in and barbeque will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guests are invited to bring chairs, blankets and snacks to take in a day of model aviation....
Is Dad an aviation buff? · General Aviation News | Is your dad an aviation buff? Does he wonder what it would be like to sit at the controls of an A-6 Intruder Navy jet or walk into the flying boat that took Indiana Jones on his archeological adventure in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? Treat Dad to a day at the Oakland Aviation Museum from noon to 4 p.m. on Father’s Day June 15....
Zenith Aircraft to host Fly-In to Summer · General Aviation News | MEXICO, Mo. — Zenith will host its 8th annual “Fly-In to Summer” Open Hangar Day on Saturday, June 21. The event provides an opportunity to tour the aircraft kit manufacturing facility and to meet people who have already completed the building their own kit plane. Many people will take their first flight in a Zenith aircraft during the fly-in. It also is a great chance to learn about all aspects of aircraft construction, company officials said....
Historic Flight Foundation’s ‘Diamond Four’ Formation To Commemorate D-Day Anniversary. · Warbirds News | Paine field based Historic Flight Foundation has organized a very rare “Diamond Four” formation of P-51 Mustangs to visit thirty cities and towns in Western Washington on June 6th, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Lead by HFF’s D-Day veteran (four sorties over the beaches of Normandy), P-51B “Impatient Virgin,” the formation will launch from Paine Field at 9 a.m. and conclude operations at approximately 3 p.m. with a noontime tour of downtown Seattle. Special visits include Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Gray Army Airfield. Operations will extend as far north as Bellingham, as far south as Olympia. Visit HFF to witness return of the aircraft....
Latest News From Vulcan XH558 · Warbirds News | Last Thursday, XH558 was towed out of the hangar to have a full fuel load placed in the new No.5 Starboard fuel tank and 40% fuel in the remaining tanks. After this, she was returned to the hangar and is now back on hydraulic jacks. XH558 is about to commence undercarriage retraction tests after which, if all goes well, we will then continue the other ‘after-service’ checks....
"Impossible" Electric Airplane Takes Flight - Scientific American | BERLIN—When a Panavia Tornado blasted into the clouds above the Berlin Air Show before swooping back down toward the Earth, the grounds below shook from the roar of the fighter bomber's twin engines. When the next aircraft took to the sky, the air show went eerily quiet....
Volunteer pilots celebrated at Endeavor Awards Gala · General Aviation News Staff | ...Master of ceremonies Sean Tucker presided over a glittering evening of entertainment, excitement and emotion as 380 audience members celebrated Public Benefit Aviation. There were movie and TV stars, astronauts, legendary aviators, performing musicians, and an aerialist aloft who presented an ‘Adagio to Amelia Earhart.’...
Video: Long-EZ Cloud Skimming (Music Video) · AirPigz | This fresh and beautiful video of a homebuilt Long-EZ skimming along the edge the clouds sure looks like fun! (note that the airplane is flying IFR to keep things legal and safe)...
Disney Captures Reality with “Planes: Fire and Rescue” * Airplanista Aviation Blog | “They fly in when others fly out.” Those words struck a chord with me when asked to join aviation writers for a pre-screening of Disney’s new film, Planes: Fire and Rescue. ...
Max Surayev is Back * Air & Space Magazine | Think of Max Surayev as the Russian answer to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose big social media moment came last year when he covered Bowie's “Space Oddity” from orbit. The 42-year-old Surayev is getting ready to launch tomorrow on his ...
Friday, May 16, 2014
Thunder Over Michigan Air Show: Here Comes Screamin' Sasquatch!
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Get ready to witness a one-of-a-kind, jet-powered aerobatic biplane at this year's Thunder Over Michigan Air Show. Capable of flying straight up at maximum speed, the "Screamin' Sasquatch" will be an experience to talk about for years to come!
A brainchild of John Klatt Airshows, the airplane, a Taperwing Waco made famous by barnstormers of the 1920s and 30s, adds the modern twist of a jet engine that will thrill spectators with amazing vertical maneuvers! The Screamin' Sasquatch was named after its sponsor, Jack Link's Beef Jerky's advertising mascot. Keep an eye out, you might even spy the real Sasquatch at this year's air show!
Be prepared for the incredible sights and sounds of the Jet Waco as Colonel Klatt pushes it to its limits!
For more information and to purchase your tickets today, please visit http://www.YankeeAirMuseum.org/Airshow!
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