Seven decades of flying - AF.mil | Retired Col. Clarence Parker has flown aircraft for more than 70 years. He was an instructor pilot and flew missions during World War II, the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Colonel Parker decided to hang up his wings by flying his final flight May 20, 2011, at the Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Ga.
VIDEO: Backstage... and Inside the 'Driver's Seat' With the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach - Wantagh Patch | Patch Personality Stacey Sweet gets up close and personal with some of the planes, places and people behind the high flying Bethpage Air Show (May 28-29)
Huge crowds expected at NY's Jones Beach air show - WSJ | Warthogs, Hornets and dozens of other aircraft will fill the skies over New York's Jones Beach this weekend for an annual Memorial Day Weekend air show. Hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected at the Long Island seaside for the event on Saturday and Sunday...
Southend Air Festival set to attract thousands to town - BBC | The air show, which has traditionally been held on the Spring Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday, has moved dates this year to the Saturday and Sunday. The event is recognised as one of the largest free air shows in Europe...
On the wings of freedom - Philly Burbs | This Memorial Day, Gill is looking forward to the holiday as a chance to spend a little time near home. Now a naval aviator, Lt. Gill will pilot his Orion P3-C from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, to Millville Airport with a pit stop at Whidbey Island, Wash., to participate in the Millville Wheels and Wings Air Show...
Ashe Air Show to Take-off June 11: Inaugural Showcase to Benefit Habit for Humanity - Mountain Times | Even though organizers can not tell you exactly when the last time a daredevil of the sky attempted a barrel roll or any other aerobatic maneuver in Ashe County, they can tell you it's been too long. So when local airplane aficionados set out to stir interest for a High Country barnstorming show that would also put on display relics from the golden age of aviation...
Honoring another of ‘The Greatest Generation' - The Morehead News | This is the story of a humble man with a gentle heart who trained as a warrior for World War II but ended up serving as a humanitarian. Fortunately for him and his B-17 crew members, the war in Europe ended just as they arrived in England...
Titusville's Warbird Museum unveils new hangar for Vietnam aircraft (with VIDEO) - Florida Today | TITUSVILLE — An F-8 Crusader sits behind the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum, glistening under the hot sun. The first military aircraft to go 1,000 mph was vital for the Navy and Marines during the Vietnam War but now is awaiting a permanent home. Starting this weekend, the Vietnam-era warplane will have that new home, as the museum unveils its new 28,000-square-foot hangar...
Flashback Fridays: More of Southwest before June 18, 1971 - Nuts About Southwest | Anyone who has studied the history of Southwest knows the many legal obstacles we had to overcome just to start service. But there were other hurdles to overcome before Southwest could fly, and many of those “loose ends” were being tied up 40 years ago in the days before June 18, 1971...
Top Five Interesting Aviation Stories - Aviation Queen | Ah, we all lived to tell the tales of another week in the wild and wonderful world of aviation. I had so many choices for this week’s top five it was hard to decide. So here goes!...
Strange But True Aviation News - Aviation Week | Girlfriend, that manicure is da BOMB!! Faye Sinclair got a surprise as she went through security at Memphis International Airport. She was stopped by TSA screeners after ha hand scan found traces of explosives were found, reports WMC-TV. Turns out Sinclair's fresh manicure was the culprit....
Christine Hollingsworth Friday’s Fabulous Flyer! - Flight To Success | And fabulous this lady she is. She flew into my life on December 5th 2010, which also happens to be her birthday, when she joined us at our first Fly it Forward event in December. She was down at the dock flying in our famous Beaver… while a birthday cake awaited up at BEFA headquarters. Yes… she got a piece. 173 women flew that day...
Plane makes successful restaurant in Switzerland - Desastres Aereos News | A somewhat curious restaurant's doing a great success in Switzerland. The difference? He was raised in a Soviet aircraft of the 1950s, serving meals with all the luxury of time, ranging from armchairs tight beats up on his elbows...
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Friday, May 27, 2011
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
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'Synergy' Aircraft Revealed, Prepares To Lead A Revolution - AirPigz | These illustrations and the 1/4 scale model seen here are of an all new aircraft called Synergy that's getting close to being completed in full scale form. Even more, this aircraft truly represents a 'synergy' of advanced aerodynamic ideas that just might see it revolutionize the world of aviation...
Benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin to be Held May 14 - The Aero Experience | A fundraiser is being organized to help raise money for Amanda and Kyle Franklin, who were seriously injured while performing in an air show earlier this year...
Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell takes the plunge - Washington Post | Update, 6:50 p.m.: Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell, along with her daughter Cailin, participated in a tandem parachute jump with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights Parachute Team this morning in Dinwiddie. The first lady and her daughter jumped as part of her ongoing work to raise awareness of the need to support Virginia’s military families...
Women in Aviation: Coast Guard aviators of tomorrow - Coast Guard | It was 1911 when small town girl Harriet Quimby moved from Michigan to New York. Inspired by the challenge of flying an “aeroplane,” Quimby took flying lessons and on August 1, 1911, became the first American woman to get her pilot’s license. In the 100 years since, women have gone on to fly around the world and launch into space...
“My other ramp is on a C-17.” The CV-22 ramp may not be the biggest - You Like Airplanes, Too? | U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Eric Wiggins, an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft flight engineer from the 8th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) “Black Birds,” sits on the back ramp Jan. 26, 2011, scanning the area during a local training mission at Hurlburt Field, Fla...
WASP program part of OTC observance - Wings 1944 | Texas Gov. Ann Richards once said that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only she did it backward and in high heels. That sentiment certainly resonates with Nancy Parrish, whose mother, Deanie Parrish, was a member of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots...
ebook: Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I - EBooksFreeDownload | At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however...
Retweeted by StephenForce and others - @usairforce | Today in 1918, Lt. Edward V. Rickenbacker downed his first enemy aircraft.
Indianapolis Aero Club - Since 1933: May 10, 2011 Meeting: Jonathan Gaffney - President National Aeronautic Association - Indy Aero Club | 100th Anniversary of the Collier Trophy - JONATHAN GAFFNEY became 31st President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Aeronautic Association in 2007. Since that time, he and the staff of NAA have transformed one of the world’s oldest aeronautical organizations into a vibrant, sustainable association dedicated to itsoriginal charter: "...the advancement of the art, sport and science of aviation in the United States."...
VIDEO: NASA's AirSTAR Model Plane - AIRBOYD | Courtesy: NASA Langley Research Center. The remotely-piloted Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research (AirSTAR) generic transport model demonstrates software and control systems that may some day make airliners safer.
The Spirit of Kitty Hawk Moves to Its New Home - Nuts About Southwest | While it hasn’t been a secret, we really haven’t publicized our exciting preservation/museum project yet. However, you certainly will know something is different if you pass the corner of Lemmon Avenue and Mockingbird Lane starting today here at Love Field. A big shiny Southwest 737 is half-inside and half-outside the Frontiers of Flight Museum...
Airline pilots visit fifth-grade classrooms in Glendale - AZ Central | Legend Springs Elementary School fifth-graders got a taste of what it's like to be an aviator from four pilots. The visits were part of Southwest Airlines' Adopt-A-Pilot program that pairs a pilot with a fifth-grade class to learn about the science of aviation, the career of a commercial pilot and goal setting...
NASA Heavy-Lift May Result in Bid Protests - Spaceports | As NASA hashes out an acquisition strategy for building a congressionally mandated heavy-lift launch vehicle that leverages space shuttle and Ares rocket technologies, agency officials are hoping to minimize the potential for a formal protest from industry...President Visits Astronauts After Delay - Spaceports | President Barack Obama meets with Space Shuttle Endeavor commander Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and shuttle astronauts...
Missouri family's song likely to be wake-up music for Endeavour astronauts - STL Today | The Plunkett family of Halfway, Mo., had mixed feelings about today's decision to scratch the shuttle Endeavour launch. They were half glad the launch was scrapped because it meant more time to rack up votes for their song, "Dreams You Give," to be chosen as a winner of the NASA Space Rock Contest...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Video: Blue Angels 'Fat Albert' And Stellar Cockpit Discipline! - AirPigz | I'm actually on the way to Sun-n-Fun 2011 right now - literally... this post is coming to you from a Panera Bread in downtown Atlanta. I needed something quick and awesome to share with you, and since I'm gonna see the Blue Angels this weekend, I thought I'd toss up this fabulous video for you to check out...
VIDEO: The Last B-29 - Air & Space | Of the more than 2,500 B-29s built, only one flies today: Fifi, the Superfortress restored and operated by the Commemorative Air Force. The most advanced bomber of World War II, the B-29 is credited with ending the war in August 1945...
Donations, messages accepted for injured airshow team - AOPA | Attendees at the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In can show support for injured airshow performers Kyle and Amanda Franklin by making donations and sending messages at the Aircraft Specialties Services Inc. booth, the company announced...
John Glenn To Headline Local Events On April 13th - Baynet | Winners in the St. Mary’s County Science Fair will be honored by Former Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn on Wednesday, April 13 at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum. Following that ceremony, Sen. Glenn will headline the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum...‘A’ Team represents Anderson community in inaugural plane pull - Independant Mail | ANDERSON COUNTY — Southwest Airlines showed that it was pulling for the Upstate when it announced in 2010 that it would be starting service out of GSP International Airport. In return, the Anderson community showed its support by literally pulling for them. On March 12, Anderson participated in the 2011 Southwest Inaugural Weekend Plane Pull...
History takes flight - Victoria Advocate | History comes to life starting Friday as the Wings of Freedom Tour roars into the Victoria Regional Airport...Salute to Veterans Tour - SFGate | On Display for Flights and ground tours are the Liberty Belle B-17 and rare Curtiss P-40 fighter of WWII...
Winged warriors still flying - Bakersfield.com | One by one, the four 1,200-horsepower Wright Cyclone engines roared to life, and the World War II-vintage B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber rolled down the runway at Meadows Field. With a pull on the controls, the pilot forced the...
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