Red Arrows to wow Abu Dhabi Corniche today - The National | The display will begin at 3.15pm – weather permitting - and will last approximately 25 minutes. It will demonstrate the very best of the pilots’ skills and precision flying, organisers say...
Video: B-17 Bomber lands in Green Bay - Fox11online.com | ASHWAUBENON - A piece of World War II history has landed in the Green Bay area. Visitors got an up-close look at a historic B-17 bomber Saturday. It's nicknamed the "Aluminum Overcast." The plane is fully restored, and is even still able to fly!...
2013 COPPERSTATE Fly-In & Aviation Expo a Big (Non-Towered) Hit! - Photorecon.net | CASA GRANDE, ARIZ. (Nov. 20, 2013) — More than 500 aircraft and 6,100 attendees from 12 countries 
Inside Airshows – Part 3: Tuskegee 3 – Audio Episode Show Notes * Airspeed Online | If you want to understand a subculture or an experience, a great way to do that is to take an outsider and plunge him into the place you want to know about, wait awhile, then drag him back to the surface and wring him out to see how it changed him. It’s even better if you can get the guy to wring himself out. You begin to realize that not everybody who writes about the majesty of flight does it because he’s a fighter pilot. Some of us write because we’re not fighter pilots....
Doolittle's Raiders - Napa Valley Register | Six days after the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I celebrated my 12th birthday. I remember that Sunday morning attack like it happened yesterday. Our citizens were in shock, and their morale was low. Then, four months later, we learned that U.S. bomber crews, in retaliation for Pearl Harbor, had taken off from an aircraft carrier, bombed Tokyo and other Japanese industrial cities and proved that U.S. aircraft could reach the Japanese homeland. Our morale recovered...
Happy Birthday To The Grumman F9F Panther · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | The Grumman F9F Panther flew for the first time sixty-six years ago today. A single-seat carrier-based fighter and attack aircraft, the F9F was the first Navy jet to go to war and the first to try an inflight-refueling system. Panthers flew 78,000 combat sorties during the Korean War and scored the first air-to-air “kill” by the Navy in the conflict, downing a North Korean Yakovlev Yak-9 on July 3, 1950. The Navy’s first jet-versus-jet “kill” was also accomplished by a Panther when the type dispatched a MiG-15 on November 9, 1950. Grumman built 1,382 aircraft between 1947 and 1953. The...
Ju-52 air to air, making off - Apron 6 | And this is how it’s done. Sitting in a Do-27 flying next to a Junkers 52. Not really a close formation but good enough to get some good images from...
Experimental Aircraft Programme Now On Display At Cosford · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE-Christmas has come early at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford with the arrival of the Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP) technology demonstrator. This experimental jet helped pave the way for the renowned Eurofighter Typhoon and thanks to support of BAE Systems is now on display to visitors within the Museum’s Test Flight collection....
'Fatal Incident' plays loose with historic tragedy - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | FAIRBANKS — On Sept. 18, 1944, an Army Air Transport Command flight left Fort Richardson en route to Ladd Field, carrying 16 servicemen heading home on furlough, two Northwest Airlines pilots, and a civilian. Flying on instruments, the C-47 flew over Denali National Park, crashing into what was thought at the time to be Mount Brooks (it was actually an unnamed peak, later called Mount Deception in honor of the victims), 19 miles from Mount McKinley. Forty-four men hiked the 20 miles of rugged terrain in a recovery effort, reaching the site on Nov. 10, only to find the plane buried under 10 feet of snow. None of the bodies was recovered....
Three new board members for EAA · General Aviation News Staff | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — Three aviators with extensive experience in diverse areas of the aviation community have joined the top leadership of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) as the newest members of the EAA Board of Directors...
Blue Skies Frank · Warbirds News By Elena DePree | The warbird community has lost a great person and outstanding restorer,Frank Arrufat died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer.Frank Arrufat built the Corsair called Kathleen, named after his wife. It is now Corsair 489 and is flown by the Texas Flying Legends Museum. Frank was a superb individual and just a really great guy to know.
Women in Aviation plans UAE launch to attract more women in Middle East to the industry - The National | DUBAI // A US aviation organisation is aiming to attract more women to the industry in the UAE and across the region. Women in Aviation plans to launch its UAE chapter next month, and will offer scholarships in an attempt to raise the profile of the industry. “Everybody knows about aviation and that it involves piloting, ticketing or flight attending,” said Mervat Sultan, the organisation’s president, on the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow last week...
Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part Two - Photorecon.net, · Dave "Bio" Baranek | When considering why Topgun flourished, much credit must go to the enduring culture established by the earliest instructors and handed down to their successors. They met the essential requirements for a “school”: obtain accurate intelligence and develop effective tactics. The following items, on the other hand, were matters of choice that became part of the standards that defined Topgun...
A life of flight, awards and meeting famous folks - GoDanRiver.com | “I started working for the Aero Club at Langley where they teach dependents to fly. I started with three airplanes and built it up to 17,” he said. “I started under a light pole, then a shed and then they built me a nice hangar. “Someone made me a nice ...
Jeff Mitchell: Aerobatics ace to take at-risk kids under his wing - The Salinas Californian | Friday morning I was up and out early for a trip to Rancho Cielo. What a great place full of energy and full of hope for some of our most at-risk kids. Established and founded by retired Superior Court Judge John Phillips, the place gives troubled kids a chance to get back on their feet and to learn a craft or a trade that can lead to a real job. But I was there Friday not to take the nickel tour but to attend an assembly being led by National Aerobatics Champion and Salinas native Sean D. Tucker...
SUN ‘n FUN to gift 12 Flights of Christmas to children · General Aviation News Staff | SUN ’n FUN CAMPUS, LAKELAND, Florida — For the second year in a row, 12 lucky children will find a certificate under the tree this year for an airplane ride on Jan. 11 at SUN ’n FUN. For any family finding it difficult to put gifts under the Christmas Tree this year, there is a no-cost option. Through Dec. 18, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors or friends can complete a form found on the SUN ’n FUN website. Nominate a child ages 7-18 by completing a 500-word essay describing the circumstances and provide the reason a child should be selected...
Sunday, November 24, 2013
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Monday, July 15, 2013
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Air Force's Thunderbirds, other units to fly again - USA Today | NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Air Force says many of its combat air forces will start flying again after being grounded since April because of budget cuts. The grounding affected about one-third of the Air Force's active-duty combat aircraft, including squadrons of fighters, bombers, and airborne warning and control craft....
Metro Detroiter Pilots Navy's "Blue Angels" - My TV20 Detroit | PENSACOLA, FL (My TV20 News at 10) --- Commander Thomas Frosch is flying high. The Clinton Township native will serve as the commanding officer of the Navy's "Blue Angels" in 2014. That's the word Monday from the flight demonstration team's headquarters at N.A.S. Pensacola, FL. It will mark Frosch's third year at the helm, as he took over the team in 2012....
'Greatest Show on Turf' soars above Geneseo - The Livingston County News From the parachutist who drifted down through the clouds holding an American flag and the simulated bombing runs, to the thrilling aerobatics and the silent flight of glider pilot Manfried Radius, the 2013 Greatest Show on Turf Airshow lived up to its name....
Ohio Air News 239 - Charles Johnson | Ken Mist pictures from Dayton, EAA Tri-Motor and Liberty Foundation B-17 @ Columbus
1917 Standard J-1 Project Coming Together - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | July 15, 2013 - Volunteers at EAA's Weeks Hangar on the Wittman Regional Airport began attaching the wings to a 1917 Standard J-1 biplane last Thursday, giving shape to a project that began in October 2011. The "meat and potatoes" of the aircraft have been in the EAA family since the early 1970s, but due to the passing of time, much restoration still needs to be done. At that time EAA member Charlie Klessig found the fuselage of the old pilot trainer in an EAA warehouse and asked EAA founder Paul Poberezny if he could take it and rebuild it. Paul said yes, as the aircraft had no wings, no engine, and was more or less a giant paperweight.
Restoration projects continue at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force by Sarah Swan, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 7/15/2013 - DAYTON, Ohio -- The volunteers assisting in the Restoration Division at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force are keeping busy this summer. Three volunteers - Garry Guthrie, Ed Keinle and Lou Thole - can be found on the flight deck of the C-82 Packet, which was primarily used for cargo and troop transport in the late 1940s. The C-82 was...
This Weird Plane Was Made By Cold War Britain · Máté Petrány | Only 86 Handley Page Victors were made from 1952 to 1963. Originally designed to be part of the United Kingdom’s airborne nuclear deterrent, these were weird planes. Even though these streamlined strategic bombers were powered by four turbojet engines buried in the thick wing roots, which made them look fantastic and enabled them to have up to 35 × 1,000 lb bombs or 1× Yellow Sun free-fall nuclear bomb onboard, they also turned out to have a massive design flaw....
Book about X-15 Rocket Plane released · General Aviation News Staff | Recently released is “The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space” by Michelle Evans. With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight....
The most stunning Special Colored Fighter Jets taking part in the NATO Tiger Meet 2013 in Norway · David Cenciotti | NATO Tiger Meet is an annual exercise that gathers squadrons sporting Tiger (or feline) emblems. As already explained on previous posts about it, the most peculiar feature of the meeting is the fact that the planes that attend it, (often) get painted in spectacular, flamboyant tiger outfits, making the event a treat for all aviation photographers....
A World War II heroine has died · Peter | Relatively few people outside the former Soviet Union have heard of the so-called 'Night Witches', a Soviet air regiment during World War II comprising all-female pilots and aircrew...
Women in Aviation celebrate new exhibition at Vilnius Airport - MoodieReport | Women in Aviation, a networking group for women in the aviation industry, has organised a travelling photography exhibition at Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania. The exhibition, which opened on 4 July, has already seen many interested visitors, according to the organisers...
Colombia, Six Trophies in Open Paragliding in Bulgaria-Ukraine - Prensa Latina | Colombian paragliding team won six trophies in Bulgaria-Ukraine Open 2013, prior to the World Championship based in the Bulgarian resort of Sopot, on July 26. In this adventure sport the pilot sits in a harness suspended below a hollow fabric wing whose shape is formed by its suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside....
Thursday, May 30, 2013
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Wings Over Gillespie Air Show Takes Flight this Weekend - ScoopSanDiego.com | Bearcats, 
SRIA announces Pensacola Beach Air Show line-up - WEAR | Skip Stewart is an Aerobatic Champion who has won several Gold medals in regional competitions and has been awarded two Pitts Trophies. Lima Lima is new to this years' air show. One of the world's original six aircraft civilian formation aerobatic...
Great New England Wings & Wheels show will bring World War II aircraft and ... - MassLive.com | This file photo shows A B-25 Mitchell bomber flying over a Westfield International Air Show. Gen. Hap Arnold's B-25 will be among the vintage aircraft set to participate in the first edition of the Great New England Wings & Wheels show in August at ...
Popular Cocoa Beach Air Show may move - Florida Today | The Cocoa Beach Air Show may move southward down the barrier island in October to a new home at Paradise Beach Park in beachside Melbourne. The free, annual aerobatic spectacle has attracted droves of spectators — and hotel guests — to Cocoa ...
Breitling Doubles Sponsorship for National Championship Air Races from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | RENO, Nev. Mike Houghton, the President and CEO of the Reno National Championship Air Races announced that Breitling has doubled their sponsorship and committed to another three years here in Reno, according to news reports...
Discover Aviation Days this weekend in Blaine - Coon Rapids Herald | The “Miss Mitchell” World War II era B-25 bomber that served in the 310th Bomb Group, 57th Bomb Wing of the 12th Air Force in North Africa and Italy will be on display and available for flight. It completed over 130 missions during the second world war...
C-47, B-25 airplane rides help commemorate D-Day anniversary - LubbockOnline.com | The Silent Wings Museum, 6202 N. I-27, will commemorate the 69th anniversary of D-Day with a free one-day event to remember those killed on June 6, 1944...
"Blue Angels Experience" every Wednesday this summer - WEAR | For 12 dollars you get one ticket to the iMax movie "Magic Of Flight", a ride in the "Fly with the Blues" Flight Simulator and a commemorative Blue Angels dog tag. That deal is good every Wednesday throughout the summer. In addition the Blue Angels ...
Snowbirds Fly Into Sidney - The Roundup | Major Wayne Mott (R), who acts as the Team Lead as well as the pilot for Snowbird 1, presents a gift of appreciation to Sidney's Bryan Prevost, who was instramental in bringing the Snowbirds to Sidney for the second time. The Canadian Snowbirds...
Red Arrows to fly over Shrewsbury River Festival - shropshirestar.com | Mrs Hordley said: “We are really excited and very pleased that one of the world's premier aerobatic teams, the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows, will be coming to this year's River Festival. “We welcome people to come along and enjoy this ...
Tricolor arrows June 9 return to Parma after ten years - the Republic | After ten years they return to Parma Arrows tricolor, whisking the sky above the airport Verdi on June 9 from 15.30. The fascinating show of acrobatics will be dedicated Aeroclub "Bull" of Parma Apennines to the population affected...
Sequester squashes return of Fairhope's Festival of Flight - al.com | Festival of Flight 2007 B-25 bomber View full sizeSpectators look over a World War II B-25 bomber at a past Festival of Flight in Fairhope. Due to across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, that have grounded military plane...
Flying a fortress: Idaho veteran sets foot back in B-17 bomber - KTVB | The last time he set foot on a B-17 was on June 6,1944, also known as D-Day. “We were supporting the troops,” he said of the mission. Thousands of aircraft supported the invasion into Normandy that year, and during the mission thousands were killed and...
World War II hero still humble 70 years later - Lewistown News-Argus | That's what former Central Montanan Ed Saylor said about his role as part of the Doolittle Tokyo Raid 70 years ago. On April 18, 1942, Saylor and 79 other men volunteered to fly 16 B-25 bombers off the deck of the USS Hornet and drop bombs over Japan.
Podcast: 25 Years of Growth for Women in Aviation from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | The organization Women in Aviation International launched with a conference in Prescott, Arizona 25 years ago, and members are marking that anniversary with several events in Oshkosh, Arizona, and Florida. Peggy Chabrian, the founder and president of WAI, talked with AVweb's Mary Grady about the group's achievements, her goals for the future, and what's in the works for EAA AirVenture this summer.
AirVenture Offers Programs For Girls And Women
from AVwebFlash Current Issue | EAA is offering a special four-day
program for high-school girls during AirVenture this summer, August 1 to
4, in an effort to "engage, inspire, and educate young women to pursue
their dreams in aviation and beyond." The program, called Women Soar You
Soar, will introduce 100 girls to 35 women working in a variety of
aviation and aerospace fields, from engineers to fighter pilots. The
event is "filled with career exploration, discovery,...
Alabama Aviation First June Weekend Events from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Enjoy the first weekend in June with a variety of Alabama aviation events across the state. A special event at the Southern Museum of Flight this Saturday, June1 at 11 am. is a talk by Col. Frank Murray, one of three living operational pilots who flew the A-12 Blackbird in the CIA "Oxcart" program. He will do a presentation, answer questions and conduct a walk around tour of the Museum's A-12, Article 131...
From Antique Airfield:
- Original Fly-In and NAT Reunion Attendees Confirmed for AAA Fly-In
- Don Hedeman's Second Generation Antique Modified Bakeng Deuce
- Texas Chapter June 2013 Newsletter
- 1939 Spartan Executive 7W - NC17634
Spitfire 944 from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | This is a remarkable short film from the Sundance Film Festival, one of two temporarily put up on YouTube to mark Memorial Day (I'll put up the second one tomorrow.) It'll only be available for a couple of weeks before being taken down again, so you might want to save a copy. It's described as follows:..
Video: Maverick Flying Car Crash from AVwebFlash Current Issue | When a Maverick Flying Car crashed in Vernon, British Columbia in May of 2013, on-board cameras helped determine the causes of the accident. AVweb's Russ Niles assembled this report from the various media used in the investigation.
Young people invited to fly at Young Eagles event - So Md News | On Saturday, June 8, the Experimental Aircraft Association will offer that same opportunity to area young people, ages 8 to 18, when the local chapter will give free flights at a Young Eagles event at the St. Mary's County Regional Airport. The flights ...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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Slattery's Field Street marks 100 years of aviation in Ottawa - Orléans Star | The neighbourhood is close to the Ottawa International Airport and the name change was championed by Ward Councillor Steve Desroches as a unique opportunity to recognize an important chapter in Ottawa's aviation history. The original Slattery's Field ...
Adam White From Hemlock Films – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Thursday : WarbirdRadio.com
THURSDAY – Adam White from Hemlock Films joins Matt Jolley with details on their new film The Restorers – They Were All Volunteers. Tune in and hear all the news this Thursday morning at 10am (EASTERN) for this special episode of Warbird Radio LIVE!
'Sully' to take controls of vintage plane - Middle East North Africa Financial Network | ... episode of the new ABC series "Pan Am." Roger Jarman, president of the Miami-based Historical Flight Foundation that restored the aircraft, said he met Sullenberger in Oshkosh, Wis., at the annual AirVenture air show where the DC-7B was on display. ...
In Preparation for the Spin Cycle - AOPA Pilot | International Aerobatic Club instructor and director Bill Finagin did the honors. He runs Dent-air Ltd., an aerobatic school in Annapolis, MD. (He's also a dentist, which explains the name, not the condition of the aircraft.) ...
Flying with the Thirsty 13th - Marion County Record | Friday and Saturday, six former pilots of the Thirsty 13th gathered with family and friends to not only reminisce about their war experiences, but recreate them by flying one of two C-47s and a B-25 bomber. The reunion was arranged by Seth Washburne, ...
Decorated Lewis proud of service in US military - Gulf Breeze News | November 11, 1943, Lewis — then a pilot in the 94th Bombardment Group, Eight Air Force – was flying a B-17 Flying Fortress on what seemed to be a routine bombing mission over Nazi Germany. One of Lewis' B-17 “Lucky 13” crewmembers, John Gabay, detailed all of ...
Last call to apply for 2012 WAI Scholarships - BlueSky Executive Aviation News | Just one week
remains to apply for one of the many Women in Aviation, International scholarships which will be distributed at WAI's annual Conference. For 2012, 68 individual scholarships valued at $470431 will be awarded to WAI members. ...Vought F-8 Crusader from Planeshots
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Checking Out An Aerobatic Pilot's Bag Of Tricks - WAMU | When the annual Joint Service Open House and Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base rolls into town later this week, the lineup will feature one of this country's top aerobatic pilots, the Air National Guard's Lieutenant Colonel John Klatt. In 25 years of flying, Klatt has piloted commercial airliners, flown F-16s in combat, and supported missions for the space shuttle...
Teaser Video for Boston-Portsmouth Air Show - Mike Goulian | The folks at the Boston-Portsmouth Air Show caught up with us last week to discuss the upcoming air show in August at Pease airport. This year watch Michael fly along with the USAF Thunderbirds, Sean D. Tucker, and an amazing line up of performers. Michael’s interview shares his thoughts as the closest event to home this year.
Jones Beach Air Show on Memorial Day Weekend - Long Island | Memorial Day is fast approaching and it's time for the 2011 Bethpage Federal Credit Union New York Air Show at Jones Beach State Park. On Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29, 2011, you can watch the United States Air Force F-22 Raptor and the A-10 Thunderbolt II soaring through the skies over Long Island as well as other high-flying entertainment...
BLADES AND THEIR FLYING MACHINES ARE HERE - Gibraltar Chronicle | SET FOR THE SKIES: (from left) The Blades pilots Mark Cutmore, Andy Offer, Myles Garland and Andy Evans. After 48 hours of serial leg flying from the UK, THE BLADES Aerobatic Display Team has landed in Gibraltar ready for their series of activities this weekend. Over the next few days you will see the four Blades aircraft manoeuvring around Gibraltar...
15th Annual Lyon County Fly-In this weekend - RGJ | SILVER SPRINGS-The 15th Annual Lyon County Fly-In is slated for this weekend at the Silver Springs Regional Airport, and the event will feature many activities for families and aviation fans. "This whole thing is about kids," said Fly-In Chairperson Ron Bell, adding, "There are many activities for families to enjoy."...
Air Force plane crashes in Victoria - ABC Melbourne | A plane used by the RAAF's Roulettes aerobatic team has crashed at the East Sale airbase in Victoria. The PC-9/A's two crew members ejected moments before the plane crashed after experiencing engine failure. The Defence Force said the crew were undertaking a routine training flight when the plane crashed about 1 kilometre from the runway...
The Stealth Chinook involved in the Osama Bin Laden raid and why the Stealth Black Hawk crashed in Abbottabad - Cencio4 | An interesting article published yesterday by the Associated Press and commented by Wired/Danger Room, provided some interesting details about the Osama Bin Laden raid. Indeed, anonymous government sources have told the story to the AP even if information they disclosed, raise more questions… Anyway, first of all, I can’t help but notice that my possible explaination of Operation Neptune’s Spear (OBL raid’s name), published on May 6, was not disproved by facts disclosed so far!...
Videos from AIRBOYD:
A-10 Thunderbolt Refueling
EA-6 Prowler Refueling
F-16 Fighting Falcon Refueling
May 18, 1953: Jackie Cochran, First Woman to Break Sound Barrier - Wired | 1953: Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. Cochran was already famous (as an aviatrix and racing pilot) and wealthy (through marriage) when she broke the sound barrier over Rogers Dry Lake, California, flying a Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabrejet. In moving from subsonic to supersonic speed, Cochran averaged 652 mph...
New York Guard Women Are At Home in The Sky - You Fly Girl | This is a press release from March 18...still worth reading! LATHAM, NY (03/18/2011)(readMedia)-- The women who keep the New York Army and Air National Guard flying found inspiration in the skies and on the ground...
Juliet Kuruwaa: "Why I Want To Fly" - Flight To Success | Another incredible essay from a talented and beautiful young lady from Ghana. Aviation has not only touched her life, but changed it. Juliet Kuruwaa is my name and I am a citizen of Ghana in West Africa. A student of Aviation Technology Academy, studying piloting and engineering. My ambition to become a pilot started from the very first day I saw a plane in the sky...
The First Woman to Fly in an Airplane Was When? - Ptak Science | I wondered about how long after the Wright's first powered flight (17 December 1903) that it took for a woman fly in an airplane, either as passenger or pilot. I was a little surprised--when I found my answer, my glasses weren't quite up to seeing the date on the top of the page very clearly, and on closer inspection I was a little taken aback to see how wrong my assumption was...
Star Struck In California - Collings Foundation | The national Wings of Freedom tour is now bouncing around California. So far, we have visited La Verne, Long Beach, Carlsbad, Ramona, Santa Ana, Hawthorne, Camarillo, Burbank – and now in Bakersfield. The Wings of Freedom tour is making its way up the coast landing in eight cities in Northern California before heading to Oregon and Washington...
Super Guppy back in Amarillo -- Black Horizon | Photographed last night flying into Amarillo/Rick Husband International Airport. It is ferrying V-22 fuselages for assembly at the Bell/Textron Plant here.
Let’s Fly on Saturday! - AOPA Blog | This Saturday, May 21st, is Learn-to-Fly day. It should come as no surprise by now that GA is in need of more pilots if our activity is to survive as we know it. There may be a better reason to go flying than to introduce a prospective pilot to our world but I’m not sure what it might be. Ditto for educating people who will never become pilots. The more “air-minded” people we can make, the fewer hassles there will be regarding airports...
New book celebrates Iowa’s aviation heritage - GA News | Eastern Iowa’s Aviation Heritage, a new book from Arcadia Publishing, captures Eastern Iowa’s long-time fascination with flight. From primitive air gliders and balloons to today’s modern airplanes (and everything in between), aviation enthusiasts in Eastern Iowa have had their heads in the clouds since the late 1800s...
Winners of the 2011 FAI Young Artists Contest - FAI | On the occasion of the recent FAI Aviation and Space Education Commission (CIEA) plenary meeting, the International Jury met to determine the winners of the 2011 FAI Young Artists Contest, whose theme was "50 Years of Human Space Flight". The theme of this year was tightly linked to the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's historic flight...
SS2 first feather flight video - Hobby Space | Here's a video from Virgin Galactic about the drop test of SpaceShipTwo on May 10th in which its feathering re-entry system was tested for the first time.
Secret Stealth Drone Spied on Osama, Dodged Pakistanis - Danger Room | Two years ago, pictures leaked of a previously unknown, bat-winged drone operating out of Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport. Speculation spiked about the mission of the mysterious aircraft, instantly nicknamed “the Beast of Kandahar” by secret plane-spotter extraordinaire Bill Sweetman...http://wamu.org/news/11/05/18/checking_out_an_aerobatic_pilots_bag_of_tricks.php
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...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Red Arrows jetting in for Peterhead gala week's big day - Aberdeen Press and Journal | THE Red Arrows will be making a return trip to Peterhead to mark the 50th anniversary of the town's summer gala. The aerobatic display team last flew over the Aberdeenshire port as part of the local Scottish Week celebrations in 1999. ...
Aspiring pilot likes feel of classic fighter - Stuff.co.nz | He was given the chance to sit in a replica of the American-made World War II fighter at the Classic Fighters Omaka Airshow and it made his day. "He was so excited, he loves his aeroplanes," his mother, Jude Hobson, said. Tom started making model ...Take a flight, or tour, with an old World War II hero - The Seattle Times | The Liberty Belle, one of only 14 remaining airworthy Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers, is in Seattle this weekend to offer tours or, for several hundred dollars, 30-minute rides. By David Krueger Top: The refurbished Liberty Belle. ...
Letter: Doolittle Raiders are living legends - Leavenworth Times | John Reichley's April 16 column in the Leavenworth Times was a fitting tribute to the 80 men who took off in 16 twin-engine B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, on a mission to bomb Tokyo. ...
Today in Aviation History – April 26 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
Sunday, April 24, 2011
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Female aviators defy reported odds - Clarkville Online | Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan - When Chief Warrant Officer 4 Trudy Truax arrived at her first unit as an OH-58A pilot in 1996, her commander refused her orders. “I’ve had my own battalion commanders not speak to me,” Truax said. Truax was one of the first females to join the community of Cobra, Apache and Kiowa pilots after then-President Bill Clinton lifted the restrictions that kept women from flying the traditionally combat-focused rotary-wing birds...
Lovers of planes, cars savor inaugural fly-in - Gainesville | Standing at about 4 feet tall, 9-year-old Anthony Bishop-Gylys hopped aboard a Blackhawk helicopter Saturday morning. "Planes are really cool, especially the pilot's seat," said Gylys, playing with the dials on the control panel...
Annual Corsicana Airsho - Corsicana, TX - Fun Places To Fly | (Saturday, May 14, 2011) Waivered air show. B-17 Texas Raiders B-25 Devil Dog P-51 Mustang Tora! group O-2 2 aerobatic acts Blue Skies Parachute Team 2 formation-flying clubs 2 RC aircraft clubs. 9:30 AM - 4 PM. 5/person or 10/carload veterans, AD military personnel and their families admitted free. Bring lawn chairs and cameras!
Cannes Airshow Catches The 162 Skycatcher - Aero-News.net | Demonstration Flights Will Be Available - Cessna's LSA will be on display at the Cannes AirShow this summer. Authorized Cessna sales rep Aeromecanic has just announced a European exclusive, with the first C162 Skycatcher presented at its display, along with a C182, a C172 and a Corvalis TT...
Dream Cruise, Air Show to be linked - Daily Tribune | Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson hope to jointly promote this year’s Selfridge Air Show and Woodward Dream Cruise as the “Wings and Wheels Weekend,” making it one of the most heavily attended combined entertainment events in Michigan history...
VIDEO: Texas Flying Legends Museum - Saint Barths Airshow 2011 - Cockpit Cameras - YouTube | Come fly with the Texas Flying Legends Museum as they do low passes over the St Barths airport and SY Marie at the 2011 St Barths Bucket Regetta. Pilots are: Warren Pietsch - P-40K, Robert Odegaard - FG-1D and Casey Odegaard - P-51D.
VIDEO: Flying the U-2 - Pilots Of America | Some of this I knew but the video is great. This video is truly amazing. Make sure you view it full screen...
SPACEX AIMS TO PUT MAN ON MARS IN 10-20 YEARS - Discovery News | Private US company SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years, the head of the firm said. "We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."...Friday, April 22, 2011
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Unique WWII German fighter reassembled in Everett - Seattle PI | The German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter plane shocked its adversaries when it debuted in World War II. Just getting the one that Everett’s Flying Heritage Collection owns flying again took more than a decade of restoration work. And then they took it apart. The airplane rotted in a marsh outside of Leningrad from 1943, when pilot Paul Ratz crashed there, until someone found it in 1989. After a Soviet helicopter pulled it out of the muck, the plane traveled to England and then Arizona, where the Flying Heritage Collection had it restored...
VIDEO: AirVenture 2011 promo - EAA | An exciting look ahead to AirVenture 2011, July 25-31. Tributes to Hoover and Rutan! Concerts by REO Speedwagon, Aaron Tippin, and the Lt Dan Band! Daily airshows—including an even BIGGER nighttime show than last year!
F-35's 1st air show appearance will be ... - Flightglobal | ... maybe later this year, says Adm David Venlet, F-35 program executive officer, who briefed reporters this morning at Joint Strike Fighter headquarters on the 6th floor of a a typically non-descript office building in Crystal City...
Second F-35 Production Jet Takes First Flight - Defense Update | AF-7, the second F-35 Lightning II production jet, takes off on its first flight Friday, March 4, from Naval Air Station Fort Worth JointAF-7, the second F-35 Lightning II production jet, takes off on its first flight Friday, March 4, from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base...
Blackburn Buccaneer – the last British bomber - Shortfinals Blog | I once had the great privilege of living (and working) at the Royal Air Force’s premier navigation school. Inevitably, one met members of the instructing staff who had been in contact with the Blackburn Buccaneer. To say that this aircraft was held in affection would be a massive understatement...
Primeira mulher a pilotar um Gripen na Suécia (First woman to fly a Gripen in Sweden) - Cavok | A capitã Anna Dellham recentemente completou seu primeiro voo solo num caça Gripen tornando-se a primeira mulher piloto de um Gripen na Força Aérea da Suécia. O voo ocorreu junto ao Esquadrão F7 na Base Aérea de Satenas...
VIDEO: Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (1945) - AIRBOYD | The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (Curtiss-Wright CW-24), was a 1940s United States prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss. Along with the XP-54 and XP-56, it resulted from United States Army Air Corps proposal R-40C issued on 27 November 1939 calling for unconventional aircraft designs. A highly unusual design for its time, it had a canard configuration, a rear mounted engine, swept wings and two vertical tails...
VIDEO: Stinson L-5 Sentinel (1942) - AIRBOYD | The USA light aircraft L-5 Sentinel began life as the pre-war Stinson Model 105. The model 105 was nicknamed Voyager, built by the Stinson division of Consolidated Vultee. When World War II broke out, the Voyager was redesigned and then entered into service as a liaison aircraft. It also flew in the artillery spotter role and as an air ambulance...
Open Line Friday – Warbird Radio LIVE! - Warbird Radio | FRIDAY – It’s time once again for an open line show on Warbird Radio LIVE! This means it’s your turn to call in and discuss whats on your mind…this Friday at 10am (EASTERN). FYI…we have some cool stuff for give aways …so call in.
FAA administrator to speak at Atlanta Aero Club - General Aviation News | Randy Babbitt, administrator for the FAA, will be the featured guest speaker at the regular bi–monthly meeting of the Atlanta Aero Club scheduled for May 5. Babbitt, a veteran pilot who flew 25 years for Eastern Airlines, is an internationally recognized expert in aviation and labor relations...
Warbird Restoration Enthusiast and Aviation Experience of Clyde Zellers - Covington Aircraft | Covington Aircraft believes that remembering and honoring the history of aviation is vital to our daily operation in Okmulgee, OK. We highlight an important figure in Aviation, in this blog post, Clyde Zellers...
More Books About Flying - Joe Clark | After finishing yesterday’s blog about books on the subject of the Doolittle Raid, I began thinking of other books written of flying that all serious pilots should read. There are so many great novels and historical accounts written of flying that once started, many become very difficult to put down until finished...
All female pilot group encourages women to take to the sky - KTRE | LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - In 1929 men told them they could never be pilots. With the help of pioneers like Amelia Earhart, women from around the world formed their own group- the Ninety-Nines, Inc. Their mission is to mentor other female pilots. They hope high flying inspires more women to take to the sky...
Heliboarding Copter? - Yanko Design | Have you heard of heliboarding? I haven’t but apparently it’s the hot new thing with adventurists. The AvA 299 DROP is a helicopter designed to take crazy snowboarders to locations not accessible by normal lifts. The entire cabin can lower them just enough to leap out and carve their stake across a mountain...
Amateur High-Altitude Balloon DOES NOT Launch Tonight - MT Utility | The Project Blue Horizon 5 high-altitude transatlantic balloon flight originally scheduled for Friday, April 22 [UTC, tonight in Pacific time], has been postponed to April 27 - 29...
