Wright 'B' Flyer To Make History Come Alive At Vectren Dayton Air Show * Aero-News Network | NAHA Supports Air Show With Educational Activities The all-volunteer Wright “B” Flyer Inc. will bring aviation history to life June 28-29 at the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger.
Memories of the air show tragedy still fresh 1 year later * WDTN | DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show is just a few days away but for those in the crowd last year, the memories are still fresh. Next Saturday, the gates will be filled with fans for the 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show. But it's hard to...
Thunderbirds featured at this year's EAA AirVenture * hngnews.com | The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron "Thunderbirds", perform the Delta Flat Pass during the Milwaukee Air and Water show at Bradford Beach, Wisconsin, Aug. 7, 2011. The Thunderbirds will be featured at this year's EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh....
Closing meeting of the Championship of France Aerobatic Falaise Cliff Saturday, June 28, 2014 * 
Passion for Aviation | This year the Championship of France Aerobatic will take place at Cliff-Mont d'Eraine (Calvados) from 24 to 28 June and will end with a rally Saturday, June 28. From 3:00 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. you can watch free full competition especially with the participation of our two world champions 2013 aerobatics: Captain François Le Vot and Aude Lemordant....
Greenville pilot says he has flown into the record books * WHNS Greenville | Gary Davis said he set a world altitude record in his electric aircraft in the Upstate on Saturday. Davis, a Greenville financial adviser who's been flying gliders and small aircraft for 39 years, took off from the Greenville Downtown Airport just ...
Airfest 2014 takes off Saturday at Flying Electrons Field * jsonline | The air show taking place Saturday at Flying Electrons Field, N61-W17000 Kohler Lane, Menomonee Falls, will feature prop planes, jets, helicopters and objects you'd never expect to get off the ground. Visitors can also get a few flying tips, should this show inspire them to be pilots....
RC planes take to the skies in Salem * Norwich Bulletin | “It's the next best thing to actually flying. It really is.” Everett St. Louis, of Canterbury, has been building, flying and modifying model airplanes since the late 1960s. He was working on his replica Condor Shoestring Formula One Air Racing craft...
B-17 gunner 'lucky' to escape harm in 32 missions * Buffalo News | The soldier manning the .30-caliber machine gun had appeared imposing to young Carrigg, but a year later at 19, he was airborne in a B-17 G model serving as both the engineer and the top turret gunner with two .50-caliber machine guns at his command...
B-17 Veterans Crew · eaavideo.org | Ten World War II United States Army Air Corps veterans representing all 10 Flying Fortress crew positions were given a special flight in EAA's B-17 Aluminum Overcast.
Vet who spent 35 combat missions in a B-29 visits last one flying * HeraldNet | The plane, called Fifi, is maintained by the Commemorative Air Force, which has restored and operates more than 150 vintage aircraft. It is open to the public at the Historic Flight Foundation in Mukilteo through July 6...
Kevin Hong D-Day images · The International Council of Air Shows Yesterday, June 22nd 11:28am ICAS member Kevin Hong is back from Normandy and shares a few of his D-Day images.
A-12 Avenger II Arrives at Fort Worth Aviation Museum · Warbirds News | The original full-scale mockup of the ill-fated McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 
Spitfire, Harvard and Tiger Moth flying · Bush Flying Diaries, Indonesia Matt Dearden | random travels Friday, June 20th 10:42pm Everyone wants to fly a Spitfire right? And I bet, like me, you thought you'd have to know someone who knew someone that had one, with two seats, and was willing to let you go for a ride? Well, as of a few years ago a company called Boultbee Flight Academy based in Goodwood, UK has been allowing people to do just that without having to be friends with people in high places. And yesterday, I was one of their students for the day...
Fly The 'Mach Loop' In A Eurofighter Typhoon * www.boldmethod.com | Because who wouldn't want to fly a jet 250 feet off the deck?
Airborne Jade an aviator of promise * Otago Daily Times | A promise born with the arrival of a baby in a helicopter 15 years ago has been delivered to the birthday girl. Yesterday was a day to remember for Jade MacMillan. It marked 15 years since she became the first baby born in an Otago rescue helicopter...
Students start building plane · General Aviation News | Four students, a teacher, and two advisors from Sunrise Mountain High School in Las Vegas, Nevada —which won the second General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA)/Build A Plane Aviation Design Challenge — began building a Glasair Sportsman airplane June 16 at Glasair Aviation in Arlington, Washington....
Calling all young #AvGeeks: Get on this Twitlist for the full AirVenture experience! · Dan Pimentel | I have written many times on here about the importance of how we, um, "seasoned" pilots, need to reach out to the youngest aviators coming into the system every chance we can get. If you spend as much time as I do amongst the aviation family on Twitter, you will see that there are plenty of bright, articulate young student and certificated pilots that are literally the future of aviation....
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Reno Air Races prepare for takeoff · General Aviation News Staff | Fifty years after planes first took to Reno’s skies in 1964, the National Championship Air Races begins this week. Dubbed “the world’s fastest motorsport,” the Reno Air Races officially takes off Wednesday, Sept. 11, and runs through Sunday, Sept. 15...
Washoe County’s North Valleys Park and Reno Air Races will dedicate Rare Bear replica Sept. 9 - This is Reno | Washoe County will honor the 50th anniversary of the Reno Air Races with the installation of a replica of the legendary F8F Bearcat airplane Rare Bear at the North Valleys Regional Park Monday, Sept. 9, at 9:30 a.m....
Scheyden Catalina Air Show moves to Oct. 26-27 · General Aviation News Staff | HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – The Second Annual Scheyden Catalina Air Show has been moved to Oct. 26-27. One of Southern California’s most scenic and historic harbors, Catalina routinely plays host to numerous events, so the City Council and organizers agreed that a new weekend would enhance the airshow by making it the sole attraction, officials with Scheyden Precision Eyewear said...
Scenes from a Russian Airshow - Air & Space Magazine | Late last month, Russia held the MAKS 2013 air and space show at the Ramenskoe airfield near Moscow. The biannual event, which traces its roots to the end of the Cold War, has become the largest and most important public exhibition for the nation’s aviation and space industry...
Best of Show! The Very Best/Worst of Oshkosh '13! (Part 3) - Aero-News Network | Compiled By The Staff and Readership of the Aero-News Network and Aero-TV (Part 3 of 5) | For quite a while, we have recognized the highs and lows inherent in the general and sport aviation community -- and yes, we’ve had a bit of fun in the process. There are but a few places where that is more apropos than at a major event like the Oshkosh Fly-In -- a place where one can take a solid read on the heart and soul of aviation. It's hard to know what really is going to make a difference and what really qualifies as exceptional unless you've been watching this industry carefully for several years... as we have....
Announcing the F-104 Starfighter Association - Warbird News | A new warbird enthusiast group is forming up, the F-104 Starfighter Association. The F-104 Starfighter Association is dedicated to preserving more of the history of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the Canadair CF-104 Starfighter and all of their variants, through first-person accounts and photographs from the pilots, engineers, maintainers and others who were associated with the legacy of these historically significant jet fighters...
Wright B Flyer Inc. wins two awards · General Aviation News Staff | Wright “B” Flyer Inc., the organization that flies the well-known Wright “B” Flyer lookalike and operates a free aviation museum, is the recipient of two prestigious community awards this year. The Engineers Club of Dayton has selected Wright “B” Flyer to receive its Wilson A. Charbonneaux award this month. In August, the National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA) presented its PROPS (Partner Recognition of Outstanding Support) award to Wright “B” Flyer at NAHA’s annual meeting...
Niagara Aerospace Museum Builds its Collection - Warbirds News | The Niagara Aerospace Museum has recently relocated to a new facility within a former terminal building at Niagara Falls International Airport. The museum is dedicated to preserving the rich aviation heritage of Western New York, and showcasing the aviation and aerospace history the companies that were once vital components of the region’s economy, including Bell Aircraft, Consolidated Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright. With their new facility recently opened, they have been expanding their collection...
Pakistan's only female fighter pilot becomes role model for millions of girls - You Fly, Girl | She has already made history by becoming the first woman assigned to one of Pakistan's front line dogfighting squadrons. Now at the age of 26 Flight Lieutenant Farooq says she is ready for the ultimate test. "If war breaks out, I will be flying on my senior's wing as his wingman, well, wingwoman," she said in an interview with...
Celebrating 30 Years of In Flight USA From Pica Poles to A Current Day Spirit By Annamarie Buonocore | First issue: September 1983A pica is a unit of measurement that most people know little about. A pica pole is a ruler that measures in pica units. As I am sitting at my desk, I can see my dad’s old layout board where he would lay out In Flight USA, using razor knives and pica poles. In Flight USA was one of the last publications laid out this old-fashioned way, and it took some nudging from the printer before dad finally got with the program and went digital. As I look at these old razors, triangles, and pica poles, I cannot help but think about the 30-year journey of In Flight USA...
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Honor Flight receives Spirit of Flight Award from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The recipient of the National Aviation Hall of Fame’s Milton Caniff “Spirit of Flight” Award for 2012 is Honor Flight, a non-profit organization that transports America’s veterans, at no cost to them, to Washington, D.C. to visit the memorials that honor their service and sacrifices...
Fly-in gets state award - El Defensor Chieftain | Socorro's M Mountain Fly-In has been named “Airshow of the Year” by the New Mexico Airport Managers Association, according to a report by the New Mexico Aviation Division. Jonathan Miller/El Defensor Chieftain: The UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter made an ...
Air show organizer tells upcoming of event - North Fort Myers Neighbor | With the American Heroes Air Show in Fort Myers now just 30 days ahead of us, we invite your team to deploy to our admission-free, helicopter-only aviation event with a mission to educate the community, elected officials and the media about the...
Mustang is star of fly-in - Northern Star | THE Great Eastern Fly-in at Evans Head is finally returning next weekend with expectations that it will be bigger than ever. With all manner of aircraft converging on the Evans Head Aerodrome, the fly-in's 21st anniversary is promising to be a true ...
Gliding the Wright way from General Aviation News By AMELIA T. REIHELD | It’s a beautiful view from the top of Jockey’s Ridge, the towering sand dunes on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. To 
Patrick King, 91; English High coach - Boston Globe | He decided to interrupt his studies and enlist in the Army Air Corps, which trained him as a B-17 tailgunner and sent him to the European theater. The war ended about 14 months after Mr. King's plane was shot down. He was freed and sent to a hospital...
Britain's first Yankee Christmas - Telegraph.co.uk | Their B-17 Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers would have been stranded on Britain's grassy airstrips. This was the Americans' first winter away from home – and the first time that British families would have the opportunity to share Christmas with...
Kansas Aviation Museum offering F-4 similar flights over the holiday break - Yahoo! News (blog) | WICHITA, Kan. - The Kansas Aviation Museum is offering a rare opportunity for the public to experience a flight in an F-4 simulator. The so-called F4 experience will be available Wednesday through Sunday at the Wichita museum. Detailed flight controls ...
Spitfires' Excavation Date Set from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The long-anticipated dig to unearth a cache of brand-new Spitfires that are believed to be buried in Burma is expected to start on Jan. 12, local press has reported. According to The Irrawaddy, archeologists first will spend about a week studying the site, then the digging can begin. Up to 36 pristine Spitfires, still in the packing crates they were delivered in near the end of World War II, are expected to be found. David Cundall, who located the burial site, said he has confirmed the airplanes are there by sending a camera through a borehole. "We went into a crate, you can see an object which resembles a Spitfire," he said...
Signing from Apron 6 | A great thing about Sanicole Airshow is the Redbull tent where there are signing sessions with the pilots. It’s a great way for the visitors to meet the pilots, while for the kids it’s a way of getting posters and gadgets for free. Here’s one of the Seaking crewmembers signing some posters.
Hangar Chats, 12-25-2012 from Other People's Airplanes by David | ...This is the first in our new series of what we are currently calling “hangar chats”. The will be short, upbeat episodes packed full of yummy aviation goodness. Each show will contain some combination of...
Video: Stinson 108, GoPro HD, And Some Ice And Snow! from AirPigz by Martt | Since there's a little snow in the air in my neck of the woods (northern Indiana) and quite a bit of it on tap for the northeast, I thought a nice little ski-flying video would be appropriate. After turning over a lot of youtube rocks I finally found one I felt was well worth sharing. It's of a 1948 Stinson 108-3 being flown in Wisconsin back in February 2012....
All I want for Christmas ... Daddy! from Air Force Link Top Stories | ...For the Madera family, it was looking like this Christmas was going to be one spent apart, or at least that's what 7-year-old Anastacia Madera thought. Her dad, Staff Sgt. Eduardo Madera-Muniz an F-16 Fighting Falcon crew chief, is serving a year-long remote...
Friday, November 2, 2012
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Squadron, the Blue Angels, will close the 2012 season at their annual Homecoming Air Show aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola today and ...In His Own Words: The Ride Of A Lifetime With The Blue Angels - NorthEscambia.com | An interesting thing I learned from Lt. Tedrow was that as a part of the rotation process coming on to the Blue Angels, many of the pilots spend their first year serving as narrator, before they rotate up to the actual demonstration team. While serving ...
Airshow returns with new attractions - Hometown News | STUART - About 4,000 people are set to converge on Witham Field for the Stuart Air Show next weekend. Aerial stunts, pyrotechnics, flight demonstrations, vendor and community booths, live entertainment, aircraft and military equipment displays, a ...
'Wings Over' Possibly Coming to East Arlington - Patch.com | A Wings Over, the franchise known for its airplane-inspired orders, such as the B-17 Bomber (60 wings), could be coming to East Arlington, according to the Board of Selectmen's Monday agenda. Robert Savin, who already owns a handful of Wings Over ...
A piece of movie history takes to the air in Jacksonville this weekend - Florida Times-Union | But you can fly in the B-17 from the 1990 film of the same name, seated where actors like Harry Connick Jr. and Matthew Modine were when they replicated the original's historic final World War II mission. Part of the Liberty Foundation's Salute to ...
Win a Stearman! Iconic Biplane is 2013 EAA Sweepstakes Grand Prize from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the annual EAA aircraft, and the grand prize was unveiled this week in the EAA exhibit at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Annual Meeting and Convention in Orlando: a completely restored 1943 Boeing Stearman Model 75 biplane!
Frank Christensen to Speak at EAA Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | On December 14, EAA will welcome Frank Christensen, innovative pioneer in the homebuilt kit movement, as keynote speaker at the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet. The banquet, held in the Founders Wing of the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina...
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep — history making fighter squadron and “Pappy” Boyington from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Swashbucklers and Black Sheep: a pictorial history of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II, Bruce Gamble, 2012, ISBN 13-978-0-7603-4250-3, 216 pp. <><><><><> As is the publishing business custom, Zenith Press provided a copy of this book to review so that an objective review would [...]
Today in Flying History - 02 November 1947 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 ‘Hercules’; the largest span aircraft ever built....
An aviation mystery from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | ...It's a beautiful seaplane abandoned between the sea and the desert of Saudi Arabia and it's been left there for almost 50 years. The plane is a PBY-5A Catalina, a military American seaplane from the 1930's...
Profile 73: "870" as flown by Hank Snow, 173rd Airborne from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | ...I first met Hank ten years ago at a reunion of a WW2 fighter squadron. These guys were the rough and tumble type that you'd imagine - back-slapping, loud hollers, scotch-fueled braggadocio - basically, the kind of buddies any man would you'd love to hang with. And, I was at the bar with Earl Ashworth, Bill Creech, "Doc" Perrit. Why me?! I could do something they couldn't - I could fly a PENCIL...
All my avi-yesterday's 02 RAF Coltishall from stickandrudderWTO by G-GARY other links
NTSB On Wright B Flyer Crash from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A replica Wright B Flyer built in Dayton Ohio crashed for unknown reasons on July 30, 2011, killing both volunteer pilots and the NTSB's October 30 Factual Report doesn't determine a cause but does note deficiencies with a weld. According the NTSB, the aircraft's left propeller shaft tube exhibited a separation at its aft weld. Contact points in that area exhibited evidence of rotational rubbing. The aircraft was equipped with a modern engine and avionics, and video recovered from onboard recorders showed circumstantial evidence that could lead some to an early conclusion not yet officially supported by the NTSB.
Inspiring Aviator Speaks To Youth at NBAA - Aviation International News | Renowned aviator Barrington Irving gave an inspiring message about aviation as a career to hundreds of middle and high school students from central Florida today at the NBAA Convention. In 2007, at just 23, Irving flew solo around the world in a ...
Young Eagles Rally - Yankton Daily Press | Yankton EAA Chapter 1029 held a Young Eagles Rally on Sunday, Oct 30, at Chan Gurney Airport from 8 a.m. to noon. The Yankton Middle School sixth graders who earned an Independent Reading Certificate signed by Mrs. Jacalyn Hovden were eligible for ...
Superstorm deflates Intrepid's shuttle pavilion - Art Daily | The space shuttle Enterprise is draped with cloth that had protected it before Superstorm Sandy passed though, leaving the spacecraft shrouded on the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, at its dock on the Hudson River in New York, Tuesday ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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AirVenture 2012 Photo Gallery from AVweb Top News | With AirVenture 2012 in full swing, it was tough to find time to snap a few photos just for fun — but somehow we managed.
RV's at AirVenture from I've
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impressed everyone on opening day of Airventure. Great job!
It's AirVenture! by ntsbgov | It's AirVenture! July 24, 2012 by ntsbgov. By Debbie Hersman. As I work on this entry, I am getting ready for my trip to Oshkosh, Wis., home of EAA AirVenture, which every time this year is one of the largest...
OSHKOSH Day 1. from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt
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- EAA Launches Eagle Flights
- EAA Remembers Sally Ride
- "The Aviators" Season Three Premieres Wednesday at Sennheiser Exhibit
- Romanian Warbirds: Built to Be Rare
- Left Seat: Why Does the HondaJet Look Like That?
- HAI HELI-CENTER Brings World of Rotorcraft to AirVenture
- Tuesday's Showcase, Air Show Order at AirVenture 2012
Air Show Preparations in Full Swing - Twin Falls Times-News | TWIN FALLS • Organizers and performers alike promise this year's Air Magic Valley air show will be jampacked with top notch performers and something for everyone. Air show director Jim O'Donnell is busy tying up loose ends, but said everything is on ...
Oyster Fly-in features planes and shellfish - Chinook Observer | RAYMOND — It'll be the third annual Oyster Fly-in Saturday, Aug. 4 at the Willapa Harbor Airport five miles west of Raymond. From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. the featured menu will be famous Willapa Bay oysters grilled or pan-fried. The event is sponsored by ...
Vintage B-17 Bomber Gives Branson Veterans a Glimpse of the Past - OzarksFirst.com | BRANSON, Mo. -- A vintage "Texas Raiders" B-17 bomber flew over the city of Branson Tuesday for the first time ever. It's of 11 airworthy Flying Fortress World War II bombers left in the world -- and only nine of them fly in the U.S. today. "The ...
Great Reno Balloon Race launches new offerings this year from RGJ.com | Organizers of the Great Reno Balloon Race are preparing for this year's event with more shape balloons and vendors, a paid VIP viewing option and a beer brewed especially for the race by a local brewing company. This year's race runs Sept.
Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride: pioneers who inspired generations of women - Guardian | Their flights gave millions something to look up to, including these modern adventurers. Who are the women you look up to? | Two legendary female explorers are in the news this week: Sally Ride and Amelia Earhart. Ride, the first American woman in space, died on Monday following a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, while the $2.2m investigation into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart stopped short Tuesday, on what would have been Earhart's 115th birthday...
Henderson resident's artifact verified as authentic piece of New York history - Las Vegas Sun | A fireman stands beside a twisted girder as he examines the gaping holes in the north side of the Empire State Building, on the 79th floor, evidence of the terrific impact with which a B-25 Army bomber crashed into the structure in New York, July 28, 1945.
Wright Modified B Flyer — the evolved trainer from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Wright
Modified B Flyer — the evolved trainer The first aircraft produced in large numbers by the Wright Brothers was the B Flyer. The aircraft seen in these images was purchased by the U.S. Army Air Service (ancestor to the U.S. Air Force) in 1911 and shows how changed from the original design this model was. There is...Boeing Holds Reunion of F-15 Eagle Program Employees and Retirees in St. Louis
from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Several hundred members of the F-15 Eagle Program Team, including both current employees and retirees from McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, gathered at the Building 100 Prologue Room to celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of the first flight of the F-15 on July 27, 1972. Engineers, test pilots and production workers mingled together and talked about old times and their contribution to producing a fighter aircraft that remains in first-line service, and is still in production, 40 years after its first flight. Engineers discussed how...
The old is new again . . . from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Aviation-minded readers will recall
that prior to World War II, most aircraft were constructed from wood or metal frames and ribs, covered with fabric. Even some of the better-known combat aircraft of World War II, such as the Hawker Hurricane fighter and the Vickers Wellington bomber, used this construction technique....Panetta Approves Plan to Lift F-22 Flight Limits - ABC News | Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has approved an Air Force plan to begin lifting flight restrictions on the F-22 stealth fighter jet, following the ongoing correction of oxygen deficit problems that grounded and restricted the fleet for months. Pentagon ...
