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Get out your checkbook!! PBY for sale on EBay
December 11, 2009 9:28 amIt looks like Consolidated PBY Catalina BuNo. 34027 is up for sale on EBay, buy it now price of only $250,000. Seems like a steal for such a huge and wonderful aircraft.
EBay link: 1943 PBY Catalina
FMI about this aircraft: Warbird Registry – PBY Catalina BuNo. 34027
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Chinese Rocket Fly-By
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Thunderbirds officials announce 2010 schedule
December 10, 2009 12:06 pm12/9/2009Â -Â NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) –Â Officials from the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, “Thunderbirds,” here announced its 2010 airshow schedule.
The team’s 57th show season is scheduled to take them to more than 65 shows in 27 states and Canada.
Lt. Col. Case Cunningham will join the team as commander and leader for the team and fly the No. 1 position.
Other officers beginning their first season with the team are Thunderbird No. 3, Capt. Chad Shenk, right wing; Thunderbird No. 6, Capt. Aaron Jelinek, opposing solo; Thunderbird No. 8, Maj. John Gallemore, advance pilot and narrator; Thunderbird No. 9, Capt Thom Bowden, flight surgeon.
The new team members will join returning officers Thunderbird No. 2, Maj. John Baum, left wing; Thunderbird No. 4, Maj. Sean Gustafson, slot; Thunderbird No. 5, Maj. Rick Goodman, lead solo; Thunderbird No. 7, Lt. Col. Derek Routt, operations officer; Thunderbird No. 10, Capt. Petrina Hanson, executive officer; Thunderbird No. 11, Maj. David Lemery, maintenance officer; Thunderbird No. 12, Capt. Jason McCree.
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Warbird movie coming to a theater near you?
December 7, 2009 1:19 pm‘War Birds’ film flying at TMU Pictures
Michael Chait set to direct combat action-adventure movie
Dec 6, 2009, 11:00 PM ET
TMU Pictures is moving forward with the action-adventure film “War Birds.”
Michael Chait wrote the original story and will produce and direct the screenplay written by Josh Staman and Bryan Binder. J. Todd Harris (“Bottle Shock”) and screenwriter Richard Jefferies (“Tron Legacy”), who will polish the script, are producing.
Sean Miller and Kyle Heller of Chait’s Michigan-based TMU Pictures also are producing. Marc Marcum will serve as co-producer.
“Birds” follows an Air Force veteran-turned-reckless airshow re-enactment pilot as he gets pulled into the underground culture of illegal, real-life aerial combat. Shooting is scheduled for the summer in Michigan using all real airplanes and aerial sequences, including authentic P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings, F4U Corsairs and a B-17 Flying Fortress as well as modern military helicopters and jets.
Click here to goto the full article at The Hollywood Reporter
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
JASDF Blue Impulse
December 2, 2009 7:00 amBlue Impulse or 11 Squadron, is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Originally formed in 1960 as a team of six F-86 Sabres, the team switched to the Mitsubishi T-2 in 1980 and then the Kawasaki T-4 in 1995. They are based at Matsushima Air Base.
Japanese Eagle loses some feathers
December 1, 2009 11:36 amDoolittle Raiders Planning a reunion
November 17, 2009 2:18 pm
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by Rob Bardua
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force11/16/2009 – DAYTON, Ohio — The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders are in the final stages of planning their 68th reunion at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, April 16-18.
The reunion will include a free public autograph session, educational event and memorial service at the museum, as well as a dinner (for a charge). In addition, a free public concert honoring the Raiders will take place at Wright State University’s Nutter Center.
Of the nine living Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, five are currently able to travel and plan to be on-hand for the reunion events.
As a possible special tribute to the Raiders during the reunion, the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association, Inc. is hoping to secure enough sponsorship funding to fly in and land 25 B-25 Mitchell Bombers on the runway behind the museum. If their efforts are successful, this aviation event would be the largest gathering of B-25s since WWII.
A Trader returns to the air
January 19, 2009 11:31 amDaniel Serrato of Eufaula, AL has acquired C-1 Trader Bu. 136778 and with much time, money and effort has returned this unlikely warbird to the air in late 2008. The C-1 Trader was the workhorse of U.S. Navy carrier aviation for many years before being replace by the C-2 Greyhound. While the C-1′s cousin, the S-2 Tracker, has found life after service as a firebomber, often being fitted with turboprop engines, only a handful of C-1 Traders managed to avoid the scrap yard. Congratulations Daniel for preserving an unusual piece of aviation history.
FMI: Warbird Registry
Warbird Heritage Foundation’s F-86 Sabre Returns to the air
December 10, 2008 2:25 pmWarbird Heritage Foundation’s NAA F86F Sabre (N188RL/52-4986) took to the air on Dec. 7, 2008 at 10:45 AM for the first time in over a year. The WHF’s Sabre has been undergoing extensive maintenance in 2008.
The annual maintenace of this aircraft was covered in a thread on WIX that include numerous pictures and discussions on the project.
Laser Gunship Fires; ‘Deniable’ Strikes Ahead?
August 20, 2008 9:04 amFrom blog.wired.com
Boeing announced today the first ever test firing of a real-life ray gun that could become US special forces’ way to carry out covert strikes with “plausible deniability.”
In tests earlier this month at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Boeing’s Advanced Tactical Laser — a modified C-130H aircraft — “fired its high-energy chemical laser through its beam control system. The beam control system acquired a ground target and guided the laser beam to the target, as directed by ATL’s battle management system.”
“By firing the laser through the beam control system for the first time, the ATL team has begun to demonstrate the functionality of the entire weapon system integrated aboard the aircraft,” Boeing exec Scott Fancher said, in a statement.
