FORT WORTH, Texas – Frenchman Nicolas Ivanoff won the Red Bull Air Race held over the weekend of Sept. 6-7 at Texas Motor Speedway with a time of 54.118 seconds. Britain’s Nigel Lamb took second in 54.253 and Canada’s Pete McLeod finished third in 54.666. The overall Red Bull Air Race World Championship battle tightened dramatically […]
Airshows & Fly-Ins
Museum hosts World War I airshow
The Virginia Beach Airport will once again host the Military Aviation Museum’s World War I airshow Oct. 4-5. This year’s show commemorates the 100th anniversary of the start of the war, museum officials note. The annual weekend airshow will include re-enactors, as well as flights of rarely seen aircraft from the first World War. For […]
Reno race week reports now at LiveAirShowTV
Reno Race Week Reports have begun at LiveAirShowTV. Check out the first one here. Jeff Lee reports there will be edited reports through Wednesday, and then a live post race show at 5 pm PDT Thursday through Sunday.
A mile-high airshow takes flight
STORY and PHOTOS By HAYMAN TAM Colorado is the home of several airshows and mile-high airshow fans turned out in force to welcome the birth of a new airshow in the state. The inaugural Pikes Peak Regional Air Show took place in August at Colorado Springs Airport (COS). The show benefits two museums in Colorado Springs: […]
Sisters sweep Scheme Designers Oshkosh scavenger hunt
The Scheme Designers Scavenger Hunt at this year’s AirVenture drew contestants of all ages and nationalities. Ultimately, the winners of the scavenger hunt was a team of sisters, Amelia Stagg, 11, and Piper Stagg, 9, of Lancaster, Pa. (shown in the photo below with Craig Barnett, Scheme Designers president). The girls spent the week at KOSH, and made the scavenger […]
LiveAirShowTV releases Heritage Invitational preview
LiveAirshowTV has released its annual preview of the planes participating in the National Aviation Heritage Invitational during the Reno Air Races. This year over 25 planes are entered.
Culpeper Air Fest slates flight over Washington, D.C., monuments
CULPEPER, Va. — Culpeper Air Fest will serve as a home base on Friday, Oct. 10 for the ground-breaking Potomac Flight, a unique flyover of Washington D.C.’s greatest landmarks including the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. This once-in-a-lifetime flight will feature the North American T-6 Texans, a two-seat aircraft used as the advanced trainer for World War II […]
Silver Wings Fraternity convention slated for Oct. 2-4
By MICHAEL TAYLOR, Silver Wings Fraternity PAO The Silver Wings Fraternity Aviation Scholarship Foundation will host its 2014 annual convention in Pensacola, Florida, from Oct. 2-4. The convention hotel is the Comfort Inn on North Davis Highway and is located northwest of the Pensacola Regional Airport (KPNS). Most activities take place on Naval Air Station Pensacola. President […]
SocialFlight expands worldwide
SocialFlight, a web and mobile app for finding events and interesting places to fly, is expanding worldwide. This includes international aviation events, airports and Points-of-Interest (POIs) within walking distance of airports and aviation events. Local aviation METAR weather is also provided for most airports. Following this latest expansion, SocialFlight now contains nearly 30,000 airports around the […]