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Central Coast AirFest fills Santa Maria sky with aviation, history, family fun
13+ hour, 36+ min ago (802+ words) Visitors moved among rows of aircraft, food vendors, business booths, military displays and activities as vintage warbirds and other aircraft prepared for demonstrations overhead. Under sunny skies and cooler temperatures following a week of record-breaking heat, spectators settled into chairs…...
Vought V-173: The Flying Pancake That Flew
1+ week, 3+ day ago (735+ words) by Connor Kerr | 21 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 comments It sat on the ground at twenty-two degrees nose-up, which meant the pilot could not see forward at all. To take off and land he looked down through windows cut…...
Preserving Aviation’s Birthplaces in X-Plane 12: Johannisthal and Devau Airfields
14+ hour, 37+ min ago (26+ words) The landscape of modern aviation is built on the foundations of early 20th-century innovation. Long before …...
Maria - The Girl Restoring a Soviet TU-104 Passenger Jet
1+ week, 3+ day ago (786+ words) Maria, who almost finished her doctorate program in a local university, has got a real, once operational Soviet TU-104 plane to restore. The plane is parked at the very far end of the airfield and it's pretty far away from…...
Fighter Jet Takeoff and Landing: The Real Numbers, F-104 to F-35
22+ hour, 24+ min ago (1518+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 13, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire | 0 comments A Lockheed Chasseur stellaire F-104 came down final approach at 175 knots with full flaps, and that was the basic number. The pilot then added five knots for every 1,000 pounds of…...
During Battle of Britain it’s not true that ‘Hurricanes went for bombers and Spitfires for fighters.’ RAF Controller during BoB tells why.
23+ hour, 2+ min ago (279+ words) ‘The Spitfire has been moribund as a Home Defence fighter for two years and died when the Focke-Wulf 190 made an appearance.’ Whatever the truth of the matter, it is certainly the case that many would agree with the opinion that,…...
9/11 F-16s: The Jets That Defended Washington Are Saved
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (714+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Sep 13, 2026 | Aviation militaire, Nouvelles | 0 comments On the morning of 11 September 2001, four pilots of the District of Columbia Air National Guard ran to their F-16 at Andrews without waiting for live weapons to be loaded. One of them, Lt....
Wings and Wheels brings classic vehicles, aircraft to airport
1+ day, 46+ min ago (292+ words) Ken Adams is retiring after being the airport manager for 45 yrs. Shelby Turney and son Easton love the experimental helicopter that Roger Storrer built. Planes lined the municipal airport to show many different types of flight. There were hand-made and…...
Boulton Paul P.111: Britain's Yellow Peril Delta Jet
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (832+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 13, 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comments Britain came out of the Second World War with a captured German idea it did not fully understand. The delta wing promised high speed and a strong, light structure, and…...
Supermarine Attacker: The Navy Jet With a Tail Wheel
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (872+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 13, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments The Royal Navy’s first jet fighter had a tail wheel. Two of them, in fact, tucked under the rear fuselage, so that the aircraft sat on the deck nose-high like a…...