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Women In The Skies - 
Women Pilots OF WWII  CLICK HERE
 This month Nancy tells about the amazing American and
Soviet Women Military Pilots of WWII
Nancy Warren is a GA pilot, member of the Ninety-Nine's and has logged over 2300 hours.


 
Aug 1933: The first practical variable-pitch propeller, developed by Frank W. Caldwell of Hamilton Standard Propeller Company in 1930, was introduced into airline service, on a Curtiss Condor biplane. The new propeller improved the propulsive efficiency of modern aircraft with highly supercharged engines, giving them more thrust than a fixed-pitch propeller when taking off and permitting adjustment to a more efficient setting for flight at different altitudes and speeds.
 
Aug 8-29, 1929: The Graf Zeppelin made the first round-the-world flight by a rigid airship, leaving from and returning to Lakehurst, N.J., in 21 days 7 hours 34 minutes. This was the second round-the-world flight; two U.S. Army Douglas World Cruisers had first performed the feat during Apr 6-Sep 28, 1924.
 
Aug 10, 1846: Smithsonian Institution created

The National Air Museum (NAM) was created as a separate bureau of the Smithsonian Institution by an Act of Congress on 12 August 1946.
 
Aug 10, 1965: San Francisco-Oakland Helicopter Airlines initiated the first scheduled air cushion vehicle (hovercraft) service in the United States between Oakland and San Francisco. The service began a year-long test authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board to determine the feasibility of using air-cushion vehicles in ferrying passengers in metropolitan areas.
 
Aug 11, 1926: William P. MacCracken, Jr., took office as the first Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics
Aug 13, 1948: Record day for the Berlin Airlift
 
Aug 1953: The first operational installation of a transmissometer, an electronic device for measuring visibility, was completed at Washington National Airport. The transmissometer was developed by the National Bureau of Standards, purchased and installed by the Weather Bureau, and used by CAA control tower operators to provide pilots with accurate information on visibility changes.


 
La Porte Aero Club Fly-in Pancake Breakfast
August 14th, 2011
La Porte Municipal Airport (PPO) in La Porte, Indiana
Fly-in/Drive-in pancake breakfast. All you can eat plain or blueberry pancakes. You also get sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns, orange juice, coffee, and plain or chocolate milk.
You get all this for only $6.00. Some of the money goes to our scholarship fund. There are also parachute jumpers/weather permitting. We have grown to serve about 1200 breakfasts by noon. See you there!
For more information, visit: www.laporteaeroclub.org

EAA B-17 Tour Stop Hosted by EAA Chapter 186
August 19th, 2011
Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO) in Leesburg, VA
EAA is offering historic flight experiences in its beautifully restored B-17G Flying Fortress “Aluminum Overcast.” One of only 14 Fortress's still flying, this aircraft is an icon of the Allied strategic bombing effort that helped turn the tide of battle in World War II. EAA's B-17 will be doing revenue flights and be on static display. Self Guided Ground Tours daily from 2-5 pm and is $5/adult or $15/family. Active Military or Veterans free. To book a flight please call 1-800-359-6217. For general information, contact Ginny Largent, 540-868-2698.
For more information, visit: www.b17.org

7th Annual Classic Aircraft & Car Show
August 20, 2011. 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Front Range Airport (KFTG) Denver (Watkins) CO.
Free family friendly event featuring classic and antique cars, aircraft, fire trucks and motorcycles, a performance by Don Nelson's High Energy Aerobatic and fly-bys from nostalgic aircraft. New this year 43rd Annual Mountain States Swap Meet. Free Prostate Cancer Screening. No entry fee for classic vehicles and aircraft. $5.00 General parking.
For more information, visit: www.ftg-airport.com

WAAAM Hood River Fly-in
Sept 9 - 11, 2011
Ken Jernstedt Airfield/Hood River Airport (4S2) in Hood River, OR.
Fly-in hosted by the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum. Saturday and Sunday there will be a Pancake breakfast from 7-10am and dinner & auction starting at 6pm. Plane, helicopter & car rides (extra fee).
For more information, visit: www.CardinalFlyers.org

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Inside the National Air and Space Museum
 
By Alan Klapmeier | www.theatlantic.com

For those who have never had the opportunity to visit the NASM, both on the Mall and the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, you are missing out on a real treat. Of course, anyone who loves aviation the way I do would not miss the chance to see this great display of aviation history.  In fact, I make a point of at least visiting for a few minutes whenever I am in town.

But everyone needs to see this place. Why? Because the history of aviation is linked to the development of our society. Behind the airplanes, spacecraft and associated artifacts is the story of people striving to do the impossible.

"Everyone" knew that man could not really fly. Everyone except a small group of pioneers, including the Wright Brothers, who literally risked everything to invent the airplane


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Man implicated in 'D.B. Cooper' skyjacking had worked at Boeing
 
By Douglas Stanglin  |  USA TODAY

One of two brothers implicated by a niece in the 40-year-old "D.B. Cooper" skyjacking case worked at Boeing around the time of the fabled incident, according to the woman's mother, The Seattle Times reports.

In the elaborate scheme, "D.B. Cooper" hijacked a Boeing plane on a Northwest Orient flight on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, extorted $200,000 and parachuted out with the cash after lowering the plane's rear exit ladder.

Marla Cooper, who was 8 at the time, says she believes her uncles Lynn Doyle Cooper and Dewy Cooper were involved and recalls L.D. showing up the morning after the hijacking bloodied and bruised. She also overheard him saying that they were rich.

Marla's mother, Hailey, says Dewy Cooper, who was allegedly involved in the plot, worked at Boeing around the time of the hijacking.


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The “Spirit of Tuskegee” Stearman Lands in DC

Smithonian.com

This past Tuesday afternoon, after a month long trip across the country with several stops at air shows and air fields along the way, Matt Quy landed his “Spirit of Tuskegee” World War II era Stearman biplane at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. The 35-year-old Air Force captain purchased the open-cockpit, Stearman PT-13D, used to train African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen from 1944 to 1946, at an auction six years ago, restored it and has now donated it to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

We here at the ATM blog have been following the story of this plane quite closely. Smithsonian magazine columnist Owen Edwards wrote, in early July, about his thrilling flight with Quy in the plane over Northern California and the history of the plane. At the end of July, Edwards reported on Quy’s month-long journey from Lincoln, California, to Washington, D.C., to fly the plane to the Smithsonian. The pilot did not take a direct route, but instead stopped at places like the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and Moton Field, the plane’s original home during World War II, in Tuskegee, Alabama. In both places, original Tuskegee Airmen were able to view it. So, in a sense, the plane’s arrival in Washington feels like an end to an interesting story.

“Watching the plane land at Andrews was a relief on one level—to know that the plane had reached the end of its journey safe and sound,” says NMAAHC curator Paul Gardullo. “But it is also a beginning of a new life for the plane, that we can share with millions of people for generations to come.”


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