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Until next week - fly often, fly safe, give flights to those who have never taken
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1910: In the United States, racing began with the Los Angeles meet of January 1910, in which Glenn Curtiss and Louis Paulhan were the big winners. Paulhan was again victorious in the grueling London-to-Manchester race in which he beat a heroic effort by the British aviator Claude Grahame-White.
 
1911 Schneider Trophy: The Schneider prize for seaplanes was first announced by Jaques Schneider, the French Under-Secretary for Air, in 1911, with a prize of the then huge amount of 1,000 pounds. It was meant to encourage progress in civil aviation but became a contest primarily about speed.
 
1925 Cleveland Air Races: The forerunner of the National Air Races at Cleveland was the Pulitzer Trophy Race established by newspaper publisher Ralph Pulitzer. In 1920, the idea of an Air Show first came to America from Europe when Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, put up the money for a race on Long Island’s Mitchell Field. Pulitzer’s goal was to reawaken interested in aviation, which was suffering from post WWI apathy.
 
1929 Powder Puff Derby: The First Women’s Air Derby was a transcontinental race that began in Santa Monica, CA, and culminated in Cleveland, OH, for the 1929 Cleveland National Air Races. Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout & other women aviators of the era brought international attention to women in aviation. That same year, The Ninety-Nines Women’s Aviation Organization was born… literally under the wing of an airplane in Cleveland.
 
1929 Thompson Trophy: The first of these events, the Thompson Cup Race, was added to the Nationals in 1929. The closed-course event for unlimited planes, sponsored by Cleveland manufacturer Charles E. Thompson, was an immediate success. Like the barnstorming events, the race provided breathtaking excitement for the crowd. In 1930, the name of the race was changed to the Thompson Trophy, but the importance of the event remained unchanged. From then until it was ended in 1939, the Thompson Trophy Race provided the climactic final event of each year's National Air Races meeting. It was also the premier closed-course race in the world.
 
1931 Bendix Trophy: In 1931 Cliff Henderson decided that the United States needed an annual cross country air race to promote and encourage the achievements of the US aviation community. The emphasis would be placed on reliability and endurance as well as speed. To this end Cliff Henderson managed to persuade businessman, Mr. Vincent Bendix, to back his ideas and the Bendix Transcontinental Trophy Race was born.
 
1946 Air Racing after WWII: After World War II, the dominant role of air power spurred a great increase in air racing, and the National Air Races resumed at Cleveland in 1946 under the auspices of the Air Foundation.  All the competing airplanes were ex-military fighters and trainers, in contrast to the wonderful custom-built racers of the 1930s. The Bendix & Thompson Trophies were contested in 2 divisions—Reciprocating & Jet—while other events were held for what later became known as Unlimiteds, and for modified AT-6/SNJ/Harvard Advanced trainers flown by women who were not allowed to compete against men around the pylons.
 
1964 Reno Air Races: Bill Stead, a Nevada rancher, hydroplane racer, and World War II ace, in 1964 came up with the idea of reviving the National Air Races to help celebrate the centennial of Nevada's statehood.
 


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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.waaamuseum.org

9th Annual East Coast Cardinal Flyin
September 10th, 2011
Lancaster, PA (KLNS) Airport
Our 9th Annual East Coast Cardinal Flyer On-Line flyin. The Cardinal Flyers are a group of owners, operators and flyers of the Cessna 177 Cardinal. The CFO (Cardinal Flyers Online) organization is one of the larger type-c lubs with members world-wide. Past years have had 50+ Cardinals from all years, both RGs and Fixed gear.
For more information, visit: www.CardinalFlyers.com

2011 SKY FAIR
September 11th, 2011. 8AM - 4PM
Elko Airport - J. C. Harris Field (EKO) in Elko, NV
Annual event geared to encourage public awareness of GA and it's history. Admission is free. PILOT INCENTIVES are being offered on a first come first serve basis to participate. Schedule includes rides on the AZ CA F B-17 (Sentimental Journey) and B-25 (Maid in the Shade), UT CAF Stearman and Nanchang. T-6 rides and EAA Sponsored Young Eagle rides for youth ages 8-18 (free of charge). Pancake breakfast, static displays of military, local & regional aircraft. Hot air balloon and RC aircraft exhibits. For the 10 yr anniversary of 9/11 there will be a memorial ceremony of remembrance at 10AM.
For more information, visit: www.ElkoSkyFair.com

"We Can Soar" Official Kickoff with Author E.P. Stein
September 17th, 2011 at 4:00PM
Boeing Theater: 4000 N. Lakewood Blvd., Long Beach, CA
This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the first transcontinental flight! Celebrate Cal Rodgers' historic flight with an event corresponding with his departure from Sheepshead Bay, NY 100 years ago. Join us and take a trip with author E.P. Stein as he revisits 1911. The author of Flight of the Vin Fiz will land in Long Beach on Saturday, September 17, 2011 - the same day Cal Rodgers left New York on his historic expedition - for discussion of Rodgers' flight and a book signing at the Boeing Theater. Tickets are $25 each ($10 for students) and can be purchased at www.VinFizLongBeach.com

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48th Annual Nation Championship Air Races
Reno-Stead Airport | September 14-18

AO - Special Section (Reno Air Races At A Glance)
 
2011 Event Schedule       2011 Performers
 
Ticket Information        The Race Course


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Betty Skelton, ‘fastest woman on Earth,’ dies at 85
By Matt Schudel | The Washington Post
 
Betty Skelton, a daredevil pilot who was a three-time national aerobatics champion and became known as the “fastest woman on Earth” when she set speed records in airplanes and automobiles, died Aug. 31 at her home in The Villages, Fla. She was 85.

She had cancer, said Dorothy S. Cochrane, a friend and the curator of general aviation at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Ms. Skelton, who made her first solo flight — illegally — at age 12, went on to become a pioneering and charismatic pilot in the days of propellers and open cockpits. She gave her first aerobatics performance when she was 19, appearing in the same show in Jacksonville, Fla., in which the Navy’s precision flight team, the Blue Angels, made its debut in 1946.

In her brightly painted Pitts Special biplane, the Little Stinker, Ms. Skelton performed awe-inspiring feats of airborne daring. She was the first woman to attempt the “inverted ribbon cut,” in which she would fly upside down only 10 feet off the ground, slicing a ribbon with her propeller.

The first time Ms. Skelton attempted the stunt, Cochrane said, her engine died. She calmly righted her plane and landed on the wheels. She then started it up and went back into the air.

“She enjoyed challenges, she enjoyed speed, she enjoyed technology,” Cochrane said.


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Enlisted in the World of Airborne Spying
By CHRISTOPHER DREW | The New York Times
  
For four years, a doctor commuted between his clinics in Texas in a $5 million turboprop with jazzy metallic stripes and ruby stones embedded on the drink cabinet inside. The plane featured exotic wood veneers and polished chrome, and his daughter’s initials were in the tail number.

But after a mysterious buyer snapped up the plane in 2008, it ripped out the fancy appointments, painted it a dull gray and sent it on a more dangerous mission. Unknown to the doctor, his prized King Air 350 had become a spy plane, one of the first of a new military model that is now easing the load on the unmanned drones for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For a military that loves to create shiny hardware from scratch, dipping into the used-plane market is a rarity, done only under the most urgent conditions. Remotely piloted drones have been the intelligence stars of the wars, but the Pentagon cannot build them quickly enough to meet the demand.

So the Air Force bought eight used King Airs and equipped them with video cameras and eavesdropping gear as part of a broader effort to supplement the drones with manned aircraft. The Army has also retooled similar planes to track insurgents who plant bombs.


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