Category Archive: Air Shows/Events

Dreamliner set to fly in a week as Boeing fixes battery – Reuters

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The Boeing factory demonstrator lands at Oshkosh in July 2011, prior to all the battery problems. Photo: Andrew Jones – OPShots Contributor // Boeing began installing reinforced lithium-ion battery systems on five 787 jets in Japan on Monday, starting a process that should make the first commercial Dreamliners ready to fly… Read more

Airliners International 2013 Convention Coming to Cleveland!

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The world’s largest airline collectibles show & convention is slated to take place at the Sheraton Cleveland Airport Hotel from June 26 to the 29th, 2013. Cleveland has never before hosted this prestigious event, and a rather large attendance is anticipated. With all the aviation history that has taken place at CLE, it has… Read more

Legendary pilot Howard Pardue Dies in Bearcat Crash – Flying Magazine

Howard Pardue taxies in his beautiful aircraft at the Reno Air Races in September 1985. He would take fifth place in the Unlimited Silver Class race with an average course speed of 359.415 mph. This aircraft was one of two original prototypes built out of an eventual run of 1,266 airframes, and still flies to this day. (OPShots Slide Collection - Photographer Unknown)

Airshow performer and air race pilot Howard Pardue died on Wednesday when his Grumman F8F Bearcat crashed shortly after takeoff from his home field of Stephens County Airport in Breckenridge, Texas, located about 100 miles west of Dallas. The Bearcat, one of only 15 or so airworthy F8Fs in the world, had just taken off when… Read more

Surprising Cause of Oshkosh F-16 Runway Overrun – Flying Magazine

Resting where it stopped, this incident was witnessed by OPShots Contributor Craig Maternowski.  Photo:  Craig Maternowski

Remember that runway overrun by an F-16C at Oshkosh last summer see it on video here? Plenty of armchair pilots speculated about why it might have happened, with possible causes centering on a what many presumed was a brake problem or perhaps too high an airspeed on final. It turns out that not a single one of us was right…. Read more

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