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All News

July 24, 2008

AeroShell Aerobatic Team Lead Alan Henley Injured In Home Accident

Team Will Perform Three-Ship Show At AirVenture 

It was with sadness that ANN learned Wednesday Alan Henley, lead pilot for the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team, was injured Tuesday night in an accident while playing with his children at his home in Birmingham, AL. A chin-up bar gave way while Henley was on it, resulting in a fall which caused severe injuries to his neck and head.

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Aero-News Proudly Introduces Our AirVenture 2008 Staff

Say Hello To Senior Video Producer Sarah Curtiss!

With the final days before the official start to EAA AirVenture 2008 counting down all too rapidly... and, not quickly enough... ANN's senior staff is all-too-aware of the Herculean task ahead of us in reporting EVERYTHING that's news at The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration.

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Success! Corsair Removed From BDR Perch For Repairs

Earlier Attempt Called Off Due To High Winds

It took four hours -- and three months -- but the vintage Chance-Vought FG-1D Corsair that has greeted visitors to Sikorsky Memorial Airport (BDR) in Bridgeport, CT since 1971 is now berthed in a hangar, awaiting restoration.

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Lyons Studio To Unveil New 'Red Tail By Request' P-51C Mustang Painting

Will Be Donated To Red Tail Project For Fundraiser

The Red Tail Project tells ANN noted aviation artist and enthusiast Sam Lyons has created, and will donate, an original painting of the red-tailed P-51C Mustang "Tuskegee Airmen" as it might have appeared during World War II. The picture, entitled "Red Tail By Request" shows the fighter being piloted by a Tuskegee Airman protecting five B-24s over Italy.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.24.08)

Aero-Linx!

The mission of the Rhode Island Quonset Air Museum (QAM) is to preserve, interpret and present Rhode Island's aviation history through collections, research, education and exhibits.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.24.08): Malleability

Aero-Terms!

The ability of a material to be stretched or shaped by rolling or hammering it. Malleable materials do not crack when they are formed this way, Gold and lead have a high degree of malleability, as both can be shaped into almost any desired form by hammering them.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.24.08)

"Our prayers are with Alan and his family, and we are hoping for him to have a speedy and full recovery... Alan will be missed terribly, but we will be there flying for him until he recovers."

Source: Steve Gustafson, who flies Left Wing for the AeroShell Aerobatic Team. Alan Henley, lead pilot for the team, was injured Tuesday night in an accident while playing with his children at his home in Birmingham, AL. Henley was taken to the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital's trauma unit, and remains there in ICU in serious but stable condition. The Aeroshell team plans to fly at EAA's AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI next week, but will fly a three-ship routine in Alan's absence.

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