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Historic air race begins today in Colorado - Denver Post, CO
By Kevin Simpson Thirty-seven-year-old Longmont resident Marijke Unger, who is participating in her first Air Race Classic this week, says the cross-country competition proved that women "could compete on the same playing field as men. ...

Arkansas women among pilots in transcontinental race - SmartBrief, DC
Two Arkansas women will be among 35 teams to compete in the all-female 2009 Air Race Classic, the world's only all-female transcontinental air race, taking place tomorrow through Friday. The race dates back to 1929, when 20 female pilots, ...

ERAU students flying in 2400-mile competition - Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL
DAYTONA BEACH -- Two Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students will join more than 60 other women today in taking off on a four-day air race. Pilot Marisha Falk and co-pilot Hannah Northern are scheduled to leave Denver this morning on a zigzag ...

Silver City Realtor to compete in women-only Air Race Classic - Silver City Sun News, nm
Pecotte will fly with her partner, Sandy St. John of Forney, Texas, in the 33rd Annual Air Race Classic, an all-women s transcontinental air race beginning today. The two will pilot St. John s 1959 Beechcraft K35 Bonanza plane 2714 miles from Denver to ...

Turbine Toucan Makes Appearance at Hiller Aviation's All Helicopter Show "Vertical Challenge 2009" from Turbine Toucan by David Kervinen
Greetings All, This past weekend was another small little milestone for Infinity Entertainment, and it all happened serendipitously. Hiller Aviation Museum was having its annual Vertical Challenge Airshow at hour home airport in San Carlos Ca. It is the US’s largest all helicopter show with civilian and military hardware just about everywhere. The day before the one-day event one of the guys at Hiller Aviation asked if I would be interested in leaving my hangar open to display the Turbine Toucan. I gave it some thought and figured what the heck. This was actually the first time the Turbine Toucan would be exposed to the general public. Unlike the AOPA show in San Jose, which focuses on like-minded aviation professionals and pilots, the Vertical Challenge really is a family event. Most know little to nothing about aviation, they just want to be entertained…

Rhode Island Will Soon Be Seeing Snow. - Jun 22 The Canadian Air Force Snowbirds that is. OK so maybe that wasn’t what you wanted to hear in the midst of all this wet and rainy weather we have been having. So, hopefully it will come as consolation that so far the weather looks clear for the air show. Sorry no photos of Snowbird yet, they will not be here until sometime on Wednesday afternoon.F-22 RaptorWe are now less than a only 5 days (counting today) away from the Rhode Island Air show at Quonset Poin...

Dueling planes at Legacy Air Show - Rexburg Standard Journal, ID
Nationally known pilots Greg Poe and Kent Pietsch showed up with vastly different airplanes: Poe's super-fast stunt plane and Pietsch's utility plane that apparently can fly with a missing aileron, or hinged surface on the back of the wing that eases ...

Airshow - June 21st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment There was a small airshow out at the Olympia airport today. I stopped by and got a few pics… Tho I missed some of the better stuff. Nebsphotography

Crowds hit 90000 for Margate's Big Event - Yourthanet, UK
Tens of thousands of people made their way to Palm Bay near Cliftonville and watched aerial displays from the likes of the Red Arrows. The stunning sight of a Lancaster Bomber accompanied in the air by craft such as Spitfires and Hurricanes wowed the ...

Wide Bay airshow in doubt - Bundaberg NewsMail, Australia
FINANCIAL pressures on the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow 2009 have sparked warnings from its chief executive officer that the future of the event could be in doubt. “The position we are in at the moment is untenable,” CEO Richard King-Siem ...

Is it a bird... is it a plane? - The Sun, UK
A SQUADRON of the world famous Red Arrows races across the skies yesterday - hotly pursued by a fearless MAGPIE. The bird seems to be catching up with the jets in Kemble, Gloucs, a day after they flew over the Grand Prix at Silverstone. ...

Reno PRS ‘09 from Reno Air Races blogs
Holly cow…where does the time go? Back in the office after a killer, killer time at the Reno PRS (Pylon Race School). While the new pilots learn the Reno Air Race coarse (just north of Reno at Stead Airport), 25 of the best aviation photographers are brought in to photograph the whole event. I’m incredibly fortunate to get in as a volunteer working the Nikon NPS booth who are there to support the photographers. This is the GREATEST bunch of photographers! Besides the fun, quotes from every air...

The Right Stuff - No doubt about it - my favorite local airshow is the annual Vertical Challenge helicopter airshow at the Hiller Aviation Museum at San Carlos Airport. In addition to this annual airshow being a whole lot of fun, there are lots of sentimental memories for me at San Carlos. My Cherokee 235 was based at the Skyway Building tiedowns for several years. On Saturday, as in years before, I walked by within a few feet of where I used to preflight her - just the perfect parking place! Before that…

12° Gruppo F-2000s deployed to Trapani from David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog by David Cenciotti
The mini-airshow held in Trapani on Jun. 8, 2009 to celebrate the first 1.000 flight hours of Maj. Salvatore Ferrara and Maj. Maurizio De Angelis (to read more about the event click Part 1, Part 2) provided the opportunity to take some pictures of the Gioia del Colle F-2000s temporary deployed to Trapani to perform firing activities in the Sardinian range (Trapani is ideal for such a kind of activity since it is located on the coast and the armed aircraft can reach the ranges overflying only the sea). The aircraft belonged to the 12° Gruppo of the 36° Stormo. During the afternoon of Jun. 8, one of them suffered a minor failure during the firing activity and was compelled to return to Trapani and perform an emergency landing as one of the pictures, taken by Giovanni Maduli, shows.

San Diego air museum will house replica of German stealth prototype - San Diego Union Tribune, CA
By Diane Bell, Union-Tribune Columnist The San Diego Air & Space Museum will display a replica Horten 229, an aircraft discovered in a top-secret German facility toward the end of World War II. (John R. McCutchen / Union-Tribune) - The National ...

Hitler's Stealth Fighter National Geographic Channel from channel.nationalgeographic.com
Indeed, some of the Germans’ innovations in military technology would prove extremely useful. Nazi Germany’s advances in rocketry such as the V-2 guided missile, for example, would accelerate American efforts to develop ballistic missiles and send manned missions into space. And today’s B-2 bomber bears unmistakable design similarities to the Horten Ho 229, a German jet still under development at the war’s end, whose swept-back single wing and radar-shielding carbon-impregnated plywood skin might have made it the first stealthy aircraft.

Historic planes take spotlight - Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, TX
By Tucker Stephenson KINGSBURY — There were many impressive aircraft on display at the Pioneer Flight Museum's AirFair 2009 event Saturday, but any time an exact replica of the plane flown by the Red Baron is present, it tends to steal the show. ...

Historic Aircraft Trump Modern Planes from All Things Aviation by admin
It is interesting to note that with the decline in the economy visitors to air shows are paying more attention to antique and vintage aircraft than the brand new hardware on the ramps. At the Paris Airshow this weekend large crowds of people discovered, hidden among the shiny new military and civilian aircraft, some very interesting…

Journey into the past: WWII veterans take flight in B-17 bomber - The Missoulian, MT
Jim Dennison was a longtime charter pilot before joining the Commemorative Air Force seven years ago. Now he's on one of eight flight crews that rotate into the cockpit of the Sentimental Journey during its summer touring season. ...

Wings of Freedom Tours at Tri-Cities Airport - KNDO/KNDU, WA
A B-17 Bomber, B-24 Bomber, and a P-51 Mustang fighter plane flew into the Tri-Cities Airport at Bergstrom Aircraft. All the planes have been restored and fly all over the country. Very few of these aircrafts from World War II are in such good ...

PLANES: Wings of Freedom planes arrive today - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA
Vintage and rarely seen planes, like the World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator and the P-51 Mustang fighter jet, will be on hand. “Visitors will also be able to experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually take a 30-minute ...

Yet more about the WK2 fly over at Las Cruces from RLV and Space Transport News
Here's a Spaceport America press release about the WK2 fly over: Virgin Galactic Mothership "Eve" Flys Over Las Cruces - Spaceport America - June.22.09. And here are a couple of nice photos they distributed with the press release:..

Away with the Heat from THE FLYING PENGUIN by Wicked Penguin
…Instead, I headed on down to the Naval Aviation Museum, laptop in tow. I figured, it's free, it's air conditioned, and it's full of airplanes. There are worse places to write about real aviation and about ficticious aerial adventures in times long past…

Century Hornet from Technorati Search for: Airshow
A F18 Century Hornet in celebration of 100 years of Canadian Flight, St Thomas airport for the wings'n'wheels airshow June 2009

Oshkosh 2009 Could be 'Electric' -- Chinese Company Bringing Electric Plane from Aero-News Network
Hopes To Show E430 To The U.S. At Oshkosh It might not be time for Lycoming or Continental to start looking over their shoulders, but with the first flights of the Yuneec E430 electric-powered aircraft in China last week, there may soon be an alternative powerplant in the LSA market.

EAA AirVenture Makes Wishes Come True from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
Dreams of aviation will come true at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 as the "The World's Aviation Celebration" hosts five Make-A-Wish children and their families on Saturday, August 1.

Uncontrolled Airspace #140 "Air America" from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Jack's in Las Vegas this week overlooking the McCarran GA ramp. The boys talk about secret airlines, really big fire-bombers, and the new FAA boss. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #140 "Air America"

Aviation Geek Night - 6/23 from FlyerTalk Forums by hermanfish
I wanted to see if anyone else is going to the aviation geek night. I happened to stumble onto the ticket giveaway on Twitter last week and am really looking forward to this special event. The description says that we will get to try the flight simulator and slide down one of the emergency slides (which will be awesome)…

RNedAF Airshow Volkel 19-6-09. Part one - The aircraft. - Stick and Rudder from stickandrudder.ning.com
Stick and rudder did attend the 2009 airshow at RNedAF Volkel on friday the 19th of June. Arriving to the show after a over-night stop-over at the Apollo Hotel Breda, we went from Breda by train to Oss via Tilberg, where at the station there we were taken to the base by free shuttle-bus in around 35-40 minutes. Due to illness we had to leave slightly eaerlier than planned, missing the Polish Mig 29UB demo at the end of the show. We never saw this Mig at the show on the grounds that it was not on show like the other aircraft on the line, but in hardened shelter on the other side of the airfield. The airshow was wonderful...

RNedAF Volkel airshow 19-6-09 -Part two-The airshow people. - Stick and Rudder from stickandrudder.ning.com
These are some of the RNedAF airshow at Volkel airshow people, taken on friday the 19th of June 2009

Air University Leader Presents Honorary Degree To Apollo 8's Frank Borman from Aero-News Network
Moon-Orbiting Astronaut Receives Honors The commander of the first mission to orbit the moon received an honorary doctor of science degree by Air University officials for his contributions to aviation and space exploration at the Air Force Test Pilot School June 13th.

Vulcan Display at Kemble 2009 from PlanesTV (BETA) - Aviation Action by Iain PlanesTV
Fresh back from its trip to the continent, AVRO Vulcan XH558 puts in a dramatic appearance at Kemble Airshow.

Spitfire and Hunter Display at Kemble 2009 from PlanesTV (BETA) - Aviation Action by Iain PlanesTV
A fitting finale to the 2009 Kemble airshow was the Rolls Royce Spitfire PR Mk XIX and Delta Jets' Hunter T.7B formation routine.

United States - Indiana - Indianapolis Air Show 2009 - Indianapolis - 06/06/09 from FenceCheck Forums
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United States - California - Father's Day Fly In - Columbia - 06/19/09 from FenceCheck Forums
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2009-0620-Vertical Challenge 2009 Airshow at Hiller Aviation Museum - a set on Flickr from http://www.flickr.com/
An "OK" airshow this year. Especially missed the Showcopters (JimCheatham passed away earlier this year)and Henry 1 from Sonoma CountySheriff's. Also missed seeing the USCoast Guard this year. CHP, CDF106, andAirship Eureka made things interestingthis year! And, of course, the finale -Chuck Aaron's aerobatic helicopterroutine for Red Bull!

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