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Female aviators highlighted during womenventure - Oshkosh Northwestern
Last year about 1000 women were featured in the inaugural photo, a number Women in Aviation International president Dr. Peggy Chabrian hopes to surpass. ...

EAA fundraiser nets $1.8 million, Ford steps down from Young Eagles - AOPA Pilot
The evening's silent and live auctions featured such exotic items as a flight in a Sikorsky Air Crane by Erickson, an aerobatic experience with Sean Tucker ...

Air Guard members get a 'high' with Klatt ride from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
In the shadows of the world's largest commercial airliner and the very first commercial space vehicle, the greatest part at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 for some Wisconsin Air Guard members was an incentive ride in an Air National Guard-sponsored stunt plane.

Photos: The big air show in Oshkosh - CNET News
For a week or so every summer, Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisc., becomes the destination for aircraft enthusiasts. That's because it's the venue ...

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Blue Angels schedule - WALA-TV FOX10
NAS PENSACOLA - The Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will close the 2009 season at their annual Homecoming Air Show aboard Naval Air ...

Snowbirds making a pass - Chilliwack Times
Next week the City of Chilliwack joins the Canadian Forces to commemorate the 100th anniversary of powered flight in Canada with a low altitude flypast over ...

Jet shows prowess at celebratory event - Rutland and Stamford Mercury
One of the most memorable highlights in the plane's history came in that first year, when two of the aircraft took part in the Transatlantic Air Race, ...

Competition - Your Windermere Airshow Vulcan picture framed and ... - Westmorland Gazette
PICTURES of the Vulcan which flew across the skies above the Lake District at the Windermere Air Show last weekend are being sought in a competition. ...

Daredevil, 89, breaks record - The Sun
Fearless Tom Lackey, who will be 90 next month, performed the amazing wingwalk over the 25 mile stretch of water on a plane just 20 years younger than him. ...

The Liberty Belle Puts on a Show from Liberty Belle News by masqueman
"Your B-17 was just at Lawrence Airport in MA and I was privileged to check it out up close on Saturday, then again on Sunday, as it flew overhead at an RC plane meet in Tewksbury, MA. It sure seemed like they knew we were there, because they appeared to circle the field twice, before flying on. Do you know if they intended to put on such an awesome show for us, or was that just us thinking we were brothers in flight? At any rate, it was AWESOME hearing those huge round engines rumble overhead." - Charles A. Enman

Stunt plane operator avoids liquidation - Otago Daily Times
The corporation applied to the High Court at Invercargill to put The Action Aerobatic Company into liquidation. Corporation chief executive Steve Sanderson ...

Authors work to clear Air Corps pilot's name - Taunton Daily Gazette
Kotler became the radio gunner on William Flynn's B-17 during the course of multiple bombing missions out of Foggia, Italy, in 1944 and 1945. On May 28, 1945, William Flynn, a Wakefield resident, was awarded The Distinguished Flying Cross for ...

Aviation Heritage Week at Alberta Aviation Museum from Aviation.ca News
Only a very few are left, they are now old and gray but they are still heroes. WW2 was the largest Global conflict the world has ever seen, a time when the free world fought against the tyranny of Dictators. A...

Air & Space Museum to host open house at Cahokia airport Saturday - Belleville News Democrat
They also have a Vari-eze small plane which is a Burt Rutan design. With its push engine it is hard to tell which way it is supposed to be going. ...

Air Station Museum uses grant money to fund education - Shore News Today
The Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum has one clear cut goal: Making sure that local piece of World War II naval history is disseminated to the area for generations to come.

"Amelia" Tells The Story Of The Legendary Aviatrix - The Frisky
Earhart broke a bunch of aviation records and was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo ...