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Ca Int'l Airshow Attendance Up; "Staycations" May Be Behind Spike - KIONrightnow.com
New numbers show roughly 7000 more people attended this year's California International Airshow in Salinas compared to last year. ...

California International Airshow Salinas attendance down 10K from 2007 - The Salinas Californian
Attendance figures for the 2009 California International Airshow Salinas were up about 18 percent compared to last year, but down 18 percent from two years ...

Patrol will monitor traffic at air show - Omaha World-Herald
The Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show will take place from 9 am to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday at Offutt Air Force Base. ...

Land of Lincoln Honor Flight program aims to get vets to DC - Galesburg Register-Mail
He went down on a ship — the USS Indianapolis.” At 16, Burton said he falsified his birth certificate to join the service at younger age than was allowed. ...

Australian International Airshow to take off early - Geelong Advertiser
ORGANISERS yesterday announced the dates and theme for the next Avalon Airshow, which will return to Geelong in March 2011. Event CEO Ian Honnery said the ...

Lake in the Sky Airshow - The Lake in the Sky airshow organizers have asked Mooney owners to participate in this year's 20th Annual Lake In The Sky Airshow. They are providing a catered dinner on Friday night August 28th, breakfast, lunch & beverages on August 29th, free tiedowns, and admission to the airshow to Mooney owners with display aircraft. A highly discounted rate at the Lakeside Inn is available. The goal is to have at least 12 Mooneys on static display and available for flights during the breaks in the a…

AV Press: 'Wasabi' packs punch in racer from http://www.avpress.com/
When the National Championship Air Races start next month in Reno, you can expect to see the electric green Wasabi racer in the Formula One class. Just don't expect to see it zipping out to the front of the pack, or jockeying for position. Wasabi's pilot, owner and builder Elliot Seguin believes in a "baby steps" approach to air racing, learning the ropes and building from the ground up. It's the same approach he takes to flight test, something with which he's familiar in his day job as an engineer with Scaled Composites. "I view racing as flight test," Seguin said. Although Seguin will be racing at Reno for only the second time…

La Patrouille de France de passage à Québec – Canoë
Les Alphajets de la Patrouille de France, une unité prestigieuse de l'Armée de l'air française comparable à nos Snowbirds, sont arrivés cet après-midi. ...

GALLERY: Shoreham RAFA Air Show 2009 - Midhurst and Petworth Today
BATTLE of Britain retold and the Red Arrows were just two highlights at the Shoreham RAFA Air Show weekend. Click on the green play button to see a slide ...

VIDEO: Shoreham Air Show 2009 - Shoreham Today

Uncontrolled Airspace:The General Aviation Podcast: Uncontrolled Airspace #148 "You're not from around here" from Blogging Pilots
The boys are back safely from Oshkosh, they spend some time comparing notes on their trips home, and take one last look at this year's AirVenture. Plus they talk about green paint, big TFRs, planes...

Episode 62 – The Youngest Airplane Geek from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks)
Evan, from the Evan Flys website, joins Dan, Rob, and Max to prove that airplane geeks come in all sizes and ages. Evan has a passion for aviation, especially warbird aviators and airshow performers. In fact, he’s interviewed a number of them, he can be heard on Flight Line Internet Radio, and he writes a monthly column for Atlantic Flyer magazine.

Astronaut's visit home launches memories from IndyStar.com - Top Stories
Like a rock star, space-walking astronaut David Wolf was surrounded by fans clamoring for his autograph or a picture Tuesday at his first public appearance since space shuttle Endeavour landed a few weeks ago.

David Wolf visits The Chidren's Museum - Indianapolis Star
David Fleck holds an autograph he got from Dr. David Wolf, NASA Astronaut and Hoosier, while he made his first official public appearance at The Children's ...

Re-creating WWII History Air Museum Rebuilds Historic Replicas - AMTOnline.com
Aviation enthusiasts at Air Classics Museum in Sugar Grove were delighted last month to ...

1943 B-25D bomber set to take off across Atlantic on Saturday - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"The cold of the flight deck will be nothing when I see the ocean break over the nose of the B-25." Grumpy was delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force in ...

Hot Air Balloon Festival to fill skies over Metamora - The County Press
METAMORA -- The village of Metamora will be full of festival fun this Thursday to Saturday, Aug. 27-29 as Metamora Country Days gets under way. ...

On This Day In Aviation History: August 26th by Matt Molnar
1925, Farman Parker of Anderson, Indiana becomes the world’s youngest pilot to fly solo at the age of 13 years, 7 months, 17 days. The record would stand until 1983.

1929, the largest trimotor transport aircraft built by Fokker, the F.IX, makes its first flight. The same aircraft (PH-AGA) would be delivered to KLM a few months later.

1959, Jacqueline Auriol becomes the first woman to fly at Mach 2, while piloting a French Mirage III.

1959, the White House enters the jet age. After pressure from Secretary of State John Dulles (after whom the Capitol’s airport is now named) regarding the somewhat shoddy appearance of a US President arriving at international meetings aboard a prop while Russian dignitaries flew in aboard jets, the first VC-137B, a modified Boeing 707-120 airliner, enters service to replace the Lockheed Super Constellation formerly responsible for Presidential transport. Newer aircraft would subsequently take over President-carrying duties over the years, but this first jet, branded SAM 970, would remain in the Air Force’s Special Air Missions fleet until 1996, last being used to transport Vice President Al Gore.

1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri begins what would be an 18 year layover in Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris. Believed to be the inspiration for the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks film The Terminal, a chain of immigration bureaucracy and paperwork snafus prevent Nasseri from leaving the airport while en route to settle in London. Despite assistance from lawyers, he would not be able to legally leave the airport until sickness forces him out in July of 2006.

2003, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final report on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

2008, a Sun Air 737-200 carrying 109 passengers and crew is hijacked after takeoff of a flight from Nyala, Sudan to Cairo, and demand to be flown to France. The plane ends up landing in Libya, where the passengers would be released the next day later and the hijackers would surrender two days later.

Red Flag 9-5 from Military Photos by h00t74 - This one features B-52s, Italian AMX, and UAE F-16s amoung others...

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