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Top Air Show Performers Make Early Confirmations for AirVenture from http://www.airventure.org/ | Many of the world's top air show performers have already given early confirmations to participate at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 next summer. Second-generation air show standouts Matt Younkin and Kyle Franklin will appear, as well as yearly favorites like Chuck Aaron and his Red Bull aerobatic helicopter, the AeroShell Aerobatic Team, The Collaborators featuring Sean D. Tucker, and the Warbird Spectaculars.

DC-3s Flocking to Join AirVenture Birthday Bash from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh - They're coming from everywhere; some three dozen DC-3 and C-47 aircraft that have already shown interest in participating in "The Last Time..." 75th anniversary celebration of the aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010.

US Navy and Blue Angels coming to Milwaukee in June - Journal Times | The Blue Angels, the Navy flight demonstration squadron, will also be performing at the Milwaukee Air & Water Show June 12 and 13. ...

Navy Week scheduled for Baltimore this summer - Baltimore Sun | Events include appearances by the Navy Leap Frogs parachute team, performances by ceremonial and rock bands, flight simulators and interactive displays, ...

Navy Week to drop anchor in Tampa - Tampabay.com | Navy divers in the Florida Aquarium, ceremonial bands performing at local venues and the famous Blue Angels flight team ...

Fleet's In! The US Navy Spreads the Love to Land-Locked Dallas - KERA | Well, in addition to flight demos by the Blue Angels and the Navy Leap Frogs parachute team (at the Fort Worth Alliance Airshow), part of the celebrations ...

Official Matt Hall Supporters Tour Announced from Air Race News Watch | Hall, who finished his debut Air Race season in 2009 in third place overall, said he was very excited to be able to cater for some of the large group of supporters that are expected to travel to Perth. "As soon as I heard the race was coming back to Australia and to Perth I was determined to make sure I had plenty of fans over there," Hall ... Read the complete article: Official Matt Hall Supporters Tour Announced

'The Checklist Manifesto': a simple, brilliant prescription for getting things ... - Seattle Times | Boeing's entry, the B-17, would later be built by the thousands, but on that first flight it took off, stalled, crashed and burned. ...

George Albano column: We should never forget Dave Mills - The Hour | During a tour with the 8th Air Force in December 1944, he began combat flying and successfully completed a total of 24 B-17 bombing missions to Germany from ...

Suzanne Rae Schreiber – Mirror | She was one of the riders in a B-25 that her mother rented for her husband's 80th birthday. She loved to fish and roller skate at Riverside. ...

Warbird part of air museum exhibit - Osceola News-Gazette | For a limited time only, the Kissimmee Air Museum at the Kissimmee Gateway Airport will host an exhibit featuring an F4U Corsair warbird, a plane with ...

Spare Times: For Children - New York Times | ... and Tuesday through Thursday) Most of the military life commemorated at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is real, but for the next few months the ...

Museum Reaches New Heights from http://www.airforce-magazine.com/ | The Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB, Del., is adding the tower cab from the base's old air control tower. The cab was moved to the museum in late December for placement upon a tower base. Museum officials have been collecting older tower

Newark Air Museum Events for 2010 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News by Flightline UK | To try and help counteract the spell of cold weather that is gripping the country at the moment we thought it might be good to highlight the major Newark Air Museum events and activities that are being planned for the coming months. Further details and image files are available on request to illustrate these events and activities. Throughout January, February & March we are hosting a FREE to enter Aircraft Recognition Competition based around the 85th Anniversary of the formation of the Observer Corps; where during each month you could win vouchers to spend in the Museum Shop…

Warbird part of air museum exhibit from The Kathryn Report | For a limited time only, the Kissimmee Air Museum at the Kissimmee Gateway Airport will host an exhibit featuring an F4U Corsair warbird, a plane with historic significance in both World War II and the Korean War. Read full article.

Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910 from Roger-Wilco by steve | By Julie Hedgepeth Williams - Publisher: NewSouth Books - ISBN-13: 978-1588381682 - When stepping aboard an aircraft these days, few passengers spare a thought to the many visionary people who have made the wonder of safe and affordable air travel possible. Even giants like Orville and Wilbur Wright are fading in people's memories. Stretching the matter a bit further, even student pilots will be hard pressed if asked when, where and by whom the first flight school was established in the United States?...

Flying Home: A Romantic Adventure Story from http://www.prlog.org/ | In the novel Flying Home, aviator Captain Jack Donaghue wants nothing more than to fly home, but instead he is marooned in a bad winter storm. Jack was ferrying a plane from Camp Bravo in northern Alaska to a base not far from Anchorage. After the flight, he was heading home for a much-needed vacation. But as Jack piloted the plane, the unpredictable Alaska weather worsened and the engine quit. Jack's lone passenger, Harry, then radioed in the wrong location.

The GA Recovery Is Now from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Looking into aviation's near future may be much more appealing than looking into its recent past, according to our January 6, 2010, interview with Brian Foley, who says his analysis of the trends and markets suggests the industry may not be on the verge of recovery — it may already be in the early stages.

Aviation Nation 2009 – More Pics From Another Great Day from Parrothead Jeff | I seem to recall promising some more plane Pr0n a while back - Yep, I finally got more film developed – three rolls from Aviation Nation 2009 and there's actually a few I consider to be somewhat acceptable images amongst the ones I managed to goof up along the way - Now, I still feel like I've been run over by a fully loaded C-5 Galaxy, so I'm going to keep the commentary short and mostly confined to the captions.  I hope y'all don't mind.  Just remember that you've always got the comments to fall back on for questions and I'll answer them to the best of my ability.

On This Day in Aviation History: January 8th by Phil Derner Jr. | The Airbus A300 becomes the first widebody to operate with a two-man flight crew. Also, the crashes of Turkish Airlines Flight 634, Air Midwest Flight 5481, British Midland Flight 92 and a Moscow Airways AN-32. the Russian Soluz TM-18 launches as well.

Kalamazoo Air Zoo from FenceCheck Forums - Old stuff in the "new" museum.

Kalamazoo Air Zoo from FenceCheck Forums - Getting more modern...

Kalamazoo Air Zoo from FenceCheck Forums - WW2 stuff...

Kalamazoo Air Zoo from FenceCheck Forums - Jets!


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