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Branson lands 'space tour' reality show - Digital Spy | According to WENN, National Geographic Channel's four-episode Virgin Galactic show will follow the billionaire mogul and engineer Burt Rutan's attempts to ...

Air show plans come together - St. Joseph News-Press | Plans are coming together for this year's air show at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, which will happen in 3½ months. City government, the St. ...

Manitowoc air show future uncertain - Fox11online.com | Szyman is also on the air show's board of directors. She says the show brings as much as $4 million into the area every year, and losing it would hurt. ...

Disecting and Promoting Airventure:'Oshkosh' is Really a 365-day-a-yearEvent for EAA Media Relations from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | When you really look deep into the soul of EAA's annual Airventure general aviation celebration, it is as much about people as it is about airplanes. We already know going in that pilots and others in the aviation community are some of the nicest, good-hearted, friendliest people on this planet, the kind of people who will give you the shirt off their back if you find yourself in Wisconsin in late July and really need a shirt…

Russia suspends flights of Su-27 fighters after crash - RIA Novosti | Two Su-27 fighter planes collided in midair when the Russian Knights aerial display team was rehearsing for the MAKS 2009 air show outside Moscow. ...

Saudi Hawks to head to UAE's 'Oasis City' with new manoeuvres display - AME Info | The Royal Saudi Air Force Aerobatic Team - better known as the Saudi Hawks - will perform a new, tight-formation flying routine when they take to the skies ...

Super Connie grounded: Key.Aero, Airshows ... has had to ground the aeroplane for the 2010 airshow season due to necessary repairs. Corrosion has been found in the wings during its annual...

NASA cuts price for retired space shuttles - Collectspace.com | January 15, 2010 — NASA slashed its multi-million dollar price tag on Friday for museums looking to acquire one of its three space shuttle orbiters after ...

Warbirds over Wanaka gets extra features - The Southland Times | Organisers of the largest air show in New Zealand are gearing up for a revamped Wanaka extravaganza. ...

Revealed: How David Cameron was forced to jump to safety from helicopter in landing drama By Sophie Freeman - David Cameron narrowly escaped injury after being forced to jump to safety from a helicopter. The Tory leader was a passenger in the craft when the handle for the landing gear came off in the pilot's hand. Faced with a dwindling fuel supply and the likelihood that an emergency landing could flip the helicopter over, pilot Philip Armadeus brought the helicopter to a hover above the ground. (Read More)

Sterling Heights man honored among aviators by TheKathrynReport - Sterling Heights resident Steven Kanyusik, 89, is a World War II and Korean War veteran whose accomplishments have put him among the ranks of Chuck Yeager, Jimmie Doolittle and even Neil Armstrong.  (Read More)

'Amazing' - Mauinews.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Visitor's Information - The Maui News from http://www.mauinews.com/ - A Maui scuba tour operator may have made the dive of his life Wednesday when he found what appears to be the previously undocumented wreck of a World War II-era dive bomber off South Maui. Brad Varney, owner of B&B Scuba Maui, said the aircraft appears to be a nearly intact Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless. Both canopies were open, with the plane's gauges clearly visible on the console, and the back flaps are down. The only part missing was the plane's top tail rudder, which Varney found resting on the sand not far from the …

ANN's 'Heroes 'n Heartbreakers' '09: Aero-Hero #2 -- Jack Pelton from Aero-News Network - Aero-Hero #2: Jack Pelton Somehow I think I always knew he had it in him... my personal conversations, in bits and pieces, over the years have convinced me that there was a reason why Jack Pelton continued to lead one of the most powerful companies in Business and General Aviation…

Jacqueline Cochran profiled at Investor's Business Daily from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | I was quite surprised and pleased to see this. It's 4 pages long, and of course only scratches the surface of what Jackie Cochran accomplished…

Two Cal Poly Students Earn Volunteer Award - Cal Poly State University | Through LOOK, Cal Poly students with an interest in other languages and cultures from around the world visit the "Sun n Fun" after-school program at five of ...

787 Flight Test Update: Month One from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower - It has been one month since the 787 first flew from Paine Field in Everett and the program has been steadily accumulating flight test hours, having flown approximately 60hr and 56min over 15 flights, as measured by the take off and landing notification alerts from flightaware.com. Dennis O'Donoghue, vice president of Boeing's flight operations test & validation unit, said to Bloomberg yesterday that "We have been so happy with the progress we've made with the 787, I'm almost giddy."…

Huge Antonov jet stops at Sea-Tac - Seattle Post Intelligencer | It visited in either 1989 or 1990 at the airshow that was being held in the summer at Paine Field. Look it up in the archives of the PI, Times, ...

Flying Lessons: Crossing the Fence - Flying Magazine | I asked the Young Eagles organizers, but nobody had a clear idea of how to translate the kids' new enthusiasm for this thing called flying into any kind of ...

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