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Maiden fly-past for UAE's new Knights of the sky - National
From the UK's Red Arrows to the US's Blue Angels and the Saudi Hawks, national aerobatic teams give air forces a chance to show off their pilots' prowess. ...

Royal Bahrain Air Force To Make International Debut At Al Ain Aerobatic Show - Eye of Dubai
The Royal Bahrain Air Force (RBAF) is to make its international debut at this month's Al Ain Aerobatic Show. Two RBAF F16 aircraft will perform daily at the ...

Romanian Air Force has agreed to send two MiG-21 'Lancers' - RIAT
A RARE Cold War jet fighter will perform its first flying display in the UK for almost a decade when it appears at next summer's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
The Romanian Air Force has agreed to send ...

Boost for air show plan - Macclesfield Express
A CAMPAIGN to bring back the Woodford Air Show for one last time has received high-profile backing from William Hague. The shadow foreign secretary visited ...

ND Aviation Hall getting 2 new members - Grand Forks Herald
The North Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame is inducting two pilots. They are Alexander Macdonald, of Fargo, former North Dakota National Guard adjutant ...

Four to be inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame - CharterX
Vi Milstead Warren (1919 - ) is a pilot and role model for women in aviation. She achieved the rank of first officer working for the Air Transport Authority ...

Industry leaders convene for WAI conference from General Aviation News
Four noted industry leaders will participate in a panel discussion at the Women in Aviation, International (WAI) Conference's annual luncheon Feb. 26 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort.
Panel members include Paula Derks, president, Aircraft Electronics Association; Karen Gebhart, president of the AOPA Foundation; Elissa Lines, vice president, Experimental Aircraft Association; and Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation Association. WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian will moderate the panel. ...

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Jan. 21-27 - North County Times
Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum ---- The nation's only museum dedicated to Marine Corps aviation history features more than two dozen vintage and ...

Lost Utah pilot's remains finally come home - Salt Lake Tribune
In 1964, the Fairview native was selected to be a member of the Thunderbirds flight demonstration team. He returned to his home state in August of that year ...

(title unknown) from Aviation Trivia of the Day
During the late 1940s and early 1950s many aircraft manufacturers were conducting studies on the feasibility of converting existing piston-powered transports to turboprop power. The use of turboprops was seen as a low-risk advance that combined proven airframes with higher performance engines without sacrificing fuel economy, one of the weaknesses of jet engines of the day. With the Boeing C-97/KC-97 Stratofreighter in service with the USAF at the time, Boeing had pitched to the USAF several times a turboprop-powered Stratofreighter. All were under the same Model 367 number and at ...

What's New from the Curator: Winter 2009 from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
With the 60th anniversary of the Korean War now just months away, we are really busy pressing forward with the new Korean War Gallery. So far, we have most of the aircraft moved into position with only a few more "tweeks" to be accomplished. These will be accomplished after the electrical contractors are through ...

Director's Update: Winter 2009 from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
The Education Division has set a record in 2009 with over 140,000 participants in our wide-ranging programs. If you think that the education program equals yellow school buses bringing children to the National Museum, you are only seeing one aspect of this vital museum function.
Our school programs offer the traditional docent-led tours, informational scavenger hunts and hands-on, inquiry-based lessons. These programs ...

Fairchild XSM-73 Bull Goose now on display from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
Another unique, historical aircraft has been retrieved from storage, painstakingly restored by volunteers, and placed on public display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in its Research and Development Gallery. The latest addition is the little-known Fairchild XSM-73 Bull Goose, a pilot-less decoy missile that had been envisioned for an important role in the Cold War of 1946-1990.
The 33.5-foot-long missile was designed in the 1950s to confuse enemy defenses ...

Dry ice used in restoration from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
Two historic Boeing B-17 bombers from World War II have undergone a unique method of preparation during their restoration at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The B-17D The Swoose and the B-17F Memphis Belle have been blasted with dry ice to remove dirt, grime and old paint, particularly from difficult to reach ...

Lots of fun, inexpensive educational activities for families in 2010 from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
The museum is bringing education to the fingertips of parents, students and educators in ways that are fun, innovative and, most importantly, budget-friendly this year.
Free monthly Family Days, held on the third Saturday of each month, allow adults and children of all ages to participate in activities that ...

Imperial War Museum Duxford is chosen to celebrate A History of the World from Flightline UK
Imperial War Museum Duxford is delighted to announce that one of its most significant exhibits has been chosen by the BBC and Cambridgeshire museums to tell the story of Cambridgeshire and its place in world history.
The list of ...

The Curtiss Model D "Pusher" - Computers and Technology
... had succeeded in making numerous, fundamentally important innovations and creating aeronautical designs during the early 20th century, and had, according to Augustus Post, Secretary of the former Aero Club, "worked his way up from ...

Home for morning coffee... from The Flying Scotsman
Not the Gatwick we know today - but the Beehive is still in existence (the orginial terminal) once the head office of GB Airways, now part of the Easyjet empire. That's a Fokker of B.A. back in 1935! We've come quite a way in 70-odd years. ...

Martin logistics lifting body from The Unwanted Blog
Found in the Glenn L Martin Aviation Museum archive was this bit of artwork showing a cutaway view of a lifting body. While similar in many respects to the X-23/X-24 lifting body geometry, it has a slightly different (pointier) nose, and a complete lack of the wings/outboard vertical stabilizers that characterized the X-23 shape. ...

82-year-old aviator gets HS diploma - KCBY.com 11
Marshfield teacher Jeff Eberwein teaches an aviation history course at the high school, inspired by Long and his adventures. He and his students worked ...

Wichita has role in record-setting - Wichita Eagle
Of the 6466 world records, 22 percent, or more than 1400, were made in Wichita-built aircraft, National Aeronautic Association president Jonathan Gaffney told members of the Wichita Aero Club on Tuesday. The association is the official ...

Flying with the SF-260EA by David Cenciotti
Usually, within my articles and blog posts, I tend to publish the most beautiful pictures of a particular photo-session. These, most of times, depict the aircraft with as less distubing objects (canopy mounts, wing tips, etc.). However, in some cases, pictures that don't make the news and that are not published, are interesting as well, as they provide a different point of view and give "a taste" of what, flying an airplane looks like. The following "flight-oriented" pictures were taken by ...

Did Ron Howard exaggerate the reentry scene in the movie Apollo 13? - airspacemag.com
A little bit, maybe, but not much.

NASA unveils new ... (wait for it) ... tailsitter!!! [Updated w/video] from The DEW Line
A NASA-led engineering team is unveiling a new aircraft design at an American Helicopter Society event in San Francisco. The 2pm PST presentation is entitled "aerodynamic and acoustic design of a low-noise tail-sitter". The aircraft was profiled briefly this morning by the Daily Press newspaper, in NASA-Langley's nearby city of Hampton, Virginia. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of detail yet.
I haven't seen a tailsitter seriously pursued since the Skunk Works' legendary founder ...