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Eyes to the skies as Al Ain Aerobatic Show takes off - AME Info
Abu Dhabi's heritage heartland of Al Ain is set to enter the world aerobatic record books, with an attempt at a world-first manoeuvre, alongside the ...

2010 Abingdon Air & Country Charity Show - Flightline UK
Planning is now under way for the 2010 Abingdon Air & Country Charity Show on Sunday May 2nd at Abingdon airfield,Dalton Barracks,Abingdon,Oxon.This year's show will be the 11th event organised by the all-volunteer committee and will once again support the Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust.The show opens at 10.00 am and runs until 5.00pm,although it is hoped that some performers will provide musical entertainment beyond this time to allow people to stay a little longer and avoid the exit queues.
In this the 70th Anniversary year of thew Battle of Britain,we are hoping for a full display ...

Abingdon and RIAT Participation Details updated by Flightline UK
The Twister Duo will be making their UK display debut at the Abingdon Air and Country Show in May. The team formed late last year with team pilots Peter Wells, Andy Precce and Guy Westgate. The team will perform thier first display at AERO 200 in Germany, but Abingdon will mark the first public display in the UK. A full listing for Abingdon can be found in our preview.
Meanwhile, the Swiss based team "P3 Flyers" have listed RIAT as one of their shows for 2010 marking their UK display debut if confirmed. The latest listings for RIAT can be found in our preview. ...

Strong support for Airshow - Straits Times
With registrations still coming in, the final headcount could surpass the turnout at the last air show in 2008, said the event's managing director Jimmy Lau ...

RAF Fairford restructuring plans moving at full throttle - Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
"It is also important people realise that the Royal International Air Tattoo, which is held every July attracting more than 150000 visitors, ...

Chamber presents awards - Sidney Herald Leader
Bryan Prevost who piloted the Wings of Freedom Air Show II being held in Richland County during September was one of the winners during the Sidney Area ...

Friday - Saturday, Feb 19-20, 2010 - Living History Symposium: They Dared to Fly featuring Tuskegee Airmen, Polk City, FL
from FunPlacesToFly.com Aviation Events
Fantasy of Flight's Living History Symposium Series continues with "They Dared to Fly" in honor of National Black History month. Join several of the original Tuskegee Airmen as they share their personal experiences of wartime military service during segregated America. This event features open-forum/question-and-answer sessions. Fantasy of Flight's permanent multi-media Tuskegee Airmen exhibit and vintage aircraft collection, including the P-51C Mustang, provides the perfect backdrop for this once in a lifetime opportunity to meet these brave men.

FAA awards pilot Simmons Wright Brothers Award - CharterX
Simmons and other pilots used to fly using "dead reckoning," which is an aviator term when charts, a compass and a watch were the only navigating tools used ...

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2010 is Centenary of Flight Year in Hampshire - Hedgeend People
There are lectures on women in aviation, on the Spitfire, on RJ Mitchell himself, on flying boats and all sorts of other aspects of the history of aviation ...

Fort Myers' Page Field welcomes old warplanes for visit - The News-Press
The three old warplanes roared in from the south and landed at Page Field on Monday afternoon.
First was the P-51 "Betty Jean," followed by the B-24 Flying Fortress "Witchcraft," and finally the B-17 "Nine-O-Nine" with special guest passenger retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bob Bartusch.
The three aircraft will be at Page Field today and Wednesday for the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour.
On Nov. 22, 1944, Bartusch was a 23-year-old lieutenant with the 15th Air Force flying a B-17 on a mission over Munich, Germany. ...

Video - Diamond Pilots

The 21st-Century Ace - Nouse
An aviation man from an aviation family who, while not participating in the Red Bull Air Race series, flies Boeing 747s commercially for British Airways or ...

Frank Base - Tribune and Register
Read about Frank Base, one of the last survivors of the infamous World War II Bataan Death March, who passed away Saturday at the age of 90. His wife worked in a B-17 plant while waiting for him to come home.

Blenke, William E., Sr. - Appleton Post Crescent
Bill proudly served his country in the United States Air Force during World War II as a B-17 navigator based in England. He continued his career with the ...

Classic air race Video - itnsource
ENGLAND/FILE : Scott makes history winning the Melbourne Air Race. Amazing 12,000-mile flight to Australia in two days, 23 hours

2 da Vinci flying machines land at Neb. museum from Diamond Pilots
ASHLAND, Neb. — A traveling exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's amazing machines has landed at the Strategic Air & Space Museum near Ashland. The exhibition is titled "Leonardo da Vinci Machine in Motion." It runs through May 9. It was created by scientists and crafts workers in Florence, Italy. Da Vinci was born in 1452 in a small town near Florence. He became a scientist, inventor, musician, architect, engineer and artist. His most famous painting is "Mona Lisa." The full-scale machines are made mostly of wood and came from designs in da Vinci's notebooks. They were constructed with tools and materials common in the 15th century. Among da Vinci's ideas were two different flying machines and a wooden tanklike vehicle that carried six cannons.
On the Net:
Strategic Air & Space Museum: http://www.strategicairandspace.com/
Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com

Da Vinci's inventions come to life - North Platte Telegraph
ASHLAND - A new exhibit at the Strategic Air & Space Museum highlights the designs of Leonardo da Vinci, with working models of the ...

Reaper exhibit opens at Air Force museum from Air Force Link Top Stories
Air Force and industry officials joined National Museum of the U.S Air Force officials for the opening of the museum's new MQ-9 Reaper exhibit Jan. 25 here.
As a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft, the Reaper locates and destroys time-critical and highly mobile targets and provides real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to military commanders. ...

Horten Ho-18A from The Unwanted Blog
I've seen this painting reproduced commonly enough, but usually the quality is at best "regrettable." This depicts one version of the proposed Horten Ho-18 (or Ho-XVIII), a late WWII idea for a trans-Atlantic bomber capable of hitting New York from European bases. While the concept is confirmed as being a "real design," in recent years it has kinda grown in the retelling, and is now often described as being intentionally radar-stealthy and being a dedicated platform for carrying a ...

'Hearts, Heritage and Heroes' concert at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
Join the U.S. Air Force Band of Flight for an evening of music as it presents the "Hearts, Heritage and Heroes" concert at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
This annual concert showcases various musical selections to celebrate Valentine's Day, Presidents Day and Black History Month. The program will include music by Glenn Miller, John Williams and a special tribute to "The Air Force Song." ...

Imperial War Museum Duxford commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain by Flightline UK
Imperial War Museum Duxford commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a fascinating range of events in 2010. The Museum celebrates the prominent role played by RAF Duxford in the aerial combat that changed the course of Second World War history. ...

Deafness doesn't stop pilots from flying - Tampa Bay Online
A Sarasota man attended the Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo at the Sebring Regional Airport on Thursday looking for a sponsor for his project plan to become a flight instructor to the deaf.
On Dec. 31, Gregory H. Lawrence, 61, who has been deaf since he was a baby, scored a 90 on the FAA Certified Flight Instructor Knowledge test.
"All that's left is the flying," he said. "That's the easy part."
Lawrence said he has been flying as a licensed pilot since 1966.
He passed the written part of his test for a commercial pilot license, but couldn't go any further due to physical limitations. So he educated himself on Light Sport Aircraft. ...

E-4B commemorates 35 years on alert from Air Combat Command
To say there have been a lot of changes in the past 35 years would be a bit of an understatement.
To give a frame of reference, gas was roughly 50 cents a gallon, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who currently own six Super Bowl trophies, had yet to win their first, and the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was in full swing.
However, there is one thing that has not changed, and that's the E-4 sitting on continuous alert, ready to respond to any crisis at a moment's notice.
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More than 1,200 take part in Red Flag 10-2 from Air-Attack.com - News Feed
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- Nearly 1,300 servicemembers, more than 80 aircraft and 19 units from the U.S. and U.K. converged...

Milford VFW plans exhibit by local artist - New Haven Register
"The Crew" is a watercolor painting of six members of a B-25 Mitchell aircraft, 22nd Bomb Squadron China-Burma-India, that flew 52 missions during World War ...

John Travolta Pilots Operation Phenomenon from Tampa to Haiti -Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
WASHINGTON- PRNewswire/AP video-- In continuing efforts to send aid to Haiti, a late night flight piloted by Hollywood celebrity John Travolta, a General Aviation pilot, took off from Tampa carrying 50 doctors and over 7,000 pounds of medical supplies, the Embassy of Haiti and the Greater Washington Haiti Relief Committee announced today. On the return trip, Travolta brought Haitian-Americans home to the United States to reunite them with their families. ...

Interview: Anousheh Ansari - Air and Space Magazine
The X-Prize sponsor and space tourist talks about trips to orbit, past and future.

Help Identify These Images from Flight Image of the Day
The Flightglobal archive, covering 100 years of aviation since we started publishing Flight International in 1909, contains a number of images that have no information about them, like what the photo depicts or where it was taken. Can you help ID these UFOs? ...