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Al Ain Aerobatic Show 2010 off to a racing start - AME Info | The Falland Gnats had once been used by the famous Red Arrows before they had switched to Hawk aircraft. The Red Gnats are performing at Al Ain for the very ...

Vulcan s future at risk : key.Aero, Airshows - In the latest update on the appeal to keep Vulcan B2 XH558/G-VLCN flying, Vulcan to the Sky Trust Chief Executive Robert Pleming says that "the situation remains dire". Work on the winter overhaul of XH558 has already begun by Marshall Aerospace at its temporary home of RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, but Pleming says the Trust has only enough funds to cover the next five weeks – this may force redundancy notices to be issued at the beginning of February…

FAA And NORAD To Control Airspace Around Super Bowl XLIV from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | The FAA has established a "Temporary Flight Restriction" (TFR) around Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida for the Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010. NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command fighters will be busy well before Super Bowl Sunday preparing to protect the skies around the stadium in Miami for game day. "Exercise Amalgam Virgo 10-Miami" will be held Thursday in the Greater Miami area to allow interagency partners the chance to practice temporary flight restriction violation procedures...

Shock and awe: Female RAF Top Gun pilot tells how she beat the Taliban with deafening noise instead of bombs | Mail Online from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ | A female RAF pilot has revealed how she terrified Taliban fighters by screeching low over their heads in her Tornado fighter jet - a new tactic to avoid killing civilians with stray bombs. Flight Lieutenant Juliette Fleming, 31, was repeatedly called on to swoop down low over fanatics attacking British and coalition troops on the ground in Afghanistan. The awesome sound of her GR4 jet roaring overhead at 550mph just 100ft above the ground would deafen the enemy and force them to take cover. Flt Lt Fleming carried out her sorties during a three-month posting at Kandahar airfield with 31 Squadron, known as The Goldstars. She said the policy of trying to 'win the hearts and minds' of local people meant that the RAF was dropping as few bombs as possible to avoid killing civilians...

Red Bull Team Aims To Skydive From Space from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Since 1960, nobody has beat USAF Col. Joe Kittinger's record for jumping from 102,000 feet and landing safely with a parachute. Now Col. Kittinger is helping a Red Bull team to break that record, with skydiver Felix Baumgartner hoping to set four world records in a single jump. The team plans to send Baumgartner aloft in a spacesuit inside a pressurized capsule carried by a helium balloon. It will take about two and a half hours to reach at least 120,000 feet. Baumgartner then will jump, and he expects to reach speeds in excess of Mach 1 within about 30 seconds, making him the first person ever to break the speed of sound with his own body. The team plans to launch from a site in North America sometime this year, and will broadcast the attempt live over the Internet. "This is truly a step into the unknown," Baumgartner said. "No one can accurately predict how the human body will react in the transition to supersonic speeds. But we've got to find out. Future aerospace programs need a way for pilots and astronauts to bail out at high altitude in case of emergency."

World War II bomber to fly over local skies - Hilton Head Island Packet | Sixty-five years ago, World War II-era B-17 bombers such as the Belle flew from bases far from home in an attempt to bring freedom to those who were ...

After 60-year furlough, he's back in the B-24 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Warplane rides: $425 for B-17 and B-24; P-51C fighter, $2200. The planes were arriving for the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour, which continues ...

New date for city's eagerly awaited air show - The Daily Post | HISTORY: DC3 aircraft will return to Rotorua in March as part of the Let's Go Rotorua Lakefront Airshow and Carnival. FILE The Let's Go Rotorua Lakefront ...

Missoula Airport Authority lowers rent to keep Museum of Mountain Flying airborne By KIM BRIGGEMAN of the Missoulian  | The museum that brings us the plane that flew smokejumpers to their doom in Mann Gulch in 1949 was thrown a lifeline Tuesday. By a 7-0 vote, the Missoula County Airport Authority agreed to knock off 90 percent of the rent that the Museum of Mountain Flying pays to operate its 25,000-square-foot hangar at Missoula International Airport. The decision means that, counting utilities and a common area maintenance fee that all airport tenants pay, the private museum with a shoestring budget will shell out about $365 a month to stay put...

Aviation Buffs: Fantasy of Flight is the Place for You to Visit by unknown | The exhibit was opened by Kermit Weeks, who wanted to represent all eras of aviation history starting from the earliest flights and continuing up to the 1950s. Some of the aircraft on display have been restored to their original ...

NASA Gives 'Go' for Feb. 7 as Final Space Shuttle Night Launch from Space Shuttle and International Space Station News | Space shuttle Endeavour is set to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a Feb. 7 launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is planned for 4:39 a.m. EST, making this the final scheduled space shuttle night launch…

Wright brothers historian to speak - Salisbury Post | Collins is widely recognized as one of the top five authorities on the Wright brothers and early aviation history. He has interpreted Wright brothers ...

Dayton's role in atomic bomb project could go unnoted - Dayton Daily News | "I think it's unfair to the Dayton community," said Tony Sculimbrene, executive director of the Dayton Aviation Heritage Alliance. ...

German Man Attempts To Smuggle 44 Lizards ... In His Pants from Aero-News Network | Will Spend Some Time In A New Zealand Jail For His Trouble Airport security officials at Christchurch International Airport in New Zealand didn't need a full body scanner to detect something was wrong with a German passenger attempting to board an international flight. The man had 44 small lizards sewn into a package hidden in his underwear…

On this Day in Aviation History: January 28th by Phil Derner Jr. | The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the crash of a TAME 727 in Colombia, a DC-3 chartered by the INS goes down in 1948 and a US jet is shot down by Russians in 1964.