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Spin maneuver preceded crash of aerobatics plane near Redlands - By PE News on February 19, 2010 3:00 PM The pilots of an ill-fated aerobatic airplane apparently began a spin maneuver at low altitude last week moments ...

Fontana Auto Club Speedway news 2010-02-19 - Motorsport.com |The Blue Angels are scheduled to fly 68 air shows at 35 air show sites in the United States during the 2010 season, as the team celebrates 24 years of ... Reaching speeds of 400 mph, the Blue Angels flyover will feature six blue and gold Boeing F/A-18 Hornets; the Delta formation will then fly back to Naval ...

US Army's Black Daggers to perform at Air Expo 2010 – WCIV | The Blue Angels, separated only by inches, have flown in front of more than 427 million people in aerial demonstrations throughout the US and around the ...

BASE jumper/Inventor/Pilot Calvin19 and Annibal: A Family Affair ... - "I enjoy viewing The Red Bull Air races a lot. I do not have the money or skill to participate. These pilots are the best of the best flying the best of the best. There is no argument." As for the Red Bull Air Force which some consider ...

Hello all my aviation friends!  I've been busy with schoolwork but not to busy to get a cool interview!  My friend Elliot Seguin races at Reno in the formula one class in a neat airplane called "Wasabi".  He helped me out a lot because we had to do an e-mail interview and that meant a bunch of typing he did. Here it is  http://evanflys.com/elliot_seguin be sure to check out his site http://wasabiairracing.blogspot.com/ Also, my dad and Eddie Andreini put together a really cool video - check it out!  http://www.vimeo.com/8928843 your pal, Evan http://evanflys.com

Valkaria Air Fest 2010 QuickCast 02 from The Pilot's Flight PodLog | David is on-location at X59 for the Valkaria Air Fest 2010 Media Day. In this QuickCast, David talks with J. W. "Corkey" Fornof. They talk about Corkey's flying background, the LoPresti Fury that he flies, and what we can plan to expect during his airshow performance. You can find out more about the LoPresti Fury at http://www.loprestifury.com, and you can read Corkey's Plane Talk, a blog, at http://loprestifury/wordpress.

Valkaria Air Fest 2010 QuickCast 03 from The Pilot's Flight PodLog | David is on-location at X59 for the Valkaria Air Fest 2010 Media Day. In this QuickCast, David talks with Chuck Vincent of Eagle Air Airshows. Chuck talks about his Extra 300L, what got him started flying aerobatics, and what this year's Air Fest might look like to spectators on the ground. Chuck also talks about the airshow he produces in Louisianna. You can find out more about Chuck and his air show team at http://www.eagleairllc.com, and you can get information about the Acadian Air Fest at http://www.acadianaairfest.com.

Former EAA Director Shares Aviation Experiences With Nine Lives from EAA - Nine Lives - Adventures of a Lucky Pilot is a book that EAA Founder Paul Poberezny says "should be read by every pilot." Written by EAA Director Emeritus Mal Gross, the book's 520 pages create a memoir of Mal's 50-plus years - 6,850 hours logged - of flight experience as a private pilot in a variety of general aviation airplanes…

Palm Springs Air Museum to honor WWII heroes for Black History Month - The Desert Sun | Military pilots Rusty Burns, Dr. Robert Higginbotham and Mitchell Higginbotham as well as retired officer George Edwards of the 92nd Buffalo Soldiers, ...

Enduring tribute to airmen in ceremony - The Star | The B17's last moments, and the terrible crash which claimed the lives of 10 crew, was witnessed by scores of people, some of whom told their stories to The ...

"Bona Fide Hoosier Hero" Col. Weir Cook '16 is Honored - DePauw University ... but the Indianapolis Airport Authority decided it was best to have the city's name linked to the airport and to honor Cook in other ways. ...

WWII bomber flights in Long Beach honor veterans - Contra Costa Times | The nonprofit organization is offering flights on a B-25 J Mitchell bomber out of Long Beach today and Sunday as part of a traveling outreach program to ...

Dream Chaser update from RLV and Space Transport News | The latest on Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser vehicle, which they are proposing to launch on an Atlas V to take NASA crews to the ISS: Sierra Nevada Building On NASA Design - Aviation Week - Feb.19.10.

Hot Air Balloons | Up Up and Away - Hot Air Balloons A website dedicated to the uplifting sport of Hot air Ballooning. Hort Air Balloons mans original way to fly and the best way to the land from height.

Aviation History -- 19th February 1965 from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua | On February 19th 1965, Boeing announces that Lufthansa will be the launch customer of the company's new 737 model. It entered service with the carrier in 1968. Still in production, over 8,000 of all versions have been ordered with over 6,200 being built. About 1,250 737s are in the air at any time. A 737 takes off somewhere in the world every 5 seconds. The 737 fleet has flown about 296 million hours in revenue service, travelling 75 billion nautical miles in 232 million flights…

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | At the time of Project Mercury, the Atlas as a launch system had a reliability rating of 90%, while acceptable for a weapons system, was unsuitable for a manned rocket launch vehicle. As a result, a whole series of initiatives under the umbrella of what was called the Pilot Safety Program was put into place to improve not just the reliability of the Atlas rocket for Project Mercury, but also to improve its safety. The most visible of the resulting efforts as the escape tower on the Mercury spacecraft that could pull it away from the Atlas in case of a malfunction…