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New Zealand Air Force aerobatics team grounded after accident – Earthtimes | By : dpa Wellington - The Royal New Zealand Air Force grounded its Red Checkers aerobatics display team Monday after the second accident this year. ...

Red Checkers touch during training - Otago Daily Times | The Royal New Zealand Air Force Red Checkers team has been grounded for the season after two aircraft touched during training this morning. ...

Flying, without wings: ERAU students building jet dragster - Sun Shopper | At the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wis., Larsen set her all-time best top speed exceeding 300 miles per hour. The Prescott campus has never had the ...

Historic Flight at Kilo 6 air museum and restoration center - Snohomish County Business | Working with slide rules engineers designed the B-25 Mitchell, then pilots worked out the refinements in test flights," he said. "It was an amazing era. ...

John Willard's 1999 column: An air force of their own - Quad City Times | She flew everything from observation planes and trainers to multi-engined C-47 transports and B-25 bombers as she delivered planes to bases around the ...

Gen. Myers to speak at Wichita banquet - Kansas.com | Myers will be guest speaker at the Commemorative Air Force Jayhawk Wing's 13th annual Salute to Valor banquet and silent auction. ...

WAI Convention Draws Record Attendance from Aero-News Network | Annual Conference Focused On Diversity The theme for the 21st Annual International Women in Aviation (WAI) Conference, that concluded in Orlando, FL, on Saturday, February 27, 2010, was "Aviation: It's a Small World," but, by the tone, composition and look of the Conference, the theme could have been "Aviation: It's a Diverse World."…

Legendary British aircraft saved by anonymous donation from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua | Article dated February 27, 2010 by Tom Moran of the Daily Post The world's last airworthy Vulcan bomber has been saved at the eleventh hour thanks to an anonymous donation of more than £400,000. The future was looking bleak for the iconic aircraft, based at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire and owned by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust charity, before the surprise gift…

Robert Doe Wing Commander and Second World War Flying Ace – Scotsman | EXCEPTIONAL aerobatic skills and a love of being upside down are two of the prerequisites of fighter plane pilot, but Bob Doe could claim to have neither, ...

World War One Aircraft from Military Photos by SpeedyHedgehog | There's an incredible collection of World War One (and earlier) aircraft photos on this website http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive1.htm. I'll post thirty but there are plenty more…

NASA Gets Flak on New Course - Wall Street Journal | Renowned engineer and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan last week sent a letter to lawmakers expressing concern that commercial entrepreneurs didn't have the ...

Boeing's new fighter project : Global Super Hornet from Military Photos by SlowMan | Boeing offers Brazil partnership to produce jets. The proposal is the latest weapon used by Boeing to overcome its competitors - France's Dassault and Sweden's Gripen - the sale of fighter jets to the FAB. The American aircraft manufacturer Boeing is offering to the Brazilian industry a global partnership in the manufacture of fighter jets. This is the project Global Super Hornet, which will create a new game from the existing model, the F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Two Motors and Everything but Coffee from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Pierre-Jean Beney may be the first to fly an electrically-powered paraglider with a tricycle wheeled chassis. Using a Trikebuggy, itself a unique platform, Beney mounted two Hacker A200-8 motors with 220 Amp controllers, a tidy reduction system, and his own microprocessor board to drive the motors with a combined throttle and kill switch. The board, according to Beney, also monitors the LiF2PO4 batteries, RPM, and will soon be connected to a global positioning system (GPS) to measure speed, "and eventually make coffee!!!" Other anticipated changes may include different motors, including a larger, direct drive type…

In My Version of Airplane Heaven from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | If you've ever seen "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra, you know it's a beautiful and extravagant movie that won the 1998 Oscar for Visual Effects. But as easy as this great flick is on the eyes, it is the story that grabs your heart and refuses to let go. So what does this movie have to do with airplanes? Great question…read on…

CoolPix - X Planes: Neil Armstrong And The X-15 In 1960 by Martt | This is definitely a great image for the CoolPix - X Planes category… Neil Armstrong in January 1960 standing in front of X-15 ship #1 after having landed on the dry lakebed at the Dryden Flight Research Center.  It's just awesome to see him here about 9 years before he was the first man to walk on the moon.  Some interesting things to note are the skid tracks from the main gear legs, the apparent bottle jack under the nose gear, and Neil's right hand placed just above the ball nose, also called the 'Q ball'…

Wrecked plane at City Hall is trial exhibit | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/01/2010 - Philadelphia Inquirer ... City Hall that has been drawing curious glances from passersby for days is part of a civil-litigation case stemming from a 2005 plane crash in Idaho. ...

NASCAR drivers talk pros, cons of a second race in Las Vegas - Las Vegas Sun | The Air Force Thunderbirds fly over before the start of the NASCAR Shelby American GT 350 Sunday, February 28, 2010 at the Las ...

Geek of The North » March 1 – Today in Aviation History  by Mike | This entry was posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 00:01 and is filed under Podcast, Today in Aviation History. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own ...

This Week In Military/Aviation History 1-7 March from Warbirds Online by Tom Kwiatkowski Sr. | Well Folks, since we last spoke, we had a nice little snowstorm here to remind me of the reality of my situation and needless to say my Spring Fever is back where it belongs. Just took a couple of hours of digging out to firmly position it in the right place. I don't have to worry about it for a long time now. Just thought you'd like to know. Well as I hunker in for another month or so, why don't we take our weekly trip down History Lane, shall we? Yes, I think we shall. Tom K…