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Aerospace & Arizona Days 2010: If you go - Arizona Daily Star | Other high-flying performances include demonstrations by the A-10 West, C-17 and F-18 teams, professional aerobatic pilots and a concert by country musician ...

Tucson Air Museum showcases vintage planes - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | Hawker Hurricane MG-1, the first modern monoplane fighter flown by Britain's Royal Air Force, was used by Robert ...

Hundreds Turn Out For Air Fiesta Airshow – KRGV | BROWNSVILLE - Hundreds turned out for the Air Fiesta Airshow at the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport. The annual event features vintage ...

Air Show Cancelled - FOX 40 News WICZ TV | The Greater Binghamton Air Show has been cancelled due to construction taking place at the Greater Binghamton Airport. BGM officials say it would be tough ...

Patty Wagstaff at Tavares Seaplane Marina Basin Grand Opening from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | A Grand Opening of Tavares Seaplane Marina Basin is scheduled for April 10, 2010. The huge two- day celebration to include an airshow featuring Patty Wagstaff was announced today at the 16th Annual FAA Seaplane Safety Seminar in Lakeland. The project includes AvGas and MoGas with new docks, beaches and a ramp for seaplanes. A 3,000 foot VFR "virtual" waterway for seaplane landing will be FAA approved. Leesburg airport with an ASOS is only three miles away…

Abu Dhabi opens skies for Air Race from Air Race News Watch by editorsdttp@gmail.com | From www.khaleejtimes.com: The Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010 opens in Abu Dhabi on March 26 and 27, returning to the United Arab Emirates capital for the sixth consecutive year. The world's top 15 pilots will start their six-month long battle for championship points in the first of eight races on a total of five continents... "Abu Dhabi is one of the most challenging races on the calendar because you don't know what the other guys have been doing over the winter," Arch said. "Your team doesn't have a race rhythm yet and no one's quite sure how strong their planes are relative to the others. I'm looking forward to the race. I'm the hunter now rather than being hunted."… Read the complete article: Abu Dhabi opens skies for Air Race

Flying Musicians Association Hosts the 1st ever Annual Event. from Aviation News by Aviation_News_Expert_Adam_Badger | The first ever Fly-In Musicfest, held by the Flying Musicians Association on November 7, 2009 at the Fort Worth Spinks Airport (FWS) in Fort Worth, Texas was a success. On  aircraft display include a B-25 "Pacific Prowler" Mitchell, C-47 Skytrain, Russian Antonov AN 2 bi-plane, Extra 300LP and a Duo Discus sailplane. Overall there were 130 musicians performing on two stages thought the day. The musicians performing include: Ravi Raviator, Bradley Leighton, Jay Carpneter, Ray Ricketts and many more performed. Each musician has an aviation background.  Flying Musicians Association co-founder, Aileen Hummel "We have assembled a great committee that worked hard, relentlessly, for many months. These great folks are the pilots, aviation enthusiasts, and musicians who have embraced the mission of the Flying Musicians Association. Without their help and support, this event could not have been a success." Next years Date: November 13-14, 2010.

Indian aerobatics teams enjoy good safety record - Thaindian.com | France's Patrouille Acrobatique de France (French Acrobatic Patrol) flies the Apha Jet trainers made in the 1970s. Only the Roulettes of the Royal ...

Proposed museum would celebrate WWII air power - Colorado Springs Gazette | A new museum at Colorado Springs Airport would showcase how American air power won World War II, and a group of retired Air Force officers, aviation ...

B-17 rides highlight inaugural air show - Mohave Valley News | BULLHEAD CITY — An original B-17 from World War II is one of the planes on display this weekend at the inaugural Legends ...

The P-40 and the Flying Tigers from Flying Tigers News | In late 1941 the Japanese Zero fighter was gaining an aura of invincibility, winning a high percentage of its battles. It was a good aircraft, but it did have its drawbacks, one of, which were its slower speeds and its inability to withstand high-speed dives. It won most of its fights with it's outstanding agility at low speeds and altitudes.
Claire Lee Chennault was a former colonel who had retired from the U.S. Army Air Corps because his theories on tactics were so at odds with the fiercely conservative Air Corps brass. He was asked to help modernize the Chinese Air Force and quickly became friends with Chaing Kai Shek and his lovely wife. The retired colonel wrote a report about the deadly Zero and sent it to the U.S. government…

At long last, Ord's aviation pioneer honored by Congress - Grand Island Independent | ORD -- Diane Bartels was first introduced to Evelyn Sharp at an Ord airshow on June 24, 1973. Sharp had died in a plane crash nearly ...

Q&A with Ross Young of the Royal Air Force from Flight Image of the Day by Will Horton | After a number of years with the UK's Ministry of Defence, Qinetiq's task technical manager for 'Project Julius' Ross Young is now responsible for upgrading Boeing Chinook Mk2 helicopters for the Royal Air Force. Why did you choose an aerospace-related career? I was interested in aircraft from an early age and used to attend air shows with my father. Aeronautical engineering seemed to be a good idea; that was 21 years ago. Which jobs have you done? I started my career as a UK Ministry of Defence apprentice technician on helicopters (airframes/engines) and then became a design engineer (draughtsman) with the Joint Aircraft Test and Evaluation Unit at RAF Brize Norton. Continue reading the interview...

This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien from RLV and Space Transport News | The latest episode of This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien, sponsored by Spaceflight Now, is available…

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In the late 1950s Soviet defenses against the bombers of the Strategic Air Command were improving by leaps and bounds as more capable fighters, radars and surface-to-air missiles were deployed not just on the periphery of the Soviet Union but also around key cities and industrial centers like Moscow and Leningrad. At the time, SAC's bomber force consisted of 100 Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses, over 1,000 Boeing B-47 Stratojets, and 200 Convair B-36s that were gradually being phased out. As the tip of SAC's spear, the B-52s had a comprehensive electronic countermeasures suite as well as an onboard electronic warfare officer who could constantly reconfigure the jammers to meet the threats…

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