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FSU's Hinkle flying with Blue Angels - Tallahassee.com | The Blue Angels, the Navy's Flight Demonstration Team, are preparing for weekend shows. Hinkle last year was in the jump seat of a Chinook military ...

Hannes Arch: talent at work - Red Bull (International) | Red Bull Air Race pilot Hannes Arch has a new plane and ambitious new goals for this season. We talked to the 2008 champion ahead of the first race in Abu ...

Camilo Villegas Takes Flight in Red Bull Air Race Plane from Kirby Chambliss » by JocelynTC4 | Professional golfer Camilo Villegas took a break from the Waste Management Phoenix Open last week to visit the Ranch and teach Kirby a thing or two about his golf swing!...

Burt Rutan Talks about His Vision of $475 Space Vacations in a Big Think Video ... - Next Big Future | Burt Rutan explains his plans to create mass tourist travel in space. People used to say that the Internet was all fun and games; it took years for it to ...

DM air show taking food bank donations - KOLD-TV | Timothy Krauss, Air Show Coordinator. The drive is being spearheaded by the Officers and Enlisted Souses Clubs at DM. All donations will go to support the ...

MacDill AFB AirFest 20 & 21 March | MacDill Happenings by maclaura | The featured performers will be the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels. The Blue Angels will be flying the F/A-18, demonstrating the acrobatic maneuverability of the plane. The Blue Angels will perform at 3pm each day. The show will feature many ...

Blue Angels Air Show coming up this June - WEAU-TV 13 | The Blue Angels Air Show is coming up this June, and once again kids 12 and under can see the sights for free. Last year, a corporate sponsor made it ...

Press Release Announcing Acro Camp Principal Photography in Michigan from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) New Movie about Aerobatic Flying Slated for Production at Oakland County International Airport this Summer | WATERFORD, MICHIGAN. If all goes as planned, four pilots from around North America will converge on southeast Michigan this spring with something very special on their minds. One or more of them might be ordinary private pilots like the people you see flying single-engine prop-driven airplanes over your house on a lazy summer afternoon. One or more might be seasoned airline pilots who are used to hauling hundreds of people around at 35,000 feet in jet airliners…

Aviation History Benefit For Girls Inc. - Corporate Connecticut Magazine | The reservations-only luncheon is noon to 1:30 pm at the Orlampa Conference Center at Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, Florida. Tickets are $65 plus tax. ...

JU pilots set to take flight during women's air race - Florida Times-Union | KELLY JORDAN/The Times-Union --Jacksonville University students Sarah Morris, left, and Leah Hetzel will represent JU in the annual Air Race ...

Gwen Stetson, 1922-2010 from Guided by History by Casey Gill - The other day I read an article in the Washington Post about Women Air Force Service Pilots (W.A.S.P.) from World War II. After decades of being pushed to the back burner of WWII history, these brave women are finally getting their due, a Congressional Gold Medal. These ladies stepped up and filled the void left by so many young men sent overseas, at a time when very few women even had pilot's licenses…

Wing walker looks back at aviation history » Local & Bistate ... - It's been decades since the baby of her family became a grandmother. But as Drina Welch Abel spoke of four grandsons now flying planes for a living, the 83-year-old former "wing walker's" memories drifted back to times only gray photos can reach. "My first memory was being there. We lived on our airport in Anderson," she recalled…

Episode 89 – The Greatest Challenge to Women Pilots from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) | Amy Laboda joins as the guest for this episode. Amy is an aviation writer, Editor in Chief for Aviation for Women, the official publication of Women in Aviation International, and she's an instrument-rated commercial pilot, and an instructor. Amy lives and breathes aviation and we chat with her on a range of topics…

Airgas and XCOR announce supply and sponsorship deal from RLV and Space Transport News | Airgas and XCOR Aerospace Announce Supply and Sponsorship Agreements - 16 March 2010, RADNOR, PA & MOJAVE, CA: Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), the largest U.S. distributor of gases, welding and safety products, and XCOR Aerospace, which develops and produces reusable rocket-powered vehicles and propulsion systems, today jointly announced a 15-year product sales agreement and a sponsorship agreement. Airgas will provide liquid oxygen, helium, and nitrogen for XCOR's reusable, non-toxic propulsion systems, including the propulsion system on the XCOR Lynx reusable suborbital spacecraft. Airgas and XCOR will also participate in joint marketing programs to promote XCOR propulsion systems and suborbital space launch services…

Alabama Aviation and Aerospace Heritage Month from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News …WHEREAS, Tuskegee became the center of African-American aviation during the Second World War and produced the first African-American aviators in the history of the United States military; and…

100 year aviation anniversary for Formby's Freshfield beach - Formby Times | In those early days of Britain's aviation history, the beach was the busiest airstrip in the country. This year the Formby Civic Society are working with ...

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago - While the Vickers Viscount and its Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines underwent an exhaustive test flying program befitting its groundbreaking status as the first turbine-powered production airliner to fly, the Dart engines themselves would also fly on a variety of testbed aircraft to allow not only Rolls-Royce's engineers to gain operating experience with the new engine, British European Airways (BEA) also gained operating experience as well with the Dart Dakota, a conversion of one of the airline's DC-3s with Dart turboprops. Two BEA DC-3s were converted to Dart engines- G-ALXN "Sir Henry Royce" and the other DC-3, G-AMDB "Claude Johnson", BEA's managers, pilots, and maintenance crews gained valuable experience in turbine operations before the arrival of the Vickers Viscount…

On This Day in Aviation History: March 17th
by Phil Derner Jr. - No luck of the Irish for many as eight crashes different are recorded in today's history. In addition, JAL's first nonstop flight from Tokyo to New York, the B-45 Tornado makes its first flight, and Linda finch takes off on her journey tp recreate Amelia Earhart's around-the-world flight…