Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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Liaisons needed to help more than 50 flying teams for 2010 Air Race Classic - Frederick News Post | More than 50 all-women flying teams will converge on Frederick Municipal Airport June 24 and 25 -- the end of the 2010 Air Race Classic…

Sun 'n Fun 2010 Coverage Round-Up from AVweb Top News | Time for a quick round-up of coverage from this year's Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Florida. Look for a full run-down of this year's videos, podcasts, and news in a special edition of AVwebAudio that can be found here.

Hannes Arch back in the game from Aerial Sports Feed by noreply@redbull.com (Red Bull Staff) | Hannes Arch of Austria won the Red Bull Air Race on Sunday with Matt Hall of Australia getting a career-best second place in front of an enormous crowd of 140,000 people in Perth, Australia…

Arrows pilot 'disappointed' to miss season - Lincolnshire Echo | A Red Arrows pilot forced to eject from his aircraft has said he is "bitterly disappointed" not to be flying for his final year. Flight Lieutenant Mike Ling ...

Breaking Aviation World-Record to Raise ALS Awareness - WJHG-TV | "I love aviation and through aviation, I wanted to do something," said Garratt. "So, I thought about trying to set a new world record and that would be a ...

Navy Week Goes to Des Moines! - US Navy SEALs Blog & Information | Participants to Navy Week Des Moines can witness the Navy Leap Frogs parachute demonstration team parachute their way into the Drake Relays – as well as ...

Doolittle Raiders forever revered in US history - Clovis News Journal | Sunday marked the 68th anniversary of Doolittle's Raid. It was the darkest period for American forces in World War II. Four months earlier, the Imperial ...

B-17 on public display at Oxnard Airport to be available for short flights - Ventura County Star | The Wisconsin-based Experimental Aircraft Association has brought its B-17 Flying Fortress Aluminum Overcast to Ventura County as part of its Salute to ...

World War II Bomber Is Making Some Local Stops – KEYT | Experts call the B-17 war plane, the aircraft that broke the German army's back in World War II. The B-17, otherwise known as the Flying Fortress is part of ...

April 2010 News from Roadrunners of Groom Lake by admin - ASSIGNMENT TO AREA-51

Secretive X-37B set to launch Apr 21 - Examiner.com ... vehicle's test flights conducted from Scaled Composite's White Knight – the plane that carried SpaceShipOne the rocket plane that won the Ansari X-PRIZE.

Adventures at NAS Pensacola by visitpensacola | Last Tuesday morning I took Erin, Brynn and Connor to NAS Pensacola to watch the 8:30 a.m. Blue Angels practice air show. The most impressive part of the morning was the fact that we were backing out of the driveway at 7:45 a.m. Remember, these kids were on Spring Break, so this was a big decision on their part to get up so early. But, they had never seen the Blue Angels before – so this was a treat – especially when you can watch a 45-minute 'practice' show without thousands of people around you…

Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Sought for Local Chapter from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | FORT RUCKER AL- Vietnam helicopter pilots sought - a local chapter is forming of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA).  The national organization has a membership of over 14,000 Individuals who piloted rotary wing aircraft in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era.  Membership is open to all helicopter pilots who flew in Vietnam from 1961 to 1975, regardless of branch of service…

United States - Kentucky - Thunder Over Louisville 2010 - Louisville - 04/17/10
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Soldier Sets New Wing Suit World Record in tandem with the 97th Air Mobility Wing from armygoldenknights's | Altus AFB, OK-As excitement grew Staff Sergeant Ben Borger soared through the gleaming blue skies over the fields of Altus Air Force Base breaking the current world record for the distance flown in a wing suit flight. Borger exceeded all expectations today when he made a frigid 45 degree below zero leap from the US Air Force C-17 from an altitude of 32 thousand feet. From the point of exit to landing he flew 11.5 miles in 6 minutes 35 seconds beating his own record of 10 miles at winter training in Yuma, Az. last year…

World Record Video from TEAM WINGSUIT!!! from armygoldenknights's | Download now or watch on posterous - Wingsuit World Record 2Min_768K_Stream.wmv (8654 KB) Wondering what it's like to exit a C-17 at 32,000 feet wearing oxygen and a wingsuit? Check out this video of SSG Ben Borger's recent World Record 11.5 flight over Altus, OK!

Flyvie records historic cross-country flight from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | "Hope One" and Michael Combs took off last week for 40 flight days across 50 states as part of the Flight for the Human Spirit. On board Combs' Remos LSA is the Flyvie Pro Recorder, which records the flight with two video cameras, audio and GPS, all to a personal SD memory card. The Flyvie Viewer enables a replay of the flight experience through a web service on top of Google Earth…

NASA to hold Launchfest event in April for school students from Rocketry Planet | Hundreds of student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities around the country will show off their rocketry prowess in North Alabama April 16-18, during the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects rocket fair and launch event. Each year, NASA challenges students to build powerful rockets of their own design, complete with a working science payload, and launch them to an altitude of 1 mile. The event is designed to inspire young rocketeers to blend practical engineering practices with sky-high creativity — and to pursue technical careers in fields involving science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The challenge is organized by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and sponsored by ATK Aerospace Systems of Magna, Utah. Launch day support is provided by the National Association of Rocketry…

Special Event: X PRIZE Foundation TweetUp with "My Dream of Stars" Anousheh Ansari Book Signing from The Launch Pad by Amanda Stiles | Please join us on the evening of Friday, April 30th, 2010 for the X PRIZE Foundation's first ever TweetUp!  For the first time, we are holding an open house to give us a chance to interact directly with our online fans and supporters…

"A Night With Heroes" To Be Held June 19th – KSFY | By KSFY Staff The Sioux Falls Airshow and South Dakota Honor Flight announced Monday they are bringing in four war heroes to tell their amazing stories on ...

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