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Warbirds over Wanaka exceeds expectations - Stuff.co.nz
A Harvard takes part in a mock battle at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow at the weekend. Members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Kiwi ...

Richie McCaw goes from scrum to jet - Stuff.co.nz
A Harvard takes part in a mock battle at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow at the weekend. ...

Music to ex-RAF pilot's ears - Otago Daily Times
Mr Lockspeiser was at his first Wanaka airshow but had long harboured a desire to attend. The Farnborough-born pilot is also making a motoring tour of New ...

Organisers 'rapt' with air show - Otago Daily Times
Tens of thousands of people enjoyed the Warbirds over Wanaka air show at the weekend and organisers were "rapt" with the ...

The Flight of the Tiger-singer - Wake Marmot
... Chief of Staff of the Air Force, is ecstatic: "This is the first time a starlet is the godmother of the Patrouille de France" ...

Annual fly-in is set for June - Dodge County News
Come tour the Middle Georgia College Aviation Campus, and view planes that made aviation history. If you are interested in being a vendor or sponsor, ...

Championship pilot Kirby Chambliss unveils 'air brush' contest for schoolchildren from General Aviation News
Red Bull Air Race World Championship pilot Kirby Chambliss returned to the Detroit Riverfront April 1 to unveil a contest for local children to put their artistic talent on display. Local middle schools can vie for the chance to decorate one of 20 small plane statues that will line the Riverfront throughout May. ...

Paul Bonhomme faces pack of fast-flying rivals in Perth from AVIATION-NEWS
Defending champion Paul Bonhomme secured the first trophy of the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship with his hard-earned victory in difficult weather conditions in Abu Dhabi last week. The British ace also made the uncomfortable discovery ahead of the second race in Perth, Australia on April 17/18 that unlike last year there is not [...]

Aspen pioneer pilots finally honored for WWII service 60-plus years later, the U.S. thanks Ruth Brown, Betty Pfister from WASP & WINGS
ASPEN — Creased faces, gnarled hands, unsteady legs. The frailties of age belie the accomplishments of youth, but their eyes, still sparkling, reflect the pride captured more than 60 years ago in the black-and-white photographs of two young women in uniform. Two Aspen octogenarians, Ruth Brown and Betty Pfister, are among the corps of pioneering female pilots whose country has finally ...

Print exclusive: Three tales from WWII - Jackson Sun
After dropping their bombs on a railroad trestle, anti-aircraft flak riddled their B-17 over Magdeburg, Germany, knocking out two of the plane's four ...

Your Opinion: Town looking for hero from B.C. - Battle Creek Enquirer
24, 1945, on a routine flight from New Hampshire to Boston, an Army Air Corps B-25 piloted by Maj. Doak Weston caught fire over the town of Melrose, Mass. ...

The Value of Experience from IAGblog Podcasts
We live in a time of amazing technological achievement. But you know what, when the chips are down, nothing beats experience - human experience. As proof of this, we spoke to Jim Dunnigan, editor of StrategyPage.com about a story he wrote that tells the continuing influence the amazing Lockheed U-2. Although we live in a time where UAVs seem unassailable, guess what? Troops on the ground prefer an old hand, steady with experience in a U-2, 70,000 feet above them to guide them about what is around the corner, over the hill or behind the trees ahead. This airplane must surely rank as one the greatest ever made - a half century old and as necessary now as ever. ...

WWII-era plane ID'd - Maui News | photo: Harry Donenfeld
Pilot ditched Helldiver in Maalaea Bay in '44
WAILUKU - A World War II-era wreck off South Maui first documented in January has been identified as an SBC-2 Helldiver, ditched in Maalaea Bay on a training flight by a Navy pilot in 1944.
Maritime archaeologist Hans Van Tilburg of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dived to the site Saturday and confirmed that it was the plane identified by two groups of private divers separately investigating the wreck. He said the U.S. Navy was in the process of making a plaque to mark the site, which is protected under state and federal law, and that officials may also consider installing a mooring nearby. ...

Incredible Jet Pilots by Michael
New York-based illustrator, Robert Longo's pieces are singular in focus and whatever it is that he attempts to illustrate, he does so with technical precision. He works successfully in many mediums but it's his charcoal renderings that are particularly interesting. ...

April 4 from Cut and Paste Aviation
... 1945 -- An YR-4 helicopter from the U.S. Army Air Corps. Tenth Air Force Air-Jungle Rescue Detachment landed in enemy territory in Burma and successfully rescued a PT-19 crash survivor.
This event was the first helicopter combat rescue.
1944 -- Fifteenth Air Force conducted the first American bombing raid on Bucharest, Rumania.
1938 -- The Bell XP-39 Airacobra first flew. ...

Aerobatics at Acrocamp from Life on the Road as a Pilot
Last time on the blog I covered the airplanes that will be used at Acrocamp. And although I admitted the reason I wrote the post might have been because I was also educating myself, the same does not hold true for this post. I am familiar with all of the maneuvers that Steve Tupper of the Airspeed podcast tells me I'll be doing. [Pause while the laughter subsides.]
Part of our homework was to read Basic Acrobatics by Geza Szurov and Mike Goulian. My copy of the book arrived last week and I just sat down last night to read, study and learn it. So I'm going to cover some of what I've learned about the maneuvers I can expect to do at AcroCamp over subsequent posts. It is, actually, a really interesting book which takes some, but not all, of the mystique out of aerobatic flying. It's still awesome, but proves these aren't magic tricks, after all. More like science. Elementary, my dear Watson. ...

From CAP cadet to governor from General Aviation News
Flying across South DakotaSouth Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds' entrée into aviation came with the discovery of a hand-written advertisement while he was in junior high school, according to a story at AOPA.org, which notes that Rounds took his first airplane ride through the CAP, soloed at 16, and earned his private pilot certificate on his 17th birthday. Now, in the seventh year of his governorship, he has instrument and commercial single- and multiengine ratings and continues to study for his air transport pilot certificate. ...