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Tuscaloosa Regional Air Show has 'perfect weekend' By Patrick Rupinski Staff Writer - TUSCALOOSA | With ideal weather, improved traffic routes and shuttle service along with huge crowds this weekend, the second time was a charm for Tuscaloosa Regional Air Show. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox estimated 150,000 people enjoyed the two-day event, which ended Sunday afternoon. "We already have started to talk about 2011 and 2012," he said Sunday afternoon…

Success at air show sets stage for future - Tuscaloosa News - The show, which featured the famed Navy Blue Angels aerial acrobatic team and much more, attracted at least 150000 people on Saturday and Sunday, ...

F-22 Raptor to star at this weekend's air show - InlandSoCal.com | The silver, twin-engine plane will perform a solo flight and then take part in a Heritage flight with fighter aircraft of other eras. ...

A-10C crashed while taking off at Moody AFB from Alert 5 - Military Aviation News by owet | HT to Mike from Project Get Out and Walk for sending this in.  A USAF A-10C crashed while taking off from Moody Air Force Base on Monday night around 5pm. The pilot managed to eject to safety.

Air Show ticket sales – KIDK | The Blue Angels Air Show will be here in just a month and a half, and you can start buying your tickets right now! ...

AeroShell Team Posts St. Louis Air Show on Schedule! | Tailspin - The AeroShell Team has posted the July 3-4 downtown St. Louis air show on its schedule! Visit the AeroShell Team at the Memorial Day Salute to Veterans Air Show in Columbia, MO May 29-30 and then again July 3-4 in downtown St. Louis! ...

First and Last Men on the Moon to Testify from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Senate Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Wednesday, May 12, 2010 in Washington on the future of NASA to be joined by Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the lunar surface, the panel said. The two astronauts will be joined at the hearing by John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and Norman Augustine, the former Lockheed Martin Corp. chairman who headed a presidential panel that issued a report last year on the future of the U.S. space program, reports Bloomberg News…

Virgin Group founder to speak in Indy from IndyStar.com Top Stories - Cyberspace will meet outer space when Sir Richard Branson comes to Indianapolis this fall as the keynote speaker of ExactTarget's annual private tech and marketing conference…

Just Flight:Air Show Pilot - Nows your perfect chance to prove you are the best! Airshow Pi..... How accurate is your flying? Can you keep headings, altitudes and fly...

EAA Pancake Breakfast by Sabrina Zwego - Join EAA and the SIUC Air Race Classic Teams May 15th at Marion (KMWA) Airport for a Fly-in/Drive-in Breakfast. It is national learn how to fly day! Food will be served from 8 to noon. We will also be washing airplanes from 9 to 3. ...

Annual Plane Pull Competition - delawareonline.com ... could pull a C-130 aircraft the fastest. The annual Delaware National Guard Plane Pull competition raised more than $17000 for Special Olympics Delaware.

United States - California - Thunder Over The Empire 2010 - March ARB, Riverside - 05/01/10 from FenceCheck Forums

World War II bomber visits Chico - Enterprise-Record | His dad was a crew member on a B-25 bomber in the South Pacific. Nowadays, there aren't as many people who know how to work on older planes, so the group's ... Chico is the temporary landing spot for a Boeing B-17 bomber that will be in town for walk-through tours and a limited number of half-hour flights ...

Warbirds to be featured at Air Show – BCLocalNews | The Princeton Air Show will feature this P51 Mustang from the Historic Flight Foundation out of Washington state. Now entering its third year, the Princeton ...

Vintage planes take to the sky – HeraldNet ... new Historic Flight Foundation, located at 10719 Bernie Webber Drive on the west side of Paine Field, and by the Heritage Flight Museum of Bellingham. ...

Tuskegee Airman gets long-overdue Purple Heart from Air Force Times - News by Asbury Park (N.J.) JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — George Watson Sr. was standing guard duty on the airfield perimeter when the Germans came one night looking for the Tuskegee Airmen, aiming to nail the Americans' fighters before they could fly missions in support of Allied troops battling their way through Italy in World War II.

Former Army pilot, 90, takes to the skies again by Carolyn Lucas / Stephens Media - A former member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program from World War II ditched her wheelchair, settled into the cockpit of a DA-20 Diamond Eclipse and relived her flying days Saturday. During her 30-minute flight over the Kona Coast, 90-year-old Helen "Skip" Sigler confidently announced she was taking control of the two-seater plane, manned the stick and made eight turns while Tropicbird Flight Service instructor Jelica Matic pushed the foot pedals operating the rudder. Matic also did the take-off and landing of the plane…

Boeing unveils Phantom Ray UAV from Military Photos by CaptMorgan68 - Boeing Monday unveiled its fighter-sized Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft, which is scheduled to fly in December. "We are on a fast track, and first flight is in sight," Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works, said in a news release, noting that the program just started two years ago…

Going forward with the F-35? from ELP Defens(c)e Blog by Eric Palmer - So, Bill Sweetman gets taken off AV Weeks F-35 beat (note to trade press—don't mix work and humor on Facebook, Twitter, etc.) But—with or without his criticisms—what is the real future of the F-35 in DOD? Gates will exert so much pressure on this program (unless he too gets taken off the F-35 beat) that it will need a different approach to marketing the aircraft…

Aviation Week Grounds Top Critic of Gajillion-Dollar Jet (Updated) from Wired: Danger Room by Noah Shachtman - One of the aviation industry's biggest critics of the Pentagon's gajillion-dollar fighter jet has been temporarily barred from writing about the controversial plane. Bill Sweetman has authored over 30 books on military aircraft, and now edits Defense Technology International, a monthly magazine put out by Aviation Week. Few journalists today know more about tactical aircraft. And few have been more critical of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the jet that's eventually supposed to replace as much as 95% of combat planes. "The program is no longer at risk of failure," he wrote in March on Aviation Week's defense blog, Ares. "It has already failed."…

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Scouts learn about flight Camporee held at Webster City Airport - Storm Flying Service and the Webster City Airport hosted a Boy Scout Camporee recently with nearly 300 scouts attending. "The goal of this conference is to expose the children to the world of aviation, and hopefully to instill an appreciation of the airport along the side of the road they might've passed without a second glance," said Scott Walters, Raccoon River Valley District Boy Scout Director.

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago - No launch vehicle is so closely identified with the satellite communications industry than the Delta rocket. A direct descendant of the 1950s Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile and initially known as the Thor-Delta, through the 1960s the Delta rocket had firmly established its reputation as a reliable medium-lift launch vehicle that had not only orbited the first telecommunications satellites (Echo, Syncom, Telstar) but also the first weather satellites (TIROS) as well as a wide range of scientific probes (the Explorer series and the OSO solar-observation satellites). The vehicle was progressively modified for increases in capacity and performance but the real revolution launched aboard the Delta rocket would come in 1972…