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Thunderbirds: Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, but not Greece ... from fox2magazine | The famous acrobatic flock USAF Thunderbirds recently adopted the program displays the next year. This includes shows in the U.S. and abroad. In June, the group will appear in our neighborhood, but to visit our country ... However, there will be a demonstration in Turkey, Italy and Bulgaria!...

Air Force Thunderbirds set for Smyrna air show in May - The Tennessean
"We fill up hotels and restaurants. It's a huge economic impact," Black said. "We hope everyone goes home wanting to learn how to fly…

Never before seen presidential visit photos are now online from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind. - Grissom Headlines by 434arw.pa@grissom.af.mil | On Nov. 23, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden flew into Grissom and then left for nearby Kokomo, Ind., on their White House to Main Street tour. This is the first visit of a president to Grissom in recent memory and many have requested additional photos from the event. So, several additional and never-before-seen photos have now been published online. Click here to go to the gallery to see all of the photos from the day. more...

FAA Outlines Super Bowl XLV TFR from Aero-News Network | Restrictions In Place For Super Bowl Sunday Only It's that time of year again, and this time the Super Bowl TFR will affect pilots in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The FAA will establish airspace restrictions over Super Bowl XLV, to be in effect February 6, 2011, over Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX…

Warbirds - Pearl Harbour Open Day 2010 from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | The New Zealand Warbirds Association organised a Pearl Harbour Open day at Ardmore Airport, South Auckland, to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Japanese attach on...

Royal Aeronautical Society interview with Captain David Evans of Qantas from Roger-Wilco by phil | Captain Evans was the Senior Check Captain on the Qantas A380 during the incident in Singapore. He was interviewed by the RAeS on the 6th December. In the interview he describes how the crew reacted to the uncontained engine failure and discusses the decisions the crew had to make. In particular, he considers that the most serious part of the whole incident was the time spent on the runway after they had stopped and were unable to shut down the No 1 engine. He also says that later they tried to recreate the whole incident in the simulator but couldn't! Which only goes to show that, however good the simulator training, it is never quite like the real thing.

Report faults pilot for deadly Alaska C-17 crash - Washington Post ... says he doesn't know which of the three pilots on board was flying the C-17 when it crashed July 28 during a training demonstration for an air show. ...

Jimmy Stewart by Joe Clark | Jimmy Stewart, bomber pilot - Jimmy Stewart, born James Maitland Stewart in Indiana, Pennsylvania on May 20, 1908, was one of the most beloved movie actors of the Twentieth Century. Stewart was a gentle man who also happened to be an excellent piano player. Moreover and unknown to many, he was a combat pilot and military leader of extraordinary aptitude…

WASP Files: May 1940 - Nancy Harkness Love writes to General Hap Arnold from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Sometime during May, 1940, Nancy Harkness Love writes to Colonel Robert Olds. She knows of 49 women, perhaps 15 more, all having accumulated at least 100 hours of flight time, "on a great many ships". She suggests these women could be used by the Army to ferry aircraft…

Nikumaroro Island: Last Breath Place - MJB News Online | Amelia Earhart is the first Aviatrix to fly across Atlantic Ocean that too solo. 1897 born Earhart was the first woman to receive 'Distinguished Flying ...

December 11 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

GA Award Winners of the Year Announced from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- This week the local Alabama & NW Florida FSDO proudly announced their 2010 General Aviation Award recipients. The General Aviation Awards Program is a cooperative effort between the FAA and aviation industry sponsors to recognize annually outstanding individuals in the fields of Avionics, Flight Instruction, and Maintenance. In addition, the program recognizes outstanding individuals serving the FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) as representatives… GA Award Recipients of the Year announced by the local Alabama & NW Florida FSDO: Flight Instructor: Greg Koontz- Ashville, AL …

At airport, thousands of students explore transportation careers - Fort Worth Star Telegram | Vintage and modern aircraft were also on display, including American Airlines' flagship DC-3, middle, and "Chuckie," a World War II era B-17, bottom…

Young pilot earning wings at Reading airport - Reading Eagle | The 16-year-old Spring Township resident began taking flying lessons in July from Toomey, president of the Reading Aero Club based at Reading Regional ...

Go inside the pages of Flightglobal's coverage from MEBA 2010 from FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis by Jon Ostrower | DUBAI -- Flightglobal's coverage of the Middle East Business Aviation show is a wrap here, but we wanted to make sure you saw the daily news paper we authored from the show. We put together three MEBA issues of Flight Daily News, which should give you a perspective on the show, which is smaller than the mega events of NBAA in the US and EBACE in Europe. We hope you walk away from our digital coverage of MEBA with a sense of the insatiable appetite for aviation in the Middle East which continues to grow at an astonishing pace. Enjoy…

Commercial Moon Race Entry Date Looms from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) Dr. Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X-Prize Foundation, reminds listeners that there are now only days left to register for the $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE -- teams are still forming! If you have the "Right Stuff" and the power of positive action, now is the time to show it - the deadline is Friday, December 31, 2010 to enter a team is one of the most historic races of all times. There are over twenty teams now registered from around the world - one is planning for lunar mining.

Dallas resident Richard Jefferies writes about 'Star Trek' art director brother - Dallas Morning News | After flying B-17 bombers in World War II, he ended up as Hollywood technical adviser, where he captured the attention of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry ...

20-Years After Space Camp: DISCOVERY from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) NASA Astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger tells of her life experience with the Space Shuttle Discovery and life twenty (20) years after Space Camp in Hunstville, Alabama. In the decade ahead, many more women and men will have similar opportunities to go from Space Camp to an orbital space station with the era of American commercial spaceflight.

Sci-Fi Apollo 18 Movie Poster Released from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) "A quintessential Cold War story, Apollo 18 casts light on the covert and undocumented lunar mission that officially 'never happened'. Bekmambetov, hired by Russia to shoot a documentary about the Russian space station, recently came across footage in its space archives that bolsters the idea that an Apollo 18 mission did, in fact, take place, and reveals startling evidence of extraterrestrial life forms. This actual footage will be part of Apollo 18, a paranormal thriller that will interpolate fact and fiction." The movie will open in selected theaters March 4, 2011.     

'Top Gear' races airport vehicles from Flight International by Will Horton | The site of a catering truck collapsed on the wing of an Emirates A380 reminded me of this clip from "Top Gear" in which the show organises a race between a tug, fire engine, baggage cart, catering truck, passenger bus, and movable stairs (screen grab above). It's pure recreation--and destruction--but the host jokes the race is to find out which vehicle is the fastest so all airport vehicles can be based on that type, thus speeding up the airport experience for passengers…