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Air show promises top-flight fun - The National | AL AIN // Around 130000 people are expected to attend the Al Ain Aerobatic Show in February, organisers say, promising an even more adrenaline-charged event ...

September 10 & 11 2011 from Windsor International Air Show by Sounds of Freedom III ~ Work is progressing on the 2011 show and tickets will be offered soon with some really great early bird deals.  The confirmed line up as of today; Snowbirds, Mike Goulian, Pete McLeod, Jacquie B, Neal Darnell (Jet Truck), Firecat, Hawk One… We're awaiting more confirmations and acts as we get them. Many more are lined up with conversations ongoing.We're looking to keep it interesting and still have the familiar Sounds of Freedom theme. We'll be setting up the new website soon with updated information. Stay Tuned

Extreme Air Combat Adventure From Fighter Combat International Voted Top 21 ... - PR Web | This rare fighter pilot for a day opportunity is provided by Fighter Combat International, a company based in Mesa, Arizona, that specializes in aerobatic ...

Hawker Sea Harriers say farewell in poignant flypast over Imperial War Museum ... - Culture24 | By Culture24 Staff | 12 December 2010 A formation of four Harrier aircraft performed a flypast over Imperial War Museum Duxford last week in what is likely ...

Australian pilot saved by manure manoeuvre - Monsters and Critics.com | 'The council had shifted it to the edge of the runway, and the aeroplane finished up in that,' Buckley told national broadcaster ABC on Monday…

China fighter jet clones and longer range missiles and nuclear powered missile ... - Next Big Future | China is offering the JF-17 for $10 million less than Russia's $30 million MiG-29. China is 8-10 years from making a F22 like stealth fighter.

Volunteer Flights Save Lives Statewide from Aviation Blogs by flyer98 | When it comes to serving and protecting people, Ken Calman is a tried and true veteran with more than two decades of hands-on experience with the Phoenix Police Department. As a retired uniformed patrol…

Lost Bet Puts Richard Branson In Heels from Aviation Blogs by Av8tor | The two men laid the wager over whose Formula One team would place higher in this year's rankings. Although both teams had zero points, Mr Fernandes's Lotus F1 team was placed ahead of Sir Richard's Virgin Racing by virtue of its better race finishing positions…

When science meets fiction - Irish Medical Times | A round-the-world flight without fuel would write a new page of aviation history. But the project is not just a quest for extreme technological performance ...

Joseph W. Cunningham - Martinsburg Journal | He was associated with the Flying Tigers in the China Burma Theater. He was a design engineer for Goddard Space Flight Center, and one of Mr. Cunningham's ...

The Reverse Lend-Lease of the Bristol Beaufighter from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought about the entry of the United States in the Second World War, not one single aircraft was in operational use that was capable of night fighting let alone equipped with an airborne intercept radar. The US military, however, had long been cognizant of the need for a night capability and ten months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor had already awarded a contract to Northrop for the prototype XP-61A Black Widow night fighters…

Restoring a special B-17 from General Aviation News By BILL WALKER |The man was in his 80s, too frail to lift himself through the door of the iconic aircraft being restored in the gallery of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah, Ga. "What if he hurt himself?" someone asked. "The museum might be liable," someone else worried out loud. "Well, this guy's getting in that airplane," a third person said firmly and the man was gently lifted in as his daughter watched quietly…

The Juan T. Trippe by Joe Clark | These days, if you don't know who Juan T. Trippe is, the old airplane guys can almost excuse you because we are now moving so far down the timeline away from the glorious days of airline travel. This was a time when Pan American World Airways ruled the skies. For those who don't know of Mr. Trippe, he is the man who created the airline…

Profile 44 - Harold Thune's F6F from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | Last month, I announced to my wife, "No more airplanes for a long while." Funny how things work because the ears of Fate must have remembered a comment I made to Steve Heffernan, a historian at the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, FL…

Neil Armstrong e-Mails of 1st Moon Walk from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The first human to step foot on the surface of the Moon tells NPR blogger Robert Krulwich why he (Neil Armstrong) and Buzz Aldrin walked such a modest distance of less than one hundred yards distance from their lunar lander on the Moon back in July 1969 in an unusual response well worth the reading…

The Buzz: Aviation and Aerospace News With MySkyMom from Ask My Sky Mom by Danielle Gibeault | The SpaceX Dragon made history as the first private company space launch and retrieval, Continental Airlines found guilty in 2001 Concorde crash, more!...

Dragon Success and Atlantis Engines – SpacePod 2010.12.13 from Spacevidcast by bencredible | The end is in sight for the Space Shuttle while the future of SpaceX is looking bright. I'm Benjamin Higginbotham and this is your SpacePod for December 13th, 2010. The big news this last week was that Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX has become the first company in the world to have a spacecraft launch, orbit the Earth, re-enter our atmosphere and be safely recovered. Until now only 3 countries have been able to accomplish this: the US, Russia and China. Here's a quick review of the launch itself just in case you missed it

BEST OF THE BEST: shuttle compilation from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family…

"'Throttle?' We Just Ring Down To The Engineer!" from The Adventures of Roberta X by Roberta X | The Dornier Do-X; an airplane that did not have a cockpit so much as it had a bridge:




And, yes, they really did have an engineer standing watch over the dozen temperamental engines and working the (so to speak) gas pedal: