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Blue Angels might be on B.C.'s agenda - Battle Creek Enquirer
The US Navy Blue Angels may add performances July 2 and 3 at Battle Creek's Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival at WK Kellogg Airport. ...

Who is the winner of the 2010 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy? from Roger-Wilco 
Charles Lindbergh, Igor Sikorsky, Juan Trippe, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Harrison Ford…
What is common to all these names? Well, all those gentlemen were winners of the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy.
What is not common to all these names? Except one they were all iconic figures in aeronautics or astronautics… and of course only one of them is a movie star. ...

WAI's Horizon East (Iraq) Chapter Hosts an Event for Iraqi Women from WAI Connect Blog 
WAI Member Chrystina Short started the Horizon East-Iraq Chapter, while she is deployed in Iraq. This chapter hosted a luncheon yesterday which resulted in eight Iraqi women joining WAI.
Read all about the event and view photographs in this article from the United States Air Forces Central website.

Aviation photo competition - Times of Malta
The Malta Aviation Society recently held its Christmas party during which the winners of this year's Airshow Photographic Competition, Justin Cassar and Ian ...
   
Durwood "Dode" Offord - Amarillo.com
He flew 50 missions over Germany as a tail gunner in a B-17. He remarked that in the belly of a B-17, there are no atheists. For his heroism, he was awarded ...

Profile 45 - "FLAK SHAK" from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles 
I'm waiting for Harold Thune to bless my rendering of his Hellcat.
With my bit of free time, this morning, I responded to an email regarding a B-24 Liberator that caught my breath...
Watch this space.  "Flak Shak" is about to take life...and oh, what a life she had. ...

National Museum of Commercial Aviation Plans New Museum from museumpublicity.com
The National Museum of Commercial Aviation is planning a new Museum Campus comprised of several buildings, built in phases over a number of years.
The main building will be a themed terminal covering the major decades of aviation, complete with jet-ways and full-size commercial airliners outside. ...

Cox's Award Winning 'Homecoming' Features the Truman and Iwo Jima Groups in Latest Special - PRNewswire
Cox Channel 11 continues its support of military families with the latest episode of "Homecoming: A Cox Video Diary," a snapshot of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and USS Iwo Jima assault group homecomings premiering on Sunday, Jan. 9 at 7 p.m.
Join Cox from the docks, on the flight line, and at the base to capture the moment of return as some of the major recent deployments of local servicemen and servicewomen came to an end.  ...

Science Museum Wroughton from Let Let Let - Warplanes 
The Science Museum at Wroughton is a Second World War maintenance airfield in Wiltshire and has been occupied by the Science Museum since the 1970s. Six original aircraft hangars house items from the science, engineering, transport and agricultural reserve collections. There is also a research store, built in 1993, which has a stable environment and is ideal for sensitive objects. These are ...

A new journal of the Flying Tigers from the Warbird's blog 
Here is a great find in a rather unfortunate package. Though the book is credited to Jennifer Holik-Urban, the better part of it consists of the war journal of Robert Brouk of the AVG 3rd Squadron "Hell's Angels." Though riddled with spelling errors (some committed by the diarist himself, others introduced by a misreading of the handwritten original), it's very much worth obtaining for its entirely new account of the events from August 1941 to the spring of 1942, and especially Brouk's account of being strafed by the 64th Sentai as he landed at Namsang on April 21. Amazing that his journal has never surfaced before now! ...

Daimler Benz DB 601A/N engine from Let Let Let - Warplanes 
Since the moment I saw Eduard Bf-109 kit in 1/48 scale it was an absolute must have for me, and I got it and start building it, but then Eduard announced DB 601 Brassin engine… Although kit’s engine looks great, ever since I saw renders of Brassin Daimler Benz I had no doubt that I want that engine in my kit. Eduard Brassin 632003 set comes packed in an unusual box that is beautifully designed, believe me, when you see this box on the shelf of your local hobby store it will catch your eye.

Classic Jets from FenceCheck Forums

More From the 2010 Nellis AFB Aviation Nation Airshow
from Randy Rothhaar Photography 

Caption Contest #47 Winner - Beware Of BIG Birds! from AirPigz

Getting his dream to take wing in concrete - Times of India
That's because his house has an aeroplane on top of his sprawling house, albeit a concrete, non-moving one. When he was a kid studying in the village school ...