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Al Ain Aerobatics Show to offer family entertainment to visitors - AME Info | With the countdown to this year's Al Ain Aerobatic Show underway, organisers have unveiled a mega, on-ground family-friendly spectator experience to keep ...

Mega Family Entertainment To Wow Al Ain Visitors - Abu Dhabi City Guide | With the countdown to this year's Al Ain Aerobatic Show underway, organisers have unveiled a mega, on-ground family-friendly spectator experience to keep ...

Blue Angels to perform in Great Falls - Billings Gazette | Brandon S. Templeton/For The Gazette The Blue Angels take off from the Billings airport in formation. GREAT FALLS — The Navy Blue Angels flight ...

> INDYCAR: Indy 500 Centennial Tour Update… - SPEEDtv.com | I had a chance to meet up with the Blue Angels on occasion and we just kind of hit it off. That led to flying with them, and I've also flown with the Air ...

St. Louis Once Again on Aeroshell Team 2011 Airshow Schedule from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | It would not be a St. Louis Airshow without the Aeroshell Team, and July 2011 should be no exception.  Fair St. Louis is once again on the Aeroshell Team schedule, which so far looks like this…

Aviation's "Living Legends" Gather Friday from AVweb Top News | On Friday night, Hollywood notables and famous aviators will mingle at the 8th Annual Living Legends of Aviation awards event, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Actors John Travolta, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, and Kurt Russell are scheduled to participate, as well as aviation legends including Sean D. Tucker, Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger, and Bob Hoover. Among those receiving awards for their contributions to aviation are Capt. James Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission; U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas), a former U.S. Air Force pilot; Clay Jones, CEO of Rockwell Collins; and Lynn Tilton, CEO of MD Helicopters. The event will be held at the Beverly Hilton. It is produced by the Kiddie Hawk Air Academy, a nonprofit group that works to inspire young children, ages 5 to 11, to take an interest in aviation and excel academically.

London Blitz - 70th Anniversary from What's On at RAF Museum London | 1 February 2011 - 31 May 2011
Commissioned by the Mayor of London and produced in association with the London Transport Museum the 'London Blitz - 70th Anniversary Exhibition' is dedicated to the men and women of the emergency, volunteer, transport and specialist services who kept London going during the darkest days of the war…

Planes of Fame from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | This is a brief video tour of the Planes of Fame Air Museum's main facilities in Chino, California. It is the oldest and largest privately held Air Museum in America today. Their collection includes over 150 aircraft like the P26 Peashooter, F4U Corsair, Yak-3 and SBD Dauntless and many more! Approximately 40 of these planes are in flyable condition…

5 vertical landings in 8 days for F-35B- Marine Corps Times | Comparatively, the earlier development of Lockheed Martin's other fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 Raptor, faced far greater difficulties, Thompson said. ...

RIP Ken Fenwick... And some aerial photos... from Flying for Dummies by Chris Nielsen | Recently Ken Fenwick sadly passed away. He was an absolute legend who flew in WWII and was our CFI from the mid 50s to the late 70s, and I believe was still giving licenses out in the 1990s!! Our club patron from 1967 till present, I have a copy of his Fenwick Flying Manual, and he was a regular bar patron until a few months ago, where he would remember everything you had talked to him about even months before. Sharp as a tack, he will be much missed…

Plymouth Aero Club Now Accepting Scholarship Applications - Classes2Careers News | The Plymouth Aero Club recently announced that it is now accepting applications for this year's Aviation Scholarships. ...

A C-133 Cargomaster: Last Flight But Not The End Of The Line by Martt | The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster was the heavy airlifter thru the early 60's for the USAF. While it seems many people don't know it even existed, and a large number of people would simply think it was a C-130, the C-133 was a pretty important aircraft in its day. It was also significantly larger than the C-130…

Dream Chaser update from RLV and Space Transport News | A report on the SNC Dream Chaser project: A Private Space Shuttle Replacement: The Dream Chaser will go into orbit on the nose of a rocket, then land gently on airport runways - Technology Review - Everything on the Dream Chaser except the initial launch booster and the fuel cartridges is designed to be reused. Still, turning a profit will require flying multiple Dream Chasers 50 to 100 times each, and Sirangelo admits that he doesn't know when that will occur…

All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan's Biggest Brain from Wired: Danger Room by Noah Shachtman | Come this fall, there will be a new and extremely powerful supercomputer in Afghanistan. But it won't be in Dave Petraeus' headquarters in Kabul or at some three-letter agency's operations center in Kandahar. It'll be floating 20,000 feet above the warzone, aboard a giant spy blimp that watches and listens to everything for miles around…

Today in Aviation History – January 18 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Area 51 of Russia (Yamantau mt.) from Military Photos by Andy_UA | An Area 51 in Russia? Some people think so and their suspicions are shared by the US Congress. Testamony was taken on Congressional suspicions of Russian complex in Yamantau Mountain, circa 1997, and can be checked with the Congressional Record for that session.A Huge Anthill?

The Pima Air and Space Museum CH-54 Tarhe from Helikopter Hysterie - The Helicopter Blog by Axel | This is the Pima Air and Space Museum's Sikorsky CH-54A Tarhe, also known as Skycrane. They have it on loan from the US Army Aviation Museum. Today's photo is a panoramic image that I assembled using three individual photos…