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Valiant Air Command slates airshow from General Aviation News
The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, Florida, will hold its 34th annual airshow March 11-13. This year’s show will be dedicated to the memory of The Flying Tigers, and the 70th anniversary of their first combat mission in China. ...

Eugene Ely and the Birth of Naval Aviation—January 18, 1911 from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum
In 1909, military aviation began with the purchase of the Wright Military Flyer by the U.S. Army. The Navy sprouted wings two years later in 1911 with a number of significant firsts. The first U.S Navy officers were trained to fly, the Navy purchased its first airplanes from Glenn Curtiss and the Wrights, and sites for naval aircraft operations were established at Annapolis, Md., and at North Island, San Diego, Ca. But the most the dramatic demonstration that the skies and the seas were now joined occurred on January 18, 1911, when Eugene Burton Ely made the first successful landing and take-off from a naval vessel. ...

World Records Now Official by The GYROX Team
It is with great pleasure that we can now announce that the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the body that rules on all aviation world records, has officially recognised a number of world records achieved by Norman on his journey so far!
The following is a copy of the FAI Document listing the records achieved. ...

Resuming the Gyrocopter Adventure - Adventure 52
Today, the GYROX Team heard from the FAI that some of Norman’s speed records have been ratified.
Last year he was on an attempt to circumnavigate the world in his gyrocopter, G-YROX, when in September he called ‘half time’ on his adventure. He had faced all sorts of delays and setbacks which meant he would miss the time window for the best weather to cross the Bering Sea and continue on into higher latitudes. Sound airmanship prevailed and Norman decided to pause the attempt in the Phillipines. ...

Captured: The Pacific and Adjacent Theaters in WWII - Denver Post
April 18, 1942: A B-25 Mitchell bomber takes off from the USS Hornet's flight deck for the initial air raid on Tokyo, Japan, a secret military mission U.S. President Roosevelt referred to as Shangri-La. (AP Photo)

The First Casualty by Joe Clark
Today, 20 years ago on January 17, 1991, Operation Desert Storm began. Onboard the USS Saratoga, men prepared to go to war and they would be some of the first warriors over the beach. VFA-81, the Sunliners, was one of the F/A-18 squadrons based aboard the Sara and one of the officers of the Sunliners leading the way was LCDR Michael Scott “Spike” Speicher. ...

Wehrmacht: WWII German Aviation of Yesteryear from ASB.tv 
World War II brought an unprecedented effort by both the Axis and Allied powers to develop and produce military aircraft that could give their respected side the advantage. One key contributor was Germany and its air force, the Luftwaffe. Before and during the second World War, Germany developed and produced many innovative and revolutionary military aircraft that included fighters and interceptors, bombers, reconnaissance, transports, training aircraft and even helicopters. ...

January 18, 2011 Lawrence Dewey Bonbrake, Airplane Designer and Builder by Linda Street-Ely

Linda: Back in the olden days boys used to tinker, and make things. They had projects and used their minds and worked with their hands. Lawrence Dewey Bonbrake was one such boy. Born in 1899 in Woodston, Kansas, Dewey was a bright kid, always into stuff. For instance, he and a cousin built a glider and flew it off the roof of a barn when they were teenagers. Then they built a sled powered by a motorcycle engine, with a propeller. When Dewey rode it 19 miles to the next town, Stockton, someone wrote an article about him, a 15 year old kid with a powered sled. ...

Video: Recce Drill from Neptunus Lex
The Harriers, Eagles, C-130, Tornados and even the ...

Too Hot to Handle: McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat from Aviation Blogs
Damn Continental engines. No matter how advanced an airframe is, and the McDonnell XP-67 was plenty advanced, you can’t fly a fighter fast and hard if its engines are the product of one of the biggest weapons-procurement boondoggles of World War II. ...

Terry Bowden's Blog: 1918 "Flyin' Frolic" Love Field, Dallas TX from Antique Airfield News

... The end of WW 1 was celebrated Texas style on November 12 and 13, 1918 in Dallas Texas at Love Field Air Corps Training Depot. This event, dubbed "Flyin' Frolic" was attended by thousands. Aerial exhibitions were enjoyed as well as other technological marvels of the day. Here are a few photographs from a collection given to my dad in the 1970's by a friend Charles "Uncle Charley" Dawson. Some of these photos were placed in the Air Power Museum back in the 1970's by dad. ...

F-35 (A,B And C) CoolPix Triple Play + Afterburning Video! from AirPigz
Not a lot of words here, the images and video will do most of the talking. But I will say that while I'm about as far away from being an industry insider as you can get, when I look into the F-35 program ...

TheAviatorsTV: Episode 10 NOW AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING!

Pearl: America’s youngest licensed pilot featured in DVD from You Fly, Girl
The true story of the youngest licensed pilot in American history soars high with a DVD and Blu-Ray release of the award-winning movie “Pearl.”
Produced by the Chickasaw Nation, the film focuses on the adventurous teen years of the late aviatrix Eula “Pearl” Carter Scott.
Pearl, portrayed by California actress Elijah DeJesus, develops a love of flying after meeting the famous aviator Wiley Post (Tom Huston Orr) in the 1920s. Impressed by her enthusiasm and determination to learn ...

Delta Museum’s Delta Family Tree Now Live! from Delta Air Lines Blog
Check out the new Delta Family Tree gallery on the Delta Museum’s website! The gallery recognizes the contributions of the airlines that make up the Delta we know today. You can find original photos, timelines of special events, and links to many online collections of ads, timetables and videos. ...

CAP NESA Part 1 - CAP Lt Col John Desmarais from Airspeed 
As many of you know, I attended the Civil Air Patrol’s National Emergency Services Academy (“NESA”) this summer at Camp Atterbury in Indiana. I did the Mission Pilot track in the Mission Aircrew School portion of the academy. But there’s a lot more than that to NESA that the aircrew training.
I'm working on an epic NESA episode that distills ...

Applications being accepted now for Aviation Scholarships from Aviation Blogs
The Plymouth Aero Club announces that it is now accepting applications for this year’s Aviation Scholarships. The scholarships are to be used towards post-secondary education or training in the pursuit of a career in aviation, i.e.: Aviation Management, Aviation Maintenance, Flight or other aviation related careers. ...

NASA Challenges Students To Train Like an Astronaut from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense
NASA and 14 international space agencies are challenging students to complete a nutrition and fitness program known as "Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut." Approximately 3,700 students from more than 25 different cities worldwide are participatin ...

ISS Commander Shares Human Experience from Spaceports
Astronaut Scott Kelly, twin brother of fellow astronaut Mark Kelly, speaks with ABC News Primetime Host Diane Sawyer from the International Space Station about the Tucson shooting of his sister in-law, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.