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Blue Angels to perform in Great Falls - KULR-TV | By AP GREAT FALLS - The Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team is scheduled to appear in Great Falls July 30-31. Officials with the Montana Air National ...

Blue Angels Make Pre-Season Visit to El Paso - KTSM News Channel 9 | EL PASO - The Amigo Airsho may be many months away but preparations for the event are being made year-round. ...

Kalispell Chamber angles for air show during 2013 - Daily Inter Lake | The economic downturn in the Flathead led to a decision last June by officials at the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce not hold an air show here this summer. ...

Beale will host an air show - Modesto Bee | This spring's open house at Beale Air Force Base will include an appearance by the US Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, according to a ...

Fort Smith Regional Air Show Returns in 2011, Details Announced Wednesday – KSPR | The Fort Smith Regional Air Show is a very big event for the area. The 2008 air show drew a record crowd of more than 200000 visitors during the two-day ...

Air show taxis for take off - Wairarapa Times Age | Coming Together: Wings Over Wairarapa director Tom Williams with the poster for this weekend's event. In the background workers put up the first of the ...

April air show will feature Thunderbirds - Charleston Post Courier | The air show at the Charleston Air Force Base is returning this spring and will feature the Air Force's Thunderbirds performance planes. ...

Sean Tucker To MC The 8th Annual 'Living Legends of Aviation' from AvStop » Considered the most prestigious and important recognition event of aviation, it's an intimate, memorable, and historic evening of entertainment. The 8th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards, presented by Learjet, will be held on January 21st at the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, CA. The 8th Annual 'Living Legends of Aviation ... will Honor Captain James Lovell, Delford M. Smith, Lynn Tilton, Clay Jones, Congressman Sam Johnson, Frank Robinson, the Doolittle Raiders and others. ...

CAF announces performers for Air Fiesta 2011 - Brownsville Herald | Younkin will also perform daytime routines in the Twin Beech each day of the air show. Also performing will be Franklin's Flying Circus, whose shows include ...

Former Edwards test pilot inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame - Edwards Air Force Base | The four inductees will join the 207 legends of flight previously honored by the NAHF on the night that's often referred to as "America's Oscar Night of ...

For all the fans of Maritime Patrol, our first Centenial P-3 is moving right along. THe second one went to paint today too. The color you see here is Seaplane Gray, the color the first P-3s wore. (rd) from U.S. Naval Air Forces's Facebook Wall by U.S. Naval Air Forces | For all the fans of Maritime Patrol, our first Centenial P-3 is moving right along. THe second one went to paint today too. The color you see here is Seaplane Gray, the color the first P-3s wore. (rd)

Vintage Military Planes Honor Veteran With Flyover - Corona del Mar Today | The flyby included P51 Mustangs and 1 P38 lIGHTING, "all WWII warbirds," according to Bud Rasner, a friend of Stege who attended the service. ...

First flight in a Zeppelin from Topicfire Aviation News | I've been in San Francisco for a couple of weeks and I had the chance to fly in the Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT there. We took off from Oakland airport and flew round the bay for an hour. It was an awesome experience and really exciting to fly in a...

Waco Revives Great Lakes Biplane – Avweb | The airplane will debut at the Sun 'n Fun show in Lakeland, Fla., in April. Production will start in late summer, and first deliveries are expected early ...

Women In Aviation Announce Pioneer Hall Of Fame Inductees For 2011 - AvStop Aviation News | By Eddy Metcalf January 14, 2011 - Women in Aviation, International has announced the new members of its Pioneer Hall of Fame. These women will be inducted ...

Women of Aviation Worldwide Community | Home - womenofaviationweek.org | Voting the 2010 'Most Unusual Introductory Flight" is open to public. Your opinion counts. Vote for your favorite introductory flight. To vote, visit the Centennial of Women Pilots' website. Hurry, the poll close on Jan 13 at 6 PM, Pacific Time.

Air Race Classic Celebrates 35th Year in 2011 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | For General Aviation women pilots, the Air Race Classic is a most anticipated event every June. An opportunity to join the ranks of famous "Powder Puff Derby" pilots Amelia Earhart, Louise Thaden and Poncho Barnes awaits the winning team members. Joining the 82 year old "sisterhood of air race competitors" honing navigation, piloting and strategic skills, is both ambitious and fulfilling. To demonstrate women's role in aviation and to preserve and promote the tradition of pioneering women in aviation, Air Race Classic Inc sponsors the amateur cross-country race for any who qualify within their rules…

Petaluma honors WWII 'ace' - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | The exhibit will trace American aviation history, including the 100th anniversary of first airmail flight, when the young flyer Fred Wiseman braved dicey ...

The 1940s by Joe Clark | My friend, Mike, sent me an email featuring a PowerPoint presentation about the 1940s. Coincidentally, I spent time earlier in the day researching some of the great airplanes of the period. I came away thinking about the airplanes and the men and women of the era who designed, built, and flew them. They were, as Tom Brokaw described them, The World's Greatest Generation in many ways…

> INDYCAR: Indy 500 Centennial Tour Update… - SPEEDtv.com | The first time I visited an aircraft carrier, Bill Wittington and Doc Wittington had an air race down in Homestead, Fla., and there were 11 of us with P51 ...

Actor Josh Lucas to play aviator Charles Lindbergh in Clint Eastwood's new film - My Fox Boston (NewsCore) - "Sweet Home Alabama" actor Josh Lucas will play pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh in the Clint Eastwood-directed movie "J. Edgar," Deadline ...

Aviator legend visits Texas - Goondiwindi Argus | He worked in advertising in Sydney and later New York before moving to Brisbane where he started his own advertising agency. Bill is married with two grown ...

Inside the Predator Ground Control Station, Herat, Afghanistan by David Cenciotti | Predator UAVs have often been the subject of articles published on this site as drones are some of the emerging technologies of the modern battlefield. Recently, the Aeronautica Militare opened the Ground Control Station (GCS) of the Predators currently deployed at Herat, in Afghanistan, to SKY TG24 that had the possibility to interview Maj. Lury Tupini, Commander of the Task Force Astore…

Bush flying and a couple of great shows from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt | The Discovery Channel series Flying Wild Alaska is mildly reminiscent of the canadian series Ice Pilots NWT, but is centered on Jim Tweto's Era Alaska. Some people might recognize his daughter, Ariel, from the show Wipe Out. I've seen the first episode, and I've got to say its good reality TV. I'm not usually one to say good and reality TV in one sentence, but this fits the bill…

Fastest Seaplane in the World from Cockpit Conversation by Aviatrix | When I returned from Cambodia Elizabeth wanted to know what I thought of the most recent postcard she had sent me. I mumbled vaguely about being pretty ignorant about fighter planes because I think of them more as weapons of war than aircraft. (Not that I would turn down a ride or some stick time in one, but I'm not a high-G freak). Elizabeth was, I think, offended. "It's not a military airplane, it's a racing seaplane!" I had to admit that I really didn't remember that and she muttered darkly that my not recalling it told her all she needed to know about my reaction…

Recommended: Virgin Galactic changes its accent - msnbc.com | 2011 is shaping up as a big year for Virgin Galactic: In cooperation with aerospace designer Burt Rutan and his colleagues at California-based Scaled ...

Where the Concordes are  from Travel for Aircraft by travelforaircraft | We all know that the Concorde is the only commercial supersonic transport (SST) placed into regular service*. Designed and built by the UK-French consortium Aérospatiale-BAC the aircraft was optimized to fly at or near Mach 2, changing altitude with fuel load and air density to stay at speed…

Flight Testing on the Cheap: The Ground-Breaking M2F1 Lifting Body
from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In the early 1960s NASA's research work into lifting body designs was in full swing with the X-23/PRIME program testing lifting bodies in the re-entry regime from orbit…

NASA's Bomber-like planes of 2025 from Warplanes Online Community by Tynibelle | Recently, NASA has revealed images of commercial aircraft designs which are planned to be released in 2025. Some find the designs a little peculiar why some show excitement regarding these new designs. These designs seem to have been inspired by aircraft already in existence…

Planes of the future unveiled by NASA - DigitalJournal.com | Like Lockheed, the very large rear engines are mounted above the wings, with a needle nose layout and F22 tail fins. · Lockheed Martin have a raised tail ...

Aviator Brewing takes off - News & Observer | Doble has expanded his Aviator Brewing Co. in Fuquay-Varina at every opportunity. A new bottling operation and restaurant will keep him busy this year. ...

Today in Aviation History – January 19 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Tu-22M and engines, scrapyard from Military Photos by DefenceTalk.com by Feanor: