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Blue Angels Return To Magic Valley - 96.5
Twin Falls will be hosting the Blue Angels jet team the summer of 2012 at the Magic Valley Regional Airport. The date for the “Air Magic Valley” air show will be Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th, 2012.
Air Magic Valley Committee Chairman Phil Hafer is excited the Blue Angels are returning. “It’s an honor to have them at our air show again,” Hafer said. “The Blue Angels loved the community support we showed during their 2008 performance, and ...

2011 Fort Smith Airshow to feature Thunderbirds, JetBus - The City Wire
The US Air Force Thunderbirds may be the featured act of the 2011 Fort Smith Airshow, but a jet-powered school bus — the JetBus — that can reach speeds of ...

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds execute a maneuver while... from You like airplanes, too?
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds execute a maneuver while visitors watch from Falcon Stadium after the graduation ceremonies of the Class of 2009. This was the 51st graduating class, and consisted of 1,046 newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenants. Photo by Dennis Rogers. ...

56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
With more than 100 years of combined performance experience, the Air Force Thunderbirds and Army Golden Knights will perform at the 70 Years of Thunder Luke ...

Longtime EAA VP Dick Matt Passes Away - EAA
Former Hollywood film producer created EAA video department
Dick Matt, who was EAA’s first director and vice president of the marketing and communications departments, died on Sunday at Winter Haven, Florida. He was 84. ...

2011 Australia Day celebrations - Northern Rivers News 
January 26 has always seemed a strange day to celebrate Australia Day. While it is the day Captain/Governor Arthur Phillip planted a Union Jack in the sand at Sydney Cove in 1788, he was only claiming a bit of the continent for the British king. And surely we didn’t become a nation anyway until the colonies all got together and sorted out their differences in 1901? Even the name ‘Australia’ wasn’t adopted until 1824. ...

LSA Expo This Week, Florida Tour To Follow from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The sixth annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo runs Thursday through Sunday this week, in Sebring, Fla., offering the year's first big aviation event. The expo features forums and exhibits, but the main attraction is the easy access to sport airplanes and demo flights, along with a first look at the latest new models and accessories. After the event, several of the LSA manufacturers and distributors will stage a "road show," flying their demo aircraft to six  ...

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

Doolittle Raiders Highway named to honor war heroes (PHOTO) - Destin Log
NICEVILLE — Fort Walton Beach resident Jorge Palerm once asked an Okaloosa County commissioner to rename Hollywood Boulevard after the Doolittle Raiders. ...

World War II pilot training center at Pryor Field named a state landmark - al.com (blog)
Eric Schultz / The Huntsville TimesPolly Jo Fitzgerald, 10, of Decatur looks at the B-17 as it arrives at Pryor ...

How do you solve a problem like Minoru Honda? - x planes
What happens when a fighter pilot amazingly and unexpectedly returns from the dead? Well, in Ensign Minoru Honda’s case, you send him immediately back out to his death..
In September 1942, Honda - of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service was forced to make an emergency landing on Kolombangara - one of the Solomon Islands, where ...

Terry Bowden's Blog: What the heck is "Dry Rigging" from Antique Airfield News
I don't know if it is the correct terminology or not, but Dad always considered one of the most important steps in aircraft restoration to be the "Dry Rigging" check. What is this you ask? Well before you go to the trouble of covering your airplane with fabric, you ...
Skagit Aero's Blog: Piper PA-15 Vagbond Restoration Nearing Completion

The Achilles Heel of the Douglas B-66 Destroyer from Aviation Trivia of the Day 
The B-66 Destroyer ended up only resembling the A-3 Skywarrior
In January 1952 when the US Air Force issued its official General Operational Requirement (GOR) for a tactical bomber and reconnaissance jet aircraft to replace the Douglas B-26 Invader and the "interim" Martin B-57 Canberra, the selection of a minimum change version of the Douglas A3D Skywarrior as the B-66 Destroyer made sense. Douglas's proposed changes weren't all that major- deletion of the folding wings, catapult gear and arresting gear, addition of ...

RAFs Oldest Aircraft Retire At Cranwell from AVIATION-NEWS 
The Hawker Siddeley 125 Dominie aircraft, the oldest aircraft in the Royal Air Force (RAF), is to retire from service at the end of January. Operated by 55 (Reserve) Squadron at RAF Cranwell, the Dominie currently provides training for all rear crew in the RAF. However the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 and a reduction ...

DOMINIE fairwell PHOTO. tribute from PPRuNe Forums 
I visited Cranwell yesterday 18th Jan, to photograph the six aircraft "Flyby" event. ...

Heavens to Betsy - The Aucklander
Betsy was bought from the Mackay Air Museum by NZ investors in 1987. Grounded for four years, it needed a rebuild and new paint. ...

Area aviators travel to Ocala to get up-close look at HH-60G Pave Hawk - Villages Daily Sun
Helicopter crew members were on hand to speak with local aviation club members and aircraft enthusiasts about the helicopter and their jobs. ...

Back In The Day Video: Lockheed L-1011's At LAX from AirPigz
This little 3-and-a-half-minute video that was relatively recently uploaded by youtube user RyanBomar shows Lockheed L-1011 TriStars from several different airlines operating out of LAX way back in the day. It's funny how something so common to see in the 70's and 80's is now a bit of a precious moment. The L-1011 was ...

Jump. Fly. Land. from Aviation Blogs 
A wing suit he calls Stealth 2 gives Jeb Corliss (in May 2010 over southern California) enough lift for a three-minute flight from 12,000 feet ...

Gas turbine jetpack – test pilots wanted - from Hack a Day 
Feeling brave and ready to strap on this jet pack? Well, that’s not all of it. What you see above is just the manifold with two nozzles that can be aimed for control. The gas turbine engine that is being designed for the project will attach to the large circular coupling on top. The finished suit, called a Monocopter, should weigh in at ...

Mach 1.5 Nuclear Powered Bomber from The Unwanted Blog 
A design reported on by Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project staff at Oak RidgeNational Laboratory in mid 1952. The report dealt with the reactor program, not the airframe, so there’s limited data… including who designed the thing. Could be an in-house Oak Ridge design, it might be a Fairchild NEPA design. There is even limited ...

What will your plane look like in 2025? from Plane Talking 
The name Lockheed has not been heard in relation to commercial passenger aircraft for some time. Their last passenger aircraft, the L1011 TriStar, ended production in 1984 and the company, now called Lockheed Martin, has since focused on the military (although it does provide many civil transport systems and components). It was interesting, therefore to see that they were one of the teams to be tasked with developing NASA's vision of the future of commercial aviation, along with our friends at Boeing and Northrop Grumman (another mainly military supplier). The design above is their proposal for an aircraft that meets NASA's goals for ...

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