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Big wet clips Wairarapa Wings - Wairarapa Times Age | Wings Over Wairarapa attracted an estimated 15000 people on Saturday despite increasing rain that ultimately cancelled the second day of the airshow ...

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 5 - RNZAF Bell UH-1H Iroquois from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | The RNZAF also put on a display by one of their Bell UH-1H Iroquois helicopters, NZ3809. This included speed [?] and agility demonstrations - the sort of thing you expect from a helicopter I guess. There were also demos of spiral climbs and descents, a winching demo onto a moving vehicle and a couple of other manoeuvres…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 6 - RNZAF CT4/E, Red Checkers from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | This airshow was the first display of the RNZAF's Red Checkers display team, since being grounded last year due to a fatal accident and a near miss involving a mid-air collision. The weather on the day put paid to any suggestion of a full-on display, but better safe than sorry as they say. For those who don't know, the team use the Pacific Aerospace Corp CT4/E airtrainer, which is also the RNZAF's ab-initio trainer aircraft…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 7 - Percival/ LAC Prospector E.P.9 from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | A new aircraft type for me was this LAC Prospector E.P.9. Originally designed by Edgar Percival, ZK-PWZ is one of only two left flying in the world. The type was originally designed and operated as a top-dresser, although it is now fitted out with six seats…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 8 - Messerschmitt Bf108 Taifun - Another popular aircraft at any airshow is the Messerschmitt Bf108 [actually in this case a licence built Nord 1002], ZK-WFI. The aircraft was a predecessor to the rather more famous Bf109 [they share several design features], but is a four seat "cruising" aircraft, and used in the war as a personal transport/ liaison aircraft…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 9 - Thunder Mustang from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | One of my favourite aircraft is New Zealand's only Thunder Mustang, ZK-TMG, named Tiger's Blood. It's an awesome machine, and has been used to set a couple of world speed records [click here for details]. They are a nice bunch of guys that fly it also, and Simon did a great job showing this machine off to the crowd…

Parade and BBQs for Vic on Aust Day – Ninemsn | The Roulettes, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aerobatic display team, will be in the skies over the Botanic Gardens at 2pm, performing a series of ...

Dallas-Fort Worth airports gear up for Super Bowl in the skies - Dallas Morning News | A commercial airliner lifted off the runway at D/FW International Airport on Tuesday over the new DFW Corporate Aviation terminal. ...

Annual Amelia Earhart Event Funds Museum from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- On Saturday the Alabama Ninety Nines and the International Zonta Club sponsored their fifteenth annual luncheon benefiting the Amelia Earhart Birth Place Museum. Established in 1929 by 99 women pilots, the members of The Ninety-Nines, Inc., International Organization of Women Pilots, are represented in all areas of aviation today. And, to quote Amelia, fly "for the fun of it!" Zonta International was the only non-flying organization which she joined voluntarily, in Boston in 1928. At the time of her disappearance, Amelia Earhart had been a member of the Zonta Club of New York since in 1930…

Keeping the Blues Flying from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | EL CENTRO, Calif. - Sailors assigned to the avionics work center of the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, troubleshoot a heads up display during a morning turns evolution in El Centro, Calif…

J-20′s technology might have come from F-117 from Warplanes Online Community by 1elainewilliams | Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself. Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999…

Was China's Stealth Tech Made in America? from Wired: Danger Room by David Axe | On March 27, during the height of NATO's air war on Serbia, a very smart and very lucky Serbian air-defense commander achieved the seemingly impossible. Firing three 1960s-vintage SA-3 missiles, Col. Zoltan Dani managed to shoot down an attacking U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth fighter-bomber piloted by Lt. Col. Dale Zelko. NATO commanders had been sending the alliance's planes, including the stealth attackers, into Serbia along predictable routes, allowing Dani to carefully plan his missile ambush…

Operational Improvisation: Over-the-Shoulder Nuclear Bombing from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In 1952 the Republic F-84Gs of the 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing crossed the Atlantic supported by aerial refueling to set up shop at their new base, RAF Wethersfield, in order to provide tactical nuclear strike capability for the first time to NATO forces in Europe. Just a year earlier, scientists and engineers at Sandia, one of the development centers in the United States for nuclear weapons, had developed the Mark 7 nuclear bomb, the first tactical nuclear weapon with an explosive yield of 20 kilotons…

Why Women Are Only 6% of Pilots from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Dr. Penny Rafferty Hamilton, Ph.D. recently completed a two-year research project that led to the Teaching Women to Fly website. Her project involved surveying 157 female pilots, 54 of whom were in training, and the results of this work produced a list of 101 Ideas to Increase Women's Success in General Aviation. This list was further reduced into a Top Ten list and the Top 10 Barriers That Stop Women From Learning to Fly…

20 Years Ago this Month - January 1991 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Harking back to January 1991: Airwork took delivery of the second Metroliner III from Germany when D-CABG arrived at Auckland on the 5th and was later registered ZK-POB.  The aircraft remains in service today with the same operator on freight flights, passenger charter and periodic fill-in duties for Lifeflight Trust medical flights…

January 24 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

Today in Aviation History – January 24
from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal