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Cradle of Naval Aviation Kicks Off Centennial Celebration - Navy Compass | "Towers was the officer-in-charge of an aviation unit from Annapolis, Md., consisting of nine officers and 23 Sailors who arrived on board the battleship ...

2011 Atlantic City “Thunder Over The Boardwalk” Airshow is a Go! - Atlantic City Weekly | “I'm pleased to announce the Atlantic City Airshow is returning to the beach and Boardwalk in 2011,” said Joseph Kelly, president of the Greater Atlantic ...

Airshow Season Has St. Augustine Looking Up - First Coast News | It's pilots practicing for airshow season. According to the St. Augustine Airport Authority, planes may be seen doing some strange manuevers overhead as ...

One-Of-A-Kind Aerobatic Acts To Light Up Al Ain Sky - Middle East Events | Spectacular solo acts, gravity-defying stuntmen and a helicopter with a penchant for comedy are to take this year's Al Ain Aerobatic Show, running Feb 2 – 5 ...

Children spellbound after flypast during Republic Day parade - Daily News & Analysis | For 8-year-old Sahil Asgar, a student of Bluebell international school, the airshow was the best of all presentations. The airshow, particularly the Big Boy ...

Advice from a Snowbird to local birds - Vancouver Sun (blog) | She is now commanding officer of the Snowbirds, based in Moose Jaw, Sask. - the first woman to lead the squadron in its 40-year history. ...

Coronado: Signs proclaim 'Home of a Naval Aviator' - SignOnSanDiego.com | To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Navy flying this year, the city’s historical society began researching how many aviators have lived in the town where it all began.  At least 500 “Home of a Naval Aviator” signs are expected to go up in Coronado front yards over the next few weeks. Boy Scouts planted the first ones last weekend. ...

In the Museum: The Unrecognized First - Air & Space Magazine | Emory Malick, the first African-American pilot, wasn't known to historians until recently. ...

History flies to Marco: Take a tour of WWII planes at 'Wings of Freedom' - Naples Daily News | While the exact number of visitors is difficult to gauge, it is estimated that between 3.5 and 4 million people see these warbirds annually. ...

Seaplane debuted in San Diego 100 years ago today - San Diego Union Tribune | 12 when roughly 200 planes fly in formation above San Diego Bay. The Parade of Flight will begin at 1 pm Details. ...

Blue Grass Airport Awarded Federal Aviation Administration Airport Safety Mark of Distinction Award from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Grass Airport has been presented with the Airport Safety Mark of Distinction Award by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  Awarded at the FAA Southern Region 2011 Airport Safety and Certification Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on January ...

Pictures of Cherry Point's past - ENC Today | Ellis will be the keynote speaker at the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation's annual fundraiser called Aviation Heritage: Tradition Spurs Vision ...

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Safari Club holds fundraiser to support community work - Odessa American | Exhibitors from as close as West Texas and as far away as Africa will be gathering at the Commemorative Air Force Museum Feb. 19. ...

Introducing George – the lesser known tunnel of The Great Escape - Telegraph | The three tunnels known as Tom, Dick and Harry were synonymous with The Great Escape, but British engineers are to excavate their lesser known cousin, George, which was dug by the remaining inmates left behind. ...

Local pilot's labor of love takes flight - Burlington Times News | “5…4…3…2…1…blast off!” shouted 5-year-old Richard Pease as his father, also named Richard Pease, took off in his refurbished 1965 Citabria.   Tuesday afternoon was the first time Richard Pease has flown the plane since he began completely restoring the aircraft, which he said he bought “in pieces.”  When Pease purchased the two-seater in 2006, it needed wings ...

Found on eBay: Rocketdyne NASP from The Unwanted Blog | Someone is selling a display model of Rocketdyne’s NASP concept:  [link]  This is obviously not the final X-30 NASP design, but an earlier concept when the engine manufacturers and airframe builders were still doing their own separate designs. This dates it to about the 1985-1987 timeframe. ...

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New GI Bill has Wings…Maybe From JetWhine | Earlier this month President Barack Obama signed the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010 into law. For the first time since Vietnam, it will cover flight training under non-degree educational programs.  Depending on the veteran’s eligibility, the new law authorizes up to $10,000 a year for flight training. But just because such payments are authorized doesn’t mean the allocated funds exist. Congress has to pass an appropriate bill for that, and it’s still working on the 2011 budget, which was due last October. ...

Z2  -  Air & Space Magazine | The latest in sightseeing tours, brought to you by Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin. ...

SNC says Dream Chaser could reach orbit in 2014 from RLV and Space Transport News  | Jonathan Amos talks with Mark Sirangelo, head of SNC Space Systems, about the Dream Chaser project: Chasing the dream of human spaceflight - Spaceman/BBC. ...

25 Years After Challenger: How Grief Inspired Teachers and Students from SPACE.com | The loss of the shuttle Challenger was devastating for the whole world, especially for those students and teachers who felt a special connection to the mission through Christa McAuliffe. ...

STS-134: Endeavour set for February 28 rollover – ET-122 borescope checks from NASASpaceFlight.com | Endeavour is set to depart from her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) on February 28, as milestones begin to align for her April 19 (No Earlier Than) launch to the International Space Station (ISS). With her External Tank (ET-122) and Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) mated, borescope inspections of ET-122′s stringers have been completed.

Discovery Launch Date Target Feb. 24, 2011 from Spaceports | Technicians reapplied foam insulation around space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 25, 2011. Discovery was moved from Launch Pad 39A back to the VAB on Dec. 21, 2010, so crews could make modifications to 94 support beams, called stringers, around the external tank's entire intertank section. Launch for Discovery's STS-133 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for Feb. 24, 2011.  ...

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