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Annual Air Show takes off in Al Khor - Peninsula On-line | AL KHOR: The 4th annual Al Khor light aircraft show “Open Fly-In Day to Al Khor Airfield” got underway here yesterday and the event's ...

Hundreds of enthusiasts visit air show at Al Khor - Gulf Times | Besides the air-show, which also offers visitors to fly with pilots on short rides, various activities have also sprung up on the sidelines, ...

Centennial of Naval Aviation from Military Photos 

San Diego 'Parade of Flight,' Open House Honor Naval Aviation Centennial - Navy Compass | SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Commander, Naval Air Forces and Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) will kick off the Centennial of Naval Aviation (CONA) at the 100th ...

BLOG: Coronado's Naval Aviation Exhibits Prepare For Take-Off - SanDiego.com (blog) | Coronado is the proud "birthplace of naval aviation," and the quaint islander bedroom community is celebrating 100 years of flight. Guess what? ...

Flight: A Tribute to Aviation -  San Francisco Chronicle | Petaluma Museum exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Fred Wiseman airmail flight and aviation history opens Feb. 2 through April 24. ...

Aviation Collection Supporter Jack Hamilton Dies - Media Newswire | The former president of Teledyne Geotech was a staunch supporter of aviation history who served as co-chairman of the History of Aviation Collection ( HAC ...

Honours for Spitfire pilot found in river from www.smh.com.au | THE World War II Australian Spitfire pilot whose body was found in the wreckage of his aircraft in France last November will be buried with full military honours in April.  Flight Lieutenant Henry Lacy Smith, 27, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on June 11, 1944. He tried to crash land in a field but ended up ditching his plane in the River Orne, landing upside down and drowning while strapped in the cockpit.  ...

Low Passes – Planeshots

World War II: Johnson Dies from About.com Military History | January 30, 2001 - Noted British ace Air Vice Marshal James "Johnnie" Johnson (right) dies. Entering the Royal Air Force through the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Johnson was activated in August 1939. His early flying career was plagued by an old shoulder injury sustained while playing rugby. Undergoing surgery to correct the problem, he missed the Battle of Britain...

Interesting aviation Statistics from WW2 from PPRuNe Forums | … 276,00 aircraft manufactured in the US. 43,000 planes lost overseas, including 23,000 in combat. 14,000 lost in the continental U.S. …

Peek Inside Red Bull’s Toy Box - Autopia Wired.com | The aircraft inside Hangar 7 include several World War II planes alongside modern Formula 1 cars. This Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair once belonged to Flying Bulls chief pilot Sigi Angerer, who flew it in airshows around Europe. One day he took Mateschitz for a ride — you can see the small passenger window behind the cockpit. Mateschitz was hooked and the Flying Bulls team was born.

'Daredevil of the Sky: The Bessie Coleman Story' from www.latimes.com
BESSIE COLEMAN made flying look easy. If she were afraid, she never showed it. People nicknamed her "Brave Bessie" because she had nerves of steel.  Aviation was in its infancy. It had been only 15 years since the Wright brothers invented the airplane when Bessie began to dream about flying. Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was born on Jan. 26, 1892, in ...

Aviatrix And Retired Teacher Donates Historic Aircraft, Airport from Aero-News Network | Lake Erie College Receives Collection Which Includes A Fokker DR-1, An Interstate L-6, And A Ryan ST3-W In what is likely one of the more unusual multi-million dollar donations to an institute of higher learning ... officials at Ohio's Lake Erie College said Thursday that it has received the nearby Pheasant Run Airport (OI31) located in Madison, Ohio, and one of the largest vintage aircraft collections in the country. ...

Foundation event features air station's pictorial history - New Bern Sun Journal | Ellis will be the keynote speaker at the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation's annual fundraiser called Aviation Heritage: Tradition Spurs Vision ...

Looking Back: A small airfield that time forgot - Hounslow Chronicle | The aviation history of Heathrow, Hanworth, Heston and Hendon, along with other airfields in the london area, has been well documented over the years, ...

Flying club meets with Air Force rescuers - Ocala.com | The Del Webb's Spruce Creek Flyers represent a cross-section of American aviation. The group includes military and combat pilots from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War, NASA engineers and flyers from commercial and recreational aviation. …

100,000 flight hours for the Eurofighter Typhoon – via Translator | The event was celebrated at the headquarters of Eurofighter in Monaco of Bavaria in Germany, and took part in all raprpesentanti the Eurofighter program, NATO NETMA agency that manages the program and representatives of all nations that cooperate in the construction and development the aircraft and using it in their air forces.   Currently, the Eurofighter Typhoon is used in a variety of operational scenarios, ...

January 29 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

Featured past column: “Pilgrimage to Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome” from Greg Brown's Flying Carpet Blog | Since my current July, 2009 AOPA Flight Training column is about WWI aircraft, I thought it might be fun to simultaneously feature a past column on the topic. Read this month’s featured column, “Pilgrimage to Old Rhinebeck,” here. It’s the story of a very special place, Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in upstate New York, where authentic World War airplanes still fly today. Don’t miss seeing it, if you ever find yourself in the area! ...

Onex Single-Place, Folding-Wing, Aerobatic Sport Aircraft Makes First Flight Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News  | Oshkosh, WI- Sonex Aircraft, LLC is proud to announce that the number one prototype of the new Onex single-place, folding-wing kit aircraft made its first flight yesterday, January 27, 2011 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, WI. Piloted by Sonex General Manager, CEO, and Onex designer Jeremy Monnett, the ...

Humidity and more flying from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | After all of the excitement of the last airshow, I'm not back into BAU [Business As Usual] mode.  Pictures today are of an RNZAF C130H Hercules departing Wellington last weekend. Click on the image for a better look and note the visible propeller tip vortices.

‘Miracle’ solo: Flight 1549 passenger is the PIC from Aviation Blogs | On a freezing day in January 2009, Clay Presley stood on the wing of an Airbus A320 that had been ditched in New York’s Hudson River, waiting for boats to rescue him and the other … Two years and 10 days later, Presley soloed a Cessna 172SP at Rock Hill Airport in Rock Hill, S.C. ...

What does a laser look like when it shines on pilots in an airplane cockpit from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club

For $200000, George Whitesides will send you into space (video) - VentureBeat | Designed by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, the spacecraft won the Ansari X Prize. That ship now hangs in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. ...

Shuttle Discovery to Make Its Final Launch Pad Trip Monday from SPACE.com | The shuttle Discovery is set to roll out to the launch pad Jan. 31 ahead of its final mission ...

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