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Air Show tickets now on sale - Lewiston Sun Journal | Tickets are now available for the first Great State of Maine Air Show to be held in Brunswick after the Navy departs. ...

Boeing to unveil stealthier F/A-18 aircraft - Daily News & Analysis
... will unveil a stealthier version of the F/A-18 at the air show to be held at the Air Force Station Yelahanka between February 9 and 13. ...

A Really Good Show from Air Facts Online Column | Most of you never heard of The Reading Show. It was, though, a measure of general aviation that clearly separated post WW-II general aviation into two eras, pre-1980 and from that year to the present. The contrast is amazing. | The activity, sponsored by Reading Aviation Service at Reading, Pennsylvania, started in 1950. It was originally a one-day affair billed as an operations and maintenance clinic. Pilots got together with “experts” and talked about their flying and their airplanes. By the second year, the event attracted 75 airplanes. There was steady growth after that and ...

“Blue Thunder II Crew Report” January 2011 - Blue Thunder Air Racing | As I reported last month, Blue Thunder II is in the wintertime conditional inspection, modification and update mode. Doing a valve job and T-bar clearance inspection is going a little beyond the scope of CFR 43 appendix D, but we are interested in establishing service limits as well as a trouble-free 2011 season. ...

Plows clear OHare runways (unedited video) - Chicago Tribune

Saturday, Sep 10, 2011 - EAA Chapter 865 Salute to Veterans Fly-In Breakfast, Niles, MI
from FunPlacesToFly.com Aviation Events | Salute to Veterans Fly-In / Breakfast. EAA Chapter 865, Inc. will hold it's annual Salute to Veterans Fly-In / Drive In Breakfast on Saturday, Sept.10, at Jerry Tyler Memorial Airport, Niles MI 3TR. The event will start at 7:00 AM and run till Noon. The Public is welcome. The menu will be the ...

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Pilot, rights pioneer honored at Tuskegee - Montgomery Advertiser | The title of the program was "Flying Into History," and it couldn't have been more appropriate for a woman who refused to allow racism to keep her out of the cockpit. Mildred Carter's dream of becoming a pilot came true 70 years ago, and Tuskegee turned out  ...

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Aviation fundraiser passes $20000 in donations - New Bern Sun Journal | HAVELOCK — Friday's annual fundraising event for the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation raised more than $20000 toward the organization's goal ...

Aviation authors convene at 2011 WAI Conference - BlueSky Executive Aviation News | Aviation authors and their devoted readers will be mixing and mingling during the 22nd Annual International Women in Aviation Conference which will be held ...

Ohio Air News #152 by Charles Johnson
Page 2 01/29-30/2011 AIRPIGS Meeting (NMUSAF)
Page 3 NMUSAF—Cold War Gallery
Page 4 & 5 NMUSAF—Pictures
Page 6 B-26 Marauder

Air Force Museum: Ryan X-13 Vertijet CoolPix 2Fer (+ Video) from AirPigz
The Ryan X-13 Vertijet fascinates me. So you can image how much I enjoyed getting to see one of the only two X-13's ever built when I was at the Air Force Museum this last weekend. The other one has been on loan to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, but it appears to be headed back to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC where it ...

Onex Makes 1st Flight; Fits 99% Size Pilots from Jetwhine | Stopping by Sonex Aircraft the morning of  January 28, Mark Schaible greeted me with the news that its single-seater, the Onex, had made its first flight the day before. It passed its FAA inspection just after noon, added Sonex Founder John Monnett, and Jeremy Monnett lifted it from Runway 27 at Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport just after 3 p.m. ...

Aero-TV: Adventures in Gas Ballooning — Mark Sullivan’s Dedication to the Sport from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | Aero-TV: Adventures in Gas Ballooning — Mark Sullivans Dedication to the Sport  Wed, 02 February 2011 . One Of The Most Amazing Aspects About Ballooning Are The Folks Who Are Devoted To It Its been a few months now and still the sites, sounds and sensations of the 2010 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta bring a ...

Hickam C-17 drops a Navy boat over Pacific from AF.mil Photos | The Navy Special Warfare Unit ONE Maritime Craft Aerial Delivery System deploys from the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III during airdrop operations Jan. 13, 2011 over the Pacific Ocean near Guam. Nine Sailors jumped out of the back of a C-17 after the aerial drop. Airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, worked with the Naval unit to deploy the boat off the coast of Guam while merging the capabilities of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Photos: WEF 2011 - MilCAP over Davos, Part III from AirSpace by Grimmi

Can aviation change America? - General Aviation News | ... they’re so consistent in their negative response to anything unconventional or unique. But I’m telling you the truth, and I can prove it.Allow me to introduce you to the Tuskegee Airmen, the WASPs, and Rosie the Riveter. If you take a mental journey back to anywhere in the United States around 1940, before the Tuskegee fellows made their mark on history, before the WASPs proved beyond a reasonable doubt that girls can fly pretty darned well, and before Rosie made it clear  ...

Boeing Marks a Milestone With Rollout of 1,000th 767 from Planenews Aviation News Portal  | EVERETT, Wash. (PRNewswire): Boeing (NYSE: (BA)) marked a proud moment in the company's history today at a ceremonial rollout of the 1,000th 767 airplane. Hundreds of current employees, joined by Boeing retirees who worked on the first 767, gathered to celebrate the occasion at the Everett, Wash., factory.

Buzz Aldrin Book Signing from San Diego Air & Space Museum w/Video | Yesterday was an exciting day for the Museum and space enthusiasts in general. In conjunction with the opening of our newest exhibition, SPACE: A Journey To Our Future, astronaut and author, Buzz Aldrin, visited the Museum to greet fans (a lot of them) and sign copies of his newest book, Magnificent Desolation.  Much to our surprise, people started showing up at 9 in the morning to ...

NASA Deputy Administrator Meets With Commercial Space Innovators from NASA Breaking News | NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will travel to Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo., this week to meet with leaders of two commercial space companies, Bigelow Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp., and tour their facilities.

Peoria space center aims to build legacy from tragedy from www.azcentral.com | The space shuttle lifted off the Florida launch pad, piercing a clear blue sky for 73 seconds.  Children across the nation watched live in their classrooms as for the first time, a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was strapped into the cockpit with six other crew members.  Then, the unthinkable happened on Jan. 28, 1986. In a burst of white smoke, the spacecraft broke apart, flinging pieces across the sky and into the sea. ,...

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