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Blue Angels - St. George Daily Spectrum | We're happy to report that organizers of a planned Southern Utah air show are doing just that, booking a flight by the US Navy's Blue Angels in March 2012 ...

Rarefied Air - San Diego Business Journal | A would-be government contractor, a sympathetic landowner and a skeptical U.S. Navy all came together 100 years ago this month to make San Diego the birthplace of naval aviation.  Humanity had cracked the secret of powered flight eight years earlier.  Hungry for a deal, early aircraft builder Glenn Curtiss felt “the key to selling airplanes was to sell them to the government,” said historian and Navy Capt. Richard Dann.  Curtiss offered the Navy free flight training and free use of his aircraft. Businessman and Coronado landowner John D. Spreckels offered North Island as a place for the training.  Navy officials were cool to the idea. A Curtiss employee flew an aircraft off ships as early as 1910, but  ...

UAE: Gravity defying display at Al Ain Aerobatic show - Mangalorean.com | ... and breathtaking formation flying by the national air force squadrons from Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the form of The Saudi Hawks and Turkish Stars. ...

India finally invites China to AeroIndia show - Sify | New Delhi: A week after it became known that China has not been invited to the AeroIndia international air show in Bangalore from Feb 9, India on Sunday ...

Air show to delay flights - Mid-Day | Aero India, the country's most prestigious air show will not only show off India's best fighter planes, but will also ground more than a few commercial jets ...

2011 super bowl fly over - YouTube

WWII aviator receives medals 65 years later - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Maj. Gen. Robin Rand flew in from the Pentagon to honor Charles Barrett with the Distinguished Flying Cross award in a ...

Meet The First U.S. Female Airline Pilot - womenofaviationweek.org | On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, March 8 2011, you are invited to meet the first U.S. commercial pilot to be hired by a U.S. airline: Denver native Emily Howell Warner. ...
   
For pilot, Russian MiG-29 is $6 million dream come true - HeraldNet | In a few hours, he will join a tiny cadre of American pilots who have flown Russia's iconic war bird: the MiG-29. Even more incredibly, Sessions will do it ...

Formation flight Sunday from Planeshots

P-51 racers Voodoo, Strega and Precious Metal art by the mighty... from x planes

Naval Aviation History Lands at Local Museums - San Diego Business Journal | The curious and the nostalgic need not look far to find pieces of naval aviation history. Three local museums have preserved pieces of US ...

The People and Planes of Friday Harbor - Air and Space | Time and tide wait for no man, but they seem to linger a little around the flying paradise of the San Juan Islands.

Oldies and Oddities: Buying the Farmhouse - Air & Space Magazine | Adventures in Navy ballooning.

The People and Planes of Flabob - Air & Space Magazine
This California airport is hallowed ground for homebuilders and Hollywood stunt pilots alike.

Lituanica Reborn from Flight To Success | It's 1931 in Chicago when Stanley Girenas, a pilot and mechanic, met Stephen Darius, a former Lithuanian Air Force officer and together they formulated the adventure of their lifetime.  These aviators pooled their money, and in the spring of 1932 they purchased a Bellanca CH300 Pacemaker--- the choice of many pilots attempting to fly long distances. ...

Portage resident receives Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award - Sauk Prairie Eagle
The retired colonel received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award presented by The Rio Aero Club. Griffin is the 27th pilot out of 12400 in Wisconsin to ...

F-35B (BF-2) First Hover, Vertical Landing – Short Take Off/Vertical Landing Variant (STOVL) from AIRBOYD.TV

Today in Aviation History – February 7 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club 
 
Aviation scholarships available from Cascade Warbirds - Bellingham Herald
The Cascade Warbirds is now accepting scholarship applications for students interested in an aviation career. Students can apply for the Private Pilot ...

The last, last rollout of Discovery – SpacePod 2011.02.07 from Spacevidcast | CAPE CANAVERAL – Space shuttle Discovery was wheeled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on one of the massive crawler-transporters toward launch complex 39A – and its final mission – STS-133. This marks the second trip out to the launch pad for Discovery; the orbiter had to be taken back to the VAB for scans and repairs. ...

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