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Dazzling fly-past, daring aerobatics mark Aero India launch - Sify | Bangalore, Feb 9 (IANS) A spectacular flying display and breathtaking aerobatics in formations by Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots marked the launch of Asia's ...

Images from Aero India - Day 1 from Bangalore Aviation by Devesh Agarwal | From camp Aero India. It is 35 deg C in the sun and an achingly slow internet, but some initial pictures for your enjoyment.

Aero India: Boeing's advanced Super Hornet upgrade options - YouTube | Boeing Super Hornet Chief Test Pilot Ricardo Traven gives Flightglobal a tour at Aero India 2011 of advanced upgrade options on a Super Hornet. ...

100 years of Naval Aviation: Lt. Jack Rittichier - Coast Guard Compass | As part of our ongoing celebration of the 2011 Centennial of Naval Aviation, we wanted to bring you the story of Lt. Jack Rittichier, Coast Guard aviator # 997 and the first Coast Guardsman to be killed in action during the Vietnam War.

USAF Thunderbirds to visit NH to promote show - NECN
The Thunderbirds are scheduled to land in New Hampshire at 1 pm on Thursday and the pilots will then hold a news conference. The Thunderbirds have not ...

High flying daredevils - The Aucklander
But the pilots of the Air Force's Red Checkers aerobatic team love their jobs. Joanna Davies reports from the sky above Auckland. Before you fly with the ...

Roulettes grounded after engine fire - ABC Online
The Air Force says the Roulettes, the aerobatic display team based in eastern Victoria, will be grounded until it completes an investigation ...

Officials Verify International Airspeed Record Using Unleaded Avgas - from Aero-News Network | Record Set September 11th Using High-Octane Sustainable Fuel The world governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records has confirmed Richard "Smokey" Young set an official international airspeed record on Sept. 11 using an unleaded, sustainable general aviation fuel. ...

B-17 offers flights back in time - MyFox Tampa Bay | A restored World War II-era bomber is flying out of the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland. Aviation buffs can get ground tours of the B-17 Flying Fortress ...

Betrayed by Heat: The SR-71 Blackbird - PhysicsCentral.com (blog) | A couple of friends and I went to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, part of the National Air & Space Museum near Dulles Airport, a few weeks ago. ...

Palm Springs Air Museum to host Tuskegee Airman - The Desert Sun | Tuskegee Airman Rusty Burns poses Friday with a model of a P-51 fighter plane in front of a real one at the Palm Springs Air Museum. ...

"The Lost Dutchman Mine" UCAP #223 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Buried Spitfire Treasure... Bugs that poop AvGas... and some not secret mushrooms. Alt titles: "Defecating Jet A", "Dack Smab"

Museum launches cell phone tour from General Aviation News | A free cell phone audio tour is now available to visitors at the International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) in Cleveland, Ohio. ...

Historic Flight Foundation Mig-29 resumes flying from photorecon.net
The Mig-29 and its pilots were ready to resume test flights as soon as the weather improved. The test flights require visual conditions and the pilots require better than visual minimums as the aircraft has flown less than an hour in thirteen years. The test flight  included the first gear retraction since restoration, a standard [...]

For Sale By Owner: One Ukrainian MiG-29 from FlightBlogger | EVERETT -- To deter sea pirates and hijackers, the sensitive shipment had been split in two parts. One shipment, containing the wings and engines took a route across the Atlantic, another carried the fuselage across the Pacific.  ...

Lituanic Lives On from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Twenty-two years after Darius, Girenas, and the Lituanica found their final resting place a twelve year old boy heard the story of their great flight and tragic ending.  Fascinated with the story and aviation, his life found direction.  Inspiration comes from all sources. But this young man's interest in the Lituanica fueled the story that became his life.  Julius (Jay) Sakas, consumed with the passion of flight, grew up to become an airline pilot. but the story of the Lituanica consumed his soul. ...

Video: Buffalo Airways DC-3 - TWASeniorsclub | 75 years old and still making money!  Possibly the last DC-3 Pax operation?  Buffalo Airways still operates a daily scheduled DC-3 passenger service for residents in Canada's Northwest Territories and is likely the last airline to do so... Enjoy ! Marc

Israeli F-15 pilot jailed after performing dangerous maneuvers at Decimomannu by David Cenciotti | According to the Israeli JewPI.com website (brought to me by an automatic translation by Google Alert service…), a pilot and a navigator of the 106 Sqn of the Israeli Air Force, based at Tel Nof, were sent to prison for 7 days and suspended from flight activities for one year, after performing unnecessary maneuvers during exercise Vega 2010, in Decimomannu Sardinia. The article (transalted in English with Google Translator here) explains that although not endangering the plane, the crew performed a ...

Happy 42nd Birthday to 747 ! from Airline Industry Review | Happy 42nd Birthday to 747 ! | 42 years ago today, on 9th of February 1969, the Boeing 747 flew for the first time ! Let us all wish a happy birthday to that face which made a million smiles on travellers’ and enthusiasts’ faces alike.
The Queen of the Skies, forever.

Atlanta Aero Club to meet from General Aviation News | Delta Air Lines President Ed Bastian will be the featured guest speaker at the regular bi–monthly meeting of the Atlanta Aero Club scheduled for Feb. 16.

Twin-engined treat for sick kids - Warrnambool Standard
The rare 60-year-old Beechcraft 18 will bring its fascinating history to the charity day organised by Warrnambool Aero Club. Pilots Tony Roberts and his ...

The Top 5 Wildest Commercial Airports from ASB.tv | When landing at the worlds many commercial airports, we’ve come to expect our arrival to be an uneventful, straight in approach followed by a smooth touchdown… and most of the time we’d be right. Well, the runways we bring you today push the limits of regular commercial flight, demanding the utmost skill from pilots and giving passengers a thrilling amusement park like ride. Here’s our top 5 craziest runways: ...

BMW Asks: Where Are The Flying Cars? from Autopia | All this month BMW is looking at the future of transportation through a series of documentaries featuring a wide range of topics from city designs to flying cars. This week’s episode focuses on some of the innovations that have taken place in the aerospace world and wonders when the car from the Jetsons will be parked in the garage.

A Big Week for Cranky: Flightglobal Webbies and CNN.com from The Cranky Flier | It’s a rare Wednesday post here on Cranky, but there has been some big news around these parts that I wanted to share. The first piece of news is that Cranky Flier was just named the Blog of the Year for 2010 by Flightglobal in its annual Webbies. ...

Why the Russian Space Plane Won’t Fly from Wired: Danger Room | Call it space-bot envy. Two months after the U.S. Air Force’s mysterious and unmanned X-37B space plane wrapped up a history-making 225-day flight, the Russians announced they were working on a cheap, fast, reusable space plane of their own. “Something has been done along these lines, but as to whether we will use it, only time will tell,” Oleg Ostapenko, head of the Russian space force, said last week. ...

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