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World's top aircraft descend on Melbourne for Avalon 2011 - Herald Sun | "We have dreams here; we do want Avalon to be an international airport." Airshow chief executive Ian Honnery said the show would feature the F-22 Raptor. "The F-22 Raptor boasts stealth technology, speed, agility and long- range capabilities," Mr ...

Northrop Grumman Showcases Key Capabilities at Australian International Air Show from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | CANBERRA, Australia -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will highlight a wide range of its key capabilities and programmes at the Australian International Air Show, including unmanned aircraft systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), airborne ...

You so fly: Wings Over Illawarra 2011 - Illawara Mercury | "I remember I went to my first one when I was about eight years old and I couldn't take my eyes off the late Australian pilot Tom Moon doing a low-level aerobatic display," Mr Clark said. "From that point on I knew that's what I wanted to do. ...

Boston Portsmouth Air Show - Official Site | Tickets for the 2011 Boston - Portsmouth Air Show go on sale today at http://bostonportsmouthairshow.com/purchase_tickets.php#box. They've got the Thunderbirds and another awesome lineup!

Davis-Monthan prepares for air show season - KGUN | According to a DM press release, "the Heritage Flight Conference is held each year prior to the beginning of the spring and summer air show seasons to provide a forum for civilian and Air Combat Command demonstration pilots to train together to prepare ...

People, Planes & Helicopters At Coronado Navy Plane Airshow by Rob Hurlbut | Many photos from Centennial Of Naval Aviation airshow on Coronado NAS navy base in February 2011.

Michigan B-52 bombers take flight again in Ric Mixter's 'Bombs Away' - The Bay City Times | Wurtsmith was named in honor of a US Army Air Force major general, a Detroit native killed in a B-25 bomber crash in 1946 in North Carolina. “Selfridge has had the most impact on aviation but all the bases have their own accolades,” Mixter said. ...

Women In Aviation, By The Numbers from Things with Wings | ... There are plenty of women in the aviation field, but the numbers of women in leadership positions in the airlines could be better.  My friend Kelly Murphy of Emerald Media, partnered with the Regional Airline Association to create this special supplement of RAA's Regional Horizons magazine to salute this year's conference. ...

Confederate Air Force Voted Favorite Don´t Mess with Texas Ad of Past 25 Years - Live-PR.com | After nearly 600000 total votes cast in the Face-Off, Texans have declared the Confederate Air Force, now the Commemorative Air Force, the favorite Don´t Mess with Texas TV ad of the past 25 years. The Texas Department of Transportation celebrated the ...

World War 2 Lancaster Bomber Taxi Run Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum - Skegness | The Avro Lancaster Bomber NX611 ‘Just Jane’, often treats spectators to a taxi run at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum at East Kirkby near Spilsby. ...

The DC-9 from J Clark | Forty-six years ago today, the DC-9 flew for the very first time.  Douglas Aircraft began researching the need for short- to medium-range airliners in the late 1950s.  The original thought was to design a smaller version of their popular DC-8, complete with four engines.  The airlines did not show enough interest in that particular design and the engineers and managers at Douglas began rethinking their ideas. ...

Friday Video: The MiG-29 - the second line air superiority fighter of the Indian Air Force from Bangalore Aviation | While many are familiar with the front line air superiority fighter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) the Sukhoi Su-30MKI, the MiG-29 Baaz (meaning Hawk) has remained in relative obscurity with the public. A further development of the MiG-29 is the MiG-35 which was a contender for the 126 MMRCA tender of the IAF.  India was the first international customer of the MiG-29. The IAF placed an order for more than 50 MiG-29s in 1980 while the aircraft was still in its initial development phase. ...

Flashback Fridays: A Few Words About Jet Engines from Nuts About Southwest | Along with our 40th anniversary this year, we should be celebrating another almost forgotten 75th anniversary.  On January 27, 1936, Frank Whittle and three other English investors formed Power Jets, Ltd. to make and market jet aircraft engines.  Whittle was a career Royal Air Force officer who had a unique eye on the future.  He patented his design for the jet engine in 1930, and he began experimenting with what would become the components of jet engines, including compressors and turbines during the 1930s.  In World War II, Britain and Germany both introduced operational jet aircraft, and the US began making license-built versions of British jet engines.   ...

Monika Petrillo from Flight To Success | Friday's Fabulous Flyer! Life is all about the journey. The best journey's are those that we learn something about ourselves in the process.  Monika's journey began the day she decided to get her pilot's license at the age of twenty-four. Quite often we follow in our parent's footsteps, but this time Monika's father followed in her's.  A year after Monika got her license, her father, at fifty-eight, got his license too. Dad came to came to California, slept on her floor and flew during the day.  ...

Joe Smith: Six decades aloft and still flying - Mt Shasta news | Drivers up near the top of the Dunsmuir grade on I-5 who hear a sound like a lawnmower overhead, and who take the trouble to scan the sky for its source, may catch sight of a tiny airplane with translucent yellow wings heading in for a landing at Mott Airport. In the cockpit would be Joe Smith, who is required to take off and land six times a month to keep his pilot's license. But for Smith, this is hardly a chore. “I've been flying since 1949,” he said, smiling in the cockpit on the tarmac last month. “I've always flown for pleasure.” ...

Things Not To Do to An Airliner from Things with Wings | Standing in a hangar in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, for the unveiling on Feb. 21 of the first Embraer EMB-145 for India's airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) program - and looking at all the antennas, radomes, lumps and bumps on what was a regional jet - got me thinking about other airliners that have been chopped, stretched, added to and otherwise poked and prodded to become less-than-beautiful military platforms. ...

Aerial Photographer James Cavanaugh - ANN | ANN's Paul Plack talks with aerial photographer James Cavanaugh about his background in both aviation and photography, his profession, and how amateur photographers can get better aerial photos.

Giant Model Airplanes Take to the Skies This Weekend - First Coast News | The pilots fly their giant models through various aerobatic and high-skill maneuvers, and it's all to benefit the Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund. The planes will be flying at Lannie Road Model Airplane Flying Park, just east of the national ...

Photos: Shuttle Discovery lifts off for the last time from RGJ.com | 48 images from the historic flight

Gov't Shutdown Wouldn't Leave Shuttle Discovery Stuck in Space from SPACE.com | What will happen to space shuttle Discovery's flight if there is a partial government shutdown?

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