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Bournemouth air festival prepares for take-off - Daily Echo | “WE can’t believe we’re into our fourth festival.” For the team behind the Bournemouth Air Festival, the last few years have been a whirlwind – and a massively successful one at that. Launched in 2008, nobody really knew whether the free event along Bournemouth seafront would, if you pardon the pun, take off. But take off it did, with hundreds of thousands of people descending on the resort to watch dazzling flying displays between the piers. Since that first show some of the world’s most impressive aircraft...

Air Show Impact - wtok.com | When NAS hosted its last air show in 2008, an estimated 100,000 showed up over the 2-day period. If the numbers are anything like that this weekend, the event should have a huge impact on this area's economy. The Blue Angels never disappoint, and that also goes for the restaurants and hotels in the cities they visit. "We are going to have a lot of people in our area," said Suzy Johnson, Meridian-Lauderdale County tourism director. "I hope to see a lot of them here," said Stephen Crissey, manager of Buffalo Wild Wings. "That would be really nice." Buffalo Wild Wings has rearranged schedules to make sure all hands are on deck. "Actually I didn't allow people to get time off because of the people we are expecting to be in town," said Crissey. "We are pulling them from all over," said Johnson. "I think we are going to have a heavier concentration...

Aviation Like You've Never Seen it Before - TechEBlog | When most people think of aviation, riding on a jumbo jet to their vacation destination sometimes comes to mind, but these amazing photographs show that there's much more than that. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for a few videos.

Wings Over Flagler: Warbirds, Yakrobatics and Tributes This Weekend at the County Airport - Flagler Live | They started arriving Friday afternoon, dozens of warbirds—the term usually applied to vintage military planes—including a few jets and a few helicopters, landing at the Flagler County Airport for the second annual Wings Over Flagler Airshow.  Aircraft enthusiasts, start your fantasies. There’s plenty there to admire, pilots from all over the country to talk to, history and old enmities to touch: several planes are imports from the old Soviet Bloc and from China’s air force. You’ll get to see a Blackhawk helicopter, a CH-47 Chinook, all sorts of...

2012 international aviation fair ILA postponed by three months - Indonesian Stock Market | The 2012 International aviation fair ILA is to be postponed by three months, organizers announced Thursday, to avoid clashes with competing fairs and enable the event to be held at Berlin's new airport. The biennial fair is now scheduled for Sept. 11-16, 2012. The new Berlin Brandenburg International airport is to open three months earlier, in June.

The skies roar over Punta Gorda - Examiner | The Florida International Air Show returns to the Charlotte County Airport this weekend and is sure to keep Punta Gorda buzzing for the fourth weekend in a row.  After hosting the Punta Gorda BBQ and Music Festival, Peace River Seafood Festival, and Peace River National Arts Festival on consecutive weekends, it is now time for some of the world's finest high-powered machines (and their skilled pilots) to put on the show. Showcasing the "Heavy Metal Jet Team", as well as the Air Force's F-22 Raptor and F-16 Fighting Falcon, military jets and other high-flying stunt planes will amaze crowds below with their aerial acrobatics in the sky.  When one's neck needs a break from looking up towards the heavens, numerous ground-level attractions will be...

North Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame inducts Odegaard - Inforum | MINOT, N.D. – The North Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame has a new member. Robert Odegaard of Kindred was inducted earlier this month during the Upper Midwest Aviation Symposium in Minot.

Women of Aviation Week in the April AOPA - Toriaflies | The world’s first licensed female pilot, a French socialite named Raymonde de Laroche, declared in 1910 that flying was ideal for women because it didn’t rely on strength as much as on physical and mental coordination. No doubt Laroche and the pioneering women pilots who came after her hoped that others would follow their lead and flood the ranks of aviation. More than 100 years later, it hasn’t happened. Here in the United States, women are...

Flight of a lifetime - Laural Leader-Call | MERIDIAN NAVAL AIR STATION — Not many people get a chance to ride with the U. S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron known as The Blue Angels. But at about 3 p.m. Friday, I did. I was among seven people from the media who accepted an invitation to buckle into the demonstration team’s 
support aircraft called “Fat Albert,” a huge C-130 aircraft. We all gathered at the hangars of the Meridian Naval Air Station at 1 p.m. for our official briefing. I listened attentively as we were told...

German electric airplane completes first flight - AOPA | Electric airplanes are getting more numerous, with the latest making its initial flight in Augsburg, Germany. The Elektra One, developed by Calin Gologan of PC-Aero, was flown by test pilot Jon Karkow. Since that flight, the aircraft has completed an additional three flights for up to 30 minutes. It will next be upgraded with a variable pitch prop and retractable landing gear. Karkow was the project leader and test pilot for the around-the-world Virgin Global Flyer, and more recently served as technical program manager for the Virgin Galactic commercial space program at Scaled Composites in California. The single-seat Elektra One is claimed to have a three-hour endurance using rechargeable batteries and a range of more than...