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Air Expo 2011 delights crowd with history, high-tech and aerial acrobatics - Post And Courier | Air Expo 2011 at the Charleston Air Force Base proved the adage that there always will be a need for speed. America's aviation arsenal was on display under glaringly sunny skies Saturday in a celebration of the best in flight, featuring planes from more than 60 years old up to the most modern in the U.S. command...

Bluebonnet Air Show flies into Burnet (With Video) - KXAN | BURNET, Texas - Quenching your need for speed was easy at this year's BlueBonnet Air Show in Burnet. Almost every plane imaginable from A-10 warthogs to the Bluebonnet Belle took to the sky. "Oh, it is amazing," said Lane Henphill, 14, who wants to become a pilot.  "I love planes."...


Indy Air Race: The Race Route - Indy Air Race | The Indy Air Race is scheduled for August 13, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. It will be held at KTYQ, Indy Executive Airport - You MUST attend the pilot's brief to participate in the race. No brief, - no race. This is an open course timed speed race open to all propeller driven aircraft. Aircraft launch in speed order, fastest first...

Another Lindbergh making his mark - Seattle Times | Of all the things Erik Lindbergh remembers about his famous grandfather, one that sticks with him best is their debate over how to pronounce the word "helicopter." Charles Lindbergh, who had made the first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, brought a toy helicopter to his grandson on Bainbridge Island in the early 1970s, and Erik thanked him for the "HELL-i-cop-ter," the pronunciation used today...

A Yank in the RAF: Pilot saw WWII from a unique perch - Star-Telegram | A few weeks ago, on a warm late-winter weekend afternoon, two boys walked onto a tarmac at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, a cavernous building filled with the silver shape of a massive B-29 Superfortress. An old man in a motorized scooter noticed the boys' excitement and asked whether they'd like a tour of the aircraft, nicknamed "Fifi."...

WWII vet gets to fly in B-17 bomber over Flagstaff - Chicago Tribune | FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Joe Leben remembers flying over the Atlantic in a B-17 bomber during World War II on his 22nd birthday. Now at age 89, he found himself inside another "Flying Fortress" -- this one flying over Flagstaff...

A ride in history - Mohave Daily News | BULLHEAD CITY — History was in the air Saturday at Laughlin-Bullhead International Airport. It was also on the ground, and visitors to the second Legends over the Colorado fly-in got to feel it — if they dared...

Celebrating a Brand New Sport Pilot – and learning a thing or two in the process - Flight Monkeys | It was two weeks ago today at Aaron Menough made the transition from student-pilot, to pilot. In fact, it was precisely two weeks ago today that Aaron Menough submitted to a practical test with an FAA designated pilot examiner, and successfully completed the tasks listed in the Practical Test Standards for a Sport Pilot...

St. Louis aviation honored - STL Today | HAZELWOOD -- Seventy years ago this summer, James S. McDonnell opened his new company, McDonnell Aircraft Corp., at Lambert Field. McDonnell wasn't from here but his choice came down to St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn. McDonnell chose St. Louis and moved his family here from Baltimore. And the rest, one might say, is aviation history...

Mickey Rooney to appear at museum - GAN | Mickey Rooney, famous actor known for National Velvet (1944) with Elizabeth Taylor, The Bridges at Toko-Ri (as a Navy fighter pilot) (1954), Black Stallion (1979) and most recently Night at the Museum (2006), is appearing at the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Hollywood Studs & Starlets” fundraising event on May 7...

Longmont senior takes to air for birthday - Times Call | Once upon a time, Vera Andersen helped build aircraft. Now, for her 101st birthday, it was her turn to go up, up and away. “That was quite a trip,” said Andersen, who celebrated the milestone with a helicopter ride...

Multilingual Messages of Goodwill to be Transmitted from ISS to Honor Gagarin - Spaceports | An amateur radio satellite specifically designed to interest students in scientific and technological careers will be activated and begin transmissions from the ISS in in about Monday to celebrate Yuri Gagarin's first human space flight. Transmissions are scheduled to begin Monday around 14:30 UTC April 11 and ending Wednesday around 10:30 UTC on April 13, 2011...