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ICAS Foundation's Kyle & Amanda Franklin Fund from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The aviation community is coming together to help Kyle and Amanda Franklin get back on their feet and eventually back in the air after their mishap at Air Fiesta at the Brownsville/South Padre Island Airport. If you'd like to contribute, click on the banner at right to visit the ICAS Foundation web site.

'The Wings and Wheels Weekend': Woodward Dream Cruise, Selfridge Air Show may join forces - MLive.com | Leaders in Macomb and Oakland County are looking to make the most of a scheduling snafu, jointly marketing the Woodward Dream Cruise and Selfridge Air Show as one of the largest-ever entertainment events in Metro Detroit and Michigan. ...

Glacier Girl by John Mehrmann | On Tuesday, July 7, 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared “Europe First”, and Operation Bolero began it’s first phase in history as a massive buildup and movement of Allied aircraft into the European theatre. It was only seven months since the attack on Pearl Harbor had thrust the U.S. into the war. ...

Formation flight Sunday. Chipmunks from Planeshots

Diabetes Flight Reaches Pole from AVwebFlash Current Issue | There's plenty to do flying a Beech Baron to the North Pole, a place where no Baron has been before, but Douglas Cairns had one more hourly task that most pilots don't have. "Another hourly "cockpit check" was blood sugar testing, and with additional continuous glucose monitoring, I was delighted to see blood sugars remaining in a tight and good range for flying," Cairns reported after completing a 13-hour round trip from Barrow, AK to the Pole last week in his Diabetes Polar Flight. Cairns is a former Royal Air Force pilot who lost that job when he developed Type 1 diabetes. He's since embarked on a world-wide campaign to raise awareness and money for diabetes research. Cairns fought headwinds all the way to the Pole but the weather was otherwise good for the record-setting flight.

Video: Historic Flight Foundation B-25 and Spitfire Formation Practice Flight from FlightBlogger

Thunderbolt Restoration Progress from Another Time  | The Fighter Collection is making good progress on the restoration of their P-47 Thunderbolt.  The hope is that it will fly this year in time to make a few showings during this airshow season.  One of a ...

The Gosh of Oshkosh by Av8tor | Overwhelming is the best word for it. I still think about my first trip in the mid-1990s to “Oshkosh,” shorthand for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture fly-in held EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2010every summer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For the rookie it’s impossible to avoid being totally overwhelmed. Thousands of airplanes. Hundreds of thousands of people. There’s so much offered up simultaneously: lectures, forums, workshops galore on building, restoring, and flying every imaginable type of aircraft. Where to start? Where to go next? You dive in, and from the moment I did, I was hooked.

President Obama visits Reno - Chasing Clouds | President Obama made a stop in town this afternoon for a town hall meeting at a local business near the airport. I had the chance to take some shots of Air Force One when it arrived and departed. ...

Missing WWII Airman Identified  - Soldier's Angel Network | ... U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Mervyn E. Sims, 23, of Petaluma, Calif., will be buried Friday in his hometown.  On April 24, 1943, Sims and four crew members aboard a C-87 Liberator Express departed from Yangkai, China, in support of "the Hump" resupply mission between India and China.  Prior to takeoff, a ground crew determined the aircraft had sufficient fuel for the six-hour flight to the air base on other side of the Himalayas in Chabua, India.  Once cleared for takeoff, there was no further communication between the aircrew and airfield operators.  Army officials launched a search effort when the plane did not arrive at the destination.  No evidence of the aircraft was found and the five men were presumed killed in action.  ...

Air Facts relaunched as online journal from General Aviation News | The Air Facts, first published in 1938, has been revived as an online journal edited by Air Facts former editor Richard Collins and presented by Sporty’s Pilot Shop. As was the focus in 1938, Air Facts will continue to explore the techniques of safely using airplanes for transportation. Included is material about places to go and things to do – encouraging pilots to maximize the value and utility of general aviation. ...

DVD Reviews from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News by Flightline UK
RAF Leuchars Airshow 2010
The Best of Dawlish Air Show

Sweating out every little bit of improvement from Life on the Road as a Pilot | I’m writing this at 7pm on a Saturday night and I am no kidding considering going to bed in an hour or so. But I’ve got to keep up with these blog entries so I don’t get too behind. But I am completely exhausted. I know I will get no sympathy complaining about the heat and humidity here in Southeastern Texas, not from my friends up north who just suffered through a snowstorm in April, and not from folks down here that say, “You think this is bad, you should be here in August.” ...

Submarines as Aircraft Carriers? from Aviation | The details are not clear but what is for sure is that the US Navy is planning to equip their ageing nuclear ballistic missile submarine fleet with aerial drones in the missile launch tubes. Since the end of the Cold War in the 80's, the nuclear threat is much diminished and nuclear ballistic missile submarines have lost much of their value. As a result, the US Navy is now trying to find new ways to utilize these underwater warships besides scraping them. ...

Hubble @ 21 - April 24, 2011 from Spaceports