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VIDEO: Team Viper Promo 2011 - YouTube | Team Viper in Hawker Hunter Jets (screenshot shown)

Airshow repeat is not a done deal - Marlborough Express | The Classic Fighters airshow at Omaka is a great event, put on at great risk, organiser Graham Orphan says. It is too early to say whether the show would be put on again in two years, Mr Orphan said. The organisation team had yet to evaluate how it went financially. "It would be folly of us to say that we would always keep doing it."...

Boeing and Its Employees Commit $70,000 to Support Clean-up and Relief Efforts in St. Louis - PR Newswire | CHICAGO, April 25, 2011 / Boeing (NYSE: BA) and its employees will contribute $70,000 to the American Red Cross for its relief efforts in St. Louis following the damage caused by a tornado April 22...

WWII fighter traced to W.Va. Rosies - WV Gazette | CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- In 1943, four women working in an aircraft factory in Ohio signed their names on the wing of a fighter plane they were putting together. Nearly 70 years later, one of the signatures has been traced back to a West Virginia "Rosie the Riveter."...

Superintendent in Flight: Janet Valentine Gets Bird’s Eye View of Her Domain - Flagler Live | A Marine for 26 years–a casualty-assistance officer, to be precise, which means he brought bad news to many a family–Jack Howell has spent the better part of the last 15 years soaring above gravity’s more depressing forces. Quite literally. His Teens-in-Flight organization, started in Jacksonville in 1994 and now established at the Flagler County Airport, is a non-profit flight school for teens who generally had difficult times in their lives...

Phantom Ray - Future of UAV's? - WebAviation | The Phantom Ray is a stealth unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by Boeing using company funds and is currently being used as a testbed for UAV technologies. It made its first flight in December last year and is...

The Cessna 120 and 140 - Joe Clark | One of the best airplanes Clyde Cessna’s company put out was the little 140. The 140 also has a little twin, the Cessna 120. Both airframes are very similar, with only slight differences. The most notable difference is the 120 lacks flaps and the “D” window in the back of the fuselage...

New Bill Directs NASA Back to the Moon By 2022, With Permanent Habitation In Mind - PopSci | After a rollercoaster year for NASA, it looks like Congress isn’t quite done tinkering with the space agency’s future. A return to the moon is back on the table after a Florida congressman introduced a moon-centric bill in the House of Representatives, which he’s calling the “Reasserting American Leadership in Space Act,” or the REAL Space Act. Really...

Full scale V-2 model - Rocket Dungeon | Rocketry Planet posted an article on a full scale V-2 model that was built for the Classic Fighters Airshow at Omaka Airfiel, New Zealand.  The article describes the V-2 'flight' in the future tense, but the slideshow shows the 'launch'...

Virgin Galactic's Tourist Spaceship Makes Longest Test Flight Yet - Space | A privately built spaceship built by the space tourism company Virgin Galactic soared through its longest flight yet today (April 22) during a drop test over California's Mojave Desert...