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Flying for the Cure - GA News | A California father and his 12-year-old son are flying around the world in their homebuilt RV-8 to raise awareness about childhood cancers. After six years of building their own airplane, Julian, Calif., resident Stephan Armstrong and his son, Charlie, plan to fly their plane “SEE WORLD I” around the world to...

VIDEO: Blue Angels over Pensacola Bay - WALA | Blues and the Cenntenial of Naval Aviation.

Wide Bay Airshow – Top Gun Tickets - Aviation Advertiser | AUSTRALIA: The Wide Bay Australia International Airshow has now launched an exclusive ticket offering premium position and comfort for Airshow enthusiasts.  The Top Gun Chalet Ticket has been released today and is one of the hottest tickets available for the 2011 event...

Snowbirds to kick-off show season in Moose Jaw on Saturday - MJ Times | The Canadian Forces Snowbirds team will hold its annual acceptance show to kick off the 2011 show season at 15 Wing on Saturday. Citizens of Moose Jaw and the surrounding areas will be aware of more jet activity near the base from about 1 p.m. to 3 p.m...

Mission helo was secret stealth Black Hawk - Air Force Times | The helicopters that flew the Navy SEALs on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden were a radar-evading variant of the special operations MH-60 Black Hawk, according to a retired special operations aviator. The helicopter’s low-observable technology is similar to that of the F-117 Stealth Fighter the retired special operations aviator said. “It really didn’t look like a traditional Black Hawk,” he said. It had “hard edges, sort of like an … F-117, you know how they have those distinctive edges and angles — that’s what they had on this one.”...

DAV Flight Team's 2011 Airshow Season - DAV Flight Team | The 2011 DAV Airshow Public Outreach tour began in March, taking the Team to Keesler Air Force Base Angels Over the Bay, The Florida International Air Show, Sun 'n Fun and JB Charleston Air Expo. The fifteen-show tour will continue through the spring with visits to...

Marine aviator, 90, returns to the cockpit - PNJ | When Burrel Sumner was born, Naval aviation was only 10 years old. Today, as Pensacola Naval Air Station celebrated the Centennial of Naval Aviation, the 90-year-old former flier was getting reacquainted with an old friend...

Local veterans take flight to visit WWII Memorial in nation's capitol - Journal Standard | Freeport, Ill. — It was a day they will always remember. William Hills, 87 of Lena, and Dwight Bennett, 85 of Orangeville, each served their country during World War II. Hills was in the Army. Bennett served in the Navy. Each saw action in different theaters. Service for their country was not second-guessed back then. They served proudly...

Robins Museum of Aviation F-15 - Unwanted Blog | The Museum of Aviation near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia is a surpringinly well-stocked museum worthy of a visit… especially if, like me, you just happen to be going by, had no idea that the museum was there...

VIDEO: Golden Eagles Pioneers of Naval Aviation - WEAR | NAS PENSACOLA - One brotherhood celebrates Naval Aviation every year. They call themselves the Golden Eagles Pioneers of Naval Aviation. This week they're holding their reunion right here in Pensacola.
Among them are famous astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon...

B-1B in the pattern today - Black Horizon | A rare sight - a B-1B Lancer from Dyess AFB shot a few transitions at KAMA today.

Archaeology of Bombing, 1913 - Ptak Science | This is another in a longish series of posts on this blog on the archaeology of bombing, aerial bombing, and today's installment comes from its earliest period.  The first air assault belongs to the Italians, who used the weapons from the air in bombing Tripoli in 1911...

VIDEO: Young Eagles Update - EAA | Rod Hightower and YE Co-Chairman Jeff Skiles discusses the success and future of this important EAA program.