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You’re Invited to Learn about Whelen Lights at RI Air Show - Mike Goulian | (June 25th or 26th, 9:00am – 4:00pm) Join us at the Rhode Island National Guard Air Show and “strap in” for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be so close to the flying, that you’ll feel like part of the action. You might know Mike as an airshow superstar or as one of the air race pilots, and unless you live under an aviation rock, you have certainly heard about the latest LED lighting technology that is taking the lighting industry by storm...

Memorial Day Weekend Air Show Kicks Off This Weekend - Massapequa Patch | Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh has hosted the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show for years and it has always been a huge event at the park. The air show includes planes flying along the beaches and can be seen from any field. Planes this year include the United States Air Force F-22 Raptor and an A-10 Thunderbolt II...

Hawaii AirShow Invitational in Kona (May 28-29) - Hawaii24/7 | Hawaii’s first civilian air show will be presented by Hawaii AirShow, Inc on Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29 at the Kona International Airport. Featured at the first annual Hawaii AirShow Invitational will be aerobatic performances by some of the top pilots in the country and a single ship demonstration by a USAF team with a F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter...

Be ready: Dakota Thunder 2011 is almost here - ACC.AF.mil | ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (ACCNS) -- Ellsworth Airmen are currently making final preparations for the 2011 Dakota Thunder Airshow, a June 4 event celebrating airpower and 100 years of South Dakota aviation history...

War birds to arrive in Livermore on Sunday - Inside Bay Area | LIVERMORE -- War birds will swoop down on Livermore this weekend, part of the nationwide "Wings of Freedom" World War II aircraft tour. Visitors can walk through two restored bombers -- a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator -- and see a P-51 Mustang escort fighter...

General Aviation Aircraft Welcome at Selfridge Air Show - Armed Forces | A small number of Area civilian pilots will have the unusual opportunity of landing at Selfridge Air National Guard Base during the base's 2011 air show and open house, Aug. 20-21...

Remembering those who served: John W. Colsch - Waukon Standard | The pilot, a young First Lieutenant, certainly experienced some varied emotions as he lifted his B-26 Marauder (named “Purring Panther”) from the soil of England for his sixty-fifth combat mission. All but one of the crewmembers on board that day had flown with him across the seas to England six and a half months earlier. Together they had successfully completed 64 missions...

Laughlin amputee earns his wings - AF.mil | LAUGHLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Earning the coveted silver pilot wings is a long and difficult journey allowing only a small percentage of officers to earn the right to be called a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. By becoming the first amputee to graduate from pilot training, First Lt. Ryan McGuire earned his spot among the elite group...

Master pilot lands Lewis degree at 81 years young - Sun Times | Gene Littlefield just graduated from college, but he’s not worried about finding a job. He’s 81 years old and mostly retired with decades of work behind him...


Nyekodzi Emmanuelle Mawunyo: Why I Want To Fly - Flight to Success | Nyekodzi Emmanuelle Mawunyo is my name. I am a girl of 18 years old. I come from a town called Mepe in the Votal Region, Ghana. I attended Kpong Evangelical Presbyterian School. I got to know about WAASPS, an aviation company through Mr. Porter who came frequently to visit my father. After my education, I decided to join WAASPS...

Introducing the Stealth Little Bird (based on a true story about the silent “black” OH-6 used during the Vietnam War)  - Cencio4 | I’ve already written a lot about the Stealth Black Hawk, whose existence is proven by pictures taken at Abbottabad the day after Osama Bin Laden raid, and about a Stealth Chinook theoretically taking part in Operation Neptune’s Spear. However I hadn’t thought about another stealth helicopter possibly flying in Pakistan during the OBL raid...

VIDEO: International Learn to Fly Day - AOPA | More than 25,000 people learned about general aviation at International Learn to Fly Day events across the nation.

Some Really Small Ideas From The People At Scaled Composites - Martt |  The younger generation of avgeeks may not realize that Scaled Composites has that name because their primary mission back in the day was to build reduced sized (scaled down) prototype aircraft using simple and fast composite construction techniques. I'm guessing the aerodynamic data from an 85% scale prototype is probably 98%+ accurate in verifying the viability and performance of a design...

Aerospace Expo Exposes Kids to Flight Sciences and Engineering - WBOY | BRIDGEPORT -- Have you ever wanted to learn more about Aerospace Engineering but didn't know where to start? Well, area 7th and 8th graders got the chance to come to the Robert C. Byrd National Aerospace Education Center and see what they can do as far as careers in the aerospace industry...

VIDEO: 50th anniversary of Kennedy's Moon program speech - Hobby Space | Today is the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's speech to Congress in which he declared that the US would go to the Moon by the end of the 1960s. Web resources about the speech: