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Jet Combat Show Will Fill "Angel" Void - Tristatehomepage.com | The Red Star is a Red Alert Viper-29 which is one of the highest performance subsonic jet warbirds on the air show circuit, reaching speeds of 545 miles per hour. This air show is renowned to be one of the most intense civilian jet air shows performing ...

Final Airfest in Edmonton - Aviation.ca | Since 1999 Airfest has been the Edmonton area premier aviation event, however, 2011 will be different this will be the last. The airport decision and closure of the longest operational runway is forcing change. The ability to bring in many of the large ...

Fly-in soars with big turnout - Times Record | Inkellis, a retired Washington, DC lawyer, flew in for the airport's first International Fly-In on Saturday, an event organized to show the facility off after decades of being off-limits to civilian pilots. But Inkellis wasn't alone. ...

Leuchars Air Show now 'more crucial than ever' - Scotland Courier | Mr O'Donnell said many of the old favourites would be back, including the Red Arrows aerobatic display team. Stunts will also be performed in the air by the French team Patrouille de France. Historic aircraft will fly, including a first world war SE5a, ...

World War II warplanes on display at Sonoma County airport - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | Three historic World War II warplanes will arrive at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport today for a three-day stay, part of a nationwide tour promoting aviation history. The rare planes are part of the Wings of Freedom Tour by ...

Oman Air sponsors paraplegic microlight pilot flying the Kangaroo Route from Flight International | Airlines sponsor a lot of events and activities, but this occurrence really caught my attention.  Oman Air will sponsor Dave Sykes's record-breaking microlight flight in his P&M Aviation Quik microlight aircraft (above) from the UK to Australia, the so-called "Kangaroo Route" normally served by the likes of the ...

Boettger Flies 1,400 Miles Without Engine from www.avweb.com | FedEx pilot Gordon Boettger on Tuesday set the new high mark for glider flight in the northern hemisphere when he covered more than 1,400 miles surfing a mountain wave downwind of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in his 1972 Kestrel 17. The trip was a 13-hour "yo-yo" flight from Minden, Nev., to Minden, Nev. -- meaning it flew back and forth along the primary wave. But Boettger did have one section of 854  ...

Hunt inducted into Florida Aviation Hall of Fame from General Aviation News | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's former president Jack Hunt was inducted into the Florida Aviation Hall of Fame at the Florida Air Museum May 21. ...

Pilot's condition improves after weekend Vancouver Island crash - Vancouver Sun | Series of images shows the path of Bill Phipps' plane as it crashed at the Nanaimo air show on June 4. NANAIMO -- The condition of a 71-year-old pilot seriously injured when his small plane slammed into the ...

Former AFA President, WWII Ace Gen John R. Alison Dies - PR Newswire | Alison's wartime achievements include seven confirmed and numerous probable kills while flying with, and commanding, the 75th Fighter Squadron "Flying Tigers." Additionally, he was co-commander of an Air Commando Force – the first in military history ...

Willis' 14th bombing mission - McCook Daily Gazette | Willis Jones, a member of the 96th (B-17 Flying Fortress) Bomb Group in World War II, suffered through great adversities during the war, including being shot down (on his 26th mission) over Augsburg, Germany, and surviving 13 months in a German POW ...

Retired Italian Navy captain pays tribute to American aviator at NAS - Pensacola News Journal | Sergio Santi returned to Pensacola Naval Air Station last week after more than 40 years to pay homage to his friend and mentor, retired US Navy aviator Cmdr. Mike Shane. During a June 1 ceremony, Santi placed flowers beside a statue of the patron saint ...

Royal Navy FAA Trainer trio! from PPRuNe Forums| First time for this trio?

The History of Barnstorming When Pilots Were Real Pilots - from all-things-aviation.com | Anyone who has read “Illusions” and “A Gift of Wings” by Richard Bach cannot but be fascinated by the world of the Barnstormer in the 1920s. The History of Barnstorming is a history of human courage and risk taking. While there have always been traveling pilots with their light airplanes, barnstorming saw its peak in popularity in the 1920’s when the American government found itself with a surplus of aircraft especially the Curtiss JN-4 Biplane “Jenny”. Not having any use for them these were sold off to civilians mostly former aviators and old timers. ...

CIA declassifies photos of Area 51 spy plane crash - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Area 51 still doesn't officially exist, but photos of a crashed A-12 spy plane do after the CIA declassified several photos from 1963. The A-12 was developed as a successor to the U-2. The same project developed the SR-71 Blackbird. ...

The Anson saga - STILL rumbling on! by shortfinals | When the Royal Air Force reach the end of World War Two, it was not facing such an uncertain future as it did in November, 1918. Then, the eight month old Service had to fight to avoid either disbandment or have its two former halves – the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service – handed back to the Army and Royal Navy, respectively. As it was, there was a massive draw-down of manpower and units ...

Kiln pilot wins aircraft association award - SunHerald.com | For many years, he has volunteered his time at EAA AirVenture and the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In teaching gas welding, sheet metal and tech counselor workshops. A tornado this year destroyed a plane he helped build at Sun 'n Fun. He and Burl Nelson had planned ...

Lancaster Barnstormers holding WWII and D-Day tribute - CBS 21 | The players will be wearing custom jerseys with a WWII look that will be auctioned off to support the Richard Winters leadership project. One of the project's initiatives is to make a documentary focusing on Dick Winters' leadership skills. ...

Boeing Expands Social Media Outreach – Starts YouTube Channel from Airline Reporter | Social media has become a must-have for most large companies today. Some will approach it with a thought out approach and others do not really know why they are on social media, but just feel they are supposed to be on it. I have enjoyed following Boeing’s slow approach to social media and applaud them for recently adding a YouTube channel. ...

Ex-Ohio astronaut John Glenn: aviation can still learn from flight of ... - The Republic | Former astronaut John Glenn says that, for all its advances, the aviation industry still has plenty to learn from birds. Glenn says anyone who has ever watched a hummingbird will know that people haven't even begun to learn how to ...

Ground Effect - Air & Space Magazine | Landing a shuttle while re-adapting to gravity can be disorienting. Now there's a way to simulate it on the ground.

Getting “Enterprise” Ready for Prime Time from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | Early on the morning of March 1, 2004, a small band of preservation specialists consisting of Anne McCombs, Steve Kautner, and Ed Mautner walked into the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.  There was but a single artifact in that huge hangar ...