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Thousands watch Thunderbirds, other aircraft at Italian beaches - Stars and Stripes | Among those participating were the US Air Force's Thunderbirds and their Italian Air Force counterpart, Frecce Tricolori (tri-colored arrows in English). The Thunderbirds, temporarily based at Aviano Air base to the northeast, and Frecce Tricolori, ...

Solar Impulse returns to Brussel from AVIATION-NEWS | The weather and low batteries conditions are to bad to reach Paris safely, so mission control in Payernne Switserland has decided to return to Brussel. Related posts:Solar Impulse en route to Paris-Le Bourget Solar Impulse at the Paris Air Show 07.07.2010 Solar Impulse HB-SIA has taken off for its first night flight! Related posts:Solar Impulse en route to Paris-Le Bourget Solar Impulse at the Paris Air Show 07.07.2010 Solar Impulse HB-SIA has taken off for its first night flight!

Blue Angels Practice Overhead by Chase Clark | The Blue Angels – aka the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron – have been busy this week practicing in Pensacola. Already the Blues have performed three practice runs of their immensely popular air show. During several points of the practice, at least four of the colorful F/A-18 Super Hornets flew just a few hundred feet above the neighborhood.  The flight team’s home base is the Pensacola Naval Air Station which is just a couple of miles away from me. I fully expect their new commander will have the team in the air above the Gulf a lot this week in anticipation of getting back onto the air show circuit as soon as possible.  ...

Mansfield airman to fly with Red Arrows - Mansfield Chad | A 28-YEAR-OLD Mansfield airman has been selected to fly with the prestigious Red Arrows as part of their back seat support crew. Jamie Hatcher will become part of a 10-strong team of engineers known as the 'circus' for the 2011 summer display season.
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100th Anniversary of the Turkish Air Force - XAIRFORCES NEWS | The interest of spectators to the Air Show Turkiye-2011 was astonishing. Almost 250.000 spectators from Turkiye and abroad were hosted by Turkish Air Force at Air Show Turkiye-2011,  The Air Show Türkiye 2011 which is a distinguished activity among the centennial events of the Turkish Air Force was conducted at the 2nd Main Jet Base Command (Cigli/Izmir) on 04-05 June 2011. ...

Utah aviator inducted into Utah Aviation Hall of Fame - Daily Herald | Flying can be a very frightening experience, especially when you are being shot at by enemy pilots. But even with the many dangers involved, flying was the passion of Spanish Fork native Lt. Wendell V. Twelves. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor ...

Classic Racer #20 - With Airplane | My friend Mary and I entered the Air Race Classic 2011. Our mission: To bring awareness to women and to women in aviation. With this blog I hope to record the wondrous experience of racing in the ARC. ...

Day 37/365 : RAAF Roulettes by kllphotography | The Roulettes are the Royal Australian Air Force formation aerobatic display team. We went to ...

150th Anniversary of Hot Air Balloon Corp Recon from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | In June 1861, on what now is the National Mall in front of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated to President Lincoln how a gas-filled balloon might be used to spy on the enemy-thus helping the Union Army and establishing the earliest "air force." This marked the beginning of the Union Balloon Corps. The museum  marked the 150th anniversary of this event on Saturday, June 11.  ...

Profile 48 - 511417 as flown by Lt. Col. Joe Foss from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles | Done!  The F-51 Joe flew while pioneering the South Dakota Air National Guard (circa 1947) is now aloft in the internet's data pool.  And then, to press...but that aspect of production is not important right now. ...

This Wind Tunnel – Langley by Mitch Williamson | When the Langley full-scale wind tunnel opened, the first aircraft tested in the gale of its giant fans was a Navy biplane, the Vought O3U-1 Corsair. That was in 1931. The last aircraft the tunnel will test in a gale from those same fans will most likely be the [...]
   
Walk of Honor to pay tribute to military aviators - AZ Central.com | A memorial honoring military aviation achievements of Arizonans will become the centerpiece of a museum at Falcon Field Airport in northeast Mesa. The Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing is creating the Walk of Honor to recognize ...

Maynard Hill, 85, built model plane that flew across Atlantic - Bend Bulletin | He became a pioneer in developing unmanned aerial vehicles — drones - for the military. He was retired, legally blind as a result of macular degeneration and mostly deaf in the 1990s when he announced at a meeting of the DC Radio Control Club that he ...

Summertime Is Flying Time! - Midwest Flyer |  ... It’s also “fly-in” season here in the Midwest, so I encourage you to explore other airports, maybe even one where you’ve never landed before. And I would be remiss if I didn’t extend a personal invitation to join us for the biggest one of them all – EAA AirVenture Oshkosh,July 25-31. Many of our visitors and volunteers come from our own home Midwest region, so you’re definitely among friends.  After coming to Oshkosh for years as an EAA member and aviator, it’s going to be a change to be inside the kitchen, so to speak, this year. My role will be to watch and learn the many things that take place here and the hard work of the thousands of volunteers that make AirVenture happen. ...

'Night Flight' is an aviation time capsule - Deseret News | An amazing ensemble of 1930s icons is gathered for this film about the early days of aviation, including two cast members of the equally star-laden "Grand Hotel" and "Dinner at Eight," John Barrymore and his brother Lionel. ...

Why I'm Glad the Shuttle is Retiring - D Minus Zero | It has been 30 years since the first Space Shuttle was launched, and this year the shuttle program will be at an end. Although I worry about the future of NASA, I do not mourn the loss of this program. To be honest, I do not pay much attention to Space Shuttle launches, what the Astronauts are doing, or how many more launches we have left. I am a fan of the future of space travel, and that is why it is hard to enjoy the Space Shuttle, and the current manned work at NASA. The courage and spirit NASA had years ago to really push boundaries was stifled, regulated, and destroyed by ...