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2 Days until Departure! from Air Race Classic | Lanie and Erin will be leaving this Friday, June 17th to head to Iowa City! The actual race starts Tuesday June 21, but there is a multitude of events at the start leading up to the race. We’ll be attending manditory briefings, pre-race banquets, and bringing the airplane in for inspections. We are so excited to embark on this journey and we appreciate everyone’s continued support!! ....


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Air Race Classic to launch from Iowa City - Iowa City Press Citizen | What: Iowa City will serve as the start city for a four-day, cross-country women's air race. When: More than 100 pilots flying 50 planes begin arriving Thursday and through the weekend before taking off Tuesday morning at the Iowa City Airport. ...

Pilots to compete in Air Race Classic - Kansas State Collegian | Nicole Lordemann, left, and Megan Henderson, right, sit in the cockpit of the Cessna Skyhawk 172 that they will fly in Air Race Classic 2011, June 21-24. Twenty-three hundred nautical miles. Fifty teams. Four days. Two young women. ...

Blue Angels continue to practice for air show - Gulf Breeze News | Free movies and concert events keep the fun rolling through this week. Evenings in Olde Seville Square hosts Gulf Breeze Resident Kitt Lough tonight, June 16 from 7-9 pm You must be an online subscriber to view this story. ...

AirVenture Presentations Schedule Now Online from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Hundreds of AirVenture presentations, forums, workshops, speakers, programs, and more are now listed on the EAA AirVenture website at www.airventure.org/schedule, providing users with an efficient way to advance plan their visit to Oshkosh next month. ...

Trojan Horsemen joining Thunder over the Blue Ridge Airshow - Martinsburg Journal | Visitors to this year's Thunder over the Blue Ridge Air Show will have an opportunity to see The Trojan Horsemen, a first-time attraction to the event. "This is an exciting addition to the air show," said Nicolas Diehl, vice president of Thunder over ...
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Shrinersfest chairman says festival a success, turned profit - Evansville Courier & Press | There were doubts that the festival would show a profit after the Freedom Festival lost $290000 two years and the cancellation of the Navy's Blue Angels, but Stevens said a profit was never the goal. "It wasn't motivated by the aspect of profitability ...

Bob Records skydives on 75th birthday - Sonoma Index-Tribune | Records traveled to Davis where Charlie Brown, former member of the "Golden Knights," the US Army's elite demonstration team, and now an instructor for SkyDance Sky Diving at the Yolo County Airport, dropped with him from 13000 feet. ...

History Comes To Life When You Get Close Up On a B-17 and B-24 Tour - Patch.com | So with these doubts in place we took our son to see the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator at Moffett. In my defense, this interest it WWII seemed like a harmless intersection of an early interest in planes and a Johnny Horton folk song we ...

Liberty Belle – The Last B-17 from Nordo News | “You’re on fire! Get it on the ground now!” Within minutes of those words being spoken, news that Liberty Belle was down arrived in every aviation inbox in the world. Facebook was alive with chatter, Linked In passed condolences, and Twitter was a race to see who was most informed. Yet among all the communication, the same weathered phrases were all I saw. ...

Liberty Belle Tributes and other articles are here.

Going to the Paris Air Show? There’s an App for That from AviationChatter.com | Much like Airventure, the Paris Air Show is a big event. With over 140 aircraft on display and over 2,000 exhibitors, you have to plan your visit. And guess what? There’s an app for that. Aviation Week has put together a go-to guide for visitors at the Paris Air Show. ...

P-47 "Snafu" unvailed from Classic Aviation Worldwide | The lastest stunning addition to the UK Warbird scene is ...

X-51A Scramjet Fails On Second Attempt from AviationWeek.com Defense Channel | The USAF X-51A program manager says AFRL, Boeing and Rocketdyne engineers are reviewing a large amount of telemetry data to try to figure out what happened.

Man builds a functional airship you can fit in your garage [Mini Airship] from io9 | Where you and I might walk our dogs around the block, retired engineer Jack Clemens walks his own working airship, a perfect model of a naval airship that was destroyed in 1935 ...

Young Pilot Inspired by Faith, Family and Friends from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | It may be described as a family affair when you talk about aviation with Wilsonville, Alabama Pastor Barry McGowin and his seventeen-year-old son Jacob. Before getting his driver's license at age sixteen, young Jacob had already soloed. Last week he became the first official Private Pilot in the family. His father says  ...

Send The Love from Flight To Success | ... Today Lydia needs strength, hope, encouragement and prayers. Please take the time to read the email that Jonathan Porter sent to me. Please comment and leave Lydia a message. He will read them to her, and your words will help to get her through this frightening and painful journey in her life. ...

Chinese-US Space Cooperation at Standstill from Spaceports | Writing at The Epoch Times, Matthew Robertson provides readers with an excellent overview of the current relations between the Chinese and United States space programs, or the lack thereof. The article outlines a provision placed into the federal budget by Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.) prohibiting all cooperation between the two governments with regard to space. ...

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