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Blue Angels In Battle Creek - WTVB | BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO) -- The reconfigured Blue Angels Precision Flight team is prepared to take to the skies this weekend over Battle Creek. They are back on their schedule after the diamond formation got too low in Lynchburg, Virginia, ...

Sky fills with planes on eve of festival - Battle Creek Enquirer | Eric Greene, managing editor of the Enquirer, rides in the front seat of John Klatt's aircraft as they fly in formation with two members of the Blue Angels Thursday. / John Grap/The Enquirer The Battle Creek Air Show and Balloon Festival Field of ...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Red Bull Air Force fly in for movie premiere from Aerial Sports Feed | The Red Bull Air Force team's wingsuit flying team, who are also starring in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, opted to drop into the movie's Miami premiere from 2,000 feet rather than walk there on the red carpet on Thursday...

WWII Spitfire makes its final ascent in Inshowen - Derry Today | A remote bogland in the townland of Moneydarragh in rural Inishowen was a hive of activity this week when a documentary film crew, BBC presenter Dan Snow and a team of archaeologists led by Claudy aviation historian Johnny McNee unearthed a WWII ...

Week on the web from Flightglobal | As RunwayGirl basks in the glory of having reached beyond 10,000 twitter followers, it is testimony to the influential role that women play in the industry.  Flightglobal has launched a dedicated page on Women in Aviation which highlights how women have not only provided the glamour, but also the brains and the determination to take their talents sky high. ...

Warbird Radio Presents – 100 Years of US Naval Aviation – Episode 1 | [photos too] WARBIRD RADIO PRESENTS – Join us as we celebrate 100 years of US Naval Aviation history and look back on this amazing century of flight.  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curator of Modern Military Aviation, Dik Daso walks us through some of the historic Navy airplanes in their collection.  The aircraft  ...

Miss Warbird Rescue from The Warbird Rescue Company | We are very thrilled to have Miss Warbird Rescue on board!  She will be  ...
   
Electric Airplane Pilot Breaks Own Speed Record - Wired News | French pilot Hugues Duval broke his own speed record for electric aircraft after flying just over 175 miles per hour. The flight was made in the same twin engine Cri Cri airplane he set the record with back in December. ...

35 Years at the National Air and Space Museum from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | When I began to work at the National Air and Space Museum in March 1975, I was the Museum’s sole reference librarian, having graduated from Catholic University of America with an M.S. in Library Science the previous year. I had only been working for a few weeks, when I was told ...
   
Panther jet fighter will appear in Bristol parade - EastBayRI.com | The plane crash-landed near the Kalamazoo, MI airport in 1997, and was donated to the local air museum by the injured owner/pilot. (The actual plane Mr. Williams crash-landed in Korea was not so lucky; he walked away from his wreck, which burned in ...

RAF Lyneham's Hercules make final flypast - BBC News | RAF Lyneham station commander Gp Capt John Gladstone said just prior to the final flypast: "It will be a very sad day for everyone at Lyneham but it's just a new chapter in the history of the Hercules. "The Hercules has a very important job to do in ...

Nola Kropman: Friday's Fabulous Flyer from Flight To Success

Scramjet Stalls, X-Plane Crashes on Second Flight from www.ainonline.com | A second test flight of the X-51A WaveRider has not gone according to plan. Successfully dropped from the left wing of a B-52H Stratofortress, and then accelerated to over Mach 5 by a solid rocket booster, the unmanned, scramjet-powered, hypersonic vehicle crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Point Mugu NAS, Calif. on June 13.  The WaveRider’s first flight on May 26, 2010, also faltered. The aircraft flew for more than 200 seconds  ...

Rare Photos of the Russian “Buran” Space Program from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e | It was the Largest and Most Expensive in Soviet Space Exploration History – a grand effort and a noble, if not fully realized, dream | The frustrating end to this titanic program (it was canceled in 1993 due to the political situation and a lack of funding), and some resemblance of “Buran” to the American space shuttle, make it easy to forget the impressive results that it ...

Challenger families back commercial launch for NASA from RLV and Space Transport News
Nice to see the Challenger families making a strong statement in support of NASA taking advantage of commercial human spaceflight development: ....