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Blue Angels, SecNav Keynote Air Show - Bay Net | The press conference had a two-fold purpose: to tout the air show but also introduce the Navy's Biofuel Project. The Blue Angels will be flying during the air show with a 50/50 blend of biofuel. Sec. Mabus announced on Tuesday at the National Energy ...

NAS Oceana Air Show themed after Centennial of Naval Aviation - WTKR Your NewsChannel 3 | The 2011 NAS Oceana Air Show, Sept. 23, 24, and 25 will showcase the very best of military and civilian aviation for spectators from around the world who travel to Virginia Beach just to attend the annual Air Show. With this year being the Centennial ...

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26th World Aerobatic Championships from Leaving Terra Firma | Today marks the beginning of the 26th FAI World Aerobatic Championships. The event runs from 31 August to 11 September and takes place at the Aeroclub of Foligno (LIAF) in Italy. In case you’re not a big follower of aerobatic competition, this is an international aerobatic contest administered by the FAI. This is kind of like the Olympics for aerobatic competitors. The winners of the US National Aerobatic Championships are sent as the official US delegation.  Our team this year consists of  ...

WACDay1.1 from per Ardua ad Astra by Grant Piper | We're off and running! Richard flew his Q and did well, no donuts and a provisional score of 66.14%. Some good flying, the French warm-up pilot Francois Rolet, was one of the best! Castor was neat ...

Day1.2 from per Ardua ad Astra by Grant Piper | Paul flew a little while ago and was pretty neat. Provisional scores just out - 62.94%. Wind and temp had picked up this afternoon and some top pilots were pushed to the back downwind corner of the box. Paul  ...
   
Halls readies for 2011 Air Show - State Gazette | Performers joining the World War II four-engine bomber include a B-25, AT-11, P-47, TBM, BT-13, Skyraider, two Mustangs, Sea Fury, T-6s, C-47, T-33 and other World War II aircraft. Civilian and jet performances will include a team of 12 aircraft ...

Free air shows for public - Galesburg Register-Mail | Professional air show pilot Walt Pierce of Avon Park, Fla., and his air show Stearman Old Smokey will appear in free air shows at 6 pm Sept. 9 and 2:30 pm Sept. 10, during the 40th National Stearman Fly-In at Galesburg Municipal Airport. ...

40th National Stearman Fly-In takes off Sept. 5 - Galesburg Register-Mail | Jim Martin, right, and Rick Stratton fly in Martin's N146CM Stearman over the parked stearman on the north end of the Galesburg Municipal Airport during a previous Stearman Fly-In event. By Anonymous “The Stearman is rare enough to be a valued American ...

Red Arrows resume public displays - BBC News | The Red Arrows are to perform in public for the first time since one of their pilots was killed in a jet crash. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, died when his Hawk T1 aircraft crashed into a field in the village of Throop, near Bournemouth Airport, ...

Spitfire celebrations at RAF Cosford to mark 75th anniversary - The Birmingham Post | To commemorate the instrumental role of the Spitfire – built predominantly in Birmingham – and the 75th anniversary of its first flight, there will be a flypast of a Spitfire at the Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford, Shropshire. ...

Grandiose Air Show MAKS-2011. Part 4 from English Russia | We have visited the MAKS show more than once ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), but there are still many pictures to share. Let’s go back to the show.  ...

Aerobatic displays for Changchun's aviation open day - China Daily | Three aerobatic teams comprised of the newly founded "Sky Wing Air Demonstration Team" from the university, "Red Falcon Air Demonstration Team" from Third Flying College of the Chinese Air Force and "August 1st Aerobatics Team" from the Chinese Air ...

Bid NOW for Round Trip Travel to Reno Air Race and Join 'Team Big Red' as Crewmember from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | A live charity E-bay auction is underway now that offers a lucky winner and their guest air travel to Reno, NV for the 48th Reno National Air Championship Race, Sept 14-18, 2011. The "Team Big Red" package includes: Courtesy Southwest Airline round trip tickets to Reno, Air Race Admission Tickets and Pitt Passes for two.   ...

Helitech celebrates 25 years with photo competition from HeliHub.com News | This year Helitech is celebrating 25 years of supporting the rotary industry. To mark this special occasion we want to look back on highlights from across the industry, since the show began in 1986, and create a retrospective to display at Helitech 2011 from the images we collect. To be a part of this all [...]

In the Loop from www.eaa.org | The Betty Skelton Trophy is awarded each year to the highest-placing woman in the powered Unlimited category at the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships, but that doesn't say much about the woman who inspired the trophy. Today, her Pitts Special Little Stinker, in which she won the International Feminine Aerobatic Championships in 1948, '49 and '50, hangs at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Wikipedia has a great biography of Betty and the airplanes she made famous.   ...

Ride in a 'Tin Goose' - AOPA Pilot | “Flying a Ford Tri-Motor is like roaring through the pages of aviation history,” Schiff wrote. “It is entering a time warp and returning to a simpler yet more challenging era. Unlike many modern aircraft, vintage machines have unique personalities ...

Hill Goodspeed: Helicopters had big role in Naval history - Pensacola News Journal | I recently drove through Ellyson Industrial Park, the vestiges of the once-bustling air station mixed with the more modern structures of local industry.  Named after the Navy's first aviator, Theodore Ellyson, Ellyson Field, for more than two decades starting in 1950, served as the training base for a then-unconventional aircraft, the helicopter. ...

Macchi Mc 72 - Aircrew from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | Following up on the current Aircrew feature in Aeroplane magazine for October 2011, here's a couple of the online items that can't be presented in print.  Perhaps the most important online offering is this link here which gives what is claimed to be the sound of the Mc 72 - a spine-tingling sound.  ...

Pewsham boy's sale takes off from The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald | ... The seven-year-old from Lockside, Pewsham, fell in love with the iconic Vulcan bomber two years ago and decided he wanted to help Vulcan to the Skies, the charity that is raising money to save the last flying Vulcan. ...

Photo Essay: Eglin F-35 number increases to four from Air Force Link Top Stories | Two F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighters were delivered here Aug. 31.  Labeled as AF-10 and AF-11 by Lockheed Martin, the new JSFs bring the total count of the fifth-generation fighter aircraft here to four.  View the slideshow.
   
NASA Glenn Exhibit at Cleveland National Air Show - Space Ref | CLEVELAND -- NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will share in the excitement of inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers at the Cleveland National Air Show in Cleveland, Sept. 3-5. Visitors will be able to explore technology ...

Calling All Space and Aviation Thrill-Seekers! RR Auction Presents a Special ... - PR Web | RR Auction, an Amherst, NH-based company, is offering a treasure trove of more than 800 unique and amazing historical objects in a Space and Aviation Artifacts auction this September 15-22. The uncertain future of the NASA space program may mark the ...