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Blues cruise: Navy fliers highlight Amigo Airsho's 30th anniversary - El Paso Times | For one thing, the folks planning the birthday bash Saturday and Sunday at Fort Bliss' Biggs Army Airfield have lined up some special guests -- the US Navy's Blue Angels. "It's huge. They haven't been here in 14 years," said Michael Guerra, ...

Paramotor Pilots A First For Amigo Airshow - KTSM News Channel 9 | Even more exciting for the two is that what they're doing has never been done at the air show before. "This is a first for the Amigo Airsho and for many air shows around the nation because powered paragliding is still pretty much in its infancy and ...

Photorecon Visits with F-15E Strike Eagle Demo Team from photorecon.net | The F-15E Strike Eagle Demo Team was performing at the Alliance Air Show in Fort Worth,  Texas over the weekend and our own Brandon Farris was there to record the event. We had worked in the past with the flight crew after the Chino Air Show back in May. The Demo Team had put on [...]

4th Annual Air Race Coming to Courtland from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -COURTLAND AL- A field of over 20 aircraft from the U.S. and Canada will gather for the 4th annual Aircraft Spruce/Tennessee Valley Air Race on October 29th. The premier Sport Air Racing League event will take place at Courtland, Alabama (9A4) with registration starting at 0730 and the pilot briefing starting at 10:30.  The Tennessee Valley Air Race is a 150 mile cross country race over scenic parts of the Tennessee Valley...

When is an F-15 not an Eagle? When it’s an XF-15C-1 ! from Shortfinals's Blog | Aviation is full of blind alleys, quirky designs which seemed to be good ideas at the time, or aircraft built to outmoded operational concepts which were obsolete before they even flew. The XF-15C-1 is just such an oddity. At the start of this year’s road trip with my friend David (over from England, via New Zealand) I told him, ‘You have to see this thing in Rhode Island!’  The jet engine and naval aviation were not an easy marriage in the beginning. A carrier aircraft needed to...

Spitfire to get makeover - Star News Group | A PRICELESS piece of Australia’s war history has arrived in Point Cook where it will be conserved for future generations to enjoy.  The World War II Spitfire aircraft was found in northern France in November last year after it was shot down and crashed into the River Orne, in northern France on 11 June 1944.  It spent more than 60 years under water before...

From Antique Airfield:

• Joe Santana's Travel Air in the Air at Blakesburg 2011
• Chuck Doyle's Stearman Gets Turquoise
• Bill Field's Bellanca Cruisair Jr At Blakesburg
• Florida Cub Flyers October 2011 Newsletter
• Dan Linn's Blog: Rearwin Cloudster
• Don Parsons' Blog: Photo Day at Creve Coeur

Aviation museum opens at former air station in Weymouth - The Patriot Ledger | Local history and aviation buffs won't have far to go if they want to see a number of artifacts tied to the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station. Previously, the Shea Field Naval Aviation Historical Museum, 495 Shea Memorial Drive,...

Prairie Aviation Museum in Illinois from Airplanes Channel: | The Prairie Aviation Museum, located in Bloomington, Illinois, aims to educate, entertain and inspire visitors with its meticulously preserved collection of aircraft, artifacts and memorabilia relating to aviation. It is here that visitors can explore more than a century of flight – from the earliest times that man took to the skies, through the developments that have brought us to high-tech aviation as we know it today. The story of flight is a fascinating one, and the Prairie Aviation Museum aims to keep that story alive for the benefit of current and future generations...

Stinson Reflection from Another Time by Dan Linn | Here is another shot from the Texas Antique Fly-In.  I did a little editing and effects in iPhoto to create a small piece of art.  The vintage car hub cap gave off a cool reflection of the Stinson SR-10.  The shot below that is the vintage setting that set up the inspiration. Fun car and a GORGEOUS Stinson!

Last Nuclear ‘Monster Weapon’ Gets Dismantled from Wired: Danger Room by Spencer Ackerman | In the 1960s, the skies above the United States were patrolled by agents of the apocalypse. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses circled the North American continent, 24 hours a day, cradling two megabombs in their bellies. Those B-53 bombs each weighed 10,000 pounds. Were one to drop on the White House, a nine-megaton yield would destroy all life out into suburban Maryland and Virginia...

Inside the pages of Flightglobal's 787 Special Report from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower | NEW YORK -- I'm waiting for my flight to Tokyo at John F. Kennedy International Airport and I wanted to share Flightglobal's 787 service entry special report. The package, but together by Flight journalists John Croft, Siva Govindasamy, Michael Gubisch, Max Kingsley-Jones, Mary Kirby, Steve Trimble, Niall O'Keeffe and myself, covers many elements of the program. The supplement, which was published last week, looks...
   
Video: Canadian Company Develops Solar Powered Plane/Blimp Cargo Hauler - Gas 2.0 | Compared to other electric aircraft, which can only transport a few passengers short distances, the Solar Ships seem to have a practical purpose. So far the smallest version of the Solar Ship, called the Caracal, has been built and can lift over a ton ...

Solar Ship takes to the skies powered by good deeds and sunshine (video) from Engadget by Brian Heater | The Solar Ship is a little bit airplane, a little bit blimp and all good intentions. The hybrid dirigible combines the cockpit and landing gear of a plane with the top of a blimp, the latter of which is lined with solar panels. The green vehicle can take off from and land on...

Is Darpa's Fly-Drive Transformer on the Right Road? from Ares by Graham Warwick | Darpa says AAI and Lockheed Martin have "feasible designs" for its Transformer (TX) "flying Humvee" and both have moved into Phase 2 of the program to demonstrate a prototype fly-drive tactical vehicle.  This will lead to preliminary design reviews at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, after which Darpa will decide whether to select one team to proceed into Phase 3, which would culminate in ground and flight demonstrations of a prototype TX in mid-fiscal 2015...

Students take to the sky - News-Press Now | Pilots Bill Newton, Greg Starkel and Mark Pickerel, who are all members of the association's XP Sky Riders, hosted the Young Eagles event for the excited students. Students arrived for a briefing from Mr. Starkel on airport rules and safety ...
   
Pilots share some air with Seguin-area youngsters - Seguin Gazette-Enterprise | Grobe and the 21 other children were given the adventure, courtesy of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles Program, said pilot Dr. Irvin Sahni. "The EAA has a really big fly-in in Hondo every year. I don't know how many they fly, ...