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Blue Angels Homecoming Show - NAS Pensacola | Official Website

Pumpkin Drop a smashing success - Santa Cruz Sentinel | WATSONVILLE -- People can learn to fly. Pumpkins can't. That was the message, basically, for Sunday's annual Pumpkin Drop at Watsonville Municipal Airport. The event is geared to highlight the joys of flying and allows people a free flight in a small plane to hoist that old pumpkin out the window toward a target near...

Podcast: The Last Biplane Fighters – Warbird Radio | MONDAY – Grumman biplane expert Rich Dann joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Rich is the author of Grumman Biplane Fighters in Action and is also an accomplished aviation artist....

Stuart Air Show returns with world's fastest helicopter, WWII re-enactors  - TCPalm | STUART — The Stuart Air Show is coming back to Witham Field on Saturday and Sunday for two days of air stunts and the chance to see a record-breaking aircraft.  Manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft is the presenting sponsor this year and will...

Stuart Air Show - Official Website

Rutan starts work on new light aircaft  - Flightglobal | Aircraft designer Burt Rutan is working on a new aviation project in the Idaho lake house where he retired only seven months ago after a 45-year career that produced SpaceShipOne, Voyager and dozens of other ground-breaking air vehicles.  "I found after working on 40 airplanes in 40 years it probably is impossible to stop," Rutan said in an exclusive interview. "So I'm working on a new one."  Rutan provided few details about the...

Brigadier General Dick Lord - The Telegraph | Brigadier General Dick Lord, the Fleet Air Arm pilot who has died aged 75, was instrumental in the development of America’s Top Gun fighter pilot academy, made famous by the film of the same name....

Retro Monday: Flying the SR-71 Blackbird - Defense Tech | Sister site Kit Up! just published this great vignette about operating an all-time classic of military technology — the legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. Former Blackbird driver Maj. Brian Shul describes pushing his SR-71 past Mach 3.5 over Libya to outrun Gadhafi’s surface-to-air missiles in April 1986. Shul’s fascinating account gives a pilot’s perspective on flying the big black jet at the edge of space at speeds...

Honor the Veterans, including the women - You Fly Girl | The second story informed us that the Marine's first female striker pilot is from Meridian Mississippi. These two events took me back in memory to a high school girl at Randlett, Okla. In those days, classes were...

History: the Start of CG Aviation - Military.com News | One hundred years ago, during the dawn of the twentieth century, a technological revolution took place that ushered in the use of steel, internal combustion engines and new sources of power. During this era, American visionaries rose to the...

Fallen pilot laid to rest after 43 years - Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Public Affairs | 11/7/2011 - DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFNS) -- Since 1977 a marker in memory of Air Force Col. Gilbert S. Palmer Jr. sat upon a hill for the pilot who went missing in action Feb. 27, 1968. Now, more than 43 years later, Palmer's remains have been returned to his family for proper burial in Arlington with full military honors....

USAF in the 2020s -- F-15s, F-16s ... and U-2s? - Ares by Graham Warwick | ...This will extend their airframe life to 10,000hr from 8,000hr, another eight years of service life keeping the F-16 on the front line until 2030. The life-extension could be expanded to up to 600 F-16s if there are further F-35 delays, but Carlisle said he did not believe the Air Force would have to go that far....

Who Wants to Buy a Rare RAF Fighter? - Defense Tech | Anyone want to buy a rare British fighter jet?  This old Supermarine Swift fighter is going for a little over $400,000 on eBay. The plane has been sitting exposed to the elements outside of a clothing store in the English countryside since the 1960s, accumulating who knows what kind of weather damage.  The 200 Swifts that were built, out of nearly 500 that were ordered, only saw...

'Young Eagles' Event Introduces Young People To Flight - Greenville Sun | Dennis Smith is hoping to join the Air Force after high school. His friend Jeffrey Newkirk plans a career in aeronautical engineering.  So it's no surprise the Greeneville teenagers were among the first to arrive Saturday...

Protecting Apollo artifacts on the Moon - The Space Review | Within the next few years, one of the 26 teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) competition will hopefully claim the $20-million grand prize by successfully landing its privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, traveling at least 500 meters across the lunar...

Museum Seeks State Money for Space Shuttle’s Home - NY Times | We have liftoff on the quest for more than $40 million of public financing for a new museum that would house Enterprise, the prototype for the space shuttles. Officials of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan have taken their pitch for government support of the proposed museum out from behind closed doors. To bolster their appeal, they have armed themselves with a...

The breaking of the fellowship (NASA, not Lord of the Rings) - Cron.com | NASA as we know it ended last week in Building 9 on the campus of Johnson Space Center.  The final four, the last crew to fly aboard a space shuttle, quietly met for the last time, officially, as a group before they go their separate ways. They did so for the purpose of meeting with the original shuttle duo, John Young and Robert Crippen, who flew on STS-1 lo those many years ago....