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Welcome back, Blues - PNJ | More than 100,000 turn out for 2-day spectacle at Pensacola NAS | Even with about 101,000 people in attendance, the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show went off without a hitch.  "We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day," said Patrick Nichols, a spokesman for Pensacola Naval Air Station....

Daring stunts highlight first day of Aviation Nation air show - Las Vegas Review-Journal | Spectators watched a safe and flawless performance at the Aviation Nation air show at Nellis Air Force Base on Saturday with little concern of a repeat of the tragedy at the Reno air races.  On Sept. 16, a souped-up World War II-vintage P-51 Mustang nose-dived into the crowd at the Reno-Stead Airport, killing 74-year-old pilot Jimmy Leeward and 10 spectators....

Tribue Flight - Photorecon | The Tribue Flight is a 77-day mission flown in a specially modified aircraft bearing th names of the American and Coalition tropps killed n Iraq and Afghanistan...

Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey to Make Dubai Air Show Debut - PATUXENT RIVER, Md., Nov. 13, 2011 – The Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter, a Textron Company [NYSE: TXT] and The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] announced that the V-22 Osprey titlrotor will be featured at the Dubai International Air Show in the United Arab Emirates from November 13 – 17....

In Praise of Fly-In Fun - Flight Monkeys | Nothing elevates the mood of an aviation enthusiast like a Fly-In. Whether it’s a big, whopper like AirVenture or Sun ‘n Fun, or a mid-sized event like Arizona’s Copperstate, or even a simple, single day local fly-in like we hold right here in Winter Haven every year. When airplane people gather, smiles abound and friendships are renewed.  Fly-In’s are good....

Hero pilot Capt. Sully to fly out of Opa-Locka for charity - Orlando Sentinel | Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the hero pilot who guided US Airways flight 1549 to a safe landing in the Hudson River after an engine caught fire in January 2009, will take to South Florida skies on a charity mission.  Sullenberger, 60, now retired as a speaker on aviation...

Aviation enthusiats keep history alive and flying high - SoMdNews | Tom Long of Benedict said that as a boy he built model airplanes and “always wanted to be a pilot.”  Long, a licensed flight instructor with an airline transport pilot license and a mechanic with an inspection authority grade, now owns a few 1940s- and ’50s-era planes, some in flying order and others in stages of restoration, which he does himself. He is especially proud of his World War II Valiant BT-13, a two-seat bomber trainer he purchased in 1998 and hauled on a trailer home from California. He then spent two years restoring it....

Toy drive gets air support - Suffolk News Herald | They might have come to see the airplanes that filled the sky above a small airfield in Chuckatuck, but more than 500 people who turned out for the Hampton Roads Radio Control Club’s Fun Fly on Saturday gave a big boost to the Toys for Tots program in Suffolk....

PHX Spotters Day 2011 - PHX Spotters | Our second annual PHX Spotters day 2011 was a complete success. The staff at PHX Spotters started planning this event about 3 months ago. We decided to plan the event for November 5th, 2011. Even with there being a couple other events in the surrounding areas of Phoenix we decided the day must go one. Invites sent out via Facebook and Twitter. There is no turning back. The day before the event and the weather is not looking to good for our event. The forecast for Saturdays event was an expected high of 69 degrees and sunny. Well the morning of the event, I open the garage and all I see is dark clouds and the smell of new rain is in the air. But like I said the show must go one. There is no way this can be cancelled...

New World War II memorial unveiled in Wichita - KSN | ...Boring was a gunner on a B17 during the war.  He fired .50 caliber machine guns, many times in the dark.  “You had to clean them and put them together blindfolded,” he recalled.  Boring and his fellow servicemen now have a memorial in their honor at Veterans Memorial Park....

Veteran shares story of WW2 air raid, escape, time with Yugoslavian partisans - Fort Worth Star-Telegram | BENBROOK -- Working a .50-caliber gun from the top turret of a B-24 Liberator, Dale Hulsey fought in one of the most dramatic air battles in U.S. history and still the single most decorated mission in Air Force history.  He survived the bombing run and the anti-aircraft fire, survived a crash landing when a German fighter jumped his plane, survived a frantic run into the woods to evade the enemy who had seen the bomber go down.

Restored World War II Era Aircraft On Display In Tulsa Saturday - NewsOn6 | TULSA, Oklahoma - The Tulsa chapter of the Commemorative Air Force is planning a big day Saturday, full of vintage aircraft and big band music.  There's an opportunity to take a look at the plane that served as a basic training vehicle for all Army Air Forces pilots in World War II....

Vintage Flying Machines - I Love Planes | Ever since Orville and Wilber Wright realized their dream of building and piloting the world’s first gasoline powered flying machine, the world has been fascinated by airplanes. These days, people flock to air shows to see history come alive, as vintage planes take to the air once again. These are a few of the best vintage flying machines ever built.  The Fokker DR 1 Triplane was made famous by the World War 1 German flying ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen (aka the infamous Red Baron). With his DR 1 painted blood-red, the cunning Red Baron racked...

British Carrier Deck - Planeshots

World War II: Tirpitz Sunk - Military History | ...Later that month, Tirpitz was severely damaged after being attacked by two X-Craft midget submarines.  Repaired, the battleship was intensely bombed by British carrier aircraft in April 1944.  Work to restore Tirpitz continued through the summer.  In September, the ship became a target of Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers which began raids using massive Tallboy bombs.  Damaged in one attack on September 15, it was finally sunk in another on November 12.  Capsizing, the wreck of the battleship was salvaged after the war.

Golden Triangle aviation history told in new book - The Dispatch | Somehow, Stuart Vance of Starkville knew that recording the history of aviation in the Golden Triangle was going to be his "thing." As a founding commissioner of the Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTRA), he has been both advocate and witness to the region's dramatic aviation development.  In "Aviation in the Golden Triangle," Vance traces the factual stories, from the World War I "Jenny" through the latest unmanned aircraft....

Aeromarine 39-B - Planeshots | “On 26 October 1922, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Chevalier, USN, flew his Aeromarine 39-B on to the flight deck of the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), while cruising off Cape Henry, Virginia.”
   
Dubai Photos: C27J Spartan - Aviation Week | Alenia Aeronautica's C27J Spartan has returned to the Dubai Air Show. Here's a compilation of some photos captured during practice flying on Friday.

Solar-Powered Plane/Blimp Cargo Hauler (VIDEO) - IB Times | The company, called Solar Ship, has developed a lightweight plane that can take off and land in the space of a football field. Big deal, so what right? Totally impractical...oh, wait, it can carry over 1,000 kg/2,200 lbs of stuff a distant of about 1,000 kilometers/620 miles? Well now, that certainly is impressive, and opens up a whole word of possibilities....

Burt Rutan Is Up To Something… - Autopia | Burt Rutan is up to something. He isn’t saying much about it, but whatever it is, you know it’s interesting.  There’s been plenty of speculation within the aviation world about whether Rutan would stop designing airplanes now that he’s retired from Scaled Composites. Imaginative and prolific, Rutan has been at the leading edge of aerospace design since the 1970s, and few thought he would simply play golf all the time. True to form, Rutan is working on a new aircraft design....