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Air Force: Aviation Nation a huge success - Fox News 5 | This year's Aviation Nation featured some close and sometimes even seemingly dangerous maneuvers.  But everyone FOX5 spoke to said they felt completely safe.  "I think they do a great job as far as security, keeping people back… I'm not worried about anything," said Mark siepman, a spectator from Las Vegas....

Airshow: Flying displays keep crowds enthralled - Emirates 24/7 | The first day of the Dubai Airshow proved to be historic for the aerospace industry with the first aircraft order totaling US$26 billion (Dhs95.4 billion).  With a spectacular opening on day one the exhibition will run until Thursday 17 November 2011 at the Airport Expo Centre. The show has been decked out in the UAE national flag colours to celebrate the nation’s 40th anniversary in two weeks’ time on 2 December....

IN PICTURES. The show of the Patrouille de France in Dubai - Translated | The Dubai Air Show opened on Sunday for five days. with the hope that it will be rich in aircraft orders after a final 2009 edition affected by the global financial crisis. To mark the event, the Patrouille de France has carried out an air show Monday, November 14.  Up to 1000 exhibitors from 50 countries taking part in this 12th edition of the show, launched 25 years ago, and over 55,000 trade visitors are expected, said Alison Weller, Director General of the organizing company F & E Aerospace....

Red Bull Air Races cancelled — again - General Aviation News | The Red Bull Air Race World Championships, the only other air race series in the world besides the Reno National Championship event, cancelled this year’s series in part over safety concerns,...

Aircraft Design Legend Burt Rutan Bestowed with Lifetime Achievement Award - AIN Online | General aviation design guru and space pioneer Burt Rutan was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Dubai Air Show yesterday, though the founder and ex-CEO of Scaled Composite protested, “I haven’t done anything for months.” Rutan retired from his...

Pilot captures the ultimate moment By Heather Murtagh Daily Journal Staff | Evan Peers has dedicated his life to aerobatic flight.  Capturing the beauty of two planes intertwining in the air can be a challenge for any photographer but one which 48-year-old Evan Peers seems to have mastered.  “The running joke is I’m on a jet pack,” Peers said of a photograph he took of airshow legend Sean Tucker and son Eric Tucker near Big Sur....

MAAG's Blog: Spaghetti tops menu at MAAG meeting - Antique Air Field | The November MAAG meeting was held at Dead Cow Airport in west Wichita today with Earl Long serving up spaghetti.  A variety of other side dishes and deserts left everyone full.  The weather cooperated with highs in the upper 60's and light winds.  Hard to believe for mid-November!  Approximately 55 people were in attendance along with about 10 airplanes.  In addition to eating and hangar flying, we also recognized...

Auction, seaplane base and more added to Sebring LSA Expo - General Aviation News | The U.S. Sport Aviation Expo at Sebring Regional Airport has added an AvBid Auction, during which the company will not only auction airplanes but also three vacation packages with proceeds going to charity. Also new this year is a Model Airplane Contest that will take place on Sunday, as well as a Closing Awards Ceremony with a Sebring Send-Off....

World War II: Heinkel He 219 First Flies - Military History | November 15, 1942 - The Heinkel He 219 (right) night fighter first flies.  Created by Robert Lusser, the initial designs for the He 219 incorporated a variety of new technologies including a pressurized cockpit, ejection seats, and remote-controlled defensive turrets.  As a result, his work was repeatedly rejected...

41-13207 – B-25C-1 – “Oh-7″ - Warbird Central | B-25C 41-13207 of the 445th Bomb Sq, 321st BG. “OH-7″ logged over 80 combat missions between March 1943 and January 1944.  More Warbird pictures here

Cradle of Aviation Museum recognizes David Sterling - General Aviation News | The Cradle of Aviation Museum in Woodbury, N.Y., recently honored David Sterling, chairman and CEO of Sterling & Sterling, Inc. at its 9th Annual “Air and Space Gala” with the Donald E. Axinn Award for Community Service. Also honored at the gala were Mark Kelly, U.S. Navy Captain and Space Shuttle Commander, and Martin R. Benante, chairman and CEO of Curtiss-Wright Corporation....

Flight museum offers a ride to the past - Gadling | Flight MuseumGalveston features a number of attractive features for travelers. In the Texas island town over the weekend for the US debut of Carnival Cruise Lines new Carnival Magic, Gadling got to sample a few of them. One that stands out as a must-do for aviation buffs is the Lone Star Flight Museum. This...

Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat - HNN | An excavation at the site of a 1941 Spitfire crash in a bog in the Irish Republic uncovered huge, remarkably preserved chunks of plane and six Browning machine guns. After 70 years buried in peat could they be made to fire? They certainly could, writes Dan Snow....

The mating of a Black Hawk and an Osprey - Sky Talk | Saw this photo on Lockheed Martin's Dubai Air Show site. Looks like...

Goodyear Blimp Gondola Goes to Smithsonian - PRNewswire | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) is making another significant gift to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Tuesday - the second in two years - with the donation of the Goodyear blimp gondola, or car C-49....

Russia makes first manned flight after a series of failures - NEWS ABOUT AVIATION AVIATION NEWS | The Russian space agency (Roscosmos) launched a Soyuz rocket into space at about 2:14 a.m. on Monday (14), with three astronauts on board who will follow up the International Space Station (ISS, its acronym in English). The launch took place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, two months later than scheduled.  The three crew members - the U.S. Dan Burbank and the Russians Anton and Anatoly Shkaplerov Ivanishin - part of the ISS Expedition 30. They will yield other...