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Name That Event - Next Year's Michigan Aerobatic Open is Bigger! - IAC88 Blog -   | It has been a while since I've written as we've just been having too much fun flying.  We shot AcroCamp II, gave a lot of training and rides in the Pitts, and put a little Hero Cam in the front for great videos of people grinning and straining.  At the Michigan Aerobatic Open in Jackson we were approached by community representatives who wanted to take this special event and make it more of a community weekend.  Turns out we...

Desert display from Dubai - Flightglobal | Pictured over the Dubai desert is a joint display from the Al Fursan and Patrouille de France teams. Al Fursan - The Knights - is the UAE's aerobatic team, flying Alenia Aermacchi MB-339As. Video highlights can be found here.... Flightglobal's complete Dubai coverage can be found here.

Air show set to return to Fort Lauderdale beach in 2012 - Sun Sentinel | It's a go for the 2012 Lauderdale Air Show.  Fort Lauderdale commissioners approved a three-year agreement on Tuesday with Lauderdale Air Show, LLC, which is putting on the spectacle. The city is also pledging up to $150,000 to cover show expenses, but only once the show actually takes place.  The April 28 and 29 event will be the city's first air show in five years....

Grieving mother tells of pilot son’s last show - Yorkshire Post | ...Chris Penistone, 31, a commercial airline pilot with Jet2 who was also qualified for aerobatic flying, died at the Methley Bridge Boatyard, near Castleford, after his single-seater aircraft plunged to the ground in front of a large crowd, which included his parents.  An inquest in Leeds heard yesterday that the night before the show on June 19 last year, friends had suggested Mr Penistone’s plan to perform three shows in a single day was over-ambitious....

Burt Rutan has a Wing in Ground Effect High Speed Seaplane project - Next Big Future | Legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan is working on a new project, a high-speed winged boat that can double as a seaplane, so he can fly between lakes and rivers near his new home in Coeur d'Alene, a lakeside resort in northern Idaho.  He has his sights set on designing a short-takeoff and landing (STOL) plane....

EAA 1457: A Little Bit of Oshkosh Every Month - Airplanista | I've made six trips to the gigantic airplane party that the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) throws each July on the shores of Lake Winnebago. Each time I step onto the grounds of Wittman Regional Airport after it has been transformed into a glistening wonderland of aviation goodness, I'm reminded that as aviators, we...

Helicopter exit in the sun. - Bonjour Blue Sky

Flying through the Totality - Airspeed | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see something 70 miles wide moving over the landscape at almost 1,700 miles per hour?...

Episode 173 – Jamie Dodson Knows Nick Grant - Airplane Geeks Podcast | Guest Jamie Dodson, is author of the Nick Grant adventure novel series, including Flying Boats & Spies, and China Clipper. Jamie is a Technology Protection Officer for the Security and Intelligence Division, US Army, Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), Intelligence Division. He has over 30 years of experience in Intelligence Operations for the US Military. He’s served with Special Operations, Army Aviation, Airborne Infantry, and Military Police and has worked operations all over the world....

Photo Essay: Aircraft Construction From A To Z - English Russia | We’ve got used to think that Russian production factories are, as a rule, half-destroyed buildings with leaking roofs and crooked staircases ending at the ceiling. However, the aircraft construction factory where they produce Sukhoi Superjets 100 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, is a sufficient refutation of the charge. About 12 thousand people work at the two departments of the factory. In the first one they make the fuselage, and in the other one they install electronics, engines, etc. Let’s see how they turn a piece of aluminium into a plane....

Today in Aviation History – November 16 - CRUFC

XCOR & SwRI offer space flight prize for NSRC 2012 participants - hobbyspace.com | Suborbital Research Flight Giveaway Announced by XCOR Aerospace & Southwest Research Institute for Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC)-2012 | November 15th, 2011, Mojave, California and Boulder, Colorado: In a first of its kind prize for the reusable suborbital research...

Wanted: Astronauts; Missing: US rocket to fly them - Sacremento Bee | WASHINGTON -- Looking for a job? NASA is hiring astronauts. You can even apply online at a giant government jobs website.  There's only one hitch: NASA doesn't have its own spaceship anymore and is sending fewer fliers into orbit right now....

Space tourist capsule in museum display - UPI | NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A Soyuz space capsule that brought a private space tourist back from orbit is on display at a museum in New York, a space tourism company says.  Space Adventures, the company that organized...