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Aerobatic pilots defy G-force - Gulf News | Gravity puts formidable pressure on bodies of flyers as they mesmerise audiences with death-defying stunts.  Dubai: The world's most talented performers almost always make impossible feats look effortless.  Aerobatic pilots at the Dubai Airshow were no exception yesterday as they etched a rainbow of coloured smoke across the skies, wowing audiences far below in a wash of deafening jet-engine thunder....

Aviation Nation 2011 - PHXspotters | Finally. After 4 days of editing, I finished the processing last night.  Let me start by saying that this was my first time ever at Aviation Nation 2011, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew that the afternoon light was going to be great for the static displays, and it was; unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the morning light, which made most of the morning performances backlit. After the show “officially” started, it was just pure epicness. First of all, a Rammstein-based C-130J dropped...

PHOTOS: Aviation Nation 2011 Airshow at Nellis Air Force Base - NYC Aviation | NYCAviation was on hand at the 2011 Aviation Nation at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas for one of the final airshows of the year and the homecoming of the USAF Thunderbirds. Some of the acts included fly-bys by B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit jets, a B-25 bomber flyby, a demo by The Patriots Jet Team, the...

The 64th AS Gets a New Camo Scheme - PHXspotters | This is the first post about Aviation Nation 2011, I really feel like this deserves its own post.  One of my surprises at Aviation Nation this year was one of the Aggressors on static display, an F-16 in a white/black/gray arctic camo. I was promptly informed by Joe Kates (Photorecon) that it was a new scheme....

Redding Air Show Community Donations Top $1 Million - KHSL TV | Redding Air Show Organizers Thursday handed over $65,000 to more than 40 non-profits, bringing the total donations generated since the air show's inception in 1982 to more than $1 million.  Over the years, the Exchange Club has....

Incredible Story of 'Glacier Girl' Highlights EAA Wright Brothers Banquet - Alabama Aviator | Bob Cardin led team that recovered, restored P-38 abandoned in Greenland during WWII....

Announcing Aviation Week's 54th Annual Laureate Awards - Alabama Aviator | The Aviation Week Laureate Awards recognize individuals and tams for their extraordinary accomplishments...

WASP recognized with memorial at BOHS - You Fly Girl | Orange County Register: Women pilots recognized with memorial at BOHS.  Quintin Ruiz, grandson of WASP Violet Cowden, escorts Mary Lamy and Myrle Mackintosh.  A plaque and monument have been unveiled among 12 pepper trees at the edge of the Brea Olinda High School campus to pay tribute to 12 Women Airforce Service Pilots, better known as WASPs, from Orange County....

A Pearl Harbor Mystery - Air & Space Smithsonian | How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.

Photo of the day, Nov. 17, 2011 - Air Force Blog | Photo: U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Juaacklyn Denny, a broadcaster from the 374th Airlift Wing, captures video from a...

ADAM Airliner - The Unwanted Blog | A photo of a display model of a Vought transport aircraft using the ADAM (Air Deflection And Modulation) system for vertical thrust. Note six small turbojets – two in....

Silent aircraft and the China syndrome - Flight Global | Professor Dame Ann Dowling of the Cambridge University engineering department is certainly an expert on aerodynamics, as amply evident from her Brabazon lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society this week in which she presented, along with colleague and propulsion specialist Tom Hynes, a radical concept for a blended wing body airliner powered by three-fan engines that would, they believe, slash aircraft noise to levels imperceptible beyond the perimeter of an urban airport....

Flying The Pup - Canada Free Press | Nothing drives some men more than ego, which isn’t always bad, unless it’s inflated. Shortly after receiving my pilot’s license, my ego was super-inflated.  My friend Elliott, a student pilot, had ordered plans for an ultra-light, tube-and-fabric, homebuilt aircraft known as the N3 Pup. One day, after...

Pilot Lands Mustang After Aneurysm - AVweb | Danie Minnie was flying a Cessna Citation Mustang on November 12, out of Bloemfontein for Johannesburg, South Africa, when he suffered an aneurysm -- he landed the plane safely but did not survive the larger event. Minne, 43, suffered symptoms that included vomiting and paralysis that affected his left side. He contacted controllers who found him sounding confused. The pilot elected to...