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Flying with Rob Holland: A preview of this weekend's Cocoa Beach Air Show - Orlando Aerospace Examiner | "FLY IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT".  Those were the words printed on a sticker staring me in the face as I was strapped into the cockpit of Rob Holland's Veteran Home Loans MX2 aircraft Tuesday.  Having read that, with a parachute strapped to my back, I knew I was in for the ride of my life...

Airshow’s future remains up in the air By John McVey journal-news.net | Go, no-go decision expected from TOBR directors by the end of the year  MARTINSBURG - The board of directors of Thunder Over the Blue Ridge airshow hope to make a decision by the end of the year whether to hold the show in 2012, Brian Truman, president of the board, said Tuesday...

Czechs prepare Formula 1 in aerobatics - Translated | Organizational staff around the Czech Republic national team in aerobatics prepared in 2012 a new European series called Freestyle Aerobatic challenge...

2012 RAF Waddington International Air Show Themes now released - RAF Waddington | The 2012 RAF Waddington International Air Show will take place on 30 June and 1 July next year.   The event will mark 100 years of the Central Flying School, The Year of Lincolnshire aviation and it will also celebrate ISTAR capability of the Royal Air Force.  The commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Central Flying School (CFS).  The Central Flying School is the longest serving flying school in the world.  This is a record of which we are understandably proud.  The concept of a British military air force was born in 1911 when Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister, instructed the Committee of Imperial Defence to examine the...

$25 million lawsuit filed in Reno air race crash - RGJ | A Texas physician who lost her husband when a vintage plane crashed into the tarmac at the Reno National Championship Air Races, killing 11 and injuring about 70, filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday in Texas state court.  The suit, the first to be filed after the Sept. 16 crash...

Flying Tigers still roar - China Daily | James B. Wong remembers many of the planes that landed looked like colanders from all of the bullet holes.  It scared the teenager.  "You're afraid," he says.  "You're afraid you may die. Then, you feel sorry for those who come back shaking. And you feel sorry for those who didn't come back."...

Spi... Hurricane Women - Vintage Aeroplane Writer | While looking up other books at the State Library (SLV) I found this book and was amused to note that the overly specific title was contradicted by the back cover,... 

Ryan XV-5 Vertifan - Travel for Aircraft | This aircraft was Ryan’s last aircraft design and a venture into the realm of non rotary wing vertical flight. Fans in each wings as well as the nose could direct thrust downward while conventional jet exhausts provided thrust for horizontal flight. Powered by twin turbojet engines this research craft carried a crew of two in a side-by-side arrangement. Two XV-5s were built...

What We Love About Aviation! - Flight Monkeys | If you get us started we might not stop. But if you were to nail us down and force us to tell you what we really love about aviation, the truth might be that we love the stories.  Aviation is an activity. It attracts huge numbers of people who watch, wrench, fuel, clean, and fly these beautiful machines...

Episode 171 – A Playground for Pilots - Airplane Geeks Podcast | Mark Jones is an experimental test pilot and statistical consultant to aerospace leaders, and a part-time T-6 instructor pilot in the USAF Reserves. Mark has flown a wide variety of military aircraft and just recently separated from active duty in the regular Air Force as...

Stealth Jet Could Be Unsafe for Flight Training - Wired | The military could be putting pilots' lives at risk in its hurry to begin training with the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Th...

First manned multicopter takes flight, brave human sits amidst blades (video) - Engadget | What could have ended in human chop suey, instead resulted in victory for German engineers at e-volo as they successfully completed the first manned flight of an electric multicopter. The human death trap multicopter uses multiple mini helicopters to lift the passenger upwards -- who's snuggled in the center of the carnage, firmly strapped to a squishy exercise ball. Like an UAV, the hovering device is controlled...