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Former Snowbird Gobeil Appointed 2012 CF-18 Demo Team Pilot - Marketwire | (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- On behalf of Major-General Alain Parent, Commander 1 Canadian Air Division, the Canadian Forces CF-18 National Demonstration Team is thrilled to announce the appointment of former Canadian Forces Snowbird Captain Patrick "Paco" Gobeil of 3 Wing Bagotville as the 2012 Demo Pilot.  A native of Ville de la Baie, Quebec, Captain Gobeil lived just outside of the airport in Bagotville. "I grew up looking at jets and as far as I can remember, I always knew that flying was going to be my ultimate goal in life; there is nothing else I wanted to do more," he explained....

Windermere Air Festival 2012 is cancelled - The Westmorland Gazette | ORGANISERS of the Windermere Air Festival have announced the cancellation of the 2012 event due to the current economic climate and lack of grant funding and sponsorship revenue.  Bluestone Events will no longer run the event, having helped organise it in 2010 and been responsible for its delivery in 2011....

Air Force Week in Photos - AF.mil | FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force. View the slideshow.

California International Airshow adds trio to board of directors - The Californian | The California International Airshow has announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors....

ICAS Convention - CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | ...A delegation of six people from the CAF Red Tail Squadron team will attend this year’s ICAS Convention and the Squadron will have a booth in the exhibit hall close by the Commemorative Air Force’s.  The Squadron team anticipates speaking with many air show directors from around the country about the prospect of bringing the red-tailed P51-C Mustang and the RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit to their shows....

Grief of Red Arrows pilot's family - The Local | The family of Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, who died in Lincolnshire, issued a statement on the day of his funeral thanking people around the world for their messages of support and sympathy.  In a joint statement issued by the RAF, the pilot's father Jim, mother Monika, and sister Nicolette said the weeks since his death had been the hardest of their lives....

Flight Dream Jordan - Apache Roll | Certainly the most beautiful flight of the Tour in the Middle East Patrol Breitling Jet Team!

Photorecon - Blue Angels 2011, National Naval Aviation Museum

Museum event will look at Pearl Harbor - mydesert.com | The Palm Springs Air Museum is scheduled to host an event that discusses how the United States changed as a result of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.  It's set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the museum, 745 N. Gene Autry Trail.  Education coordinator Greg Kenny, Blaine Mack and pilot Ken Ryan, who was on his way to Pearl Harbor during the World War II attack, are slated as guest speakers....

AIR TATTOO GETS PERSONAL - RIAT | Be a part of the excitement and become one of the world's Top Guns! Fly with the Frecce, sponsor the Air Tattoo, marshal landing aircraft, or pilot an F-16!...

Grandson of legendary Air Force pilot reflects family legacy - AF.mil | Col. Paul W. Tibbets IV, the Air Force Inspection Agency commander, is the grandson of retired Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the pilot in command of the "Enola Gay" when it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945....

Freedom from Fear - Wison County News | In the town of Madison, Florida, you can find the Colin P. Kelly memorial, a striking sculpture of four angels, their wings unfurled in the wind. The memorial was dedicated in 1943 to the name and heroics of a B-17 pilot whose plane was shot down just days after Pearl Harbor....

Scramble! Spitfire squadron takes off - The Telegraph | Paul Fowler is building 90 per cent scale models of the classic fighter, and seeks recruits to build – and fly – more, says Adam Edwards | ost Englishmen have at one time or another owned a Spitfire. The keenest boasted Airfix models perfectly glued and painted. Others had metal Matchbox or Dinky toy reproductions or even scale facsimiles in bronze. The geeks flew radio-controlled replicas while the less technically minded had tacky balsa wood gliders. And then there were those who sported the iconic fighter on key rings or cufflinks as a talisman.  Paul Fowler, aged 50, has taken this enthusiasm for the Second World War fighter to an extreme....

PICTURES: Lockheed unveils two future C-130 variants - The DEW Line | Lockheed Martin has quietly launched two new variants of the 57-year-old (and counting!) C-130 Hercules. The C-130XJ and the C-130NG both appeared in a presentation by Ralph Heath, executive vice president of Lockheed's Aeronautics division, on 1 December at the Credit Suisse aerospace and defense conference in New York.  Few details of both configurations have been made available so far. The C-130XJ is aimed at the....

NORAD ready to track Santa's flight -AF.mil | PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- The North American Aerospace Defense Command is getting ready to track Santa's yuletide journey.  The NORAD Tracks Santa website, http://www.noradsanta.org, went live Dec. 1 featuring a countdown calendar, a kid's countdown village complete with holiday games and activities that change daily, and video messages from students and troops from around the world....

Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual' - NPR | ..."And I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building...

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