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Video: Fat Albert - Shortfinal.tv | Fat Albert, the C-130 Hercules transporter for the Blue Angels, became Santa's sleigh in a toy run leading up to Christmas.

Blue Angel Lands In Sioux Falls By Don Jorgensen | SIOUX FALLS, SD - The 2012 Sioux Falls Airshow will feature the U. S. Navy's elite Blue Angels. The airshow isn't until July, but Monday, we got a sneak peak of what you can expect to see when the aerial demonstration team flies into Sioux Falls.  Planning for the 2012 Sioux Falls Airshow got underway as one of the seven Blue Angels F-18 jets touched down in Sioux Falls....

US Navy Blue Angels 2012 Practice Schedule - Milcom Monitoring Post | The US Navy Blue Angels have released their 2012 practice schedule. These pactices represent excellent opportunities to see and monitor this team in a non-air show setting.....

With airplanes flying off my eyelashes… - Fly with Amelia | ...Sometimes the most beautiful moments happen when you least expect them. As I walked to my apartment door, print in hand, I flipped it over. To my surprise, there was an extensive description of the “Art of Flight” series! How serendipitously perfect… this description embodies how aviation makes me feel each time I push the throttle forward and soar into the sky. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.... 

WWII Pilot Gives $2 Million to Flight Nursing Program  - Women in Aviation International | A pioneering female aviator who served her country during World War II has made a gift to Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing — a gift that combine her love of flight and her dedication to nursing.....

Flight Lieutenant Neill Cox - The Telegraph | Flight Lieutenant Neill Cox, who has died aged 88, won two DFCs for flying operations in the Mediterranean; he was also noted in the Service for once taking off in his Spitfire completely unaware that a WAAF mechanic was clinging on to the tailplane.... 

From Antique Airfield:  Don Parsons' Blog: Paul Glenshaw stops by Creve Coeur, Don Parsons' Blog: A new Robin in the nest. 

WAY FAVOURITE STARS AT AUCTION by Ronel Jordaan | Unique aviation icon comes to sale at Historics | One of the most evocative icons, and the rarest of restoration projects, will take centre stage at the auction by Historics at Brooklands in Surrey, next February.  A Spitfire – not the ubiquitous sports car from Triumph – but a 1941Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IIa fighter – will come to sale at Historics, at their winter auction venue of Mercedes-Benz World on February 18th 2012, almost exactly 70 years after it first took to the skies....

The German - biggeekdad.com | The German is a short film about a British and German fighter pilot who engage in a dogfight in World War Two.

NEW VIDEO – Collings Foundation’s F-100F Tribute - Warbird Radio | WARBIRD RADIO – Check out the Collings Foundation’s new video about their F-100F....

Museum needs votes to win grant for Korean War memorial - GAN | The Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, Calif., is a finalist in the Pepsi Refresh Everything contest. They want to use the money to build a Korean War memorial. Museum officials ask pilots to vote as often as they can. 

Libya: Can We Have the 'Lady Be Good' Back Now Please? - Salem News | I don't think it's easy to take a single story from the pages of aviation history and call it the 'best' or 'most interesting' because the competition is fierce, but the doomed crew of the World War Two B24 Liberator 'Lady Be Good' ranks for the title if any do. The plane was lost on a mission over Libya, failing to return from a 4 April 1943 bombing raid over Naples, Italy, the Lady Be Good had been crewed by nine men:...

1998 American Champion Citabria Explorer with pilot Jared Maynard – Part 2 - Other Peoples Airplanes | This is part two of the flight with Jared in the Citabria. You can check out part one here.  For this episode, we returned to Melbourne International Airport for a touch-and-go followed by a full-stop landing before putting the plane away in the hangar.  On the first approach, we were a little high. So once we were established on final approach, we used a technique known as “slipping” to lose altitude quickly. Typically, when you put an airplane into a decent, you gain airspeed. However, since we are trying to land, we do not want....

At AirVenture, Oshkosh - Let's Go Flying | Landing at EAA AirVenture on Monday, July 26 was SUCH a thrill! The largest air show in the world!  The turf runway slowed me down nicely and as I taxied up to the “gate” to the ultralight area, a volunteer sped up on a small scooter. Unfortunately, I had no way to alert the helpful volunteers that my brakes had failed 4 days previously and I hadn’t been able to fix them. He came a little too close to my wing, probably assuming that I’d brake, and I promptly took off his left mirror!...

Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI frontline fighter aircraft crashes near Pune - Bangalore Aviation | IANS is reporting that a Sukhoi Su-30MKI the frontline air superiority fighter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Pune around 13:15 local (07:45Z) today. Both the pilots bailed out to safety, an officer said.  The fighter belongs to a squadron of the Su-30MKI which is based at the Lohegaon Air Force Base to protect amongst others, the economic capital of India, Mumbai. The part of the base also serves as the civil airport serving the city of Pune....

U.S. MQ-9 crashes at Mahe, Seychelles. Not a good period for America’s robot war - The Aviationist | News agencies are reporting that a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper crashed today at the Seychelles International Airport in Mahe. The cause of the crash is unknown and under investigation but the Reaper (also known as Predator B) was unarmed and no injuries were reported.... 

This Crazy 385-Foot Wingspan Giant Mothership Will Launch Rockets Into Orbit [Video] from Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz | This is not a fantasy project. This is going to be real: a gigantic 385-foot wing span, 544-tonne plane powered by six 747 engines that will serve as a flying launch platform for 490,000 pound orbital rockets....

Teen envisions helicopter of the future - GAN | Sikorsky Aircraft and By Kids For Kids Co., an organization that inspires kids to be successful inventors, has awarded a California teenager the Igor Sikorsky Youth Innovator Award for envisioning a small unmanned helicopter that could carry relief supplies and electrical power to the scene of a natural disaster or other catastrophic event.  Tharon Trujillo, 15, of Plumas Lake, Calif., accepted the award — a trophy and a $1,000 scholarship check — during a company-paid visit to Sikorsky’s headquarters in Stratford, Conn. Accompanied by his parents,... 

NYC's Intrepid Museum Celebrates Ownership of Space Shuttle Enterprise - Space.com | NASA's space shuttle prototype, Enterprise, now belongs to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.  Space agency leaders and local elected officials marked the shuttle's transfer of ownership, which took place last month, during a ceremony held Sunday (Dec. 11) onboard the aircraft carrier-turned-museum....

0 Gravity by Troy Turner | Only a handful of space tourists have actually made to the outskirts of our planet, but with companies like Virgin Galactic already taking down payments on seats, it’s only a matter of time before the cosmos become a sought-after vacation destination (for those who can afford it, of course). This project aims to offer riders a quick trip where they can briefly experience zero-gravity and get a peek of our planet....