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New Snowbirds in training for 2012 show season - MJ Times | The 2012 Canadian Forces Snowbirds team is busy training for another packed year, which will see performances at more than 50 shows in about 40 locations.  For the new members of the show team, based at 15 Wing Moose Jaw, wearing the iconic red flying suit and taking the red and white Tutor jets across North America as the face of the Canadian Forces is a highlight of their careers....

Peoria air show likely won't take off in 2012 - PJ Star | PEORIA — While airport officials say an air show in Peoria likely will be grounded in 2012, those who have put on the aviation extravaganza for nearly a decade say they're not giving up.  "As of right now, there will be no air show," Gene Olson, director of airports for the Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria, said Wednesday. "And that's kind of what the board wanted to do - to take a year off, and then start fresh in 2013."...

Phuket Carnival reaches zero hour - Phuket Gazette | ...The Phuket Flying Club will join the opening festivities with an aerobatic display by Les Vorosmarthy in his world-class EXTRA 300 stunt plane at 1pm and a repeat flyover at 5pm today....

Red Tails Movie Premier Party - Star Talent Swing Jazz Ensemble | Star Talent provided our Swing Jazz Ensemble for the NY Premier Party for the Twentieth Century Fox Film release of “Red Tails”....

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Unusual aircraft to fly in So. AZ - KPHO | Tucson residents are being told they may see unusual aircraft flying in the area of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Friday through Sunday.  There's no mystery about the nature of the aircraft or where it's from.  A CV-22 Osprey from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., will be...

2011 California Capital Airshow - Sacramento, CA | Tyson V. Rininger | Gallery

C-47 & The Greatest Generation - Moose Peterson | C-47 & The Greatest Generation | We’re just back from a trip to NYC where I put up an image or two of a warbird and related a story or two shared with me by what has been rightfully called the Greatest Generation. In return, new stories are shared with me and I can’t help but be moved but what these “kids” did for our freedoms. One of the stories came from one of the original Band of Brothers of the 101st (uncle of a good friend). I know we only touched the tip of the surface of stories but the beginning is one I won’t forget. The story begins in a C-47 flying over France on D-Day....

F-22 crash mystery finally explained - The DEW Line | The US Air Force has ended the mystery of what happened to the Lockheed Martin F-22 that crashed on 16 November 2010.  According to the newly-released  accident investigation board report, the cause wasn't the onboard oxygen generation system (OBOGS), although it did stop working. Instead, the pilot apparently struggled to activate the back-up oxygen system so much he inadvertently flipped the F-22 over into a steep dive while contorting his body to pull the tiny ring tucked into the side of his ejection seat....

Aviation's Social Network - Flight to Success | ... HangarChat.com allows pilots and aviation enthusiasts to connect to each other and share their passion of flight via experiences, photos and videos. The site has been designed by pilots for pilots, and is a place to enable all aviators to meet and stay in touch with people who share and understand what it feels like to be a pilot, or part of something bigger than life ... Aviation. ...

The Mega Mothership Space System From Stratolaunch - AirPigz | Yesterday Paul Allen announced an ambitious space launch project called Stratolaunch... it takes the high-altitude mothership launch system concept seen in his 2004 collaborative effort with Burt Rutan on SpaceShipOne to a massive new scale. In fact, this mothership, to be built by Scaled Composites, will have a wingspan of over 380 feet making it by far the largest aircraft in the world based on wingspan. Possibly more amazing is that the largest aircraft by this measure is still the Howard Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) built in the mid 1940's which has a wingspan of just a tic under 320 feet....