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Air Races Crash NTSB Hearing Agenda Announced - My News 4 | More answers about just what caused the deadly National Championship Air Races crash are expected early next month according to a hearing agenda just announced by the National Transportation Safety Board.  The hearing will take place in Washington D.C. on January 10, 2012. NTSB spokesperson Terry Williams wrote in a news release to News 4:...

Air Races Still Need to Nail Down Stead Location - My News 4 | ...Air Race CEO Mike Houghton says it's true there has been no formal request made, but RARA would like to sit down and talk about all this as soon as the airport is open to that. And he says RARA hasn't been led to believe there will be any problems in moving forward with securing the Stead airfield as the location for next year's air race event.
 
Stunt Pilot Flying in for Singapore Air Show - Jakarta Globe | Aviation buffs are in for a real treat when the next Singapore Air Show flies into town in February.  For the first time in the show's 30-year history, spectators will be wowed by a solo stunt-flying segment.  In an Asian debut, Australian pilot Tony Blair, 41, will perform daredevil stunts in his single-propeller Rebel 300.  He said: "The Rebel is capable of just about anything....

Old school is good school…or not ! - Bonjour Bluesky

Air show slated to return - The Journal | There will be a 2012 Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Air Show, according to a release sent out Tuesday.  The West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th Airlift Wing will partner with the local community and Thunder Over the Blue Ridge, Inc. to host the annual event, currently slated for the Sept. 15 to 16, 2012 weekend....

Air show tickets selling like hot cakes - Gult weekly | Batelco has reported high demand for tickets for the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) 2012. They are being sold at all Batelco retail shops and are selling fast.  Due to the success of the inaugural event in January 2010, there is increased demand for tickets for BIAS 2012, which will take place at the Sakhir Airbase on January 19-21.  Batelco, Bahrain’s leading integrated communications provider, is a major sponsor of the event for the second time....

Tribute to Arizona’s Tuskegee Airmen CAF Arizona Wing Aviation Museum at Falcon Field - Fighter Country | The Tribute event is timed to coincide with Lucasfilm’s release of “Red Tails” on January 20, 2012. See www.redtails2012.com. However, the Tribute event is presented an entire week earlier — at the start of the 2012 MLK Holiday weekend — to raise awareness of the significance of the Tuskegee Airmen’s experience not just in aerial combat over Europe in World War II, but as a major driver in the movement for civil rights and equality which, in the decades following World War Two, reshaped America’s military in particular and American society on the whole..... 

Air Museum offers plenty of special all-ages events during vacation week - NewsTimes.com | No matter your age, if you love anything remotely to do with flying, airplanes or avionics, a place to visit between Christmas and New Year's Day is the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks.  Jason Archer, the museum's assistant director of education, said the museum has scheduled "five days of special activities during the holiday break," designed to "show that aviation is accessible to a lot people."  "There is such variety within aviation, from history, to...

B-26 Invader and the Monument to the Bay of Pigs Aviators — Now Completed I - Travel for Aircraft | ...located on the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport public access property, primarily honors those aviators who had a part in this battle...

The Epicenter of General Aviation – as Seen From Space - Airplanista | Google Earth's satellite images of the crust of our planet are a marvel of modern technology. I am forever amazed at how detailed they have become, and that makes me wonder what even more precise detail our country's spy satellites can achieve.  Despite the many uses for...

Hawk jet crash with the Royal Saudi Air Force - Translated | A Hawk jet trainer of the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) fell on Tuesday in the Tabuk region, northwest of the country, according to information from the state news agency SPA.  Hawk The aircraft was conducting a training mission in the area of ​​Tabuk, when it collided with a bird, the report said, citing an unidentified official of the Ministry of Defence....

Zero-Zero - Neptunus Lex | What do you do in C-124 Globemaster when all your destination and divert fields are below approach minima, you don’t have ejection seats and the fuel tanks are running dry?...

Episode 178 – Bill English from the NTSB - Airplane Geeks Podcast | Bill English is a commercial pilot, multi and instrument CFI, and he’s flown corporate, charter, and was an air traffic controller in Boston and NY. Bill has written for IFR Magazine and worked on.... 

There's a bit of Howard Hughes in Paul Allen’s space dream - Tech Flash | A wealthy entrepreneur with a reclusive streak pours his money into a dream to build a record-sized aircraft to conquer the heavens.  That describes Paul Allen’s latest quest to reach space, a venture with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to build the world’s largest airplane that will launch a rocket to carry payloads — and eventually humans — beyond Earth’s atmosphere.  But it also describes an earlier time in the 1940s, when the...