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2011 – The Year in Review: Air Shows - Flightglobal | Flightglobal travels to all the major air shows all year, every year to bring you news and industry gossip. The team works around the clock to deliver news on the web with our dedicated show pages that showcase videos, blogs, Twitter, images as well as iFlight, the interactive digital daily magazine that features heatmapped cutaways and videos.... 

Race #74 & Race #57 Together Again! - Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | These two, rare Super Corsairs have not flown together since 1949. The highlight of that year is when Cleland & Becker raced on the Cleland Team in the Thompson Race and #74 won (piloted by Becker). The low was when they were parked at the end of the field and left to rot that same year. 27 December, 2011 they were brought together again and flown over the skies of...

'Air Boss' Dick Cutshall called the shots at MacDill AirFest - Tampa Bay Times | Dick Cutshall had flown planes since age 16. He loved everything about them, spent his life around airplanes, helicopters and pilots, in control rooms and on airstrips.  He served in the Air Force as an air traffic controller, then as a civilian operations director at Avon Park Air Force Range. Starting in 1987, he also helped launch and maintain the MacDill AirFest, one of the largest air shows in the country....

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh RSS Feed ORBIS DC-10 'Flying Eye Hospital' Returning to AirVenture 2012 - EAA Airventure | One of the world's most unique examples of a humanitarian aircraft, the ORBIS DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital, will appear at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh for the 60th convention and fly-in slated for July 23-29, 2012, at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh....

L-39 Aerobatic Team - Airstrike (photo gallery) | A new team of L-39 jets was formed to display for a major international brand that was launching their new product here in Cape Town over a period of about one month. The aircraft were all painted with a...

Ditching the average life: Six ways to say yes to Adventure - Flying with Amelia | Tomorrow morning I am about to climb in an airplane and complete my goal: a transcontinental flight across the US in a single engine aircraft, following Amelia’s 1937 route. Two months ago, this goal seemed impossible, more of a dream than a plan. Much has been realized about goal setting and accomplishment in this time, and while I by no means have things figured out, I certainly feel like I have discovered some universal tools to success....
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Pilot sets out on flight of passage - Waikato Times | The rite of passage for many 21-year-olds is 21 shots or perhaps a symbolic key to adulthood, but a Cambridge woman has set her sights much higher. Sky high, in fact. Weather and plane maintenance permitting, former St Peter's Cambridge student Chloe Milne, who turned 21 on November 21, has embarked on a "flight of passage" this week, by setting out to land at 21 runways around New Zealand.  Late yesterday, Miss Milne was preparing to leave Christchurch Airport for Invercargill as she continued on her ambitious mission.... 

Red Tails Movie a Hit With Museum Vice President - Museum News | Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum 1st Vice President, Rick Rehg, screened the yet to be released movie Red Tails and gave his review this week. “Red Tails is a wonderful film and I give it a superior rating.  It is a very action packed film about the Tuskegee Airmen. I researched the history of the 332nd Fighter Group and found that the film is historically accurate. These airmen gave it...

Start of the hunt for the Mad Trapper - Aviation.CA | …So started what became the largest police manhunt in Canada and created the legend of the Mad Trapper….Over the next number of weeks the Alberta Aviation Museum will be creating a special display to be unveiled February 17th, 2012 on the “Search for the Mad Trapper”, along the way we will add parts of the story as the dates fall into place.

ME 109 Rare WW2 video clip - via AirShowBuzz | WATCH: crashed ME 109 Rare WW2 video clip.

Poland: MiG-29 – cockpit. Radom AirShow 2011 from 360Cities - Panoramic Photography Blog by 360Cities

Convair B-58A Hustler - Planeshots

175 IAF flying cadets pass out - Times of India | HYDERABAD: As many as 175 flying cadets, including 30 women passed out from the Air Force Academy, Dundigal, to join their respective branches in the Indian Air Force on Thursday.  Chief of Army Staff General V K Singh reviewed the combined graduation parade at the academy. The parade marked the culmination of one-year training of the cadets at the...

Rare Scaled Composites ARES 151 jet stops in Amarillo - Black Horizon | A rare - one -of-a-kind military prototype made a surprise stop at Rick Husband Amarillo International today. It's called the Model 151 Ares and was designed as a proof-of concept demonstrator for the US Army's requirements for a low-cost - fast and agile attack aircraft - a sort of mini A-10 Warthog - the current US militarys' premier tank killer....