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Airshow flies into airport in Upland - Contra Costa Times | The sky's the limit this weekend at Cable Airport. The 37th annual airshow comes to town Saturday and Sunday.  Skydivers will drop off at speeds of 120 mph. Aerobatic pilots will show off their skills. Airplane and helicopter rides will be available and the Southern California Historic Cars will be on display....

GA Awards for Alabama Northwest Florida District Named from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMNGHAM AL- Alabama Northwest Florida District Office, FAASTeam Manager unveiled the General Aviation Award recipients for 2012.  The General Aviation Awards Program is a cooperative effort between the FAA and aviation industry sponsors to recognize annually outstanding individuals in the fields of Avionics, Flight Instruction, and Maintenance. In addition, the program recognizes outstanding individuals serving the FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) as representatives...

Leap Frogs Complete 2011 Season at Holiday Bowl - Military.com | The U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, kicked off the 34th annual Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego Dec. 28....

Ysterplaat Wings & Wheels Airshow - Justin De Reuck Photography | Photo gallery. The Ysterplaat Wings and Wheels Airshow was held on...

Black Hawk Radio Control Pilots sponsor an air show in the UNI-Dome - WCF Courier | CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- The public is invited to the 11th annual radio-control air show in the UNI-Dome at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.  The show, sponsored by the Black Hawk Radio Control Pilots, will feature pilots and aircraft from Iowa and surrounding states performing aerobatic flying maneuvers, air races, aerial combat, flight demonstrations and scale model aircraft dating from Wordl War I to the present....

New Years Eve Airport Day - Fly Another Time | Spent the day out at NW Regional Airport on New Years Eve day.  It was a warm, sunny Texas winter day with temps in the 70s.  Perfect for cleaning up the 170 and catching up with friends around the airport.  The great weather brought out quite a few visitors to our airport.  Below are a few pictures from the day....

OHIO air News #170 - Charles Johnson | OAN#170, the first of 2012 with the newest news from 2012 and late news from 2011.

Ultralights, Sport Aviation Expo and Penelope Pilot's Page - Girls With Wings | With the upcoming Sebring US Sport Aviation Expo, we thought it a great time to focus our latest 12 page edition of Penelope Pilot's Page on the topic of Ultralights.  According to Wikipedia, the definition of an ultralight is...

The F22 Raptor - Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The F22 “Raptor” is simply amazing to watch fly! I first experienced a demo flight up close and personal at Reno Air Races in 2008 and watching it being put through its paces was nothing short of impressive. Now that the last one has rolled off the production line, it will be interesting to see how history rates this...

Chanute Air Museum 'definitely in a better financial place' - Left for dead a little more than a year ago, the patient is showing signs of life.  Chanute Air Museum is healthier as it heads into a new year. But looming is the still-unanswered question of whether it will continue to call Grissom Hall home....

MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting January 19 Presents the Tuskegee Airmen Story By Carmelo Turdo | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is a group of folks with a love of aircraft, and we are striving to record and document the rich aviation history that has been a part of the great state of Missouri for the past century. From Benoist to Zenith, the aviation industry in the "Show Me" state has always been at the forefront of technology, and... 

January 2012 Roadrunner News - Roadrunners Internationale | The Roadrunners of Groom Lake are sad to report that Lt Col Harold Leslie Archer, Sr. USAF (Ret) of Murrieta, CA passed away at his residence on Friday, December 30, 2011.  Lt Col Archer served as a KC-135 pilot before his... [LTC Archer's bio]

Early helos of the U.S. Army from Travel for Aircraft | The U.S. Army Aviation Museum* in Alabama is a world class museum. There is a post about my visit as well as several on various exhibits there — pasting the name into the search window and selecting ENTER will bring up the entire selection. The building is...

Review: Johnny Jet’s “Hot Spots 2012″ On The Travel Channel - Aviation Queen | One of the great things about social media is all the people you get to “meet.”  The aviation and travel tribes have embraced Twitter full, and thanks to the microblogging site, I got to “meet” Johnny DiScala, AKA Johnny Jet.  His eponymous website is a virtual treasure trove of travel links and resources, and is one of my go-to websites.  I was honored when he included me on his list of Twitter travel writers.  So I was *really* excited when I learned he was getting his own special — Hot Spots 2012 — on the Travel Channel....

Race Pilot 3D Full - Android Apps | Race against the clock to complete tricky air courses in this 3D sim.  Race against the clock to complete tricky air courses in this 3D, accurately modelled, air race flight sim....

Balloon Drops UAV That Launches More UAVs - Robots.net | The Navy Research Lab has completed testing of a Balloon-launched UAV that in turn launches smaller UAVs. They're calling the project ADD (Autonomous Deployment Demonstration) A balloon carried an UASUSA Tempest UAV to 60,000 feet. On each of the Tempest's wings, a smaller...

Hawker Siddeley unmanned interceptor - Hitechweb | The first real thought construct unmanned combat aircraft for air combat was born forty years before in the UK. At that time came by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics to design unmanned machine with deltakrídlom a duck tail, one engine-driven Rolls-Royce Spey. On the fighter role was very well equipped: there should be a modern powerful radar of F-4 Phantom, one anti-aircraft missiles Sky Flash in the central fuselage pylon, and two short-range anti-aircraft missiles AIM-9C SRAAM or on the wing. The composition should be controlled if necessary by ground operators via television...