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Reno Air Racing Association planning for races this year - MyNews4 | RENO, Nev. (AP, MyNews4.com & KRNV) – The Reno Air Racing Association President Mike Houghton has announced they will hold an event at the Reno – Stead Airport on September 12 – 16 of 2012.  Houghton said his goal is to have an air show and race at that time, moving ahead with plans for this fall's competition despite a tragic crash at last September's races that killed 11 and injured more than 70.  Houghton says a memorial will be held to remember the crash. He said it, "needs to be done right."  Association President Mike Houghton said the...

Blue Angels, ‘Fat Albert,’ visit Utah in March - Salt Lake Tribune | St. George • There will be thunder over southern Utah when the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels precision flying team performs aerial acrobatics at the St. George airport on March 17-18. “Utah is a place we always wanted to fly so when the opportunity was available we took it,” said Blue Angels team member Lt. Cmdr. Todd Royles, who flew into St. George on Tuesday for a news conference about the upcoming performance and to finalize logistics....

Blue Angels arrive in El Centro to start winter training season - Imperial Valley Press | Climbing out of the cockpits of the 56-foot-long blue and yellow jets, the group of pilots made their way to the crowd that formed along the chain link fence. Dressed in bright blue jumpsuits, the U.S. Navy’s flight demonstration team pilots greeted local dignitaries and Blue Angel honorary team members with smiles, handshakes and the occasional hug as the group arrived to start its winter training at the local Navy facility....

Show hopes to get area flying high - South Wales Evening Post | A MAJOR new air show is being planned to take place in Pembrey this summer. Details for the event, named Carmarthenshire Air Show, are currently being drawn up, with Pembrey airport and racetrack being earmarked to stage the spectacle in July. ...

'HORSEMEN COMETH' DOCUMENTARY ON PBS - ASB | THE HORSEMEN COMETH follows the world's only P-51 Mustang formation aerobatic team as they harness the grace and power of the legendary "Cadillacs of the Sky." The film documents the journey of three renowned air show pilots as they attempt to tame these vintage fighters and showcase the plane's heritage at air shows around the world. Shot in stunning high definition, THE HORSEMEN COMETH gives viewers...

Aero-TV: Bob Hoover At Airventure -- 'When Did You Start Flying?' - Aero-News Net | Ask any pilot who he thinks is the best he ever saw and depending on how long they've been in the business, the answers might surprise you... BUT, for anyone who had the grand opportunity to see much of the Golden Age of GA, its hard to forget the grace and professionalism exhibited by Robert A. "Bob" Hoover -- a man whom many have no hesitation calling the best they ever saw....

Iconic fighter plane flies home to HMB - Half Moon Bay Review | For Eddie Andreini, there's no better way to start the new year than by flying an airplane. And there's no better plane to fly than his newly restored P-51 Mustang.  Andreini picked up the vintage, American-made, fighter plane Dec. 10, after two years of restoration in Salinas. "Primo Bronco," is the newest addition to the local pilot's airplane fleet...

World War II pilot, riveters share war stories - Rome News Tribune | James McCubbin, a retired captain in the 8th Air Force of the Army Air Corps, explains his WWII experiences to Rome members of the American Rosie the Riveter Association. (Brittany Hannah / Rome News-Tribune) Twin...

Google May Come To The Rescue Of Historic 'Hangar One' from AirPigz | I'm a little late to the party with this info, but as they say; better late than never. Which also happens to apply to this unique situation with the historic Hangar One at Moffett Field near San Jose, California... just when the future for this amazing structure looked really bleak, and while work continued removing the building's outer skin, Google has stepped up to the plate to offer an encouraging solution. Ok, actually it's the principal players at...

Remembering three special people we lost during 2011 - The Daily News | ...The third friend we lost was Bruce Martin, who died Oct. 6, and while he was 93 years old, he had so much to live for.  A decorated B-17 pilot from World War II, in recent years he had begun talking about his war experiences to school children and local organizations. He was so proud of what he and other veterans had survived during the war, and he wanted to...

A Visionary is a Visionary is a Visionary. - Flight Monkeys w Video | If the name Burt Rutan doesn’t ring any bells with you, we have just the video to help get you up to speed. Of course if you are familiar with the name, then you know why we’re posting a piece to the blog about him. This guy is a visionary. Not a flash-in-the-pan, sort of cool guy who invented the...

This could be YOU! - Vans Air Force | A Yahoo group has been established to collect and disseminate information for the NC 2012 Formation Clinic at the Stanly County, NC airport (KVUJ) on the weekend of 20-22 April 2012 (rain date: April 27-29)....

Flight a rite of passage for new pilot - The Press | Young pilot Chloe Milne hadn't been everywhere by the time she landed at Nelson Airport yesterday, but she was well on the way.  Milne turned 21 on November 21 and set herself the target of landing at 21 runways around New Zealand as a "flight of passage" after getting her private pilot's licence last month....

New WAI scholarships available from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Despite the deadline to apply for a Women in Aviation International scholarship having come and gone, two new scholarships are now available for 2012. These new scholarships bring the total to 73 individual scholarships valued at $520,900 to be awarded to WAI members...

74 Year old Aviation Magazine Relaunched as Online Journal - PR Newswire | Air Facts, first published for private pilots in 1938, has new life and has been reinvented as an online journal at www.AirFactsJournal.com. This important aviation magazine was among the first publications to address the growing number of pilots as aircraft became more accessible to the general population....

Warbirds Dogfights Released - Fly Away Simulation | iEntertainment announced in January 2010 its release of Warbirds Dogfights. Warbirds Dogfights puts the user in the pilot's seat of the greatest WWII air combat airplanes. The simulation can be used in massive multiplayer mode online or single player ...

Air Force Will Lose Hundreds of Planes in New Pentagon Plan FROM Danger Room | ...Danger Room has learned that around 200 airplanes, mostly older models, will eventually be retired without replacement. That represents about a 5 percent reduction in the overall fleet of about 4,000 aircraft. Exactly which planes will go is unclear. But under any scenario, the positions of thousands of airmen who fly and maintain those planes will be phased out. The majority of those airmen will be reservists and Air National Guardsmen....

The Successor to the B2 Stealth Bomber - PopSci | The youngest active stealth bomber in the U.S. turns 15 this year, and the other 19 B2s in the Air Force fleet are nearly five years older. Meanwhile, the integrated defense systems they face have become much more sophisticated. Multi-static radar, which is now relatively common, is so sensitive that it can detect certain stealth craft. To stay ahead of such defense systems, the Air Force has budgeted $3.7 billion over the next five years to develop a successor to the B2 that could be active by 2020. Actual designs of the new bomber are classified, but some secrets are already out....

NewSpace highlights of 2011 - RLV and Space Transport News | In the long winding trek to low cost access to space, no single big and exciting leap forward took place during 2011. However, there were a number of developments that may someday be seen in retrospect as having greatly accelerated the pace towards affordable space travel. Some detours and setbacks occurred but overall I would say that commercial spaceflight and the development of fully reusable space transport moved ahead robustly....

Astronaut with roots in San Carlos floats into Pasadena - Contra Costa Times | Rex Walheim has spent 36 hours spacewalking at an altitude of more than 100 miles. On Monday, he'll be doing some floating of a different kind. Walheim, one of four crew members on the final space shuttle mission in July, will be honored for...