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37th Annual Cable Airshow takes place next weekend - Highland Community News | The 37th Annual Cable Airshow and Car Show will be held Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 8 at the Cable Airprt (CCB) in Upland. Airshow hours are 8 am to 4 pm Admission is $7 for adults, kids 5-12 $5 and under five are free. Parking is free...

Museum’s ‘Living History’ Flying Day Saturday from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Planes of Fame Air Museum’s Living History Flying Day Event, Saturday, Jan. 7, will feature “pre-war” fighters, with the only airworthy Boeing P-26A “Peashooter” fighter in the world taking flight....

Former Tuskegee Airman, NCCU dean dies - WRAL.com | He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and pilot in December 1943 and served as a B-25 bomber pilot for the rest of the war. His all-black 477th Bombardment Group was preparing for deployment in the Pacific theater when the war ended in 1945....

LUCAS' 'RED TAILS' SALUTES TUSKEGEE AIRMEN - ASB | NICASIO, Calif. – George Lucas is many imposing things. Billionaire lord of a sci-fi empire. Passionate early-education philanthropist. Northern California land baron. But drill down to his core and Lucas is still the same fiercely independent kid from rural Modesto who grew up enamored of fast machines and great movies. Those simple roots help explain what otherwise might seem like a puzzling cinematic move: why a 67-year-old white guy has spent $58 million of his own money to produce Red Tails, out Jan. 20, an action-adventure film about World War II African-American aviators known as the Tuskegee Airmen....

Alaska Reserve group gets early ‘Red Tails’ viewing - Alaskajournal.com | “Our 477th Fighter group is a direct descendant of the 477th Bombardment Group in which the Tuskegee Airmen were training in B-25 bombers during World War II,” said Col. Bryan Radliff, commander of the 477th. This training originated in Alabama and...

Indiana GA airport prepares for Super Bowl from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Shelbyville Municipal Airport (GEZ) will be busier than ever this Super Bowl season and will need additional support, according to a report in the Shelbyville News. “I’m going to need a lot of volunteers at the airport to make things run,” airport manager Darrell Shrader said...

North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie engines - High Power Rocketry | The Valkyrie is one of the most insane jets ever made, in some ways more extreme than the SR-71. It was expensive, huge, dangerous to fly, and ultimately not particularly useful as …

New U.S. Air Force Recruiting page on Facebook - U.S. Air Force Live | Do you have questions about Air Force career fields or joining the U.S. Air Force? Well check out the new U.S. Air Force Recruiting Facebook page that focuses entirely on answering your questions about joining.

Helicopter to fly in new Ocean City inlet tower - The Baltimore Sun | ...Instead, it's likely to be a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter airlifting a new tower to the jetty at the Ocean City inlet, replacing the old tower that was destroyed by last summer's Hurricane Irene. The new tower will be used for marine navigational purposes...

MNF KC Flight - Vans Air Force | Got the finished snap shot back from the ESPN DVD, 7 RVs over Arrowhead Stadium on Monday Night Football.

Back to business - Boeing | …The end of year totals also revealed even more amazing news about the 737 MAX. We’ve now topped 1000 orders and commitments from 15 customers. I’ve said 2012 will be the “Year of the MAX” and these latest numbers show we’re already heading in that direction….

X-37B spaceplane 'spying on China' - BBC News | The unpiloted vehicle was launched into orbit by the US Air Force in March last year and has yet to return to Earth….

The Return Of Microsoft Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Microsoft shut down the group responsible for its popular Flight Simulator X (FSX) in 2009 and by 2010 announced that a new game, "Flight," was in the works -- now it says that game will arrive this spring and it will be free (with limits). Microsoft Flight will be available free via download and will include "flying challenges," and "a variety of exciting missions" limited to the a setting that mimics the Hawaiian islands. Extra content, including...

Orbital Space Junk Will Make Private Space Travel Impossible - Moonandback | In previous weeks, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s company Stratolaunch Systems unveiled its plan to launch rockets into space using a specially-designed airplane by 2016. This comes on the heels of news thatSpaceX‘s Dragon capsule will be the first privately-made module to dock with the International Space Station and Virgin Galactic’s plans to start launching into space as soon as next year….

Our View: Virgin Galactic: Moving workers is good sign - Las Cruces Sun-News | Ten, nine, eight, seven …. The countdown continues as Virgin Galactic preps for space tourism flights from Spaceport America that could possibly begin in 2013.  The latest positive step has Virgin Galactic relocating some staffers — formerly based in the United Kingdom — to an office off Roadrunner Parkway. While that might not seem like much in the cosmic — dare we say “galactic” — scheme of things, it is an affirmation, if one were still needed, that Virgin Galactic is seriously pressing onward and upward with its plans….

Official Site:  Virgin Galactic Spaceport Overview