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Safety of popular air shows, races under scrutiny - San Francisco Chronicle | Despite suffering severe injuries in the worst air race accident in the U.S. in more than a half a century, some victims have told their lawyer they would like to attend future races....

Final agenda revealed for NTSB airshow hearing - GAN | The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced the final agenda for its Air Race and Airshow Safety Hearing, which takes place Jan. 10.  The start time for the hearing, which is being held at the NTSB Conference Center and Board Room in Washington, DC, has been changed to 9 a.m. (EST).  Fifteen witnesses will provide the board and the public insight into current safety regulations, the...

Formation flight Sunday. Curtiss B-2s - Planeshots

2nd Annual Sport Pilot Fly-in to the Bahamas - You Fly Girl | January 22 - 23, 2012 * | http://www.aviatorshotline.com/bahamas  | Aviators Hot Line is hosting the 2nd Annual Sport Pilot Fly-in to the Bahamas. Participants will receive a commemorative t-shirt personalized with their N-number and aircraft manufacturer's emblem.  For those who are attending Sebring, there will be a noon briefing on January 22, at the Alan Jay Hangar on field at the Sport Aviation Expo....

19 Jan, US Sport Aviatin Expo at Sebring Florida - You Fly Girl | Press Release: 5th Annual LAMA Dinner: Open to Vendors and Associations of the Light Sport Aircraft Industry. | Where: AeroShell Hospitality Tent | When: Thursday, January 19, 2012 | 5:30 Beverage Service | 6:00 Free lasagna dinner served buffet style | 6:30 Rod Hightower Speaks | http://www.aviatorshotline.com/dinner...

Planes announced for Thunder Over Louisville - WDRB Video | New details on the air show lineup for this year's Thunder Over Louisville.  WDRB News has learned from Thunder producers that the show will include a demonstration from an F-22 raptor. That's a stealth fighter....

RNZAF celebrates at Tauranga - Sun Live | The Royal New Zealand Air Force is expecting to begin celebrating its 75th anniversary with a good showing of aircraft at this month’s Tauranga City Airshow....

Tuskegee Airmen symposium set - GAN | A Tuskegee Airmen Symposium will be held at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15.  The event is free to museum members and included in the price of regular admission for non-members.... 

Once you have tasted flight… A challenge and an offer - Flying with Amelia | So I ask myself, all the time… How can I help make this possible for more people. How can I get someone, who has never even sat in a small airplane, in touch with an undeveloped but potentially life changing experience? We must make that initial contact with the airplane possible. We must get kids who want to fly, up in the air. It was Leonardo DaVinci who said, “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return”....

Adventurer launches world light plane trip  - news.com.au | SLOVENIAN adventurer Matevz Lenarcic has flown out of Ljubljana at the start of an eco-friendly trip around the world in an ultra-light plane boasting super-low fuel mileage.  "I want to make people understand that this world is the only one we've been given and if we destroy it, we and our descendants will be losing it for good," Lenarcic said ahead of the solo adventure dubbed GreenLight WorldFlight....

Operators suspend hot air flights - The Dominion Post | Balloonists around the country grounded their aircraft yesterday out of respect for those who died in Saturday's tragedy.  Balloon Aviation Authority of New Zealand president Martyn Stacey said there had been no collective decision to suspend flights, but many operators chose to....

How’d you get that shot – Rare Bear - TVR Photography | Let me first start by saying, I have never witnessed harder working aircrews than those who toil over air racers. Months before the Reno Air Races, air racing crews are diligently working on their aircraft tweaking and modifying every square inch for that one extra mile per hour. And as race day nears, they become sleepless masters of...

Seized Skyraider Heading To Museum - AVweb | A federal judge has ordered an Alabama man to forfeit his AD-4N Skyraider after siding with the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch of the Department of Homeland Security that the Vietnam-era close support aircraft was illegally imported to the U.S. ICE is turning the Skyraider over to the Navy for display in the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. As we reported in 2009, ICE agents seized the aircraft, which is in good flying condition, from Claude Hendrickson. In a news release, ICE said the aircraft and parts, including four 20-mm cannons, were "smuggled" into the U.S. because the plane is a "defense article" and Hendrickson hadn't done the required paperwork to import it and...

Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Resides in One of TWO Viable 1929 Curtiss-Wright Hangars - Museum News | 1929 Curtiss-Wright hangars were once scattered about the U.S. at most major airports where Curtiss-Wright did business.  With time and aviation industry consolidation taking their toll on nearly all of these facilities, only a few remain in any condition.  We in the St. Louis area are very fortunate to have TWO of these magnificent historic landmarks not...

Fokker D.VIII and its parasol wing from Travel for Aircraft | The D.VIII came out late in WW I and this replica Fokker D.VIII is displayed at the  U.S. Army Aviation Museum in Alabama in original vintage lozenge patterned fabric. Originally known as the Fokker E.V. — and nicknamed “Flying Razor” by the Allies — it is notable for its single wing design, mounted in parasol fashion above the fuselage. Even as early as the end of WW I some designers saw the way to a faster aircraft was by reducing the drag biplane designs inherently possess with external struts and braces....

Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5A — a “Scarlet Lady” from Travel for Aircraft | This Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5A replica can be seen in U.S. Army Aviation Museum in Alabama and is in the markings of the 25th Aero Squadron. The SE-5A, along with the Sopwith Camel, were significant aircraft in the late stages of WW I since they attained final air superiority over the German forces.... 

'Cardiff Airport At Rhoose: 70 Years Of Aviation History' - Barry & District News | 'CARDIFF Airport At Rhoose: 70 Years Of Aviation History' by Geoff Jones is a celebration of 70 years at Cardiff Airport through photographs.  Published last month, this £16.99 paperback original is the first dedicated photographic history of Cardiff Rhoose Airport....

Historic pages from the archives of the Staten Island Advance: Oct. 14, 1908 - SI Live | ...Wilbur Wright, the American aero-planist, made a flight here with Mrs. Hart O. Berg, the wife of his European business man-ager, as a passenger. The governing committee of the Aero Club of France has awarded its gold medal for 1908 to Wright. By making two successful flights, each time carrying a passenger, Wright has won the prize of $100,000....

World War 2 pilot biography set to speak at Jan. 21 Arden-Dimick Library program - From the Capitol | ...Royal Leonard was 20th century Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek’s personal pilot, co-conspirator with the famed World War II Flying Tigers commander, and aviator on the Skyway to Hell. The author will talk about the Golden Age of American Aviation and the Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s and 1940s.

Air Candy - A photo esseay by Max Haynes | Air & Space Smithsonian | Everybody had their own reasons for flying this photo mission....

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Airspeed Rolls Out New Website! - Airspeed | After a successful run of six years on the Blogger platform, we've outgrown it. Please head over to www.airspeedonline.com to see the new blog and catch up on all of the news and content from Airspeed and its related projects!  We've migrated all of the content from this Blogger site (more than 400 posts, including the show notes from more than 200 episodes) over the new site, so you won't miss a thing....

Military reveals revolutionary pilotless cargo drone that can deliver supplies to... - Military Photos | The U.S. military is testing a revolutionary new drone for its arsenal, a pilotless helicopter intended to fly cargo missions to remote outposts where frequent roadside bombs threaten access by road convoys....