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Black Diamond Jet Team set to sparkle From AOPA By Dan Namowitz | If Jared Isaacman could make a wish, it might be that the 2012 airshow season hurries up and gets started.  “We’re getting antsy here,” he said. “We need our aviation fix.”  Lots of pilots feel that way by mid-January—but as the founder and a member of the Lakeland, Fla.-based Black Diamond Jet Team, Isaacman is in a pretty good spot to do something about it. And it sounds like he won’t be sitting around much longer....

Team Viper announces it's end | Nothing fancy. Just a quick note on their FB fan page.   Here was their website.

Al Khor Fly-in attracts hundreds - Gulf Times | Hundreds of people attended the fifth open Fly-in day at Al Khor Airfield yesterday. Visitors, estimated to be at least 3000, expressed their joy to attend the “exciting and dramatic festival. The offer by some of the small ...

Al Khor air show lends wings to visitors’ flying aspirations - The Peninsula | DOHA: Excitement was aflutter as the Fifth Al Khor Fly-in Open Day took off yesterday. The two-day event tasted success on the first day as it surpassed the expectations of visitors,  whose excitement was not dampened despite most of them being unable to enjoy a flight.  There are more than thirty attractive and colourful private aircraft on display. The owners...

2012 West Coast Formation Clinic (WCFC) - Van Air Force | The 2012 West Coast Formation Clinic (WCFC) will be held from Friday April 27 to Sunday April 29, 2012 at Madera Municipal Airport (KMAE), Madera, California, hosted by the West Coast Ravens RV Formation Squadron.  Formation flying is an extremely fun, challenging and rewarding activity. The WCFC is designed to introduce you to the basics of, and develop your skills in, RV Formation Flying to FFI standards...in a safe, professional and fun environment....

Gone — Ken Terry and his “Midnight Special” by Travel for Aircraft | ...While drafting the post I received the latest newsletter of the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum, UnScramble. Ironically, it brought word of the sudden passing of Ken Terry. He, as well as Mike Fuller of Port Orange FL, died as a result of the crash of his T-34B Mentor called “Midnight Special” upon departure from Wings Field, near Williston FL on 5 November 2011. Mike Fuller was in the front seat and Ken Terry was in the back seat. Terry was quite accomplished as an aviator (60,000 hours experience), service man and family man. I also know he was well liked by those in the museum....

Aviation museum hosts tribute to Tuskegee Airmen; Alumni now Valley residents - East Valley Tribune | As part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum in Mesa is hosting an event to honor America’s first all Black aerial unit, the Tuskegee Airmen, and mark the premiere of Lucasfilm’s “Red Tails.”...

Sci-fly: Piece of aviation history slips under Purdue radar - Journal and Courier | While in development and since, the A-12 Avenger II captured the imaginations of aviation fans, conspiracy theorists and military enthusiasts for 20 years. Kettleman's bargain piece, which he is offering on eBay for sale for more than $600000,...

Book celebrates city's aviation history - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | The book features stories and photos of local aviation history. Myers, a World War II aviator, wrote the book with help from his son Larry, center right, and grandson Geoffrey, center left. The book tour continues from 10 am to 4 pm today at the ...

Aviation film uses Clay County airpark as backdrop - Clay Today | GREEN COVE SPRINGS – A Middleburg High School graduate has written and produced a film shot mostly in Clay County that is expected to be completed in a few months. Writer-producer Lisa Weseman graduated from Middleburg High School in 1996 and earned a degree in television and film production from the University of Florida in 2000.  She moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. “SOLO” is the story of a close-knit aviation community mourning the loss of an experimental aircraft pilot.   Filming ended Dec. 21. The final cut is expected in March. The first public viewing will be at Sun 'N' Fun Air Show in Lakeland at the end of March.   Weseman said the family element sets “SOLO” apart from other aviation films....

Georgia: New film details Athens brothers' aerial circus  - Online Athens | The photographs, 8mm film, yellowed newspaper clippings and other dusty memorabilia from the high-flying daredevil days of 1945-50 lay stored away for decades in dark closets.  But in coming days, those images will have new life when “The World’s Smallest Airport,” a documentary film about The Thrasher Brothers Aerial Circus, will be shown...

Video: RAF Blasts Japanese Supplies (1945) - airboyd.tv | Universal Newsreels RAF Blasts Jap Supplies; “really pinpoint bombing” of targets in Burma

Awesome CRw Camp last weekend here at SDAZ, check out the neat... from Bonjour BlueSky

Marine UH-1 crew chief receives Distinguished Flying Cross for heroic action from Military Photos | Inside the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron369 hangar is an honor roll, a wall covered with patches of distinguishedMarines who have done outstanding work. Staff Sgt. Bart C. Davis’ patch waselevated to the honor roll after he received the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism....

Lippisch Aerodyne Naval from The Unwanted Blog | Another of one Alexander Lippisch’s aerodyne concepts. Wingless VTOL vehicles, they obviously never caught on. This one is for a US Navy craft of some type, apparently a...

Personal Fighter Jet Plan for $100,000 - Hanute Living | If private aviation is your little piece of heaven, you may be interested in taking it one step further and purchase your very own personal fighter jet plane. The price ranges from $76,511 up to $102,014.  Those with significant discretionary income enjoy...
   
Dauck helps with EAA Young Eagles Program - Green Bay Press Gazette | Participating young people become official Young Eagles with the flight, with the names of the pilots and the participants are also included in the "World's Largest Logbook" that is on permanent display in the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, ...

Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission - Spaceports | Reaching for the heavens looks pretty easy in Man on a Mission: Richard Garriott's Road to the Stars. The title character didn't meet the eyesight requirements to train as a NASA astronaut. So he just paid $30 million to the Russian space program, and hopped a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, notes NPR....