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Wingsuit Flyer Injured In Crash - AVweb | Wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss broke both legs in a fall after jumping from Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday. A YouTube video shows Corliss and a videographer jumping off together, and a few seconds later Corliss hits the mountainside and tumbles to a stop. He was evacuated by helicopter. Corliss, 35, has successfully jumped from the...

Air show raises $115,000 for Hasbro hospital - Turn to 10 | PROVIDENCE --The Rhode Island National Guard on Tuesday presented a check for $115,000 to Hasbro Children's Hospital....

Rifle Airshows -- Joe Shetterly - Vans Airforce | Some months ago, my mother-in-law sent me a clipping from the Kansas City Star about an airshow performance featuring Joe Shetterly in his RV-8. Capt. Shetterly also flies an A-10 Warthog in airshows, and the...

National Air and Space Museum opens art exhibit showing history of Marine Corps aviation - The Republic | WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is marking the 100th anniversary of U.S. Marine Corps aviation with an art exhibit retracing the history of military aviators.  The exhibit "Fly Marines!" opened Saturday and will be on view for a year. It includes 91 works for art from the Marine Corps Art Program that is managed by...


Only Airworthy B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" to Journey to Florida for the Spring | ADDISON, TX— The Commemorative Air Force B-29/B-24 Squadron is proud to announce that the world's only flyable Boeing B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" is going to visit Florida during the month of March.  While in Florida "FIFI" will be visiting, Gainesville, Daytona, Titusville, Ft. Lauderdale, Punta Gorda, Lakeland and Tallahassee.   The highlight of the tour will be the appearance of "FIFI" at the TICO Warbird Airshow, Florida International Air Show, and Sun N Fun; demonstrating that the "Commemorative Air Force is unique, we aren't like other...

CAF Only Flying B-29 Coming to Mobile Alabama from Alabama Aviator | ...Alabama on February 24-26, 2012.  Tours and rides will be available at Mobile Downtown Airport. After that, the Florida tour will commence. -FiFi, world's only flying B-29 coming to Mobile, Alabama, CAF image- The highlight of the tour will be the appearance of "FIFI" at the TICO Warbird Airshow, Florida International Air Sho...

Wings of Freedom Tour brings vintage warplanes to Brevard - Florida Today | MELBOURNE — Pilots don’t all strive to be fighter top guns. They simply want to fly.  “I had a chance to get into the B-17,” said John “Pat” Ryan of Melbourne. “To me it was a big deal. A lot of people wanted to be in fighters.”...

Red Tails Set to Premiere | After nearly 20 years in development by legendary producer George Lucas, Red Tails is set to premiere on Friday, January 20th.  The film recounts the struggles of the first black fighter squadron in the Army Air Corp.  These men became known as The Tuskegee Airmen because of their training base in Tuskegee, Alabama.  LiveAirShowTV interviewed three surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen at the 2010 Wings Over Houston Air Show.  “This was a great honor to ask these American Heroes about their experiences as aviation, and cultural pioneers”, said LiveAirShowTV President Jeff Lee.  “They were focused on flying and their missions at the time, but it didn’t take long before they realized that they were changing America.”...

Fouga Magister aircraft on auction (2): history and technical card (VIDEO) - Avio News | Paris, France - A highly acrobatic aircraft on which more than 12,000 pilots have been trained | Featuring the distinctive V-shaped fin with intermediate inclined surfaces at about 40 degrees, the Fouga CM-170 Magister owes this particular technical solution to the experience gained from the previous CM-8-15, an experimental aircraft based on a glider to which a jet engine was applied....

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Coming to Huntsville for Employee Tours from Alabama Aviator | Boeing says it's excited to visit Boeing Huntsville engineers from the Huntsville Design Center (HDC) who support the 787 in the areas of primary and secondary structural design and stress analysis of composite and metallic components.  HDC also provides thermal analysis, flight test and systems analysis support for the 787. -Boeing Dream...

Video Proof: Chickens CAN Fly! (Awesome Italian Homebuilt) - AirPigz | I've got a couple suggestions for you when watching this first-flight video of a fascinating homebuilt that appears to be from Italy. First, turn down the volume - the music gets old really fast. Second, after watching the takeoff, feel free to jump ahead to about the 4:00 mark to watch the perfect landing, unless you...

The Army's Newest Surveillance Drone Can Shoot 80 Years' Worth of Video In a Day - PopSci | Sometimes the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and the U.S. Army is about to find out if they can create some amazing ISR synthesis by combining two pieces of bleeding-edge technology from its own stores: Boeing’s A160 Hummingbird unmanned helo and ARGUS--the Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System. Together, the duo will reportedly be able to collect 80 years’ worth of HD video each and every day....

PICTURES: Northrop adapts B-2's flying wing into airliner for NASA study - The DEW Line | NASA two years ago challenged three aircraft makers -- Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman -- to design a next-generation airliner. Boeing's and Lockheed's designs have been revealed before. Northrop's concept finally was unveiled last week at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Sciences Meeting in Nashville....

Kestrel Relocating to Northern Wisconsin - Kestrel | January 17, 2012 - Kestrel Aircraft Company, which is developing a new single-engine turboprop aircraft, announced Monday that it would bring its manufacturing operation and corporate headquarters to the city of Superior in northern Wisconsin. Kestrel CEO Alan Klapmeier was joined by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for the joint announcement at the Richard I. Bong Airport in Superior, claiming the area would add 600 permanent jobs by 2016....

The Importance of An Airport’s Name (Guest Post) - The Cranky Flyer | The name of an airport: we see it when we book reservations, on billboards as we cruise down the highway, on signs directing us towards the terminals, and we hear it constantly over the airport’s PA and on the airplane itself. As frequent fliers, we try to tune it out and focus on the three-letter airport code—it’s a daunting task given how often we’re exposed to the actual name....