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Prairie Air Show may change venues - PJ Star | Downtown restaurateur Pat Sullivan says bringing the Prairie Air Show to Peoria's riverfront is just one more way the region can show off its assets to tourists. "I have been an advocate of bringing the air show down here from day one," said the owner of Kelleher's Irish Pub & Eatery, 619 SW Water St. "Any time you can have that many people downtown, it is a good thing....

Air races presses case for special events license - RGJ | Saying he is backed by overwhelming support from the community, the head of the Reno Air Racing Association told an airport authority panel that the organization was financially hurt by last year’s deadly crash, but not destroyed....

Great Georgia Airshow aims to revamp for show in 2013 - Newnan Times-Herald | The Great Georgia Airshow aims to take 2012 off and revamp for an air show in 2013 at Falcon Field in Peachtree City. "The Great Georgia Airshow Board of Directors and dedicated key personnel truly appreciate the support all the enthusiastic show-goers...

Bernice “Bee” Falk Haydu - Flight to Success | December 15, 1920 history was being born in Bradley Beach, New Jersey, as Bernice “Bee” Falk made her entry into the world. There’s no mystery to the impact on a child when they receive support and encouragement. Bee was fortunate to grow up under the wings of strong role models. Men who supported and encourage their women. And women who set great examples for their children. ...

Norman Lear on 'Red Tails': 'We felt safer' aboard B-17 bombers - Washington Post | As a World War II radio operator and gunner aboard the B-17 bombers, Lear says he always felt good when the Tuskegee Airmen were flying escort. Q: How did you first come to know the Tuskegee Airmen? A: We didn't know anything about Tuskegee Airmen,...

Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting Features Tuskegee Airmen Presentation - The Aero Experience | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society's January meeting featured a presentation on the Tuskegee Airmen by member Myron Lane. On the eve of the release of the movie,...

George Lucas honors black pilots in WWII in new film, "Red Tails" - Sacremento Bee | George Porter didn't need to see "Red Tails," the new Hollywood action movie about black pilots in World War II, to know how it ends. He lived it. But as one of a handful of aging Tuskegee Airmen who served as technical advisers to...

WWII's Tuskegee Airmen honored with movie - WPSD | PADUCAH — When you see old black and white newsreel films from World War II, you might imagine the pilots in control of the planes are white but in reality, 996 of them looked like Harold Alston, an local member of the historic African American fighter group known popularly as the Tuskegee Airmen....

The enigma of the Norden Bombsight - Maxwell Gunter Dispatch | Smoke screens worked just fine, ground fog was a barrier and the simple fact was that the year of the most disastrous B-17 raids, 1943, saw an unusual amount of bad weather over Europe.” One of the most famous failings of the Norden Bombsight came in ...

Neuron: Europe's UCAV Rolled October from Ares by Robert Wall | The European Neuron unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator was rolled out on January 19 in what is shaping up to be a critical year for UCAVs in Europe. First flight of Neuron is planned for mid-2012 and BAE Systems also plans to fly the U.K.'s Taranis UCAV demonstrator this year....

787 Dreamliner coming to Singapore, will be on display at airshow - Strait Times | The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is scheduled to visit Singapore from Feb 11 - 18 as part of the third segment of the 787 'Dream Tour', the airplane manufacturer said on Friday. The 787 is set to visit Singapore Airlines, and will be on display at the Singapore Airshow held at Changi Exhibition Centre....

Pictured: The one-metre wide hole smashed into an aeroplane's nose by an ALBATROSS - Daily Mail | A Japanese Coastguard patrol aeroplane came close to disaster when it was hit by an albatross. The bird smashed a one-metre wide hole into the Bombardier DHC8-315's nose as it flew at just 300 metres over the East China Sea on Wednesday...

Montana Students Submit Winning Names For NASA Lunar Spacecraft from Aero-News Network | Inspiration Came From GRAIL's Study Of Gravity Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Montana. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was selected as part of a nation-wide school contest that began in October 2011.

Burt Rutan on Designing the World's Largest Aircraft from PopularMechanics.com - Science: Air & Space | Burt Rutan is best known as the designer of the first privately built craft to send people into space, is now one of the driving forces behind an attempt to build the world's largest aircraft for Stratolaunch.

Inside SpaceX: We Visit the Company's California Headquarters from PopularMechanics.com - Science: Air & Space | This year, SpaceX hopes to become the first company to send a privately built and owned spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. And CEO Elon Musk is already thinking far beyond that. Recently, we paid a visit to his company's home base.