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Two More Join AirVenture Air Show Lineup from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Two highly popular aerobatic performers have been added to the daily air show lineup at EAA AirVenture 2012, which will be held July 23-29 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.

French team at work. Picture by Kevin Techer - Bonjour Blue Sky  

Air show preparing for April takeoff - Macon.com | WARNER ROBINS -- The air show at Robins Air Force Base is still three months away, but organizers sought Monday to whet appetites for the event.  Lt. Col. Dwayne Gray, who is in charge of the show for the base, said many notable acts have signed on, and more are interested. With other air shows for the year being cancelled, he said he has been taking many calls from acts wanting to fly in the Robins show....

US Navy Leap Frogs Take Oath from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | JAMUL CA- Chief Warrant Officer (SEAL) Keith Pritchett, officer-in-charge of the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, administers the oath of enlistment to Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michelle Turner, the team public affairs officer, during an in-air reenlistment ceremony. Last year, the team scheduled 30 performance...

Upcoming Winter Alabama Aviation Events from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ...in Alabama there's still many aviation events to enjoy across the state. Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the movie, A Smile as Big as the Moon, a triumphant story about a special education teacher's dream of helping his students attend Space Camp. John Corbett, Jessy Schram, and Cynthia Watros have the staring roles. On January 27, ther...

TASM hosting an exhibit on African-American aviators - Tulsa Beacon | Through photographic and text panels and models of the aircraft that they flew, The Test reveals these men's stories of their struggle for equality in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Kim Jones, deputy director/curator of Tulsa Air and Space ...

Louisville Tuskegee Airman dies - WAVE3 | LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - One of the original Tuskegee Airmen from Louisville has passed away. Julius Calloway died Monday, he was 87-years-old and played a major role in aviation history.  Nearly a thousand pilots were trained at Tuskegee between 1941 and 1945 and Julius Calloway was one of them. Over the years, he touched many lives and shared his passion for being in the sky....

Red Tails Story Not Just About Men - Aero_News Network | Mildred Hemmons Carter Turned Down For WASP Due To Race | The opening of the movie "Red Tails" last week has brought the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to the attention of many who had never heard it before, and prompted a renewed awareness of that time in history. But as much as the valiant service of the Red Tails broke through barriers for American men of African descent, barriers to women in aviation, especially black women, would persist....

A Real "Red Tail" for The National WWII Museum | Institution Restores Famed Plane, a Type Flown by Tuskegee Airmen | By The National WWII Museum | With George Lucas' Red Tails soaring at the box office, The National WWII Museum announces its acquisition and restoration of a P-51 Mustang, the aircraft depicted in Hollywood's drama about the courageous fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen.  The Tuskegee Airmen were the...

Free hats given out at Chino air museum - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | CHINO - It will be Pratt & Whitney Hat Day on Saturday at the Planes of Fame Air Museum.  A free Pratt & Whitney hat is available to the first 100 paid "general" admissions that day, courtesy of Sun Air Parts....

"The Boneyard Project" Lands in Tucson's Pima Air & Space Museum By Claire Lawton | If you're looking for the latest work by a few of the biggest international names in street and contemporary art, don't bother looking at the walls. Instead, look south, down Interstate 10 past Tucson. It's there, in the "boneyard" of retired aircraft, that a caravan of trucks and cranes is wheeling painted planes and parts to Pima Air & Space Museum....

“Sizzlin Liz” over the Sierra - Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The P-51D “Sizzlin Liz” that belongs to Ted Conti (at the stick) is a gorgeous plane. This photograph...

Or Die Trying - Air & Space Smithsonian | After the Wright brothers flew, a handful of inventors were determined to join them | Earle Ovington meant well. “It is a peculiar fact, but nevertheless true that a man seems to think that he is able, or competent rather, to design an aeroplane, whether he knows anything about the principles underlying aerodynamics or not,” he wrote in the October 1912 issue of Aeronautics. His advice was simple:...

Family's search for WWII pilot finally over - Lincoln Journal Star | Stanley Dwyer's B-17 was shot down on May 10, 1944, in a forest near Vostenhof, near Neunkirchen, Austria. (Courtesy Kay Hughes) A 1916 dime occupies an honored place in the Geneva family room of Kay Hughes. When she and her father, Harold E. Dwyer of ...

Historic hangar used to build Concorde in Filton is denied listed status - Gazette | FILTON’S aviation heritage has been dealt a new blow after the hangar used to build Concorde was denied listed status.  Campaigners fighting to save Filton Airfield after owners BAE Systems announced its imminent closure applied to English Heritage to list Brabazon Hangar to protect it from being torn down....

Super Guppy visits Amarillo one last time ... from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | If you were out by Rick Husband/Amarillo International Airport yesterdau - you may have witnessed a strange looking whale of an aircraft landing - Nasa's "Super Guppy."  The unique one...

The "Franken-Mirages" fly again! -  Bayou Renaissance Man | Readers are probably familiar with my detailed history (see Weekend Wings #39) of the Cheetah fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force (SAAF). All were retired from service by 2008, to be replaced by Saab Gripen fighter-bombers....

China’s J-18 Snowy Owl: Myth or Reality? from David Cenciotti | Over the past year or so, rumours on the Internet have persisted that China has been building a stealthy STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft in a similar vein to the F-35 Lightning II. Pictures of said aircraft are non existant but the rumour mill still persists that it’s either real or will be at some point in the future....

Done Right, the Purchase of Your Own Airplane Can be Extremely Rewarding - Airplanista | I have made the point many times that I believe AOPA Pilot Magazine is the finest aviation monthly on this planet. That's not kissing up, that's just a fact in my world. While some publications will eloquently explain the pros and cons of the latest mega-million-dollar bizjet or  discuss 101 ways to use a rivet, Pilot consistently delivers the GA content welcome to aviators like me who fly single-engine piston airplanes....

Day of Remembrance, 2012 from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Apollo One, AS-204, lost January 27, 1967...

FLY NASA- Where the Sky is Not the Limit from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -NASA- Want a career that'll take you full circle? Adventure. Commitment. Leadership. Achievement. These are the core values of NASA's distinguished astronaut corps. They're also the rewards of fulfilling work. The 21st century astronaut will serve on long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station - and future deep space ...