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Red Checkers grounded after forced landing - TVNZ | The Air Force Red Checkers have been grounded after one of the aerobatics planes made a forced landing in the central North Island.  The lead Airtrainer, Red Checkers 1, was flying from Ohakea Air Base in the Manawatu to...

Air show set to attract thousands - Bay of Plenty Times | Experienced flight instructor Phil Hooker will be flying high at the bigger-than-ever air show in Tauranga over the weekend.  Mr Hooker is flying six different aircraft in 10 displays over the two days of the Classics of the Sky Tauranga City Airshow at the airport....

Clay Lacy To Get Howard Hughes Award - AINonline | Clay Lacy will be honored by the Aero Club of Southern California with its Howard Hughes Memorial Award on February 8. Famed test and aerobatic pilot Bob Hoover will present the award in recognition of Lacy’s achievements spanning some six decades. An airline captain, experimental test pilot, air race champion, aviation record-setter, aerial cinematographer and entrepreneur,...

Air Force Week in Photos - af.mil | This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.  View the slideshow.

The Horsemen Cometh: The World's Only P-51 Mustang Formation Aerobatic Team - ASB | There is only one "Cadillac of the Sky," the iconic fighter of WWII, the legendary P-51 Mustang. Since that time no one has attempted to harness the grace and power of these wild stallions and ride them locked in step as a formation aerobatic team... until now. For the past 2 years, the world's most respected aviation storytellers, AirShowBuzz.com, has followed the journey of three renowned air show pilots as they attempt to tame the mighty "Stang" and showcase its historic heritage at air shows around the world.Now, this 1-hour Public TV special,...

Havelock, Cherry Point should celebrate - Havelock News | The city of Havelock is Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s copilot. Through its close association with the sprawling Marine Corps airfield and the economic and social impact the air station has had on the city — as well as the surrounding region — it is inextricably linked to Marine Corps aviation....

Cost of Freedom Tribute and American Heroes Air Show continues - Cape Coral Daily Breeze | The community will continue to pay its respect to America's veterans today through Sunday as The Cost of Freedom Tribute and American Heroes Air Show continues at the Lee County Sports Complex.  The Traveling Vietnam Wall will be on display all day Friday and Saturday with a variety of events in between....

Homebuilt airshow underway - Sun Live | About 80 homebuilt aircraft are expected to arrive in Tauranga today for the Sport Aircraft Association of New Zealand annual general meeting.  The SportAvex event acts as a double with the Tauranga City Airshow ‘Classics of the Sky’ event on this weekend....

Podcast: Bomber Gas – The Warbird Rescue Hour! | ...the Warbird Recue guys talk with Jason Scott from The Bomber Restaurant.  Jason will be announcing some big plans for the B-17G ”Lacy Lady” that has been a...

Tuskegee vets honored in Reno - Nevada Appeal | Under Friday's gray winter skies, Nevada's Air National Guard Community Outreach Program sponsored a “meet and greet” in Reno with three members of the Tuskegee Airmen, a storied group of black aviators whose World War II exploits are the subject of a newly released George Lucas film....

Helicopter pilot shuttled governors - South County Independent | For 10 years, Narragansett resident and Major Army Aviator Thomas P. Shortall shuttled governors, dignitaries and top-level state employees around Rhode Island.  But he wasn’t a chauffer.  He was a helicopter pilot....

Spreading the word - Women of Aviation | In Colorado, Sandy put on her Women Of Aviation Week t-shirt, added her VIP Club pins, and off she went to speak to the Telluride Rotary Club. She spoke of Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week and her 2011 project to take as many young female Rotary Youth Exchange students...

CoolPix: XB-70 Valkyrie (& The AirPigz Air Force Museum MeetUp!) - AirPigz | There's really only a handful of aircraft that are so stunning to me that I can hardly speak when I'm in their presence. The XB-70 is one of them. The only remaining example (just two were built) is in the Research & Development Hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - or Air Force Museum as we used to call it. When I'm near the Valkyrie,...

Skystreak walkaround — the next to rare Douglas D-558-1 at the Carolinas Aviation Museum - Travel for Aircraft | The Skystreak performed in the shadow of the Bell X-1. The importance of the X-1 missions cannot be understated — neither should the Skystreak accomplishments be forgotten. Data gathered during the flights of Douglas’s D-558-1 not only were critical in designs of aircraft flying in the high subsonic and transonic ranges but also so with ordnance positioned under the wings. This research results were critical to the successful designs in several subsequent aircraft designs in the Century Series of fighters — North American F-100 Super Sabre, McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Republic F-105 Thunder chief and Convair F-106 Delta Dart — as well as the Douglas F4D Skyray and the Vought F8U Crusader....

USAF to scrap Northrop Global Hawk drone for U-2 spy plane - Airforce-Technology | The US Air Force (USAF) has decided to scrap its plans to replace the Cold War-era U-2 spy planes with Northrop Grumman-built Block 30 high-altitude RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance planes, a government official and a defence analyst have revealed.  Virginia-based Lexington Institute CEO Loren Thompson said that details of how many Global Hawks the Air Force has decided to scrap were not clear but indicated that building on the aircraft will stop with immediate effect and that the existing planes in the inventory would be retired....

National Museum USAF displays formerly classified reconnaissance satellites - National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | Military, government and industry officials gathered Jan. 26 to officially place three formerly classified reconnaissance satellites on public display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force here....

Apollo 1 Crew Remembered on Anniversary of Tragic Fire - The Aero Experience | The crew of Apollo 1 will be remembered across America tomorrow on the 45th anniversary of the tragic fire that destroyed the spacecraft and killed 3 astronauts at Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34.  The crew consisted of...