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American Heroes Air Show returns to Lee County - News-Press | Helicopters from all facets of law enforcement and public safety will roar into Lee County.  The American Heroes Air Show, the nation's premier helicopter-only air show, makes a return visit to the Lee County Sports Complex from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday. The Lee County Sheriff's Office is assisting in the set up and coordination of the event....

The EXTRA 330SC Gets a Fresh Look for 2012 - Mike Goulian Airshows | Taken at Oxford Aviation.  The EXTRA 330SC will have a brand new look for 2012. The experts at Oxford Aviation will apply a stunning new finish to our airplane.

Forced landing takes Red Checkers out of show - Bay of Plenty Times | One of the leading aerial displays scheduled for the Tauranga City Air Show this weekend will not go ahead after a Defence Force aerobatics plane made a forced landing yesterday afternoon.  A Royal New Zealand Air Force CT-4E Air Trainer, part of the Red Checkers aerobatic display, was en route to Tauranga when it...

Heli-Expo Preview: Helicopter Industry To Gather in Dallas in February - AINonline | A cornucopia of copters and rotorcraft-related gizmos, conference sessions and conversations awaits attendees at the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo, to be held in Dallas February 11 to 14. This year, HAI is expecting more than 18,000 visitors, 65 helicopters and 600 exhibitors at the Dallas Convention Center.  The location has the unique feature of being the...

Air show to highlight this weekend’s veterans tribute - Cape Coral Daily Breeze | The Cost of Freedom Tribute and American Heroes Air Show continues today and Sunday at the Lee County Sports Complex.  The Traveling Vietnam Wall and other memorial war displays will be on view all day today while the all-helicopters air show is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A group Naturalization Ceremony is set for 11 a.m....
 
Photos: Airshow: Lethbridge - CRUFC

Meet Harriet Quimby, the Groundbreaking Aviatrix Who Was Completely Overshadowed by the Titanic Sinking - The Mary Sue | In the chilly April of 1912, a major story was spread across the world’s newspapers concerning a groundbreaking vessel of transportation. We know exactly what story you’re thinking about: aviator Harriet Quimby, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel! That happened on April 16, 1912. Then there was that other thing that...

Tuskegee Airmen Movie -Red Tails Day- Alabama Success from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ...Alabama National Guard Squadron Commander, 187th Fighter Wing. (Governor's Office, Jamie Martin) On opening day of the movie, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley held a signing ceremony honoring the Tuskegee Airmen with Tuskegee Airmen Lt. Col. Herbert Carter and Oscar Gadson proclaiming January 20, 2012, as The Tuskegee Airmen “Red Tails” D...

CoolPix: Memphis Belle Restoration Progress At The Air Force Museum - AirPigz | The 2nd annual AirPigz Air Force Museum MeetUp is underway right now from Friday thru the weekend (January 27-29, 2012) - and today was the behind-the-scenes tour at the restoration shop. These special tours run only on Fridays and advance reservations are required - get more info here. Last year, when we saw the...

Aviation first introduced in Cleveland in 1911 - Cleveland Daily Banner | Although Cleveland’s Hardwick Field was constructed in the late 1940s and used as a training site through the early 1950s, aviation was first introduced to the community more than 30 years earlier.  A Curtiss biplane, a Wright Brothers-like aircraft, was the...

Greatest fighter pilot of WW2 - Indian Defense | Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), nicknamed "Bubi" (the hypocoristic form of "young boy") by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions. He engaged in aerial combat 825 times while serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career,...

Marine MV-22B Osprey Stops for Fuel and Food at St. Louis Downtown Airport  - The Aero Experience | A Marine MV-22B Osprey stopped in at St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, IL today for a brief fuel stop on a delivery flight from the Bell Helicopter plant in Amarillo, Texas.  The inter-service crew parked in front of the Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum in Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 and received fuel from neighboring Ideal Aviation.  After getting...

Lockheed Vega to Fly Again - Antique Airfield | Many will remember the Lockheed Vega owned for years by AAA Founder and President, Robert Taylor....

Florida Cub Flyers January 2012 Newsletter - Antique Airfield

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Named ‘Aircraft of Legend’ - By Rob Vogelaar | The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been honored with the “Aircraft of Legend” Award presented by the Living Legends of Aviation organization.  Mike Sinnett, vice president and chief project engineer for the 787 program, accepted...

Already legendary - Randy's Journal | I’ve used many adjectives over the years to describe the 787. Now there’s a new one to add to the list - legendary. During a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Living Legends of Aviation presented the 787 Dream Team with a special award— the very first Aircraft of Legend award. While the group has...

January 28 – Aviation History - CRUFC

Podcast: Young Eagles for Grown-Ups - AVweb | Jeff Skiles, known as the first officer for the "Miracle on the Hudson" flight, served as co-chair of EAA s Young Eagles program for a...

‘Barefoot Bandit’ sentenced to 6 1/2 years - Pilot News Magazine | A federal judge on Friday sentenced “Barefoot Bandit” Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010.  Harris-Moore hopscotched his way across the United States...

Iranian F-14 Fighter Jet Crashes Near Persian Gulf, Killing Both Crewmen - NYC Aviation | Two people were killed early Thursday morning when a fighter jet crashed in the southern region of Iran, state-run media reported on Friday. There were no survivors....

The race to send civilians to space - 17KGET | Ground has already been broken at the Mojave Spaceport on a huge hanger, funded by Paul Allen of Microsoft and X-Prize fame.  Congressman Kevin McCarthy toured the site Friday, right next...