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Cherry Point Air show ready to celebrate flight - Havelock News | Cherry Point plans to “Celebrate the Heritage” of Marine Corps aviation and the base at its air show scheduled for May 4 to 6. Base officials announced the theme of the show — “Celebrate the Heritage” — on Tuesday, with Vanceboro’s Paul Ringheiser winning the theme contest. He beat out 152 other entries....

Goulian 2012 Air Show Schedule - mikegoulian.com | The Goulian air show team will be performing at over 20 of North America’s top air shows in 2012. “This is an exciting year for us as we’ll be performing for the first time at Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Andrews AFB, MD; Rome, GA; Rockford Air Fest, IL; OC Air Show, MD; Cocoa Beach, FL; and Homestead AFB, FL” said Goulian. In addition to visiting some brand new venues in 2012, Mike and his team are honored to be returning to Dayton and Cleveland, OH, two events that Mike has not performed at for many years. Goulian stated, “We’ve have been looking forward to returning to both of these marquis events for a few years now and 2012 looks like the year where all the stars are aligned to make this happen and we couldn’t be more pleased”....

Great New England Airshow Confirmed! - Red Steel Jet Team | We are now officially confirmed to appear at Westover ARB for the Great New England Airshow. Looking forward to making a lot of noise over Chicopee, MA! Check out their site and save the date...August 4&5, 2012

Reno air race to be held in September - UPI.com | Reno Air Racing Association officials said the National Championship Air Races are set for Sept. 12-16 in Nevada. Officials said if the air races do not happen, a special air show will be performed to memorialize the victims of the 2011...

Two aviation documentaries to air on PBS - GAN | Northeast Ohio filmmaker Adam White will have two of his documentary films air on Western Reserve PBS this week: “Red Tail Reborn — Special Edition” and “The Restorers — They Were All Volunteers.”...

Bringing out the big guns — with a smile - GAN | ...You have to respect dedication like that. And whether it’s Sun ’n Fun, NEBRASKAland Days, Summerfest, Thunder in the Valley, or the Chitlin Strut, every community in America has something to be proud of. If you search the calendar you’ll find there’s something coming at you this year that gives your airport a real reason to get spruced up, put on your best smile, and welcome every guest that walks across your ramp like you’ve been waiting for them all year long....

Fort Worth rejects spending $510,000 on aviation exhibit - Star Telegram | After the Fort Worth Air and Space Museum Foundation couldn't repay a $2.5 million city loan, the City Council had to decide Tuesday what to do with the contents of the foundation's temporary aviation exhibit and whether to spend $510,000 for a contract with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to oversee it for one year. The council ultimately voted 8-0 to reject a proposal to pay the museum to keep and manage the contents, and told city staff to come up with another plan....

Tickets for Doolittle Tokyo Raiders reunion banquet and luncheons available Feb. 15 from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | A limited number of tickets to a banquet and two luncheons honoring the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders during their 2012 reunion will go on sale to the public on Feb. 15 at 9 a.m.  These special activities are part of the events planned as the Raiders commemorate the 70th anniversary of their raid on Japan during a reunion April 17-20 at...

Bessie Coleman: Woman who 'dared to dream' made aviation history - AF.mil | A young woman from rural east Texas, who grew up in a hardscrabble existence as one of 13 children born to poor sharecropper parents, became an unlikely choice to pave the way for future African-American accomplishments in aviation and the U.S. Air Force. Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman would go on to be the first female pilot of African-American descent, but more importantly would later influence the accomplishments of others who would continue the evolution of African-American involvement in aviation throughout the 20th century.  Born on Jan. 26, 1892, she...

Meet The Real “Rosie The Riveters” In WWII Photos - The Jane Dough | The image of a woman working to build an airplane in a World War II era factory is one burned quite well into the American psyche at this point. When we think of “working women,” many of our minds turn immediately to Rosie The Riveter, a visual icon of the time that amazingly prevails almost 70 years later. But Rosie is an illustration, not a photograph. To remedy that, we have some photos....

D.A.S.H. Goes to War - Air & Space Smithsonian | The first rotary-wing UAV entered military service in 1962—and remained in operation until 1997. | In hindsight, it was kind of hard to overlook. When we ran our tribute to 100 years of naval aviation (Feb./Mar. 2010), we listed the Fire Scout as the Navy’s first unmanned helicopter.  We were wrong....

The Aero Club pays a visit - Ivan Wheaton | I accidentally tore one of these photos with the EPES mark off a page today, and discovered it was a post card! I'm not going to peel anymore off to verify, but it might be interesting for further study. Anyway, here is a group of students with the Speed Scout....

Ohio Air News #172 - Charles Johnson | This one has been a long time coming, but a lot happened in January,...

Flying People in New York City - YouTube (via ASB) | Three human shaped RC planes were flown around New York City to create the illusion of people flying. Lots of fun....

Airplane Geeks - Episode 183 - Just the Geeks - Airplane Geeks Podcast | The Geeks go it alone in this episode, but despite the lack of an aviation guest we manage to have a great time talking aviation...

Blériot XI — first aircraft to show what flying actually means - Travel for Aircraft | Blériot XI — first aircraft to show what flying actually means | Not to exclude anyone tied to the history of aviation as we know it today but three persons stand out to me:...

X-15 with B-52 flyover - The Original Rocket Dungeon | Rogers Dry Lake, Calif. in September 1961.

Super Hustler - The Unwanted Blog | Most of the 3D solid models I’ve made, I’ve made for clients or employers. Every now and then, though, I’ve made a few on spec or just for giggles. One such is the Convair Super Hustler. It’s nowhere near done, but it at least looks like a Super Hustler. When done, I hope to translate it into physical form, either as a kit or as a finished display model....

Air Force to park most A-10s - Sky Talk | Air Force brass may finally be about to get rid of those ugly but oh so effective A-10 Warthogs they never wanted in the first place. One of the ways the Air Force plans to save money in the 2013 defense budget, Air Force Times reports,...

Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft - Slashdot | "An accident report is finally out for the Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Targeting and Attack Radar System that had started refueling with a KC-135 on on March 13, 2009 when the crew heard a 'loud bang throughout the midsection of the aircraft.' Vapor and fuel started pouring out of the JSTARS from 'at least two holes in the left wing just inboard of the number two engine.' The pilot immediately brought the jet back to its base in Qatar where mechanics found the number two main fuel tank had been ruptured, 'causing extensive damage to the wing of the aircraft.' How extensive? 25 million dollars worth of extensive. What caused...

Legendary Astronaut Shannon Lucid Retires From NASA - NASA | HOUSTON -- Shannon Lucid, a member of NASA's first astronaut class to include women, has retired after more than three decades of service to the agency. A veteran of five spaceflights, Lucid logged more than 223 days in space, and from August 1991 to June 2007, held the record for the most days in orbit by any woman in the world. Lucid is the only American woman to serve aboard the Russian Mir space station. She lived and worked there for more than 188 days, the longest stay of any American on that vehicle. Her time on Mir also set the single flight endurance record by a woman until Suni Williams broke it in 2006....