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Pelton, Auerbach, Pleasance Elected to EAA Board of Directors from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | New directors bring extensive aviation, EAA and business backgrounds-From EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH WI - Three directors have been added to the Experimental Aircraft Association board, which governs the 176,000-member aviation organization.  The three new directors - Jack Pelton, Stuart Auerbach and Darren Pleasance - bring extensive aviation and business background to the board, in addition to longtime EAA involvement and thousands of hours of flight time....

Carl Gruber, busted at Boulder airport with 55 pounds of marijuana, is renowned pilot - Denver Westword | ...Take an AirVenture report about the 2005 National Championship Air Races, held in Reno, Nevada. The Gruber blurb reads: "'Eightball,' Carl Gruber and his black Pitts S-1C #8. With 164,8 mph he came in second last in the Bronze Class."...

Planes of Fame Founder Ed Maloney – The Warbird Rescue Hour – Thursday – 8pm | Join the Warbird Rescue guys this Thursday at 8PM (EASTERN) as they welcome Planes of Fame Founder Ed Maloney to the Warbird Rescue Hour. Mr. Maloney will share his stories about the post war years around the Chino Airport as well as starting Planes of Fame and it’s current accompli...

Wings of Freedom Tour honors World War II vets - Sun Sentinel | Pilots from the Wings of Freedom Tour spend months traveling around the country showing off vintage World War II aircraft, but with South Florida home to so many veterans, the Fort Lauderdale show takes on added significance.  "We're still seeing a good number of WWII veterans, and it's...

September air show to include barbecue cook-off and auto show - RN-T.com | Promoters of the Wings Over North Georgia Air Show in September are promising a fun and safe event at Rome’s Richard B. Russell Regional Airport.  John Cowman told members of the...

Vets expect air show to be grounded - The Star Phoenix | Saskatoon’s air show is in jeopardy after the firing of Credit Union Centre manager Brian Swidrovich, according to a number of veterans.  “It will be the end of the air show, I’m sure of that,” said Jim McKinny, a Korean War veteran who has been involved in the show since it began in the mid-1990s....

Meet Chubbie Keith-Miller -- a 2012 WAI Pioneer from WAI Connect Blog | Heather Taylor, who produced the award-winning Breaking Through The Clouds, nominated the subjects of her movie -- the 20 women pilots of the 1929 Women's National Air Derby -- as WAI Pioneers,...

Video: Tuskegee Airman speaks at Devon Elementary - Main Line | But he was a full-fledged Army lieutenant flying P-40 Warhawks (of Flying Tigers fame, a training plane by 1945) and P-47 Republics. After screening a video showing the Tuskegee Airmen's history and answering five youngsters' questions, Dr. Richardson...

Colin and Ewan McGregor fly an original Lancaster Bomber - Bomber Boys - BBC One - www.youtube.com | More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01byv2g Colin and Ewan McGregor fly in an original Lancaster bomber used in WW2 and explore the a...

Attawapiskat Annie - Vintage Wings of Canada | As winter began to close in on the southern-most regions of Canada, temperatures began a steady crawl downwards, rains turned icy, and Canadians broke out the fleece, boots and layered up. But farther north, much farther north, along the shores of James Bay, the Florida-shaped extension of Hudson Bay that drives deep into Ontario and Quebec, the weather in late October was about to go full-on winter, and James Bay winters are in a category all by themselves. Half way up the western coast of James Bay, the dark and icy waters of the Attawapiskat River flowed east beneath a skim of late autumn ice and drove deep into the salty bay beneath a cold winter sky....

Jim Savage's Spartan Executive Update from Antique Airfield News | Jim Savage has been steadily polishing and restoring his Spartan Executive with the help of mechanic and fellow vintage airplane owner Lynn Ford. The plane is in the Pittsburgh area and was last seen here in October 2011 with old paint being stripped and polished out....

Engine Run Video for Chuck Doyle's Stearman from Antique Airfield News | Chuck Doyle's Stearman has the engine running, as seen in this video by Ben Redman at RARE Aircraft. Ben says: "First ground run and leak check of the Doyle Stearman were performed today! So far, everything is green light go! The fuel injection and extended exhaust make for little different sound."...

Superhuman Pilot Lands a Plane After Propeller Falls Off - Yahoo | A Cessna pilot in Mexico appeared so calm while landing a plane without its propeller that we watched the whole video of his miraculous save and could only identify the disaster point by the...

North Korean Mig-29s exposed in Kim Jong Un pictures - The Aviationist | Photos of North Korea Air Force’s Mig-29 are quite rare. The few available are mainly low quality ones or still from videos taken by surveillance planes intercepted by the North Koreans Fulcrums.  However, on Jan. 31, a new picture...

ACTIVITY 'AERONAVALI WITH THE NAVY aircraft carrier Cavour - aviation-report (translated) | ...The occasion is offered as part of the "Ambassadors on board," organized by the Ministries of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the growing commitment at the international level to protect the stability and security. On board, a representative group of 37 NATO nations, EU, ??Mediterranean and Middle East hosted by the Commander in Chief of the Naval Squadron Vice Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Staffan De Mistura....

Pilots to help complete children’s home in the Bahamas from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Volunteer pilots will be flying to Eleuthera in the Bahamas this month to complete the final stages of a home for abused children. The semi-annual Fly In & Help Out Event, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 19, serves as an introduction to international mission flying and provides hands on experience with ongoing projects in The Bahamas, according to officials with Bahamas Habitat, which is sponsoring the event....

Random Aviation Photo - Aviation Queen | Back on June 20, 2011, my daughter and I were hanging out with...

Bassano pilot helps Eastbrook students learn all about flight - Brooks Bulletin | What better guy for Eastbrook Elementary School students to learn more about flight than from Bassano’s Jim Hrymack?  With 8,000 hours of flying time under his belt, Hrymack knows a thing or two about airplanes. He owns three planes and operates a flying school in Bassano....

Nano-Drone Swarm Shows Off Slightly Creepy Formation Skills - www.theblaze.com | If the soldier-like perfection of the synchronized formation by these mini drones doesn’t freak you out a bit — their collective buzzing sure will. Orchestrated by the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, these 20 “nano quadrotors” developed by KMel Robotics seem to, as Popular Science descr...

SNC announces delivery of Dream Chaser Flight Test Vehicle from RLV and Space Transport News | A press release today from Sierra Nevada about the Dream Chaser:  Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems Delivers the Dream Chaser® First Flight Test Vehicle Structure, Completing a Major Milestone for NASA's Commercial Crew Program | Sparks, NV – February 2nd, 2012 –Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems announces the completion of a major Dream Chaser® milestone under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program. Successful completion of this milestone required the assembly and delivery of the primary structure of the first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle. SNC has now completed all of its 11 scheduled CCDev milestones on time and on budget.  “SNC is proud to have met its schedule and...

NASA Astronaut to Honor Black History at Va. Air & Space Center - Sacramento Bee | Astronaut and two-time space shuttle veteran Benjamin Alvin "Al" Drew will celebrate Black History Month at Hampton's Virginia Air & Space Center (VASC), Sat., Feb. 11, along with a United States Air Force pilot,...