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Lawsuit over Blue Angels crash could go to trial by April - Island Packet | A lawsuit filed against the federal government by a Beaufort couple whose home was badly damaged in the 2007 crash that killed a Blue Angels pilot could be headed for trial. George and Shirley Smith filed the suit in October 2010, claiming their home on Pine Grove Road was destroyed in April 2007 when the landing-gear assembly of an F-18 Hornet piloted by Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis crashed through the roof of their one-story house, according to federal court documents....

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....

Quad City Air Show announces new dates - Canton Daily Ledger | The 26th Annual Quad City Air Show will be held during the Labor Day weekend on Sept. 1 and 2.  According to air show officials, the change of date has been made to accommodate a performance by the United States Air Force Thunderbirds. The show is held at the Davenport, Iowa Airport....

The hope: a niggle-free Waitangi Day - Bay of Plenty Times | ..."The only thing we're waiting for is confirmation that the Red Checker (RNZAF) display team will be turning up on Monday. It will be wonderful if they can turn up," he said.  The Waitangi Day demonstration by the Red Checkers aerobatic team will hinge on the outcome of an investigation into a forced landing of one of the planes on the Desert Rd last week....

Vintage T-33 Shooting Star Makes Emergency Landing at St. George Airport - KCSG Television | Utah classic jet pilot Kay Eckardt made a successful emergency landing Friday afternoon at the St. George Airport in a vintage 1957 Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star aircraft painted like a US Navy Blue Angels fighter plane when one of the landing gears malfunctioned....

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Honor Flight Lowcountry Seeking WWII Vets - Patch | Honor Flight Lowcountry seeks World War Two veterans who would like to visit the World War Two Memorial Saturday, April 21, in Washington, D.C., and applications for guardians (escorts) who would like to accompany the veterans on this special day. ..

Tuskegee Airmen spent time in nearby Rantoul - Pantagraph.com | On March 22, 1941, the 99th Pursuit Squadron -- the first unit of the Tuskegee Airmen -- was activated not in Tuskegee, Ala., but at an Army Air Corps training facility in Illinois known as Chanute Field.  The squadron made up solely of African-American personnel, the first of its kind in the...

Aviators fought enemy and bias - Courier Post Online | As the train sped along, clicketty-clacking on the rails, from Fort Dix headed to Alabama, passenger John Pritchett wondered about his destination. The newly drafted soldier was being assigned to Tuskegee in early 1942, but he had no idea what the military did there.  The lifelong township resident was drafted in 1941 a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii....

Alabama CAP Member Honored with Two FAA Awards - Alabama Aviator | ALABAMA - Maj. Ladde Mayer of the Central Alabama Senior Squadron has been recognized with two prestigious Federal Aviation Administration honors recognizing 50 years of performance - the Wright Brothers Master Pilot and Charles Taylor Master Mechanic awards....

Blimp! - The National Air and Space Museum | The newest arrival in the National Air and Space Museum’s inventory of historic aircraft is the C-49 airship control car. Produced by Goodyear Tire and Rubber, it first took to the air as the pressure airship  Enterprise (NC-16A) on August 23, 1934. The craft operated in the Washington, D.C. and...

1971 McDonnell Douglas Shuttle Concepts - The Unwanted Blog | A comparison between solid rockets and pressure-fed liquid boosters for the Shuttle...

Outreach and inspiration in multimedia classroom of Jefferson County Vocational School, Ohio - Women of Aviation | What does it take to spark an aviation interest in the heart of a young person?  Well, no one really knows. It could be a vivid description of flying adventures by a family member, a friend, or a book author, a trip to the local airport to watch airplanes takeoff and land, a first flight on a sunny day, or an innate longing to be airborne and free....

Video animation of the US Airways landing in the Hudson river - Rodney's Aviation Ramblings

Making a Run at TED2013 - Airspeed | ...The TED approach has had a lot to do with the way in which I’ve approached Airspeed over the last six years.  After all, what else could be to blame for a suburban schlub who’s talked his way into military aircraft, flown with some of the best airshow performers out there, and become a competitive aerobatic pilot himself?...

Video: Stephen Colbert Pleads for NASA Funding - NYC Aviation | Stephen Colbert has often advocated for space interests on his show for comedic benefit, but usually providing positive exposure for the space program in the process. In 2009, for example, when NASA held an online contest to name a room on the International Space Station, Colbert rallied enough of his viewers that the “Colbert” node was the winner. As NASA...