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Battle for the skies at Singapore Airshow - CNN | Aerobatic stunt teams will provide Singapore's international airshow with entertainment, but the real dogfights for billion dollar contracts take place behind closed doors. The world's third biggest aviation event takes ...

The Warbirds That Never Were – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday – 10am (EASTERN) | CAPT Rich Dann joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE.  Learn about the “warbirds that never were”.  If you’ve read any of CAPT Dann’s books then you’ll know it will be the rarest of the rare.  Tune in and call in with your comments and questions.  The studio contact info is posted below. [...]

2012 Preview - www.youtube.com | A highlight of the air show performance for the GEICO Skytypers (via ASB)

DAV Flight Team Kicking Off 10th Air Show Season - DAV Flight Team | In just a little more than a month the DAV Flight Team will kick off its 10th airshow season. Representing Disabled American Veterans at airshows throughout the country, the DAV Flight Team travels in the company of a B-25 Mitchell bomber raising public awareness of disabled veterans and  serving veterans in communities across the nation. The 2012 airshow season will include shows from Florida to Maryland along the east coast in addition to shows in Texas, Michigan, Indiana and Arkansas. The DAV Flight Team will also attend EAA AirVenture -- where they will participate in special veterans-focused events throughout the week....

Competition Team Starts Strong in 2012 - US Army Golden Knights | The Golden Knights 8way Team won Gold at the 2012 Indoor Skydiving Championships held at the Paraclete XP wind tunnel in Raeford, NC.  With 11 total 8way teams competing, GK8 set a new team best high score of 289 points in 10 rounds, 54 points ahead of the 2nd place team XPX 8....

Video contest - Women of Aviation | Meet the video contest finalists...

Flying High - KETK | Andy Newman arranged for the flight for his dad through the Collings Foundation, which has its fleet of World War II warbirds in town as part of a national tour. The B-17, operated by a Collings Foundation crew, made a short trip from Tamiami-Miami...

“I had my diploma from Hamlin High School tucked in a... from x planes | ...So, without knowing or even caring, I had the talents needed for flying in combat. But after taking my first airplane ride, I’d rather have crawled across country than go backup. I took off for a spin with a maintenance officer flight testing a ship I had serviced, and I threw up all over the back seat, staggering out of that damned thing as miserable as I’d ever been…”  from “Yeager: An Autobiography” [photos]

“The third X-1 (46-064), known as “Queenie,”... from x planes | “The third X-1 (46-064), known as “Queenie,” is mated to...

Tuskegee Airman goes on to become first Air Force African-American general from Air Force Link Top Stories | A man who was shunned because of his race during his four years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., back in the early 1930s would go on to become the first African-American general in the U.S. Air Force.  Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. was born in 1912 to Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., an Army officer who would go on to become the Army's first African-American general....

Grady Baldwin Jr., 92, Tuskegee Airman - Cincinnati.com | He joined the Air Force in 1942 and was assigned to the B-25 bomber group at Godman Field in Fort Knox, Ky. During his military tenure, he operated and maintained radio receiving and transmitting equipment on B-25 aircraft. His training took him to AAF...

361st FG Bottisham museum to close - stickandrudder | It is reported on a forum, I'd care not to mention, that the 361st FG museum at Bottisham is to close at it's current location because the 'landlord' has given them their 'marching order's' very soon.
Ah, what a shame, never mind at least all the money raised by the 'open-days' will used for the 'new' location they claim they have sorted....

Hawker Hunter re-paint RAF Barkstone Heath - stickandrudder | Had a phone call friday afternoon from RAF Waddington asking if I would consider re-painting an Hawker Hunter in 8 squadron colours either at or coming to RAF Waddington to replace their Phantom, which is on guard duty outside the 8 squadron HQ building, and is moving on to be...

HOMETOWN SECRETS: Granger neighborhood was original South Bend Regional Airport - WSBT-TV | A group of men from northeast St. Joseph County formed the St. Joseph Valley Aviation Club. “They bought a hay field. [And] one of the first rules that they passed – the group, you know – you couldn't be a member unless you showed you had financial ...

Harrier Salute from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ATLANTIC OCEAN- Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Travion Humphrey, from Sacramento, Calif., renders a salute to an AV-8B Harrier from Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 263 during the squadron's post-deployment fly-off from the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5)....

"Cupcakes" UCAP #272 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Guest: Amy Laboda. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded Feb 2, 2012. Guest Disclaimer Announcer: Royce Ehrle.

Another Aviation Movie In The Works from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Hollywood's aviation films often prove disappointing to aviators -- though it might be argued that a bad flying film is still better than none -- and another one now in the works, starring Denzel Washington, provides a fresh chance to see if Hollywood can portray the life of a pilot in a way that rings true. Flight, which started production last October, tells the story of an airline pilot, played by Washington, who becomes a hero after coping with an in-flight emergency but then is revealed to have problems with drugs and alcohol. The director is Robert Zemeckis, who also directed Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, and Cast Away.

FAA told to make room for drones in US skies - USA TODAY | "There is a huge potential market for civilian and commercial uses of unmanned aircraft systems," says Ben Gielow, general counsel for the industry group Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. The market will almost double over the...

A special delivery landed at the Children's Museum of Houston Kidtropolis USA ... - KHOU | A special delivery landed at the Children's Museum of Houston (CMH) on Monday, February 6, 2012 in the Kidtropolis USA exhibit. For the next five years, an almost life-size replica of Houston's iconic Memorial Hermann Life Flight...

Sky diver plans supersonic jump from suborbital space - io9 | Could space jumping be the next extreme sport? After all the objects that have gone into suborbital space: teddy bears, Lego men, plates of sushi, one man plans to send himself up to the edge, and then leap back down again.  We first told you about Felix Baumgartner's quest to be the first supersonic man two years ago,...