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Singapore Airshow tickets sell like hotcakes - Channel News Asia | Singapore Technologies Engineering has the biggest presence at the airshow, showing off its defence and aerospace wares, plus ideas for a greener future. Around 140000 delegates and public visitors are expected to pack the event held at the Changi...

Boeing's Dreamliner takes spotlight in Singapore - AsiaOne | Boeing's much-delayed 787 Dreamliner is set to star at the Singapore Airshow this week where companies touting private jets and defence hardware to the Asian market will also be out in force. The fuel-efficient, lightweight B787, whose first customer ...

Cherry Point recognizes man behind air station's 2012 air show theme - Marines.mil | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. (Feb. 8, 2012)  — With a little more than three months to go until the 2012 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Air Show May 4-6, the air station recognized the winner of its air show theme naming contest Feb. 8, at the contest winner’s place of work....

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Greetings Race Nuts! - The Indy Air Race 2012 | For the second consecutive year, the Sport Air Racing League is proud to announce | The Indy Air Race | Saturday, August 11, 2012 | KTYQ Indy Executive Airport | There is NO CHARGE to come to a Sport Air Racing League event; you only...

Return of the Red Baron - Daily Press | Apple Valley's Chris Grube puts finishing touches on the WWI Fokker triplane he built himself

Tuskegee Airman sees success as first AF four-star general - af.mil | One of the original Tuskegee Airmen went on to become the first African-American to attain the rank of four-star general in the U.S. Air Force. Born in Pensacola, Fla., in 1920, the youngest of 17 children in a relatively poor family, Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. had a career that spanned three wars and close to 40 years, and he was a recognized civil rights pioneer....

The heroes of the 332d Fighter Group - Macon Telegraph | Orville and Wilbur Wright made aviation history with a 12-second, 120-foot flight from Kitty Hawk, NC, on Dec. 17, 1903. Many caught the “flying bug” during the early days of flight and a number perished in its pursuit. Charles Wesley Peters was the ...

DH Mosquito VI HJ767 60 OTU Crash-site visit - Stick and Rudder | I read about this aircraft by chance, after looking for another crash-site. Within days I made contact with Graham Norbury, who lives in the village of Bunny on the A60 south of Nottingham, and without his help,...

Fifty years since dragonfly disappearance - 3News NZ | The aircraft is one of the most searched for aircraft in New Zealand's aviation history. “[It is] 50 years to the day since the Dragon Fly with five people took off, and vanished, so I just felt like we needed to do something....

Naval Aviation: USS Macon Lost from About.com Military History | February 12, 1935 - USS Macon (right) is lost in a storm off the coast of California.  The sister ship of USS Akron, Macon entered service in June 1933.  The last rigid airship built for the US Navy, Macon was able to carry up to...

Vintage Aviation Advertisements - Monocoupe and Staggerwing - Another Time | It is a cool Saturday afternoon.  It feels a little more like winter today with 20 kt North winds and 36 degree temps.  So I am cleaning up the office, sorting magazines and looking thru a pile of vintage aviation advertisements.  These ads really do...

Father, son example of one team, one fight - af.mil | It isn't every day that a father has a chance to observe his son at work, especially if that son is in the Air Force and deployed to Afghanistan. While Army 1st Sgt. Walter Josephs Jr. is on his sixth deployment, his son, Airman 1st Class Walter Josephs Jr., is on his first. For Josephs, a field artillery instructor deployed from Fort Hood, Texas, to Kabul, Afghanistan, deployments are nothing new, especially after 25 years in the Army. When he found out he would be...

Flight For Control – Karlene Petitt - Flight.org | For the last two years I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Karlene Petitt on a number of projects – including a number of websites and a podcast. As a group, we’ve followed the progress of her first novel with great interest. In fact, in the early days of our collaboration, her book was little more than a passion project. The novel, “Flight for Control” is now a published reality....

Roland Garrett, WWII bomber pilot and longtime Tulsa-area farmer, dies at 88 - Tulsa World | Roland Garrett identifies a B-17 like the one he flew during World War II during a trip to the 96th Bomb Group Museum in England. A longtime Tulsa-area farmer and veteran of a bomber crew, Garrett died Feb. 5. He was 88. Courtesy By TIM STANLEY World ...

X3 Demonstrator to Resume Flight Tests from www.ainonline.com | The X3 compound helicopter demonstrator is to resume flights this month. Data analysis from the first two flight-test campaigns has prompted new questions, chief technology officer Jean-Michel Billig told AIN, and the launch of a third test campaign has been scheduled. The testing will explore the behavior of the main rotor at high speed. Some other goals relate to the Fadec and the link between rotor rpm and aircraft speed....

Young girl's curiosity of science leads to becoming first African-American woman in space from Air Force Link Top Stories | The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. However, going from a small town in Alabama to miles above the surface of the earth required a few stops along the way for Dr. Mae Jemison, who was the first African American woman accepted to the NASA astronaut program....