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Cherry Point celebrates its heritage - JDNews | Paul Ringheiser knows something about the history of Marine Corps aviation. After all, his grandfather was a nosegunner in a PBJ bomber squadron at Cherry Point during World War II. The Vanceboro resident who...

WWII pilot gets back in B-24 cockpit thanks to Wings of Freedom - Warplanes Online Community | Three fully restored World War II planes are on display this week at Wings of Freedom at the Sarasota airport. It’s part of a national tour drawing hundreds of spectators. Tom Diggs of Sun City Center is one...

HAI Heli-Center To Return To AirVenture - Aero-News Network | Two Organizations Announce Agreement During Heli-Expo | The EAA and the Helicopter Association International (HAI) have renewed an agreement that assures the return of the popular Heli-Center on the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh flightline in 2012 and includes other support for this year’s 60th annual EAA fly-in gathering, which will take place July 23-29....

Three-generation team to compete in 2012 Air Race Classic - AOPA Online | When the Air Race Classic women’s cross-country race launches from Lake Havasu City, Ariz., in June, one team of pilots will boast three generations, ranging in age from 72 to 16. The team calls itself the Baldwin Family Flyers: Caroline Baldwin of Silver City, N.M.; Lydia Baldwin of Fort Collins, Colo., and Lydia’s niece, Cara Baldwin of Morgantown, W.Va. They will fly Caroline’s Piper Cherokee. The race begins on...

Exhibition "The aviation Meuse in 1914-1918" - Aviation Enthusiast | by the association 14/18 Meuse | February 25 to June 3, 2012 | the World Peace Centre in Verdun | Beginning in December 2011, we announced the creation by the association MEUSE 14-18, with support from the General Council of the Meuse and the Federation Maginot, a traveling exhibition on "Aviation in the Meuse in 1914-1918" . His inauguration will take place on...

First Model Airplane Turkey Championship begins - Air News Times (translated) | Turkey Federation's first Model Aircraft Model Aircraft Championships in Turkey this organization having the characteristics of the approximately 50 athletes participating athlete....

Video: Altitude Chamber Test: Red Bull Stratos - Red Bull USA

Tuskegee Airman one of first 'top guns' - af.mil | When most of us think about "Top Gun," we usually associate it with Tom Cruise's character during the '80s movie showcasing the Navy's F-14 Tomcat exploits and over-the-top maneuvers. But in reality, it was a Tuskegee Airmen who took part and won the military's first "Top Gun" style competition....

Veterans fly in for bombing anniversary - Big Pond | Eric Thompson was walking slowly down the street in Darwin 70 years ago when a plane flew overhead and began shooting at him. He recognised the plane as a Zero, one of the feared Japanese aircraft capable of great destruction....

Me-262 Stormbirds - Deano In America | Today I had the privilege of visiting Legend Flyers at Paine Field, Everett. They are a group that has reproduced a number of Messerschmitt Me-262 Scwhalbe (“Swallow”) airframes (the original German aircraft was the first operational jet fighter of WW2). The aircraft have been...

Fokker D.VII – so dangerous, it was mentioned in the Armistice Agreement - Shortfinals's Blog | Sometimes, an aircraft arises that so dominates the battlefield, that it changes the conflict it is involved in for a period of time. Examples of this include the Fokker E.III Eindecker of the early part of WWI, and the North American P-51 Mustang (in its Rolls-Royce Merlin-engined form) from the middle of WW2. Another aircraft which was dominant – in this case over the Western Front in the last few...

The De Havilland Moth family of aircraft – the types that launched an aviation revolution - Shortfinals's Blog | From 1925 to 1939 – and on through the Second World War – on two sites, first Stag Lane and then Hatfield - the De Havilland Company designed and produced a series of interelated light aircraft which were to change aviation forever. So ubiquitous did these revolutionary aircraft become that soon every small, single-engined aircraft was being refered to as ‘a Moth’ (rather like how, post-war, a vacuum-cleaner was refered to as ‘a Hoover’). There was some truth behind...

The forgotten delta – Boulton Paul P.111A, VT935 - Shortfinals's Blog | The late 1940s and early 1950s were a time of great experimentation in the world of aviation. The Allies had prevailed over the forces of Fascism, but had soon split along ideological lines. As Winston Churchill said, ‘..an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent’. Either side of it the Western Allies and the Warsaw Pact strove to perfect their first generation of jet aircraft. They had...

Video: Fascinating 1995 Story Of The 'Kee Bird' B-29 Salvage Attempt - Airpigz | There are so many interesting stories from the world of aviation that it's easy to miss some of the really fascinating ones. One such story for me is seen in this video about the 1995 attempt to recover the B-29 Kee Bird from a frozen resting place in northwest Greenland. The effort was led Darryl Greenamyer, a man who has had a most incredible life in the sky....

Video: Bell Helicopter introduces the Bell 525 - pilotnewsmag.com | Video recap of Bell Helicopter’s unveiling of the Bell 525 Relentless Super Medium Helicopter at HELI-EXPO 2012. The most spectacular unveiling the rotorcraft industry has ever seen....

Albacete’s NATO Tactical Leadership Program 12-1 photo file - The Aviationist | Since Jul. 2009 Albacete – Los Lanos, in Spain, has become the permanent base of the NATO Tactical Leadership Program, once headquartered at Florennes, Belgium. Through the...