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Singapore Air Show - KVUE | Photo Gallery. The Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes perform during the opening day of the Singapore Airshow 2012 at the Changi Exhibition Cenre on February 14, 2012 in Singapore...

Heli-Expo Draws Crowds And Buyers To Dallas - AVweb | Heli-Expo, the annual event for vertical aviators, closed out on Tuesday with record attendance, reporting more than 19,000 visitors to the four-day show in Dallas. More than 650 exhibitors filled the show floor, and 60 helicopters were on display. Eurocopter announced sales of...

Roulettes Display Team Put PC-9s Through Their Paces - AIN Online | The Roulettes are flying the flag for Australia at this year’s Singapore Air Show. Six Pilatus PC-9/A turboprop trainers are looping and swooping above Changi, flown by instructor pilots from the Central Flying School of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at East Sale in Victoria. They are led by...

Classic flyers mix with modern jets - The Sun | Aircraft from the ‘Classics in the Sky’ Tauranga City Airshow are set to join some of the world’s top military aircraft in a ‘modern world meets history’ spectacular next month....

EAA’S Women Soar You Soar Will Inspire Young Women at AirVenture’s 2012 Final Weekend - Alabama Aviator | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, WI - Young women will be inspired to reach for their aviation dreams as Women Soar You Soar, a four-day mentoring camp featuring inspirational women aviators, returns for its eighth year in conjunction with EAA AirVenture 2012....

Sporty's releases Women in Aviation conference app - AOPA Online | Sporty’s has released a new free app for the 2012 International Women in Aviation Conference, to be held March 8 through 10 in Dallas. The WAI 2012 app continues Sporty’s successful run with tools designed specifically for aviation shows. In 2011 Sporty’s released similar apps for Sun ’n Fun, EAA AirVenture, and AOPA Aviation Summit....

Women Of Aviation Worldwide WeekWomen Of Aviation Worldwide Week - www.womenofaviationweek.org | During the week of March 5-11, the staff at Southern Interior Flight Centre welcome you to come out for a visit at the Kelowna International Airport. Come out for a tour of our training operation, try out a simulator, and ride along on an actual Commercial training flight – at no charge! Just give u...

Front page news - GAN | LINDBERGH DOES IT! TO PARIS IN 33-1/3 HOURS cried out the newspaper headlines on May 22, 1927. Lindbergh’s epic flight made front page headlines in papers all around the world. We are all aware of the impact Lindbergh’s New York-to-Paris ?ight had on the public, but what other aviation events of the 1920s and 1930s were deemed of enough importance to garner headlines in the newspapers?...

Black Wings African Americans in Aviation History 2/25/12 - Soul of Miami | Celebrate Black History Month! Since the invention of the airplane, aviation has been associated with adventure and heroism. For African Americans, however, flight opportunities were initially limited – a consequence of racial discrimination. Learn about the African Americans who broke these barriers from...

Tuskegee Airman, Wilkerson, visits Advocate South Suburban Hospital By Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Original Tuskegee Airman, Lawton Wilkerson, visited Advocate South Sububurban Hospital on Feb. 10, 2012 as part of the hospital's Black History Month Celebration. Wilkerson, a native of Chicago Heights, Ill., was trained as a B-25 pilot during WWII as part of the Tuskegee Airmen group that...

Canadian Aviation Award To Bushplane Centre: Museum plans vintage craft's restoration - Kathryn's Report | A plane that "gave birth" to the water bombing of forest fires is being restored by Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre. The museum plans to spend $30,000 over three years to replace the canvas on the Fairchild KR-34. The fabric, about 20 years old, covers most of the 82-year-old plane except the cowl and the cockpit area. The canvas will be stripped off and a longer-lasting polyester fabric put on....

British Spitfire Builders Attract Support - AVweb | A group of aviation enthusiasts in the U.K. is steadily moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build a fleet of 90-percent-scale Spitfires, and the interest sparked by the project may have helped to save their local airport. Paul Fowler, owner of The Enstone Flying Club, attracted a lot of publicity with his plan to build a squadron of Spitfire replicas. The project...