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Truckee Tahoe Air Fair and Family Festival: By and for the community - Sierra Sun | Though still in planning stages, the 2012 fair planning committee has tentative plans for an on-the-ground for display of aircraft of all types, hot air balloons (weather permitting), flyovers, a...

Saskatoon air show for veterans cancelled - CJME | This year will only see the Remembrance Day ceremony to honour veterans, with the Canada Remembers Air Show grounded....

Collings Bomber Tour Comes to Town - AVweb | The Collings Foundation roared into town last weekend with its two bombers, the B-17 and B-24, and Betty Jane, the foundation’s P-51C Mustang. Venice, it turns out, is one of the tour’s best stops gate wise and every year, I try to help my pal Nick Carlucci handling parking and other support duties. So a bunch of us put on our orange traffic vests, directing folks away from the...

Military history on display and in flight at Leesburg Airport - WFTV | LEESBURG, Fla. — Some pieces of military history have been drawing crowds to the Leesburg Airport. Eyewitness News reporter Berndt Petersen met some of the veterans who flew aboard those...

Rare warplane on way to New Zealand - Wanganui Chronicle | Marton businessman Brendon Deere has bought another plane to bolster his warbirds collection at Ohakea. The latest is a World War II Grumman Avenger, which will be flown over from Australia and should touch down at Ohakea on Thursday...

The Real Story of the Tuskegee Airmen By Gar Smith | George Lucas' Red Tails is a serviceable introduction to the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen but a richer and more honest story can be found in Adam White's Red Tail Reborn, which was originally broadcast on PBS and is now available in a two-disk set that includes extended bonus interviews with a number of surviving "Red Tails." (www.redtailreborn.com), including Col. Charles McGee, a man who has flown...

Deployed maintainers keep F-16s flying - 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs | BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a compact, multi-role fighter aircraft. Highly maneuverable, F-16s have proven to be very effective in both air-to-air and air-to-surface combat. To keep these critical air-power assets mission ready, the technicians of the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron provide 24-hour service to the F-16s here....

Tale of WWII ace from Poplar takes flight in new radio show - Duluth News Tribune | The story of America’s Ace of Aces, Maj. Richard I. Bong, was more than a decade in the making. “Forever Ace: The Richard Bong Story,” narrated by Wisconsin Public Radio’s Jim Packard, airs at 7 p.m. Monday on KUWS-FM 91.3 in Superior and WUWS-FM 90.9 in Ashland.

F-14s, in-flight emergencies and arrested landings. Top Gun? No, an Iranian TV series February 17, 2012 - David Cenciotti | It is very well known that, more or less one year ago China tried to pass off Top Gun as air force footage but did you know there was also a mini-Top Gun made in Iran?...

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Revisiting past Red Flags at Nellis AFB from classicwarbirds.net | ...red at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. They were here to photograph aircraft that were participating in the current Red Flag exercise. Simply stated, Red Flag is an exercise that involves the majority of aircraft types in the United States Air Force, air assets from the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and foreign air forces. The purpose of Red ...

Video: A C-5 Galaxy Air Launches an ICBM. What!? - Defense.org | In the 1970s, the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM launched from a C-5 Galaxy. Hold on, what!?!? That was my reaction upon learning that the above sentence is true. In 1974, the Air Force decided that...

Young Eagles get boost in quest for building - the News-Sun | SEBRING -- EAA Chapter 1240 had extra reason to celebrate at their monthly pancake breakfast this past weekend.  The Experimental Aircraft Association, known in the aviation community as EAA, was founded in 1953 and is based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Each summer Oshkosh is the home of the World's largest Fly-in Convention, AirVenture....

AOPA Launches Student Pilot Support Tool - Alabama Aviator | Students have a powerful new tool available to help them track the progress of their flight training with AOPA's new MyFlightTraining website. MyFlightTraining takes the content of Flight Training magazine and personalizes it for students anywhere in the flight training curriculum....

NASP PR Card #1 - The Unwanted Blog | In the days before the web came to domination, aerospace companies and government organizations would stamp out glossy propaganda/PR informational cards by the truckload. The X-30 NASP (National Aero Space Plane) program was no different. Below is one...

Friendship 7’s ‘Fourth Orbit’ - AirSpace blog.nasm.si.edu | The Friendship 7 space capsule was designed to orbit the earth and it did just that on February 20, 1962, with John Glenn, Jr. on board. It circled the globe three times before landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Three months later Friendship 7 began its second mission, or what was popularly referred to ...

John Glenn, 1st American in Orbit, Pushes for Manned Mars Missions - Space.com | As the 50th anniversary of his historic spaceflight approaches, former NASA astronaut John Glenn is pushing for manned exploration of Mars and other farflung destinations. On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn became...

Stratolaunch announces purchase of Boeing 747 - RLV | Stratolaunch confirms officially that the Boeing 747 with tail number N196UA seen in pictures here earlier is in fact one of the two 747s that will be disassembled to provide parts for construction of their carrier aircraft:...

Video: Virgin Galactic Shows More Of SpaceShipTwo In Flight - AirPigz | Here's a recent showreel video from Virgin Galactic with some stellar views of both WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo in flight. Impressive stuff... and fun to watch : )