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F-16 promotes Lauderdale Air Show - Local 10 | Aerial show to return after 5 year hiatus | People along Fort Lauderdale Beach had a sneak peek of the air power that will soon grace the coast of Broward County.  Around 5 p.m. Sunday, an F-16 from the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds made a cursory run to conduct a sight survey and promote  the upcoming show. The Lauderdale Air Show will bring the entire Thunderbirds team to Fort Lauderdale, along with several other military and civilian aerial performers, on April 28 and 29....

New storm precautions at Sun 'n Fun - Fox 13 | LAKELAND - For anyone who lost their plane last year , the Sun 'N Fun Fly-in was not much fun at all. A storm that came whipping through flipped planes, crushed tents and caused half a million dollars in damage. The new CEO of Sun 'N Fun just announced that this year, they will better prepared....

SHOREHAM AIRSHOW BLOG: Full speed ahead from Flightline UK | It may only be a matter of weeks since the last time the airshow committee gather, but a lot has happened in the mean time. The show publicity machine is now getting up-to speed with...

Singapore Airshow 2014 to be bigger and better, say organisers - Channel News Asia | The sky's the limit for the Singapore Airshow, as a record crowd of about 100000 people turned up this weekend, many with families in tow. The final day of the event,...

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....

Women Soar slated again for AirVenture from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Women Soar You Soar, a four-day mentoring camp featuring inspirational women aviators, returns for its eighth year in conjunction with EAA AirVenture 2012...

Chuck Yeager still flying high - U-T San Diego | “That's just like driving your car 50 miles-per-hour,” Yeager told a group of reporters Saturday at the Air & Space Museum. “You don't forget things.” A lot has changed since Yeager was named the “fastest man alive” after his 1947 milestone....

Video: P-51C Mustang Flight Demo and Cockpit Tour from AVwebFlash Current Issue | There's only one P-51C Mustang in the world with dual controls, although a couple of D-models have the spare stick, too. In this video, AVweb's Paul Bertorelli takes a hop in the back seat of the Collings Foundation's Betty Jane, and pilot Mark Murphy gives us an in-depth cockpit tour.

Pete Groves' Blog: EFIS 1931 style - Antique Airfield | Well I have been trying to locate all of the original instruments, and have so far managed to find most of them. The original SS had a mix of Pioneer and US gauge instruments fit, some were quite unique,...

Airplanes 50¢ from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | I spent part of this afternoon at Marvin’s Magnificent Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills.  It’s tucked in behind a strip shopping center and you probably wouldn’t know it was there despite the big sign.  Inside, in addition to the pinball machines and video games, is one of the largest collections of old-style automated arcade attractions I...

Airborne Laser Test Bed Retires To Arizona from Aero-News Network | Modified 747 Has Completed Its Mission The Air Force said Tuesday that the Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) has completed the key MDA Knowledge Points, and has transitioned into long-term storage at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, AZ. The ALTB demonstrated the viability of a directed energy weapon for missile defense by tracking and destroying a boosting, representative foreign ballistic missile in flight....

National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian: ...NASA Photo ECN-6887. Excerpt from caption: The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise rides smoothly atop NASA's first Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA 905, during the first of the shuttle program's Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in 1977. During the nearly one year-long series of tests, Enterprise was taken aloft on ...

Felix Baumgartner Continues to Train for New World Record Jump from Edge of Space - Spaceports | Red Bull Stratos' pilot Felix Baumgartner continues to train with coach Joe Kittinger for a new record-setting 120,000 feet jump from...

Brief history of NASA's COTS program - RLV | Michael Clark gives some background to NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program for developing...