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World record attempt to be part of Hot Air Festival - Times Bulletin | Jerry Mazur is mixing hot air balloons and individual helium balloons in an effort to bring a world record to the resurrected Hot Air Festival this September. The event, which ran from 1985-1998 in Van Wert as the Hot Air Affair ...

WWII-era aircrafts to be on display - PNJ | The public can tour and — for a price — even fly in some historic World War II-era aircraft from March 5-7. The Wings of Freedom Tour will be at the Pensacola Aviation Center at Pensacola International Airport...

Sporty’s sets date for annual fly-in from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Sporty’s annual Fly-In will be held Saturday, May 19, at the Clermont County/Sporty’s Airport. At this year’s Fly-In, the winner of Sporty’s 2012 Skycatcher Sweepstakes will be unveiled...

Flying fun at Busselton Aero Club open day - Busselton Mail | GET along to the Busselton Airport for a fabulous day of flying and fun. On March 4 the Busselton Aero Club will hold its annual open day, with demonstration flights of the Tiger Moth, the Chinese Nanchang and other veteran aircraft....

HFI Reports Another Successful Heli-Expo from Aero-News Network | Heritage Helicopter Display Among The Most Dramatic Of The Show Helicopter Foundation International was very busy at Heli-Expo 2012. The foundation held its annual golf tournament, hosted mentoring panels, and shared a great deal of information with attendees about our mission and goals. New additions to our plans for the show this year were a silent auction, heritage helicopter display and historical interviews...

Taylorcraft Foundation’s Forrest Barber – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday : WarbirdRadio.com | WEDNESDAY – Forrest Barber from the Taylorcraft Foundation joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE! Tune in this Wednesday morning at 10am (EASTERN) and hear all the news on the foundation....
 
Gone West: Clarence Dart, Tuskegee Airman from Aero-News Network | NY Veterans Hall Of Fame Member Flew 95 WWII Missions Another of the Tuskegee Airmen has gone west. Captain Clarence Dart, who flew 95 missions with the Red Tail Squadron and was shot down twice flying Curtiss P-40s during WWII, passed away Friday at Wesley Health Care Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. Dart, 91, never regained consciousness following a stroke on February 4, according to the Albany Times Union...

Black Buffalo from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | February is Black History Month in Canada. What better way to contribute to the collective knowledge of what black Canadians have accomplished in the face of intolerance and repression, than to tell the story of the courageous man who was the first black combat pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. And what a story it is....

South African Air Force Museum adds two helicopters from HeliHub.com News | The SAAF Museum has acquired two new exhibits that symbolise the technological prowess of the South African aeronautical industry in the late twentieth century. First to arrive at the Museum at Zwartkop, Centurion, on Friday 11 February was an Aerospatiale SA-330L Puma (serial 190). The medium-transport Puma was a stalewart of the airforce from the ...

Flying radar missions over North Sea was scary and boring ‘Cold War’ duty from War Tales by Don Moore | George Burger of Rotonda was a radar operator aboard a four-engine Navy Super Constellation patrol plane flying out of Argentia Naval Air Station, Newfoundland in the mid 1950s during the “Cold War” searching for Soviet missiles and submarines as a member of Airborne Early Warning Squadron 13. “It was hard to describe. It was a...

The George at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force — a Kawanishi N1K-J Shiden (紫電 “Violet Lightning”) from Travel for Aircraft | ...The George was a fighter that had excellent visibility for its pilot...

Rocket-boosted P-51D Mustang from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Retro Mechanix features a report on the evaluation of two P-51D Mustangs that were retrofitted with liquid rocket motors.  The fuel and oxidizer were held in fixed wing tanks (on opposite sides).  The fuel tank held a mixture of analine and furfuryl alcohol and the oxidizer was red fuming nitric acid.  Both were pressurized by...

Unusual Lockheed SST Nose Concept from The Unwanted Blog | In 1963, supersonic transports were obviously just around the corner. One aspect of the concept that received a lot of study was the nose of the aircraft...

Some very tricky arrivals and departures from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The video clip below shows crosswind landings and takeoffs at Düsseldorf airport in Germany earlier this year....

Forget formation flying, try this with your RV from VAF Forums by Frank Smidler | How many dancing wing walkers can you get on an RV before it affects aerodynamics....

The New Space Race: The Next 30 Years of Human Exploration of Space - Huffington Post | At a time when many doubt our national commitment to human exploration of space, it is important to reflect on where we have been, where we are going and most importantly, why. There can be little doubt that humanity is destined to live beyond the confines of our Earth and even our solar system. But this expansion is far more than mere...

Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner under pressure from Aerial Sports Feed | Red Bull Stratos will see Felix Baumgartner go where no one has gone before by performing the world's highest, longest and fastest freefall off a balloon floating in the Stratosphere....

NASA Officials Participate in 2nd Annual White House Science Fair - NASA | WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other senior agency officials joined President Obama in honoring student science fair winners from across the country at the second annual White House Science Fair today in the East Wing of the White House. The event highlighted student achievement and excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM....