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American Heroes Air Show - WAI | Scheduled for April 21, 2012 at the Texas Military Force’s historic Camp Mabry in the heart of Austin, Texas, the admission-free American Heroes event is now 60 days in front of us and we hope you are planning to participate. Produced at sites around the nation by volunteers with a passion for aviation and public service, the American Heroes Air Show is the nation’s premier admission-free, helicopter only aviation event designed to...

How a jet pilot sees the world | Video from cockpit of fighter plane - The Sun | AMAZING footage shows what it is like to pilot a fighter jet during a dramatic display of flips and tricks. The planes are seen flying almost wing-to-wing at more than 20,000ft. The film was captured by a member of American stunt stars the Black Diamond Jet Team...

Loss of headliner doesn’t mean show will be free - Wetaskiwin Times | The 2012 Wetaskiwin Air Show will be staged without some of the sector’s premiere acts, but it doesn’t mean the event has lost its wow factor. “We’ll definitely have a quality show from the...

Memorial to Red Arrow pilot chosen - Bournemouth Echo | Penny Vallier, 10, and George Cutler, nine, are celebrating after winning a competition to design a memorial to Flight Lieutenant Egging, who died following a Red Arrows display at last year's Bournemouth Air Festival. They and fellow members of Kinson...

F-35A from the Tanker from Planeshots

The Biggest Little Airshow - Model Aviation | Written by Jay Smith As featured on page 24 in the March 2012 issue. Watch a videos, see photos, and read an except from the article.

German test pilot Richard Perlia has passed away - Translated | ...In the Third Reich Perlia worked through the agency of Ernst Udet as a test pilot for several companies, most recently at Junkers in Dessau. After the Second World War, he turned to photography, writing for the "World Flight" and wrote two autobiographical works: "Mission: Impossible. Memoirs of a test pilot under Hitler "and" time up, sometimes down... [via]

Pipestrel rounding the globe, the long way from AOPA Pilot Blog | Matevž Lenarčič of Slovenia is flying a modified Pipestrel Virus with a turbocharged Rotax engine around the world westward, taking pictures, ecological measurements, and gathering material for a book. You may have read he landed in Antarctica. Well, he did, but that is so six days ago. Now he has landed on Easter Island after a 15-hour, 2,000 nautical mile flight at 150 knots. He’s zigzagging all over the place and has already flown enough miles to circle the globe, but...

A Presidents Flight from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | By the end of my stay, some folks I owned this TBM Avenger because I was with it so much. Painted exactly as President George Bush’s TBM appeared when we was shot down, this is simply a gorgeous plane I love...

Air Force names top fighter squadron from Air Force Link Top Stories | On Feb. 16, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced that Kadena's 67th Fighter Squadron earned the Raytheon Trophy for 2011. The annual award, originally started by the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1953, is now sponsored by Raytheon Systems Corporation and is given to the top air superiority or air defense squadron in the Air Force...

Photo: Venezuelan Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MkII backseater view from David Cenciotti | I’ve found this awesome picture almost by accident. It was published on One Big Photo, a website that makes high resolution photographs of various subjects available to everyone. Usually, aircraft pictures you can find on photo/wallpaper sites are only spectacular images already published on several aviation-related websites. The F-15E with lightning...

Today's Photos - Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 from Military Photos by Ceriy

Fantasy camp for those who love to fly - CBS | ABOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 9454 — Eric Mueller's vacation started when his plane filled with smoke. Soon, people slid down an emergency chute, inflated life vests and climbed into a raft. Mueller loved every minute of it. Most days he runs a book review website. But on this day he was living out a fantasy at...

Grissom selected for top AFRC Public Affairs awards - Grissom ARB | The Grissom ARB Public Affairs program, along with the base's September 2011 rededication ceremony, took top honors in the Air Force Reserve Command Public Affairs Awards for Communication Excellence. The 434th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Office was selected for the Brigadier General Harry J. Dalton Jr. Award as the top host base PA program in the command.  The...