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Valkaria AirFest prepares for takeoff at South Brevard airfield | 6th annual event features rides, displays and demonstrations - Florida Today | Things are looking up at the Valkaria Airport, as evidenced by recent improvements and exciting plans for Saturday’s Valkaria AirFest. Sponsored by the Valkaria Aviation Association, the sixth annual event will feature aircraft rides, displays and model rocket and aviation demonstrations. But it also will give...

Authors, veterans sign books at Bomber - Oregon City Online | A handful of military pilots and other Northwest authors will sign copies of their books at a Feb. 25 fundraising open house at the Wings of Freedom Museum (next to the Milwaukie Bomber). The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., as part of the monthly Veterans Coffee Club gathering celebrating its 10th anniversary....

Avenger goes "feet wet" from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | As many will be aware, TBM Avenger ZK-TBM/1, which was a resident in NZ during the 1990's with the Alpine Fighter Collection before export to Australia in 1999, is on its way back to NZ to be stable mates with Spitfire ZK-SPI at Ohakea with Brendon Deere....

Flying the DC-7 Featured - EAA Video | Jeff Skiles and Sully Sullenberger take you inside the cockpit of Historical Flight Foundation's DC-7B as they learn to fly the vintage airliner and earn their second-in-command type ratings.

British test pilot marks milestone in the Joint Combat Aircraft from AVIATION-NEWS by Marcel van Leeuwen | People on this side of the Atlantic Ocean tend to look twice when they see the “c” replacing the “s” in the British version of the word “defense.” Now, those on the other side of the Atlantic might look twice when they see the “c” entered into the Royal Air Force’s flight log. On Feb...

Harold Pitcairn - x planes | “Harold Pitcairn flies his Autogiro Windmill from...

A passion fueled by flight - Smith Mountain Eagle | Escape to the sky. Don Fink and other pilots have been doing just that for generations. The Smith Mountain Lake civic leader has penned a somewhat autobiographical glimpse of life in the cockpit in a new, 350-page book entitled “Escape to the Sky.” Its protagonist, Ben, a disenchanted,...

The Libyan MIRAGE OF MALTA RETURN HOME - Military News (Translated) | The two Libyan Mirage F1 aircraft that had landed in Malta since one year ago at the beginning of hostilities in Libya, following the defection of the two pilots, were distributed today to return home. The two aircraft arrived in Malta exactly one year ago yesterday, the commands Colonel Ali al-Rabti and Colonel Abdullah al-Salheen AWOL after refusing to attack the civilian population of Benghazi....

Fourth Part of 787 Dream Tour to Feature Stops in Canada, Mexico and U.S. - Airlines and Destinations | Boeing will begin the fourth segment of its six-month 787 Dream Tour on March 1, with visits to cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In addition, the Dream Tour aircraft,...

Sterling HS students already flying high - ABC local | Take to the skies with the Flying Tigers. They're students at Sterling High School. This year's program has put out the largest number of high school solo pilots ever. It's the only program of its kind in the state, and for these students, it's life changing....

Astronauts4Hire and Vital Space Team Up for Biometric Monitoring Flights - News Release | Tampa, Florida – Astronauts4Hire and partner company Vital Space will test a new biometric monitoring system designed for use by spaceflight participants on a May 2012 reduced gravity parabolic flight campaign in Houston, Texas. They will undergo up to four flights with 40 parabolas each granting 25 seconds of near zero-gravity. The project is facilitated by NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, to which Vital Space and Astronauts4Hire submitted a successful joint proposal chosen by NASA in October 2011 titled, "A demonstrated application of a cost effective and novel platform for non-invasive acquisition of physiologic variables from spaceflight participant candidates."...