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International Edge To Air Force's Ohakea Air Show - Scoop.co.nz | Modern day aircraft from six nations will join Mustangs and Spitfires of the past at the Royal New Zealand Air Force's 75th Anniversary Air Show next month. Major international Air Forces including the French Armed Forces of New Caledonia; Republic...

Al Fursan – The Knights at RIAT | ...Al Fursan – The Knights – from the United Arab Emirates Air Force will display at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on July 7-8. Featuring seven Alenia Aermacchi MB-339A Italian trainer aircraft, the team first performed at the Dubai Airshow in November to mark the UAE’s 40th anniversary. The fighter pilots were trained in formation flying by the Italian Air Force display team the Frecce Tricolori, who also fly the same aircraft....

AIRSHOW NEWS: Cosford Airshow 2012 to go ahead on 17th June 2012 from Flightline UK | The organisers of the annual RAF Cosford Air Show have confirmed that the show will go ahead on Sunday 17 June 2012. In previous years the crowd at this event on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border have enjoyed a fantastic five-and-a-half hour flying display and 2012 will again see dozens of aircraft from all ages of flight coming together for an afternoon of entertainment....

The Warbird Rescue Hour – B-24 Liberator Trust of Australia – Thursday – 8pm (EASTERN) | The Warbird Rescue guys are jumping datelines this week to speak with the B-24 Liberator Trust in Australia.  The all volunteer crew is working hard to restore the only B-24 in the Southern Hemisphere.  Their goal is to restore the B-24 as a memorial to the brave crews that flew the mighty...

Remote Possibilities’ annual Fly-in this weekend in Bloomington - St George Utah News | This weekend, you may notice rugged WWII dogfighters and sleek jet airplanes screaming across the skies above the desert region southwest of Bloomington. No, the annual St. George air show has not come a month early, but rather, Remote Possibilities RC Club – St. George’s own radio-controlled aircraft club – will be holding its 34thAnnual President’s Day Fly-In Feb. 23-26 in Bloomington....

Pipistrel Circumnavigator Lands Safely In Easter Island from Aero-News Network | Pacific Island Group One Of The Most Remote Places On Earth Matevz Lenarcic, who is flying around the world with a modified Pipistrel Virus SW 914 Turbo, has just completed the longest flight on his journey ... 2,300 miles over the Pacific Ocean from Concepcion, Chile to Easter Island...

Aviator on course to cross Tasman - Wanganui Chronicle | Marton businessman Brendon Deere is about halfway through his latest aerial expedition, flying home in a Word War 2 Grumman Avenger plane. Mr Deere and pilot Guy Stevensen left Toowoomba in Queensland just before 9am yesterday on the first leg of a transtasman flight that will end at Ohakea this afternoon....

Flying high to secure world aviation record - Leamington Observer | "The trophy is magnificent and it's a real privilege to receive the award designed by the Duke himself knowing it has been in the hands of great aviators for almost the last 50 years. Kim has since passed her Private Pilots licence so we enjoyed a...

Tuskegee Airman Rice finally getting his due - Philly Trib | Tuskegee airman William Rice dreamed of being a pilot since he was a kid. Born and raised in Nether Providence Township in Delaware County, Rice’s dream became a reality when he became one of the first Black military aviators in the United States Armed Forces....

First Black female fighter pilot follows childhood dream from Air Force Link Top Stories | By the time she was in fourth grade, young Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell knew she wanted to be a fighter pilot. What the now-Air Force major didn't know, however, was that she would knock down a racial barrier by becoming the first black female fighter pilot. Kimbrell was born in Lafayette, Ind., on April 20, 1976, to Guyanese parents. Her mother and father, who were naturalized U.S. citizens by the time she was born, moved to the U.S. for education and opportunities. Their hard work and dedication paid off in her father earning a degree from Howard University and a doctorate from Perdue University, which in turn earned him a job offer in Parker, Colo....

35 Squadron C-47TP Turbo Dakota from Latest Vlog | Hot off the press is this new 3 minute video we filmed at the Wings & Wheels air show in December at Ysterplaat. In this video...

Shared love of aviation unites U.S., Russian airmen from Air Force Link Top Stories | At most airshows in the U.S., it isn't uncommon for aircrew to get the occasional odd request. However, at the 2012 Singapore Airshow here Feb. 15, the Airmen of an E-3 Sentry crew said they were a bit intimidated when, without warning, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force asked to board one of the most classified aircraft in the Air Force's inventory....

Marine helicopters collide in Arizona killing seven from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | Two helicopters collided in midair during a training exercise in Arizona, killing seven Marines, the U.S. Marine Corps said Thursday. Wednesday night's crash occurred during routine training operations at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Carl B. Redding, Jr., said in a statement....

Pilot and Patriot: Delta pilot Captain Bradford Lang - www.youtube.com | Meet Bradford Lang, Delta pilot and son of one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen -- the first African American aviators in the US Armed forces. For more great...

Squadron F-15C jet is chosen best in Kadena air defense squadron of the USAF in 2011 - Cavok (Translated) | On February 16, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Chief of Staff U.S. Air Force announced that the 67th Fighter Squadron from Kadena Air Base, Japan, the "Fighting Cocks", won the Trophy for Raytheon in 2011. The annual award, originally initiated by the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1953, is now sponsored by Raytheon Systems Corporation and is given to the best squadron of air superiority and air defense of the U.S. Air Force....

Tanker Trio from Ares by Guy Norris | Airbus Military, via the Royal Australian Air Force, has released an interesting image of a trio of A330 Multirole Tanker Transports (MRTT) taken on Feb 21 somewhere over Spain – presumably near Getafe. Nearest the camera is the second KC-30A for the United Arab Emirates, with RAAF KC-30A A39-001 in the middle of the formation and the UK Royal Air Force’s first future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) in the distance....

Squadron F-15C jet is chosen best in Kadena air defense squadron of the USAF in 2011 from CavokBlog | On February 16, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Chief of Staff U.S. Air Force announced that the 67th Fighter Squadron from Kadena Air Base, Japan, the "Fighting Cocks", won the Trophy for Raytheon in 2011. The annual award, originally initiated by the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1953, is now...

ABL Adieu from Ares by Robert Wall | Boeing's Airborne Laser has now been put out to pasture. When ABL was born, it was going to be the next great thing in missile defense, destroying a target at hundreds-of-kilometers range with the power of its high-power chemical oxygen iodine laser. That was before the program got bounced around between the Air Force and Missile Defense Agency and development problems slowed the pace of advancement....

Discover Your Future in Aviation from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Young people interested in aviation as a career or hobby will want to attend Discover Your Future in Aviation, to be held at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Saturday, March 31, from 10 am to 4 pm. This is the third year for the aviation conference, which promises to be a day filled with hands-on workshops and seminars, a career fair, and interactive science exhibits...

Topic takes pupils to RAF base - Epworth Bells | “The children were really excited to see four Red Arrows zooming over head. We watched the display and met the friendly pilots who answered the children's questions and let them hold their helmets.” She added: “Next we went into the Red Arrow hangar...

Video: Red Bull Stratos: Meet the team from Apron 6

Scaled Composites Rocks! (The Music Video) - AirPigz | This fresh in-house video from the cool people at Scaled Composites shows a wide range of the unique flying machines they've built over the years... and it also gives you a good feel for the excellent camaraderie that the people working there experience.

Sky Sapience Introduces the HoverMast Autonomous Hovering Platform from Ares by Noam Eshel | The ‘HoverMast’ developed by the Israeli start-up company Sky Sapience is scheduled to go on an operational evaluation in the upcoming months, demonstrating the system’s capability to expand the surveillance coverage of unmanned ground vehicles. The HoverMast will be unveiled at the upcoming AUVSI Conference and Exhibition to be held in Tel-Aviv next month. Sky Sapience is positioned to compete with IAI's ETOP, which is a larger, heavier platform....