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Vulcan bomber needs £300,000 to keep flying - Daily Echo | ONE of the favourites of Bournemouth Air Festival is facing another battle to keep flying. Vulcan to the Sky Trust needs to raise £300,000 by the end of March to keep the Cold War bomber in the air. It currently has around £70,000 and is appealing for donations. Vulcan XH558 receives no...

Cadets from Spalding flying high with Red Arrows  - Guardian | SPALDING’S air cadets have been treated to an up-close encounter with the Royal Air Force’s elite Red Arrows team. The 21 cadets from the 1406 Squadron made the journey to RAF Scampton for a talk on the history of how the “Reds” were formed. They also enjoyed a guided tour around the hangar and viewed the cockpit of one of the Hawk jets....

Air show coming to New River Valley this fall - The Burgs | New River Valley Airport outside Dublin will host an air show Sept. 7-9. Timed to coincide with the airport turning 50 years old, the SkyFest AirShow is posting details on its site. Organizer Debbie Seagle, an experienced air show promoter, is lining up aviators to perform a host of flying maneuvers and has asked the U.S. military to bring combat aircraft for...

7 Golden Knights Jump Their First Demo from US Army Golden Knights by Dan Cook | The 2012 Demonstration season has finally begun for the newest members of the Golden Knights. While at our Winter Training site in Homestead, the “New Guys” performed their first parachute jump into the 4th Annual Biscayne/Everglades Greenway Bike Festival. A light fog drifted through the city of Homestead  but high above the sky was clear. For [...]

Collier Trophy nominees named from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) announced that former Collier Trophy recipients Dick Rutan, Joe Lombardo, Bobby Sturgel, and Jeff Pino will be among the aviation leaders who will participate in the Selection Committee for the 2011 Robert J. Collier Trophy. Nominees for this year's trophy are: Taurus G-4 Electric-Powered Aircraft, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, C-5M Super Galaxy, and the Gamera Human-Powered Helicopter....

DVD REVIEW: RAF Leuchars Airshow 2011 from Flightline UK | ...For many reasons, RAF Leuchars Airshow 2011 was a very significant event. Defence Cuts and financial cutbacks may have reduced the show’s static displays, but the flying display was a very well varied and impressive affair. A few weeks aftre the show, it was announced the RAF would be leaving Leuchars over the next few years with the Typhoon squadron (No 6(F))  based there supposedly moving to RAF Lossiemouth. Happily though, this airshow will not be the last staged at Leuchars....

G.A.S.E. REVIEW AND POTTED HISTORY – PART TWO from JR HAFER AVIATION BLOG.COM by JR HAFER AVIATION BLOG.COM | ...We were able to continue working with Norman Surplus who had called a halt to his circumnavigation in the autumn of 2010 whilst in the Philippines because of problems with bureaucracy meant that he would not get across Siberia and the Bering Sea before winter, but as the spring approached we were back on the job (running his social media sites) as he returned to the Philippines to resume his journey....

Reno man remembers how Red Tails protected his bomber crew - RGJ | During the fall and winter of 1944, U.S. heavy bombers staged a relentless series of daylight raids on French and German military targets. The raids were undertaken mostly by B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers. On several daylight missions, there were over 1,000 bombers in the air — most assigned to a single military target. I was a crew member on a B-17 Fortress with the 447th Bomb Group....

Palm Springs Air Museum gala includes tribute to Tuskegee Airmen - Mydesert.com | In addition to having a world-class World War II aviation museum, superb educational facilities and a prestigious cadre of loyal supporters, the Palm Springs Air Museum knows how to put on one heck of a party. The annual Black Tie gala played to a packed house of 475 guests at $350 each. This year's theme was Hollywood in the Skies and...

Longest serving Airman also longest serving African-American in DoD from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Force's longest serving Airman, who retired this past January after nearly 47 years of service, is also the longest serving African-American service member within the Department of Defense. Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers recently retired from the Pentagon where he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget for Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. Originally from rural Jones County, North Carolina, Flowers enlisted in the Air Force shortly after graduation from high school in 1965. He began his career as a...

It’s Mosquito time – again! This time with a Canadian twist… from Shortfinals's Blog | In honour of National Aviation Day (February 23rd) in Canada, I thought we should add a Canadian twist to this post! If I had to pick just one warbird which is making headlines this year, it would be the de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito. From New Zealand to the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom, projects are being started, being worked on, or being planned almost everywhere it seems. However, we must not forget Canada, the second home of the Mosquito, a country which provided many aircraft, mostly to RAF Bomber Command, in order to help smash the industrial heart of the Third Reich....

The Museum of Flying Grand Opening - NBC LA | When the Museum of Flying opened in 1989, it was located not in a downtown area, or next to other museums, but probably at the best place it could be: an airport. And if you visited the Santa Monica Airport in the...

The Grumman A-6E TRAM: Making the Intruder More Lethal from Tails Through Time by JP Santiago | The main variant of the Grumman A-6 Intruder to fight in the Vietnam War was the first production version, the A-6A. The next two variants, the defense-suppression A-6B and the night attack-optimized A-6C, were just modifications of the basic A-6A variant and both the B and C versions served in only small numbers...

No backup plan for aging jets if new F-35s are delayed from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua | There's little wiggle room to prolong the life of Canada's CF-18 jet fighters beyond 2020 and they may have to be flown gently if there are further delays in the F-35 program. A Defence Department chart that tracks maintenance on all 77 aircraft shows the CF-18s had used up about 73 per cent of their airframe life prior to last year's Libya bombing campaign....

Navy pilots in good condition after F/A-18F Super Hornet crashes - The Kathryn Report | Two pilots are in good condition after their single F/A-18F Super Hornet crashed this afternoon during a training flight about 30 miles northeast of Fallon in an unpopulated, dry lakebed....

Forest Service presents "Aerial Safety Over Wildland Fires"  - Silver City Sun News | GRANT COUNTY On Saturday the National Forest Service presented the program Aerial Safety over Wildland Fires. Private, commercial, and air transportation pilots arrived at the Forest Service Aerial Headquarters at the Grant County Airport near Hurley, to learn from Robert Madill, the Forest Aviation Officer for the Gila and Lincoln National Forests on how to fly safely around wildland fires. Last year in our region we had over 10,000 flight hours, and the majority of these were fire related, Madill said....

Schools encouraged to join in aviation time capsule competition - Sleaford Standard | A NEW education project is being launched by the county’s aviation heritage promoters. For 2012 Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire is running a competition based around Time Capsules from March 1 to September 20, with all entries submitted and received for judging by October 1....

1962 Glenn Addresses Congress - NY Times | Lt. Col. John H. Glenn told a cheering Congress today [Feb. 26] he and the other astronauts of 1962 “are just probing the surface of the greatest advancement in man’s knowledge of his surroundings that has ever been made.” In a 17-minute speech before a joint meeting of the Senate and House, the globe-girdling Marine was at once a...