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It doesn’t get much closer than that! EL CENTRO, Calif.... from You like airplanes, too? | Members of the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, perform a diamond formation maneuver over Naval Air Facility El Centro during a practice flight...

Flying the DC-7 from Aviation Mentor by John Ewing | I wrote a while ago about two vintage aircraft that used to sit between the taxiways on Oakland's North Field: A P3 Orion that was cut up for scrap and a DC-6 that was refurbished and flew out on its own power. I've never flown on either aircraft types, but seeing the DC-6 do a last low-pass over 27 left before departing to the East was like going back in time....

The Bücker of Charbo from Apache Roll, le blog de la patrouille Breitling by Grifil | The last two videos of beautiful Breitling Bücker evolving by Grégory Le Moigne. | With its beautiful blue livery system and smoke, he is ready to show what he has in the belly of the finest meetings. The F-Bücker AZVK No. 27, built in 1935, was based in Texas. Its new owner is Bernard "Charbo" Charbonnel, N ° 2 of the Breitling Jet Team. The aircraft...

Radio-controlled aircraft: Display at mall March 9, 10 - North Umberland Today | Learn to take flight at Pine Ridge Flyers annual show | COBOURG — Almost spring is almost time for the Pine Ridge Flyers Model Airplane Club’s annual show at Northumberland Mall. The display on March 9...

Women Soar You Soar Set to Inspire Young Women at AirVenture 2012 - EAA | Young women will be inspired to reach for their aviation dreams as Women Soar You Soar, a four-day mentoring camp featuring inspirational female aviators, returns for its eighth year in conjunction with EAA AirVenture 2012. Women Soar You Soar, scheduled for Thursday, July 26, through Sunday, July 29, will introduce 100 young women to aviation-based careers...

Speedbirds - Translated | The book SpeedBirds # 1 's friend Laurent Negroni being exhausted, it will be reprinted in large format (BD). At his request, I made an illustration of a plane of the Schneider Cup, an Italian Macchi M39 (which you have an excerpt here).  The release is scheduled for the meeting of La Ferte-Alais....

Dan Linn's Blog: Vintage Aviation Advertisements - Eaglerock from Antique Airfield News | This past week I was sorting some early period, vintage magazines from the 1928 and 1929. Some of the rare gems I pulled from the advertisement pages were of the Alexander Eaglerock biplanes. The text from one of the ads caught my attention...

The coolest photo of an F/A-18F you’ll see all day! Heck,... from You like airplanes, too? | ...An F/A-18F Super Hornet from the Black Aces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41 breaks the sound barrier during an air power demonstration for ...

Boeing B-1 Bomber Completes 10,000th Combat Mission from AVIATION-NEWS by Rob Vogelaar | The Boeing [NYSE: BA] B-1 bomber aircraft has completed its 10,000th combat mission. The heavy bomber entered service with the U.S. Air Force on June 29, 1985, and has been in nearly continuous combat for the past 10 years. The milestone mission took off from a base in Southwest...

Training exercise has C-130 flying low in Evansville - 14news | If you've noticed a low-flying airplane around Evansville you're not alone. Air traffic manager Rick Polete tells 14 News that C-130 pilots are training at the Evansville Regional Airport. The pilots spent hours Monday working on their approaches....

CoolPix: Lean & Mean North American X-15 (1961) from AirPigz | I was born the same year this photo was taken of the #3 North American X-15 sitting on a dry lakebed, and I gotta say it was pretty cool growing up with the X-15 program still operational. This image seems to say it all when it comes to how cool the X-15 is. It's lean, mean and so secure in what it's designed to do that it didn't even need wheels on the main gear! It's part Batman and part astronaut all rolled into one....

Lockmart unveils F-16V - interops with F-35 & F-22s from Black Horizon | The Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon has been around for over three decades and so far there have been nearly 4,500 delivered. The F-16 will continue for many years to come and Lockheed Martin has today unveiled a new version called F-16V. The new version of the fighter jet was unveiled at the Singapore Airshow and has new feature enhancements to make the aircraft more formidable...

Flash Forward—Part 8: It’s Finished—Almost: The Continued Progress of Our First 737-800 - Nuts about Southwest | At the end of our last installment, our first Boeing 737-800 was being towed into the paint shop. As this batch of photos from some of our folks who travelled to Renton shows, the painting process is complete....

Soyuz images at English Russia from High Power Rocketry

Mojave Air and Space Port Asks for California State Legislators to Provide Help to Compete from Spaceports | Stuart Witt, CEO of the East Kern Airport District, which manages the Mojave Air and Space Port, said immediate action is needed to battle efforts by governors in several states to lure the new industry to their states. Speaking at the...

Astronauts4Hire Announces its Commercial Astronaut Training Programs from RLV and Space Transport News | Palo Alto, California – After more than a year of development, Astronauts for Hire (A4H) is proud to announce its proposed training programs for Research Specialist Astronauts and Operations Specialist Astronauts. These programs, which were developed by the nonprofit in close consultation with former NASA astronauts and astronaut instructors, are the most comprehensive commercial scientist-astronaut training guidelines available in the world....