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This year’s Skyfest postponed, base says - The Spokesman-Review | Fairchild Air Force Base is canceling Skyfest, originally planned for September, but plans to hold the air show sometime in 2013, the base announced this morning.  Budget constraints and “conflicts with other regional air shows” were behind the decision, according to a news release. Skyfest was originally scheduled to be held Sept. 22 and 23. Fairchild plans to hold Skyfest next year “on a date to be determined.”...

CAF B-29 Pilot David Oliver – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday | This week we’re looking back at some of our favorite episodes.  Commemorative Air Force B-29 pilot David Oliver joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Tune in and hear the latest news from the CAF’s B-29 / B-24 Squadron....

P-51 With Stuck Gear Lands Safely With Help From the Master from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Some fast thinking by Cavanaugh Flight Museum officials, along with remote advice from one of the greatest pilots who ever lived, allowed for the safe landing of the museum's P-51D Mustang Brat III, which was providing rides on Sunday at Mobile Downtown Airport, Alabama....

WWII plane will be repaired in Mobile - Fox10TV | A former combat airplane that landed safely following landing gear trouble in Mobile is now in the shop waiting for repair parts. Cavanaugh Flight Museum Director Doug Jeanes said he was in his Dallas home cooking when he got the call for help. A P-51 flying over Mobile as part of a tour that brought a...

Video: Miniature air show in the desert southwest - 13 KSWT | Experienced remote control pilots from across the nation came out this weekend to show off their skills at the Fly Yuma 2012 Model Airplane Air Show. "Were just going up and doing dead stick landings and trying to see how long we can stay up and glide without using our engines. Who ever has the longest time wins," says Julian Bustil....

Buffalo Soldier - Vintage Wings of Canada | Flying Officer (F/O) Allan Selwyn Bundy’s name first appears in the 404 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Books) within an un-embellished 8 October, 1944 summary where it is noted that he and his NCO navigator, Flight Sergeant (F/S) Wright, together with another newly arrived crew were “declared fit for ops.” Two days later the two crews were in the air local to their new home in Scotland – the RAF Airfield at Banff – honing up on their formation flying skills. Even this early on, it becomes apparent that the...

Chinese American WW2 P-47 Pilot, Lt George Chin (Deceased), European Theater, 9th Army Air Force - Flickr | To expand see controls on top of image to get to full size. Also featuring Margaret Chin, (alive), the "San Mateo Belle". During WW2, following the "day of infamy", It's rare it is for Asian Americans to be officers,...

WWII bomber history topic of Meadville roundtable - GoErie.com | The Victory Bound, a B-17 bomber based in Europe, will be the topic of the World War II Roundtable on Friday. The program will be presented by Lucy Nesbit, daughter of Staff Sgt. Milton McCracken, who was a gunner on the plane....

Ohio museum crews make parts by hand to restore famed World War II bomber 'Memphis Belle' - The Republic | Crews in Ohio are working to restore a famed B-17 bomber from World War II, scraping paint and bending metal to bring back the beauty of the Memphis Belle. The storied aircraft flew 25 crucial missions over Europe during the...

Smithsonian Aims to Make All Objects In Museum Collection 3-D-Printable | Please give me a Friendship 7 to call my own - POPSCI | The Smithsonian Institution, guardian of the nation’s historical awesomeness, is building a new archive of 3-D digital models for its entire collection. It starts with a statue of Thomas Jefferson and ends, we sincerely hope, with full-scale replicas of every item in the National Air and Space Museum, which we can personally print out with a souped-up Makerbot. CNET reports that that some 3-D scanned items will become 3-D printouts, and others will...

World War I Aircraft from InFlightUSA | The Curtiss JN-4 ‘Jenny” that trained U.S. Army pilots prior to their travel to France to fly French fighter aircraft. (Photo byBrian Karli at Amarillo Texas in 1918/Holcomb’s Aerodrome)When gunfire began in the First World War, the airplane was just 11 years old and had been in competition for five years. In America, however, the airplane was still an aerodynamic juvenile. No one had thought about using it to wage war. That would quickly change....

WWII pilot knows: It's not the leap, it's the landing - Palm Beach Post | For a man who once went to extremes not to bail out of an airplane (specifically, a crippled B-24), Mel Schumer was bound and determined to make it happen this past weekend. The occasion? Well, Mel turned 90 Monday, and the tandem jump with his granddaughter Lauren, who was celebrating her 30th birthday, se...

Girls fly too! | Helicopter pilot aims to put 500 young women into flight - NNSL | There will be some busy skies over the Yellowknife Airport March 10 as a plan takes flight to put 500 young women into helicopters as an encouragement to take up careers in aviation. Yellowknife helicopter pilot Kirsten Brazier, organizer of Sky's No Limit - Girls Fly Too!, aims to have 500 girls ages eight to 19 fly the skies above Yellowknife for free with four to six helicopter pilots, including herself. "The purpose of the helicopter ride is to grab their attention and get them there, once there, there is an...

4 on the floor by Randy Tinseth | Here’s something you don’t see every day. In fact, for only the sixth time in history—four different models of the 777 are currently being built inside our factory in Everett. The first time this happened was in 2009. The last time this happened was in 2010....

Astronaut with GA roots prepares new generation of  explorers - AOPA Online | The main engines lit six seconds before liftoff, filling the space shuttle Discovery with a low rumble. “Almost like an engine on a car, a big engine on a car,” recalled NASA astronaut Nicole P. Stott, one of six astronauts on board as STS-133, the final mission for Discovery, launched Feb. 24, 2011. Nothing, Stott said, can prepare a person for what happens as the clock strikes zero: solid rocket booster ignition. Liftoff was instant....

Video | Felix Baumgartner: Red Bull Stratos Pilot from Aerial Sports Feed | Felix Baumgartner is not only a well-known Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper, but also the pilot of the Red Bull Stratos project. Having already set several records in BASE jumping and skydiving,...