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Thousands flock to airshow - Star News Group | THOUSANDS of aircraft enthusiasts descended upon Point Cook last week as the Point Cook RAAF Museum Air Pageant came to town. The pageant celebrated the Air Force heritage through “flying and static displays of past and present aircraft”. More than 20,000 people were...

Air Show a success, but Birdman fails to fly - Phuket News | ...Birdman was meant to land on Surin beach wearing his bird suit, but on the day the plane he was meant to be riding in pulled out, and a replacement one could not be found....

Blue Angels gear up for upcoming flying season - KSWT | Midway through their winter training, the Blue Angels look forward to their first show of the year at Naval Air Facility El Centro, a dream for Lt. Mark Tedrow, his first year on the team. "There are actually 120 training flights prior to our first public demonstration for all the demonstration pilots so that is a requirement to fulfill prior to performing in front of a public demonstration, a public audience," says Lt. Tedrow, who flies Blue Angels #7.  "It's a big number as you can imagine from January to the middle of March.  These guys fly two sometimes three times a day."...

Those magnificent men in their flying machines - Evening Telegraph Video | The Blades display team have begun their winter training programme under the guidance of a new team leader, Mark Cutmore. Features editor Joni Ager find out more about the UK’s only full-time civilian aerobatic team. It may be lashing down with rain and blowing a gale at Sywell Aerodrome, but The Blades are still preparing to fly....

Celebrating Women And Flight from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | More than 100 aircraft piloted by pilots from 8 countries are getting ready to celebrate the centennial of Harriet Quimby's crossing of the English Channel by flying over the English Channel between England's Headcorn Aerodrome and France's Le Touquet Airport.

Remember the Smithsonian's flying Pterodactyl model? from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | In 1984, the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum commissioned the construction of a flying mechanical model of a Quetzalcoatlus northropi a.k.a. a pterodactyl.  The project was led by aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready of Aero-Vironment, Inc and was funded by Johnson Wax. It flew on the National Mall in 1986 (?) in conjunction with the opening of the IMAX film "On the Wing."...

The Voyage of Biarritz: Paris-Noumea (1932) from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | March 6, 1932, Biarritz, designed by the manufacturer Couzinet off Vendee Rene Bourget. He rallied in New Caledonia in 30 days. The association Yonnais Heritage and the town of La Roche-sur-Yon are celebrating this milestone in aviation history....

Powering Planes with the Sun - Blades Magazine | We’ve heard of Around the World in 80 Days (or 97 if you’re Barrington Irving). That’s impressive, but can it be done with no fuel? Though that issue came up a lot during Barrington’s trip, Solar Impulse plans to make those worries a thing of the past with a plane that can fly on nothing but solar power....

Russians in Iranian sky from Military Photos by Stasi | Russian aerobatic team flying back from Bahrain Air Show (notice some Iranian escorts):...photo gallery

CEO of the Cockpit is FREE, Today! from Flight Monkeys | One of the best and brightest contributors to FlightMonkeys is the mighty Captain Kevin Garrison. Unlike some who bestow the moniker on themselves, Kevin is a real captain in the sense that he once wore a jacket with four stripes on the sleeves, a shirt that had four bars on the epaulets, and earned the grudging respect of first officers and flight attendants who filled the skies above. Heck, most of them are still up there somewhere. They know who they are. Hopefully they know where they are, too....

Team To ‘Take A Leap’ Off GM Headquarters Wednesday - CBS Detroit | Look up! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… No, it’s the Red Bull Air Force team. The team will “take a leap” at General Motors Headquarters at the Renaissance Center Wednesday to celebrate Leap Year in a memorable way. The team will be attempting the first-ever attempt at five consecutive base jumps in five different cities on the same day, including in...

Soyuz TMA 04-M Prep Continues for May 15, 2012 Ride to Orbit from the Cosmodrome from Spaceports | At the Baikonur Cosmodrome preparations continue for the May 15, 2012 launch of Soyuz TMA-04-M human transport spacecraft under the International Space Station program. NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Roscosmos cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin are scheduled to fly on...

NASA Scientist Wins Free Space Trip on Rocket Plane from SPACE.com | NASA scientist Thomas Goodwin may not get to actually claim the big prize.

UPDATE 1-Virgin Galactic aims to test fly ship in space this year - Reuters | Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, expects to test fly its first spacecraft beyond the Earth's atmosphere this year, with commercial suborbital passenger service to follow in 2013 or 2014, company officials said on Monday. Nearly 500 customers have signed up for rides on SpaceShipTwo, a...