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No Cape air show for second straight year - Southeastern Missourian | Since its first year in 1998, the air show has been canceled three times and never in back-to-back years. Make it a fourth. And for the second straight summer. The Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival will not take place this year, with organizers blaming a time-crunch caused by the consideration of expanding the air show's focus....

Holland Park home to big little air show - They Daily News | A little-known Texas City park — Holland Park at 7500 Humble Camp Road — is the home of the Texas City Radio Control Club. Members fly radio control airplanes and helicopters daily. These models are not the toys of yesteryear and, in some cases, are very expensive, large and complicated replicas of full-scale models. Access to the park is restricted by a locked gate required to protect the golf green-type runways....

Video: Celebrate Leap Day with the US Navy parachute team, “The... from You like airplanes, too?

Winter Training Almost Complete - USAGK | It has been six weeks since the Golden Knights arrived in Homestead and the Teams are still going strong. All the jumpers are increasing their skills every day with much more still to learn.  So far the demonstrators have practiced Stack Outs, Baton Passes, Mass Formations, Diamond tracks and have even performed two live shows.  All maneuvers thus far have been preparing them for one of the toughest formations the demonstrators perform, the Diamond Formation.  Unlike the other maneuvers that involve the...

Public Invited to Celebrate First Parachute Jump Anniversary - Patch | One hundred years ago, on March 1, a man jumped out of an airplane with a parachute for the first time—and landed successfully at Jefferson Barracks. That man was Capt. Albert Berry and he jumped out of a 1912 Benoist Type 12 “pusher” biplane designed by Thomas Benoist, of Missouri....

Cross-country air race will take off in July from Mitchell - The Daily Republic | A multi-state air race will launch in Mitchell this summer. The 2012 EAA AirVenture Cup race will be held on Sunday, July 22, in advance of the EAA AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wis. This year’s race will commence in Mitchell and end...

Race Course Announced For 2012 EAA Airventure Cup from AvStop | Race officials for the 2012 EAA AirVenture Cup race have finalized the race course for this year’s cross-country race, scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 22, 2012 in advance of the EAA AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, WI. This year’s race will commence in Mitchell, SD (KMHE) and end in West Bend, WI (KETB), with checkpoints in Sheldon, IA...

Battle of Britain Film – “Behind the Scenes” Footage from Warbirds Online by Scott WRG Editor | Some “behind the scenes” 8mm film shot by an observer of the shooting of the Battle of Britain Movie in 1968. Filming at RAF Duxford, RAF North Weald, San Sebastian & Seville. Shots of...

FdL World War II hero will get delayed military memorial service - FDL Reporter | Air Force First Lt. George Balthazor made quite the dashing figure in his World War II bomber jacket, his hair swept back to one side. Surviving 32 missions while piloting a B-17 named “Flutterby” over enemy territory earned him membership in the elite “Lucky Bastard Club” of the 487th Bombardment Group, the group nicknamed “The Gentlemen from Hell.”  His medals...

Canada buying F-35 from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | Canada will buy a fleet of F-35 stealth fighters to replace aging CF-18s and won't pay more than what's already pledged for the 65 planes, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said. MacKay made the promise to hundreds of people attending a military conference in Ottawa that included a number of defence industry executives....

Air Force Base Quietly Pauses F-22 Fighter Ops After More Air Problems - 670KBOI | American pilots at an Alaskan military base have reported a sudden spike of incidents in which they experienced an apparent lack of oxygen while flying the nation's most sophisticated fighter jets -- a mysterious, recurring problem that already caused the $77.4 billion fighter jet fleet to sit idle on the tarmac for months last year. In at least three incidents in the last two weeks, pilots of the...

Mrs. Alaska U.S. All World Beauties 2012 takes flight with ‘GirlsFlyToo’ platform from Let's Go Flying | My name is Ariel Talen-Keller and I am the reigning Mrs. Alaska U.S. All World Beauties pageant winner.  My platform is called ‘GirlsFlyToo’ – a project to encourage and educate women to be a part of aviation.  I grew up on an airfield and my parents are pilots. My father is one of the few people in the nation that restores antique airplanes for a living.  His passion and love for aviation inspired me to share that same passion.  I attended flight school after college and as a pilot myself, I understand the importance of teaching and encouraging our youth to get involved in aviation....

World of Warplanes Soviet Warbirds Soar to Great Heights - Sacremento Bee | Wargaming.net, the award-winning videogame developer and publisher, soars to new heights with the new addition of Soviet warplanes, the third faction revealed for the flight combat action MMO World of Warplanes. The game is currently in its global alpha phase, where an army of test pilots are assisting the development team in improving and polishing the gameplay. The initial Soviet tech tree will include the legendary La-5 light fighter and Il-2 ground-attack plane, along with more than 20 other warbirds. Additional planes will be added to the Soviet line as the game nears launch....

Former Quarterback Breaks Paper Airplane Record from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The quiet world of competitive paper airplane flying got some unusual attention this weekend when Joe Ayoob, a former quarterback for the University of California at Berkeley, set a new world record for distance, 226 feet and 10 inches, inside a 747 hangar at McClellan Air Force Base, near Sacramento. Ayoob broke the former record by 19.5 feet. "It was a proud moment," said Ayoob...

Video: NASA's Methane-Powered Launcher Lifts Off With a Blue-Hot Column of Flame - POPSCI | NASA’s Project M, an awesome concept to use vertical launch systems to send robonauts to the moon, is still moving forward despite Robonaut’s one-way trip to the International Space Station. It’s now called Project Morpheus, and it’s a test bed for autonomous, environmentally friendly vertical launch systems. Watch below as Morpheus fires its new engine for the first time. The spacecraft is capable...

"We Are the Explorers!" - and we must GO! from Spaceports | Why do we explore? Simply, it is part of who we are, something we've done...

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