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Airfest kicks off Friday in Keystone - The Gainesville Sun | More than 50 years since its use as a U.S. Army Air Corps training ground for the D-Day invasion, Keystone Heights Airport is hosting the 5th Annual Wings of Dreams Airfest starting Friday and running through Sunday. School tours will be given on Monday...

Mike Wiskus - lauderdaleairshow.com | ...Mike has accumulated more than 23,000 flight hours and has qualified in more than 30 aircraft. Today, Mike keeps busy by flying for Corporate America as well as keeping a full time air show schedule from April through November.  Mike owns and operates a high quality aircraft maintenance and refurbishing facility in the Minneapolis, MN. area in...

Watch rare warbird planes, celebrate vets at Wings of Dreams - Ocala.com | The year is 1943. Rosie the Riveter is encouraging women on the home front as soldiers are sent overseas. Zoot Suits, jazz and American pride reign supreme....

Tickets for Thunder in the Valley are on sale now - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer | This year, featured guests include Team RV, the largest aerobatic formation team in the world; Gary Ward in his MX 2; Greg Connell in his radial-powered Pitts Model 12; Mark Sorenson Airborne Comedy; the F-18 and V-22 Osprey and Sky Soldiers helicopter...

AF meets Navy - navy.mil | Marine Sgt. Kyle Storm, a crew chief assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, straps Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Koltes, operations officer assigned to the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, into the back seat...

Aircraft at the Tattoo - RIAT | Welcome to the Aircraft Participation section of the Air Tattoo website. Here you will find information about those countries that have been invited to participate, how these requests for aircraft are progressing and which aircraft are confirmed to attend. This information will be updated every Thursday from now until the show on 7 & 8 July 2012....

In pictures: Red Arrows memorial designs on display - BBC News | In pictures: Red Arrows memorial designs on display.

B-24 Liberator Bomber Crew Camp - Collings Foundation | Have you ever dreamed of becoming part of a bomber crew and flying your very own mission? The Collings Foundation will be offering a very unique two-day training program in...

The Red Bull Air Force Celebrates Leap Day from Aerial Sports Feed | Six members of the Red Bull Air Force ring in Leap Day 2012 the best way they know how, by...

2012 from Melissa Aerobatics | Hi! I thought I should give a quick 2012 update! We have had an amazing kick start to the season with a trip to Panama, City with the Edge for a show then up to Cozumel and Laredo, Texas! Pictures to...

Hill Country Air Race, Llano, TX 4-21-12 from VAF Forums by Bob Axsom | This race is now open for entries at www.sportairrace.org via calendar of events. Race course and details are listed there as well...

Berry’s Leap - airspacemag.com | ...On March 1, 1912, U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry climbed into a Benoist pusher-type airplane piloted by Tony Jannus, who two years later would achieve fame as the first airline pilot.  At their feet was an odd, cone-shaped contraption with a parachute packed inside.  They took off from Kinloch Field, and Jannus climbed to 1,500 feet. According to...

Female Aviators Inspire Pulp Fiction Adventures - The Golden Gazette News | It began with a “wing and a prayer” during those early years of flight. From the time when the Wright Brothers took their experimental aircraft aloft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina the race was on to build and pilot airplanes. And while it’s true that most of those early aviators were men, there were also several heroic women that took to the skies....

Rancho Mirage combat pilot offers bird's eye view of life - Mydesert.com | Buzz Lynch has been a combat pilot, a test pilot and an air-show performer, but the stunt that got him on the national news had nothing to do with either of these. It was...

Av Geeks (Myself Included) Flock to Seattle for Aviation Geek Fest 2012 from blogsouthwest.com | Are you an aviation geek?  This past weekend, aviation geeks (also known as "av geeks") from all across the country assembled in the Seattle area, home of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, to take part in Aviation Geek Fest 2012.  The event, held at the Future of Flight Museum in Everett, WA, was the...

Online visitors can experience entire museum through Virtual Tour - National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Virtual Tour is now fully embedded with audio and video hotspots, and touch-screen devices, offering online visitors the opportunity to experience the entire museum. Located at www.nmusafvirtualtour.com, the final two areas to be embedded -- the Cold War Gallery, with over 300 hotspots, and the...

Air museum finds temporary home - Members of the Pendleton Air Museum plan to gather Saturday and clean up a building at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport and turn it into a temporary home....

Stratovision! - The Original Rocket Dungeon | ...Before satellite TV and cable, there was Stratovision. Surplus B-29 bombers...

The Pilot as Hero in the Aviation Film Genre - The National Air and Space Museum | The relationship between film, history, and mass culture is especially intriguing when we examine the correspondences between the representation of pilot-heroes in film and public perceptions of aviation. These connections are applicable during the heyday of the aviation genre film—the interwar years and WWII. For many years...

Exec: Top Gun 2 Is Real and Stars a Plane That Doesn’t Fly - Gizmodo | A Lockheed engineer is probably the last person you'd expect to break the news of a Hollywood mega-blockbuster sequel, but here we go! Flightglobal is reporting Top Gun 2 is not only...
Record-breaking supersonic UAV jet in the works - University of Colorado aerospace engineer Ryan Starkey is currently designing what he claims will be fastest, most fuel-efficient aircraft in its class. Known as the GOJETT, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will be powered by a new type of jet engine that he is also developing - the L-FX00. According to Starkey, that engine...

International Auto Show Debuts Terrafugia’s Street Legal Aircraft - SAJ | The Transition® Roadable Aircraft, developed by Terrafugia, Inc., makes its auto show debut at the 2012 New York International Auto Show, (NYIAS) April 6th through the 15th at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.  Terrafugia has decided, after years of testing and engineering breakthroughs, that it is time to share their unique product with the legions of fans attracted to the NYIAS....

Wright-Patterson Aero Club to close - Dayton Daily News | The Wright-Patterson Aero Club, a fixture at the base since 1954, is likely to close within several months because it is losing money and its building and its airplanes need costly maintenance, the Air Force said Thursday. Leadership at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and...

Students display aviation history to mark the completion of transport makeover - Harrow Times | Primary school kids in Harrow marked to mark the completion of a transport makeover in Mollison Way, to commemorate the area's links to early flight. Kids at Stag Lane School, Collier Lane, used their artistic skills to...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Kicks Off Fourth Leg of the Dream Tour in Toronto - PR Newswire | Boeing's (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner touched down at Toronto Pearson International Airport today to kick off the fourth leg of the 787 Dream Tour – a worldwide tour featuring the Dreamliner. This leg of the tour includes eight cities across North America. The Dream Tour airplane is in Toronto to celebrate Air Canada's 75th Anniversary. During the...

Save The Date: The Space Shuttle Lands In NYC On April 23rd - gothamist.com | The Space Shuttle Enterprise is finally coming to its new permanent home, New York City. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, who last November became the official title holders of the shuttle, has just announced that it will arrive on April 23rd. The shuttle actually never orbited space (but it was visited by the cast of Star Trek), so this will be one of its most historic journeys....

Now Underway: the U.S.'s First Suborbital Balloon Factory - POPSCI | The Near Space Corporation, which has won contracts from NASA in the past, announced this week that it'll be building a commercial high-altitude (still suborbital) balloon flight facility, the first of its kind in this country. The balloons go up to around 130,000 feet, right at the edge of space, so they...