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2012 Demo Hornet Revealed Today - Canadian Forces CF18 Demo Team | In a small ceremony at 3 Wing today, this year's CF18 Demonstration Hornet was officially unveiled. Witnessed by family and friends from the Bagotville community, he unveiling was officiated by Colonel Paul Prévost, Wing Commander, and Captain Patrick "Paco" Gobeil, the 2012 Demo Pilot....

F-5 Formation Flight - lauderdaleairshow.com | The VFC-111 Sundowners are a US Navy Reserve adversary squadron based at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida The Sundowners currently operate 18 Northrop F-5N/F Tiger-IIs.  VFC-111 assumed its ‘Sundowner’ insignia, callsign, and traditions from the VF-111 Sundowners, a famous U.S. Navy fighter squadron, that was disestablished as a fleet F-14 Tomcat squadron at...

Gault to cook up flight display for Wanaka - Voxy | A display pilot who will be looking to put an extra five percent magic into his performance at the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow this Easter is celebrity chef, Simon Gault. Mr Gault, who is currently judging on TVNZ's MasterChef New Zealand series, is also an aerobatic pilot, gliding instructor and experienced display pilot. Well-known for putting 'an extra five percent magic' into his cooking, the award-winning restaurateur will fly a high-performance Thunder Mustang. The Thunder Mustang is a three-quarter scale replica of the WWII-era P-51 Mustang....

Centennial of the First Parachute Jump From an Airplane Celebrated at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | The centennial of the first parachute jump from an airplane was celebrated today at Jefferson Barracks just south of St. Louis today.  A commemorative parachute jump was performed by 82-year-old Lewis Sanborn, a master parachutist with more than 7,300 jumps to his credit. Sanborn served in the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division from 1948 to 1952 and...

Women's History Month - Defense.gov | A whole page with links dedicated to female aviators and the influence they had on aviation.

March 10th Proclaimed Women Fly it Foward Weekend in Frederick, MD! from Toriaflies | Tonight I, along with my fellow Sugarloaf Ninety-Nines, received a proclamation from the City of Frederick declaring the weekend of March 10th "Women Fly it Forward Weekend".  Thanks to the City of Frederick for this honor and your support of this great event!  Just 10 more days, time is flying to the big day!  Will we make history again?

Living History Flying Day set - The Sun | Planes of Fame Air Museum's Living History Flying Day event will feature a flight demonstration of the North American B-25 Mitchell bomber and a panel discussion of the aircraft and World War II's "Doolittle Raid."

Flying Tigers in Burma from 1942 Life Magazine - Speaking Eagles | Photographs for LIFE by George Rodger | March, 1942 Life Magazine | One shining hope has emerged from three catastrophic months of war. That is the American Volunteer Group of fighter pilots, the so-called “Flying Tigers” of Burma and southeast China who paint the jaws of a shark on their Curtiss P-40′s. Outnumbered...

Kawasaki KAQ-1 drone from Travel for Aircraft | Training fighter pilots to intercept an aircraft and launch missiles, or giving a live target for anti-aircraft gunners, has involved drones since the 1950s once radio control became sufficiently reliable. So, it was in the 1950s that Kawasaki built and sold the KAQ-1 drone powered by the McCullough 72 hp (54kW) four cylinder, air cooled, horizontally opposed engine. This drone could blaze across the sky as fast as 220 mph (350kph) for up to 250 miles (400km) if need be....

About the BC Aviation Museum from AirSpace | The BC Aviation Museum is situated in Sidney BC adjacent to Victoria International Airport. Have a look at their website to see the aircraft on display as well as other interesting BC Aviation artifacts....

Tom Gwilym from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | I met Tom at our first Fly It Forward event two years ago. He selflessly donated his time and energy taking women flying. He is the person who told me that no matter how big our problems appear on the ground, when you're flying... it puts everything in perspective and makes them so much smaller....

Military Flight Release Clears F-35A for Take-off from Warplanes Online Community | The F-35A Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters can take to the skies with the Military Flight Release issued last February 28. The multi-million jet fighters has been stuck with test flights until the US Air Force Aeronautical System Center issued MFR. Now, the F-35A JSF can perform initial operations at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida....

Stahr's Flying Works of Art:Defining What it Means to Look Completely Awesome in the Sky from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | If you have spent any time in the Experimental area at EAA's Airventure Oshkosh, you've seen John Stahr's artwork....

Worldwide Auto Show Debut of Terrafugia's Street Legal Airplane from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | The Transition® Roadable Aircraft, developed by Terrafugia, Inc., makes its auto show debut at the 2012 New York International Auto Show, April 6th through the 15th at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.  After years of testing and engineering breakthroughs, Terrafugia has decided it is time to share their unique product with the legions of fans attracted to the NYIAS....

Tom Cruise and F-35 to co-star in Top Gun II from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | Top GunThis may be the aviation/aerospace military-industrial complex scoop of the week. Forget technical problems and cost overruns. Tom Cruise reportedly is coming to Fort Worth to play an F-35 test pilot in a sequel to Top Gun. Top Gun II perhaps....

'The ZipSter' Planning Space Diver Powered Rocket Flight on Interorbital Booster from Spaceports | ,,,Olav will forego the previous balloon-lift method used by the current record-holder, and, instead, will jump from an Interorbital Systems’ SR 145 rocket. The launcher will propel Olav to an altitude of over 40 kilometers (about 25 miles)—higher than any manned balloon can possibly go—where he will eject from the launch vehicle and...