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Eyes on skies at Tyabb air show - Peninsula Weekly | THE Tyabb air show delighted crowds, despite bad weather on Sunday preventing a couple of visiting aircraft from flying in for the much-awaited event. One of the organisers, Peter Fitton, said the Avon Sabre jet and L-39 Albatros were ...

Royal Canadian Air Force jet will be in Chico for air show - Enterprise-Record | CHICO — The Royal Canadian Air Force's F-18 jet will be appearing during this year's Chico Air Show, slated for Sept. 28-30 at the Chico Municipal Airport. A variety of aircraft will be participating in the air show, either in aerial performances or ...

'Wings of Freedom' Tour on Display in Pensacola - WKRG-TV | This is a rare opportunity to visit, explore, and learn more about these unique and rare treasures of aviation history. The B-17 is one of only 9 in flying condition in the United States, the B-24J and Dual Control P-51C Mustang are the sole remaining...

The Dakota Hunter – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday – 10am (EASTERN) | WEDNESDAY – Filmmaker Axel Ebermann joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE to discuss is new documentary “The Dakota Hunter.”   Dutchman Hans Wiesman is completely and utterly in love – with a seventy year old cargo plane: The legendary DC3 ‘Dakota’. Is it her...

Vietnam veterans will be honored at Air Fiesta 2012 in Brownsville  - Monitor | Aircraft from World War II, including the North American P-51 "Mustang," North American B-25 "Mitchell" bomber and the Grumman F4F "Wildcat." There will also be a 1930 New Standard biplane. The barnstorming airplane seats four people, and rides will be ...

EAA Mourns Loss of Leonard Eaves
from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA extends its deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Leonard R. Eaves, EAA Lifetime 2194, who lost his life in the crash of his Skeeter 1M homebuilt on Saturday, March 3.

Breakfast on ice for Minnesota general aviation pilots from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Our friends in EAA Chapter 551 periodically send us photos of their great flying adventures. One of the latest was a Saturday morning "breakfast on ice" in -5° temperatures at Eddy' Resort on Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota. Some pictures follow of the ice runway and the camaraderie shared by this very active group of general aviation pilots....

Palm Springs Air Museum gains rare Russian MiG-21, US T-28 Trojan - The Desert Sun | A Russian MIG 21, built in Czechoslovakia and flew during the Vietnam War, was delivered to the Palm Springs Air Museum and will be a new addition to the permanent collection. A Cold War-era Russian MiG-21 arrives in pieces on a flatbed truck Monday at ...

Aviation heritage celebrated by Mollison Way's £1.5m revamp - Harrow Observer | A HERITAGE trail explaining Edgware's role in advances in aviation is the 'icing on the cake' of a shopping parade's £1.5 million facelift. Pupils at Stag Lane Infant and Nursery School and neighbouring Stag Lane Junior School, both in Collier Drive, ...

First F-35 flight at Eglin cut way short from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | Another day, another problem with the F-35. Maybe not a big one, but a problem nevertheless. Tuesday's first flight of a production F-35 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, the beginning of preparation for pilot training, was cut short by a possible fuel leak, Bloomberg reports....

Aircraft crash at Naval Air Station Fallon kills pilot - Kathryn's Report | ...This is the second crash in 10 days. A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed north of NAS Fallon on Feb. 24, but both pilots ejected safely....

Episode 188 – The Mach 1.4 UAV from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Guest Ryan P. Starkey, Ph.D. has been working with University of Colorado students to develop a Mach 1.4 UAV. Propulsion for this very efficient aircraft comes from a 20 pound turbojet that features an afterburner and thrust vectoring nozzle. We talk about the...

Gallery 104 — it is all about the UAV from the 1990s onward by travelforaircraft | During the March 2009 visit to the National Air & Space Museum on the National Mall, I saw the construction of a new gallery, one for modern the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — Gallery 104. This exhibit is on the west end and stands the full tow storied height of the museum — lending the opportunity to see the aircraft from below as well as...

Martin Jetpack selling Pre-production Jetpack to Flight Schools and Aero Club - Next Big Future | If you would like to register your interest in purchasing a Martin Jetpack for private use or for your flight school or aero club, or if you wish to secure an early production position, please Order a Jetpack today....

Video: Lego Space Shuttle Lifts Off for the Stratosphere - POPSCI | So many intrepid stratonauts send stuff into the upper atmosphere these days, it’s almost hard to keep track — there’s even a suborbital balloon factory now. But this weather balloon experiment still caught my eye. It’s a little space shuttle, winging its way into orbit one more time...in Lego form. Romanian shuttle enthusiast Raul Oaida posted this video to YouTube of his hand-made Lego...

Video: The Capsule: Red Bull Stratos from Aerial Sports Feed | The Red Bull Stratos science team has spent five years developing the capsule that will deliver Felix Baumgartner to the edge of space for his record-breaking freefall attempt from over 22 miles up.

First woman in space turns 75 from Military Photos | Quote: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born March 6, 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five finalists, to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16 June, 1963, becoming both the first woman...

Sounding Rockets from The Original Rocket Dungeon | "The ATREX launches will take place between March 14 and April 4. The five rockets will release a chemical tracer that will form milky, white tracer clouds that allow scientists and the public to "see" the winds in space."