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Navy gives airport reps a ride en route to air show - The Daily News Journal | Rob Holland, Michael Wiskus and John Klatt are returning favorites to be joined this year by Viper pilot Jason Newburg and Matt Chapman. The war-bird enthusiasts will likely enjoy the show when Scooter Yoak in his P-51 Mustang and Dave Folk in his F4U...

Aviation Hall ceremony stays in Dayton - WDTN | “I am glad to hear that the NAHF Board of Trustees has voted to keep this important part of aviation history in Dayton. This annual event is an opportunity to highlight our region's past and current role in the development of flight....

NOLA Navy Week to bring 10 tall and modern warships and an air show to the... - NOLA.com | Planners are preparing for 50000 people to flock to New Orleans' lakefront for two days of air shows over Lake Pontchartrain, featuring the Navy's Blue Angels as the headliner and other military acts. As many as 25000 people are expected to tour the...

Aviation Week Announces Winners of the Innovation Challenge from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | Aviation Week today announced and honored the winners of its 2012 Innovation Challenge, which recognizes game-changing aerospace and defense (A&D) suppliers for their unique responses to market needs, cost improvements, and...

CAF Airpower Museum Brings in B-17 Crewman & POW to Share His Story 3/7/12 - KOSA | The CAF Airpower Museum's Above & Beyond Seminar Series, sponsored by the Odessa Council of the Arts and Humanities, presents A Veteran's Story: Reflections of a B-17 Crewman & POW with AE “Andy” Kauffman. Organizers hope people come out for a unique...

Colonel Richard Graham makes a welcome return to Imperial War Museum Duxford - Haverhill Echo | At 2pm, Col Graham will be hosting walk-around tours of the SR-71 Blackbird that he previously flew at RAF Mildenhall, which now sits in pride of place on display in the American Air Museum. Following the tour, there will be an opportunity for book ...

Neptunus Lex from Tailhook Daily Briefing | Today the Naval Aviation Community mourns the loss of an inspirational man.  Capt. Carroll LaFon USN(Ret.) better know to most of us by his Navy call sign and blogging nom de plume, “Neptunus Lex”. Yesterday, many of us learned of a crash at Fallon of an Israeli made Kfir-21 flown by the private company and defense contractor ATAC out of Norfolk VA.  Immediately our thoughts turned to Lex, knowing he was one of their Kfir pilots.  Many of us stayed up...

March 7th in Aviation History: The X-15 Breaks Mach 4, Kepler ... - NYCAviation Staff | 2009 – The Kepler Space Observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Delta II rocket. 2007 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes on landing at Adisucipto...

One of America’s newest airports devastated by tornado from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport near the town of Dallas, Ga., the first airport built in Georgia in 30 years, was devastated by a tornado March 2, AOPA is reporting, quoting airport officials as saying the damage is "very significant," while up to 90% of the aircraft on the field were damaged by the tornado, which was later rated an EF-3 by the National Weather Service. Winds were...

Terrafugia skips Sun 'n Fun for auto show - AOPA Pilot | The company will skip one of general aviation's annual rites of spring, Sun 'n Fun, in Lakeland, Fla., this year to prepare for the introduction of its street legal aircraft, the Transition, to the automotive world. Production could begin as early as...

To Show Us All the Winds of Space, NASA Will Launch Five Rockets at the Same Time from POPSCI | One rocket launch is a good time, but five rocket launches is a party. And at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the party is on. This month, NASA will launch five sounding rockets within about five minutes from Wallops on a mission to test the winds in the high-altitude jet stream some 60 miles up....