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Events well attended - KXO Radio | Numbers for the Blue Angels Air Show have not been made available. Attendance figures for the California Mid-Winter Fair and Fiesta will be released Tuesday. Officials at both say the events were well attended, even after the wind forced the...

Services scheduled for retired Navy aviator Carroll "Lex" LeFon - Lahontan Valley News | Rear Adm. John S. Miller said he was stunned by the aviator's untimely death. LeFon was operations officer on the USS Constellation for almost two years when Miller served as commanding officer. The last time Miller saw LeFon was in Fallon....

CFAA Students to Pilot Sun ‘n Fun Fly-By in Honor of School’s Benefactor - Lakeland | SUN ’n FUN will feature a precision formation fly-by to kick off the day’s activities on Thursday, March 29, 2012. The overflight will recognize the contributions to aviation made by philanthropist James C. Ray. As a B-17 pilot who flew 30 missions over Europe in WWII, and an...

Heavy Metal Jet Team: Living the Dream | Movie Monday from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt Everett | Err…well, I guess I mean Black Diamond Jet Team. I should probably have changed my title, since I inadvertently used the old name, but I left it because I’m lazy and I can’t stop watching this video. In case you haven’t seen it, watch the featured video. It is the Black Diamond Jet Team’s new promo and it will really give you a feel for how their show looks from their points of view....

Betty Skelton, The First Lady Of Aviation - Investor's Business Daily | "Then she went right back out and started flying again," Dorothy Cochrane, the National Air & Space Museum curator and friend of Skelton, told IBD. "She had a lot of guts." It's that kind of steely nerve that earned the Pensacola, Fla.,...

Top 10 Cool Things I Learned At The Women In Aviation Conference from Aviation Queen by Aviation Queen | 1.Luncheon keynote speaker Nagin Cox of the mission operations flight team for the Mars Science Laboratory brought down the house with...

Frederick's Fly it Forward count is in!!! from Toriaflies | 242 women who have never been in small aircraft before were introduced to aviation through free flights on Saturday!

Bucket lists, new adventures from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Alyssa Miller | On March 10, I had the opportunity to fly in my first aviation event geared toward taking as many as possible on their first general aviation flight. Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland (AOPA’s home base) can get busy, but it’s not often that I see six aircraft waiting to take off. That’s the...

Sky's the limit for women in aviation from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | Early in their lives, Cathy Ferrie and Karlene Petitt were each inspired to follow very different career paths than most other girls and young women -- then or even now.  In high school in Connecticut, Ferrie saw the movie Top Gun. She was inspired, and not by Tom Cruise. "As soon as I saw those aircraft tumbling in combat, I said 'I want to be a part of something like that.'"...

This student pilot is a “Shining Star” - AOPA Pilot | I collected my registration materials at the Women in Aviation International conference in Dallas last week and slung my name tag on its lanyard around my neck. Heading back to the elevator, I boarded a car with three other gentlemen....

The RC Scale Builder Show – Pre-season Checkout – Tuesday 8:00PM ET - WARBIRD RADIO – Join Mike Chilson and friends Tuesday night on the RC Scale Builder Show LIVE! This episode we will be discussing getting your models ready for this season’s flying. Also, we’ll have other great...

Old Glory Honor Flights - WBAY By Jeff Alexander | Since the maiden voyage in October 2009, a total of 11 Old Glory Honor Flights have transported more than 900 area WW2 vets to Washington DC free of charge. "From the time that war ended to the time what WW2 Memorial...

Dupont had prestigious Air Force career - San Antonio Express | After completing Royal Air Force Flying Control School in England and additional training in the States, Dupont began piloting B-17 Bombers, eventually flying 31 missions over Berlin. His wife, Jeannette Dupont, has photos of her husband's plane ...

Indiana governor names March General [Aviation] Appreciation Month from General Aviation News by Charles Spence | March is “General Aviation Appreciation” month throughout the state of Indiana after Governor Mitchell Daniels joined a growing list of governors who publicly recognize the importance of general aviation to their states.

Vintage video of the first jet flight from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | General Aviation News fuels expert Ben Visser sent along this link to a video of the first jet flight in October 1942. Included in the email was this note: "They installed a $2 doorbell ringer to the dash of the P59A to provide vibration so the gauges wouldn't stick. Ya gotta love it..."

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Video: For the real aviation geek: F-22s, F-15s and B-2s filmed “in action” during Red Flag. From the ground. With audio. from David Cenciotti's | Clear skies, contrails, a radio receiver tuned on the boomfreq, three KC-135 tankers and a lot of thisty receivers taking part to the Red Flag exercise. These are the things that make the following one of the geekiest videos I’ve seen recently....

Photo: NASA WB-57F arriving at Lajes Field, Azores, on the way to another deployment from David Cenciotti's | As explained in a previous post, one of the two NASA’s WB-57Fs, after performing test activities at Nellis AFB, arrived at Lajes Field, Azores, on Mar. 5, 2012. Local spotter and photographer Leandro Rocha was there and took the following interesting pictures of the N926NA, that crossed the Atlantic ocean without the belly pallet systems used to carry mission payload.....

Boeing 787 Dream Tour Makes Stop in San Diego from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | The Boeing [NYSE: BA] 787 Dreamliner arrived today at San Diego's Lindbergh Field, continuing its six-month worldwide Dream Tour. The airplane will be in San Diego for a limited time for partners, media and Boeing and Goodrich...

Penguins on a plane! Watch them take flight - video.today.msnbc.msn.com | Video on TODAY.com: TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports on two little penguins from Sea World who got out of their cage to stretch their legs while on a flight, to the delight of their fellow passengers....

Loyalty payment scheme for AirSpace photo contributors from Flightglobal by Michael | If you're a regular contributor to the photo galleries on AirSpace you may know that we sometimes feature your photos in issues of Flight International magazine. For example each week there's an Image of the Week chosen by the magazine's editors from the best of the uploads to the AirSpace members' galleries....

Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria Named President of the Commercial Spaceflight ... - Space Ref | Washington, DC, Monday, March 12, 2012 - The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce that former NASA astronaut, International Space Station (ISS) commander, Naval Aviator, and test pilot Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Capt., US Navy, Ret.)...

First woman in space - Russia & India Report | She made 163 jumps at the local aero club. Following the first successful flights of Soviet cosmonauts, Sergei Korolyov came up with the idea of putting a woman in space. Then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered him to select female applicants to ...