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C-130 doubtful for Thunder Over Utah Air Show after maintenance problem - St. George Daily Spectrum | GEORGE – Due to a maintenance problem, performances by a C-130 military transport plane will likely be scrapped from this weekend's Thunder Over Utah Air Show, said spokesman Herb Gillen. Gillen said he found out about the maintenance issue late...

Special needs students get sneak peek at Yuma Airshow - Yuma Sun | BY JAMES GILBERT - SUN STAFF WRITER About 60 special needs students got an early sneak peek on Friday at some of the exhibits and performers who will be at Saturday's 50th annual Yuma Airshow, which also marks the 100th anniversary of Marine aviation ...

Yuma Marine Corps Air Show - KXO Radio | (Another Air Show)….Last week it was the Blue Angels Air Show at NAF, El Centro. This week the military Air Show will be at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma. The Show will be held Saturday. It will be the 50 th Anniversary of the Air Show.

Canadian Snowbirds Gear up for Duluth Air Show - Northland's NewsCenter | By KBJR News 1 Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - Other than their short performance over Lake Superior in 2008, the last full show in Minnesota was when Jimmy Carter was still President. The Snowbirds Demonstration Team is a Canadian icon, ...

Free SUN 'n FUN App Available from Sporty's from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Sporty's, in partnership with SUN ‘n FUN, has created a mobile app for the 2012 show, which is now available for both Apple and Android devices. The SUN ‘n FUN app may be downloaded free at Sportys.com/apps, through the iTunes App store, or Google Play (formerly Android Market). All the information a...

Pacific Coast Avionics to sponsor Internet Cafe at Sun ’n Fun from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Pacific Coast Avionics Corp. will be the exclusive sponsor of the Internet Café at the 2012 Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Florida. The Internet Café will be located in the...

Top Teams Flock to Florida from US Army Golden Knights by Mike LaRoche | Competition is underway here in Deland, Fl, for the first annual Paraclete XP Outdoor Skydiving Championships.  Formerly known as the Shamrock Showdown, this skydiving event serves as an early gauge for teams all across the world to see where they stand against other top competitors.  This year’s competition includes teams from France, Russia, Great Britain, [...]

RV-1 Tribute Tour Stops at Wetumpka Airport from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | WETUMPKA AL- One of the most popular prototype homebuilt aircraft in the world landed at the Wetumpka Airport this week, the RV-1. About 40 EAA Chapter 822 members and guests turned out on Thursday to view the one of a kind aircraft and enjoy a cookout. The first legs of the RV-1 Tribute Tour has begun with the...

Museum Unveils Unique Aircraft from RAF Museum London News | The Dolphin reconstruction is a project that has taken over 40 years to complete. It is now on display and is the only one of its kind in the world. The Sopwith Dolphin single - seat fighting scout served operationally from Jan 1918 to July 1919; at its peak in Oct 1918 it equipped five RAF Squadrons...

First Love from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | By Captain Dennis Baxendale This story is about an airplane owned by Canadian Pacific Airlines in 1958 -  an amphibious aircraft built in the 1940s in Vancouver, Canada for the Royal Canadian Air Force.  The aircraft was called a PBY by American fliers, a Canso by Canadians in the air force and a Catalina by the British. After the war, several Canadian-built Cansos were sold to civilian airlines and four were purchased by Canadian Pacific. Reconditioned and outfitted for up to 20 passengers, the new configuration was actually called the “Landseair” in tribute to its amphibious capabilities, but no one called them that. Of the four ex-RCAF Cansos purchased...

Women's roles evolved from 'Lucy' to 'Murphy Brown' after World War II - af.mil | ...In 1980, the first women graduate from the service academies, and just two years after that (1982) the Air Force selects the first woman aviator for Test Pilot School. Six Air Force women served as pilots, copilots and boom operators on the KC-135 and KC-10 tankers that refueled FB-111s during the raid on Libya in 1986. That year was a banner year academically for women as, for the first time in history, the Air Force Academy's top graduate is a woman....

A CUT ABOVE: Man turns 90, gets long-awaited 15-cent haircut - Destin Log | Christensen's book is influenced by his time spent training and flying B-17 Bomber Airplanes during WWII and how he survived over 50 bombing runs. “I don't have a date for the finishing, but I have fun doing it,” said Christensen....

The Concorde's Soviet Older Sister That Just Couldn't Stop Crashing - Gizmodo | That instability was made evident in 1973, when its very first production model crashed at the Paris Air show, killing all six crewmen and another eight people on the ground. The cause of the crash remains undetermined, with the French and Russian...

Supersonic Biplanes Are Coming? from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Researchers at MIT and Stanford say they have advanced the idea of German engineer Adolf Busemann who in in 1950s proposed that a biplane design could be more efficient and quiet in supersonic flight. Busemann's calculations found that a biplane's two wings could be positioned to cancel out shock waves, but there were problems with the design. Among those, the wings, which joined at their tips, could create egregious amounts of drag when transitioning to supersonic speeds. Now, researchers believe they have resolved the drag problem, found significant increases in efficiency, and significantly reduced sonic boom signatures. There are other challenges to overcome.

May the best (paper) plane win - U-T San Diego | Turns out they weren'ta total waste of time, especially not if you bring your folding skills to the Air & Space Museum's Paper Airplane Festival on Saturday. The popular event celebrates the best in aeronautical paper design. Families will learn how to ...
   
National Air and Space Museum's Trophy Awarded to Burt Rutan and the Cassini ... - Space Ref | The 2012 Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Trophy will be awarded in the Lifetime Achievement category to Burt Rutan and in the Current Achievement to the Cassini-Huygens Flight team. They will be presented their awards March 21 at a ...

Red Bull Stratos: Test in the Death Zone - Photostory from Aerial Sports Feed | 'Austronaut' Felix Baumgartner jumped out of his space capsule from an altitude of...

Red Bull Stratos & Felix Baumgartner Successful At Over 71,000' (With Video) from AirPigz by Martt | I was really excited when I first learned about the Red Bull Stratos project and Felix Baumgartner's plan to attempt to break Joseph Kittinger's amazing high altitude jump record of 102,800' from 1960. My dad started skydiving in 1958, so the incredible jumps of Joe Kittinger were part of household talk when I was a kid. But when the Stratos project went on hold in late 2010 due to a legal battle over how this new project had been conceived...

Space Florida Advanced $10-Million by Legislature Plus Annual Recurring $4-Million from Spaceports | The Florida legislature approved a $10 million budget for the state’s aerospace economic development agency, Space Florida. As part of the package, Florida lawmakers also approved $4 million in recurring funds for Space Florida, providing a funding floor for the agency in the years to come...