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Blue Angel Practice at the National Naval Aviation Museum - WKRG-TV | In addition, following most of the Wednesday practices, there will be an autograph session with the Blue Angels inside the National Naval Aviation Museum*. Stay on top of the action with the Blue Angels mobile app now available to download from iTunes ...

Thunder Over Utah March 17, 2012 Photo Gallery - Dixie Press Online | US Navy Blue Angels Take Off at Thunder Over Utah, St. George, UT March 17, 2012 | Photo by Troy Hoskins, St. George News US Navy Blue Angels at Thunder Over Utah, St. George, UT March 17, 2012 | Photo by Troy Hoskins, St. George News US Navy Blue ...

12-day flight to warbirds show - Otago Daily Times | The latest in international military training aircraft, the high-tech T-6C Texan, is flying from the United States to Wanaka for the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow. Photo supplied. A small but highly advanced military training aircraft left the United ...

Cocoa Beach Air Show by Mike | Saturday, Nov. 5th, 2011 | It was supposed to be a nice day in Cocoa Beach, FL, but the weather refused to cooperate. With the scattered showers and high winds, I was surprised that the parachute teams still jumped....

Volunteers needed for this summer's airshow - KEYC TV | More>> With the Blue Angels preparing to land in Mankato this summer, there is one deficiency on the pre-flight checklist for the upcoming airshow, and that's volunteers. Spokespeople say 450 volunteers are needed every day during the event.

30 Days of Gratitude Day 6 from by Lisa | Today we went to the Air Show in Monroe NC. I am grateful that the day went without any problems and the show was AWESOME!!! Even my teenager enjoyed it and was asking about coming back next year....

Celebrate women this month from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...More than 214,000 women are serving in the United States military. That is almost 15 percent of all of our service members. Yet when we think of war, we tend to think of men fighting for our freedom. I can remember my mother talking about the Women Airforce Service Pilots and wishing she had applied to be one of the first females to fly military aircraft. Perhaps I wouldn't be here if she had followed her dreams. While Rosie the Riveter was considered to be doing her duty for our country during World War II, the WASPs were considered a little on the wild side. After all, the women who flew noncombat missions were the first to deliver planes to military bases, including the B-29s that were thought to be difficult to fly. But throughout the ages, women have proven the status quo wrong.

Skydiving with the Valkyries - vimeo.com (via GoPro's Facebook Wall) | Skydiving with the Valkyries, a 4 woman formation skydiving team. The Valkyries are currently training for the Australian Nationals in April 2012, with the goal to represent Australia at the World Championships in Dubai 2012. At Picton on Sunday March...

Civil Air Patrol honors World War II member from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | One of the Civil Air Patrol’s earliest members, Dean Hammond, now holds the rank of colonel after being recognized with not only the new grade but also lifetime membership and the Distinguished Service Medal this month at the Mississippi Wing’s annual conference at Keesler Air Force Base. Hammond, who had already soloed in January 1938, joined CAP at the first organizational meeting in Wichita, Kan., where he was working for Boeing....

Bruce Del Mar from Hiller Aviation Museum | A Voice From California’s Golden Age of Aviation by Jon Welte | In the mid 1940s, a young Stanley Hiller Jr. and his father traveled from the Bay Area toSanta Monica,California, home of Donald Douglas and the Douglas Aircraft Company. Hiller had recently built and tested the XH-44 helicopter, and sought to consult withDouglason the prospects for creating the West Coast’s first helicopter factory....

MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting March 22 - Dr. Fred Roos Presents On Thomas Benoist from The Aero Experience | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is a group of folks with a love of aircraft, and we are striving to record and document the rich aviation history that has been a part of the great state of Missouri for the past century. From Benoist to Zenith, the aviation industry in the "Show Me" state has always been at the forefront of technology, and has produced some of the world’s best known aircraft. Famous pilots, from Jimmy Doolittle, to Slim Lindbergh, all called Missouri home for a...

Ryan Aeronautical photo archive traces development of combat drones from the factory floor to deployment in southeast Asia from David Cenciotti | Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the most innovative and successful unmanned aerial vehicles, the most famous of those is the Ryan BQM-134 Firebee....

Ultra-Long-Endurance Progress from Ares by Graham Warwick | It's proving a long wait, given they are supposed to be "rapid" programs, but Boeing has begun taxi tests of its private-venture Phantom Eye hydrogen-fueled high-altitude, long-endurance UAV, while Mav6 has attached the payload/control car to its M1400 surveillance airship. Both are aimed at providing endurance measured in days, not hours....

Counter-trend: Air Force shoots down high-tech UAV in favor of ancient U-2 - ITworld.com | The U-2 also carries a pilot, making it the first Air Force plane to defend its own mission against UAVs that don't risk the lives of pilots and which are usually less expensive to build, buy and operate than piloted planes. The decision sounds bizarre ...

Navy conducting security exercises at installations nationwide this week ... - NOLA.com Susan Poag/Times-Picayune | The Navy's Blue Angles circle the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse during a recent N'Awlins Airshow. The Navy is conducting exercises at the installation this week designed to train its security forces....

The Supersonic Jet of the Future Will Be a Biplane from POPSCI | When supersonic travel inevitably returns to the skies, the airplanes are going to look a lot different. At least one design harks back to the early days of aviation with a biplane design, rather than a sleek delta-winged jet like the Concorde. This shape can apparently...

C.M. Wright honored for service; space program spotlighted - Baltimore Sun | The talk, entitled "Project Mercury," led the students through a short history of NASA, a history of rocketry, and a walk through the training equipment needed to make the astronauts at home in space. Many elements of the Redstone booster and the Atlas ...

Billionaire Elon Musk to Neil Armstrong: Get On Board with Private Space Travel from SPACE.com | SpaceX chief Elon Musk is laying the foundation for a revolution, and he'd like some support from luminaries like Neil Armstrong

The Stratospheric Balloon: Red Bull Stratos from Aerial Sports Feed | The stratospheric balloon that will lift Felix Baumgartner and his capsule to the height of 120,000 feet is clearly a vital component of the Red Bull Stratos mission to the edge of space.

Red Bull Stratos | Our Beautiful Balloon from Aerial Sports Feed | With the launch date for the record-breaking freefall edging ever closer, we’ve taken a closer look at the vital piece of kit that will take Felix Baumgartner and his capsule to the edge of space – namely the helium balloon…

NASA Launching 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes This Week: How to Watch from SPACE.com | NASA's five-rocket ATREX mission will spray glowing chemicals in high-altitude winds to make light up the night sky.