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Central Texas Airshow 2012 from Airplanes Channel | The Central Texas Airshow will be featuring a restored vintage WWII B-17 Bomber as part of its line-up for an exciting and funfilled weekend. Airshow and movie pilot, Corkey Fornof, will demonstrate his skills as...

Red Arrows told they Moscow to Russia - Eastbourne Herald | AIRBOURNE will have to do without the Red Arrows because of pressure from the Government for the iconic display team to head to Russia – with local hotels likely to be counting the cost of international diplomacy. As reported exclusively in our ...

Surprise award for organisers of Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | PULLING TOGETHER:When Red Arrows pilot Flt Lt Jon Egging, pictured inset, lost his life following a display at Bournemouth Air Festival last August, the town galvanised in its grief. IT was a tragedy that shook Bournemouth and triggered an outpouring ...

Airshows & Performers - The Pacific Flyer | Many great articles in the Giant Airshow Edition of the The Pacific Flyer.

Midnight Miss III from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | Midnight Miss III owned and piloted by Dennis Buehn is the National Air Race Champion at Reno in 2010. One of the fastest T-6 Texans in the sky, Dennis has restored over 70 of these during his career but Midnight Miss III is his favorite. Buehn started racing in...

Deturbulating a Record Flight from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Sumon K. Sinha, Ph.D., P.E., and head of Sinhatech, had a part in the recent Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) record by Mr. Jean-Luc Soullier and recorded in a blog entry on March 10.  Dr. Sinha wrote that, “CAFE Foundation’s Blog on March 10th, 2012 did not mention that the Colomban MC-30 aircraft had Sinhatech’s Deturbulator tape treatment on the wing upper surface as shown in the attached photograph. I would like to have this added to complete the description of the aircraft.”...

The few who reached for the sky - Telegraph.co.uk | But while the nature of air power had changed as rapidly as at any point in aviation history, and a Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough had been established, the RFC and RAF continued to rely heavily on private enterprise. Tommy Sopwith produced the ...

CoolPix: Looking Back At Pilots Who Were Looking Ahead from AirPigz by Martt | There's something so very cool and special to me about the images from the big experimental jet age of the 50's and 60's, images like this one showing NACA test George Cooper suited up in front of a NACA F-100. Maybe it's the fact that many of these images are black and white... maybe that adds a mystique or intrigue to me that color doesn't. But I think it's bigger than that. This...

W.Va. women who became Rosie the Riveter during WWII sharing their stories via ... - Washington Post | They built fleets of Avengers and Marauders, aircraft that Americans flew into battle during World War II. They carefully assembled countless explosive fuses and separated the chemicals for making TNT. Unknowingly at the time, some even crafted parts ...

WWII vet a pioneer hurricane hunter - WALA-TV FOX10 | Huegele was a pilot in the Air Force and after World War II, he joined the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. "They gave us the name 'Hurricane Hunter', and it was known as such ever since," Huegele said. Huegele said back in the '40s,...

Spitfire helps to launch opening of Sywell Aviation museum - Northampton Chronicle & Echo | Following two years of building work, the Sywell Aviation Museum at Sywell Aerodrome has now been completely redeveloped. The museum, which is housed in a former wartime Nissen hut, contains displays which show the history of the RAF and American Army ...

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force: McDonnell Aircraft from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | By Fred Harl | A trip to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (or as we still call it, "The Air Force Museum") is a must for any aviation enthusiast.  A recent foray into this monolith of military aviation afforded an opportunity to get...

B-52 bomber marks major milestones in 2012 - Shreveport Times | 24, 2007 "” A trio of Barksdale B-52 bombers fly Rex Redux, recreating a May 1938 B-17 flight by the former 2nd Bomb Group that intercepted the Italian luxury liner Rex 700 miles off the US Atlantic Coast. The B-52 mission intercepted the Military ...

F-22 to headline Rocky Mountain Airshow from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Rocky Mountain Airshow in Broomfield, Colo., has been selected as one of 20 events worldwide to host the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor Demo Team...

“Fox 1 away”: four F-15s firing live air-to-air missiles. At the same time from David Cenciotti | I find the below image extremely interesting. It was taken a couple of years ago (most probably in 2010) and I’ve found it because it was recently selected by the 173d FW as their Facebook page cover picture. It depicts four F-15 Eagles from the 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard, live-firing AIM-7 Sparrow medium range air-to-air missiles during a WSEP (Weapons Systems Evaluation Program) at Tyndall AFB, Florida....

Hucknall flying club celebrates 50th anniversary - This is Nottingham | While the Red Arrow display team is more famous, the Merlin Flying Club has been going two years longer – and members also have a host of aerobatic tricks and stunts up their sleeve. And the club, based at Hucknall Airfield, in Watnall Lane, ...

Warbirds wish takes wings for Alex - The Press | "ECSTATIC": Rangiora teen Alex Hunt, 15, and his family from left Dave, Sharon, and Jasmine, 13, with the DC3 Alex flew in on Friday as part of a Make a Wish Foundation treat at the Warbirds over Wanaka airshow. A wish came true for 15-year-old Alex ...

In Texas, the spaceports are moving south from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Texas is full of proposed spaceports, most of which have never materialized.  In fact, the one with the least published information - Blue Origin's site - is the only one that is operational...

Shuttle Discovery Upcoming Farewell and Welcome Ceremonies from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Godspeed Discovery! - On April 17, 2012 space shuttle Discovery departs Kennedy Space Center for the last time. In celebration of the fly-out, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will be hosting four days worth of activities. Guests will have the opportunity to view Discovery as it is placed on top of the SCA- a Boeing 747, see the astronaut crews from Discovery's inaugural and final missions (STS 41-D and STS-133) and a limited number of guests will even have the opportunity to witness the departure of Discovery from the Shuttle Landing Facility from April 14-17....

What if Apollo never happened? from Spacevidcast | Dave Masten of Masten Space Systems joins us for the 4th episode in our 5th season. We ask the question “What would the space industry look like if Apollo never happened”. Leave your video replies on what you think the world would look like below. Dave also takes some time and shows us future plans [...]