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CBS Video for Air Racers 3D - CBS News | Includes an interview with the Hintons

New recommendations released for air races (1:39) - Washington Post | Apr. 11, 2012 - Nearly seven months after an air race crash in Reno, Nevada killed 11 people and seriously injured dozens of spectators, the NTSB has issued a number of recommendations to make this kind of competition safer....

Robins April 28-29 air show will feature plenty of exhibits on the ground - The Warner Robins Patriot | by Gene Rector Yes, the aerobatics will be exhilarating at the April 28-29 Robins Air Force Base open house and air show. But attendees at the free event won't have to spend all of their time gazing into the heavens. There will be plenty of exhibits on ...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Wings & Wheels Secures King of the Air Display from Flightline UK | Forget Superman, the exclamations of “is it a war bird, is it a plane” will be rife at Wings & Wheels on 26th & 27th August as visitors gaze into the sky in awe of the exhilarating power and skill displayed by the *NEW* King Air Display. Never before seen at Wings & Wheels the RAF Beech King Air B200 is a twin-engine turboprop monoplane which first...

Disabled American Veterans Shares Message At Wings Over South Texas Airshow from DAV Flight Team | NAS Kingsville, TX – Disabled American Veterans (DAV) will reach out to veterans and their families sharing its message of service and volunteerism in support of our nation’s combat-wounded men and women at the Wings Over South Texas Airshow on April 14-15. In the company of the iconic World War II era B-25 Mitchell Bomber, the Disabled American Veterans Flight Team will appear at Wings Over South Texas. The airshow is one stop on a nationwide tour that...

P-51 Mustang from michaeltuuk | I was fortunate to be able to grab some pictures of this P-51 Mustang on the ground at the Alliance Air Show in Fort Worth before the general public was allowed in the show.  I wanted to...

Antique airplane club targets Scappoose for summer fly-in - South County Spotlight | By Darryl Swan Hundreds of vintage aircraft from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond are expected to descend into Scappoose this summer as part of a three-day antique airplane fly-in. The Northwest Antique Airplane Club is orchestrating its 51st ...

Actors fly in for wartime displays - Scarborough Today | THE SECOND World War was brought to life for visitors at Eden Camp as the attraction hosted its annual Easter re-enactment. Every Easter Bank Holiday weekend re-enactment groups from across the country travel to the Malton museum to put on show some of ...

Red Arrows to join Cunard's Three Queens Tribute Diamond Jubilee Celebrations - Breaking Travel News | Cunard Line is delighted to announce that the world-famous Red Arrows will be an extra highlight of the company's Three Queens Diamond Jubilee Event in Southampton to celebrate the 60 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign, on Tuesday 5 June 2012....

Warbirds over Wanaka 2012 pics - AAFO.com | Another Warbirds over Wanaka is in the bag, the main theme was celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Airforce....

WASP Bee Falk Haydu inducted into Women in Aviation International's "Pioneer Hall of Fame" from WASP & WINGS by Nancy Parrish | Bee Falk, WASP Class 44-7, was assigned to a U-78 training base where she flew as a utility pilot and an engineering test pilot. After the WASP were disbanded, Bee worked ferrying,  flight instructing, flying a comedy air show act, and she was one of the first women aviation executives in New Jersey, owning her own Cessna dealership. Bee never lost her love for aviation, and after her...

Women Fly it Forward 2012 Compilation - www.youtube.com | On March 10th, 2012 Frederick Municipal Airport hosted the 2nd annual Women Fly it Forward event. It's aim was to introduce women to aviation through free fl...

Yellowknife airport world’s most female pilot-friendly - North - CBC News | The Yellowknife airport won the distinction after an event helped more than 400 young women interested in aviation take to the skies.

Get Women in the Picture! - TIME | She asked me: “Where are the women aviators?” The Naval Air Station in Pensacola has been the main training ground for naval aviators since 1914. Therefore, it's also the place where the first woman naval aviators were trained in the 1970s.

Carbondale, IL, 2012 Big Muddy Air Race. June 9, 2012 from VAF Forums by Bob Axsom | This will be the second running of this race along the rivers in southern Illinios. I'll bet the appearance of Race #12 is going to attact some RV Blue racer interest....

Flying a legend - Canadian Skies | It's a big aeroplane. The trailing edge of the wing meets you at waist level. The long climb to the cockpit starts by pulling a stirrup-shaped step from the lower fuselage. This in turn pops open a hand-hold, as if the aeroplane were extending me an ...

Birmingham's Southern Museum of Flight gets Soviet helicopter (slideshow, video) - al.com | BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The hull of one of the most feared helicopters in history arrived at the Southern Museum of Flight Tuesday, riding on the back of a trailer 186 miles from the Fort Rucker U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence. It was a camouflage-painted, Mi-24 Hind. The Hind was a flying gunship that...

Lockheed Martin Set to Deliver Final F-22 Raptor - MyFox Atlanta | Officials with Lockheed Martin in Marietta say the last F-22 stealth fighter will be delivered to the US Air Force during a ceremony set for May 2. Lockheed Martin officials and Air Force officials are expected to attend the event to be held at the ...

New Video Tells Alaska Aviation Lifeline Story from State Aviation Journal by Kim Stevens | The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Division of Statewide Aviation produced the first of a two-part series video illustrating how aviation serves as a lifeline for 82% of the communities in Alaska. Filmed in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the video features interviews with village residents and service providers who describe how important aviation is in their lives....

Should AOPA be at the NY Autoshow? from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | The answer appears to be “yes.” Terrafugia’s Cliff Allen reports more than 2,000 people have seen his flying car fold and unfold its wings....

How It Works: A Futuristic Fire Truck Puts Out Airplane Fires from POPSCI | Aircraft fires pose unusual challenges for first responders. Extinguishing jet fuel requires thousands of gallons of flame-smothering foam, and the fuel burns so hot (up to 2,500°F) that firefighters typically have only three minutes to respond before passengers would be...

Largest Student Rocket Contest Brings Diversity and Talent to U.S. STEM Pipeline from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | Athletes, Agriculturalists and Musicians among top 100 teams advancing to 10th Annual Final Flyoff. ARLINGTON, Va., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the exception of a shared passion for science, math and engineering, the 100 teams that will compete in the tenth...

NASA Makes Progress In Quiet Supersonic Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | New wind-tunnel tests by NASA of designs by Boeing and Lockheed show it's possible to build jets that can fly at supersonic speeds quietly enough to fly over land, according to the National Business Aviation Association. "The game-changing technology out there is having tools available to design the external shape of the vehicle to give you a low sonic boom on the ground," Tom Jones, project manager for the NASA research team, told NBAA. The latest experiments, which have been heralded as a "breakthrough," show that the aircraft might not create a "boom" at all, or if it does, it would be very quiet....