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Marine to celebrate his heritage with performance during 2012 Cherry Point Air ... - Marines.mil | MCAS Cherry Point is getting ready to host nearly 150000 of its closest friends and neighbors at the 2012 Cherry Point Air Show. This 3 day show will showcase aviation at its best with the highlight being a demonstration by the United States Naval ...

Star-Spangled Sailabration, June 13-19, 2012 - www.youtube.com | More than 40 international tall ships and naval vessels sail into Baltimore for Star-Spangled Sailabration to launch the War of 1812 bicentennial commemorati...

Sporty’s Fly-In coming up from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Sporty's Annual Fly-In and Open House is set for Saturday, May 19, at Clermont County/Sporty's Aiport (I69) in Ohio...

Jeff Harris pilots Honey Bunny over Lake Folsom by TVR Photography.com | Jeff Harris pilots Honey Bunny over Lake Folsom during the gathering of P-38's at the 2010 California Capital Airshow....

WWI Aviation & Hollywood / League Week IV – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday : WarbirdRadio.com | TUESDAY – Kearby Lyde joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE with a look at WWI Aviation and Hollywood as League Week IV continues. Tune in and separate the facts from fiction as Kearby shares the back stories on some of the most popular movies of the era. Thanks for tuning in!

Disabled American Veterans Shares Message at MCAS Cherry Point Air Show by DAV Flight Team | Havelock, NC – 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 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show on May 4-6. In the company of the iconic World War II era B-25 Mitchell Bomber, the Disabled American Veterans Flight Team will appear at the MCAS Cherry Point Air Show. The airshow is one stop on a nationwide tour that aims to increase public awareness of disabled veterans and provide information about DAV...

2012 Indiana Wing CAF Event Schedule - www.indianawingcaf.org | Indiana Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, a flying history museum located outside of Indianapolis, Indiana.

8 unsung women explorers - mnn | ...Amy Johnson | After becoming the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930, the pioneering aviator (at right) went on to set a slew of long-distance flying records, including flying from London to Moscow in 21 hours in 1931....

Mascot lifesavers land - Southern Courier | Daughter of aviatrix Nancy Bird-Walton, Ann-Marie 'Tweed' Holman and granddaughter Anna Holman at the launch of the new NSW Air Ambulance named after Nancy. MASCOT is home to a lifesaver, and soon there will be four more. NSW Air Ambulance's new planes ...

Surviving Loss of Control Requires Manual Flying Skills from www.ainonline.com : Latest News by Robert P. Mark | Robert Barnes, president of the International Association of Flight Training Professionals and a frequent presenter at the World Aviation Training Conference (WATS) alerted AIN to an important presentation on aircraft handling at the WATS event in Orlando last week (while AINSafety was attending the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar in San Antonio).  According to Barnes, Captain Jacques Drappier, Airbus Senior Advisor Training, focused on the changes to aircraft control systems and the skills required of pilots who operate new-generation aircraft....

30 years ago today, one of the RAF’s greatest missions of all time: a long range surprise attack to the Falklands from David Cenciotti | At 22.30, on Apr. 30, 1982, the first engine of some 13 Hadley Page Victor K2 Tanker aircraft spooled into life and announced the start of one of the RAF’s greatest missions of all time. It all started a few weeks previously, when some Argentinean scrap metal merchants had claimed some remote British Islands called South Georgia in the name of Argentina. It culminated in General Leopold Galtiere invading the British dependency of the Falkland Islands and claiming them. Britainwas outraged and the “Falkands Conflict” began....

A Canadian visit to the Flightsimulation Museum in Someren Holland from AirSpace | The Museum of Flightsimulation is situated in the industrial zone in Someren Holland. they have a number of restored flight simulators ranging from the 1930's to 1980's. There are several Link Trainers and other simulators including an Airbus A-319 that are in the process of being restored. The A-319 was a donation from KLM. The simulators are accessible to the public so they can learn about aviation and flying in particular....

Mexicans intentionally crash a 727 (video) from Airline Pilot Central Forums by Tech Maven

AOPA Chief Visits With EAA Staff from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | AOPA President Craig Fuller talked flying, fuels, and the political world in Washington on Monday, as he joined EAA President/CEO Rod Hightower for a lunch with the EAA staff inside the EAA AirVenture Museum's Founders' Wing....

Ernie Was Right from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | We’ve all had them right? Those moments when fate and fortune found common ground. Our minds collect them; life’s baseball cards. Digging through the dusty shoe box of history, one of my favorites comes to mind. Like many great cards it represents the beginning of a career. Its stats convey an image of who that person is and who they would become, the photo captures their youth, and the card itself smells like used oil and exhaust. Well, actually that last part is due to creative license. But, if there were baseball cards for pilots lost in time, I’m sure that’s what they would smell like....

Lockheed Martin Delivers Last Amp C-5 To Air Force from Pilot News Magazine | Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] completed delivery of the 79th and final C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the current Avionics Modernization Program at a ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., on April 27.  “We are very proud of our AMP team,” said Greg Ulmer, vice president of the C-5 program, “This delivery continues the ever-growing legacy of the C-5 Galaxy and the critical role it plays in supporting the warfighter across the globe for many years to come.”...

T-38 Talons help keep Raptors sharp in training - Daily Press | It plays the role of enemy aircraft in training exercises with the F-22 Raptor, now the top-line fighter in the fleet. Twice a day, T-38 pilots climb into their cockpits, roar into the skies over Hampton and head out over the Atlantic Ocean, ...

EAA chapter wins Taco Bell grant for from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | More than $9,000 was recently awarded to EAA Chapter 1083 in Salisbury, N.C., by the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens for an aviation summer camp...

Young people learn about aviation during rally at St. Lucie International Airport - TCPalm | Avery was one of 21 children who took part in the Young Eagles program created to interest youths ages 8 to 17 in aviation. ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Close to two dozen children soared the skies over St. Lucie County over the weekend as participants in a ...

NASA Talk Examines U-2 Incident with Gary Powers Jr from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | This coming Wednesday, May 2, at NASA's Langley Research Center here, the son of Francis Gary Powers will talk about the 1960 U-2 incident in which his father was shot down over the former Soviet Union while working for the...

Abort Launch Requirements Outlined by NASA from Spaceports | The Launch Abort Systems developed by NASA is a key element for several companies who are competing for NASA Commercial Crew Program dollars. The program will eventually drive human-rated traffic to the International Space Station.

NASA TV To Air 2012 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction May 5 from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 2012 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 5. The ceremony will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in...

Virgin Galactic & The Spaceship Company job openings from RLV and Space Transport News | An announcement from Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company: Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company seek top talent for unique opportunities | MOJAVE, Calif. ― Officials with Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company today announced both companies are seeking to fill a combined 18 key positions with qualified engineers, systems designers and more. Virgin Galactic is currently accepting applications for the following six positions: operations engineer, seat mechanism designer, design engineer, IT manager, regulatory compliance manager and embedded systems...

Space Showcase from What is Silver Wings Over Washington? by Ron David | The space shuttle Discovery is suspended from a sling held by two cranes as the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) is pushed back from underneath at Washington Dulles International Airport, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Sterling, VA. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled...

Space Shuttle Enterprise Leave Spectators in Awe After Flying Over Fort Lee ... - Patch.com | Local and regional residents, young and young at heart, gathered at Fort Lee Historic Park to witness Space Shuttle Enterprise's historic visit before its retirement at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. By Maxim Almenas Duncan Browne was just a ...