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Whiteside sets new speed records in ‘Steadfast’ - AOPA Online | A hard day’s flying by Will Whiteside toppled four more aviation speed records on April 23, and Team Steadfast is not done yet. With friends, supporters, and a representative of the National Aeronautic Association on hand, Whiteside pushed Steadfast, his Russian Yakovlev Yak-3U racer (powered by a Pratt & Whitney R2000-7M2 engine rated at 1,750 horsepower) to record speeds over distances of three kilometers, 15 kilometers, and 100 kilometers across the California skies....

My flight with the Blue Angels - bestofneworleans.com | "You're going to puke," my friends said when I told them I'd been offered a flight with the Blue Angels during Navy Week. "Bring a barf bag," advised my editor, Kevin Allman. I didn't take them seriously. I don't get seasick on cruises, ...

South Korean pilots take to skies - Lancashire Evening Post | The South Korean Black Eagles, comprising eight T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic light-trainer aircraft, will make their debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in July. Their visit is the culmination of more than 20 years' planning by the ...

Air show won't fly over Peoria riverfront in June - Peoria Journal Star | The PNC Air Show 2012 was scheduled for June 8-9 on the riverfront but those dates have been cancelled. A new date for the show has not been decided. By JOHN SHARP There will be no PNC Air Show 2012 in early June, and it's unclear exactly when the ...

B-17 soars over Southland - Long Beach Press-Telegram | By Sandy Mazza, Staff Writer Jim White of San Pedro was a B-17 pilot who flew 18 missions over Germany in WWll at the age of 20. He wore his vintage flight suit for his flight over Palos Verdes. (Brad Graverson / Staff Photographer) Jim White's final ...

WWII bomber lands in Napa - San Francisco Chronicle | Earnest Conatser stops by Napa Airport on Monday to view the World War II B-17 Flying Fortress that just flew in for a tour. Visitors can take flights and ground tours this weekend. This article appeared on page C - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle...

RAF 3 Sqn 100th Anniversary Commemorative Markings By Rob Vogelaar | Royal Air Force 3 (Fighter) Squadron has today released photographs of one of its Typhoon aircraft in a 100th  anniversary commemorative paint scheme. The scheme has been applied to the aircraft to mark the 100th anniversaryof the formation of the squadron at Larkhill on May 13 1912. The aircraft will be...

Volunteers honored for service at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The National Museum of the United States Air Force Volunteer Program celebrated its 30th anniversary by honoring more than 500 volunteers during a Volunteer Appreciation Banquet on April 27. Jim Blackman of Beavercreek, Ohio, received the 2011 Director's Award for Volunteer of the Year for his dedication and excellence in serving the museum and the U.S. Air Force....

Mirror Swift - Nordo News | Ginger and I were outside with the dogs yesterday when a beautiful Swift flew over, dropped the gear, and proceeded to land.  We had seen it working the pattern here at the field before but never knew who it belonged to.  This time they taxied over and stopped. My words to Ginger went something like this, "Holy cow!  Woooo, look at that polish job.  Who in the world would take that on?"  Then out stepped our friend Dan Gidzinski.  If you knew him, at this point it would all make sense.  Dan is a perfectionist and he produces some of the finest work on aircraft I've ever seen.  Yet, it seems this wasn't all his doing....

Aviation talk to celebrate library's birthday - Hucknall Today | A TALK on Nottinghamshire's aviation history has been cleared for take-off as part of celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary of Hucknall Library. The event at the Market Place venue will be led by Howard Heeley, of the Newark Air Museum, ...

WWII Navy vets take honor flight to DC - Columbia Basin Herald | SPOKANE - Three World War II Navy veterans are traveling from Grant County to Washington DC today on an Honor Flight out of Spokane. Florence Kalamakis, Selden Jones and Oliver Furman are three of 36 veterans who return Wednesday from a whirlwind tour ...

CAP's Texas, Louisiana Wings To Participate In Hurricane Exercise from Aero-News Network | 'Ardent Sentry' Drill Held Each Year For Storm Preparadness Members of Civil Air Patrol’s Texas and Louisiana wings will participate May 2-9 in a training scenario involving a hurricane striking Texas from the Gulf of Mexico – one stage of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command's Ardent Sentry 12 homeland security and disaster response exercise...

M. Bill and XRW, routine jump for Jhonathan Florez, Zak... from Bonjour BlueSky | click for info

727 Crashes For Cameras from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A team from the Discovery Channel purposely crashed a Boeing 727 in the Mexican desert last week and filmed it for a TV show. The airplane, packed with crash-test dummies and dozens of cameras, was flown into the ground at a shallow angle. A single pilot flew the jet until it was set on its final course, then parachuted out moments before impact. The 727 then was controlled by...

Company to begin testing electric airplane this spring - Knovel | This spring, Volta Volare will begin testing an electric aircraft prototype, a G4 that seats four passengers, according to the news provider. Company engineers modeled the plane in many ways on electric vehicle designs, Peterson noted...

South Carolina rollout from Randy's Journal by Randy Tinseth | “We build jets!” That was the chant from thousands of Boeing employees in South Carolina as the first 787 built in our North Charleston plant rolled out last Friday. Since I’ve been traveling overseas, I wasn’t able to attend the big...

May 1, 2012 UAVs from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Mike: What does “drone” mean to you? What it means to a beekeeper differs from its meaning to a pilot. To a pilot it is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and the present administration has mandated the FAA release more of these aircraft into the National Airspace System for law enforcement, military and commercial purposes over the next few years; as many as 30,000. These little boogers (actually varying in size, but as little as four pounds) can be programmed to fly a specific route, pattern, or they can be flown from a remote console....

Business-Jet Sized Spaceplane To Fly 62+ Miles High | Video from SPACE.com | EADS Astrium will be offering seats for 200,000 Euros a piece for a flight of a lifetime, including a few minutes a of weightlessness, aboard this luxury rocket propelled aerial machine.

John Glenn to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom from SPACE.com | John Glenn is one of 13 people picked to receive the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Stuck Mic Interview on Apollo! from Toriaflies | Over Easter, I flew up to visit my family with my handy microphone I use for recording the Stuck Mic AvCast tucked safely inside my backup.  I have been looking forward to getting my grandfather on the show and it was finally working out.  My grandfather, Harlan, was a NASA contractor during all of the Apollo missions as well as SkyLab.  You can see previous blog entries about him here and here.