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US pioneer aviatrix dies - Sky News Australia | US pioneer aviatrix dies Updated: 15:59, Saturday May 12, 2012 Female pilot Evelyn Bryan Johnson, known as 'Mama Bird', has died in Morristown, Tennessee, at the age of 102. The Knoxville Sentinel reported the death of the pioneering aviatrix on Friday ...

Memorial service today for Ice Pilots' Arnie Schreder from Kathryn's Report | Ice Pilots NWT star and pilot Arnie Schreder died in B.C. May 5 at age 69. A memorial service will be held Saturday afternoon in Yellowknife. (Dan Cattoni)        Family and friends will say their final goodbyes to former Buffalo Airways pilot Arnie Schreder at a service Saturday afternoon in Yellowknife. Schreder, 69, died of lung cancer May 5 in British Columbia...

WA hosts air show to remember - The West Australian | The most spectacular air show seen in Perth will take to the skies next weekend, with the Royal Australian Air Force promising an event to remember. The array of planes will include the world's biggest and oldest bomber, the eight-engined Boeing B-52, ...

The Patrouille de France: Luxury guardian angel for children - LaDépêche.fr (translated) | ... the official signing of a partnership linking for two years with the Air Force and several of its prestigious ambassadors and the Patrouille de France aerobatic team of the Air Force through its Chief of Staff, General Palomeros.

'Bomber County' is celebrated - This is Grimsby | The Northern Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Project has been launched at the former Elsham Wolds base. Recalling war tales: Elsham Wolds' veteran Ken Duddell admires a model aircraft at the Elsham Wolds Museum after the launch of the Northern ...

No air show, but NAS Fort Worth will open to public today - Fort Worth Star Telegram | FORT WORTH -- Naval Air Station Fort Worth won't be hosting an air show this year, but the installation is still opening to the public today. The open house begins at 4 pm; a concert begins at 7 pm All events are free. Access to the base will be from a ...

EAA Responds To AirVenture Cup Race Issue from Aero-News Network: General Aviation | Says The Organization Did Not Pull Its Support For The event In response to ANN's, and likely other media requests, EAA has issued a statement concerning the cancellation of this year's AirVenture Cup Race. The cancellation of the event this year has caused a lot of chatter on aviation bulletin boards and other discussion sites.

Air Race Committee Forwards Permit Recommendation To Full Board from Aero-News Network: Sport Aviation | Suggests A One-Year Permit While The Investigation In Ongoing The committee set up to advise the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority on issues concerning the National Air Races has forwarded a recommendation for a one-year permit to the full board which would allow this year's event to go forward.

Essex pilot's final flight is found after 70 years - Southend Standard | A SECOND World War aeroplane, crashed by a Rochford pilot in the Sahara Desert before he walked off to his death, has been found frozen in time 70 years later. The preserved Kittyhawk P-40 is an aviation time capsule, which has remained untouched, ...

Museum Curator Writes Difinitive Article on Historic Kinloch Field from News | Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Curator, Jack Abercrombie, has written another blockbuster article on early St. Louis aviation history – this one focusing on historic Kinloch Field formerly located in what is now St. Louis County.  The site remains unmarked, and this article has sparked interest in a remedy for that situation.  The article will soon be published on the museum web site in the Education/Published Articles section.  The abstract below gives a tantalizing peek into the 49-page work:...

Tornado livery marks 100 years of RAF Squadron from Air-Attack.com - News Feed | Number II (Army Cooperation) [AC] Squadron have decorated a Tornado GR4 in special livery to commemorate the Squadron's 100th anniversary.Number II (AC) Squadron, based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, were formed as a squadron in the Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough …

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City of aviation: Crew films segments for TV program in Oshkosh from The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines | If you happen to see the Aerostars formation aerobatic team whipping their precision aircraft around the skies over Wittman Regional Airport this weekend, relax. Airventure has not been moved up three months.

Flight academy camp teaches teens math, science - BusinessWeek | Recently, 30 teenagers put the Ambition through a two-day test run, competing in a simulated air race that took them over MacDill Air Force Base and Tampa Bay. The instructors -- many of them Navy and Air Force veterans -- sometimes laughed at the ...

Mobile Boys & Girls Club wins national award - al.com | ...The program, developed by Director of Operations Inger Anderson, was built around the 2011 Air Race Classic single-engine aircraft race, which is only for women pilots. The race, which began in Iowa City, Iowa, took six months before reaching its terminus in Mobile in June of last year. Throughout that time period, 55 girls from the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama met more than a dozen female pilots, working on weekends to learn any and every thing related to aviation. They held navigation scavenger hunts, learned about weather effects, even toured an Airbus 300 aircraft and met its female captain...