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Canadian SkyHawks Parachute Team to Make AirVenture Debut from EAA Airventure | Official site of the annual EAA AirVenture Convention at Oshkosh's Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Commonly known as EAA OSHKOSH, the event attracts more than 800000 people and 12000 airplanes.

Vintage warbirds grow wings - Fraser Coast Chronicle | Chris Behrens, David Behrens and Bruce Geelan check out some warplanes at the Warbirds and Wheels event. PLANES cut daring lines through the sky above Maryborough Airport while vintage cars flexed muscle by way of roaring engines.

A380 to fly at FIDAE Air Show as part of its Latin American Tour by walesairforum | For the first time Airbus will showcase its biggest stars together at the FIDAE Air Show (Feria Internacional del Aire y del Espacio) in Santiago, Chile. Both the iconic A380 and the new generation airlifter A400M will be...

Veterans again in line for VIP airshow places - Shoreham Herald | VETERANS are again being invited to apply for special tickets to this year's Shoreham Airshow. Every year, event organisers give a certain number of veterans, and a guest, tickets to a private marquee at the airshow. Veterans from all the Armed Forces ...

Volunteers restore R-1535-7 engine for Museum's O-46A from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Aircraft and engine restoration is all about passion, according to volunteers in the Museum's Restoration Division. "We love aircraft and being able to contribute to an organization we feel strongly about," said Charlie Farlow, who is retired from the Air Force and has volunteered at the Museum since 2009....

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Veteran paratroopers look to the skies - Derbyshire Times | The event was opened by the Red Devils Parachute Display Team who flew in with the regimental flag, followed by a fly past over the hall by a Dakota plane. A parade was then held along with the dedication of Sgt Hardwick's pony blanket and a memorial ...

Iconic Spitfire takes to Shropshire skies - shropshirestar.com | The spectacular flypast from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire took place at RAF Cosford yesterday to mark the anniversary of The Michael Beetham Conservation Centre at the Royal Air Force Museum. It is a centre of excellence for aircraft ...

Grissom honors "Doc" Evens today - 434th ARW Public Affairs | GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind.  -- Grissom will hold a special street naming ceremony in honor of Col. Marvin A. "Doc" Evens today. Evens was a former 930th Medical Squadron commander here at Grissom and an A-10 pilot who perished when his A-10 crashed during a training mission near the base in 1992....

`Flat Spin' has riveting plot and fine prose - San Francisco Chronicle | ... Freed: "Flat Spin," the title of this debut thriller, is the name of a complex and risky flight maneuver that only the most accomplished pilots should attempt, so it's no surprise that the hero of the story, Cordell Logan, is a first-rate aviator...

Retired Navy aviator Paula Senn flies for FedEx while being a mom - Inside NoVA | Senn, a retired Navy aviator, now flies the Airbus 300 for FedEx. "He's grown up with me being a pilot," Senn said of 8-year-old Connor. "He doesn't realize it's unusual for a woman to be a pilot, even now." And Senn's daughter, 4-year-old Hanna, ...

[Updated] Photo: Second China's J-20 stealth fighter prototype (almost) makes maiden flight from David Cenciotti's weblog | ...However, according to some sources, the aircraft did not take off: it performed a high-speed taxi, raised the nose and then deployed the drag chute to reduce speed. It's a particular kind of test Chinese have performed with the first prototype too....

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Kicks Off 2012 Summer Movie Series With Free ... - Broadway World | About the Museum: Soon to be the home of the Space Shuttle Enterprise, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum complex includes the 900-foot-long aircraft carrier 'Intrepid' with seven full decks and four theme halls; the guided missile submarine Growler; ...

Movie Monday: Remembering Canadair and the Challenger from Flightblogger by Stephen Trimble | GENEVA, Switzerland -- In 1980, the National Film Board of Canada commissioned a young director named Stephen Low to document an ambitious plan to revive struggling Canadair by developing an advanced business jet -- the Challenger. The rest of the story is now well-known. After surviving a disastrous crash in flight test, the Challenger went on to become one of history's most successful business jet programmes. The Bill Lear-inspired project...

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EAA Young Eagles Programs takes kids on free flights in Milwaukee - FOX6Now.com Milwaukee | MILWAUKEE –The EAA Young Eagles Program gives children the chance to fly in an airplane and works to get children interested in aviation and perhaps becoming a pilot one day! Coraggio started in the Young Eagles Program when he was a child and later ...

Astronaut alum advises failure as a way of measuring effort - Purdue Exponent | However, for Purdue astronaut alumnus David Wolf, he and his team live by this syllogism. Wolf encouraged the graduate students at their commencement on Sunday morning to do the same. "Failures, quote failures, are inexplicably linked with innovation," ...

New Astronaut Crew Launching to Space Station Tonight from SPACE.com | The three spaceflyers will blast off from Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.