Air Races license and permit approved - KRNV My News 4 | The news comes just one week after the National Championship Air Race Event Committee for the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority recommended the approval of a one-year permit. The permit requires the racing association to pay for any increased insurance ...
Reno air races get OK to continue competition - KTVB | That includes any new recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board when it completes its investigation of the fatal crash. The Reno air races 
feature planes flying wing-tip-to-wing-tip around an aerial track, sometimes just 50 feet off...
National Championship Air Races - Official Website
Airventure Cup Race: The Race Will Go On from Aero-News Network | Race Officials Offer Preliminary Details About 2012 Race Prep ANN has received the following statement from Airventure Cup Race Organizers in regards to the 2012 Airventure Cup Race: Over the past week, there have been many posts on social media sites and web forums regarding the 2012 Airventure Cup Race. This statement is meant to clarify and correct some of the statements that were made, as...
Blue Angels to take flight during air show - WJLA | By Kris Van Cleave The Blue Angels are about the best around—the Navy's top guns. To fly with them is an experience of a lifetime. So, when you are one of the three civilians invited to fly along, you say yes. The first person you meet is crew chief ...
Joint Base Andrews Air Show: Teacher gets to soar with Blue Angels - WJLA | By Kris Van Cleave The Navy's Blue Angels, which are in town for this weekend's Joint Base Andrews Open House and Air Show, define extreme flying. They do intricate maneuvers at high speed, sometimes just 18 inches apart. They barrel roll, pull 6 G's ...
REGION: March Air Reserve Base to host air fest this weekend - North County Times | March Air Reserve Base will hold its annual air fest this weekend, a free, family-friendly event that features performances by the US Air Force Thunderbirds. In addition to the scheduled appearance by the headlining Thunderbirds, which is the Air ...
AIRSHOW NEWS: Fantastic flying confirmed for Duxford Jubilee Airshow from Flightline UK | We've a fantastic flying display now confirmed for The Jubilee Air Show on Sunday 27 May. The Royal Air Force will be flying a range of powerful contemporary aircraft, including the BAe Hawk, from 208 (R) Squadron, Eurofighter Typhoon from 6 Squadron, RAF Leuchars and the Beechcraft King Air from 45 (R ) Squadron, RAF Cranwell....
RETURNING TO THE ARROWS TRICOLORI ACIREALE - Meridiana Web Magazine (translated) | Dario Liotta - who was present on the coast of Acireale in that torrid afternoon of 23 July 2006, has not forgotten the emotion aroused the Tricolour Arrows aerobatic team. The image of their sudden ...
Red Arrows to visit Bournemouth for the first time since Jon Egging tragedy - Bournemouth Echo | THE Red Arrows are due to make their first return to Bournemouth on Saturday after the tragic events of last year's air festival. The legendary aerobatic team are using Bournemouth Airport as a base for the Queen's Jubilee flypast at Windsor Castle...
Ride the EAA Ford Tri Motor Now at Shelby County Airport from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | CALERA ALABAMA- Now through Sunday the historic EAA 1929 Ford Tri Motor is available for rides at the Shelby County Airport. Not seen in Alabama for over 50 years, the Ford Tri Motor, restored by the Experimental Aircraft Association, is on its first Deep South tour. Shelby EAA Chapter 825 is hosting the event...
How does the Olympic flame fly on a plane? - BBC News | It will fly in its own pair of seats, 1A and 1B, on board a gold-painted British Airways plane from Greece to the UK. The plane, called Firefly, will carry famous people including The Princess Royal, Lord Coe, and David Beckham...
WWI pilots topic of Planes of Fame event - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | CHINO - A program on pilots of World War I will be the Planes of Fame Air Museum's monthly Living History Flying Day Event on Saturday. The museum opens at 9 am, and the seminar starts at 10 am with the Stearman flight demonstration at noon...
Walterboro, SC's Connection To The Tuskegee Airmen from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog by CAF Red Tail Squadron | The little town of Walterboro, SC became home to the Walterboro Army Air Field (WAAF) in 1942 after the Army purchased more than 3,000 acres abutting the town's little airfield and built more runways and buildings. The main purpose of the new base was to provide air combat training to fighter and bomber groups before they...
Remains of MN Marine found 68 years after plane disappeared - FOX 9 News | Cpl. Wayne Erickson joined the Marines at the age of 18 and became a gunner on a PBJ-1, the Navy's version of a B-25 bomber. Erickson was assigned to Marine Bombing Squadron VMB-423 flying from the island of Espiritu Santo, what is now known at Vanautu ...
How One Australian Town Helped A Doomed Plane Win History's Greatest Air Race - Gizmodo | Lost in a
thunderstorm over southeastern Australia, Captain R.D. Parmentier and his crew were desperately trying to find a place to land the big DC2 airliner. They were just a few hundred kilometres from the finish of an epic 18,000km race from London to Melbourne and the storm had rendered their communications equipment useless...Demon for friend and foe, alike — the McDonnell F3H by travelforaircraft | Beginning with the FD Phantom, then followed by the F2H Banshee, McDonnell Aircraft earned a solid reputation with the U.S. Navy for fighter aircraft design early in the jet age. The U.S. Navy, late in coming to the jet age — largely due to carrier flight deck limitation overcome with the advent of the angled flight deck — stepped in the future with the F3H Demon by designing a fighter around an air-to-air intercept missile, the then new AIM-7 Sparrow. Later, the Navy would do the same with the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix...
Hawker Hunter make-over 2012 update 17-5-2012 - xe606 | Latest update with pictures sent to me tonight from 'our-man' Mr Mick Coombes, who has been busy today at RAF Barkstone Heath, in hangar two. Mick has got all but few decals on the aircraft, and...
B-25 Flying Day 2011 by Deano | Back on September 24th, 2011 the Flying Heritage Collection were coming to the end of their summer flying days at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. On these days they fly aircraft from the collection, often with guest aircraft from other nearby museums. This particular day they were flying the North American...
Redbull's Latest Aerial Ballet from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Redbull Wednesday shared video of one of its latest sponsored adventures -- five wingsuit skydivers joining up with and maintaining formation with two sailplanes in a dive over Austria. The team flew two aerobatic LET L-13 Blanik sailplanes and just to complicate things the lead flew inverted and one skydiver formed up inbetween the inverted and upright glider. The skydivers and...
Friday Flyer: Darin Scines from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | I met Darin on LinkedIn, and noticed that he was advertising aviation businesses on his site. What a great idea. I wrote to him and said, "Hey, you should put Flight For Control" on your site. Guess what? He did. As I snooped around Up-Elevator.com, curiosity got the better of me...
Celebrate EAA'S International Learn to Fly Day May 19 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Introductory flights will connect aviators with those wanting to discover flightEAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, WI- On Saturday, May 19, dozens of local events will turn dreams of flight into reality during the third annual International Learn to Fly Day, an aviation community-wide effort helping people of all ages take that first step to discover the fun and freedom of flight...
Female Taikonaut Certain for Shenzhou 9 from Spaceports | With the growing possibility of the Shenzhou 9 launching to space atop a Long March 2F booster from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center next month, the Chinese space officials will definitely launch a female military air force pilot-turned-taikonaut to orbit. Commander in Chief Liu Yu of the Chinese Academy of Launch Technology, disclosed it will be one of two female taikonauts - either...
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