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GK Canopy Team brings home medals and a World Record from US Army Golden Knights by wfallin | Over the last two weeks the Golden Knights Canopy Piloting team were in the midst of an epic battle.  The team started out at the final FLCPA meet of the season on June 9th.  The last meet brought the top canopy pilots in the country to the competition.  Everyone was trying to get in one last meet before US Nationals. The final meet also turned out to be one of the longest days of the FLCPA’s history.  The competitors started out with a 0700 safety briefing followed by the mandatory practice round.  A light tail wind helped the jumpers through speed course and led to some blistering fast times.  After the two rounds...

'Breakout year' for Denton Airshow - Denton Record Chronicle | It was a “big breakout year” for the Denton Airshow, said Amanda Addington, marketing director for the annual event that drew more than 10000 people to ...

Flying Musicians Announces AirVenture Schedule from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Be sure to pack your guitar for AirVenture this year as the Flying Musicians Association returns with the FMA AirVenture MusicJams. Everyone with a passion for music is invited to this nightly jam session, which runs 7-10 p.m. Monday, July 23, through Friday, July 27, at Honda Forums Pavilion No. 9...

Are You Flying into EAA AirVenture 2012? from inflightusa.com | Yes, it may seem like this topic is a bit early. Perhaps the July issue would be a bit closer to show date.  But if that is your first thought, it is also your first mistake – you need to start planning now!  Flying into EAA AirVenture is exciting, fun, scary, memorable and a topic of hangar flying that will gain strength as the years wear on.  The show itself is mind bending.  With more than 800 vendors in attendance, you have the opportunity to spend the national debt before you are half way through the displays.  Yep, EAA AirVenture is a fun, educational, event … with a possible dark side....

CF18 Demonstration Team To Perform at the Mont-Laurier Air Show ... - Ottawa Citizen | Press release from the RCAF: MONTREAL, June 20, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - The 2012 CF18 Demonstration Team will be performing at the Mont-Laurier Air Show ...

Planes will serve veterans in the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | Aircraft restored the periods I and II World Wars will be apesentados for the first time, the air show in the city of Jukovski (outside Moscow), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force, said Anatoli Serdiukov, Minister of Defense of RF...

March Field Airfest 2012 from inflightusa.com | With temperatures in the high 80s under clear, blue skies, the skies in Riverside, Calif. were filled with the sweet sounds of fighter jets and vintage planes May 19 and 20. More than half a million people viewed nearly 20 acts and dozens of static displays on the airfield at March ARB....

New territory brings excitement to pilots lives - Purdue Exponent | Keck said the 55 teams participating in the Air Race Classic are racing ... Keck and Steele have been preparing for the Air Race Classic by flying together...

WWII pilot flies again: Bud Jones takes a ride in a B-17 - The Rolla Daily News | In 1943 Maries County native Bud Jones could be found in the pilot's seat of a P-40 Warhawk flying over the Mediterranean coast of Italy. On Monday, he ...

Two Airmen missing from Vietnam War identified from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of two servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Lt. Col. Charles M. Walling of Phoenix was buried June 15 at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. There will be a group burial honoring Walling and fellow crew member, Maj. Aado Kommendant of Lakewood, N.J., at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 8 -- the 46th anniversary of the crash that took their lives....

Featured flyers restore WWII 'living history' to Fargo - Jamestown Sun | Toby McPherson pulls a B-25 named Betty's Dream into the hanger at the Fargo Air Museum Monday night after the Texas Flying Legends Museum pilots flew ...

Reeve Lindbergh to speak at museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Reeve Lindbergh, youngest daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, will speak at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire Saturday July 21, at 11 a.m....

Tante Ju — Jünkers Ju 52 - travelforaircraft | Odd how the nation which developed the first modern fighter design leading into of WW II, the Me 163 rocket fighter and the FW 190 as well as Me 262 just did not develop large cargo carrying aircraft in any number. The design began at the end of the Ford Trimotor's manufacturing with the Douglas C-47 its contemporary — it was in production from 1931 through 1945 when rockets and jet aircraft were becoming the norm...

Flying Lions from Latest Vlog | Watch the Flying Lions perform their waterskiing act not so long ago up in...

Missionary Pilot Steve Saint Suffers Paralyzing Injury from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Steve Saint, who founded I-Tec (the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center) in Dunnellon, Florida, was seriously injured during the morning of June 12 while conducting an aerodynamic test on a small aluminum airfoil mounted on a rolling test stand, according to I-Tec. The accident left Saint with...

Watch It Live: Gamera Human-Powered Helicopter Attempts World Record Flight Today - POPSCI | Already demolishing the standing world record more than twice over, a massive human-powered quadrotor designed by students at the University of Maryland is poised to make aviation history today. The Gamera II helicopter is shooting for the Sikorsky Prize, one of aviation’s last great challenges, by hovering for one full minute under human power only. Their first attempt Wednesday morning lasted 35 seconds!...

Deaf, blind student gets to fly plane - St. Augustine Record | It doesn't matter what disability you have, you can still fly in a plane.” Katie, who lives with her family in Atlantic Beach, was born blind as a result of a genetic ...