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Reno Air Racing – Sights and Sounds from Let’s Go to the Reno Air Races - Flight Deck Inside | ...The full length DVD or Blu Ray disc contains over 50 minutes of this type of material as well as almost 90 minutes of interviews with pilots and crew like: Jet Class pilot and instructor Rick VanDam , Sport Class Pilot and Founder Lee Behel , Jet Class President Phil Fogg  takes us around the race course for a lap in his Race 8 Airplane.... 

Auburn pilot prepares to say 'so long' to 'sexy' - Auburn Journal | Air plane enthusiasts will get a
glimpse of what is to come July 7 at the Auburn Air Fair where Dwelle will roll the plane out for the first public viewing. The Sea ... 

Race plane visits Apalachicola airport - Apalachicola Times | Tamra Steffman and Myra Bugbee stopped off on en route to the women's Air Race Classic, an annual transcontinental competition dating back to 1929...

More from Evan | Hi all my aviation friends! | I have some new stuff to share but first I have sad news to report.  My friend Burt Newmark passed away June 11th.  I'll always remember Burt as a great guy with lots of stories and a lot of fun to be with.  You can read my interview with him here. I have two new airshow reviews with photos: First, Second. My dad has been really busy with doing videos.  He spent a week at the Reno Pylon Racing Seminar with cameras on race planes.  Check out these videos!  https://vimeo.com/44222121, https://vimeo.com/44439742.  He also did a new edit of the pinup girls!  Evan

SHINING IN THE SHADE: Restored B-25, Maid in the Shade, leaves ... - Greeley Tribune | The sun blinked off the B-25 Mitchell as it sat on the runway of the Greeley-Weld County Airport on a clear morning. The plane had been visiting Greeley as part of the Arizona Commemorative Air Force tour, educating people and honoring the soldiers who once flew these planes. This, however, was the rare war bird’s last day in Greeley. A crowd gathered as the engines started...

Roar into the past through the air - Sioux Falls Argus Leader | “She flew more than that, but that's all we have documentation on,” said Dennis Fennessey, flight engineer and land master for the Commemorative Air Force ...

'Just Jane', Lancaster NX611 in close-up... - Military Modeling | This set of lovely reference photos were taken by member Andy Mitchell on 30 September 2009, during a Taxy run in this Lancaster at the Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirby, in Yorkshire.   it is a neatly restored machine and very well looked after by the team at East Kirby.  The opportunity to be on board for a taxy run is obviously something rather special.  If you look at the link to their website, you'll see how you could do it too...

Travel Air Mystery Ship - Airplanes and Helicopters | At the end of the 1928 air racing season, Herb Rawdon persuaded W H Beech to build an aircraft for the 1929 season that would defeat every aircraft in its category. In great secrecy, with the help of Walter Burnham, Rawdon designed a sleek monoplane with fixed undercarriage, and a 425hp Wright radial aircooled engine as no inline engine was available in the desired power range. The externally braced low-wing made...

Oh dear !! from stickandrudderWTO | Whilst at the RGAF Museum Trenton, myself and Peter-S of inreachoftheskies.blogspot saw this special marked RCAF military 'Jetranger' which someone had worked very hard to apply the special colour-scheme, only to have the paint film/application fail due to on reason or another. One things for sure, the...

Museum exhibition features pilot eye view of cockpits from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | "At the Controls: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Looks at Cockpits," a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), offers visitors a unique perspective of cockpits from some of the world's most impressive air and spacecraft. "At the Controls" is on display now at Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center and will remain on view throughout the summer...

NTSB Rules Pilot Error In Roush Oshkosh Crash from AVwebFlash Current Issue | NASCAR team owner and AirVenture regular Jack Roush says he accepts the findings of the NTSB report released Friday that blamed him for the crash of his Hawker Beechcraft 390 business jet at AirVenture 2010. But Roush also told The Sporting News the NTSB could have taken into account the circumstances that led to him stalling the aircraft and crashing it on the infield by Runway 18R during the show on July 27, 2010. “It was a very sad day in my life when I crashed that airplane,” Roush was quoted as saying. “I’m glad to...

Short Strips and Flying Pigs - airspacemag.com | The fine folks at Moody Aviation did a standout job of teaching us aspiring missionary pilots how to keep an airplane right side up. But they didn’t teach us everything we needed to know to navigate the jungles—and cultures—in the Indonesian province of Papua. To better prepare young pilots, Moody might do well to consider situations such as:...

If you love the B-52, this video was made for you: take-off, aerial refueling, formation flying, landing with the Buff from David Cenciotti's weblog | The 96th Bomb Squadron brings you on a B-52 training mission from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, on Apr. 18, 2012. Footage includes briefing, take off, aerial refueling, formation flying, low level flying, and landing with the Buff...

Build A Plane at Oshkosh from WAI Connect Blog by Pat | Calling All Teachers! Aviation is one of the best ways we know of to motivate kidsto learn science, technology, engineering and math!...
   
Residents get the chance to chat with an astronaut on ham radio - Daily Press | Carter is a docent at the Air & Space Center and mans its Amateur Radio Exhibit, where the astro-chat will take place. Ticketed visitors are welcome to observe....

Turkish Phantom shot down by Syria update: Damascus releases the route flown by the plane from David Cenciotti's weblog | On Jun. 23 Syrian news agency SANA has published the following statement issued by a Syrian military spokesman, which provides the version of Damascus about the mysterious downing of a Turkish F-4 Phantom off the Syrian coast on Jun. 22. At 11:40 AM on 22/6/2012, an unidentified aerial target violated Syrian airspace, coming from the west at a very low altitude and at high speed over territorial waters, so the Syrian anti-air defenses counteracted with anti-aircraft artillery, hitting it directly as it was 1 kilometer away from land, causing it to crash into Syrian territorial waters west of Om al-Tuyour village in Lattakia province, 10 kilometers from the beach....