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Ceremony marks War of 1812 - Boston Globe | Old and new crossed paths in South Boston today as six jets with the US Navy Blue Angels streaked over the USS Constitution, the Navy's oldest ship, during a ceremony to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. “Our naval heritage will not...

Pieces in place for RIAT air team - Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard | A KOREAN display team has taken air-fix to the next level by bringing over their full scale aircraft in pieces for this year's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. The Black Eagles aerobatic display team shuttled ten T-50 Golden Eagle ...

This weekend's Royal International Air Tattoo to have a Japanese flavour - This is Gloucestershire | A JAPANESE military aircraft will touch down on British soil for the first time since the Second World War.History will be made at Fairford's Royal International Air Tattoo this weekend with the...

Airbus Again Pulls Out A400 Million Plane From Air Show -Reuters - Fox Business | Airbus's A400M military transport plane still has engine issues and won't be involved in flying displays at next week's Farnborough Airshow, Reuters reported Wednesday citing industry sources...

Julie Clark puts on one of the... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith | More July 4th themed goodies! Julie Clark puts on one of the best patriotic shows in her T-34 Mentor... 

The Red Steel Jet Team's 3 L-39's & Newly Acquired L-29 Will Be Flying In ... - DigitalJournal.com | As a master instructor, he has spent many hours helping other pilots achieve their dreams. His aerobatic and military skills, along with innovative aircraft modifier friends helped him win 3 World Championships in his 6 year run with the Red Bull Air Race.

WARTIME POLISH HERO FLIES AGAIN from Royal International Air Tattoo News  | A WARTIME hero was being honoured at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire today, when an aircraft bearing his likeness touched down.

Frecce Tricolori to attend the biggest air show in Romania by serban.georgescu | One of the most famous air acrobatics team of the world, Frecce Tricolori (Italy) will attend on July 21-22 the 'Bucharest International Air Show & General Aviation Exhibition' (BIAS 2012), on the International Airport Bucharest...

Countdown to WomenVenture 2012 from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | What began as a one-time program in 2008 has now become a tradition at EAA AirVenture. WomenVenture is a way to gather like-minded women during AirVenture, exchange information, do some hangar talking, and informally match mentors with mentees...

The Flying Tigers Soar Again - At A Remote Restaurant In China - International Business Times | 70 years ago today, one of the legendary fighter squadrons of World War II disbanded. A restaurant, of all things, remembers the heroic feats of the American pilots, but to find it you'll need to travel to a faraway part of China...

American son of second world war airman returns to Tibenham airfield - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | The famous B17 Sally B, which, together with an escort of two P51 Mustangs, will provide a memorable sight, in the air and on the ground for the air festival. The former Liberator base will also welcome the Hardwick War Birds Collection with two P51s ...

Liberty Aviation Museum expected to open July 20 - Fremont News Messenger | There will also be displays of the Yankee Air Museum's B-17 bomber and C-47 transport, rides on a B-17, Stearman biplane and a helicopter, other aircraft displays, a WWII outdoor reenactor encampment, movies on the big screen in the hangar, a book ...

A proper showcase for naval aviation - So Md News | A contract has been awarded, construction is due to start and in 2014, barring any further delays, a new Patuxent River Naval Air Museum should be open to visitors. “This has been 20 years in the making,” Joe Dunn, a member of the museum's board of ...

Profile 68: BEGINNING "xxx" as flown by the 334th TFS from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | This sketch - done with a fantastic ballpoint pen swiped from a Hyatt - surprised me with its ease. Some people call the Phantom "ugly." But to me, it's beautiful. Hulking, big and angular, she seems crafted - not by an engineer - but by a sculptor with a wicked vision. There is no mistaking it for anything other than what it is - a war machine...

Turkey locates bodies of pilots of downed jet - Reuters | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces command said on Wednesday it had found the bodies of both pilots of an F-4 jet shot down by Syria last month and was trying to retrieve them from the seabed. Relations between Ankara and Damascus hit a new low ...

‘Plane Talk’ nominated for Show of the Year award from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The aviation online radio talk show “Plane Talk” has been nominated for the “Spreaker Show of the Year Award.”

Conceptual aircraft takes off in a wind tunnel at NASA from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | Model named AMELIA is able to land and take off in small spaces. | NASA is testing a conceptual model of aircraft capable of takeoff and landings in small spaces. The Advanced Model for Improved Lift and Extreme Aeroacustics was designed at the Polytechnic University of the State of California and is in an experimental phase in the wind tunnels of the North American Space Agency....

SpaceShip2 has been evolving from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Aviation Week discussed the evolution of the strakes on the inboard of the SS2 vertical tails. Not a huge bit of news, but I am always confused about what to call those things (mainly when describing the winged rockets that I've built*). SS2 started with one small strake, they added a second and evidently it now sports a 'mega strake'...

Red Bull's Long Jump Set For This Summer from AVwebFlash Current Issue  | As the Red Bull Stratos project continues preparations to break Joe Kittinger's long-standing freefall record with a jump from a balloon at over 120,000 feet later this summer, the team this week released an animation of what the experience will be like for skydiver Felix Baumgartner. The video shows the balloon and the capsule suspended beneath it climbing through the atmosphere into the blackness of space, with the Earth's curved surface far below. Baumgartner pauses on the capsule's threshold to take in the view before leaping off. Red Bull says Baumgartner may reach supersonic speed on his descent...

Supersonic Man: An Animated View from Aerial Sports Feed | This summer, Felix Baumgartner will attempt a record-breaking freefall from 120,000ft above the earth as part of Red Bull Stratos