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Nichols hopes to soar at championships - Star Community Newspapers | A contingent of approximately 60 skydivers will travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates in Dec. to compete in the World Parachuting Championships. One of the competitors is Rowlett native Angela Nichols, a member of the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute...

Firm Unable to Bring Recovered Warbird to AirVenture from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh  | EAA has been informed that the aircraft wreckage of a crashed warbird - an SBD Dauntless or Grumman Wildcat - will not appear at AirVenture 2012 as planned, according to Taras Llysenko of A and T Recovery in Chicago.

Rare A-36A to Invade Oshkosh from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | EAA confirmed Monday that the recently restored North American A-36A Invader fighter bomber owned by the Collings Foundation will be at AirVenture 2012, according to Gary Norville of American Aero Services, who did the restoration. It's one of only three known existing A-36s in the world, and one of only two flying.

Red Tails DVD Buyers at AirVenture Can Win Autographed Poster from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Legendary filmmaker George Lucas is bringing his passion project Red Tails to EAA AirVenture for a one-night screening on Wednesday, July 25, at the Fly-In Theater presented by Ford. Red Tails is the remarkable story of the extraordinary pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen whose courage and bravery made them heroes during World War II.

Sunday AirVenture Preview: An Evening With Champions from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | For the 27th year, AviationSpeakers.com presents AirVenture's pre-convention warm-up at Theater in the Woods Sunday, July 22. Master of Ceremonies will be Tye Mortensen, who makes his second appearance after succeeding his father, Danny, in 2011.

Cadets assist with one of world's largest air shows as part of Civil Air ... - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | Cadets and officers attending Civil Air Patrol's National Blue Beret Encampment will again participate in one of the largest and most prestigious aerospace education learning environments in the world during AirVenture 2012, the Experimental Aircraft ...

Known Airspeed/Acro Camp Sightings/Events for AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | Oshkosh for FOD and me is usually mostly unplanned and organic. That’s still the case. But we’re planning on a few touch points during our stay Wednesday 25 July through Saturday 28 July. Wednesday 25 July (or almost any other evening after other stuff is done) Evening – Firebase Airspeed Informal Get-Togethers I’m arriving Wednesday [...]

New Able Flight pilots to be honored at AirVenture from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Able Flight will pin wings on its newest pilots at a special ceremony Tuesday July 24, at AirVenture in Oshkosh

CAF Red Tail Squadron – Event Update Geneseo Airshow – July 13-15, 2012 - CAF Red Tail Squadron | The Greatest Show on Turf was held on July 13-15, 2012 at Geneseo Airport. Organizers estimate about 20,000 people came out to see this unique air show. The Mustang flew numerous times throughout each day as the CAF Red Tail Squadron had two pilots flying, Doug Rozendaal and Bill Shepard. Numerous rides were sold and a few interviews were conducted over the weekend. With numerous photographers in attendance, there are several great pictures of both pilots flying the Mustang....

Capitol Jets Air Show Entertains While Supporting the Civil Air Patrol ... by Eric Williams | The eighth annual Capitol Jets Air Show July 13-15, 2012 in Selkirk, NY amazed local air-show fans and provided financial support to a deserving Civil Air Patrol (CAP) unit. For many years the CAP's, Vanguard Composite ...

Centennial air show set to take place - Prince Albert Daily Herald | Matt Gardner Daily Herald Come Sunday, Aug. 5, thousands of aviation enthusiasts will stream into the city towards Prince Albert Airport (Glass Field) to...

Planes of all kinds put on a show in Yellowknife - Slave River Journal | The show featured approximately 30 planes, including the Snowbirds, a CF-18 Hornet, Pete McLeod's Team Red Bull, "Super" Dave Mathieson, a Hawk One CF-86 and helicopters. The snowbirds "are right-tight together like always," Gordon Van Tighem, the...

Vero Beach officials give air show initial approval - TCPalm | The show, planned for Oct. 5 and 6, 2013. is being organized by Vero Beach Air Show Inc., formed by the Vero Beach, Indian River and Treasure Coast Exchange Clubs. Proceeds from the event would be used to fund programs to prevent child abuse.

Construction forces air show cancellation - Southwest Virginia Today | TAZEWELL – Improvements to theTazewellCountyAirport will cancel this year's airshow but organizers hope it will return bigger and better in 2013. Airport Manager Jerry McReynolds said the show has been a standard every August at the Claypool Hill...

UAV Navigation to sponsor Reno racer from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | UAV Navigation, a vendor of flight control avionics and motion processing solutions, will sponsor a plane in Reno’s National Championship Air Races and Air Show in September. Guillermo Parodi, UAV Navigation’s CEO and co-founder, will fly the aircraft as a pilot. His plane, nº36, dubbed “N-A-RUSH”, is a Cassutt Special III, a single-seat racing jet designed in the United States in 1951 by ex-TWA captain Tom Cassutt...

Video: FlyingMachinesTV - RIAT 2012 in Super SlowMo! from AirPigz by Martt | I just finished two weeks of intense and nearly non-stop work in two of my other lives... one as a ceramic tile installer and the other doing graphic design/magazine layout. I feel like I've been run over by a truck. But I'm happy to say that this super slo-mo video captured at the 2012 Royal International Air Tattoo by FlyingMachinesTV was remarkably calming and satisfying. I'm feeling a little better already...

Moon Light Serenade — sensuous and deadly — the Black Widow by travelforaircraft | The Northrop P-61 Black Widow seems to be predominantly engine — photo courtesy of Jayne Davis Northrop, one of the aviation companies which advanced aircraft design and capability in new directions produced a supreme night fighter in WW II. Radar was not small or lightweight in the day and nocturnal missions favored guns over rockets — so Northrop was tasked them with making a fighter out an aircraft the size of a medium bomber and they succeeded. Northrop's creation was the P-61 Black Widow which had range (1200 miles/1920km) — or loiter time as needed — along with a crew of three as well as two powerful engines (4200 hp/~32100kW). But it was the radar (and radar operator) along with 4 x 20mm cannon in a ventral installation in concert with 4 x 0.50" caliber machine guns in an upper turret (which could be used by the rear gunner as defensive armament) that were the fangs of this night time predator. But what made this aircraft nimble was...

Manufactured Victory from Vintage Wings of Canada by DaveDespite researching material over the past five years for the nearly three hundred stories, albums, features and missives of Vintage News, I am still in awe of the historical, emotional and visual matrix that is the world wide web. While I am well aware that the web is not a universe of truth, fact, scholarly wisdom and purity of intent, it still astounds me every day for its ability to deliver to my hungry eyes images, stories and stored memories of humanity's recent and sometimes cataclysmic history. In particular, it is my wont to follow leads and key words to find information and images that support our stories of Canada's aviation heritage and the heroes who populate this extraordinary and courageous legacy. I am, not weekly, not daily, but nearly every minute amazed by the images that I come across whilst researching a story's background....

Leenhouts To Head Florida Air Museum - AVweb | The Florida Air Museum in Lakeland, Fla., will now be operated under the auspices of Sun n Fun and its president, John Lites Leenhouts, the organization announced on Friday. John Burton, the Museum president, will step down.

Close-up view of the (rather bumpy) A-10 Warthog nose. With serpentine noseart around the 30mm gun from David Cenciotti's weblog | Taken from a KC-135R Stratotanker during a training flight over Michigan on Jul. 11, the following close up image shows the nose of an A-10 Thunderbolt (affectionately known as the Warthog) from Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan. The Warthog features serpentine noseart around the 30 mm GAU-8/A Gatling Gun, able to dispense 3,900 rounds per minute....

Inside a B-2 Bomber - airspacemag.com | Video | A unique look inside the flight deck of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. A 360-degree panorama taken inside the flight deck of AV-20 (93-1087), the first fully operational Block 30 B-2. AV-20 was located inside U. S. Air Force Plant number 42 in Palmdale, California.

How to fill a hangar from General Aviation News by Jamie Beckett | How can your airport fill up its empty hangars? Perhaps the most effective method would be to send a pilot or two into the local middle schools and high schools to tell a few stories, pop a slideshow up on the smartboard, and invite a whole bunch of the kids out to the airport. Let me provide a little context for that idea. It's valid, believe me. But as fixes go, this isn't a quick one — nor should it be....

Students take flight with 'Super Dave' - Northern News Services | The Elevate You Life program is hosted by the Ryan J. Poe Foundation, both of which were founded by Greg Poe – a world renowned aerobatic pilot – who died on July 24, 2011. Mathieson has taken up the call to help continue the motivation program for...

Air Force's national museum to receive NASA's Crew Compartment Trainer from Air Force Link Top Stories | After many months of intensive planning, the first steps have been put in motion to move NASA's first Shuttle Crew Compartment Trainer from Johnson Space Center to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  CCT-1, which was one of three trainers built to train astronauts for space missions, is scheduled to arrive at the museum, which is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, later this summer...