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Excitement swells as air show nears - Sioux Falls Argus Leader | The best advertising for the weekend's Sioux Falls Air Show might be the practice runs by the Navy's Blue Angels Thursday and today. Tweeters certainly noticed with tweets and pictures, and here are examples of what they had to say. The show is 8:30 a...

Airshow Visitors Urged To Prepare For Heat - KELOLAND TV | Planes have been flying in from all over the country to prepare for this weekend's Sioux Falls Airshow. And while there will be a lot to see, people should also be prepared for the heat. Lt. Col. Reid Christopherson with the South Dakota Air National...

Getting ready for EAA AirVenture by Jackie Johnson | Wisconsin is under a drought emergency, but the high temps and dry conditions are having no negative impact on preparations for AirVenture in Oshkosh. The Experimental Aircraft Association's Dick Knapinski says...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh - Part 1 from CAF Red Tail Squadron | This is the week before EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) AirVenture Oshkosh opens at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Hundreds of thousands of aviation enthusiasts will come from all over the U.S. and dozens of other countries to take in the sights during its seven-day run. This year’s dates are July 23-29 so the fun starts Monday but over this weekend, aircraft of all sorts will be arriving. Planes on display run the gamut from homebuilts to warbirds, military moderns to old biplanes. If it flies, it is most likely going to be represented at AirVenture. My Dad and a couple of his flying buddies used to go to the EAA event almost every year, starting back when it was called the “Fly-In” and held in Rockford, Illinois. Sometimes they drove and...

"Oshkosh 2012 Preview" UCAP #297 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Guest: EAA President Rod Hightower. Dave, Jeb and Jack reminisce about their first visits to the Oshkosh Fly-in, and then about what they're looking forward to this year. Hightower visits the hangar and tells of the preparations for the fly-in, and what he thinks the best will be...

Grass Strip Available for Antique Aircraft - EAA AirVenture - EAA AirVenture | Final approval from the FAA's Airport District Office in Minnesota will allow a temporary grass runway to be used by special aircraft during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. Working together, Wittman Regional Airport...

TeenFlight!: TeenFlight to Airventure 2012!! by TeenFlight Crew | The TeenFlight crew will be at Airventure! Look for the polished RV-12 with a yellow stripe and cowling. Three student from the first build will be present along with five TeenFlight 2 students (including yours truly). We are having a presentation,...

Super Tucano to Appear at AirVenture - Flying Magazine | The A-29 Super Tucano is making a first-time appearance at Embraer's AirVenture booth in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, next week. The Super Tucano was in the news earlier this year after beating Hawker Beechcraft's T-6 for an Air Force contract worth more than ...

Campfires may be banned at AirVenture - FOX 11 News | The recent rains are helping green things up around the EAA AirVenture grounds in Oshkosh. The question is, will it be enough?

Air show sparks lifelong interest in aviation - Exeter News-Letter | The air show was quite an event this year; as it has been for the last two years. The sight of the planes in close formations and doing acrobatics, the almost unbelievable skill of the pilots, and the sociability of watching with family and friends...

Looking up: Biplane pilot to entertain Columbia Cup crowd - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald | Wiskus, a married father of four, was the regional champion from 1996-2005 in the IAC Aerobatic Competition, took first place in 2002-03 North Central Regional Aerobatic competition and was United States Aerobatic Champion. Then in 2003, he was one of ...

Show comes flying back to town - Delta-Optimist | The show's lineup features Red Bull Air Race pilot Pete McLeod, L29 jets flying in formation, a simulated air race with Harvards, the Pacific Skydivers, Alpha Aviation's Fred Kaiser in a CJ2 corporate jet, and a Skyraider and P51 Mustang from the ...

RAF to wow crowds at Sunderland Airshow - The Northern Echo | RAF pilots will be demonstrating how they attack targets at the 24th Sunderland International Airshow this weekend. Two Tornado GR4s will be simulating raids on the beaches of Seaburn and Roker, tomorrow and Sunday. People will be able to see them ...

Council forks out £20k for Vulcan flight at Airbourne - Eastbourne Herald | The Cold War bomber is headlining the four-day airshow, which returns from August 9-12, as the Red Arrows have already been booked to fly in Russia. Eastbourne Borough Council had been seeking a sponsor to pay the £20000 bill for an appearance by...

VIDEO: Ahhh - Vulcan at RIAT from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | It was good to see The Vulcan to the Sky Trust's XH558 back in action at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) and Farnborough air show earlier this month, following the team's rapid replacement of both port engines following a ground incident. In case you haven't been fortunate enough to see the last of Avro's "Tin Triangles" in the air this "summer" (for non-UK residents that's a sarcastic reference, as we haven't had one this year) then check out this onboard video from RIAT, compiled by...

FHC announces Blades poster competition winner - DCA | Falmouth Harbour Commissioners invited primary school pupils to design the official poster to promote the Blades, a leading display team of former Red Arrows pilots renowned worldwide for flying close formation aerobatics to the highest level. Weather ...

Number of high-wire for the Patrouille de France - The Independent. En | The Patrouille de France is back on the Catalan coast. The eight pilot the famous aerobatic training will conduct two demonstrations during the weekend. They will play first tomorrow, Saturday, Banyuls-sur-Mer (from...

'When the air show was for family fun' - Sunderland Echo | The 17000 plus who streamed there were part of a culture with ingrained values of decency and respect. Working class men with their wives and children wore their Sunday best, picnicked and enjoyed a fun-packed day out, without swilling beer and getting ...

Antonovs in America from Air & Space Magazine | I have taken off in Antonov An-2 biplanes more than 100 times, but never landed in one. Since the late 1950s, the big Russian biplanes have carted skydivers like me aloft from jump bases all over the world—but not in the United States. Although almost 19,000 An-2s were produced in the Soviet Union, China, and Poland, and the airplane has been certified in more...

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Man spent 70 years working on planes - Castanet.net | Azriel "Al" Blackman signs an autograph for an aviation enthusiast after flying in a DC-3, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 in New York. American Airlines is ... The aircraft, the Flagship Detroit, is owned by a non-profit foundation that has restored it to a ...

Rare breed — Alberto Santos-Dumont from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Rare breed — Alberto Santos-Dumont Alberto Santos-Dumont is a man the world has in perpetually short supply. He was born on this day in 1873 and was one of many forging a path toward controlled flight. What made him special and remarkable was that he accomplished his work while making it available freely, without fees or licenses. The [...]

The other X-45A from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | The other X-45A The year 2002 saw the U.S. Air Force directing an investigation into the potential for unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) tasking for the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) — a mission category previously known more descriptively as “Iron Hand”, back in the day. Northrop Grumman and Boeing coordinated in the effort [...]

Terrafugia begins new phase of Transition flight testing - AOPA Pilot | After a splashy debut at the New York International Auto Show this year, Terrafugia has opted to work on flight testing during EAA AirVenture and will send a team of company representatives without the Transition “street-legal aircraft.” Terrafugia ...

VIDEO: Norway marks century of military airpower from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | It's a Friday thanks to our friends at the Norwegian defence ministry for sending through a link to a short video showing a stunningly-liveried F-16AM fighter (1984-vintage aircraft 686) strutting its stuff over and around the nation's beautiful capital, Oslo. The reason for the snazzy colour scheme (which replicates the Royal Norwegian Air Force roundel) and jazzy soundtrack (called "Vidda", performed by Norwegian trumpeter Ole Edvard Antonsen) is the celebration of the first 100 years of military aviation in Norway....

Navy Carriers Prepare For X-47B Arrival Next Year from Aero-News Network | First Unmanned Jet Aircraft To Fly From A U.S. Carrier The Navy is one year away from landing its first unmanned jet aircraft aboard a carrier after completing the most recent round of surrogate tests aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). In early July, members from the Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) carrier integration team engaged in extensive software testing aboard Truman to validate the concept of autonomous UAV operations around an aircraft carrier and prepare for the X-47B unmanned aircraft’s arrival on a carrier next year.

Another chance for an astronaut chat - Daily Press | It had to abort last month's mission, but the Virginia Air & Space Center is gearing up for a second attempt at a live ham radio chat with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. A lightning strike fried the communications antenna at the...