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101st Airborne Division kicks off celebration - Sacramento Bee |The 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell are celebrating 70 years since the inception of the airborne division with a weeklong celebration including games, a concert, an air show and memorials for the fallen. The celebration at the Army ...

Blades are back for another run - Eastbourne Herald | Six of the Blades were Harrier pilots, two were Jaguar pilots, all were RAF instructors and Blades 1 to 4 are all former Red Arrows pilots. “The Red Arrows are accepted as one of the best examples of teamwork in the world,” said a Blades spokesperson.

Stunt team Aerostars prepare for lift-off at Weymouth Carnival - Dorset Echo | Dave Boardman from the Aerostars said the team were used to being compared to the Red Arrows because the routines were similar – although the planes used 'are a different beast altogether'. The six Yak 50 aircraft will use the airspace over Weymouth ...

Walking on air on a wing and a prayer - Blackpool Gazette | Breitling Wingwalkers, who are appearing at Blackpool Airshow 2012. BELOW: The Gazette's essential guide to the Blackpool Air Show 2012. By David Sharman Published on Friday 10 August 2012 12:11. With terrifying speeds to encounter and bullet-like ...

Air show soars to new plateau - The Province| The planes are bigger and faster, but in half-a-century of flying at the Abbotsford Air Show, some things never change. "You can't be a fighter pilot unless you think you're the best in the world," said Jim Reith, the show's air boss since 2001. "You ...

Airshow could still take off once more - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | Paul Bayfield, managing director of Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival, said: “This was a spontaneous and generous offer and it was typical of the support that we have from this wonderful group of people. “If we could have at least another 11 similar ...

Air show is grounded by poor sales - The Oxford Times | THIS year’s Fly to the Past show has been cancelled, organisers have announced. The show – originally two days then reduced to one day – was due to take place at Oxford Airport in Kidlington on Sunday, September 2....

High flyers ready to take the challenge - Spencer Daily Reporter | (Photo). Following practice runs on Friday, 20 pilots from the region are expected to take part in the Doug Yost Challenge, an aerobatic compeition which will begin Saturday morning and continue Sunday at the Northwest Iowa Regional Airport in Spencer.

WW II planes on display - Coeur d'Alene Press | It's 180 degrees from "Maid in the Shade's" working days, when the B-25 fighter plane flew 15 missions out of Corsica, Italy, during World War II. She was the only plane to return to base after one mission whose goal - successful despite the losses ...

Nord (Aérospatiale) 262 from Planeshots

Green Speed Cup – Year Two, Days Three and Four from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | As the Stemme Green Speed Cup speeds into day five of a six-day series of challenges, the leaders are all – little surprise here – Stemme aircraft. Markus Scherdel took first place on day three’s task, a 346.1 kilometer (214.58 mile) triangle, with a new low in fuel consumption, 2.5 liters per 100 kilometers (94.08 mpg or 188.16 passenger miles per gallon) at an average speed of 142.2 kilometers per hour (88.16 mph).

Yeagar With Bell X-1A “Mach 2.5 1650 MPH Altitude Over 90,000 Ft” (1954) from AIRBOYD.TV

Air Transport Command from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | Air Transport Command (ATC)...The service was an outgrowth of the Army’s Ferrying Command, which was an airplane delivery system utilized when Britain entered WWII and needed American-built planes to fight the Nazis. The major airlines of the day – Pan Am, Northwest Orient, Eastern, Western and United (only one of which is still flying today!) – contracted with the government to do the deliveries. Some contracts were active through the Ferrying Command and some were set up through other military organizations...

Beechcraft Starship — too good, too soon from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | The Beechcraft Starship was an advanced aircraft which appeared in the 1980s and not failing to show Burt Rutan’s influence outside as well as inside the aircraft. Together, Beechcraft and Rutan brought us an aircraft which owns these firsts: First civilian certified [...]

Natalie's Final Scholarship Essay from Life on the Road as a Pilot | The time has arrived - when we read the final essays of the Girls With Wings Spring Scholarship Winners and anxiously await the essays from the Summer Scholarship Winners (starting Sept 1st). The Girls With Wings Scholarship Program provides funds for flight training to selected individuals with a...

Neil Armstrong Reportedly Recovering From Bypass Surgery from Aero-News Network  | First Moon-Walker 'Doing Great' According To His Wife, Carol Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 became the first human to walk on the surface of the Moon, recently underwent a quadruple coronary bypass after four blocked arteries were discovered during a routine checkup...