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Reno Air Races flying with a new name - About - Cities & Towns | Despite the tragic crash at the 2011 Reno Air Races, event organizers have met numerous conditions (mainly related to safety for both spectators and pilots) and the show will go on. The 49th Reno Air Races will be from Wednesday, September 12, through ...

PR: Chasing Reno Gold: DVD for the True Fan of Unlimited Racing from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | This four-hour feature is packed with information and personality, as director Mark Chiolis interviews every living Unlimited Gold winner of the National Championship Air Races. These remarkable men, aged from the low twenties to their seventies, are among the fastest humans on the planet, and the fastest-ever behind a spinning propeller. They openly...

Merchant Marine Alum Soars with Blue Angels - Patch.com | Newly graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Nathan Barton stood on the bridge of a 500-foot research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, piloting the ship close enough for scientists to tag whales. This was the career path he chose, and one month ...

Stearman Fly-In 'like a family reunion' - Galesburg Register-Mail | A pilot releases smoke in a trail in honor of Neil Armstrong during a memorial flight Saturday afternoon at the Galesburg Municipal Airport during the 41st National Stearman Fly-In...

Planes and pancakes to 'fly in' for aviation college fundraiser  - WMU News | The funds raised will help to support six College of Aviation registered student organizations: the Aviation Student Council, the Multicultural Association of Aviation Professionals, Women in Aviation, the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance ...

Boardwalk Aerobatic Airshow and Festival Sunday - Shore News Today | On Sunday, September 16 at the Ocean City Municipal Airport, 26th Street and Bay Avenue, the Airport Festival will take place 10 a.m. to 3 p.m Sunday, Sept. 16. The event features a ground display of unusual airplanes ranging from World War II planes ...

Sean D. Tucker's Flight Over the Capitol - Sacramento Bee (blog) | Sean D. Tucker's Flight Over the Capitol. RB Sean Tucker 6A.jpg. Several readers have written to ask about the Bee's front page photo of stunt pilot Sean D. Tucker's Oracle III biplane flying over the State Capitol that ran on Saturday, September 8, 2012.

Arch won bronze at Aerobatics Championship - Kleine Zeitung | "The experience of the Red Bull Air Race have helped me here extreme to stay cool despite the few training sessions," said Arch Herbert Weirather, the son of the ex-Skiweltmeisters Harti Weirather landed on his debut in the classic competition at ...

Two U.S. Army Golden Knights injured in bicycle accident - KTVO | Two members of the U. S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team were unable to perform in Sunday's Cape Air Kirksville Air Festival due to being involved in a bicycle accident. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 30-year-old Howard Sanborn and ...

Unique traveling exhibit honoring Tuskegee Airmen coming to St. Cloud - Morrison County Record | The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Tail Squadron will welcome visitors at its free “Rise Above Traveling Exhibit” in St. Cloud, Tuesday – Saturday, Sept. 11 – 15, from noon – 7 p.m. each day. It will be set up at the St. Cloud City Hall, 400 Second ...

Organisers promise Leuchars Airshow will be 'Typhoon-tastic' - The Courier | And on Saturday all eyes will be on the 38-year-old from Largs when he takes to the skies for the solo Typhoon's last public display of the season in front of a home audience at the RAF Leuchars Jubilee Airshow — a show which organisers promise will ...

RAF Elvington anniversary celebrations held - Pocklington Post | WAR veterans and dignitaries were welcomed by the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington on Sunday during a special annual Allied Air Forces Memorial Day. The event also marked the 70th anniversary of Bomber Command base RAF Elvington, which ...

Record-breaking crowds at 21st Southport Air Show (GALLERY) - Southport Visiter | As the sun shone down, crowds lined the resort's pier and beach for the start of the two-day show on Saturday and were wowed by stunning displays from the Red Arrows and the Breitling Wingwalkers. The wingwalkers, seen live by more than 6m spectators ...

The return of the Avro Arrow - 660 News | A Boeing F-18 Super Hornet performs during its demonstration flight, on the first day of the 47th Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, June 18, 2007. Internal documents show the air force conducted an assessment of two F-35 jet fighter alternatives, but ...

Maddingley home of the brave 9-9-2012 from stickandrudderWTO | On the Sunday morning of the 9th of September 2012, I visited Maddingley, just outside of the City of Cambridge, to see the last resting place of some very special brave people, who during the second world war, gave their all, so we could be free. Maddingley sits on a...

North Weald Essex UK Norwegian veteran day 9-9-2012 from stickandrudderWTO | Had a great day out with Peter and Rebecca Smith at the Norwegian veteran event, held at North Weald airfield in Essex, which was once home to the Norwegian wing of the RAF during world war two. There was a 'three-ship' flypast made up of a Norwegian-marked T-33A, and a DH.Vampire and DH Venom. Very nice to hear the sound of Nene and Goblin engines still in this day and age, and is a credit to whom keeps them in working order. Good weather helped the day along, to the tune of it being around 27 in the shade. There was loads to do and see, military vehicles etc.a good family day out. Flying display by 'Kent Spitfire' was very good and must have pleased...

“Field of Remembrance” display at Strategic Air & Space Museum - Nebraska Radio Network | Tuesday marks the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy and there will be remembrance ceremonies in nearly every Nebraska community. At the Strategic ...

Lord Of The Warbirds (PHOTOS) by 'WAL' World and local News | His 26 warbird planes include such fantasy craft as Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning dug out of a Greenland glacier; one of only two surviving T-6G trainer planes used by the Tuskegee airmen; a B-25 bomber like the ones used ...

P-51, Hollywood actress, attracting new pilots from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | Just about everyone is talking about ways to grow the pilot population. AOPA created a new department towards that goal. The Iowa Aviation Promotion Group has created a slick Hollywood-style video featuring Doug Rozendaal flying the Commemorative Air Force’s Gunfighter Mustang but with actress Stephanie Brown stepping out of the cockpit at the end, aimed at increasing the pilot population...

A Different Kind of Hybrid Aircraft from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | A father and son team have done amazing things with the Colomban MC-15 Cri-Cri, Hugues Duval, the son setting a world speed record at last year’s Paris Air Show, and Yves, the father, resurrecting a decade-old airshow act. At an airshow in Gergy-Pontoise, France this year, according to...

MiG-15 FLIGHT from TAKEOFF TUBE  | ...The MiG-15 is often mentioned along with the North American F-86 Sabre in lists of the best fighter aircraft of the Korean War and in comparison with fighters of other eras. The Planes of Fame Air Museum has a flying MiG-15 and during a recent demonstration flight we were allowed to place our cameras on this historic Russia jet...

These dramatic pictures DON’T show Syrian warplanes hit by surface to air missiles from David Cenciotti's weblog | Along with real pictures and videos of Syrian Arab Air Force planes and helicopters downed by the rebels, an increasing amount of fake footage and images has been spreading on the net, allegedly showing Assad fighters and choppers shot down by the Free Syrian Army anti-aircraft artillery fire...

Amazing video of the Spanish Air Force 43 Group flying the “Superscooper” shows why firefighting missions are a bit hazardous from David Cenciotti's weblog | The 43 Group (Grupo) is a unit of the Spanish Air Force (Ejercito del Aire) with the primary mission to collaborate in extinguishing forest fires and participate in supporting secondary missions of Search and Rescue Service (SAR) operationally dependent from the Military Emergency Unit (UME)...

How Many Generations Can You Fit Into One Flying Bathtub? (Newhouse Aeronca C-3) from
AirPigz by Martt | I stumbled across a fabulous story a little over a week ago at the Antique Airplane Association Fly-In near Blakesburg Iowa... the story of 16 year old Hayden Newhouse and his journey from Rockford Illinois to Blakesburg in a 1931 Aeronca C-3. If the story stopped there it would still be a great one. A 16 year old with both...

Video: Jetman – Spitfire formation from Apron 6

Video: Two Human-Powered Helicopter Teams Fly in One Week - Wired (blog) | The world of human-powered helicopters is getting competitive. Over the past month, twice as many of pedal-propelled machines have undergone testing compared to years' past, with a team from Canada (pictured above) joining the University of Maryland in ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour's Farewell Tour To Begin Sept. 17 - RedOrbit | Enterprise flew past the Statue of Liberty, over the Hudson River, and past a handful of landmarks en route to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City last December, and Discovery toured the monuments of Washington, DC before being sent ...