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Blue Angels Fly Into Busy Fleet Week Activities - The San Francisco Appeal | Starting Friday at 12:30 p.m., the team will be part of an air show that continues throughout the weekend on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and Sunday at noon with a full Fleet Week air show featuring the squadron's engines roaring at 3 p.m. on both weekend days...

The Augusta National of Aviation: Triple Tree Aerodrome Fly-In from General Aviation News by Kent | MisegadesWhile the creators of the Triple Tree Aerodrome near Woodruff, S.C., refer to this golf course-like airfield as the "Augusta National of Aviation," pilots who attended the sixth annual event in early September compare it to the early Experimental Aircraft Association's annual conventions in Rockford, Ill...

16th Annual Little Egypt Fly-In at Mount Vernon Airport October 20 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

 Video: Mosquito and three fighters in formation from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon

Flying with the Professor from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | For the past six years, we have been immersed in a sea of stories of Canada's greatest aviators – the bomber, fighter, transport and training pilots, crews and maintainers of the Second World War. They represent all that is great about the world of aviation and Canada in particular – professionalism, creativity, sacrifice, achievement, and passion for flight. We hold them up as exemplars of the greatest values we aspire to – dignity, kindness, duty, honour and sacrifice. They lead us today, nearly seventy years after they wrote history across the skies both here in Canada and overseas. Surrounded by the golden glow of Canada's heroic aviators, I sometimes fail to realize that Canada still produces some of the finest aviation professionals anywhere on the planet. Recently...

Dragon Wreckage Found from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A meticulously restored and rare 1934 De Havilland DH84 Dragon with six aboard went missing Monday northwest of Brisbane, Australia, and its wreckage was found Wednesday in bushland near Mount Kandanga, with no survivors. Weather conditions at the time of the aircraft's afternoon flight, Monday, included low-level clouds. The restored aircraft was not equipped for instrument flight and two hours into the fatal flight, the...

Exciting BHM Aero Club Scholarship Charity Fundraiser from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- To award even more aviation scholarships, the Birmingham Aero Club is offering an exciting Charity Fundraiser. Your best offer could get you a terrific Football Ticket Package with Roundtrip Airfare for two to see Miami Dolphins vs Tennessee Titans game at the Club Level 50 yard line on November 11, 2012...

Impressive Aviation Photos from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt

Space Shuttle Carrier Pilot from AVwebFlash Current Issue | AVweb spoke this week with NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) pilot Bill Brockett about his experience transporting Space Shuttles atop NASA's modified Boeing 747, from flight characteristics to emergency procedures. Brockett said NASA's SCA climbs at about 800 fpm with a Shuttle strapped to its back and the aircraft's handling is different in a number of respects. Takeoff distances can exceed 11,000 feet. The fixed...

55-Years Ago: Sputnik Changed the World from Spaceports | Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Cпутник-1") was the first artificial Earth satellite launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957 by the then-Soviet Union. The first satellite has changed the world through telecommunications, weather prediction, remote sensing, global navigation, near-instant military reconnaissance and the exploration of the planets in the solar system.