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Hightower Resigns as EAA President/CEO from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The Board of Directors accepted the resignation of President and CEO Rod Hightower today. Hightower will be returning to St. Louis to reunite with his family.
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Blue Angels to perform in homecoming show - WALA-TV FOX10 | (WALA) - The Blue Angels will close their 2012 season with their annual Homecoming Air Show aboard the Pensacola Naval Air Station on Nov. 2-3. FOX10 News will have exclusive coverage of the show, which will include aerial acrobatics and stunts by a ...

Flying High for STEM Learning with the Blue Angels - Technapex | What does the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels have in common with the movement surrounding education technology? The comparison certainly isn't immediately apparent, is it? UC Berkeley Professor of Astronomy Alex ...

U.S. Air Force Thunderbird Pilots Fly WWII P-51 Mustang Fighter in Formation ... - Sacramento Bee | NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ --World-class aviators, including U.S. Air Force Thunderbird fighter pilots, commanded a legendary WWII P-51 Mustang and four Cessna Citation Mustangs to fly in formation over New York Harbor on October 20th ...

U.S., ROK showcase skills during 2012 Air Power Day from Air Force Link Top Stories | Osan Air Base hosted 65,000 visitors to reinforce the enduring partnership between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea during an Air Power Day celebration held Oct. 20 and 21.  More than 22 Pacific Air Forces aircraft were on display while the ROK's premiere demonstration team, the Black Eagles, took to the skies to demonstrate their combat flying capabilities in eight T-50 training aircraft....

Texas Chapter 2012 Fall Festival of Flight Fly-In from Antique Airfield News | “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” -Mark Twain. | Weather is certainly what happened in regards to this year’s 50th Annual Texas AAA Chapter Fly-in. North of the Red River an area of low ceilings and heavy rains extended across Kansas & Oklahoma keeping all those planning to fly on the ground. In Gainesville, the site for the fly-in, high winds and a forecast of severe weather late in the day Saturday kept most from bringing their airplanes out....

6th Annual Page Fly-In Wraps Up (SEE PHOTOS!) - lakepowelllife | The sixth annual Page Fly-In has just wrapped up in the best 'dam city' in the West. Approximately 45 pilots flying light sport aircraft flew into Page on Thursday and departed Sunday. The group stayed at the Page Best Western Motel and used Page as a ...

Air show top shots win News-Journal reader photo contest - Daytona Beach News-Journal | DAYTONA BEACH -- More than 800 air show fans at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Wings and Waves event submitted hundreds of photos from the Oct. 13-14 event. The News-Journal posted all the photos at News-JournalOnline.com and our ...

Eclipse Fly-In held from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | BRANSON, MISSOURI – Forty-three Eclipse Jets recently landed at the Branson Airport for the Eclipse Owners Club Fall Fly-In. Pilots and enthusiasts alike came from all over the United States to take part in the annual fly in that allows pilots to visit with vendors and fellow owners to discuss the Eclipse Twin-Engine Jet

Mississippi pilot wins Cleveland Air Race - Your Houston News | Early morning weather stalled, but did not stop, the Cleveland Air Race on Saturday, Oct. 13, at Cleveland Municipal Airport on FM 787 in Cleveland, Texas. Pilots competed to see who could travel the 153-mile course the quickest. In the end, the winner ...

Vets revisit World War II bombers at airport - BlueRidgeNow.com | The B-24 and a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers will be on display through Thursday at the airport. A P-51C Mustang may also be available for tours pending mechanical repairs. The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour is in its 23rd year and ...

World War II B-24, B-17 Will Be In Greenville, SC from Aero-News Network  | P-51 Unable To Make The Trip Due To Mechanical Difficulties On Friday, October 26th, the “Wings of Freedom Tour” will land at the Greenville Downtown Airport in South Carolina and be on hand at the airport through Sunday, October 28th. This is a rare opportunity to visit, explore, and learn more about these unique and rare treasures of our aviation history.

Oldest Battle of Britain pilot dies at 99 - AZFamily | The Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford gets underway tomorrow and is the world's largest military airshow with over 250 aircraft from many countries across the world. The air show supports the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust and is staffed ...

Ernie's wartime 'snaps' Middle east selection from stickandrudderWTO by G-GARY other links | The very talented Mr Mick Coombes very kindly 'scanned' and put on to disc for me these photos which came from an old Wallet belonging to my late step-father-in-law Ernie Whitley, who was a 'Staffordshire' lad, who during the world war two, found himself with others and alot of 'angry men' serving in the British North Africa ' campaign. Not a nice place to be, all that sand and those 'flies' and always coming across the 'fallen' from the German side, see shot of German Tiger ? and fallen which Ernie came across. It shows very 'graphic', just how brutal war is and at times. There's nothing...

3 Reasons Why I Should Be The New EAA President (And 3 Why It'll Never Happen) - Plus Logo Poll from AirPigz by Martt | The news yesterday afternoon that the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Board of Directors had accepted President and CEO Rod Hightower's resignation came as a complete surprise. Interestingly, reading other avgeek facebook posts about the resignation and the comments left on the EAA's website post of the news, many people see this as a good and important step in the right direction for the organization. I would agree, to an extent. My biggest concern is that this continued sign of instability within the EAA (which in the short term seems to have been around for the last three years or so, and in the long term has been around about 25 years) might eventually lead to a real collapse of the organization. While I believe the EAA has many faults, I'm convinced that...

Valley hosting museum experts - The Desert Sun | At the Palm Springs Air Museum, valuable archival materials — World War II flight logs and other historical documents — are stored in fire- and waterproof containers, said Fred Bell, vice chairman of the museum board. “They're in field containers ...

Visit the Aerospace Museum of California from Airplanes Channel: Aircraft, Pilots, Heritage, Photos, Video, Events, News by Editor | Located on the former McClellan Air Force Base in North Highlands, the Aerospace Museum of California features an impressive collection of authentic civilian and military aircraft, along with replicas of space vehicles, thereby preserving the history of the base (which closed in 2001) and neighboring bases such as the non-operational Mather Air Force Base and the still active Beale Air Force Base east of Marysville. Many of the aircraft on display are on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation and the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

Deployed maintainers keep the 'Herc' fit to fight from Air Force Link Top Stories | Every day, thousands of coalition service members operating in Afghanistan rely on the C-130 Hercules to enable their operations; to meet this requirement, the men and women who operate this venerable tactical airlift workhorse rely on a team of maintainers who keep the "Hercs" ready to fly.

Aviation spreads its wings from General Aviation News by Dennis Parks | Among the many things taken for granted today is long-distance travel by jet airliners. So common is long-distance air travel that there have even been around-the-world races for general aviation aircraft. One forgets that regularly scheduled intercontinental commercial air travel only came into being after World War II. The roots of long-distance flight lie in the five years after the First World War. In the early post-war period, aviation spread its wings in ever greater long-distance flights, culminating in the first round-the-world flight in 1924.

Pearson soars over aerial hurdle - Ninemsn | Olympic hurdling champion Sally Pearson has swapped her running kit for a flight suit, taking to the skies with the Royal Australian Air Force's formation aerobatic display team. The 'Roulettes' took Pearson on an aerial tour of Phillip Island with a ...

Young Eagles Flight Rally set for Oct. 27 - TCPalm | Area young people, ages 8 to 17, will have a chance to take to the skies on Oct. 27, as Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 908 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at St. Lucie County Airport, Fort Pierce. Following the flight, each young person ...

Young and old spent day flying the friendly skies - Vinton Courier | The weather was perfect for the annual Leaf Peep/Young Eagles Day Sunday at the Vinton County Airport. The event provided children of all ages the opportunity to take an aerial tour of the Vinton County countryside. According to the Vinton County ...

Video: Felix Baumgartner (Red Bull Stratos) On NBC Today Show 10-22-12 from AirPigz by Martt |  While this interview is clearly from a non-aviation perspective, it is done without any crazy questions or glaring errors like when MSNBC reported that Felix actually went faster than the speed of LIGHT. Mostly it's a chance to see Felix as Felix and to hear him talk a little about the spin he encountered in freefall, along with some great footage from the balloon ride and the amazing spacedive...

Falling star | Profile of record-breaker Felix Baumgartner from Aerial Sports Feed | Find out more about the man who broke the sound barrier during Red Bull Stratos' mission to the edge of space - BASE jumper and skydiver Felix Baumgartner. The Austrian flew to an altitude of...

NASA astronaut to rocket to space station - UPI.com | BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The International Space Station is on the verge of paying scientific dividends, U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford said before Tuesday's liftoff to the space laboratory. "We're going to learn the bulk of everything we know ...

Aerial footage of Endeavour's flight over Los Angeles from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by Steve | This is too awesome not to share. Any aviation or space enthusiast should appreciate the unique perspective. One of two F-18s escorting the SCA captured some incredible footage of the Pacific coast, Los Angeles, and LAX prior to landing last week....