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Airport's Fly-In/Drive-In this weekend - Leavenworth Times | The Fly-In is for local pilots and car enthusiasts alike. There will be car judging for the car show and trophy's for the winners in each class. Aviation gasoline will be discounted 50 cents for the event, making Augusta's fuel the cheapest in the region...

2012 Sea & Sky Spectacular - Florida Times-Union | F/A-18C Hornets assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, fly in formation over packed beaches in Jacksonville, Florida during the 2012 Sea & Sky Spectacular. This free event will feature a dynamic over-the-ocean sky ...

Organizer calls inaugural Paulding air show 'phenomenal' - NeighborNewspapers.com | “This was our gift to do something uniquely special for our air show,” said the pilot, “showing the history of military aviation.” The formation's first pass was dedicated to Paulding County Airport Authority Chairman Calvin Thompson, who is struggling ...

Tour vintage warplanes at the Greenville Downtown Airport - Spartanburg Herald Journal | Tour vintage warplanes at the Greenville Downtown Airport. People look over a B-17 bomber on Oct. 22 at Asheville Regional Airport. The "Wings of Freedom Tour" will make a stop at the Greenville Downtown Airport on Friday, Oct. 26 through Sunday...

Memphis Belle to take to the Jacksonville skies next week - First Coast News | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If you look to the Jacksonville skies November 3 and 4 and see a WWII B-17 Flying Fortress it isn't a figment of your imagination. The movie "Memphis Belle," a restored B-17 will be on the First Coast as part of its first national ...

Heritage Flight Flyover To Kick Off The Start Of The 2012 Formula 1 Us Grand Prix - PaddockTalk | The modern-day aircraft flying in the Heritage Flight will be the F-16 Fighting Falcon. A highly maneuverable, compact, multi-role fighter that is proven in air-to-air combat and air-to-surface attack. In an air-to-surface role, the F-16 can fly more ...

Texas Chapter 2012 Fly-In Winners from Antique Airfield News | Here are the award winners from the 2012 Texas Chapter Fly-In that occurred last weekend in Gainesville, TX...

Skagit Aero's Blog: Pietenpol Sky Scout Progress from Antique Airfield News | ...Our Pietenpol Sky Scout has been a background project for a few years now, but has received some regular attention the past few months. We’ve made some progress with the landing gear including acquiring some new covers for the spoke wheels. We have some new springs on the way and once we get the tires installed and the tail skid, we will have to check the airplane on the ground to make sure the gear provides the proper attitude...

Meet the young ringleaders - Marketing Week | A flypast by the Red Arrows, young men dressed as World War Two fighter pilots jumping into the cockpit of Spitfires and a frighteningly modern F-16 fighter jet are all part of the excitement at a local air show - one of the most popular family leisure ...

Dubai Helicopter Show to take place 0n 6-8 November - Arabian Aerospace | Dubai Helicopter Show 2012 will play host to global giants in the helicopter industry under the show's military, homeland security, civil defense, air medical and rescue sectors...

Pelton: EAA Will Keep On Course from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The departure of Rod Hightower on Monday from the helm of EAA doesn't signal any major change in the direction of the organization, chairman of the board Jack Pelton told AVweb on Wednesday. "This all happened kind of quickly and unexpectedly," Pelton said. "We're still focused on our core mission, which is supporting our EAA membership, volunteers, and employees." He said he will be overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organization, and no timeline has been set for finding Hightower's replacement. "Transitions are never easy," he said. "My real goal here is to keep everybody on the track that we've been on… and get the day-to-day stuff done while we focus on getting to an air show in July."

Daughter’s Book on Transport Pilot’s WWII Experience Earns Author the 10th Annual Combs Gates Award - NAHF | Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinees will present $20,000 prize to Regina Wirtanen Buker at NBAA Convention on October 31 (Dayton, OH – October 24, 2012)  The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) today announced the recipient of its 10th Annual Combs Gates Award will be first-time author, Regina Wirtanen Buker, of Baltimore, Maryland.  Buker is [...]

Timeless Voices - Gaillard Peck, Jr. from eaavideo.org | Gaillard Peck served as a USAF fighter pilot from 1962 to 1988. He flew combat missions in F-4s with the 433rd TFS during the Vietnam War and later became the co-founder of the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, flying and training in Soviet MiGs.

Able Flight calls on pilots to participate in ‘#Giving Tuesday’ from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Everyone knows about Black Friday, that frenzied national day of shopping the day after Thanksgiving. Now there's an alternative: It's "#GivingTuesday", the first-ever national day of giving, slated for Tuesday, Nov. 27. To fund a new flight scholarship for people with disabilities, Able Flight is asking 400 pilots (or family and friends of pilots) to donate $25 each. As of now, the organization is approaching 70 pledges, and needs 330 more to reach its goal...

Skydive Team 2012 - Wolfgang Swoopstyle from Aerial Sports Feed | Red Bull Sky Dive Team have been having fun at the Wolfgangsee lake in Austria...

The Lockheed Martin X-55 Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft by themavf14d | You may look at the LM X-55 and think ho-hum and say, “It looks just like a Fairchild Dornier 328JET.” It certainly does and is, in fact, based on that design. The X-55 certainly lacks the implied glamour of an exotic configuration like the X-3 or X-29 experimental airplanes. Don’t let that fool you. Despite the yeoman-like appearance the X-55...

VIDEO: Antonov An-24 uses all its skills on extreme takeoff from Flight International by Stuart Clarke | This video shows a spectacular takeoff of a UTair Antonov An-24, from what can only be described as a testing landscape.

Here is why U.S. Air Force real Flying Saucer never did make it to operational service from David Cenciotti's weblog | Even if newly declassified documents concerning the U.S. flying saucer projects already made the news when they were released by the U.S. National Archives on Oct. 8, new details about round experimental aircraft were recently published by the U.S. Air Force. Information about these Government’s UFOs were available for several years but diagrams included in the most recently disclosed documents relighted general interest in such weird flying machines whose prototypes can be found on display at the National U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and at U.S. Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia...

Austrian announces 'retirement' after jumping from the stratosphere from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | Felix Baumgartner reached speeds of 373 m / s at 39 km jump. | The Austrian Felix Baumgartner, the only paratrooper who managed to break the sound barrier in free fall, announced on Tuesday (23) that is abandoning the extreme sports. "I officially chamber," he said during a meeting with the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who talked about the jump, on October 14, a record high of more than 39,000 meters in the sky of New Mexico ( USA). Ban told Baumgartner that watched the jump live, as millions of people on television, and called the "bravest man in the world."...