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Aviation Nation 2012 returns Nov. 10-11 - Inside Nellis AFB | ...Aviation Nation celebrates 71 years of airpower in Las Vegas and the Air Force's accomplishments in air, space and cyberspace. Several military air demonstration teams, including the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Thunderbirds, will perform with other military and civilian acts...

Wounded Warriors, Aviation Nation part of veterans events - MyNews3 | Stephen Waller said looming defense cuts could ground the event. “It would be great for folks to come out and see this event this weekend because it is possible that with further cuts that we may not have an airshow next year or in the coming years ...

South Florida Seaplane Splash-In this Sunday from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Organizers of the South Florida Seaplane Splash-In, which will be held this Sunday, Nov. 11, at Lake Jackson in Sebring, Florida, say the weather reports show it will be a perfect day for the splash-in...

U.S. Sport Aviation 2013 from Airplanes Channel: Aircraft, Pilots, Heritage, Photos, Video, Events, News by Editor | This popular aviation expo is the place to keep up to date with the latest trends in Light Sport Aircraft. Exhibits showcase a wide range of aircraft operating under LSA rules, including...

China Airshow To Feature Acrobatic Team - Gadling | Airshow China 2012 is scheduled to run from November 13 to 18 and will feature over 600 exhibitors from 39 countries. Promising to be bigger and better this year, the show hopes to become more recognized by the international aviation and aerospace ...

WWII B-17 'Memphis Belle' bomber to fly over Pensacola Beach - Gulf Breeze News | A restored WWII B-17 bomber from the movie “Memphis Belle” will A restored WWII B-17 bomber from the movie “Memphis Belle” will be flying over Pensacola and Pensacola Beach Nov. 12 and 17. A restored WWII B-17 “flying fortress” bomber ...

Tuskegee Airman shares his story with today's Airmen - DVIDS | He flew the P-40 "Warhawk" and the P-47 "Thunderbolt" fighter-type aircraft, and co-piloted in a B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, a C-47 "Gooney-bird", and a C-45 "Expediter cargo planes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Ashlee Galloway). JOINT BASE ...

Maurice Albert Glassy - Mail Tribune | He served in WWII as a radioman on a B-17 Bomber and was shot down over Poland. He and his fellow crewman were picked up by Russians and spent months traveling back to their outfit in Italy. Later, he was wounded in action and was awarded the Purple ...

George Wood 1927-1978 from Test & Research Pilots, Flight Test Engineers by the_tartanterror | George Wood was born in 1927 and educated at Manchester Grammar school. He joined the Royal Air Force as a Flight Navigator in Bomber Command, serving on a B-29 Washington Squadron. After leaving the RAF he joined British United Airways...

The Junkers EF 61 pressurised high-altitude bomber prototype,... from x planes

A passion for planes - Cranston Herald | Thomas G. (“Tommy the Cork”) Corcoran (1900-1981) is relatively unknown today, but this Rhode Islander played a pivotal role in forming the American Volunteer Group, better known as the Flying Tigers in World War II. Political historians remember him ...

Golden Age Race Winner with a Fine Irish Name from InFlightUSA by Alan Smith | Benny Howard’s Mister Mulligan, 1935 winner of both Bendix amd Thompson trophies. (San Diego Air and Space Museum)As air racing’s Golden Age of the 1930s went on, the design of new racers continued to lead advancement in both military and civil aviation. In 1935, Benny Howard’s high wing monoplane Mister Mulligan was a classic example of this. With Gordon Israel as co-pilot, Howard won...

Flying into history - WWLP 22News | "I joined the Reserves not knowing that I would ever be able to be a Thunderbird one day, but the opportunity presented itself to me about a year and a half ago and I'm really proud to be here," she said. Jenson is what they call "Thunderbird 3." She ...

Amelia Earhart Memorial: Help Bring the Lockheed Electra 10E to The Museum of Flight from InFlightUSA by Herb Foreman Amelia Earhart in front of her Electra 10-E.Recently, my friend Carol Osborne, as aircraft historian and author of a book regarding Amelia Earhart and her quest to be the first woman to circumnavigate the Earth called and asked me to become involved in a campaign to secure a Lockheed 10E similar to the...

IWASM Receives $100,000 Gift from Dorothy E. Ebersbach Revocable Trust from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ... Dorothy became one of the fewer than 1,100 out of 25,000 candidate female aviators to fly with the program. The WASP's were stationed stateside and served the United States by ferrying planes, towing targets and much more. In 2010, Dorothy was one of the 300 surviving members of the WASP program to receive the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the nation's highest civilian award, for her service during WWII....

Timmins pilot honoured among 'Outstanding women in aviation' from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...The Timmins resident, who has been a pilot for more than 30 years, received another nod from the world of aviation when she received an Elsie MacGill award from the Northern Lights Award Foundation, a not-for-profit group with a mission to recognize outstanding women in aviation and aerospace...

Women take flight at Air Museum - Reminder Newspapers | Less than 100 years ago, a girl's dream to fly an airplane or make it to outer space seemed far-fetched and unrealistic, but pioneers like Amelia Earhart, who made a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean, and Sally Ride, who went into space on the ...

Timeless Voices - Chip Yates from eaavideo.org | Chip Yates is an electric vehicle pioneer who holds the world speed records for fastest electric motorcycle (190.6 mph) and fastest electric airplane (202.6 mph). He is now working on making the first transatlantic flight in an electric airplane.

Spartans fly in military cargo plane at Ramstein Air Base in Germany - Detroit Free Press | RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- Some were drifting asleep, some chatting and some sitting in nervous silence -- until a loud screeching sound in the massive C-130 cargo plane made Derrick Nix jump and everyone else laugh. It was an eventful afternoon ...

"Boom!" UCAP #307 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | (This episode was delayed by the expedited posting of #308's interview with Jack Pelton.) Fearless Felix's big jump... preparing for past accidents vs. future ones...

King Schools set to release international flying course from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | John and Martha King report that King Schools is preparing to release its 24th course targeting the needs of turbine-powered, professional and owner-flown operators flying internationally....

Intrepid Out of Commission from Sandy, Shuttle Sustains “Minor Damage” - Bowery Boogie | Four years after undergoing an extensive renovation in Bayonne, New Jersey, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has sustained a mechanical setback. All thanks to the rising waters from Hurricane Sandy. Pier 86 was completely flooded by the Hudson ...