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Dayton commemorates Wright brothers' flight anniversary - morningjournal.com - The Morning Journal | Amanda Lane Wright, a great grandniece of the Wright brothers, and Col. Cassie Barlow, Wright-Patterson 88th Air Base Wing commander, will participate in the wreath laying. A World War II-era B-25 Mitchell bomber is expected to perform a fly over.

Thanks Orville, Thanks Wilbur! from WAI Connect Blog by Pat | It's Wright Brothers Day in the United States today, a commemoration of that first flight back on...

Top 10 Airshow Moments of 2012: No.1 The RoKAF Black Eagles at the RAF Waddington International Airshow from Flightline UK | The Republic of Korea Air Force’s Black Eagles appearances at the RAF Waddington International Airshow and the Royal International Air Tattoo in July were the undoubted highlights of the 2012 season. Not only was a brand new display item for UK skies from a part of the world not normally represented at European Airshows. For your author, it was th team’s appearance at Waddington that remains their most memorable; not only did Waddington mark the debut public display by the team, but also saw them appear alongside two of Europe’s best display teams...

Top 10 Airshow Moments of 2012: No.2 – The Albatros DVa and RAF RE8 Reproductions from Flightline UK | One of the biggest surprises of the 2012 season was the appearances at Duxford and Old Warden of the RAF RE8a and Albatros DVa reproductions from New Zealand based The Vintage Aviator Ltd. The aircraft had been built for display at the RAF Museum, Hendon along with a non-airworthy example of the Sopwith Snipe from parts in store by the museum....

Editing, Editing, Editing . . . - Acro Camp - Acro Camp by Stephen Tupper | I understand that logging and storyboarding and lots of the grunt work of post take up 95% of the post-production time. At some point, everything is supposed to begin to just land in place and the last 5% occurs in a flurry of...

Cool video lets you join a C-130 plane on a Christmas Drop mission to airdrop aid to remote islands in Micronesia from David Cenciotti's weblog

Merry Christmas - Blue Thunder II crew report | The most important message for this report is to wish all of the partners, friends and fans of the Blue Thunder Air Racing Team a Happy Hanukkah, Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

CoolPix: Gee Bee R-1 After Winning 1932 Thompson Trophy (+ Desktop Pix & Delmar Video)
from AirPigz by Martt | I'm convinced I should have been born in 1909... that would have made me 23 in 1932, a perfect age to be wowed by Jimmy Doolittle winning the Thompson Trophy race (closed course, 10 laps) in the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio. You might not agree, but I think there is something incredibly magical about airplanes made of steel tube and fabric, and powered by loud awesome-sounding radial engines that bleed a lot of oil. Wow, this is real air racing!...

Godspeed Chris Hadfield from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | Former Royal Canadian Air Cadet gliding student delivers message to Vintage Wings of Canada members and volunteers on eve of launch en route to Command of the International Space Station. Title image: Photoshop-manipulated photo from NASA/Victor Zelentsov On the afternoon of December 19th, 2012, Chris Hadfield, member of the Board of Directors of Vintage Wings of Canada, and one of its senior Squadron Leader Fern Villeneuve Hawk One F-86 Sabre pilots, will lift off the vast, sparse and wind-swept Kazakh steppe, bound for a half-year long journey of discovery aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Despite a grueling schedule of...

Wounded warrior rolls with the punches - Arkansas Online | PHOTO BY: Rusty Hubbard. Olen Grant of Hot Springs was a waist gunner on a B-17 during World War II and was shot down and held in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He is one of the leading characters in a new book about the crew of the plane and their ...

Man flew some of Merrill’s Marauders to safety from War Tales by Don Moore | It wasn’t the brightest move on his part, former Sgt. Pete Chisholm admitted more than 60 years later in the comfort of his Southwest Fla. apartment. “I volunteered to help some of Merrill’s Marauders out. At the time I was an engineer on a C-47 (twin-engine transport) flying out of Dum-Dum Air Base just outside [...]

Rare bird recalls wartime flights - Stuff.co.nz | It was sold and fitted out as a passenger and freight plane in 1953, later being used in a movie about the MacRobertson Air Race. The Reids began shipping it in pieces to New Zealand in 2002. Mr Orphan said it was a dream come true to see an Anson in ...

Duo soar into aviation history - Vernon Morning Star | Randy Rauck, co-owner of eUP Aviation, successfully flew Canada's first battery-powered electric aircraft, the Green1, at the Pitt Meadows Airport Saturday. “This a very exciting day in Canadian aviation history,” said John McClintock, a co-owner ...

Video: FK's Comet Biplane from AVwebFlash Current Issue  | FK Lightplanes has significant presence in Europe but almost none in the U.S. They'd like to change that with a sporty little aerobatic biplane called the FK-12 Comet. Right now, it's got a Rotax 912, but it will soon have a fully aerobatic Lycoming AEIO-233, making it one of only a couple of light sports approved for aerobatics and the only biplane. AVweb recently took a spin in the Comet with Hansen Air Group's Mitch Hansen. Here's a video report.

It's in black and white because it's old from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Top snapping from Demetrius Vanspranghe, one of the photographers shortlisted for Flight International's front-cover contest, who took this classy shot of a Junkers Ju52/3m at Brussels Air Museum in Belgium.

“Flying Pancake” — Vought’s V-173 from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | “Flying Pancake” — Vought’s V-173 Vought’s engineers arrived at an innovative design breakthrough toward a low speed highly maneuverable propeller driven fighter by greatly reducing highly drag inducing wingtip vortices. Placing the propellers outboard and rotating them in the opposite direction of the vortices would tend to eradicate this drag as well as reduce the additional wingspan normally required [...]

Greenwood Military Aviation Museum latest addition Avro Anson MkII from Aviation.ca News by Malcolm Uhlman and Dave Saunlier | The Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (GMAM) has a new addition to its AirPark, an Avro Anson 7135 MkII. This aircraft is of special significance as it is one of 340 such aircraft manufactured locally in Amherst, Nova Scotia by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company as part of Canada’s contribution to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).

Escape from The Aviator Victor Bruno Ménard Baverel from Passion for aviation by Xavier Cotton 

Glider Rating – Part 2 – Audio Episode Show Notes from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | These are the show notes to an audio episode. You can listen to the show audio by clicking here. Better yet, subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your other favorite podcatcher. It’s all free! This is the second part of a two-part series covering my glider rating. To bring you up to speed, in [...]

Day 48 - December 15, 2012 from TeenFlight! by TeenFlight Crew | Airway Science for Kids held a fundraiser-open house at the TeenFlight hangar this week during the latter half of our work day. Lots of benefactors, donors, parents, and previous mentors showed up to support the program.