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Santa One cleared for flight from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | NORTH POLE – The FAA has announced that Santa One, the reindeer-powered sleigh Santa Claus uses to deliver presents to good children around the world, has been cleared for its worldwide Christmas Eve flight. Santa One will be faster, quieter and more efficient this year with the help of NextGen technologies, FAA officials said...
Holiday vacation fun at New England Air Museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood |The New England Air Museum will hold family fun activities Dec. 26-30. Daily activities include demonstrations about the science of flight, and the Museum’s Flight Sim Spot will be open each of these days between 12pm and 4pm. Flight Sim Spot allows visitors to use state-of-the-art simulators to virtually fly any aircraft using real cockpit controls. Additional activities are scheduled for the following days:..
A Christmas Message - 2012 from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe by The GYROX Team | As another year comes to a close and we enter the holiday season, Norman has sent us special seasons greeting which includes the first part of a recap of what 2012 held for him during his long stay in Japan whilst waiting for the permission (that sadly never arrived) to continue the circumnavigation. Always upbeat, here in his own words is Norman's Christmas greeting...
Aviation enthusiasts show off last aircraft models in Chennai - Newstrack India | Models require many hours of fine tuning. Competitive flyers are judged on aerobatic skills and the accuracy of their models. For true enthusiasts, the ultimate aim is to recreate the performance of a real jet aircraft,
although hardly any are pilots ...25 way canopy formation during the medal ceremony over Skydive... from Bonjour BlueSky
Airshow 2013 Information Available from Planes Of Fame News | Go to the Events link on the Planes of Fame home page to get preliminary Airshow 2013 information, May 4-5, 2013.
Duxford Air shows 2013 are announced - Haverhill Echo | IWM Duxford has announced its air show season for 2013. The Spring Air Show on Sunday, May 26 is named: Remembering the Mighty Eighth, which brings together contemporary and historic aircraft for a day of flying. This year, the Spring Air Show ...
Season Review 2012 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | On the whole, 2012 really was a year to remember in so many ways. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic and Paralympic Games really made for a very special year in the UK bringing an amazing feel good factor across the country. Airshow wise, it was such a memorable season with all the major shows of the year pulling in some unique and enjoyable highlights.
Video: Early Christmas Gift from Slick - Don't Stop The Aviation: GoPro 2012 from AirPigz by Martt | ...He's titled it Don't Stop the Aviation: GoPro 2012. Before I say anything else, when you start the video don't get confused thinking it's a swanky Audi commercial or a Top Gear segment, that's all part of the video... you know, the trip to the airport part! Just sit back and enjoy 6 minutes and 22 seconds of three very different airplanes that all just drip the AirPigz tag line: LOVE TO FLY....
A Higher Call: History with a Purpose - the Diplomat | Just before Christmas time in 1943, he had a chance to bring down a crippled straggler from a massive B-17 raid against his homeland. Stigler passed up the chance. His forbearance stemmed from a code of honor that forbade attacking helpless enemies.
Former POW from Wexford copes with new yule challenge as wife battles cancer - Tribune-Review | A B-17 tail gunner, Utz became a prisoner of war when he parachuted into a field of waiting Germans who had shot down his plane. “I was scared to death. We were going 190 mph … and my (escape) door stuck. That's when I had a talk with God. I said, 'I ...
Body of US WWII airman sent back home 66 years after his Flying Fortress was ... - Daily Mail | Radio operator Zoltan Dobovich was one of eight allied soldiers killed when their B-17 Flying Fortress crashed on November 1, 1946, on its way from Italy to England, according to information from the POW/MIA Awareness Committee of New Jersey.
Class American Aircraft — art at 32¢ per stamp from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Class American Aircraft — art at 32¢ per stamp I ran across this sheet of stamps recently while re-organizing my things. Somehow this sheet of stamps have survived since I purchased them in 1996 and they look marvelous, do they not? The upper image is the front of the sheet and the lower image id of [...]
Skyhawks from Apron 6 | The Canadian parachute team, The Skyhawks, gave a great show at Sanicole Airshow. The all access badge gave me the opportunity to photograph them after the landing, resulting in some nice images. They also gave a salute once they had landed, also giving a nice photo opportunity.
China’s new military transport plane exposed. And it looks like a C-17, An-70, A400M hybrid. from David Cenciotti's weblog | Posted by Alert5 today, the following image shows the first photographs of China’s new four-engine military airlifter...
How a badly damaged C-17 Globemaster was saved and flown back from Afghanistan from David Cenciotti's weblog | On Jan. 23, 2012 a C-17A Globemaster III was involved in a landing incident at Forward Operating Base Shank, in Afghanistan during a combat airlift mission in support to Operation Enguring Freedom.
Air Zoo blasts off with holiday rocket clinics from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Air Zoo is offering Holiday Rocket Clinics filled with hands-on
science experiences for kids on Dec. 27, Dec. 28, Jan. 3 and Jan. 4.Best of 2012: Red Bull Stratos - Felix's Mission to the Edge of Space from Aerial Sports Feed | Redbull.com has been busy arranging some of the most exciting happenings of 2012 into a list of the best and for our year-ending review there really is only one place to start...
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