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Huerta Confirmed the FAA Administrator from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | While most of Congress' attention was focused on tax and spending questions, the U.S. Senate did complete the formal confirmation of Michael Huerta as FAA Administrator over the long New Year's weekend, ending Huerta's year-long role as acting administrator.

LiveAirSho​wTV's Top Five for 2012 - #1 Star Spangled Sailabration Baltimore - [Sorry - forgot to post this one!] | You could argue that this was not a spectacular air show event. The air show only lasted a few hours. Some might even say that working an air show into what was a celebration of a land and sea conflict was a stretch. Well, those people were not on the ground at Fort McHenry for the 2012 Star Spangled Sailabration in Baltimore to kick off the Bicentennial celebration of the War of 1812! This was our only LIVE full air show broadcast of the year...

Video: Pensioners restore rare WWII bomber - BBC News | Two pensioners from Lincolnshire have restored a rare WWII Lancaster bomber. The Panton brothers are now attempting to get the plane flying again.

Timeless Voices - John Misterly from eaavideo.org | John Misterly served as a B-29 navigator with the 444th Bomb Group during World War II. He flew combat missions from India and later Tinian and was shot down near the end of his combat tour, spending 8 days in a raft until rescue by submarine.

Grand marshal rides into sunset - Forest Lake Times | During WWII he was a flight engineer on B-17's and flew 32 missions from November, 1944 to April, 1945. Danger was constant for the 452nd Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force. The group took part in the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the ...

Women of Helicopter Aviation, Speak Out! - Helicopter Association International | If you're a woman and you work in the helicopter industry, HAI and Women in Aviation, International (WAI) need you! WAI will have a booth on the exhibit floor at HELI-EXPO 2013 in Las Vegas, March 5-7, and is looking for members to staff it. HAI and ...

Remembering the 'Ultimate Sacrifice' - Tri Parish Times | As the B-17 evolved, the number of guns increased. The B-17E, an early model, featured eight 50-caliber machine guns and one 30-caliber gun. The B-17G, produced in a higher quantity than all other models combined, had 13 50-caliber guns and could ...

'Ultimate' Paper Airplane From 'Top Gear' from AVwebFlash Current Issue | James May, known as Captain Slow on the popular Top Gear BBC program, recently shared his design for an "ultimate" paper airplane, complete with winglets and elevons, created from a sheet of standard A4 letter-size paper. "It's a sort of cross between a Vulcan bomber and a Fairey Delta, and if you do it properly, it's a good flyer," May told the RadioTimes. May, who flies his own sport aircraft, is also working on a project to build a balsa-wood glider model and fly it across the English Channel -- about 22 miles. Click through for May's illustrated instructions for the "ultimate" flying piece of paper.

Pilot Catches Thief at His Home During Fly-By - ABC News (blog) | Every time we fly in, which we do quite a bit, the approach pattern to land in LaBelle goes over our home. We always make a low altitude circle over our property. “At about 800 feet, we fly over our house. We look out and say, 'There's a truck in our ...

Pilot helps kids soar - Hi-Desert Star | ...Craig is a Yucca Valley resident and a volunteer pilot with the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program. Young Eagles was launched in 1992 to spark kids’ interest in the aviation industry, where job growth looks good. Through the program, kids between 8 and 17 years old receive a free flight from a licensed pilot in their area....

Astronauts at-risk for Alzheimer's Disease? from Spaceports | A new study shows long-term exposure to cosmic rays in space may increase the risk of Alzheimer's. The new research, published at PLOS ONE, adds to the human factor concerns that may carry impossibly high medical risks associated with cosmic radiation exposure on deep space missions.

Virgin Galactic Space Launch Expected This Year from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Virgin Galactic is on track to send a test flight into space this year, although tourist flights are not expected to start until 2014, according to recent news reports. An article in the January issue of IEEE Spectrum says Richard Branson expects to be aboard a flight into space by the end of this year. And BBC News, in a recent interview with pilot David Mackay, said Virgin's tourist flights are on track to start next year. The flights will reach higher than 350,000 feet. "The view will be fantastic," Mackay said. "And of course you'll be able to experience weightlessness." Virgin Galactic said in December that SpaceShipTwo completed its first glide while configured for powered flight.