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EAA confirms Jetman negotiations from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski has confirmed that negotiations are in progress to have Yves Rossy, the Swiss pilot who flies with a wing on his back and a prayer in his brain, perform during EAA AirVenture 2013. His only flight controls are, like Superman, his body and a throttle for his jet engines. By adjusting his legs and moving his arms, he can perform a loop when and where he likes. He has flown in formation with a Douglas DC-3....

Blue Angels jet in Seattle for air show meeting - Q13 FOX | blue angels SEATTLE – The roar of the U.S. Navy Blue Angles is a familiar part of summer, but it may be heard in the skies over Seattle Wednesday afternoon. Blues Jet #7 is scheduled to land at Clay Lacy Aviation, near Boeing Field at 12:30 p.m. for...

The fight against the "Ass"  - Kleine Zeitung  | At 12.30 clock shows Hannes Arch, world champion Red Bull Air Race, at an airshow daring feats. At the presentation ceremony at the valley station of the Millennium Express heats the rock band "power chord" on....

SAAF Museum 2013 airshow to be bigger and better than ever - defenceWeb | The South African Air Force (SAAF) Museum's annual airshow promises to be better than ever before, with two major drivers encouraging Museum personnel to make the 2013 edition a special one. In the first place the museum at Air Force Base (AFB) ...

Air Force Day parade postponed - defenceWeb | ... the venerable C47TPs and C-130BZ maritime and transport aircraft as well as Agusta A109, Oryx and Rooivalk helicopters. The Silver Falcons aerobatic display team also contributed to an impressive display of air power during past Air Force Day parades.

Pilot spreads his wings for new challenge - The Dominion Post | On his return, he became a flying instructor and was selected to enjoy the thrills of flying two seasons with the Red Checkers aerobatic display team. Mr Beetham leaves the force after 14 years' service. He said it was good to be home in Hawke's Bay ...

Air Force Academy parachute team wins 46 medals at national competition from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Wings of Blue Air Force Parachute Team won 46 medals and set five national collegiate records at the National Collegiate Parachute Competition here Jan. 2.

Flying Musicians at Sebring LSA Expo from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Flying Musicians Association is gearing up for the first aviation event of 2012, the Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, held in Sebring, Fla., Jan. 17-20.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: The Goodyear Blimp from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | What is a sporting event (or in this case an aero-sport extravaganza) without the eye in the sky Goodyear Blimp? Not to worry - the "Spirit of Goodyear" GZ-20A was over the field for a few days, giving rides to a select few winners of the sweepstakes held during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. The "Spirit of Goodyear" is named in...

Getting women to soar to new heights - literally - Prince George Free Press | In the meantime, she hopes to interest other women in becoming air pilots, so she's starting up a local chapter of Women in Aviation International (WAI). Despite the name, the club welcomes male members although women are the prime focus, Somers says.

Respect for the seldom celebrated man from General Aviation News by Jamie Beckett | The odds are good you’ve never heard of Lon Cooper. There’s no reason you would have, really. But you should have. We all should have. At least we should have if life is fair, which it is not.  So working on the theory that being late is better than nothing, allow me to make the introductions...

Bradenton Post 24 commander to be memorialized Friday - Bradenton Herald | The public is invited to tour the restored aircraft and even take to the skies in an ultimate 30-minute flight experience aboard the B-17 "Flying Fortress" or B-24 Liberator, or get some "stick time" in the world's only dual-control P-51C Mustang ...

'Billy the cleaner' survived WWII, cancer - San Antonio Express | A waist gunner aboard a B-17, he was awarded the Purple Heart and Battle Stars. According to war diaries kept by the 381st Bomb Group and 242nd Medical Detachment, Tschirhart and his crew were forced to parachute over Brussels, Belgium, after taking ...

Robert E. Swanson - Marquette Mining Journal | Robert Elvin Swanson entered active service in the U.S. Army Air Corps on December 30, 1942. After basic training he was assigned to Radio Operator School in Chicago, IL, followed by Aerial Gunnery school in Kingman, AZ. He was then assigned to a B-17 ...

Remembering the lessons of WWII - Cincinnati.com | I take great pride in watching this institution grow from a single building to a six-acre, $325 million campus filled with priceless artifacts from G.I. diaries to a B-17 Flying Fortress. Just as precious is the opportunity for young scholars like ...

World War II Museum's US Freedom Pavilion: 5 top attractions - NOLA.com | The long-range B-17, called the “Flying Fortress,” helped take the war to Hitler with a vengeance, but many, many bomber crews paid the price with their lives. According to the literature provided by the museum, another nickname was the “Flying Coffin.

Kirk Lindberg is giving the Fargo Air Museum - In-Forum | Kirk Lindberg is giving the Fargo Air Museum a late Christmas present: a homebuilt Velocity aircraft that he constructed in the mid-1990s. Lindberg, who lives in the Twin Cities, said he considered other roosts for his plane, but decided the Fargo Air ...

Rare Airplane Found Off Midway Island from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Divers cleaning up garbage in the shallow waters off Midway Atoll in the Pacific discovered wreckage from a World War II Brewster Buffalo last summer, the New York Times reported recently. Only one intact copy from the original fleet still exists, and it's on exhibit in Finland, the Times said. The Buffalo is "a very rare aircraft and to find even the wreckage of one is an exciting discovery," said Hill Goodspeed, historian at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. The Buffalo, however, was not a great favorite with pilots, says the Times. "It is my belief that any commander that orders pilots out for combat in a F2A-3 should consider the pilot as lost before leaving the ground," wrote Marine Capt. P. R. White in a 1942 report.

Burma Spitfire Search: Crate Found, but Contents Obscured by Muddy Water from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | A team of researchers attempting to uncover dozens of buried Spitfire fighter planes in Burma announced Wednesday they had located a large crate, but that muddy water prevented them from identifying its contents.

Intrepid Museum Experiences Record Breaking Attendance in 2012 - Broadway World | The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum today announced that more than one million people visited the museum in 2012, the highest recorded attendance in the 30-year history of the museum and the first time it has surpassed one million visitors in a single ...

Flagship Knoxville — an American Airlines Douglas DC-3 from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Flagship Knoxville — an American Airlines Douglas DC-3 The American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum has many excellent exhibits as well as displays — as described in the previous post — but, perhaps, the showstopper is a pristine Douglas DC-3 which has been christened Flagship Knoxville. This particular DC-3 began service with American Airlines, which became prominent under C.R. [...]

U2 Spy Plane Documentary Set For Release from Aero-News Network | Project Supports Veterans Via The Gary Sinise Foundation Award-winning actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise and Sleeping Dog Productions, the award-winning aviation and historical documentary production company, are set to release “High Flight”, the documentary narrated by Sinise that also chronicles his 2011 experience at Beale Air Force Base in California preparing for his flight in a U2 spy plane.

Cincinnati Reds to visit the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will have the opportunity to meet members of the Cincinnati Reds organization on Jan. 27 from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.  Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman, All-Star second baseman Brandon Phillips, broadcaster and former pitcher Chris Welsh, minor league catcher Tucker Barnhart, Assistant General Manager Bob Miller and mascot Gapper are scheduled to appear at the museum stop.

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The Cabo Contract from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | I have been having a great time reading aviation novels. For all those who don't have time to read, I'm a living testimony that we can make time. And it's well worth it. Quite often for me it's in the tub at the end of my day, or at the gym at the beginning. But the fun I have entering another world is like none other.

Aviation career day slated for Long Beach from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is teaming with the Southern California Aviation Association (SCAA) to host a career day in Long Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 27.

From space to earth in 260 seconds. - Broadcast Engineering | That's because several technical teams at Riedel Communications, based in Germany, worked closely with Baumgartner and his team in the U.S. and elsewhere during a series of test skydives over a three-year period prior to the historic leap. ... that the ...