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Sebring LSA Expo takes off from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Sebing U.S. Sport Aviation Expo — considered the premiere Light-Sport Aircraft show in the country — takes off today, Jan. 17, and runs through Jan. 20. The show continues to get bigger and better each year. Look for a full recap of all the happenings at the show in posts to come, as well as the Feb. 8 print issue of General Aviation News.

Video: Sebring Sport Expo 2013 from AVwebFlash Current Issue | AVweb was at opening day of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo show in Sebring on Thursday and filed this video report.

Wairarapa air show to host last WWII plane of its kind - TVNZ | The eighth annual Wings Over Wairarapa air show will this year play host to the world's only working Mosquito - a wooden plane used during WWII. Up to 30,000 people are expected at this weekend's event where the rare Mosquito will be the biggest ...

Old Mosquito adds to buzz as airshow set for take off - Wairarapa Times-Age | ON TRACK: Wings over Wairarapa airshow director Tom Williams and event organiser Liz Pollock at Hood Aerodrome yesterday. LYNDA FERINGA. Vintage aviators say it's a sound known to make grown men cry. The rare De Havilland Mosquito fighter ...

Mosquito flypast over Wellington from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney | The most exciting thing that happened today was a flypast of the world's only airworthy DH98 Mosquito F.B Mk.26, ZK-MOS!!!  As much as anything, this was to advertise the Wings Over Wairarapa airshow that is on this weekend, but it was great to see it for one last time in formation with a Curtis P-40E, ZK-RMH [I think this is correct] and Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, ZK-WDQ!...

Warbirds roar over Wellington - 3News NZ | Three vintage warplanes roared in formation over the capital this afternoon, giving Wellingtonians a taste of what they could experience over the Rimutakas this weekend. An impressive de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber was flanked by a Spitfire on ...

Dine with Patty Wagstaff from General Aviation News by Dan Johnson | On Day 2 of this year’s Sebring US Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, EAA Chapter 1240 is sponsoring a dinner featuring aerobatic expert Patty Wagstaff who will perform at the show … with such an airshow being a first for Sebring...

30000 expected at Masterton air show - Newstalk ZB | It'll be the first time a New Zealand show has seen a six-jet display formation. World War One planes and gliders form part of what's on show on the ground. Event manager Liz Pollock says as well as amazing aerobatic displays and feature aircraft in ...

Team AeroDynamix Returning to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2013 - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | Team AeroDynamix, which made a spectacular EAA AirVenture Oshkosh debut in 2012, will be returning this year as a featured act in the event's afternoon and night air shows. The 61st annual EAA fly-in convention, known as “The World's ...

Free Movie Night at Southern Museum of Flight from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News  |BIRMINGHAM AL-The Southern Museum of Flight announces Movie Night, a free monthly event featuring an aviation-themed movie every fourth Friday of the month at 7pm. This January 25th it features local filmmaker June Morgan Mack's documentary "Lest We Forget: A French Village Recalls 1944." The film premiered last Veteran's Day at UAB and tells the true story of the journey of the Robert Morgan Family of Springville, Alabama in response to an invitation to be honored by the small French village of Vibraye.

Proposed cuts could affect AirFest at MacDill - Tbo.com | The Navy Blue Angels and other aerial acrobatic teams, along with a number of military aircraft displays, are scheduled to come to MacDill Air Force Base in April for AirFest 2013, a two-day event showcasing the machines and personnel of the flying ...

Ford on floats from Planeshots

Gone West: Douglas C. Roach from Aero-News Network | Civil Air Patrol’s First Spaatz Award Recipient Dies After Distinguished Public Service Career Douglas C. Roach, the first recipient of Civil Air Patrol’s highest cadet award, the General Carl A. Spaatz Award, died Jan. 11 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., from complications related to cancer. He was 70.

WWII Vet shares his stories: 'It was like I was in 'Alice in Wonderland ... - The Northwest Florida Daily News | The World War II Army Air Corps veteran can still remember vivid details of his wartime adventures, from the time he crash landed a plane to jumping out of a B-17 just before it caught fire. But the 93-year-old will never say he was brave or courageous ...

Dreams take flight: Tuskegee Airman shares his story - Wicked Local- Cohasset | Joining the military the same month he graduated high school was scary and intimidating, but Jack had someone leading the way — his older brother, Joseph, a B-25 bomber pilot. Joseph, who was two years his senior, helped Jack prepare to face the ...

Very Hard Landings from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | I try to keep the tone of the blog on the light side because a.) there’s enough sad and icky stuff in the regular media and b.) I’m a pretty upbeat person. Having said that, this week’s blog, in which I will at share information about the aviation industry that I find interesting and think my readers will as well, will also touch on private airplane crashes, which are never a happy event. I say that because even if the pilot walks away, an airplane has been badly damaged or destroyed, causing heartache for the owner....

Wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane just missed? - Philadelphia Inquirer | Maybe then he would have found the "any-idiot artifact" that removes all doubt that the famous aviatrix's 1937 attempt to circle the globe in a Lockheed Electra ended at the remote Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro. Not that July's venture came up empty ...

No Spitfires Found At First Dig Site In Burma from AVwebFlash Current Issue | An internationally supported expedition to Burma to dig up Spitfires thought to be buried there after the close of WWII is quickly drawing skepticism as it has so far found none after one week digging at a primary site, Mingaladon airport. The project's mastermind, British farmer David Cundall believes there's still hope....

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Exposition Les Gens d'Air à Saint-Junien from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | People Air | From February 2 to 17 | Grains at the Halle Saint-Junien | 15h/19h and by appointment | Exhibition "People Air" from 2 to 17 February 2013

Missouri Pilots Association Gateway Chapter Remembers Doolittle Raider Reunion from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The January meeting of the Gateway Chapter of the Missouri Pilots Association featured a presentation by Mr. Hubert Looney, crew member on the MO Commemorative Air Force's B-25 "Show Me" that participated in the 70th anniversary gathering of the remaining Doolittle Raiders. The gathering of....

Eurocopter Golden Hour Award Winner Ray Murphy - Helicopter Association International | In September 2011, Ray and his Vietnam Helicopters 25th Infantry Division Huey crew were displaying a restored Bell UH-1D at the Reno Air Races in Nevada when they were pressed into action to transport casualties following a horrific accident. They...

On Board Red Bird III from The Lexicans by msgtbuck | That would be the private jet that flies the Red Wings…

"Guys and Doll" UCAP #312 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Amy Laboda joins us in the hangar... We admire a long-standing floating fly-in in South Carolina... The White House is gonna start using the V-22 Osprey as part of the presidential travel fleet... And, yes, we've got a little lust in our hearts for some Blackbird porn.Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded December 7, 2012. ..

The Girls With Wings Pilot Shop is CLOSING! from Life on the Road as a Pilot | It was with great sadness that I recently had to announce the closing of the Girls With Wings Pilot Shop, the place to get licensed GWW merchandise and all the aviation themed accessories I could find that would appeal to girls and ladies...

Glen Cove Kid Wins Prize for Wood Plane - Patch.com | Competing teams came from across Long Island. An introduction to aerodynamics and coordination of model building and testing was provided by museum docents and members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Sign up for email...