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Extreme Makeover from General Aviation News by Dan Johnson | Big things are happening to the location formerly known as the Ultralight Area at the SUN ’n FUN grounds on the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Florida. First, the area will now permanently be known by its longtime affectionate name: Paradise City. Once a place of...

Bangalore all set to host largest air show in Asia - Deccan Herald | Aero India, the largest air show in Asia and one of the world's most important military aviation exhibitions, is all set to kick-start at Yelahanka Air Force Station here, from February 6 to 11. This biennial air show and aviation exhibition organised ...

Plans lift-off for Bob Jones Memorial Air Show in Welshpool - Powys County Times | PLANS for the second Bob Jones Memorial Air Show were launched on Friday at a special event in Welshpool Town Hall. The show was renamed last year in memory of Welshpool Airport owner Bob Jones, who was killed in a plane crash in January 2012.

Precision airshow announced for castle concert - Kent Online | The open-air evening in July will see The Blades bring their airbourne display to the skies above Kent. Formed of former Red Arrows pilots, The Blades are known for skilful displays of close formation aerobatics. The team features some of the UK's most ...

The Gathering of Warbirds and Legends - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | Not normally done, all convention proceeds after expenses from that gathering were directed to the participating warbird operators in the form of extraordinary ground support, and deeply discounted fuel for their planes. “This concept is markedly ...

Warbird Gathering Set For Topeka During AirVenture - AVweb | A non-profit group is organizing what it hopes will be a major warbird event. The Gathering of Warbirds and Legends will be held at Forbes Field in Topeka, KS from Aug. 1-4 and is inviting warbird owners and operators to reserve one of 65 "slots" to ...

Air Show Organizers and Fans Fear Pentagon Cuts from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Speculation about cutbacks to public air shows put on by the Blue Angels, the Thunderbirds and the Army's Golden Knights paratroopers spread as the Pentagon looks for ways to trim $450 billion over the next decade. The popular military promotional demonstrations that account for tens of millions of dollars, a small fraction of the Pentagon's $926 billion annual budget, could be curtailed...

Government deny Red Arrows' axe - ITV News | The Government has insisted that the world famous Red Arrows will not be grounded as part of a new round of defence cuts. Reports in today's press claims the iconic RAF display team, which is based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, could be axed as part ...

Pearl Harbor Flight Recalls Uncle's USS Arizona Death - Businessweek | I was hooking up with an outfit called Pacific Warbirds that takes tourists on thrill rides aboard a vintage SNJ-5 airplane. I would fly over Pearl Harbor on the single-prop aircraft at the same altitude as the Japanese pilots did 71 years ago when ...

B-24 bomber badly shot up on flight over Berlin from War Tales by Don Moore | Buried in a box of old pictures and military records tucked away in a chest of drawers in Vincent Durand’s Port Charlotte, Fla. home is a medal from long ago. The bronze medal with its four-bladed airplane propeller was attached to a red, white and blue ribbon — The Distinguished Flying Cross. The 83-year-old former [...]

Women Aviators Focus of 'History Alive' Lecture - Patch.com | See the attached photograph of McCrae in uniform; the latter is now in the San Diego Air & Space Museum, Balboa Park. Bevil researches and documents historic aviation crash sites in California State Parks. One, a World War II bomber crash site in ...

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum presents the 2013 “Heritage ... - PR NewsChannel | Also March 23, the “Women in Aviation and Space Day” will take place at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Visitors will learn about the accomplishments of women in aviation, science and aerospace. Families can enjoy guest speakers, hands-on activities, a ...

Great Lakes (By Waco Classic) New Paint Scheme Design Contest! (Ends 2-17-13) from AirPigz by Martt | You don't have to know me very well to know I'm a big fan of paint scheme design contests, and while we wait to see who the winner is of the race P-51 Precious Metal paint contest (winner to be announced 2-9-13) we now have another one to...

The Pan Am Flying Clipper that never was — Sikorsky’s VS-44 by travelforaircraft | Juan Trippe bought Sikorsky S-38 and S-40 aircraft for Pan American Airways (PAA) routes in South America as well as the S-42 to survey routes for what would become the famed Flying Clippers. But Sikorsky could not increase the size of their flying boat designs quickly enough for Trippe's expansion plans and so he purchased the Martin M-130 flying boat for his first flying clippers. Like Sikorsky, Martin also could not evolve the size of the design with enough speed....

From Russia with love (but they'll make your eyes hurt) from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | I like Russian Helicopters, no, really I do, but however good they are, they certainly aren't easy on the eye. OK, you can forgive the Mil Mi-28 - it's not meant to be pretty, it's just meant to say 'Go away. Now.' to whoever is at...

Flying Car from apron6 | Why would you buy a flying car if you can take your car with you in your plane. That is what the Skyvan Crew must have thought. They simply take their car with them. Getting it in the skyvan is a rather tricky job. It really is a matter of good aim. I had seen [...]

"Tangental Line" UCAP #317 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Polk County Florida pal Jamie Beckett joins us this time. A video of a biplane buzzing pedestrians on the runway... Some interesting, but oddball aircraft we'd fly... Jamie tells us about an innovative new model for aviation education and flight training... And whiskey-tango-foxtrot on the Boeing 787 problems. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded February 1, 2013.

EAA 1358 New Flight Simulator for Young Eagles from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | DOTHAN AL- The Wiregrass EAA Chapter 1358 recently flew its first Young Eagle in their new Redbird TD 2 Flight Simulator located at AeroOne at Dothan Regional Airport. The Young Eagle program is an Experimental Aircraft Association, EAA, initiative to introduce youth ages 8 through 17 to the world of flight using general aviation aircraft...

Air Museum goes to moon with NASA exhibit - Hometownlife.com | Rachel Krumwiede, director of education at the Yankee Air Museum, shows off the space suit worn by astronaut Jack Lousma as part of a 1973 mission to the Sky Lab. / Stephen Cantrell | staff photographer ...