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Blue Angels show still on, for now - Lynchburg News and Advance | As the U.S. Department of Defense braces for spending cuts on March 1, local fears have arisen that the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, might not take off for the Lynchburg Regional Air Show in May. However, Jones Stanley ...

NASCAR driver feels 'need for (air) speed' - Daytona Beach News-Journal | DAYTONA BEACH — Austin Dillon traded in his driver's fire suit for a Thunderbird pilot's G-suit and felt firsthand what his favorite movie, “Top Gun,” called “the need for ...

Red Arrows 'future safe under David Cameron' - BBC News | The future of the Red Arrows is safe as long as David Cameron is prime minister, Number 10 has said. The guarantee over the RAF display team, which costs about £9m a year, emerged during the PM's trip to India. It came after RAF expertise was offered ...

From The Royal International Air Tattoo's Facebook Wall | Twitter user Ben Adams sent us this link to a nice video of the RAF Red Arrows, filmed last week during their training at Cranwell.

Third Annual Women Of Aviation Week Kicks Off March 4th from Toriaflies | The Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide announces the 3rd annual Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, March 4-10, 2013. Held annually during the week of March 8, anniversary date of the first female pilot certificate worldwide, the week aims to...

Tuskegee Airman: You can do great things - nwitimes.com | Some of the students in attendance had already taken advantage of the Young Eagles flight program that gives them a chance to go up in an airplane, and even work the controls for a bit under the watch of an experienced pilot. Club sponsor Dave Hall ...

Postcards from the past: Flying Fortress School, 1943 - The Seattle Times | The Boeing (B-17) Flying Fortress School was presented the "Efficiency Banner" by the Army Airforce Technical Training Command yesterday. P.G. Johnson, Boeing Aircraft Company president, pledged the delivery of many more Boeing bombers to the ...

Letter: Wings of Freedom event's early closing criticized - Florida Today | But organizers decided to close up and leave before 1 p.m., as there weren't enough people booking the $425 flights on aircraft such as the B-17 and B-24. Perhaps not, but there were plenty of people there for the walk-through tours to see the planes ...

Memories "turbulent" period 1935 -1940 from Passion for aviation by Xavier Cotton | You have already read my blog, an extract memories Georges Rollin on flight test Laté 631, and became acquainted with the "anémoclinomètre" used for the study of turbulence. In the following text, which has been the subject of a presentation in 1993 at the request of the French Federation of Gliding, Georges Rollin tells us the flight tests in the context of the study of turbulence, the tests reported here were performed in the Massif Central before the war of 1939....

Cub Crafters by Tyson V. Rininger / www.tvrphotography.com from Tyson Rininger www.tvrphotography.com

The Harlem Shake to End All Harlem Shakes from Aerial Sports Feed | We maybe late to the game, but at least, we're coming in late with style. Meet the best skydivers in the world...

Teachers In Space Accepting Applications For Summer Workshops from Aero-News Network | Sessions Focusing On Space Medicine and Human Factors The Space Frontier Foundation’s Teachers in Space (TIS) is accepting teacher’s applications for its free Space Medicine and Human Factors summer workshop. Teachers in Space is a project to inspire student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by engaging teachers with authentic astronaut training and real space science experiences combined with information and resources they bring into classrooms across America.