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Annual Certification Cycle Rolls On from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | The skies are blue in Homestead, Florida, where the Golden Knight’s Black and Gold demonstration teams and elite Tandem team are working hard to complete their Annual Certification Cycle. The days start early in order to get as many training jumps as possible. The demonstration teams have been working on all facets of the skills required to begin the show season. These skills include various freefall formations, canopy relative work, target accuracy, and perfecting the narration used during our shows....

Girls take wing at annual flying festival in Frederick - Baltimore Sun | Earning their wings. Keiko Cahill, 12, left, Yumiko Cahill, 9, and a friend from their Brownie troop at the Frederick Women in Aviation program last year...

Federal sequestration could eliminate Rockford Airfest - WREX-TV | Lawmakers actually moved part the fiscal cliff a few months down the road, across the board federal spending cuts that are scheduled to go into effect March 1st. That deadline is almost here. If our nation's leaders can't come up with a spending plan ...

Military cuts could limit flyovers - ESPN | ... Cup race at Phoenix. Instead, a private company has provided the track a B-17 that is not a part of Air Force inventory. Las Vegas Motor Speedway has an agreement with the Thunderbirds based nearby at Nellis Air Force Base for its March 10 Cup event.

The Gathering Of Warbirds And Legends Our Final Times Together - AvStop Aviation News | The Douglas aircraft siblings will travel to Topeka from all over America and include two newly restored historic original Pan Am aircraft, numerous authentic D-Day aircraft, and a host of other workhorses from the fleet that have served well for more ...

Recruiting Sarah – Life’s a Race - Hangar Talk 950 | ...She joined my EAA chapter during a meeting I happened to miss but we finally met at a Women in Aviation event. Her first question to me was, “Why air racing when you can do acro?” I had to laugh. Knowing she’s never raced an airplane before I understood, as I too love acro. But, as I explained, there’s this...

AirPower History Tour to feature WWII planes - Arizona Daily Star | World War II airplanes, including a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, are flying into town Monday as part of the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. The CAF collects, restores, and displays historic airplanes. The Tucson International Airport is ...

Ball turret gunner to speak to Veterans History Project - Allentown Morning Call | A World War II veteran who was a ball turret gunner on B-17 bombers will speak Thursday at the Lehigh Valley Veterans History Project meeting. Mel Schissler flew 25 missions over Nazi-occupied Europe as a staff sergeant with the 323rd Bomb Squadron of ...

LT. COL. WALTER P. SCHLAGEL - Times Herald-Record | He had over 9,000 hours of flying time in some 20 different types of aircraft among those were the T-33, F-84, F-86, B-25, B-26, B-47, C-47, C-54, T-29, C-121 and the C-130, which he flew for a year from November 1963 November 1964 in Vietnam. He was ...

The Balikpapan Raid, revisited - again! from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Back in 2008, in Weekend Wings #28, I profiled a raid on the oil refineries at Balikpapan (now part of Indonesia) by US bombers during 1944. It was one of the most difficult and demanding air attacks of the Pacific War. Some time later, Mr. Pete Hobstetter contacted me to inform me that his father had flown on that raid. He allowed me to reproduce some of his father's recollections of the mission. (Some other children of those who flew on that mission added their comments below that post - they're worth reading.)....

Air museum open house provides close look at historic plane - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | FAIRBANKS - One of the most important airplanes in the history of Alaska stands in pieces at the Pioneer Air Museum in Pioneer Park, waiting to be assembled and returned to a place of honor at the airport terminal. After a lengthy restoration campaign ...

Birmingham Aero Club Annual Awards Presentation from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- At the Southern Museum of Flight last night, the Birmingham Aero Club presented their annual awards. Founded in 1932 and having over 200 members, the BAC has a long history of aviation involvement in Birmingham and the state of Alabama. Aero Club awards recognize unselfish contributions of time, effort, interest, and willingness to promote all phases of aviation and aviation activities.

Where are they now - Douglas DC8 ZK-NZE from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | John M has provided us with these awesome images of ex Air New Zealand Douglas DC8-52 ZK-NZE.  ZK-NZE (msn 45985) came to being in 1967 and its first flight is quoted as 11 January 1968. It was delivered to Air NZ on 27 February 1968 and remained in service with the national carrier until divestment saw it sold to....

"Nestful of Woolyworms" UCAP #318 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | AOPA and the NTSB want us to expand our preflight passenger briefings... The US government is taking down their observation blimps in Florida, but threatening to add them into the airspace around Washington DC... It seems that the airlines are safer than ever... And... Rumors of the demise of magic ingredient in 100LL are at least somewhat exaggerated. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded February 15, 2013....