Monday, March 11, 2013

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Breitling Jet Team put ups incredible airshow over Siloso Beach - AsiaOne | SINGAPORE - 15,000 people turned up Sentosa to catch the Breitling Jet aerobatics team performance on Saturday (Mar 9, 2013). It was the first Singaporean performance by the world's largest civilian team. The 20-minute display of precision wowed the ...

Airshow campaigners hope to put on event themselves - Echo | CAMPAIGNERS who got more than 15,000 “likes” for a Facebook page calling for Southend Airshow to be saved hope to put on the event themselves. Southend Council voted to scrap the airshow to save £130,000 but the campaigners hope to bring it back ...

WAC becomes editor and poster girl for Army during WW II from War Tales by Don Moore | When Winifred Leiser joined the Women’s Army Corps during the early part of World War II, it never occurred to her that by the war’s end, she would have become a poster girl for the corps. For the corps, originally known as the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, Leiser appeared in scores of newspapers and magazines [...]

Women in Aviation - Tillsonburg News | When she signed up for Tillsonburg's Women in Aviation 'free plane ride,' part of the international Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, March 4-10, and one of 18 events scheduled in Canada, Audebert figured she'd get a relaxing trip over South-West ...

Fly Girls... from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | 209 Girls Take to the Sky! | This weekend some of the most generous pilots in the Seattle area took women and girls on their first flights at...

St. Louis Science Center Aviation Day Follows Debut of "Air Racers" Omnimax Movie from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center Held "Aviation Day" Saturday following the debut of Air Racers at the facility's OMNIMAX Theater. Air Racers, the new IMAX film featuring the Reno National Championship Air Races, focuses on the highly modified P-51 Mustang flown by Steven Hinton, Jr. for Team Strega. Mr. Hinton, the youngest winner and four-time national unlimited class air racing champion, made a...

Heritage Flight showcases past present and future from Air Combat Command - ACC Headlines | The Air Combat Command Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course was held at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Feb. 28 through March 3. The course showcased aircrews performing ground and flight training to enable civilian pilots of past military aircraft and Air Force pilots of present fighter aircraft to fly in formations together....

Tester, Baucus seek medal for World War II's “Doolittle Tokyo Raiders” - PoliticalNews.me | (U.S. SENATE) - Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus are honoring the bravery and heroism of Missoula's David Thatcher and other members of the legendary "Doolittle Raiders" with the Congressional Gold Medal. The Doolittle Raid consisted of 16 Air ...

‘Discover Your Future in Aviation’ at museum from General Aviation News | HONOLULU — Young people interested in aviation as a career or hobby, schools, Scouts, and families are invited to attend Discover Your Future in Aviation at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m....

McDonnell Douglas TA-4J "Skyhawk" at Orange County from Aero Pacific Flightlines by Michael Carter

Peter Boschert Visits NAF Fallon from photorecon.net by Joe Kates | While attending Red Flag 13-3 at Nellis AFB, I had a chance to meet and talk to Peter Boschert. Peter is a resident of Germany and travels the world and takes some of the most captivating images of aircraft. According to Peter he has amassed close to a 1 million photos in his personal collection. While talking with him I welcomed him...

Last of the Vindicators — a Vought SB2U from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Last of the Vindicators — a Vought SB2U Aluminum panels over steel tube construction, the SB2U was a fleet dive bomber capable of carrying a 1000 pound (~455kg) bomb along a centerline mount with additional wing mounts for less weighty ordnance. Although obsolete at the advent of WW II USMC Vindicators participated in the Battle of Midway. [...]

Can You Top These? from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Anne Lavrand of Electravia sends news that Jean Luce Soullier’s speed record set last September has been ratified by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI). He now holds four FAI world records...

Skyship to launch in May from General Aviation News | ORLANDO, Fla. — Skyship Services Inc. , owner of the Type Certificates for the largest certified non-rigid airships in the world, recently signed a contract that will launch the first of a new era of Skyships. The 200-foot flying machine is being assembled at a hangar facility near Elizabeth City, N.C., that was originally used as a US Navy airship base. The...

PICS: Space Shuttle Wrapped In Plastic - Huffington Post UK | The Space Shuttle Enterprise sits on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on January 17, 2013 as it prepared for its opening in the summer of 2013. The 'Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer' exhibit opened to the public January 17.

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