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'Aviation Nation' air show canceled at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base - Truckee Times | NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AP) — U.S. Air Force officials say federal budget cuts mean the grounding of the Thunderbirds precision aerial demonstration team and cancellation of a popular Nellis Air Force Base open house and air show. The 99th Air...

Blue Angels cancel Friday practice - Pensacola News Journal | Because of the uncertainty surrounding the federal budget cuts known as sequestration, the cancellation leaves only Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week as confirmed Blue Angels practices. The Navy has announced that the Blues's participation ...

25th Annual 2013 Salute To Veterans Airshow - STLtoday.com | It made history as the first aircraft to fly down Broadway over the 1989 Salute to Veterans Parade 25 years ago accompanied by the WWII B-25 Mitchell Bomber SHOWME who will return to join it and fly a Heritage Flight. DON'T MISS THE INCREDIBLE ...

Dick Rutan Recalls Voyager's 1986 Circumnavigation from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Twenty seven years after the fact, Dick Rutan says he's somewhat astonished that he and Jeana Yeager made it around the world in the Burt Rutan-designed Voyager, given the rudimentary avionics of the day and the fact that the airplane had so little surplus load factor that moderate turbulence would have torn it apart. As the keynote speaker at the 56th Aircraft Electronics Association Convention opening in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Rutan flashed a photo of his panel that was then state-of-the-art but which now features some boxes long since faded from the market.

Leading the Way for Women in the Air Force: Jacqueline Cochran - DoD Live | Just as Nazi troops began their march across Europe, Jacqueline (Jackie) Cochran suggested her plans for using women pilots to fight the war. The initial suggestion was rejected, but her determination and consistency made her the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic. Her efforts also made it possible for women to serve in what is today’s Air Force....

Doolittle Raider to visit Goodfellow [JUMP]97-year-old Cole to recall nearly ... - San Angelo Standard Times | SAN ANGELO, Texas — A national treasure will visit Goodfellow Air Force Base today, a man whose 97 years of life experiences include flying the right seat of a B-25 Mitchell in the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, Ret. USAF ...

Sgt. Norman Page was a C-130 ‘Cold War’ mechanic and flight engineer from War Tales by Don Moore | For most of his 24 years of service in the Air Force Sgt. Norman Page kept C-130 “Hercules,’ four-engine transport planes flying as a senior aviation mechanic and flight engineer or crew chief. After graduating from aviation mechanics training his first assignment, a Strategic Air Command mechanic at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa in the [...]

Georgia pilots band together to inspire - AOPA Pilot | The distinctive paint scheme, along with patches and insignia, are used by TigerFlight both to capture the interest of children, and honor the Flying Tigers of World War II. Photo courtesy Phil Cataldo/TigerFlight Foundation. Phil Cataldo worried he ...

Meet the Chairman of the Board from Vintage Wings of Canada by DaveIf there is one person you should introduce yourself to at Vintage Wings of Canada this year, make it Todd Lemieux, our new Chairman of the Board. You will be glad you did, for your life will be the richer for it. Todd has been involved with Vintage Wings as a volunteer pilot and event organizer for the past three years, and he has committed to taking a couple of years off from a successful Oil Patch career to lead Vintage Wings towards an self-funding existence, capable of self-sustained operation independent of the present massively generous financial support of our Founder and major benefactor, Michael U. Potter. While Mike will remain our single biggest funder and donor of assets such as the major part of our fleet and our hangar, Mike needs to know that ...

1911 Ely-Curtiss Pusher Replica, C-54 Spirit of Freedom to Appear at Virginia Regional Festival of Flight from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Bob Coolbaugh's 1911 Ely-Curtiss Pusher replica and the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation's C-54 Spirit of Freedom will be at the 2013 Virginia Festival of Flight slated for May 4-5 at Suffolk Executive Airport (SFQ).

More than $125,000 in scholarships awarded from General Aviation News | LAS VEGAS — During the Opening Ceremonies at the 56th annual AEA International Convention & Trade Show on Tuesday, March 26, the Aircraft Electronics Association’s Educational Foundation announced the names of 26 individuals who were awarded individual scholarships worth more than $125,000 for the 2013-14 academic year.

Preserving backcountry flying from General Aviation News | By JOHN J. MCKENNA Jr. | Some things are just worth holding onto and that is all there is to it. That simple statement is really how the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) was formed — six folks sitting around a campfire with the idea that if they did not get busy protecting the special places that we know as backcountry and recreational airstrips, these cherished destinations would most likely just go away....

Val Kilmer & Anthony Edwards Are Fighter Jets in Full 'Planes' Cast - First Showing | Planes is directed by Klay Hall ("King of the Hill," Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure) and follows Dusty (Dane Cook), a small town crop dusting plane who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air race despite his fear of heights. But Dusty's ...

Space shuttle Enterprise lands in historic places registry - NBCNews.com (blog) | Located at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, the test orbiter has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, becoming the first of NASA's retired space shuttles to receive the distinction. "We are extremely proud to be ...

Dragon Returns in Successful Splashdown from Spaceports | Elon Musk tweeted "Cargo looks A ok," referencing the nearly 2,668 pounds of equipment, supplies and scientific instruments returned from the International Space Station on-orbit. The cargo will be shipped to the Port of Los Angeles and then trucked to Texas for unloading with NASA....