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Valkaria AirFest Scheduled for Takeoff on April 20 | VALKARIA, Fla. -- The friendly skies over Brevard County will play host  Saturday, April 20, to the 7th annual Valkaria Air Fest 2013. This year's all-day event features multiple air shows with world-class champion displays and rides on everything from vintage World War aircraft to hot air balloons, powered paragliders and airboats, to kiddie rides, live music and up-close and hands-on contact with all sorts of flying machines...

NBC - Miramar's commanding officer discusses plans for the airshow post-sequestration - YouTube | MCAS Miramar's commanding officer, Col John Farnam, discusses with NBC's Lea Sutton what the 2013 Miramar Air Show will look like without the Blue Angels, as well as what defense budget cuts mean to the air station and especially its civilian employees.

International Air Meet | 2013 is the year for the first Air Meet of the 21st Century to take place. Set aside June 6-9 and head to Durant, OK for the International Air Meet-Championship Cross Country Air Races. What started in 1909 has seen over a century of invention, innovation and the arrival of the airplane as a normal part of our everyday life. Air racing has come forward to become a relevant, viable sport for all pilots.  Those of us with kindred passions thrive on sharing their innate love with others similarly afflicted. For over a century aviators have...

SUN ‘n FUN 2013 – Day 2 from Other People's Airplanes by David

As final reunion looms, flight engineer Ed Saylor looks back on the Doolittle ... - Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald | In planning, the operation called for a temporary squadron of volunteers to launch modified B-25 bombers — aircraft normally unsuitable for carrier transport — from the USS Hornet 400 miles off the Japanese coast, hit 10 military and industrial ...

How Twenty Female Pilots from 1929 Guide Me in Business Today - Story Exchange | Heather Taylor started her own production company Archetypal Images to spread the inspiration of her personal role models — the pilots of the first national women’s air race. She shared her story on our 1000 Stories Campaign....

How I Made My First Big Flight Abroad My Flight Across the English Channel by Harriet Quimby | While flying in Mexico, at President Madero's inauguration, last December, an ambition to be the first woman aviator to cross the English channel alone entered my mind. The more I thought of it, the less formidable the feat seemed to be. Without mentioning the matter to a soul, for fear that some one across the sea might anticipate my idea, I waited until my return to New York. There I secured a letter of introduction to Louis Bleriot and prepared to present it to him at his factory in Paris....

Special "Huey" Helicopter Makes Stop at Farmington Regional Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A very special Vietnam-era "Huey" helicopter made a fuel stop at Farmington Regional Airport recently - Bell UH-1H s/n 70-16369 - from the American Huey 369 Organization. This 501(c)3 non-profit group has lofty ambitions, namely to preserve the history of the Bell "Huey" helicopter through the establishment of The National American Huey History Museum. Currently... 

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Visit: Airpark in Winter - Northrop YC-125B Raider from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Our last stop on the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Airpark in Winter Series is the Northrop YC-125B Raider, a tri-motored military troop transport adaptation of the civil N-23 Pioneer once championed by former TWA President Jack Frye. The first of... 

World War One - Part IV from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon