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Mojave Fly-In April 20th (Tomorrow) - Experimental Oasis In The Desert! from AirPigz by Martt | ...In addition to the extremely cool aircraft to look over (and their pilots and owners to talk to), Scaled Composites will have reps at the event as well as Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company....

Valkaria Airfest is Saturday at Valkaria Airport - Florida Today | “Hot air balloon rides, glider rides, the old Piper Cub ride, open cockbit biplane ride, aerobatic rides and helicopter rides,” Borowski said, adding there are no jets, just propellers, at the air festival. Valkaria Airfest usually opens the airshow ...

Black Diamond jet team coming to Rome, Ga., air show - Times Free Press | The Black Diamond Jet Demonstration Team, one of the world’s only non-military jet demonstration teams, will headline the 2013 Wings Over North Georgia air show here, according to a news release....

AIRSHOW NEWS: RAF Cosford Air Show confirms eye-opening displays from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News by admin | The RAF Cosford 75th Anniversary Air Show team is excited to announce that a Chinook and an Apache helicopter from the MOD Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) will be coming to the event on Sunday 9th June.

AFA Honors the Anniversary of the Doolittle Raiders Bombing Mission on Japan - Air Force Magazine | Thomas Griffin and retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole received the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Doolittle Raiders. Major Griffin was a navigator on B-25 No. 9 during the April 1942 raid, and Colonel Cole was Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot ...

Doolittle Raiders recount mission (VIDEO, GALLERY) - The Northwest Florida Daily News | FORT WALTON BEACH — When Staff Sgt. David Thatcher's B-25 bomber tried to land in the surf off a strip of beach on an island after the famous Doolittle Raid, the wheel was still down. The plane flipped over and four members of his crew went hurtling...

Baldwin Family Flyers from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Three generations of women take to the sky to race in the Air Race Classic, the longest running all women pilots transcontinental air race. Among the many teams, there is none other as special as a family that flies together....

Midwest Aviation Aerodrome: Variety of Aircraft Found at Creve Coeur Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Midwest region is replete with local general aviation airports. One of those gems of the Midwest is Creve Coeur Airport, a privately-owned haven for antique aircraft and home of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum just west of St. Louis. On any given weekend...

Columbia's Curtiss-Wright Hangar sale still held up - The State | COLUMBIA, SC — Nearly two years after entering a partnership, Richland County still hasn’t finalized the sale of the historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar to private developers....

Aircraft, film, highlights Douglas exhibit - Sierra Vista Herald | Douglas was also one of the stops of the first women's national air race of 1929, the “Women's Air Derby.” The Douglas Flyer was built by Rich Ivansek and funded by Arvin Schultz. Both are aviation historians. The exhibit documenting Eleanor Roosevelt ...

U.S. 8th Air Force saved Britain from Hitler during WW II old airman says from War Tales by Don Moore | The American 8th Air Force saved the English from being invaded and defeated by Germany during World War II, according to Wes Belleson, who served as a tail gunner in a B-24 “Liberator” flying from a field near Norwich, England during the Second World War. “It’s my idea we saved England. The Germans were bombing [...]

The last F-4 departs Davis-Monthan from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories | The final F-4 regenerated from storage at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group performed its last flight over Tucson, Ariz., April 17, before heading to Mojave, Calif....

Soldiers learning to fly with Eglin's Aero Club - The Northwest Florida Daily News | Over the past 24 months, Soldiers and family members from 7th SFG(A) have taken full advantage of flight training opportunities at the Eglin AFB Aero Club. The Aero Club offers a wide range of training opportunities to include the FAA Private Pilot ...

Aviation camp creates aviators from General Aviation News | By STEVE SCHAPIRO | When Blake Schuette was 10 years old she didn’t know much about aviation or airplanes. Today, the Auburn University junior is a double major in aviation management and business management. She is president of the school’s flight team and is completing her CFI rating — and she owes it all to one week back in the summer of 2001....

NASA Flies Dragon Eye Unmanned Aircraft Into Volcanic Plume - Utility Products | NASA Earth science researchers last month traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica, to fly a Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) -- a small electric aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors -- into the volcano's sulfur dioxide ...

3 to join Astronaut Hall of Fame ranks from Air Force Times - News  | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Eileen Collins is an accomplished aviator and astronaut, the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, the first woman to command a U.S. space mission and one of the first women to graduate from U.S. Air Force test pilot school.