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AERO takes off Wednesday from General Aviation News | Friedrichshafen, Germany – The international trade show for general aviation will takeoff Wednesday, April 24, running through Saturday, April 27. The show will focus on the entire range of general aviation, from gliders, ultralights and powered aircraft to helicopters and business jets, with 630 exhibitors from 35 countries....

Expanded WomenVenture planned for AirVenture from General Aviation News | WomenVenture, Women in Aviation, International’s collaborative program with the Experimental Aircraft Association, is now in its sixth year and will be expanded during this year’s EAA AirVenture with a group lunch. WomenVenture is both a networking resource for women AirVenture attendees and a marketing outreach to attendees who are interested in becoming more involved in aviation....

Photos of the day from around the world: April 22 - New York Daily News | The Frecce Tricolori, aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Aeronautica Militare, flies over the Altare della Patria (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) in Rome on April 22, 2013, as the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano attends a ceremony after his...

FAI Releases Annual Report from Aero-News Network | Reference For Anyone Interested In Sport Aviation Events And Achievements The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the World Air Sports Federation, has just released its 2012 annual report, and made it available for download over the Internet. FAI sais the document is meant to be a reference book for all those who are interested in air sports events and the FAI.

Museum to honor New Hamphire’s James Tamposi from General Aviation News | The New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society (NHAHS) will honor the lifetime aviation contributions of James Tamposi, Sr. of Nashua at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire on Saturday, June 29, at 11 am....

The Luftwaffe on Jersey (not for the first time) from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | As one of the few parts of the British Isles (and here someone may wish to correct my geographical ignorance) occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, Jersey has a rich inheritance of fortifications left over from that period and, among the older generation, a difficult relationship with their former occupiers. So...

Cyrte, China Film Board John Woo's 'Flying Tigers' - Variety | Cyrte Investments and China Film Co. have come on board with John Woo (pictured above) and Terence Chang for their “Flying Tigers” World War II project to be released in two versions — a two-part feature and a six-hour miniseries. Project, which Woo ...

Video -interview with Korea War Sabre Pilot from PlanesTV.com's Facebook Wall

McDonnell Douglas YC-15 (part 1) from The Lexicans by themavf14d | The McDonnell Douglas YC-15 was a prototype developed of the USAF ‘s AMST program in 1972. The competition was the
Boeing YC-14. McDonnell Douglas developed the...

Curtiss (NAF) TS-1. “Carried on board USS Charles Ausburn... from Planeshots

Great footage of a C-17 departing Joint Base... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith

This rocket-like plane could have been the SR-71 Blackbird replacement from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following image, published by Code One on its Facebook page, shows configuration SA-2S, an SR-71 Blackbird replacement concept that was studied by Convair in the early ’60s....

Hyundai's Flying Concept Car from AVwebFlash Current Issue | As part of an annual festival to encourage its engineers to develop creative ideas, Hyundai recently exhibited a "flying car" based on a quad-copter design. The aircraft has four sets of four propellers, with a seat in the center, which was occupied by a crash-test dummy for the demo flight at the festival. A short video posted online shows the vehicle taking off vertically from a road in Korea, and climbing to several feet above the surface, operated by remote control.

Sky Combat Ace Ups the Bachelor Party Ante in Las Vegas with Debut of "Wingmen" Experience - SFGate | Although bachelor parties lose a member of their crew to nuptials, they’ll all gain their manhood with Sky Combat Ace’s ultimate bachelor party package—Wingmen, where men recreate their own version of “Top Gun” with non-stop spins, barrel rolls and loops 6,000 feet above...

Think Different - TVR Photography | ...He continued to stun me as he named off the individual aircraft. “I jumped from quite a few of those C-47’s,” he recalled. “I also remember seeing those white stripes on the wings for the first time. They painted hundreds of them that way.” He went on to describe the actions of P-38’s and P-51’s in the European Theater. For someone who managed to distance himself for so long from such intense experiences, his memory was flawless....

Children take flight in Young Eagles program - The Record-Courier | Jacks Valley Elementary School 5th-grader Bryanna Marlatt had never been in a small aircraft before, let alone one without a motor. Bryanna, 11, was one of nearly 60 children who participated in Saturday's Young Eagles Program at the Minden Tahoe ...

Space Shuttle Astronauts Inducted Into U.S. Astronaut Hall Of Fame from Aero-News Network | Curt Brown, Eileen Collins And Bonnie Dunbar Enshrined In Ceremonies Saturday Space Shuttle astronauts Curt Brown, Eileen Collins and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., today joined an elite group of American space heroes with their induction into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The three astronauts join the ranks of legendary space pioneers in the Hall of Fame such as Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Jim Lovell, Sally Ride and John Young...