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Blue Angels officials express concern with nonprofit - WALA-TV FOX10 | PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) - The Blue Angels are one of the most important staples and contributors to this area. When the Blues don't fly, like they won't this year due to national budget cuts from sequestration, it hurts. The National Aviation Museum ...

Warbirds over Tin Can Bay - Gympie Times | Event spokesman Neil Low, whose 1930s Gypsy Moth was among the impressive line-up of warbirds taking part, said the weekend cemented the Tin Can Bay club's annual May fly-in's reputation as the biggest and best of its kind in Queensland...

SLIDESHOW: KHQ Takes Flight On B-17 Flying Fortress - KHQ Right Now | The B-17 flight experience takes about 45 minutes with about 30 of those minutes in flight. Flights are $410 for Liberty Foundation members and $450 for non-members. That may sound expensive, but to fly the plane costs $4500 per flight hour and The ...

Michigan pilots hope to recover crashed B-25 from General Aviation News | A 30‐year-old Michigan man is organizing a recovery team to rescue a crashed B‐25 from Alaska. This June, Patrick Mihalek from Brighton, is planning to recover a nearly 70‐year old North American B‐25J Mitchell bomber (USAAF # 44‐30733) from her remote crash site in Alaska...

Yorkshire Air Museum's Dakota cleared for take-off... almost - The Press, York | AN iconic aircraft from the Second World War passed another milestone as it prepares to go on public working display at Yorkshire Air Museum. The twin engines of a Douglas DC3 Dakota roared across the Elvington museum's airfield at its first public ...

Chico air museum looking at empty city hangar - Enterprise-Record | Air museum vice president Norm Rosene reassured the commission that it wasn't too big a project, and that it would be taken in phases. He noted that attendance at the 8-year-old museum has increased every year, and believes being in a larger space to...

Future of Tillamook blimp hangar in question as air museum prepares to move - OregonLive.com | On April 3, Erickson Aero Tanker, owner of the collection of vintage planes displayed in the hangar, announced in a press release that it would not renew its lease to operate the Tillamook Air Museum, but instead planned to move to a new facility in...

Aviation: A century of achievements from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | With this luxurious book, relive the epic tinged with triumphs and tragedies but still fabulous conquer the sky by the Man, you will discover the history of the most outstanding technological achievement of the last century that continues to Today: the aircraft in flight....

What Drew Me to Flying from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | I'm blogging in formation with six of the greatest aviation bloggers this week, as we all will share our stories at to what drew us to flying. Not only am I the only woman on this blogging in formation team, but I would venture to say my story might be a just a little bit different than most of the guys....

Young Eagles Flight Rally scheduled for May 11 - Quad-Cities Online | Davenport, Iowa — Area young people ages 8-17 will have a chance to take to the skies on Saturday, May 11, 2013, as Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 75 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at the Davenport Municipal Airport...

Buzz Aldrin's 'Mission to Mars' Published from Spaceports | Dr. Aldrin best known for his Apollo 11 moonwalk, holds a doctorate degree in astronautics and, at the age of 82, continues to wield influence as an international advocate of space science and planetary exploration. He has...

Space shuttle Enterprise's New York exhibit reopening July 10 - collectSPACE.com | Enterprise's new "Space Shuttle Pavilion," located at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan, replaces its original display home that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. The replacement structure is now under construction ...