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Air show details released - Press-Enterprise | Hangar 24 has released the details of its air show/beer festival/concert/food truck festival it's calling the Hangar 24 AirFest and 5th Anniversary Celebration. The 13-hour event will see multiple activities meshing to celebrate the fifth birthday of...

Airshow CIAF is going to twentieth birthday - Náchodský diary | The airport in abatement will come again Jordanian Falcons aerobatic group as representatives of the Kingdom of Jordan, of nearmádních participants are very pleased with the participation of world champion in aerobatics and winner of The Red Bull Air Race Petra Besenyiho of ...

First female Thunderbird takes last flight at SJ - AF.mil | SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. -- U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Nicole Malachowski took her final flight as the 333rd Fighter Squadron commander in an F-15E Strike Eagle here, May 8, 2013. The final flight marks another milestone in her illustrious career, which includes being the first female pilot to be selected to any U.S. military high-performance jet team....

Former Blue Angels pilot featured at Southeast Aviation Expo from General Aviation News | Lt. Commander Scott “Yogi” Beare, U.S. Navy (Retired), former pilot for the Blue Angels and author of two books, will be a keynote speaker at the Southeast Aviation Expo, slated for Sept. 27-28, at Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina....

Air Museum sets Appreciation Weekend - Iosco County News Herald | OSCODA – The Wurtsmith Air Museum will reopen for the season on Saturday, May 18, and is inviting everyone to visit free of charge that day and the next, designated as the second annual Community Appreciation Weekend. “It's our way of giving back and...

The First Trans-Atlantic Flight - All Things Aviation | Ask most anyone these days who made the first trans-atlantic flight and you will probably be told Lindbergh. The problem is that Lindbergh did NOT accomplish the first trans-atlantic flight – John Alcock and Arthur Brown accomplished the first trans-atlantic flight back in 1919 in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber....

FlightTime Radio Show 277 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Milford was in the studio with his bride, Mary. They had Jessica Cox as their guest. Jessica is a very unique pilot that proves ANYBODY CAN FLY!! Jessica has her pilots license and is an aircraft owner, but she has no arms!!...

I'm back on the Stuck Mic AvCast - Listen to SMAC048 from Toriaflies | SMAC048 – Victoria’s Back, Pitch Down Dummy, Autolandings | Today’s show marks the triumphant return of our beloved and sassy Victoria Zajko as she fills us in on all the exciting news from her absence including the amazing statistics from 2013′s Women of Aviation Week Worldwide events.

Operation Chastise - Vintage Wings of Canada | In the seventy years since the night of May 16-17 1943–the night of Operation Chastise–the events that transpired on that moonlit Spring night have been made in to feature films, documentaries, novels, non-fiction books, magazine articles, dramatic paintings, computer games, marches and comic books. For all of you who read this, there is not much one can say to add to reportage of this stunning attack deep inside Germany on targets long thought to be unassailable...

Operation Dora and the Bavarian Typhoon — the Bf 108 Taifun, clandestine from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Operation Dora and the Bavarian Typhoon — the Bf 108 Taifun, clandestine Operation Dora occurred in early 1944, during World War II, and was an effort by the Germans to insert personnel to observe British air supply efforts in West Africa, Fort Lamy (Chad) and Cairo — information needed to protect Axis efforts in the eastern […]

Historic Wright buildings to be preserved in new project from General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — Demolition of 1.2 million square feet of former Delphi manufacturing buildings in Dayton has begun, paving the way for commercial redevelopment and historic preservation. Still standing and to be preserved on the 54-acre site are two century-old buildings originally built by the Wright Company, the aircraft manufacturing enterpris established by the Wright brothers...

Survivor of 1987 Mich. plane crash breaks silence - Philly.com | DETROIT - Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life , one that she doesn't otherwise remember. At only 4 years old, Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport...

Smooth landing after lifetime of adventure  - John Dobson, North Coast Times  | FOR some lucky people, their work is their life’s passion. That is the case for Ian Clark (79), who spent six decades flying helicopters and planes all over the world...

40 CAP cadets meet Colin Powell, learn about leadership from Headline News - Civil Air Patrol MARYLAND -- It took seven months of planning, but persistence paid off last week when a group of young Civil Air Patrol cadets spent time with retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell. “I was lucky,” Laurence Martinez said of her effort to have Powell speak to the Frederick Composite Squadron of CAP’s Maryland Wing. Her determination brought Powell to the National Guard Armory in Frederick, where he spoke to about 40 CAP cadets about leadership...

Summer camps set at Lewis University from General Aviation News | ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — Lewis University will host several summer camps for aviation, leadership, and math and science. All camps will be taught by full-time faculty and will be held at the university’s main campus.  Aviation Flight Camp (high school students), June 17-21: The cost to attend is $1,290 for the week, which includes room and board. Participants will have the opportunity to...

Son of EAA Director Emeritus Solos in Grandpa's Stearman - EAA | Cormac Siegfried, son of EAA Director Emeritus Rand Siegfried, successfully completed his first solo flight in a powered aircraft on May 5 in his grandfather Robert "Old Bob" Siegfried's Boeing Stearman PT 17, the iconic World War II trainer...

Young Eagles Day Allows Muhlenberg Youths to Take to the Sky - SurfKY News | EAA Chapter #1184 will be hosting an event called Young Eagles Day this Saturday, May 18 at the Muhlenberg County Airport just off the 189 Bypass in Greenville. Carter told SurfKY that "this event is a great time to give a child between 7 and 17 a free...