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Photos: Wings Over Gillespie Air Show from Planeshots

Air show inspires future pilots - Waterloo Record | A pilot since 2000, Marek said that the statistics on women in aviation havn't changed much — only five per cent of pilots are women. Marek pointed out that the Waterloo airport was honoured with the third-place standing as the most female-pilot...

National Biplane Fly In Attracts Thousands To Junction City's Airport - WIBW | JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Thousands flocked to Junction City this weekend to see pieces of aviation history up close. The National Biplane Fly In brought biplanes, experimental and fixed wing planes from across the country to Freeman Field in...

Commemorative Air Force Celebrates Military History - Northland's NewsCenter | Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com)-- The Commemorative Air Force-Lake Superior Squadron is celebrating their annual open house...

from National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian's Facebook Wall | Today in 1993: Patty Wagstaff donated her Extra 260, in which she won two U.S. National Aerobatic Championships, to the Museum. Wagstaff was a six-time member of the U.S. Aerobatic Team until her retirement from aerobatic competition in 1996.

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OV-10 Bronco In Perspective from The Lexicans by themavf14d | Found this vid out on the interwebs tonight. It has some of the best Bronco footage I’ve ever seen. Flight, weapons and development test, combat in Vietnam (including VAL-4 “Black Ponies”), a subsystems overview and a performance and specification summary....

NASA’s F-8 Digital Fly By Wire Program (part 1) from The Lexicans by themavf14d | ...A system of pulleys and cables enabled the Wright Brothers were the first to take to the air in controllable flight on 17 December 1903. Aircraft of World War 1 methods to control aircraft remained basically the same cable and pulley system. Pilot control inputs through stick and rudder pedals were transmitted to the control surfaces via pulleys and cables....

The 'sky port' that made it big - Chicago Tribune | It wasn't until World War II that the airport drew their interest, he said, when military planes — fighter planes and B-24 and B-25 bombers — were using the airstrip regularly. He wasn't alone in his attraction to the airport. The Tribune reported in ...

Morocco desert museum for Little Prince aviator-author - MENAFN.COM | (MENAFN - AFP) Battling the wind in his World War I biplane, a French pilot landed on a sandy Moroccan airstrip. Nearly 90 years on, a museum honours his stay and the world-renowned book it inspired. "Antoine de Saint-Exupery the writer was partly born...

 This is one of the coolest images I’ve seen in years: cockpit view as Marines F-18 fires live missile from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following image is going viral on social networks. The reason is obvious: is an absolutely stunning photograph, just released by the U.S. Marine Corps, showing Capt. Christopher Prout with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 232, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing as he shoots an AIM-7 Sparrow missile from an F/A-18C Hornet near Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, on May 16, 2013....

For 90th birthday, pilot plans 90 border crossings - Hilton Head Island Packet | Lawton hopes for clear skies when he takes off from that same airport Monday and spends an estimated one to two hours at an altitude of around 3,500 feet, performing a series of tight, nearly aerobatic, figure-eight patterns in his four-seat airplane.

New Book Portrays WW II Civilian Flight Instructors from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | "They Gave You Wings" by Arden Wilson was published May 9, 2013. Wilson writes a fictional story from his real life experiences. -In the spring of 1942, the clouds of war were covering the continent of Europe. Slowly and surely, the United States had been pulled into the fight and after December 7, 1941, the war had become a full blown World War. Army Aviation recruits were piling into the San Joaquin Valley in California where the lives of young men and women would be changed forever...

North Jersey chapter of the Ninety-Nines raises funds for aviation education NorthJersey.com | Women make up about 7 percent of the total pilot population in the United States, according to Women in Aviation, International. The North Jersey Ninety-Nines chapter holds fly-outs every month, where members head to the same destination and get ...

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is close to getting his airline off the ground - flightwire | For a man whose fortune is estimated to be in excess of $100m (£66m), Bruce Dickinson does not need to work, let alone juggle the creation of a new airline and aircraft maintenance business with the demands of a 36-date world tour during which he will play to a combined audience of some 1.5m in 30 different countries. But then the Iron Maiden frontman is no ordinary millionaire. Sitting with his battered WH Smith desk diary and a 10-year-old Nokia mobile phone in front of him...

Flying from Mt. Everest - World Record BASE Jump Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | MOUNT EVEREST- Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian extreme sport star Valery Rozov (48) flew off the north face of Mount Everest - the world's highest BASE jump ever - 7220 meters (23,688ft) above sea level...