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Rovinj Red Bull Air Race Attracts 80,000 * Croatia Week | ...“This event is of exceptional importance not only for Istria but also for the whole of Croatia. This is one of the best examples how to create motives for attracting tourists to come in Croatia before and after the peak season,” said Lorencin, adding that more premium international events to be hosted in Croatia would be announced soon. Austrian pilot Hannes Arch was the winner of the event which ended on Sunday, and he is not the only pilot hoping that the event organisers return to Croatia again....

Pilot aims to reach for the sky at Sunderland Airshow - The Northern Echo |  AEROBATIC flyer Gerald Cooper is looking forward to entertaining crowds at this summers’s Sunderland International Airshow. The leading pilot is returning to the popular free seafront on the weekend of July 25. ...

Wing walkers and aerobatic pilots added to Sunderland Airshow programme - Sunderland Echo | WORLD-CLASS aerobatic pilots have been added to the list of stars taking to the skies at this year’s Sunderland International Airshow. The event now includes two days of flying displays featuring Gerald Cooper – Extreme Air, The Blades, The Breitling Team of Wingwalkers and the Twister Duo...

Up in the Air: Air show tests limits of what can be done with a plane - TriValley Central | Attendees of the April fly-in at the Coolidge Municipal Airport were treated to a special show near the end, with two professional aerobatics pilots taking their planes into the air to perform almost an hour of gravity-defying tricks. One plane, which features a jet engine on the front, is being tested before going on tour at aerobatics shows across the country...

Serial Entrepreneur and Aviator Mike Patey Seeks to Break Three World Speed Records at The Mojave Experimental Fly-In - PR Web | Spanish Fork, UT - Mike Patey, an award-winning aviator and Utah entrepreneur, will fly an experimental aircraft at the Mojave Airport in Southern California to attempt three new world speed records in two days. The competition takes place April 18-19, 2014...

World's Only Flying B-29 Superfortress Headed Northwest This Summer - PR Web | Addison, Texas (PRWEB) -The Commemorative Air Force’s iconic Boeing B-29 Superfortress returns to California and the Northwest U.S. this summer. It will be FIFI’s first visit in almost 20 years to many locations which include over 15 cities in Arizona, California, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Colorado. Highlighting the tour will be FIFI’s return to Boeing Field in Seattle. The B-29 is one of 1,100 produced at the Boeing Renton facility and the only B-29 in the world that still flies...

Red Arrows in rare flight above 'Mach Loop' in Wales - WalesOnline | Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team the Red Arrows are world famous for their breathtaking displays. So when Powys photographer Dave Savage got a rare chance to capture the elite pilots in flight above Mid Wales, he jumped at the chance...

Check out what the CAF did with FIFI * ICAS | We asked you to share your pics of FIFI, and...

TICO 2014 with Tony McFarr * Photorecon.net | ...His name is Tony McFarr, he’s a retired USAF NCO who served as a PJ in Vietnam.  For those not familiar with his profession, when you eject from your airplane and need rescued, the man who comes down the hoist from the helicopter is a PJ.   The pararescue man is a jack of all trades and master of them all.  He can swim like a Navy Seal, he can administer first aid like an emergency room technician, he can cut you out of the airplane, and he can fight like Rambo.  Needless to say once he’s on the ground, you are pretty well rescued...

As a former SR-71 pilot... · SIERRA HOTEL AERONAUTICS | As a former SR-71 pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is "How fast would that SR-71 fly?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend. It's an interesting question, given the aircraft's proclivity for speed, but there really isn't one number to give, as the jet would always give you a little more speed if you wanted it to...

Vulcan bomber crew to give fundraising talk to keep jet flying - Bournemouth Echo | TWO former crew members of a Bournemouth Air Festival favourite are heading to the town for a fundraising talk...

WW II Bomber honored the First City - SitNews | Ketchikan, Alaska - Nearly seventy years ago, the City of Ketchikan was taking the war to the Japanese in the Pacific. It wasn’t the city itself that was fighting, it was a a B-29 bomber named the City of Ketchikan. The bomber was named after the First City because of a connection its commander, Richard “Dick” Brinck, had with the first city...

The Caproni CA.3 Has Flown * Warbirds News | The Caproni Ca.3R has FLOWN! Although technically speaking, it just made a short hop to test the response of the flight controls and engine behavior, this is a major milestone on the road to the real flight tests, which will surely take place soon....

Lockheed Super Constellation walkaround — elegance in red stripes (Part II) by travelforaircraft | The previous post, on Monday, introduced this beautiful Trans-Canadian Air Lines Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation at the Museum of Flight — and Friday's post will have several more images. Please, enjoy :)

Restoration update: Work progresses on Stearman PT-13D Kaydet * National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The Restoration Division at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is currently restoring a Stearman PT-13D Kaydet aircraft, a standard primary trainer flown by the U.S. and several Allied nations during the late 1930s and Second World War. Plans call for this PT-13D to be part of an expanded Tuskegee Airman exhibit in the World War II Gallery to represent flight training during the war...

Yankee Air Museum Welcomes Spirit of '45 Express - WEMU | With less than a month to go in its fundraising effort to buy part of the former Willow Run bomber plant, the Yankee Air Museum today welcomes the Spirit of '45 Express to Hangar 1 at Willow Run airport...

Wright factory fundraising study launches  * General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — The National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA) has launched a feasibility study for a capital fundraising campaign for the Wright brothers’ factory site. NAHA’s board of trustees voted to hire Pruehs & Associates of Chicago to conduct the study, which represents NAHA’s first step in the campaign. The study is expected to take approximately three months...

I Was There: When the DC-8 Went Supersonic * Air & Space Magazine | On August 21, 1961, pilot William Magruder, copilot Paul Patten, flight engineer Joseph Tomich, and flight test engineer Richard H. Edwards took Douglas DC-8-43 no. N9604Z for a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The aircraft exceeded Mach 1—the only intentional supersonic flight by an airliner other than the Concorde and the Tu-144. Bill Wasserzieher interviewed Richard Edwards in May 2007...

Rally held to save home of aviator Gustave Whitehead on Alvin Street - News 12 Connecticut | FAIRFIELD - Supporters rallied in Fairfield today to save aviator Gustave Whitehead’s home from being torn down. A house on Alvin Street was once the home of Whitehead, recognized by one of the most influential aviation publications as the first to make a man-powered flight, two years before the Wright Brothers...

Able Flight Awards Nine New Scholarships* Aero-News Network | Six Award Recipients To Begin Flight Training At Purdue University On May 20th | It's a record setting year for Able Flight with nine new scholarships awarded to date. Six of the recipients will soon begin their training at Purdue University's Department of Aviation Technology, one has completed a career training course, and two others are upgrading their pilot certificates...

Dream Chaser Spacecraft May Land At Houston Space Port * Aero-News Network | In a joint news conference at the Rice University Space Institute, Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and the Houston Airport System (HAS) announced plans to explore potential applications and multiple economic development opportunities presented by the combination of a Houston-based space port and SNC's Dream Chaser spacecraft...