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Video: Record-Breaking Flights Precede Experimental Fly-In - Flying Magazine | Renowned Reno air racer Lee Behel attempted three record-breaking flights in the past week in Mojave, California, flying his sexy single-place GP-5 race airplane. While the results have not yet been officially confirmed, the initial numbers are impressive...

Hangar 24 Announces Lineup for Airfest - Brewbound.com | Redlands, CA – Hangar 24 Charities will bring multi-platinum rock group Everclear to the Redlands Airport to headline their two-day Airfest & 6th Anniversary Celebration. The event is held in celebration of Hangar 24 Craft Brewery’s 6th anniversary, with all proceeds benefiting Hangar 24 Charities.  The two-day festival will be held May 16th and 17th...

The Huntsville Heli Flyers will hold their annual helicopter fun fly next weekend, April 25-27

Great War Flying Museum to Bring Four Replica WWI Planes to Oshkosh from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | April 17, 2014 - Four outstanding replica aircraft from the Great War Flying Museum, of Caledon, Ontario, Canada, will participate in EAA's World War I aviation centennial activities at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014. The aircraft include the museum's Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter, Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a, Nieuport 28, and Fokker Dr.I...

Council okays two fly- overs by world famous Snowbirds - Courier Islander | Campbell River residents were to get a treat yesterday when the Snowbirds were to fly at low altitude over the city. North Island MP John Duncan helped facilitate the fly over and city council sent a letter of support to the Snowbirds. A date has not been set for a second fly over, but the Snowbirds are in training in Comox from April 17 to May 8...

Thunder Over Louisville: T-33 Ace Maker * The Aero Experience | Thunder Over Louisville featured several other jet aircraft performers following the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron.  One of those, the Ace Maker T-33 flown by Gregory Colyer, flew graceful barrel rolls and smoke-on approaches that provided a dramatic presentation of the post-war era jet trainer....

72nd anniversary of Doolittle Raid on Tokyo - Cumberland Times-News | Friday, April 18, has another special meaning for me besides Good Friday. April 18, 1942, proved to be a pivotal day for American morale, following the deadly air attack and destruction conceived and executed by Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto. Last month, my wife, Carol, and I were on our way to see a most exciting air show, the Tampa Bay AirFest, featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds at MacDill Air Force Base with 120,000 others seeking the same thrill. On our way to the runways to observe the AeroShell acrobatic team perform in antique military trainers, we encountered the B-25 Panchito traveling trailer display and a crowd around an American hero. As I drew closer, I discovered it was retired Col. Richard E. Cole, who was co-pilot Crew 1 for then Col. James Doolittle in the lead B-25 launched off the carrier USS Hornet in the infamous and daring first carrier launch of bomber planes...

CAF Museum to Receive Funds From Midland College * NewsWest 9 | MIDLAND - Even though the Commemorative Air Force headquarters are moving, Midland College is continuing to give funds to the museum. At Tuesday’s meeting, Midland College Trustees voted to give the museum a little more than $355,000 in state funds...

CAF fight continues - Odessa American | Two days after Midland College trustees voted to distribute funds to the Commemorative Air Force, State Rep. Tom Craddick wrote to the state comptroller to halt funding for next fiscal year. According to the letter, Craddick said the college’s board disbursed $335,325 to the CAF for the 2014 fiscal year, which he said in the letter is wrong and poses legal problems...

English Electric Canberra – Restoration Progress Report · Warbirds News | Geoff Jones reports: Work on Classic Aviation Projects Ltd’s English Electric Canberra B.2 restoration at Air Base, Coventry is proceeding well. The Avro Woodford-built Canberra, RAF serial WK163, has been at Air Atlantique’s base in Coventry since March 23rd, 2000, having previously operated for air show work from Bruntingthorpe, Duxford and RAF Wyton...

Lockheed Super Constellation walkaround — elegance in red stripes (Part III) by travelforaircraft

B-2 Spirit or new Mysterious Stealth Plane? New image of triangular shaped plane emerges * The Aviationist | A new image taken in February seems to show the same mysterious plane photographed over Texas last month. | On Mar. 10, 2014 Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett took the famous photographs of three mysterious planes flying at very high altitude over Amarillo, Texas. The images they took showed what looked like an almost boomerang shaped plane, equipped with two engines (or at least two exhaust nozzles)...

Webinar- Aerobatics - Getting Started · eaavideo.org | Three-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion Patty Wagstaff discusses a wide variety of topics including: finding an instructor, aerobatic capable airplanes, various disciplines within aerobatics, challenges, and a variety of aerobatic maneuvers.

Dream Catchers * Flight To Success | Friday's Fabulous Flyers: ARC Team 33 | Michelle Bassanesi is flying her second Air Race Classic! She is both an EASA and FAA (and current) instrument rated commercial pilot with single- and multi- engine, instrument flight instructor, advanced ground instructor. She is also an undergraduate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University two-thirds of the way towards her BS in Aeronautics with minors in Aviation Safety and Management: Expected graduation 2016!..

Air Racers 3D Hits Select IMAX Theatres * EAA News | A new theatrical release of Air Racers 3D from 3D Entertainment Distribution is now showing at select IMAX theaters.

Trailer for new Disney Planes movie premieres · General Aviation News | The new “Thunder” trailer for Disney’s PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE is now available on Disney.com. Check it out here. The movie opens in theaters July 18...

Enrollment in Sporty's Course Surpasses 25,000 Young Eagles * EAA News | This week EAA and Sporty's announced that the more than 25,000 EAA Young Eagles have now enrolled in the online Sporty's Learn to Fly course, which is provided free to Young Eagles to help them pursue aviation interests beyond their first flight.

Monster Machines: NASA's Vomit Comet Trains Astronauts In The Ways Of Weightlessness - Gizmodo Australia | With limited lab space aboard the ISS and skyrocketing launch costs, only the very best extraterrestrial experiments make it into orbit. To put prospective experiments and astronauts alike through their weightless paces over the last six decades, NASA has relied on a gracefully arching series of cargo planes called The Vomit Comet...

Astronauts to make appearances during Space Fest at museum *  National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Astronauts Gregory Johnson and Douglas Wheelock will speak about their experiences in space during this year's Space Fest at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on May 16-17....