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Air Race Classic takes off June 16 · General Aviation News | Buchanan Field Airport in Concord, Calif., will be the start of this year’s Air Race Classic (ARC), which spans over 2,338 nautical miles. The 2014 Air Race Classic will be held June 16-19. Racers will zoom through 10 intermediate stops in four days enroute New Cumberland, Pa., in the quest for the fastest time....

The Racing Aces take flight Monday * Port Lavaca Wave | The Racing Aces have partnered with Cirrus Aircraft to show their commitment to the education of women in aviation. All of the team's proceeds gained during the 2014 Air Race Classic will be put toward a scholarship for a future female pilot. “Some...

Liberty Belles aim for top-flight finishes at 38th annual Air Race Classic * Liberty News | ... the team, and dispatcher Ariana Knight pose in front of one of the Piper Arrows. For the third straight year, the Liberty Belles, Liberty University School of Aeronautics' female flight team, will enter two planes in the 38th annual Air Race ...

100 pilots stop through Iowa City for Air Race Classic next week * kwwl.com | The Air Race Classic began in 1977 and is the longest-running air race for women pilots. It follows in the tradition of the All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, which began in 1947, and the Women's Air Derby, which began in 1929 because women pilots...

Great Galena Balloon Race takes off June 20 · General Aviation News | GALENA, Ill. – The staff at Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa has started to plan for one of the most popular summer events in Galena: the 13th Annual Great Galena Balloon Race. Weekend events take place from Friday, June 20, through Sunday, June 22, and benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Camp Herkto Hollow....

Sea Vixen boosts Air Day Carrier celebrations * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | The world’s only flying de Havilland Sea Vixen post-war naval strike fighter will be a special part of RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 2014′s ‘Carrier Aviation’ theme. Its appearance in this year’s flying display will be one of the most eagerly anticipated performances in recent years....

Come to the New Engl: It's your chance to play pilot for the d - HamletHub | It's your chance to play pilot for the day! Climb into the cockpits of 10 aircraft including the P-47 Thunderbolt, the F-100 Super Sabre, the Huey helicopter and more. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 15, at the New England Air Museum located at 36 Perimeter Rd., Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks....

Between displays – the Red Arrows - Flightglobal (blog) | In the RAF Aerobatic Team (RAFAT), the Red Arrows pilots may be the stars the public recognises, but they didn’t join the RAF as stars. Neither did the RAFAT engineers on whom the pilots depend for keeping their ageing Hawk T1s in fit shape for sharp flying. Nor the admin and logistics team that keeps them on the road. Stars they all are, but most of the time it doesn’t feel like it. Most of the time it’s like, well, it’s like being in the RAF. The RAF’s what they joined, the RAF gave them the skills they bring to the team, and the RAF’s what they are....

Flight in Rare Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon Is Midwest Aviation Adventure  * The Aero Experience | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum recently had the privilege of hosting a rare World War II-era Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon patrol bomber from the Warbird Warrior Foundation near its home at St. Louis Downtown Airport for several weeks leading up to the Midwest Airport Fun Days event. All great things eventually come to an end, and owner Dave Hansen and pilot Chris Ryan flew to St. Louis to pick up the aircraft last Wednesday. The Harpoon, one of only two still flying, carries the nose art entitled "Attu Warrior" in tribute to the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands campaign where Harpoons were used in combat....

B-17 Flights Offered to Nebraskans * 1011now | B-17's were used by the Allies in bombings that helped turn the tide of battle in World War II. The flights are taking place in Lincoln on Monday, July 28th...

Minter Field Air Museun docent does more than explain artifacts, he lived history * KERO-TV 23 | If you've stopped by Minter Field Air Museum any time in the past decade, you've probably talked to a docent named Donald Westfahl. The veteran knows every artifact in the Shafter museum; not because he memorized the placards, Westfahl graduated from...

Sopwith Camel Ready for Its New Exhibition Space · WarbirdsNews | On Tuesday 17th June at 10:00am, staff at the RAF Museum will be rolling the First World War Sopwith Camel into the exhibition space dedicated to telling the story of the ‘First World War In The Air.’ The Sopwith Camel is perhaps the most famous and iconic aircraft to take to the skies during the First World War. It was also made famous as the aircraft of choice by the fictional hero Biggles.This aircraft is to...

UH-1 Huey joins collection at Veterans Museum * Henry Herald | “We acquired it a year and a half ago,” said Jim Joyce, the volunteer curator and director of Heritage Park Veterans Museum. Joyce said Army Aviation Heritage Foundation in Hampton donated the helicopter, which took more than a year to refurbish. He ...

New Apache to Land at Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor · WarbirdsNews | Apache AH 64E ground to air shoot in the Arizona desert. ( Image via Pacific Aviation Museum)PRESS RELEASE- Honolulu, HI—Heralding the beginning of RIMPAC—the U.S. Navy’s 2014 Rim of the Pacific exercise—the new U.S. Army Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopter is deploying to Hawaii and will fly in to Ford Island and land for public viewing, a welcoming ceremony and blessing at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor on Friday, June 20.This is a free event for the community to see this visiting helicopter, hear about the U.S. Army’s newest vertical airborne technology, and meet the pilots and ground crew...

Get some smash on - AOPA Pilot | Smash is a good word for it. Creating and managing energy—a combination of airspeed (kinetic energy) and altitude (potential energy)—has been the key to surviving dogfights since the first engagements. (Along with keeping eyeballs on whomever is trying to shoot you.) For a general aviation pilot, even for one familiar with other aerobatic disciplines, this is a new kind of flying. Being aggressive, yet smooth, is a difficult balance to find. Manor, who retired as a lieutenant colonel and is now among the highly trained tacticians flying for Air Combat USA, was all of that—and the nicest guy you’d never want to meet on the other side of an air-to-air engagement....

World War II from Above · Travel for Aircraft | World War II from Above World War II from Above: an aerial view of the global conflict, Jeremy Harwood, 2014, ISBN 9780760345733, 208 pp. This book skillfully tells the tale of the air war during World War. Most of the air war is addressed using well worded text as well as 100 color photos, 100…]

Jake Craig is Aviator for a Day * WTOK | Meridian Naval Air Station, Miss. A child who battled leukemia at a very young age was Aviator for a Day" at Meridian Naval Air Station Friday. Training Air Wing 1 has partnered with Blair Batson Children's Hospital in Jackson to provide opportunities...

Students fly high at Johnson Flight Academy * CAP | ILLINOIS -- “I got my first solo on that runway you see behind me. That really gave me that bug, that passion for aviation.” Capt. Robert Bowden is an instructor at the Johnson Flight Academy. For the past 10 years he’s been teaching students skills that can last them a lifetime. Those...

Video: Inside Virgin Galactic's newest passenger spaceship * CNN | Mojave, California (CNN) -- When I first poked my head inside Virgin Galactic's newest spaceship, I felt a little like I was getting a front-row seat to space history.  The company, led by billionaire Richard Branson, allowed CNN unprecedented access to a "SpaceShipTwo, Serial Two" spacecraft which was being carefully assembled by workers at a secure facility in the high desert north of Los Angeles....