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Chip Yates’ Records Ratified by FAI · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | With recognition this week of five electric airplane records set by Chip Yates in flights last year, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) ratified performance numbers that top those of most single-engine high-performance gasoline-powered aircraft from established manufacturers, according to Yates...

SLU grad named to prestigious 'Blue Angels' * STLtoday.com | A tip of the flight helmet to Navy Lt. Matt Suyderhoud, a St. Louis University graduate (Class of '05) who was named Wednesday to the 2015 roster of the "Blue Angels." Suyderhoud, an F/A-18 pilot, is from Honolulu and currently is stationed in Texas...

Over the River Air Show practice flight with Lt. Colonel John Klatt * Mid Columbia Tri City Herald | Lt. Colonel John Klatt flies with Tri-City Herald reporter Kristi Pihl over Benton and Franklin counties Thursday during a practice flight in Extra 300L plane. Klatt,of the Air National Guard's Aerobatic Team, is performing during the three-day Over...

Harrier jet to be among top attractions at LV Air Show - WFMZ | A Sea Harrier, called the only privately-owned and flown aircraft of its type in the world, is joining the line-up at the Aug. 23-24 Lehigh Valley Air Show.

Huey, Cobra helicopter rides offered to public * Dothan Eagle | A pilot gives members of the media a helicopter ride in a legacy helicopter (Huey UH-A N104HF) on Thursday. Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and Flying Museum, and Friends of Army Aviation-Ozark are partnering to bring the Legacy of Army Aviation to...

'Flying The Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project' * Aero-News Network | An Interview With Documentary Filmmaker Kim Furst In recent years, EAA's AirVenture has seen increased participation from filmmakers producing new aviation-themed features, television and documentaries. In preparing for AirVenture 2014, one project in particular caught my attention - creating a documentary film that rises to the contributions of an aviation legend Robert A. "Bob" Hoover. The film is titled "Flying The Feathered Edge."

‘You could see the bolt coming’: Pilot describes CF-18 being hit by lightning * Julia Parrish, CTV Edmonton | Officials with the Royal Canadian Air Force said technicians are investigating after a pilot was forced to land his CF-18 Thursday – after it was hit by lightning. RCAF officials said the plane was hit by lightning late Thursday morning, while it was being flown to the Whitecourt airshow from High River, where the pilot and the aircraft had appeared in another airshow...

Warbird Pin Up Girls’ Opens at Garth Gallery on Friday · WarbirdsNews Christian Kieffer, the photographer of the world famous “Warbird PinUp Girls’’ calendar and sponsor of WarbirdsNews will be exhibiting his work at the Columbia’s Garth Gallery opening with a reception this Friday from 5 to 9 p.m.Kieffer is a graduate of South East Center of Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach Florida, and worked for the Walt Disney Creative Photography department in Orlando. His series of...

Group Looking For 60-Year-Old B-25 Bomber Asks To Dredge Mon River * CBS Local | PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Do the murky waters of the Monongahela River hide a mystery, submerged for 58 years? In January 1956, a B-25 bomber, low on fuel, made an emergency landing in the Mon. Four crew members were saved. Two others drowned.

Navy Says Farewell To The C-9 Skytrain II Aircraft * Aero-News Network | Last Of The Airplanes Retired In Late June Ending its 41-year commitment to a workhorse aircraft, the U.S. Navy retired the last C-9B Skytrain II on June 28 to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group based in Tucson, AZ...

'I've wanted to fly all my life' * Stuff.co.nz | This week the pair were at the Marlborough Aero club and the two-seater Piper Tomahawk that Laura will climb into for her first lesson, was parked outside the clubroom hangar. ''I've wanted to fly all my life,'' she says, and cites an uncle who had ...