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Fleet Week to open in S.F. with a roar * SFGate.com | ...This year the event begins with a roar around noon Thursday when the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels precision flying team begins its practice runs over San Francisco and the bay. The Angels fly again Friday, Saturday and Sunday as part of an air show over the waterfront....

Photos: Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean D. Tucker flies over the Bay Area * San Jose Mercury News media center | Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean D. Tucker and Bay Area News Group reporter Theresa Harrington fly over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Tucker has been inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and...

Watsonville Fly-In celebrates 50 years * Contra Costa Times | WATSONVILLE >> The 50th annual Watsonville Fly-In and Air Show will kick off Friday with special activities for children and the traditional spaghetti dinner. Watsonville Municipal Airport's premier event will run through the weekend with skydiving and...

HALL AIMING FOR A WIN IN AIR RACE SERIES * NBN | There are two rounds remaining in this year’s Air Race Series – and Merewether’s Matt Hall has set himself a goal of winning at least one of them. Currently fourth overall, Hall resumes his campaign in Las Vegas on Sunday...

The ride of a lifetime: Inside a Red Bull Air Race plane * Las Vegas Weekly | The moment I send the email, I regret it, but what's done is done: I've agreed to a fly-along with Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss in a two-seater aerobatic plane. The one-sheet explainer on the experience includes a parachute briefing and...

The fastest sport you've never heard of * CNN | Look out NASCAR, one of the world's fastest motor sports wants to steal your fans. We're talking about air racing, where powerful, small planes compete on a looped path in the air, reaching speeds between 200-500 mph. This thrilling sport is...

Video: The Athleticism of Aerobatics · General Aviation News | Cirrus Aircraft has released the latest in a series of videos spotlighting aerobatic star Michael Goulian. Called The Athleticism of Aerobatics...

Community invited to Bryce Canyon Airport for fly-in and open house * Suindependent | As part of the inaugural Bryce Canyon Fly-In, pilots are invited to land their planes at the airport for free and then take a shuttle to visit the red-rock vistas of Bryce Canyon National Park. Pilots will also be treated Friday evening to an opening...

Variety of aircraft to see at Fly-In * Times-Enterprise | THOMASVILLE — Aircraft from all over the Southeast will descend here this weekend for the 47th Thomasville Fly-In, an event sponsored by the Thomasville Aviation Club. More than 300 airplanes and more than 3,000 spectators are expected if the weather...

The Lee Bottom Fly-In Review Part 5 - The Ultimate Review · Rich Davidson NORDO News | After everything was said and done, everyone had flown away, and the last box of fly-in "stuff" was put away, Ginger and I felt pretty good.  The event had gone off rather smoothly. Attendance at the fly-in was better than we expected.  The flow of people never seemed to stop. It was a good crowd but it wasn't crazy.  A plane would land and a few minutes later so would another.  That's how it went...

The making of an air show * Florida Times-Union | For the 2014 NAS Jax Air Show, scheduled for Oct. 25-26, a diverse team of professionals joined together with a shared vision to create what is expected to be two spectacular days of high-flying entertainment for hundreds of thousands of spectators...

Wattisham Apache wins Army photographer the ‘people’s prize’ * Daily Free Press | A  spectacular picture of one of Wattisham’s Apache attack helicopters hovering in front of a fireball was voted by Facebook users to be the Best Overall Image in the Army’s annual photographic competition, it was announced today...

A Record Mojave * Kitplanes | Copy of article from Kitplanes posted on the Mojave Fly-in site.

Pilot Charlotte Zeederberg flies The Great Tiger Moth Air Race * Ladies Love Taildraggers | The first Tiger Moth Air Race was run in 1977, in order to test the airman-ship of the many pilots who took part. Since the first Tiger Moth Air Race there have been 13 air races, the last being in 2003. The James Strong Memorial Great Tiger Moth Air Race revives this tradition and brings pilots and machines from all over the country (Australia)...

NWOC 2015 Registration Open · WarbirdsNews | Registration for 21st National Warbird Operator Conference on Feb 26-Mar 1 in New Orleans, LA is now open.The world’s largest gathering of warbird owners, operators, maintainers and suppliers will soon meet at the 21st Anniversary National Warbird Operator Conference...

Boulder park to be named after Col. Bill Bower, who served in WWII * Boulder Daily Camera | ...Bower participated in the famed Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. The Doolittle raid was the first strike by the U.S. against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Bower flew his B-25B bomber off the deck of the USS Hornet and helped bomb Tokyo before ditching his plane in China and making his way back to the U.S...

10 Years After The Yankee Air Museum Hangar Fire * WEMU | Ten years ago Thursday the Yankee Air Museum's hangar went up in flames, destroying everything the museum had, except for its three flying aircraft. And if not for the heroic work of several museum volunteers, the planes might have been lost, as well...

magneticNorth builds World War II archive for American Air Museum * Prolific North | magneticNorth has built the most comprehensive digital archive of the American servicemen who served from the UK during the Second World War. It was commissioned by the American Air Museum, part of the Imperial War Museum. american air museum...

SIPA 121 # 51 in Essey-lès-Nancy  * Translated | Recently I told you about the MS472 "Lapwing" stationed in Essey-les-Nancy in the 1:36 Erala heiress CERO307 stating that they were gradually replaced by SIPA S111 / 121 from 1957. Here is a picture above, it is the SIPA 121 No. 51, recognizable by the antenna of the radio compass in the rear of the canopy. According to the badge visible on the plane, even if it is upside down compared to the usual representations, we can say that it is the 3/38 Erala Tours outcome of CERO 311...

French Air Force celebrates 50th Anniversary of Strategic Air Forces with three stunning special colors * The Aviationist | On Oct. 3, with a ceremony held at Istres airbase, the French Air Force celebrated 50 years of French deterrence by the Forces Aériennes Strategiques which are responsible for Paris’s nuclear weapons....

Are those F-117s? | Check out this post from The Aviationist

Pilot dies in air tanker crash at Yosemite fire * CNN | The pilot of an air tanker battling a wildfire at Yosemite National Park died after the tanker crashed Tuesday, Cal Fire said. The tanker was being used to help battle Dog Rock Fire when authorities lost contact with its pilot Tuesday afternoon, Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said in a statement...

National Air and Space Museum releases free children’s app · General Aviation News | A new iPad app from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum helps children learn about airplanes and rockets through four games inspired by the history of early flight. Pilot Pals, the museum’s first app, also enables children ages 4 to 6 to personalize their experience by naming their hangar and choosing a Pilot Pal to accompany them...

NASA helicopter test a smashing success · General Aviation News | HAMPTON, Va. — The successful crash test of a former Marine helicopter could help lead to safer civilian and military helicopters, according to NASA aeronautics researchers. The full-scale test sent the fuselage and its 15 dummy occupants crashing into the dirt at NASA Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research facility in Hampton, Virginia, at about 30 miles an hour...

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