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AirVenture attendance down, but event still deemed a success - The Oshkosh Northwestern | Sandy Travnicek, right, and her husband, Andy, of Del Rio, Texas, take down their campsite in the North 40 area of EAA AirVenture 2012 as the convention wraps up on Sunday. The Travniceks will be flying to Minnesota to visit family before returning to...

My view of Oshkosh from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | AOPA writers, editors, reporters?, content creators?, whatever we are, each spend three and sometimes more hours per day beside our Husky talking with members during Sun `n Fun, AirVenture, and AOPA Summit. Between visitors, I took this...

Not-So Young Eagles - Aviation Week | The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has launched a new aviation mentoring program based on Young Eagles, but this time is targeting adults. The organization inaugurated the new Eagle Flights program during last week's 2012 Airventure in...

AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 – Day 4 from Other People's Airplanes by David | ...In today’s episode, we take you out to Scott’s Warbird Alley to look at some heavy metal. While there, we catch up with Panchito, the B-25 Mitchell I flew in during the Tico Warbird Air Show in March. We talk with Lynn May about the Disabled American Veterans. Be sure you “like” the DAV on Facebook to be entered to win a beautiful model of Panchito...

"Fifteen Score" UCAP #300 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast  | The boys celebrate their 300th episode from one of their favorite places: The deck of EAA Radio on the flightline at AirVenture Oshkosh.

Wings & Wheels Spectacular at transportation museum - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald | This year's Aerobatic Air Show will be held both days from 1:30 to 3 p.m., and will feature high-speed performances by Kendal Simpson in his Pitts Model 12 and Dan Marcotte in his Ultimate 200 biplane. Jim Parker will put on a show in an aerobatic ...

Minnesota Seaplane Pilots Safety Seminar & Fly-In from Midwest Flyer | BRAINERD, MINN. – Seaplane pilots from throughout Minnesota and neighboring states attended the 2012 Minnesota Seaplane Pilots Safety Seminar & Fly-In, May 4-6 at Madden’s Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. Many seaplane owners parked their planes right outside their cabins during …

Timmins "air show" was a crowd pleaser on Saturday - Timmins Times | Club member Nathan Crosby, working on his plane, was among the many who took time to set up his aircraft and fly it with a remote control radio system, much to the delight of the spectators. One of Crosby's aircraft was this deHavilland Turbo Otter ...

Navy, Marines take part in Sapporo Air Show - DVIDS | F/A-18E Super Hornets assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115 and EA-18G Growlers from Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 132 perform a fly-by in formation as part of the 26th Sapporo Air Show. Both squadrons are deployed to Japan in support of ...

Red Arrows high point of air show - Edinburgh Evening News | Spectators who braved erratic weather were also treated to a recreation of a First World War dogfight, and saw a host of vintage planes at the East Lothian airfield. Paul Hazelwood, visitor services manager at the National Museum of Flight, said the ...

Hawk Phil flies back to the Cotswolds for airshow - Wiltshire Business | Phil grew up in
Gloucestershire; he has been coming to Kemble Airshow since his teens and flew some of his first flights here when learning to fly on his PPL course aged 17. The RAF's Hawk Display Team is supporting the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund ...

The inevitable shot of the Olympic opening ceremony from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Like the title says, here's a shot of the Red Arrows doing their thing over the Olympic stadium last Friday as part of Danny Boyle's opening spectacular.

Choreographing Olympic Airspace | The Daily Planet - blogs.airspacemag.com | Flying into London for the Olympics? Get in line.

Royal International Air Tattoo 2012 - International Jet Team Fest! - www.youtube.com | Breitling Jet Team enjoyed displaying with some of the best International Jet teams in the World! The British Red Arrows, Korean Black Eagles, Patrouille de ...

WWII vet remembers pilot who saved his life - Hattiesburg American | Clint Martin, left, sits with World War II veteran Curt Weaver. During WWII, Weaver was escorted back to base by an unidentified Tuskegee Airman after his B-24 had engine trouble. Martin was able to help Weaver's family and friends identify the ...

Navy's X-47B UCAV in Debut Flight at Pax from Ares by Graham Warwick | Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned combat aircraft system demonstrator has made its first flight on the East Coast, from the US Navy's test center at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland.

Video: Red Flag night launch and recovery time lapse (spanning about 5 hours or so in just 3 minutes). from David Cenciotti's weblog | Brought to my attention by Jeff Merkowitz, the following video combines about 5 hours of night launches and recoveries from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, north of Las Vegas, in just 3 minutes of mesmerizing footage.

FROM TURIN TO DEFEND THE TITLE OF VENETO SAMPLE PARAGLIDING from Aviation-Report.com (translated) | Under the auspices of the Italian Federation of Free Flight, from 27 July to 2 August in Borso del Grappa (Treviso), the Aero Club will host the Italian Championship of Montegrappa paragliding event on the calendar of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.

South Africa: SA youth make it against all odds - 7thSpace Interactive | Refilwe Ledwaba, who has established the South African Women in Aviation and Aerospace Industry (SAWIA); a non-profit organisation aimed at empowering women in aviation, was also honoured in the Entrepreneurship category. Although she ...

16-year-old pilot completes cross-country journey from Kathryn's Report | Matt Gougeon prepares his aircraft in Sudbury on July 10 to begin a cross-Canada flight that starts in Tofino, B.C. and ends in Halifax, N.S. GINO DONATO/THE SUDBURY STAR Sudburian Matthew Gougeon is the youngest pilot to ever fly across the country solo in an amphibious aircraft. The last time The Star spoke with Gougeon, he was halfway through his cross-Canada challenge. He landed at...

18th Malta International Air Show

by Laszlo Nyary for http://www.airshowsreview.com/

Location: Malta International Airport, Luqa, Malta
Admission: €10 per day, children under 14 free (4 day pass €75)
Parking: Free
Value: Very Good

The flight line view for 2010, due to construction, is crossed by a commercially active runway and not as good as it is used to be in previous years.

The 18th annual event for the Malta International Air Show (MIAS) is relatively small with only 2 hours of flying time, yet is a very enthusiastic air show, when compared to other annual air shows world wide. However, size and duration of the event is not everything and the flying displays featured a good variety of internationally known aircraft and teams in addition to the Armed Forces of Malta (AMF), static and flying displays.

The actual air show, open to the public, was held on September 25 and 26, with arrival day on the 24th and departure on the 27th, unless they purchased the "4 day Enthusiast" pass. The weather forecast called for 30-40% precipitation and partly overcast skies for the weekend. It did rain, on arrival and departure days quite heavily, causing some minor floods in the area, but luckily enough on Saturday, only a few drops materialized in the morning and the strong winds all day, blew the rain clouds away and delayed the start of the show by about 30-45 minutes. Sunday’s weather was the best, with only a slight breeze.

This was my first official visit to Malta. I received an invitation by Lt. Commander J. Philip Webb, who organized the American participation, and by Joe Ciliberti, Air Show Director and President of the Malta Aviation Society.

Both public days featured the same program with the following exceptions: due to strong winds, the microlight aircraft and the recently restored DH 82 Tiger Moth did not fly on Saturday.
The Bae Hawk T1A, with the Union Jack paint scheme, started the flying portion of the air show on Saturday, while the microlights flew on Sunday. These were followed closely by the WE Fly Team made up of handicapped Italian pilots, who flew in an excellent close formation air display. The Canadian built Bombardier CL-415 water bomber demonstration was next, which thrilled the crowds when it released 6000 liters of water above the flight line. The Armed Forces of Malta showed their old and new paint scheme with their Alouette III helicopters in an interesting way, and there was a SAR demo by the Italian AB-212 helicopter. Both the Belgian and Royal Netherlands F-16’s flew a good display including deployment of anti-aircraft missile flares. For many, the highlight of the show was the French Team, Patrouille De France. Interestingly enough, the lead pilot of the team is a woman, Major Virginie Guyot. Patrouille De France started off the show with the deployment of smoke with the Maltese colors to the approval of the crowds. Some of the performances were delayed due to landing and taking off of commercial aircraft from the airport.

Both public days featured the same program with the following exceptions: due to strong winds, the microlight aircraft and the recently restored DH 82 Tiger Moth did not fly on Saturday.

The Bae Hawk T1A, with the Union Jack paint scheme, started the flying portion of the air show on Saturday, while the microlights flew on Sunday. These were followed closely by the WE Fly Team made up of handicapped Italian pilots, who flew in an excellent close formation air display. The Canadian built Bombardier CL-415 water bomber demonstration was next, which thrilled the crowds when it released 6000 liters of water above the flight line. The Armed Forces of Malta showed their old and new paint scheme with their Alouette III helicopters in an interesting way, and there was a SAR demo by the Italian AB-212 helicopter. Both the Belgian and Royal Netherlands F-16’s flew a good display including deployment of anti-aircraft missile flares. For many, the highlight of the show was the French Team, Patrouille De France. Interestingly enough, the lead pilot of the team is a woman, Major Virginie Guyot. Patrouille De France started off the show with the deployment of smoke with the Maltese colors to the approval of the crowds. Some of the performances were delayed due to landing and taking off of commercial aircraft from the airport.

The static portion of the show was made up of one German Panavia Tornado ECR, several aircraft from the UK (2) Harriers GR9, (1) Tornado GR4, (1) Bae Dominie and (1) Shorts Tucano T1, (6) aircraft from the USA including (2) C-26D, (1) C-21, (1) C-20, (1) KC-135R and (1) P-3C Orion. It would have been more interesting to see the KC-135R and the P-3C Orion in action. The KDC-10 tanker from the Royal Netherlands Air force was the biggest aircraft on display. The AMF display consisted of the S.A. Bulldog, Britten Norman Islander, and an Aloutte III helicopter. There were a variety of microlight aircraft, Cessna and Diamond aircraft on display from Malta School; of Flying and the Diamond Flight Training.

There were fewer vendors for food/drinks or souvenirs than usual at air shows typically of this size in North America or even other European shows. Sanitation facilities were a bit sparse too. The French Team’s C-160 support plane was parked close to the flight line centre, blocking the view of many attendees of aircraft taking off. The light was not exactly the best for photography with the sun partially in front of photographers, a 80-400mm range zoom lens worked the best for flying and supplemented with a wide angle for static.

I wish to thank all the people who made my stay at MIAS an enjoyable one, especially: Lt. Commander J. Philip Webb, Joe Ciliberti and his friendly volunteer staff such as Paul Spiteri Lucas, Mario Zammit and Rosie Lehner.

Oh yes, and thank you for one particular photographer too, or I should write “hypocritetographer” to describe you; a new word coined just for you, for showing that hypocrisy is alive and well!

Over all the air show was a blast and earned a solid 8 out 10. MIAS has a lot of potential for the future…

Some of the flying displays were:
Patrouille De France, 8 Alpha jets,
Belgian F-16 Demo Team
Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Demo Team
RAF Hawk Solo Demo
RAF Tucano Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary paint scheme
AMF Aloutte III helicopters
Italian WE Fly Team
Italian Bombardier CL-415
Italian AB 212 SAR Demo
DH 82 Tiger Moth
Rating: 8.0 out of 10

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Bonhomme wins 2010 Championship, Arch victorious in Germany - Red Bull Air Race
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Warbird ready to put on a show - Cairns Post
THE P-40 Kittyhawk - the pride of the Warbirds fleet - has returned to the skies in time to take centre stage at the Warbirds show after it crash landed ...

CF-18s cancel Abby airshow - BCLocalNews
The CAF Snowbirds, USAF Thunderbirds, CAF Skyhawks, C-17 Globemaster and the F/A-18F Super Hornet are just some of the aircraft that will take to the sky. ...

Red Arrows aerobatic display team to wow Falmouth Week crowds - The Cornishman
THE Red Arrows aerobatic display team will be appearing at Henri-Lloyd Falmouth Week as planned next Wednesday (11th). Their appearance was put in threat ...

RAF Hawk display withdrawn from Flightline UK
From the RAF Hawk Display Facebook pages:-
    ” It is with considerable regret that Flt Lt Tom Saunders has been withdrawn from his role as the Hawk solo Display Pilot for the remainder of the Summer display season. This follows an incident which took place recently involving the Hawk Display aircraft.
    The RAF is aware of how popular the Hawk solo display is and apologises for any disappointment caused. Unfortunately, it is not possible to find a replacement display pilot in time for the remainder of the current season but we are looking at whether it is possible to offer alternatives to the solo Hawk display at the scheduled events instead.”

'Blue Impulse' aerobatic team still reaching for the sky on 50th anniversary - Mainichi Daily News
(Mainichi) "Blue Impulse," the popular aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF), is celebrating its 50th anniversary this ...
  Central Europe's Biggest Air Show Held in Hungary
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Aircraft tribute to the navy - Victoria Lookout
"Having these planes on display here provides a unique opportunity for Victorians to learn about Canada's aviation heritage since many of the airmen who ...


Look to the skies for flypast - Daily Echo
A FLYPAST of classic aircraft is being planned to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Three of the most iconic RAF planes of the Second ...


Lanark's aviation history marked - BBC
Lanark's contribution to aviation history has been marked at a special event.
Continue reading the main story
A memorial was unveiled at the town's racecourse to commemorate its role as Scotland's first airfield.
The ceremony coincides with the 100th anniversary of an international aviation meeting which attracted at least 200,000 spectators in 1910.
The memorial has been erected by a charity which aims to preserve former airfields as heritage sites. ...

Flypast salute to navy 'ace' pilot - Isle of Wight County Press
Speaking of the Seafire flypast, Cmdr Crosley's widow said: "It was an enormous honour." Cmdr Crosley had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, ...
   
WWII remembered - BBC News
The family of a war hero are guests of honour at north Wales' biggest airshow marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain this ...

Those magnificent Irishmen in their flying machines - Independent
Damian Corless on the 100th anniversary of Irish aviation
One hundred years ago, in August 1910, a large crowd of curious spectators gathered at Leopardstown in Dublin for Ireland's first air show. It was just seven years since Orville Wright had made the first 12-second manned flight at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, and only a year since the world's first aviation meet in France. ...

Group preserve aviation history - Ipswich Queensland Times
The RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre features a growing inventory of planes, helicopters and military memorabilia, all reconditioned by a team of ...
   
Red Arrows - alternative aircraft from PPRuNe Forums  

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Jones Beach Air Show on Memorial Day Weekend - About - Cities & Towns
On Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 30, 2010, you can watch the US Navy Blue Angels Jet team soar through the skies over Long Island as well as other ...

Great May Alabama Aviation Events Still to Come from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
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Muskoka 2010 Air Show - Muskoka Girl
Muskoka 2010 Air Show; Thunder in Little Norway Air Show will thunder through the Muskoka Airport on July seventeenth and eighteenth to celebrate its seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Norway and the Battle of Britain; which were two major battles during the World War Two which actually help turn the tide of the war ...

2010 Royal Air Force Solo Hawk Display by Rob Vogelaar
The 2010 Royal Air Force solo Hawk Display is flown by Flt Lt Tom Saunders, a Qualified Flying Instructor (QFI) from No. 208 (R) Squadron, 4FTS RAF Valley.
The Hawk Display exists to promote the Royal Air Force at home and overseas. In 2010, Flt Lt Saunders is scheduled to attend over 45 air shows in front of an estimated 5 million spectators. ...

'The Last Time' plans record-setting DC-3 flight from General Aviation News
The world's largest reunion of Douglas DC-3s since World War II, dubbed "The Last Time", has appointed eight industry experts to assist in the planning for an historic and world record-setting formation flight. Not since D-Day in 1944 and the invasion of France have this many vintage aircraft planned to operate together in flight, organizers say. ...

Starflight - Fly in to the Windsor Red Bull Air Race - Red Bull Air Race
The Red Bull Air Race GmbH is pleased to announce the launch of the first Official Red Bull Air Race Starflight which will take place on the Red Bull Air Race Windsor weekend June 5 and 6.
The Red Bull Air Race Starflight will be conducted in close partnership with Windsor International Airport YQG which at the same time will be the host for the Red Bull Air Race Airport.
The highlight of this Starflight is that private pilots will land at the same airport from which the race operations are conducted for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. ...

Air show highlights jointness from National Guard - Top News
Joint operations were underscored here this weekend as thousands of civilians gathered at the 2010 Joint Service Open House to get a closer look at the military's best aircraft and vehicles and the servicemembers who operate and maintain them...

Joint Service Open House Features MV-22 Osprey from Planenews Aviation News Portal
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md.: The MV-22 Osprey, one of the workhorse aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps., was featured at the 2010 Joint Service Open House May 15, 2010, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. The Osprey is a multi-mission, military, tiltrotor aircraft featuring both a vertical takeoff and landing, and short takeoff and landing capabilities. It funcations as both a conventional helicopter and a turboprop aircraft.

May Stops for Aluminum Overcast - Fly the Fortress

May 18 - 19, Klamath Falls, OR by EAA Chapter 411
May 21 - 23, Portland, OR by EAA Chapter 105
May 26 - 31, Seattle, WA by EAA Warbird Squadron 2

The plan for getting back in the air after 'gyro in the lake incident' from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe
Greetings again from Thailand! It's been just over a week since my unscheduled stop off began and I initially thought that was the end of my circumnavigation record attempt. Photo shows Norman 'suited, booted and rearing to go' at a Buddhist Temple near Nongprue, Thailand ...

Ladies Love Taildraggers – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday
TUESDAY – The ladies from Ladies Love Taildraggers join us to discuss their upcoming fly-in.   The big event kicks off August 13th and runs through the 15th at the Moraine Airport in Dayton, Ohio.  Judy Birchler and Susan Theodorelos will join us with all the details.  If you're a lady and love flying taildraggers tune [...]

"WASP IN THEIR OWN WORDS" from WASP & WINGS
CLICK BOOK TO SEE SAMPLE PAGES "WASP In Their Own Words, an Illustrated History"  This book is a labor of love, my extraordinary thank you to the WASP -- sharing what I have learned, much of it from WASP interviews with Wings Across America and my work online over the last 14 years.    It is also the most comprehensive, inspirational, ILLUSTRATED history book ever written about the WWII ...

AirPigz Podcast #11: Flight Journal Editor & Pitts Fanatic Budd Davisson by Martt
Budd Davisson has been writing about his amazing flying experiences for 40 years now, and he's still going strong!  He keeps busy as the Editor-in-Chief of Flight Journal magazine, a fabulous publication and website with an emphasis on aviation history, including detailed stories on aircraft, people and events from military aviation.
Budd also runs airbum.com, a website full of his pilot reports and photography from the last 40 years of his work as an aviation journalist.  It's a tremendous resource for all kinds of great avgeek info.
And if all that wasn't enough, Budd has been running a Pitts Special flight school for well over 30 years!  He ...

Acro Camp Updates on Facebook
Acro Camp is a documentary feature film that will capture the drama and excitement when four ordinary pilots converge on southeast Michigan this spring to fly aerobatics for the first time. Principal photography took place 12-16 May 2010.

Flying Tigers member first to visit Chennault museum from Flying Tigers News
MONROE -- Sam Jue was 16 in 1935 when he left his home near Hong Kong and came to America to join his father. Less than 10 years later he returned to China, this time as a part of a special group of soldiers requested by Gen. Claire Chennault to support his "Flying Tigers" air units fighting Imperial Japan. On Thursday, Jue became the first man who worked directly for Chennault to visit the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe, according to museum board member  ...

USAF Museum Series: Part 8 from A mile of runway will take you anywhere

As I mentioned in a post last month, I was able to spend a couple more days at the museum in mid-April. I finally made it to the Presidential and R&D Galleries that are situated on an active part of the Air Force base. In addition, I took some new shots in the other galleries that I'll add to the series in the future. This post has photos from the R&D Gallery and the next one will contain Presidential Gallery aircraft - including SAM 26000, the airplane that carried JFK back from Dallas in 1963.

St. Louis Air Show Flashback: Holiday Inn/Coca Cola Pitts and Leo Loudenslager from

The Aero Experience
Early 1990s St. Louis Post Dispatch Promotional Photos for Fair St. Louis Air show. After an absence since 2005, the Air Show is returning to downtown St. Louis July 3-4, 2010.

Video: The last Hamilton from Letters from Flyover Country
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Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
In 1947 researchers at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton began investigations into the possibility of using missiles for bomber defense as the speed of jets and the weight of gun turrets made existing systems for bomber defense impractical. General Electric was the first to receive a USAF contract to pursue such studies, but soon transferred the work to Hughes where the missile developed didn't end up on bombers but on interceptors as the Falcon missile. McDonnell was next in 1952 to try and develop a jet-vane controlled defensive missile for the Convair B-58 Hustler, but the work was canceled in 1956. By that time, however, work began on the WS-110A project that would result in the North American XB-70 Valkyrie and more ...

Boeing's First Production Airplane Meets the Future of Flight in the Skies Over Puget Sound from The Aero Experience
EVERETT, Wash. The Boeing Company's (NYSE: BA) latest addition to its lineage of pioneering commercial airplanes, the 787 Dreamliner, on May 8 caught up to its ancestor, a Boeing Model 40, in the skies over Mount Rainier south of Seattle.
The fully restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40, owned and flown by Addison Pemberton of Spokane, Wash., is the only flyable Model 40 in the world and the oldest flying Boeing aircraft of any kind. The Model 40 not only is  ...

Spirit in the sky by Randy Tinseth
The first 787 Dreamliner, meets the Boeing Model 40, our first production commercial airplane, for an in-the-air rendezvous. Chief test pilot Mike Carriker flew ZA001 alongside the Model 40 at 12,000 feet for this shot. ...

May 17 from Cut and Paste Aviation
... 1919 -- The U.S. War Department ordered use of national star insignia on all planes.
1913 -- Domingo Rosillo flies from Key West in Florida to Havana in Cuba, in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane.
1900 -- French-born gliding pioneer Octave Chanute replies to a letter from the Wright brothers.

Starex 2010 – part 1 by David Cenciotti
From May 3 to May 13, 2010, Decimomannu airbase, in Sardinia, home of the AWTI (Air Weapons Training Installation) hosted the STAREX 2010 exercise. About 50 aircraft attended the operations that simulated an International crisis scenario. ...

Video: Stratos - The technology from Aerial Sports Feed
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And he passed with just one foot.
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AN-124 from FenceCheck Forums
Space shuttle Atlantis from AF.mil Photos
International Learn to Fly Day at Oshkosh in photos
Thunderbirds on the F-100 SuperSabre from TAKEOFF TUBE
US Navy Blue Angels – Joint Services Open House 2010-2 - flickr
Planes of Fame Airshow 2010 - Chino - 05/15/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Lockheed P-38 And North American P-51 Chino Air Show 2010 - AIRBOYD.TV


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