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Woonsocket Make-A-Wish Children Meet U.S. Navy Blue Angels Pilots - Patch.com | Wish child CJ Sok recently posed for a photo with US Navy Blue Angels Pilot Lt. Rob Kurrle, Jr., USN. CJ is nine-years old and left for his wish trip to Disney World the Monday following his meet and greet ...

Fun on the Fourth  - The News Tribune | The Fourth of July had not a cloud in the sky, so an acrobatic pilot made some.  Tim Weber flipped and rolled his one-seat plane over Commencement Bay on Monday, leaving white corkscrew vapor trails behind him. Four-year-old Vaida Smith couldn’t contain herself.  “The clouds! Daddy, the clouds!” she shrieked, while Weber performed his part of the air show Monday at Tacoma’s Freedom Fair, the annual Independence Day celebration along two miles of Ruston Way. ...

Black Daggers Dropping in on PNC Air Show 2011 from Airshow Updates: Latest Scoop | The Black Daggers love to drop in on Peoria! And they are always a crowd pleaser! Many love to say “Why would I jump out of perfectly good airplane” … The Black Daggers may say, “’Cause I can!”  The Black Daggers are the official U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute Demonstration Team. Their mission is to perform live aerial demonstrations in support of ...

Wings Over Wine Country from Airplanes Channel | The Wings Over Wine Country Pacific Coast Air Museum Air Show will be an exciting event filled with great activities and attractions. The Schedule includes RC model aircraft, a Beale Air Force Base Military Flyby, mass WWII Warbird Flyby, Team Rocket, Tim Decker Pitts Special, Greg Poe - MX-2 Aerobatics, Greg Colyer "Blue Angels" T-33 Shooting Star and more.   ...

2011 Greenwood Lake Air Show and WWII Showcase from Airplanes Channel | The 2011 Greenwood Lake Air Show and WWII Showcase will feature a number of great aviation performances by the likes of Kendal Simpson, Jane Wicker Air Shows, Kevin Russo, Kirk Wicker and North East Raiders Demo Squadron. A number of interesting aircraft will be on display ...

2011 Thunder Over the Blue Ridge airshow to feature F-22 Raptor plane from Warplanes Online Community | Although the F-22 won’t be performing, airshow visitors will have the opportunity to see it up close and learn more about its capabilities from the pilots who fly it. ...

Three blimps vie for Independence Airship Invitational win on Fourth of July - The Jersey Journal - NJ.com | For the Fourth of July celebration, from 5 pm to 7p.m., three blimps will be competing for the Independence Airship Invitational - an air race which hasn't be done since 1986. The blimps from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hangar 1 Vodka and DirecTV ...
   
B-17 bomber brings WWII to life - Pekin Daily Times | A WWII B-17G bomber owned by Experimental Aircraft Association Air Venture Oshkosh during a tour stop at Greater Peoria Regional Airport, on Monday. By Ken Harris After the “Liberty Belle” made a fiery emergency landing in a field in mid-June, ...

Fairford International Air-show dates 2011: All the ticket and camping ... - International Business Times | The Royal International Air Tattoo, the world's largest military airshow, is held annually each July at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. This summer's event will be celebrating its 40th anniversary and will be held on the 16-17 July. ...

PICTURES: AirSpace users capture the action at Waddington air show - Flightglobal | AirSpace users Duncan Monk, M_Needham and Sunshine Band were among those to capture the action involving attractions such as the Vulcan to the Sky Trust's Avro Vulcan XH558, the US Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-16-equipped Thunderbirds aerobatic ...

Photos of Note: The 2011 Paris Air Show from Flightblogger

Photos: AirPower 11 Zeltweg (A)Inviato from Passione Volo 

FOURTH EDITION OF EXHIBITION OF FLIGHT - AIR FESTIVAL FROM 23 TO 25 September LIDO OF VENICE AIRPORT Nicelli - via Translator | It will be held September 23 to 25 pv Nicelli airport of Venice Lido the fourth exhibition of Flight - Air Festival.  The event, organized by Expo trade fair venice Venice, 2011 edition focuses on aspects of exhibition and in-depth than the Air Show, which had characterized the previous editions. Among the new section of '"Used to quality," in which companies , Flying club and individuals can sell their quality used and enthusiasts to buy what they want at bargain price.   ...

LOCAL COURT OF PARKS AIRPORT BARI ITALY DAY AVIATION EXPO 2011 - via Translator | The Expo, in its first edition, is organized by the Consorzio Innova Business Reality 3, 1999 Events and Consulting Aviatoria whose synergy is focused in achieving the common objective of creating an international event of aircraft, their components and related services industries national and international.  ...

PARAGLIDING IN ALL PINK AND RALLY DRIVERS IN LIGURIA LOMBARDY - via Translator | On 9 and July 10 at Mount Cornizzolo Suello (Lecco) someone said that the witches fly, but it is quite true. She certainly fly again, second edition, large gathering of women pilots in paragliding. If they are witches or not, depending on your point of view. The event is organized by the Paragliding Club Scurbatt in collaboration with the Italian Federation of Free Flight with the aim ...

Team Goulian’s AirVenture/Oshkosh 2011 Schedule from Mike Goulian Airshows | Join us at AirVenture (Oshkosh, WI) July 25 – 31 for any of our functions listed below. Have a chance to meet Michael at one of his many autograph sessions, watch him fly the air show on Monday, Thursday or Friday and watch him live on AOPALive on Saturday. ...

London tribute to WWII bombers set - New Zealand Herald | Photo / RAF A memorial is to be unveiled in London next year to honour those who fought in Bomber Command in World War II - including thousands of Kiwis. The multimillion-dollar memorial will be built in Green Park and is expected to be unveiled in May ...

Mayors Breakfast in jeopardy of not happening during EAA AirVenture week from The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines | For more than 20 years, the Mayors Breakfast has welcomed worldwide AirVenture visitors to the Oshkosh community, encouraging guests and locals to interact while enjoying a Wisconsin-style breakfast. ...
   
Fly-In Draws Crowd - Monmouth Daily Review Atlas | Community members big and little had the opportunity to see what it was like to sit in a plane at Monmouth's Fly-In Breakfast, an annual 4th of July tradition. Members of the Flying Club said this year's event drew in a larger-than-normal crowd. ...

Terry Bowden's Blog: Monocoupes and Other Light Monoplanes of 1928 from Antique Airfield News | Thinking ahead to this year's theme aircraft (the Monocoupe) for the 40th AAA/APM Fly-in at Antique Airfield, I wanted to share these interesting images from Aviation Magazines of 1928. That year ...

It's All About the Passengers! from Flight To Success | I once said, "It's all about the crew" and I wasn't lying

On the passing of Bombardier's James Hoblyn from Flightblogger | Bombardier Aerospace announced today that one of its own, James Hoblyn, passed away on July 3. Hoblyn served as President, Bombardier Customer Services & Specialized and Amphibious Aircraft.  I first met James last year on my way to EBACE in Geneva. My colleague John Croft and I joined a small group of journalists and staff from Bombardier aboard a Global 5000 aircraft for the trans-Atlantic flight. We were all very much awake for the day-time crossing and had a lot of time to talk with one another.  ....

Caption Contest #60 - Ends Wednesday 7.6.11 At 9PM EDT from AirPigz 

100LL Replacement “Swift Enterprises” – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday | WarbirdRadio.com
WEDNESDAY - Jonathon Ziulkowski from Swift Enterprises joins us for Warbird Radio LIVE! The 100LL aviation fuel discussion has been a hot button issue.

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Thunder Over Louisville slated to return on April 16 - Evansville Courier & Press
The fireworks and air show kicks off the Derby Festival, and this will be the 22nd annual staging of the event. New this year is a prime spot at Waterfront ...

Flying High at 62: woman pilot's team enthrall many - Deccan Herald | Age is no bar for this 62-year-old woman pilot who is still flying high leading the Flying Bulls, the Czech Republic-based aerobatic team that is performing ...

The Horseman ride again at Flying Legends 2011 by Flightline UK
The Fighter Collection and Imperial War Museum Duxford are delighted to announce that The Horsemen, the world’s only P-51 Mustang formation aerobatic team, will be performing at Flying Legends (Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July 2011) -- complete with their own aircraft shipped over from the USA.  Visitors to Flying Legends 2009 will recall the dazzling aerial spectacle of The Horsemen in action in the skies over Duxford. Steve Hinton, Dan Friedkin and Ed Shipley, highly skilled warbird pilots, have a passion for showcasing the aircraft that made America great:  Steve Hinton is a two-time national unlimited race champion and ...
   
Drew Road could cause problems for NAF air show - Imperial Valley Press | “That air show brings in a lot of people, especially coming out of the west,” said Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Jack Terrazas on Tuesday. ...

Biofuel-powered speed record confirmed - AOPA Pilot
The record flight took place in Thermal, Calif., using Young's Western Air Racing Special Formula One racer. Flying from the Jacqueline Cochran Regional ...
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EAA's Women Soar You Soar Expands to Four Days, Shifts to AirVenture's Final ... - AMTOnline.com | With the program shifting dates in 2011, attendees will also experience a variety of exciting AirVenture attractions taking place on the final weekend ...

To celebrate, pilots introduced 1,647 girls & women to flying in 29 countries/4 continents - Centennial of Women Pilots | It started in 1784, when only 8 months after the first manned balloon flight, Count Jean-Baptiste de Laurencin got cold feet and gave his spot for a balloon flight to Marie Élisabeth Thible, a French opera singer. She dressed as a Roman goddess and sang "La Belle Arsène", a celebrated opera of the time, as the balloon ascended to 1500 meters. She is was the first woman ever to fly.  ...

Kids and family weekend events in Orange County (Feb. 11-13) - OCRegister| Lyon Air Museum Presents 'Fly Day': The Lyon Air Museum's Douglas A-26 Invader “Feeding Frenzy” attack bomber will rumble out of the hangar and take to the ...-

Air show crash pilot 'was tired' - BBC News | Chris Penistone, 31, was killed at an air show in West Yorkshire last June. A report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) said he had departed ...

Tuskegee Airmen to visit Yankee Air Museum - Journal Newspapers | Members of the famous Tuskegee Airmen will be at the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville Saturday night to talk about their experiences in World War II. ...

Character-themed hot air balloons take flight in Philippine Hot Air Balloon Fiesta from Photoblog - Photoblog's Column - Articles and Seeds by James Cheng

Callsign “Hairdo.” Texas Governor, Rick Perry, gives... from You like airplanes, too? | callsign “Hairdo.” Texas Governor, Rick Perry, gives a “thumbs up” from the cockpit of an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Black Knights of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 154, after successfully trapping a landing aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Nicholas A. Groesch.

Litunica's Status from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Jay and his team of aircraft builders have accomplished great feats---

Yakovlev Yak-130 from TAKEOFF TUBE | The Yakovlev Yak-130 (NATO reporting name "Mitten"[3]) is a subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer/light attack aircraft developed by the Yakovlev design bureau. Development of the plane began in 1991, and the maiden flight was conducted on 26 April 1996. In 2005, it won a Russian government tender for training ...

Savoia-Marchetti S.73 from Planeshots

PR: New Book about Pre-WWII Aircraft Mechanics from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Aurora, Colorado: On March 1, we’ll finally have a book devoted exclusively to the heretofore anonymous American mechanics of early aviation. That’s when Giacinta Bradley Koontz releases her latest book, Pioneer Mechanics in Aviation, which chronicles the exploits of airplane mechanics up to the start of World War II.  Each of the book’s 24 chapters tells of the fascinating stories of the men and women (yes, women!) who ...

Angel In Overalls from AIRBOYD.TV

February 10 from Cut and Paste Aviation

Sky is the limit for young pilot’s aerial ambitions - Stoney Creek news | For Adam MacCabe, there’s nothing better than the freedom of flight.  “Flying gives you a chance to look at the world from a whole new perspective,” said the 19-year-old Stoney Creek native and licensed glider and power pilot. “You could be having the worst day and when you get up into the air, all of life’s problems seem to just melt away and not matter.” MacCabe became interested in flying after a family friend took him for a ride in a Cessna 177 when he was 11 years old. ...

Behind the Scenes: How Boeing Delivered Air New Zealand’s First 777-300ER from Airline Reporter by David Parker Brown | Air New Zealand’s first Boeing 777-300ER was recently delivered to the airline, then flown to Los Angeles before heading to Auckland. Being able to show off the new interior was quite exciting. This was a huge deal for Air New Zealand, Boeing and airline geeks around the world. Boeing and Air New Zealand worked hard to make sure the hand over was not a small celebration and I wanted to share what happens behind-the-scenes on a VIP aircraft delivery. ...

U.S. Navy Unmanned X-47B Has Successful First Flight from ASB.tv | Friday, February 4, 2011 marked a historic day for the United States Navy and aviation in general.  The U.S. Navy, along with a test team from Northrop-Grumman, successfully completed the historic first flight of the X-47B, an Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration(UCAS-D).  The X-47B is an unmanned, fighter-sized, combat aircraft that was developed by the Navy and Northrop-Grumman under the UCAS-D program.  The ultimate goal is to develop an unmanned, tailless, fighter-sized aircraft that can take-off and land on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. ...
More X-47 articles here

Top Gear And The Homebuilt Space Shuttle (Make Go Boom) from AirPigz | In our modern world of gigabyte input and general sensory overload, it's easier than ever before to miss something cool... mostly because you were distracted checking out some other thing that's cool. And if the viralness of the one cool thing doesn't get hot enuf to penetrate your circle of life, then you're off chasing the next big thing and you still wind up missing that first one. All that to ask this question: Did you ever see that rather huge Space Shuttle with a car as the orbiter that the guys from Top Gear had built back around 2007? ...

Space tours in less than two years - mydigitalfc.com | The design is based on American Aerospace engineer Burt Rutan's plan of having a mother ship, a spaceship and a propulsion system. ...

NASA and DARPA Want a "100-Year Starship," As Long as They Don't Have to Build It - POPSCI | Since it’s inception (okay, since the early 1960s) the United States has been the world leader in space travel and exploration, taking the lead in crafting mankind’s vision and agenda for humanity’s role in space. So it made sense when NASA and DARPA announced their joint “100-Year Starship” study last year to explore the possibility of a one-way manned mission to another planet. But this initiative isn’t quite as exciting as it seems; sure, the United States government would like to see humans explore and settle deep space. It just wants someone else to do it. ...