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There ARE shows to see this weekend - via Fencecheck.com

2/08/14 |	Buckeye Air Fair 2014
2/08/14 |	EAA Museum Skiplane Fly-In 2014
2/08/14 |	American Heroes Air Show 2014

What’s your favorite airshow? - General Aviation News | As part of our month-long focus on airshows and fly-ins in our print edition, we’d like to find out what events are among our readers’ favorites. So, what’s your favorite fly-in or airshow? Why? What makes it a great time?

Blue Impulse mishap could have been 'more serious' - The Japan News | The Yomiuri Shimbun Two Air Self-Defense Force practice planes collided on midair during aerobatic flight training above waters off Miyagi Prefecture last month, resulting in one losing more than half of its tailplane designed to stabilize the body ...

RAAF’s Hawk 127 to Appear at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE- The Royal Australian Air Force will be flying across the Tasman in April in two light attack fighters, scheduled for a special appearance at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow.The Australian Hawk 127 is mainly used as a lead-in fighter trainer, preparing crews to fly the F/A-18 Hornets.  The jets are operated by an RAAF base near Newcastle and another near Perth in Western Australia.Airshow event manager...

Cherry Point Air Show scheduled - Jacksonville Daily News | A Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier and vintage F4U Corsair fly side by side over the 2012 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Air Show. The 2014 Cherry Point Air Show will include performances by Aeroshell, The Black Diamond Jet Team and others.

Grounded since 2011, MacDill's AirFest is back - WTSP 10 News | Last year, budget cuts killed the huge AirFest air show at MacDill Air Force Base. And there was no show in 2012, either. But it's coming back in just six weeks. Planners met at the base Tuesday to put the finishing touches on the 2014 show. The chance ...

Jet Powered Bi-Plane To Be Featured At Duluth Air Show - KDAL | DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - Another first for the Duluth Air Show this summer will be a 1929 bi-plane with a jet engine attached to its belly. The one of a kind airplane is called the "Jack Link Screamin' Sasquatch" and is being unveiled this year around the...

Hartzell Sponsors Michael Goulian During 2014 Red Bull Air Races - aviationpros.com | Piqua, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2014 – Hartzell Propeller is sponsoring Michael Goulian for the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship. “Airshow superstar Michael Goulian redefines what is possible in the air,” said Hartzell Propeller President Joe Brown.

Fourth annual Indoor Fly-in set for Feb. 22 - Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald | LITTLETON — Bring the kids and join the 95th Squadron Radio Control Model Airplane Club for its fourth annual Indoor Fly-in from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 22 at Lake Gaston Baptist Church, Highway 903, Eaton Ferry Road...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Beechcraft Exhibit Features Classic Designs and New Military Program - Fred Harl and Carmelo Turdo, The Aero Experience | The Beechcraft exhibit at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 featured company classics, spanning over 80 years of aircraft production, from the Staggerwing to the latest King Air and AT-6 Texan II light attack aircraft.  It is a tribute to the strength of the line of products that many are still in production for many decades as the company itself has undergone several reorganizations.  The...

Red Arrows officer returns to High Wycombe cadet squadron - Bucks Free Press | THE officer who commands the Red Arrows took time out from his busy schedule to talk to air cadets in High Wycombe. As well as being in charge of the Red Arrows, Wing Commander Neil Fraser, is a former air cadet of the 332 (High Wycombe) Squadron, ...

Wings of Freedom Tour takes WWII Vet on a B24 flight - Wink News | The Wings of Freedom Tour is in Naples for one more day, taking people on flights in B24 and B17 aircraft, including a World War II vet who used to fly the planes himself. George Miller was filled with memories as he took off in the plane he used to ...

Aero Telemetry And Their Dedicated Hughes H-1 Website (H1Racer.com) - With Video - AirPigz | Aero Telemetry has had some great experience with one of the the world's most amazing aircraft... they built the flying RC model of the Hughes H-1 Racer that was used in the Aviator film, and then...

USAF MiG-21F-13s at Tonopah - The Lexicans | Before you read on if you haven’t been in-briefed on Have Doughnut go read...

Rare glimpse into a Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker flight simulator - The Aviationist | In 2012 the he 128th Air Refueling Wing of the Air National Guard published an old press release, dated around 1968 touting the latest addition to their unit, a KC-97 flight simulator!  The used simulator came from the 116th Military Airlift Group out of Dobbins, Georgia that was converting from C-97Fs to C-124Cs and did not need the old Stratotanker simulator....

Famous F-105D “Polish Glider” Thunderchief at the Cracow Aviation Museum - The Aviationist | The Polish Aviation Museum in Cracow, Poland, features several interesting exhibits and nearly all versions of the MiG-21 Fishbed, including the infamous F.13 version. The latter was not a pilots’ favourite due to uncomfortable canopy, which opened forwards – pilots were worried that such setting would hinder the ejection....

Ospreys by Night - Travel for Aircraft | Awesome photos!

HEMET: Osprey was a one-craft air show - Press-Enterprise (blog) | “Minding my own business in 7 Hills about 4:30 today I heard some kind of unusual airplane fly over so like I always do, I went out to see what it was: A Marine Corps Boeing V22 Osprey (Tilt-rotor) with the rotors in 'landing' mode was headed for Ryan.

Untitled - Apron 6 | After yesterdays heavy metal I wanted to show you some more back to basic airplanes. And that is what I’m going to do. Even more than I wanted before, cause these are made at the Air to Air Academy. The same place where I met John Miller, South African aviation photographer and a great guy. […]

SLIDESHOW: What happened when we put our reporter behind the controls of a plane for Cambridge Aero Club's 85th anniversary? - Cambridge News | ...This summer Cambridge Aero Club - the oldest in the country - celebrates 85 years of flying. To mark the momentous occasion, a family and friends open day will take place on June 29 to allow employees’ loved ones to explore the site’s aviation magic with an impressive flying display...

Pilot group building monument to honor fallen pilots and aviation enthusiasts - Tehachapi News | The Tehachapi Society of Pilots will break ground this week on a new monument dedicated to fallen pilots and aviation enthusiasts from the Tehachapi area....

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Thunderbirds to headline Wings Over North Georgia Airshow from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | ROME, Ga. — The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform at the annual Wings Over North Georgia Air Show, Oct. 12-13 at Rome’s Richard B. Russell Regional Airport (RMG)  The Thunderbirds jet team will be flying their six signature red, white and blue F-16 Falcons, accompanied by the Silver Wings, the U.S. Army’s parachute demonstration team based out of Fort Benning, Ga....

EAA Family Flightfest Fosters Excitement in Aviation from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Kick off springtime by discovering the exciting world of aviation with an interactive, educational family experience at EAA's Family Flightfest, scheduled for Saturday, March 2, and Sunday, March 3, at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh.

Warbirds Over Wanaka tickets going on sale - Voxy | Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow 2014 (WOW) tickets go on sale on Monday 18th February for the 14th Airshow at Wanaka Airport. In addition, we invite participants to stay an extra day on the Monday 21st for a yet to be announced event. "We ...

LoPresti First Saturday to benefit Boy Scouts, feature film “A Pilot’s Story”  - GA News | LoPresti Aviation will hold its March First Saturday event in the LoPresti hangar on the north ramp of the Vero Beach airport on March 7, starting at 9 am. LoPresti First Saturday is about connecting aviation to modern America, said David LoPresti. The event will feature Wilco Films’ “A Pilot’s Story.”...

High flying blades come to Leeds Castle - Kent News | Jaw-dropping manoeuvres and precision aerobatics will light up the skies this summer when world-renowned flying squad The Blades come to Leeds Castle. The display team, made up of former Red Arrows pilots, will bring their thrills and spills to the ...

NEWS: Visit the Vulcan Days 2013 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The Vulcan Restoration Trust are pleased to announce that we will be holding four Visit the Vulcan open days at London Southend Airport during 2013 on the following dates...

Air Force aerobatic team to be scrapped? - swissinfo.ch | Kings of the air. Air Force aerobatic team to be scrapped? What could be more Swiss? The Patrouille Suisse flies past the Matterhorn. The defence ministry plans to clip the wings of the prestigious Patrouille Suisse aerobatic team for financial reasons ...

New Zealand International Air Show A Financial Flop from Aero-News Network | Plans For Additional Expositions Scrapped, Company Liquidated The company which put on the New Zealand International Air Show in late January has folded up its tent, squelching plans for an annual Auckland event. The company was placed in liquidation this week.

Teesside Airshow plans shelved due to a lack of support - Gazette Live | The RAF, who would have been providing the Red Arrows and Tornado and Falcons Parachute demo teams, extended the cut-off point from last Friday to today when they would need a decision on whether to confirm the booking. FODTVA was set up in ...

Air show scheduled at UNI-Dome - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | The air show, sponsored by the Black Hawk Radio Control Pilots, will feature pilots and aircraft from Iowa and surrounding states performing aerobatic flying maneuvers, air races, aerial combat, flight demonstrations and scale model aircraft dating ...

Veteran newsman John Knox to MC remote-control airshow - ABC Online (blog) | The largest radio-control air competition ever staged in Australia begins tomorrow here in southeast Queensland, west of Rosewood in fact. There'll be models of aircraft ranging from World War 1 fighters and bombers right through to airliners, jet ...

Model planes set to soar for Gratton Air Invitational - Gympie Times | Darling Downs Aeromodelling Club member Luke Cullen takes his model aeroplane for a spin. Contributed. SEVERAL Darling Downs aeromodelling enthusiasts will converge on Gratton Field near Laidley for The Spektrum Gratton Air Invitational tomorrow.

One of nation's youngest fighter pilots recalls WWII action - Oak Ridger | He flew two missions in the old planes flown by the “Flying Tigers,” — predecessors to Rosser's group — 81 missions total during World War II. Rosser was a member of the U.S. 14th Air Force, which absorbed the U.S. Army 23rd Fighter Group, which ...

Goodbye to a hero - Eagle-Tribune | McIlwain was a Second Lieutenant with the 477th B-25 Bomber group. The squadron fought in North Africa and Europe. He was also an instructor who trained many of the 1,000 black aviators in the unit. McIlwain held several key administrative positions in ...

Missouri Aviation Historical Society February Meeting Will Feature The Evolution of Aircraft Instrumentation from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

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• Atlantic Flyer Coverage of the 60th Anniversary AAA/APM Fly-In

SKYDIVE DUBAI WINTER BOOGIE/FESTIVAL 2012  from Bonjour BlueSky |SKYDIVE DUBAI WINTER BOOGIE/FESTIVAL 2012 (38) Picture by © Juan Mayer.com

Day as a fighter pilot fulfills boy's wish - HeraldNet | The debate was settled one day after seeing a B-17 at Seattle's Museum of Flight. "That's what I want to be -- a World War II pilot for a day," he told his dad. He wanted the experience to include training on how to survive a crash landing, how to...

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BATTLE FOR BRITAIN’S RED ARROW JET JOBS - Express | THE Red Arrows’ iconic jets could soon be built overseas at the cost of hundreds of British jobs, angry MPs warned yesterday.  Defence giant BAE Systems is scrapping the manufacture of the Hawk trainer aircraft at its factory in Brough, East Yorkshire, the House of Commons heard....

Schools at Warbirds Over Wanaka - Voxy | Cadets from the Air Training Corps 50th Squadron based in Alexandra will be offering their services as airshow guides to Upper Clutha school students on a free day out the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow next Easter.  For the second time students from local schools are being offered free tickets to the first day of the three day event....

It’s lift-off for city’s first air festival  - The News | A FREE air festival which organisers say will rival the best aviation shows in the world is being planned to take place in Portsmouth next summer.  The world’s only aerobatic wingwalking team, the Breitling Wingwalkers, Second World War Spitfire planes and an old Royal Navy Sea Vixen fighter jet are just some of the star attractions being lined up for a seven-hour extravaganza of soaring displays over Southsea Common on Saturday, August 18, 2012.  Organisers of the first-ever Portsmouth Air Festival have pledged the event...

Air show could return to Suffolk skies for 2013 - Bury Free Press | THE return of Mildenhall Air Fete could be in sight after planning to bring back the popular aviation show in 2013 got under way.  RAF Mildenhall confirmed on Wednesday that tentative plans to bring back the show –- which pulled in more than 500,000 visitors before being cancelled in the wake of 9/11 – were being looked at....

Turkey Drop Aborted, "Pilot" Vows Return - AVweb | Thanksgiving Day feels like the right day to confirm that the town of Yellville, Arkansas, this year did break with tradition and did not punctuate its October Turkey Trot Festival by dropping live turkeys from an airplane ... though it may next year. According to the Arkansas Times blog, the drop was effectively discouraged when the FAA promised to send observers and to enforce FAR 91.15. (The regulation prohibits pilots from dropping any object....

A flight on a B-17 - Boing Boing | When the B-17 Aluminum Overcast appeared on the horizon above a Houston suburb sky last week, her shape was immediately recognizable. She was curvy, substantial and down right gorgeous. At almost 70 years old, she was also a little creaky and sputtered and smoked a bit as she pulled in on the runway. This was our ride for the afternoon, and I was giddy like a 10-year-old as we prepared to board....

C130J Display Flight at Paris International Airshow 2011 - vimeo.com | Video we filmed using an Iphone 4 as Pilots Wayne Roberts and Steve Knoblock put the C130J through its paces over the Parisian sky

Congratulations to San Francisco NAACP honorees, ‘Red Tails’ lifts off - San Francisco Bay View | The San Francisco NAACP Annual Gala was held Nov. 5 honoring the legacy of the 1961 Freedom Riders, Danny Glover and the Tuskegee Airmen. Carol Ruth Silver and Claude Albert Liggins received the SF NAACP Freedom Riders’ Legacy Award. Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover and Cheryl Dawson, MA, MDiv, received the San Francisco NAACP Philanthropist/Activist Award....

Local man flies cargo over Himalayas during World War II - Enid News | When the United States joined the Second World War, Henry Buller had no way of knowing the role he would play in history’s largest armed conflict.  In early 1942, Buller was farming family land near Orienta in Major County and preparing to marry his sweetheart, Clarabelle. Three years later, he had flown more than 250 hours over “The Hump,” flying cargo missions across some of the world’s roughest terrain in the Himalayas....

WWII Flying Museum to mark 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor - Times-Herald | The Commemorative Air Force - Dixie Wing and local veterans organizations will join forces on Dec. 4 to host Peachtree City's fourth annual observance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.  The program will be held at the Historical Airpower Facility, Falcon Field, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m....

Kansas Aviation Museum plans Cessna exhibit - The Wichita Eagle | The Kansas Aviation Museum is working on the final stages of an exhibit focusing on the Cessna Aircraft Co. and its long history in Wichita.  The exhibit is a way to preserve and present information on founder Clyde Cessna and the company bearing his name, museum officials said....

My 2nd Distinguished Flying Cross - Shotgun15e | Lt Col Daren Sorenson was the flight lead of a flight of two F-15Es, callsign Dude 05, providing Close Air Support (CAS) in support of Coalition Forces, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan on 25 May 2011. On that day, Dude 05 flight had just completed kinetic support of a Troops in Contact (TIC) situation in the Konor province when they were retasked to support a second TIC 60nm west in the Nuristan province. Approximately 50 dismounted friendly...

Powder Puff Derby Virtual Museum: Paper Awards - You Fly Girl | For the 1967 Powder Puff Derby, which ran from July 2-10, 1967, Mary Rose Myers received a "citation of appreciation" from the City of Atlantic City and...

WWII Wrecks Discovered Off Maui - Honolulu News and Opinion | Off the southern shore of Maui, 70-year-old war relics hid beneath the ocean surface, unknown except to local divers. This year, however, the sites of six historic World War II wrecks have been uncovered and recorded for posterity by a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and students from UH Manoa.  “I love history. A lot of what happened on the ocean can still be read through historic properties underwater,” says Hans Van Tilburg, a maritime historian and archaeologist for NOAA’s office of national marine sanctuaries....

de Havilland Canada U-1 Otter - Travel for Aircraft | De Havilland Canada (DHC) had such success with the DHC-2 Beaver (the ¼-ton truck) they evolved the design to a ½-ton truck for the skies — it had twice the Beaver’s capacity and became known as the Otter. DHC began producing Otters in 1951 while also manufacturing Beavers. The Otter production ended in 1967 about the same time as Beaver construction also ceased....

A sad end to a great plane's career - Bayou Renaissance Man | Regular readers will recall the two part Weekend Wings article I wrote on the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark strike aircraft. The last of them were retired by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) last year....

This gives me warm fuzzies! - Bayou Renaissance Man | I'm awestruck by the craftsmanship and sense of adventure displayed by Petersen Engineering of England. They've come up with a modern variation on the famous Bentley Speed Six, but with a difference. This one's powered by a Rolls-Royce Meteor, a derivative of the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine, immortalized as the powerplant of the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters of World War II, as well as the Mustang Mk. X conversion that inspired what would become the world-famous P-51 Mustang escort fighter of 1943-45....

Barry Schiff: Friday's Fabulous Flyer - Flight for Success | ...Barry may have started his flying career by ducking a flying shoe—but he ended it as a Captain with TWA in 1988. And ending his career is open for debate, as Barry is actively involved in writing, teaching and mentoring young pilots... and getting checked out in new (old) planes....

Training Tomorrow’s Warriors - Pacific Wings | Training tomorrow’s warriors is what the 23rd Flying Training Squadron at Fort Rucker, Alabama, is all about. Pacific Wings joined the squadron to see how the US Air Force trains its future helicopter pilots using the UH-1H Iroquois and TH-1H Huey II....

Pilot gives back to youth, remembering his first opportunity to fly By Scott Kirk Special to the Reporter-News | Fred Novak can remember to the day when he decided that, if given the chance, he would offer young people the opportunity to fly.  "I was always the kid who would go to the airport and look over the fence and wonder what it would be like to fly," said Novak, a retired Air Force maintenance officer. Today, as a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Novak has been recognized by the organzation after offering 300 young people a free airplane ride to help introduce them to aviation....

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The Russians are coming... - Otago Daily Times | A rare Russian Yak 3 fighter plane and two Supermarine Spitfires have been announced as attractions at next year's Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow.  The Yak 3, part-owned by...

NTSB: Cause Of Fatal Air Show Crash Unclear - AVweb | Evidence shows that the engine quit on Kyle Franklin's Waco during an air show in March, but NTSB investigators had no luck finding out why, according to the board's final report, published this week. Franklin's wife, Amanda, who performed as a wingwalker in the show, suffered extensive burns in the forced landing and died about two months later. "Post-accident examination of the engine and its fuel system revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operations," the NTSB concluded....

First in the Air German aviation pioneer Karl Jatho took off before the Wright brothe... - pprune | On August 18th 1903, aviation pioneer Karl Jatho took to the skies - four months ahead of Orville Wright. Since the achievement of this German airplane builder was never mentioned in any encyclopedia, his machine, most probably the first successful motorized aircraft in history, was rebulit, using historical blueprints [videos included]....

A lifetime of aviation wisdom offered by Barry Schiff to reward a pilot or flight instructor - Women of Aviation | I have been a fan of Barry Schiff since I began taking flight lessons. Most flight training material that I found seemed to always fall short of truly explaining the whys of the facts stated. As outstanding flight instructors do, Barry offered more than information in his Proficient Pilot column in AOPA Pilot magazine; he offered insight....

CARL VINSON WWII FLY OFF - ASB Video | I've got a couple hundred hours that capture all the behind the scenes of the End Of WWII Warbird Fly Off on the USS Carl Vinson. I've been thinking of doing a docu on it.... let me know if it is something you think folks would be interested in. Uploaded By:  Ed Shipley

The Latest from AirboydTV:

• Rhine Airborne Operations (1945)
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• Spitfires And P-38s Accept The Challenge (1943)
• Budapest Ferihegy Airport (1956)
• The Story Of Naval Aviation (1954)

A-12 Avenger II: bits of it are for sale - The Unwanted Blog | It looks like Purdue University in Indiana has the canopy from a McDonnell-Douglas A-12 Avenger II, and they’ve put it up for auction. Only a few hours left, so if this is what you’ve been needing to finish that A-12 in the garage… here ya go....

Challenges: River dance - AOPA | Floatplane flying combines the best of both worlds | Let’s all tip our caps to aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, who was one of the first to brainstorm the possibility of marrying a boat to an airplane. Curtiss attached pontoons to a biplane and managed to get airborne in 1911, and pilots have enjoyed both the utility and the fun of being able to land and take off on water ever since....

Maverick “flying dunebuggy” in production - AOPA Pilot | The company called Itec/Beyond Roads has delivered four of its “Maverick” powered-parachutes with a driveable dunebuggy used as a cockpit. It is approved as a light sport aircraft, a category the includes powered parachutes. One is going to Dubai, and factory reps may travel there in a few weeks to provide training to the new customer. Deliveries are cautiously made only to experienced customers until fleet...

China's Maritime Patroller - Ares | China's AVIC-Shanxii Y-8F-600, a modernized version of a reverse-engineered Antonov An-12, is spawning a growing family of special-use variants without having apparently entered service as a transport. Two AEW versions (one with a...

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Russian Yak 3 coming to Warbirds Over Wanaka - Voxy | When a rare Russian Yak 3 fighter plane performs at the upcoming Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow, the most appreciative of its many admirers are likely to be part-owner and pilot Graeme Frew, and his nephew Daniel.  Daniel (28) has been one of two full-time engineers working on a major overhaul of the Yak 3 at Omaka near Blenheim for more than three years, Mr Frew said. The machine suffered serious damage in an accident in the USA before it....

Rocket Racing League backs off Melbourne plan - Florida Today | The fledgling Rocket Racing League is no longer considering moving its headquarters from Orlando to Melbourne International Airport, said Mike D’Angelo, chief operating officer.  Someday, RRL pilots may zoom across 5-mile virtual racetracks in the sky. But the league, which was organized in 2005, has yet to debut because of financing, technological development and other factors....

The German Aces Speak — book review - Travel for Aircraft | ...The Aces Who Speak...Walter Krupinski, Adolf Galland, Eduard Neumann, Wolfgang Falck....

Members of the AC-119 Gunship Association Are Featured Speakers at MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting  - The Aero Experience | Members of the AC-119 Gunship Association (Vietnam War era) were the featured speakers at the November Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting held in the St. Louis area.  St. Louis native Everett Sprous, U.S. Air Force inflight weapons mechanic ("gunner") on AC-119K Stinger Gunship 1971-1972 and recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, assisted in organizing and hosting the meeting presentation.  Dr. Larry Fletcher, U.S. Air Force Captain and aircraft commander who flew 177 combat missions in AC-119G Shadow gunships and the recipient...

US Army Stealth Helicopter - Helikopter Hysterie | ...It has some familiar features that have been seen before, like the tail section and main rotor. But so did the highly modified US military stealth...

Aluminum Overcast - My San Antonio | This is another view from the bombadier's seat as the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" flies over the Texas Hill Country Wednesday November 16, 2011.  / SA

Week in brief November 18 2011 - Australian Flying | The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society has this week welcomed two ex-RAAF Caribous to its collection. Using the aircraft for Anzac Day events, Vietnam Veterans’ events and other heritage activities like Wings over the Illawarra, HARS will maintain the Caribous in flying...

The USAF gets a new toy - Bayou Renaissance Man | The USAF has taken delivery of the first production versions of the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) GBU-57A/B bomb. The Los Angeles Times reports:...

GE YF120 part 1 - The Unwanted Blog | Sitting next to the YF-23 at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH (or at least it was a few years ago) is an example of the General Electric YF120. The YF120 was in competition with the Pratt & Whitney YF119; both the YF-23 and the YF120 lost their respective competitions. The YF120 was an advanced engine, capable of....

Friday Fabulous Flyer - Flying for Success | Dipeet Mehta | Many young people have dreams and aspirations of greatness, but it takes someone with work ethics, energy, and ambition, to reach those dreams. Dipeet is that person. Depeet is originally from India...

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Martin MB-2 - Planeshots | Martin MB-2. “An MB-2 hits its target, the obsolete battleship USS Alabama during tests. On Sep. 27, 1921, still operating....

EAA announces more details of adult version of their Young Eagles program - National General Aviation Examiner.com | On July 27, 2011, during the 2011 AirVenture, EAA's CEO and President, Rod Hightower announced that the organization would be expanding their Young Eagles program to include adults. Today, EAA finally announced the name of the adult program and some additional details. Beginning in the spring of 2012, adults will be able to take an....

Young Eagles - Olndy Daily Mail | East Richland Middle School eighth-graders took part Tuesday in the Young Eagles Program at Olney-Noble Airport. In addition to taking rides in airplanes, students used their school-issued iPad 2s to take pictures and video. They also used the devices to interview each other....

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Dayton Air Show takes off – WDTN | The US Air Force Thunderbirds will headline the Vectren Dayton Air Show along with first time appearances by the Red Bull Helicopter flown by Chuck Aaron along with an industry first, an all-women wing walking routine called ...

Air Force Thunderbirds, wing walkers, aerobatics highlight Vectren Dayton Air Show - Dayton Daily News | By John Nolan, Staff Writer 3:07 PM Wednesday, July 13, 2011 The Air Force Thunderbirds — always a popular attraction in an Air Force town — return to the Vectren Dayton Air Show this month as the featured performers in a lineup that includes stealth ...

Dayton area sizzles on hottest day in 4 years - Dayton Daily News | Locally a few outdoor events were canceled, but the annual Vectren Dayton Air Show will go on this weekend as planned. “It's an outdoor event, and being an airport, there is very little shade,” said Tony Grevious, executive director. ...

Air show's sky-high thrills to return - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Featured performers this year will include the Heavy Metal Jet Team, the Sky Soldiers Demonstration Team, the Smoke-N-Thunder Jet Show and the Northeast Raiders Demonstration Team. Visitors can explore the numerous vintage and modern military and ...

Range Regional Airshow Preview - WDIO-TV | The airshow will also feature the Golden Eagles parachute group, Major John Klatt from the 148th Fighter Wing, and many others. It's the first airshow on the Range for almost 20 years. There will be a patriotic theme to honor our military. ...

Thunder Over Michigan Air Show Features Blue Angels « CBS Detroit  by sstoddart | Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No... it's the U.S. Navy Blue Angels at the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show!...

40 jets to make low altitude visit to WOW – Voxy | An impressive array of up to 40 privately-owned jet aircraft will make a low altitude visit to the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow next April as part of the Hong Kong to Christchurch Silver Fern Air Race. Following races from London to ...

Snowbirds a one-of-a-kind club for nine Canadians - Rocky View Weekly | The average show is the culmination of one-and-a-half to two years of training and preparation as well as the elite pilots paying their flight dues before even calling themselves Snowbirds. Beginning in 1970, the Snowbirds were born out of the Golden ...

Excitement builds ahead of Windermere Air Festival - Westmorland Gazette The Windermere Air Festival - previously known as the Windermere Air Show - attracts thousands of people to The Glebe to enjoy a visual and audio feast of modern and classic aircraft. Highlights include the world-famous RAF Red Arrows acrobatic display ...

The mighty Vulcan returns to Windermere Air Festival – ITCM | With only moments to spare Windermere Air Festival organisers can confirm that the mighty Avro Vulcan XH558 will be making a welcome return to Windermere this weekend for the 11th Air Festival. The magnificent aircraft last wowed visitors back in 2009 ...

RAF stunt squadron the Red Arrows to conduct birthday fly past of the Silver ... - Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News | THE legendary Red Arrows head to Halton on Saturday for a flying visit to commemorate the golden anniversary of the Silver Jubilee Bridge. The group, officially known as the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, will conduct a fly-past in their nine ...

This weekend brings Summer Balloon Classic & Airfest - Fort Worth Star Telegram | It's up, up and away at DFW's Summer Balloon Classic & Airfest, which takes place this weekend at MidWay Regional Airport in Midlothian, about 30 minutes southeast of Fort Worth off US 287, between Midlothian and Waxahachie. ...

Vintage day at Big Bear City Airport - Big Bear Grizzly | Vintage planes will dot the tarmac at the Big Bear Airport for the air fair Aug. 6. Vintage airplanes, skydivers and plane rides highlight the 14th Air Fair at Big Bear City Airport Aug. 6. The theme of the Air Fair is “Transportation Then to Now,” ...

Last flying superfortress lands at DuPage Airport Community Days - Chicago Daily Herald | Visitors can ride in the vintage bomber, rescued from a Navy weapons center in the California desert in 1971 by the Commemorative Air Force, a cadre of volunteers dedicated to preserving military aircraft. The plane is now known as FIFI, ...

Warbirds Over the Bay this weekend at Bayview Park - InsideHalton.com | Aircraft from the First World War to the present will be filling the sky at Bayview Park this weekend when the Burlington Radio Control Modellers hosts the second annual Warbirds Over the Bay event. Buoyed by excellent response to last year's show, ...

WWII 'Flying Fortress' making return trip - Brenham Banner Press | A Boeing B-17 bomber — the famous US “Flying Fortress” from World War II — will take flight Saturday over Washington County, offering rides and a glimpse of the past. The non-profit Commemorative Air Force (CAF), based in Midland, Texas, will bring ...

Ride free, but for Wimmer, flight in B-24 was priceless - Kearney Hub | The tour includes a B-17 Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell. Foundation officials let Bernie sit directly behind the pilots so he could get a bird's-eye view of the trip. The experience was priceless, Bernie said. “I've got hearing aids, so I took those ...

Air museum bid refused take off - Crawley Observer | A PLANE fanatic has been left disappointed after a planning application to improve his museum was rejected. Peter Vallance, who owns Gatwick Aviation Museum, at Charlwood says he does not know what he will do next but says he will fight to keep his ...

New Amelia Earhart Photo Exhibit To Open | KITV Honolulu | "She had a cloud ceiling that she broke, and she opened the path for all the other famous women in aviation," said museum Associate Curator, Jim Goodall. It's clear Earhart loved Hawaii in black and white photos of her on vacation here, relaxing at the ...

Howick's history full of stories - Auckland stuff.co.nz | Following the successes of local aviatrix Jean Batten and Leo and Vivian Walsh's Flying School, an airport was a hot topic among Aucklanders at the time. It wasn't until 1945 that the government brought in experts from Great Britain to assess the ...

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Canada's Snowbirds Aerobatics Team to get First Female Commander – allvoices | Canada's Aerobatic Team - The Snowbirds Aerobatic Team will get its first female commander on Thursday. Lieutenant-Colonel Maryse Carmichael officially ...

Clearwater native picked to ride with Blue Angels - Aiken Standard | McCormick had the chance to go up with the US Navy Blue Angels squadron at an air show April 21 in Vidalia, Ga. McCormick, the principal of Vidalia Heritage ...

Air show looking up - Tuscaloosa News | Spectators watch as a VFA-106 F/A-18F Superhornet performs during the Tuscaloosa Airshow at the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport April 4, 2009...

Air Show ticket sales – KIDK | The Blue Angels Air Show will be here in just a month and a half, and you can start buying your tickets right now! ...

DC-3 People Reunion At AirVenture – Avweb | Organizers of The Last Time, a mass arrival of 40 aircraft planned for AirVenture, have set up an online searchable database (click on the red Reunion tab ...

New Engine Install Just in Time for Red Bull Air Race Rio de Janeiro from Kirby Chambliss » Feed by JocelynTC4 | It's been a long time coming but the new engine is finally being installed on our Edge 540 racer. The team was extremely disappointed that paperwork issues kept the engine from starting the 2010 season with us in Abu Dhabi. When it was time for the Perth race, last minute adjustments meant shipment down under would not happen in time either. After days of worry about our engine clearing customs and actually making it to Rio, we're happy to report its made the journey, safe and sound, and is in the last stages of install as we speak!...

Facebook | Rotary Brantford Charity Airshow - Be prepared to be amazed at the 11th Annual Air Show in Brantford! The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the Canadian Forces Snowbirds and the SkyHawks are confirmed as part of our 2010 Lineup! Be amazed by the aerobatics of Rob Holland Ultimate Airshows. Listen to sounds of three Harvard aircraft as the Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team perform over the skies of Brant County. And take trip down memory Lane with the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum…

Jennings to host new air festival - Jennings Daily News | The first annual Barnstormer's Air Festival is poised to take over the Jennings Airport on Saturday, May 15, attracting pilots and aviation enthusiasts ...

The Flying Circus Airshow delivers a high-flying daytrip experience - Reach for the stars this May, particularly the sun and take flight as opening season for the Flying Circus Airshow begins today. Every Sunday beginning...

Purdue University gets new fleet of training airplanes - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Purdue University is getting a new fleet of training airplanes. News Channel 18 got an exclusive flight inside one of them. Purdue University will get 16 new training airplanes. But, first let's take a look at the previous fleet. "This is what we've been using in the past for training, it's a single engine airplane, has 160 horsepower and it's an excellent training aircraft," said Bernie Wulle. Aviation Technology Professor Bernie Wulle said Purdue has been using these Piper Warrior planes for more than 20 years. "It's metal, aluminum, tricycle landing gear, pretty easy to learn to fly in it and this is what has been our mainstay for probably the past 25 years," said Wulle…

March ARB Airfest Gallery Open from Defense Forum at DefenceTalk.com by Scott - Just starting to post - much more to follow. Link March Field Airfest 2010 - Military Pictures - Air Force Army Navy Missiles Defense (http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/showgallery.php?cat=4935) ...

The "Texas" Deshazers: Air Show!! by KID, MD | After 3 years of living in Temple we finally made it to the Central Texas Air Show! As you might imagine, Logan was in heaven! We all had a great time. As soon as we got there, Logan spotted the yellow Life Flight chopper that he toured ...

YEE HAW!: Air Show by Christine - We took Chase to the air show in Temple again this year and he had so much fun. His favorite part was the bombs (from the war reenactment). When Chase saw this plane he said, "Grandpa's gonna fly that one!" I thought it was cute so I ...

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2010 from Another Time by Dan Linn - Stunning photos from Warbirds Over Wanaka 2010. The forum post is here.
http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=9342

Aviation Day at Paine Field offers free admission for all and free flights for ... – HeraldNet | "One of the things we're proudest of is what we call the Young Eagles flights, which are free flights for kids ages 8 to 17." The 20-minute flights for are ...

Tech Pre-Production Continues from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) …I spent the morning and early afternoon over at Ray Community Airport with Todd Yuhas of Berz Flight Training crawling all over the Pitts to investigate camera mounts and audio setup. I think we have the camera setup resolved and that the Pitts is good to go. I was a little worried prior to today because a quarter or so of the footage (and – because the introduction of the Pitts will be an escalation point in the film – some of the most important footage) will be in the Pitts and that needs to work. But I think that we have out ducks in a row and are good to go with the airplane…

WIG from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua - Now what is WIG? It's not a hair wig for sure. WIG stands for Wing in Ground Effect. The photo shows the Airfish 8 from Widgetworks , a company incorporated in Singapore. The Technology - Ground Effect - Ground effect occurs when an aerofoil operates in close proximity to the ground. The aerofoil experiences an increase in lift and a decrease in drag, which is due to two mechanisms: An increase in static pressure under the aerofoil due to the finite distance with the ground (chord dominated ground effect), which increases lift…

The game is days away from gold!!! from Rocket Racing League Games by smitty - We are literally days away from going gold and submitting to Apple and are so proud of our team that has spent months and months working to deliver this first true Rocket Racing League experience for gamers. Hopefully in the next few weeks the game will be live in the App Store and virtual pilots from around the world will be posting score results, featured on Facebook Walls & our own Global Leaderboard hosted on this site.  Players can post results from single player and multilayer by the way…

Fare war breaks out in space from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | It's official. A fare war in space has broken out in the sub orbital rocket rides market, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is being undercut by half by upstart Armadillo Aerospace. Armadillo has been signed by Space Adventures to provide vertical launch and land reusable launches to altitudes of at least 100 kilometres, including five minutes zero G 'weightlessness', for $US 102,000 including a $4000 deposit…

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Blue Angels take flight for Navy Week - Myrtle Beach Sun News
A performance by the aerial precision team the Blue Angels over the waters of Charleston Harbor highlights Navy Week 2010 that starts today with selected ...

The air show may be canceled, but Navy Week to bring Blue Angels flights ... - TheDigitel
Times have been announced for the Charleston Harbor airshow featuring the Blue Angels on April 17th and 18th. The shows will both begin at 2 pm and last ...

Air Force fighter jets to thunder into Sun 'n Fun - News Chief
Among the more than 40000 air movements forecast during the week will be the Tuesday arrival of the US Air Force Thunderbirds. ...

Countdown to Sun 'n Fun 2010: T-minus 30 hours from Aviation Social Media
It's Sunday night. Eh, check that: it's a little after 1am on Monday morning. Frankly, I'm tired.
One of my friends Tweeted me today. She said, "I'll bet you are living on 6 hours of sleep and loving it." She couldn't be more correct. Last year at Sun 'n Fun I learned early on that I sleep like a baby at night after a long day here. I suspect that I'll be fast asleep before this laptop shuts itself off after I post this entry. ...

Hawker Beechcraft To Attend Sun 'n Fun Fly-In - AvStop Aviation News

Warbirds overWanaka 2010 .., - Sky-Lens Aviation
Having flown no less than 25 hours from London to Christchurch with Air New Zealand airline, then came the moment to drive the six hour long road across picturesque South Island :  direction Lake Wanaka. Every two years on Easter weekend, Wanaka airport is home of largest vintage airplanes and warbirds airshow in Southern Hemisphere. It was my task to report on with my battery of Nikons and sharp lenses for three days, on April 2nd to 4th.
While driving from Christchurch to Wanaka, I crossed the astonishing landscapes of New Zealand Alps, with glaciers such as Mount Cook, deep blue lakes, and huge quantities of different types of green and yellow colours all mixed together colouring curved mountains. I already could clearly understand why Wanaka airport should be a fest for my lenses due to alpin landscapes. As a photographer, I expected to witness the different patterns of sunlight and shadows that are typical to alpin environments, sunbeams broken by mountain producing all sorts of colours.
For those of us who fly, it is awesome to see huge airfields such as Twizel, used by a few helicopters only for Glaciers flying or to group cattles. ...

Dutch F-16 display team from key.Aero
Hot on the heels of the Belgian F-16 display jet presentation, the Royal Netherlands Air Force also presented its 2010 team.

Iranian Fighter-Bombers to Stage Air Show in Days - Fars News Agency
Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan made the remarks in a press conference held on the occasion of 'the Army ...

Local pilot killed in March crash remembered - Bakersfield Now
For the past 29 years, Goss competed in the Reno Air Races and he brought home the gold in 2004. Goss' family said they hold no anger that Goss died flying. ...

Some heartfelt, personal accounts of the event on this forum at AAFO

Matt Hall To Give It A Go During Australia Red Bull Air Race - AvStop Aviation News
Australia 's Matt Hall has been itching to fly in a Red Bull Air Race in front of enthusiastic fans in his home country ...

Black Team Jumps to Honor Military Children at Fort Bragg from armygoldenknights's
SGT Taylor Wheeler and Team Leader SFC Will Fleming chat with Irwin Middle School Principal Mr. Timothy Howle just before boarding the aircraft at Pope Air Force Base earlier today.
The demonstrators teamed up with two members of Tandem Team to put on a very special show for the students at Irwin. As part of the demonstration jump, the Tandem Team took the principal on a tandem jump and landed right in front of his 675 students...which sounded like a crowd of more like 6000 the way they cheered as SFC Mike Elliott brought Principal Howle in for a signature Golden Knight tiptoe landing.
Meanwhile, Black Team did what they do best and wowed the kids  ...

Warbird recovered - Stuff.co.nz
"The Nanchang is quite a heavy aeroplane and comes down quite quickly compared to other aeroplanes because it is a big machine. ...

Aviation  pioneer inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians - KWMU
(St. Louis Public Radio) - An pioneer in the aviation business is the latest person to be inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians. ...

1st Lt. Aleda E. Lutz, Army flight nurse from You Fly, Girl
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—On Saturday, April 17, five former military members with Michigan connections will be enshrined into the Air Zoo's Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and author Andrew Layton will also be honored during the ceremony.
The 2010 Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinees include:
Aleda E. Lutz to be enshrined in Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame
Lutz was born in Freeland. While enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps, she participated in six separate battle campaigns over a 20-month period, flew combat missions, and conducted all-weather medical evacuations in ...

The oldest flying Boeing in the world - restored Boeing 40 from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
... After 8 years of repair and rebuilding, and 8,000 hours of toil, the Boeing 40C rolled out last winter as a finished airplane, but it took a few weeks for the snow to melt before it was taken out of the hangar. Project personnel received the Standard Airworthiness Certificate from the FAA and completed the engine pre-oil and fuel flow tests for the first of the taxi tests. ...

Help museum spread wings - Flying Tiger News
Money donated to the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum is timely.
The $25,000 grant delivered by Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo and the $5,000 from the Monroe-West Monroe Conventions & Visitors Bureau will be combined with the $34,000 from the Friends of the Museum to be used as a match for $200,000 from the state of Louisiana. The goal is to build a 3,000-square-foot building in which military aircraft can be restored.
The project is important to the museum dedicated to northeastern Louisiana's role in aviation and the military.
Drive by the museum now and you can see historic aircraft in varying stages of rusting away. Restoration of these aircraft is essential to the museum's mission. ...

Movie Monday - April 12 - B-29 Superfortress from Flightblogger
This week's Movie Monday takes you inside the development, deployment and evolution of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The film begins with the need for a strategic bomber after the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and the Renton-based development of the XB-29. The 55-min documentary also takes you inside the production process for this massive bomber. The documentary looks at this at the operational history in World War II, including its role in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. ...

Fighter Pilot from the Warbird's blog
Here's a fine book about a fine man: Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. It's a posthumous autobiography, put into shape by his daughter Christina and by Ed Rasimus, who wrote the magnificent Vietnam memoir When Thunder Rolled. (Note that if you buy the two books together at Amazon.com, they total $25.80, which qualifies them for free shipping in the U.S.)
And here's my review of the book in the Wall Street Journal today. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Gray Eagles - Mustangs and Legends from PropBlast
Chris Woods, a filmmaker and P-51 Pilot, has put together an amazing short documentary about the venerable P-51 Mustang and the brave young men who flew them into battle win WWII by focusing on the story of his neighbor and WWII Mustang ace Jim Brooks.
Woods' project began when he began restoration of a basket-case Mustang and discovered that the plane was named "February" amd was originally flown by his neighbor Brooks. You can watch this amazing HD movie on AirShowBuzz website or viewing the embedded video below. Or better yet, go to Amazon.com or the GrayEagles.org foundation website to order your own copy of the DVD. For every copy purchased, the Foundation will donate another copy to an educational institution so that youngsters can not only learn about these great men and fantastic machines but, perhaps, to help inspire them to great things as well. As Siskel and Ebert would say "Two Thumbs Up!"

High Flight from PropBlast
One can imagine the abandon and joy that 19 year-old Magee must have felt on a high flight to 33,000 feet in a Supermarine Spitfire Mk. I. To fly such a beautiful and deadly aircraft so close to the heavens at such a young age would have encourage anyone to verse

1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday from WarbirdRadio.com
TUESDAY – Sterling Harris from the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum will fill us in on what's going on with their A-20 restoration and much more.  Mr. Harris will also have an update on the museum's annual July airshow.  The broadcast begins at 10am (EDT) on Warbird Radio.   For more information on the museum a [...]

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
If there was any one factor during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 that could have escalated the situation out of the control of President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev, it wasn't the threat of an American invasion of Cuba and believe it or not it wasn't the presence of the SS-4 and SS-4 medium-range ballistic missiles that targeted most of the Continental United States. It was the presence of tactical nuclear weapons not just on Cuba itself (2 kiloton warheads on the battlefield FROG rockets) but the tactical nuclear weapons on the periphery of the crisis that had release authority vested in lower-ranking officers. ...

Hope & Cynicism for EAA's Learn-to-Fly Day from Jetwhine
For more than two decades the GA industry and the companies that make a living from it have launched a handful of programs designed to get people who look up to act on their aviation interests. When Flight Training magazine was launched in 1989, it luckily coincided with June, the inaugural learn-to-fly month. It drew attention to the newborn publication, and there was a bump in students starts, which the magazine tracked monthly. But the results were, like similar programs that came before and after, less than anyone hoped for.

Balloonist in chair goes with the wind - New Observer
SANFORD -- As in a scene out of a movie, local balloon pilot Jonathan Trappe took to the North Carolina skies again Saturday afternoon.
Departing from the Sanford-Lee County airport, Trappe took flight sitting in a chair attached to about 40 big, brightly colored helium balloons.
The flight was part of an event for the airport's Wings of Carolina Flying Club, of which Trappe is a member.
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In 2008, Trappe made one balloon trip that took him almost 50 miles, from Franklin County to an area near Rocky Mount. ...

Rocket Racing League update from RLV and Space Transport News
There is going to be Rocket Racing League teleconference for the press on Tuesday at 1:00pm.
    League officials, pilots, team owners and X-Racer vehicle and engine developers will brief reporters on the status of the latest developments in the Rocket Racing League. Specifically discussed will be the new X-Racer vehicles, new high performance rocket engines, pilots, testing and demonstration schedule, and the featured content for the QuikTrip Air & Rocket Racing Show scheduled for April 24, 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...

Shuttle to fly for another year to May 2011 from Hyperbola
Hyperbola is hearing that astronaut corp rumours are circulating about STS-134, previously the penultimate Space Shuttle fleet flight, saying that it is now to take place in December at the earliest and maybe even January or February 2011
One of the reasons for the delay is the fact that STS-133 will now fly the Permanent Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), Leonardo, which won't be ready until October - three months after its current official date of September ...

STS-1, April 12, 1981, do you remember where you were? from The Original Rocket Dungeon [video]
29 years, I can hardly believe it.  I was in the MCC babysitting some new equipment.  Although it was just shadowing the ops systems, we staffed it before, during, and a short time afterward. That was SOP for ops systems and I suppose if it had hiccuped it would have been useful to see how long it took to resolve the issue.  It didn't hiccup and afterward the powers-that-be filed through to take a peek for themselves.  ...

Empress 400 RetroLiner Details - C'mon, Dream With Me by Martt
Before the poll goes up to vote for the winner in the Retro Airliner Design Contest, I thought I'd share some of the thoughts that led to the Empress 400 looking the way it does.
 Since I chose to explore the 3 Lifting Surface Configuration, utilizing a front wing, main wing, and a horizontal tail, the airplane certainly has some of the look of a Piaggio P180 Avanti.  However, there are significant differences when you compare them more closely. ...

The Vintage Collection from AeroHub
US Navy Blue Angels Display Team from FenceCheck Forums
Happy Cosmonauts Day 2010 [video] from Spaceports
1975/76 Mojave Gold - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion
NAF El Centro Air Show 2010 - NAF El Centro - 03/13/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Sitings: Kelly Adams' Staudacher 300 At Salem, IL Airport 2009 Regionals from The Aero Experience

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