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Breakfast with Blue Angels on Pensacola Beach * Pensacola News Journal | Breakfast with Blue Angels on Pensacola Beach. Breakfast with the Blues offers a stress-free opportunity to see Navy flight team perform. Loading… Post to Facebook. Breakfast with Blue Angels on Pensacola Beach Breakfast with the Blues offers...

Truckee Tahoe Air Show and Family Festival – July 12 * Placer County Online | The FREE Air Show will highlight “Women in Aviation,” the U.S. Air Force Parachute Team “Wings of Blue” with several of its female pilots and jumpers, numerous world-renowned aerobatic pilots. There will be a Vendor Village, static aircraft displays...

Warbird Weekend takes off July 12 · General Aviation News | GRANGEVILLE, Idaho — The third annual Warbird Weekend runs Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13, at the Idaho County Airport, featuring historic aircraft, plane flights, aviation exhibits and related events. Free to the public, the annual event recognizes the role of aviation in Idaho County’s history and highlights the airport as an economic development hub, as well as a gateway to outdoor recreation in North Central Idaho....

Airshow at Gladwin Airport July 12 * Gladwin County Record | GLADWIN – The Gladwin Zettel Memorial Airport is holding an air show on July 12 and 13. There will be a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. There will be a C-47 expected to arrive in Gladwin on July 11 at around 3 p.m. and a WWII BT-13 as well.

Two days of festivities for High River Airshow * High River Times | The airshow had a simple start earlier this year when High River resident Mark Pearl put some thought into ways he could help lift the spirits of the town following the challenges of last year's flood. A chance email to the Snowbirds in February got...

Arlington Fly-In gets ready to soar * HeraldNet | The Fly-In is scheduled to run Thursday through Saturday at Arlington Municipal Airport. Events and exhibits begin each day at 8 a.m., with air shows starting at 2 p.m. The day wraps up with an outdoor movie when it gets dark.

Celebrating the 4th Of July In Binghamton * U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | For the first time in five years, the skies above the Greater Binghamton Airport in New York were once again filled with black and gold canopies, night pyrotechnics, smoke and the roaring of the engines from Team Aerodynamics and several other air show acts. The black demonstration team kicked off the weekends 4th of July air show activities by performing a mass night pyrotechnics jump from an altitude of 12,500 feet. Anxious spectators awaited the...

Prince Charles to visit Fairford Air Tattoo * Gloucestershire Echo | HRH The Prince of Wales is to attend the Royal International Air Tattoo on Friday July 11 when the airshow will be holding a special Red Arrows' Pit Day. The Prince of Wales will meet the pilots and aircrew beside their aircraft following the display...

Aviatrix to speak about recreation flight * Atchison Globe | Amelia Rose Earhart grew up her whole life thinking that she was the bloodline of the pioneering pilot. After hiring a team of researchers to discover her relation to the original Earhart, Amelia Rose found out there was no relation. Despite the...

More WW2 Planes To Visit CdA * The Spokesman Review (blog) | Finding Fifi in a Naval proving ground in sad condition, the nonprofit Commemorative Air Force rescued her in the 1970s, spent many years and dollars restoring her, and sent her back into the skies. She now tours the nation in pristine condition. You...

D-Day veterans bring history to life at the Air Force Museum Theatre on July 12 * National Museum of the USAF | On Saturday, July 12 at 4 p.m., the Air Force Museum Theatre will host a special event combining Living History, D-Day: Normandy 1944 and live presentations. Filmmakers Kara Martinelli and Adam White will introduce Living History at 4 p.m., then following the screening, personal stories and additional insight will be shared with the audience by D-Day veterans and restorers. D-Day: Normandy 1944 will be shown following the discussion. Narrated by Tom Brokaw, D-Day: Normandy 1944 pays tribute to these veterans and those who gave their lives during the largest Allied operation of World War II....

Transformer fire breaks out at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum * TheCelebrityCafe.com | Transformer fire breaks out at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. By Marcina Zaccaria , 7/8/2014. A transformer fire erupted at the pier near the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York on Tuesday. Three people were injured in the incident ...

Oshbash: 2014 Oshkosh must! · Flight To Success  | What is an Oshbash?  "Oshbash is the official social networking "meetup" event of the Airplanista Aviation Blog and writer Dan Pimentel. This is the AirVenture event where #avgeeks from Twitter and the online aviation family meet each other in person, many for the first time. Both previous Oshbash events in 2011 and 2013 filled the Press Tent with "standing room only" audiences....

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: The Jet Man! * The Aero Experience | Another unusual aerial entertainer at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 was Yves "Jetman" Rossy, former Swiss Air Force fighter pilot and current air transport pilot who just happens to fly a jet powered wing. The Jetman made his U.S. public debut at...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Bob Carlton with the Super Salto and SubSonex * The Aero Experience | Bob Carlton is a multi-talented airshow performer and real rocket scientist noted for flying his jet-powered Super Salto sailplane with Vertigo Airshows.He has performed at the Fair St. Louis daily airshows in recent years, and it was...

The Dayton Flight Factory: the Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation · Travel for Aircraft  | The Dayton Flight Factory: the Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation The Dayton Flight Factory: the Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation, Timothy R. Gaffney, 2014, ISBN 978-1-62619-356-7, 171 pp. This is the book to bring with you when on a Wright Brothers-trek to Dayton Ohio. It is a convenient size, well made...

American Sky - A Book Review * NORDO News - Aviation Unedited | | Several months back, Fred Tribuzzo sent me a copy of his book American Sky. All he asked was that I read it and give it a review. I agreed. Anyone who has actually followed through to write and publish a book deserves that. American Sky is Fred’s story.That’s pretty much it....

Youngest Pilot Award at the AAA Fly-In * Antique Airfield News | The Nebraska chapter AAA will once again be heading up the award for the Youngest Pilot at Blakesburg this year, and we would like to invite other AAA chapters to co-sponsor this award. The cost will be divided up based on how many chapters would like to co-sponsor. We give...

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Hero Show offers air show with personal connection - Tucson News Now | TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -Before Davis-Monthan Air Force Base opens its gates to an estimated crowd of 200,000 people for this weekend's air show, a smaller group of several hundred enjoyed a more personal event Friday afternoon - their Hero Show....

25th Thunder attracts estimated 650000 to waterfront - WAVE | Picture-perfect weather lured a crowd of more than 650,000 to the waterfront for the 25th Thunder Over Louisville show. Spectators lined both sides of the Ohio River as far as the eye could see. Thanks to the generous support of the event's six presenting sponsors, Horseshoe Southern Indiana, KentuckyOne Health, LG&E, Meijer, UPS and Valero, as well as community McDonald's Thunder Funders - this year's show featured a spectacular lineup of aircraft, as well as the traditional pyrotechnic spectacle...

Ride with Blue Angels leaves reporter dazed and confused - WAVE | LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The return of the Blue Angels has had all of Louisville looking up over the past two days. The aerobatic flight team is in such high demand they are booked solid this year at events all over the country. During the Thunder Over Louisville air show, the crowd will see why...

Some of my favorite stories about Thunder Over Louisville - WLKY Louisville | I have attended every Thunder Over Louisville except for two years. It has grown from a fireworks show at the old Cardinal Stadium at the Fairgrounds in 1990 to the extravaganza that it is now with 600,000 to 750,000 in attendance when the weather is nice...

Video: F-22 wows Thunder air show fans - WAVE | Another of the Places of Thunder that entertained the crowd at the air show was the F-22 Raptor...

RED BULL AIR RACE: Duel continues: Arch beats Bonhomme in Rovinj * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | ROVINJ (Croatia) – Austria’s Hannes Arch came from behind to beat defending champion Paul Bonhomme in a riveting final in the second stop of the eight-leg Red Bull Air Race World Championship on Sunday in Rovinj, Croatia. Arch was trailing Bonhomme at the midway point of the final round by 0.23 seconds but opened the throttle with a blistering second lap on the obstacle course set up on the Adriatic Sea to get his eighth career victory. Japan’s Yoshihide Muroya got the first podium of his career, taking third place on a challenging course in the bay off Rovinj that was made even more difficult when the winds coming from the south shifted to from the west....

Air Force: Frecce Tricolori at the start of the season. Calendar 2014 Video * Translated | The Air Force has officially announced the program for the season of the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic 2014: 21 appointments, including performances and overflights, some Italian places and cities abroad, between April and October. The first...

No fly zone? Scott's popular air show is casualty of Air Force cuts * BND.com | The era of regularly scheduled air shows -- once an annual staple of metro-east summer and fall calendars -- could be over for good at Scott, the result of deep cuts in Air Force "outreach" budgets and stricter criteria for hosting air shows...

2014 Sun n Fun - Jetmobile - LiveAirShowTV | 747 Capt. Paul Holmes has taken a sketch on a bar napkin to the extreme with his Jetmobile built from a 747 engine! It won't get off the ground, but it's got 1st class seats, spiral staircase, smoke and sound effects! You've got to see this to believe it!

Behind the scenes at SUN ’n FUN * General Aviation News | SUN ‘n FUN was fantastic this year. If you didn’t make it to Lakeland, Florida, at the start of the month, be sure to put it on your 2015 calendar: April 21-26, 2015. We produce SUN ‘n FUN Today, the daily newspaper for the fly-in, so my view of SUN ’n FUN is slightly different....

Air show emphasizes old warbirds, new jobs - Arkansas Online | HOT SPRINGS — For airplane lovers, Aerospace Day at Hot Springs Memorial Field is a chance to take a close look at and even touch a variety of airplanes on the ground, and to take a short flight on a World War II bomber. For others coming to the airport event on Saturday, there will be opportunities for talking about careers in the aerospace industry. Representatives of companies involved in flight and two schools that offer training in building, maintaining and flying aircraft will be there to meet with perspective students...

GALLERY | Aviators flock to Esperance Aero Club fly-in * esperanceexpress.com.au | Visiting and local aircraft flock to the 2014 Myrup Fly-In on Saturday, April 12. Photos: Lauren Vardy.

Guard to announce plans for Fort Wayne air show - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | FORT WAYNE – The Air National Guard 122nd Fighter Wing will have a news conference Monday to announce developments for its next large-scale air show. Guard officials will provide a time frame for the show, identify performers they hope to secure and tell how community organizations can take part...

“Welcome Home” – Vietnam Veterans Tell Their Stories In Their Own Words · Warbirds News | Sleeping Dog Productions, Inc., a Wisconsin-based HD TV production house plans to launch a new television series about the Viet Nam War called “Welcome Home” for the spring 2015 season.  Creators Jon Tennyson and Scott Guyette hope to release the series near the 40th Anniversary of the fall of Saigon. The city fell to the North Vietnamese on April 30th, 1975, and that date effectively marked the end of South Viet Nam. The last US personnel evacuated the city at that time in a painful, mad scramble of helicopters tracing back and forth from the US Embassy in Saigon to awaiting aircraft carriers...

Lt. Col. Cole and America mark a high-flying, hopeful anniversary - Shreveport Times | Even after 72 years, the flight has never really ended. This Friday — April 18 — marks nearly three-quarters of a century since the bombing raid in 1942 by a group who came to be called Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Not quite five months after the Japanese surprise attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, 80 young Americans in 16 B-25 medium bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, attacked Tokyo and other targets and proved to America, to Japan and to the rest of the world that the Japanese mainland was within reach of American firepower....

Lockheed Super Constellation walkaround — elegance in red stripes (Part I) by travelforaircraft | Is there is an aircraft more elegant than Lockheed's Constitution? It is difficult to think of one other than the "Connie", if there is one. The long slender fuselage paired with a high performance wing (scaled up from the Lockheed P-38 Lightning) and characteristic triple tail is certainly a hard combination to beat. What better than the Connie — well, the "Super Connie" of course. The Super Constellation was a bit longer, carried much more fuel and had more powerful engines...

PHOTO GALLERY: MAPS Air Museum's P51-B - Canton Repository | MAPS Air Museum installs the P51-B aircraft on top of the new sign at International Parkway and Wales Road (Massillon Road)for all to see and enjoy...

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NAHA Launches Wright Factory Fundraising Study · Warbirds News | Amazing as this might sound, the buildings from America’s very first purpose-built aircraft factory still stand, and a group in Dayton, Ohio is seeking to preserve them. The two structures pictured above date from roughly 1910/1911, and were an integral part of the nascent Wright Company, established by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1909. According to a recent press release, “the National Park Service has identified the buildings as the first in America built for the purpose of producing airplanes. Adding the factory to the national park’s other five units would complete the story of the Wright brothers’ lives and their invention, development and commercialization of the airplane in Dayton...

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778 'Rosie the Riveters' show up to set world record - and save bomber plant - The Ann Arbor News | It was as if hundreds of old World War II posters had come to life. The hangar at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti Township was a sea of red and white polka dot bandanas Saturday afternoon when 778 women came dressed as the iconic Rosie the Riveter in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record. They may have not had enough "Rosies" to set the record in October -- there needed to be 250 -- but now there were more than enough thanks to women like Heather Seyfarth and her daughter, Mairead....

Punta Gorda Air Show Draws Over 100K for Veterans-Themed Event - Newsmax.com | About 60,000 people showed up each day at the 34th Annual Florida International Airshow in Punta Gorda this past weekend, following last year's disappointing cancellation.  Fighter jets and vintage planes dating back to 1918 were on display to the delight of many, NBC reported. For many, however, the real stars of the show were the veterans who were in attendance for this year's theme, "A Salute to Veterans." Veterans in attendance included Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Cole, 99, and Ret. Air Force Maj. Gen. John Borling, 73....

New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest ends on sunny note - Daytona Beach News-Journal | News-Journal/NIGEL COOK Patty Wagstaff performs during the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest air show in New Smyrna Beach on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Pilots performed spectacular aerobatic maneuvers Sunday afternoon, thrilling thousands of people attending the last day of the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest....

Video: Fat Albert And The South Texas Air Show - KIII TV3 | ...Meteorologist Alan Holt got to fly in Fat Albert and talked about the experience with 3 News Anchor Michael Gibson.

Military Matters: B-25 Mitchell Bomber - KIII TV3 | KINGSVILLE (Kiii News) -There are so many stories we found at this years, Wings Over South Texas Air Show in Kingsville including our Military Matters report. We came across a group called the DAV Flight Team who's mission is to fulfill promises to the men and women who served. Thousands of people walked through the gates at NAS Kingsville to experience...

Red Arrows take off for 50th display season - ITV News | The Red Arrows have taken off from their Lincolnshire base destined for Cyprus to complete training for their 50th display season. For the next eight weeks the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team will operate from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as the pilots practice their display ahead of the 2014 season....

Stunning new video shows what it's like to fly with the Red Arrows By Western Morning News | For those who have watched the Red Arrows display team and wondered what the view is like from the skies – wonder no more. A three-minute video has been posted online that puts the viewer in the passenger seat of a Hawk T1 during a team practice session over their home at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire...

Sun 'n Fun Fly-In expecting a big year - Bay News 9 | LAKELAND -- Organizers of Lakeland's annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In are expecting a good year. Advance sales for the event are way up, according to organizers. President John Leenhouts said advance sales would typically be about $150,000 a week out from the event, but this year the sales are at about $300,000...

Large contingent of overseas participants for Warbirds Over Wanaka - Voxy | A large contingent of overseas participants is expected to add a strong international flavour to the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow this Easter. Guest performers, exhibitors and media will soon be travelling from Poland, France, the United States, Lithuania, Switzerland and beyond to take part in the event which begins in just over three weeks...

LA County Airshow 2014 * Photorecon.net | On March 21st and 22nd, the City of Lancaster held the inaugural Los Angeles County Air Show at William J. Fox Airfield. The Air Show was headlined by the United States Navy Demonstration Team, the Blue Angels. With so much aviation history stemming from the Antelope Valley and neighboring communities, the air show was a tribute to the valley’s rich aviation heritage, and the aerospace pioneers who have paved the way for future generations to come....

Airshow Franco-Belge in lens-Benifontaine - Translated | After the success of the Air Holidays 2007, 2010 and 2012 respectively which hosted 22,000, 30,000 and 53,000 spectators, the next major air show will be held Sunday, May 18, 2014 on the airfield Lens-Bénifontaine. The theme will be the Franco-Belgian Friendship. Pascale Alajouanine-Duhoo which is the official sponsor of the Meeting of Lens-Bénifontaine since 2007, will again to that of 2014....

Death of a hero * Bayou Renaissance Man | ...Jeremiah Denton, the downed Navy pilot who was paraded before television cameras by the Viet Cong and confirmed U.S. suspicions of prisoner maltreatment during the Vietnam War by blinking out the word "torture" in Morse code, has died. He was 89....

World's only flying Superfortress to touch down Valdosta - WALB-TV | VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) -You can see a rare sight Monday, when the Commemorative Air Force's (CAF) iconic Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber FIFI -- the only remaining flying example of the aircraft in the world --- lands at Valdosta Regional Airport. FiFi will be accompanied by the famous C-45 Expeditor Bucket of Bolts and a PT-17 Stearman...

Video: Vintage planes from Wanaka auctioned off * Emily Cooper 3 News Reporter | A collection of rare cars, motorbikes and planes has gone up for auction in Wanaka. More than 50 items, including a 1924 Bentley, a 1938 Harley Davidson and a Tiger Moth aircraft, went under the hammer for the Warbirds over Wanaka Community Trust...

Air Race F1 Receives Approval From The Official Formula One Air Racing Associations * aviationpros.com | Air Race F1, the first international Formula One air racing series, which will launch in Lleida Spain on 1st June, has announced that the three major Formula One Air Racing Associations have formally agreed to sanction the event, granting Air Race F1 recognition as an official international competition by all active governing bodies of Formula One Air Racing....

Scot flies the saltire in revival of aerial race - Scotsman | ...Des Hart is to compete in the Air Race F1 – piloting his plane at levels as low as 35ft while racing eight other aircraft at speeds of up to 250mph on a two-km circuit above Lleida-Alguaire Airport in Catalonia, Spain. Hart, from Perthshire, is one of only three British pilots to compete in the major international race, and the only Scot in a field of 14. Formula One flying is still performed in Reno, in the US, but was stopped in Britain in the late 1980s because of safety concerns and the high cost of running the racing aircraft...

Plane which ‘cheated death’ rolled out at Yorkshire Air Museum on 70th anniversary - The Press, York | SEVENTY years after its first outing, the story of a famous Second World War Two aircraft which cheated disaster time and time again is being remembered at the Yorkshire Air Museum this weekend. On the night of March 30, 1944, the Halifax bomber Friday the 13th rolled down the runway at RAF Lissett near Bridlington, bound for Nuremburg in Germany...

Ohio Capital Budget Includes Funds For Historic Wright Brothers Factory · Warbirds News | Efforts to secure and restore the historic Wright brothers’ airplane factory have taken an important step forward with the inclusion of funding in Ohio’s capital budget bill.  The budget bill for fiscal years 2015 and 2016 includes $250,000 to acquire and secure the two Wright Company buildings for eventual use by the National Park Service. Ohio Gov. John Kasich introduced the bill Tuesday to the state legislature.  “This is one small step toward opening the Wright Company factory to the public as a unit of Dayton’s national park, but it’s a giant leap in terms of gaining recognition for the importance of this project,” said Tony Sculimbrene, executive director of the National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA)....

[Video] Egyptian DHC-5 Buffalo utility aircraft performs belly landing * The Aviationist | You don’t see this kind of maneuver every day. Reportedly filmed on Mar. 24, at an undisclosed airport, the following footage shows a textbook landing of an Egyptian Air Force DHC-5 Buffalo plane...

NASA Marks Tenth Anniversary Of Successful Mach 7 Hyper-X Flight * Aero-News Network | March 27 was the 10-year anniversary of NASA’s successful Mach 7 Hyper-X flight. During this flight, the 12-foot-long X-43A research vehicle set a world speed record for an “air breathing” (jet-powered) vehicle...

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EAA Staff Remembers Paul Poberezny Featured - EAA Video | February 11, 2014 - EAA staff members share memories of Paul Poberezny, EAA Founder.

Great Lakes Aviation Conference This Weekend - EAA | February 12, 2014 - A variety of keynote speakers and other educational opportunities for all levels of interest in aviation will be featured at the 14th annual Great Lakes Aviation Conference and Expo on February 14-15 at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing, Michigan...

Think Global Flight Journey to Launch at Sun 'n Fun - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | February 12, 2014 - Aviation enthusiasts from around the world will fly into Florida's Lakeland Linder Regional Airport for the Sun 'n Fun International Fly In and Expo April 1-6, but there will also be one very significant departure on April 3: The Think Global Flight (TGF) crew is set to take off from Sun 'n Fun to launch its around-the-world flight promoting S.T.E.M. education and aviation...

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Looking ahead to SUN ’n FUN - General Aviation News | Won’t make the “Living Legends” dinner for Bob Hoover in Los Angeles this month? Perhaps you’ll grab another opportunity to dine with the legendary aviator and other aviation celebs at SUN ‘n FUN’s “Dinner with Legends” event — part of a full plate this year at the airshow season opener in Lakeland, Florida April 1-6...

Joyce Delaney Skydives with the Golden Knights, Tandem Style - US Army Golden Knights | Joyce Delaney from WFTL 850am Radio out of Fort Lauderdale, Fl spent the morning with the United States Army Parachute Team. She made a tandem jump with SSG...

Twenty-fifth "Thunder Over Louisville" to look back at show's history - WDRB | LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The 25th Thunder Over Louisville celebration will take a look back at the history of the popular fireworks show. Wednesday morning, the Kentucky Derby Festival announced that this year's theme will be "Throwback Thunder." The soundtrack will highlight songs from each year of the annual show...

2014 Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival canceled - KFVS | The 2014 Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival has been canceled, according to Bruce Loy, airport manager at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Loy said Tuesday that the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, previously scheduled for a May 17 through 19 air show in Cape Girardeau, have canceled all of their 2014 U.S. air show appearances due to financial budget cuts...

Vintage Ford Tri-Motor plane available for rides in Miami - MiamiHerald.com | To soar in the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor is to take a step back in time, when only the daring ventured into the sky. When men dressed in suits and women in silk stockings to travel. When a pilot maneuvered a plane by wits and skill not computers. When a passenger was protected from the elements by nothing more than a sheet of glass in a window. When aviation was more than novel: It was a luxurious adventure for the lucky few who could afford to fly...

Superfortress stop in Pensacola postponed - Pensacola News Journal | The scheduled Pensacola visit of a vintage World War II B-29 Superfortress has been postponed from this week until April 3 through April 6...

Air show needs donations to take flight - WFMJ | VIENNA TWP., Ohio - The Youngstown Air Reserve Station is among the 16 locations where the Air Force Thunderbirds are set to perform this year, but the show can't take off without thousands of dollars in private donations. The Vienna base has not hosted an air show since 2009 and it will need to raise $200,000 for Thunderbirds to take flight....

Gee Bee Q.E.D. to Appear at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | When we last spoke with Rich Alldredge following the flawless first flight of the late Jim Moss' outstanding reproduction 1934 Gee Bee Q.E.D. last fall, he said, 'We definitely have Oshkosh in our sights.' Well, this week he confirmed plans to fly the burly two-place Golden Age racer to Oshkosh this summer to participate in EAA AirVenture 2014.

Fallbrook airman has blue sky in his veins - U-T San Diego | FALLBROOK — Tucked away inside an inconspicuous hangar behind the runway at the Fallbrook Community Airpark is Tom Aberle’s pride and joy, perhaps the fastest bird of its kind on the planet....

B-17 Lacey Lady Restoration Update – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Ep534 | Sean O’brien from the B-17 Alliance Group joins Matt Jolley with a restoration update on their B-17 “Lacey Lady”.  Gary Velasco (Fighting Colors.com) also stops by to announce the start of a nose art panel give away here on Warbird Radio...

New Space Shuttle Exhibit to open Feb. 26 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will be cleared for liftoff when the museum's new Space Shuttle Exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 26. The exhibit, which features NASA's first Crew Compartment Trainer, allows visitors to experience the size and shape of an actual space shuttle orbiter by entering the payload bay and looking into the flight deck and mid-deck levels....

Timeless Voices - Dorothy and Bill Tunstall · eaavideo.org | Dorothy Nash and Bill Tunstall met and married in 1943 while both serving in the Navy, Bill as an Aviation Machinist Mate and Dorothy in the WAVES. Bill served aboard the USS Hornet and USS Kitkun Bay, while Dorothy was stationed at Sand Point.

EAA’s Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, December 13, 2014 · eaavideo.org | Scotty Wilson describes his quest to build a full-scale, flyable replica of the Bugatti 100P racer, one of the most elegant and technologically advanced airplanes of its time, at EAA’s Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, December 13, 2014.

AirplaneGeeks 286 – Jason Rabinowitz, the AirlineFlyer | Freelance aviation journalist Jason Rabinowitz joins us to talk about FAA deadlines, passenger behaviour on charter flights, and the state of U.S. airport infrastructure. Also, the best aviation museums, Jetblue’s new FlyFi system, travel technology, and analyzing travel data.

Marine aviator receives high-flying British honor for saving lives - DVIDS | FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. —A UH-1Y Venom pilot received the British Distinguished Flying Cross, Feb. 12 at the British Embassy in Washington. Capt. Brian Jordan, the second Marine aviator to earn the medal since World War II, was honored for his actions on June 21, 2012, while deployed in Afghanistan...

Air Force Association and Air Force Museum Foundation offer reciprocal memberships - National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The Air Force Museum Foundation (AFMF) and the Air Force Association (AFA) announced today that they will be offering reciprocal memberships. Current members of one organization can now join the other organization at a discounted rate...

NextGen Space Entrepreneur Jeff Feige Takes Helm of Space Frontier Foundation - Spaceports | The Board of Directors of the Space Frontier Foundation announced today that Bob Werb, Co-Founder and long-time Chairman of the Board, has retired from the position, and that they have unanimously elected space entrepreneur Jeff Feige to take over as the Foundation's new Chairman...

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Community gives thanks to Blue Angels - Imperial Valley Press | “We're celebrating the Blue Angels and their winter home,” said Les Smith, addressing the attendees. Smith is president-elect of the El Centro Chamber of Commerce. “This is a great opportunity for the community to give back to the military and all they...

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Nominations Sought for Tony Bingelis, Spirit of Flight Awards - EAA | February 10, 2014 – Is there an extraordinary tech counselor in your chapter? Or a pilot whose accomplishments and dedication to aeronautics have “flown under the radar”? They could be candidates for two awards presented annually at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Tony Bingelis Award and the Spirit of Flight Award....

Video: Inside Lycoming's Thunderbolt Engines For The 2014 Red Bull Air Races- AirPigz | I really like the new format in the re-start of the Red Bull Air Races where each race aircraft has an engine and propeller that has been tuned to produce the same performance. For this kind of racing I think putting the emphasis on the pilot's skill is the most interesting way to go. And those standardized powerplants are the incredible American designed and built Thunderbolt customized engines by Lycoming....

“JetMan” Ivey Rossy at Reno Races & Over EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh - WarBirdBabe | If you have an opportunity to visit the Breitling pavilion, you know what I mean… First you’ll be greeted by a stunning Bentley, then pretty girls – ready for a picture with you, a bright yellow Cap 232 plane flown by world renown aerobatic pilot David Martin, and if that isn’t enough, inside, the mother lode: awesome Breitling Watches and theSterling Silver Unlimited Class Trophy...

Wright Brothers: Langley Medal for Aerodromics on February 10, 1910 - From the Archives, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

The Story of the Italian Air Force Mustang Wreck Rediscovered in Lake Garda · Warbirds News | Warbirds News is proud to present an original article on the recent rediscovery of an Italian Air Force F-51 Mustang in a lake. The article was originally written in Italian by Luciano Pontolillo, president of the Italian Aviation Association I-CARE.We have translated and edited his words for you here...

Malaysian Caribou by travelforaircraft | "The Caribou’s capability is impressive. It could transport 32 troops, 24 paratroopers or 14 litter cases — or 8000 pounds of cargo (~3640kg) — yet land in less than the length of three football fields (pitches) while having a...

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Talking to Anchorage · Rich Davidson, NORDO News | ...I’ll never forget that moment. There over Alaska, six hours into a twelve hour flight to Incheon, four guys from very different backgrounds, all paid to fly 747’s, revealed their passion for aviation by the airports they frequent. And what did I learn?...

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Pilots Confirmed For Jet Racing Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE- A NASA astronaut who has completed six space shuttle flights has been confirmed as one of the pilots taking part in high-speed jet racing at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow next Easter.Colonel Curtis Brown of the United States was flight commander on two of his six space missions and is also a five times Reno Jet Air Race Champion.Alongside Curtis in the “Reno” team contesting the #GigatownWanaka Jet races will be three times Red Bull World Air Race champion, Mike Mangold.

Happy Birthday To The Consolidated B-24 Liberator · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | Seventy-four years ago today, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator took flight for the first time.  Newer, more efficient and more versatile than the B-17 Flying Fortress, more Liberators were built than any other military aircraft in American history.  In addition to being used as a heavy bomber, the B-24 also served as a long-range maritime patrol and transport aircraft...

Remembering another war hero - Bayou Renaissance Man | Those who inspired the World War II generation are leaving us faster and faster now, as they get on in years.  A few weeks ago we lost Wing Commander James 'Jimmy' Flint of the Royal Air Force, at the age of 100...

Remembering aviator Alex – Spitfire-testing extraordinaire - East Lindsey Target | It was following the Kings Cup Air Race of 1933 that people began to take notice when he won the Siddely Trophy flying a Comper Swift. The Comper Aircraft Company, while based at Hooton Park Aerodrome near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, has an...

Rare Rutan aircraft donated to the Institute for Aerospace Education · General Aviation News Staff By SaVannah Rash | Spirits were high at the Mayer household in Nelson County on Saturday, Nov. 2. Students from all across Kentucky were scrambling in frenzied excitement over the generous donation made by John Mayer to the Institute for Aerospace Education, a rare Rutan Defiant...

Exploring the Wright Stuff in Ohio - Philly.com | Start out in the West Side neighborhood at the Aviation Trail Visitor Center, a unit of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. It's located across a brick plaza from the ... With a little exploration, the stone foundations of the ...

America’s first airplane factory reappears · General Aviation News Staff | After nearly a century in obscurity, America’s first airplane factory began to reappear in 2013 as demolition crews peeled away surrounding buildings in Dayton, Ohio. The original Wright Company factory began to emerge on the 54-acre, former Delphi Home Avenue plant in west Dayton as demolition crews razed other buildings to prepare the site for redevelopment. The Wright Company factory was the first in the United States built for the purpose of producing airplanes...

Spitfire Mk FR.XVIIIe SM845 (G-BUOS) Made Its First Flight · Warbirds News | As reported on Global Aviation Resource Spitfire Mk FR.XVIIIe SM845 (G-BUOS) made its first flight from IWM Duxford . On Tuesday, 17 December 2013, Richard Lake’s Spitfire Mk FR.XVIIIe SM845 took to the skies for the first time since summer 2010, following its rebuild to flying condition by Historic Flying Limited (HFL) at IWM Duxford in conjunction with Airframe Assemblies Ltd on the Isle of Wight.  Both have been responsible for several high-profile Spitfire restorations in recent years, with their projects now flying in the UK, Europe and USA...

Antique Airfield:

• Time - 2013 Fly-In Video by Brent Taylor
• J-2 On Skis - Last Flight of the Year at Antique Airfield
• American Eaglet Project Fuselage Paint

DISCOVERY CHANNEL SERIES by: Donna Flynn - December 28th, 2013  | Unveiled at the International Council of Air Shows, new documentary series produced by Great Pacific Television will be airing on Discovery Channel and it will be starring Showline Airshow Services, Super Dave Airshows and others!!!  The show will be premiering in March 2014!!! Check back for more information.

FlightTime Radio Show 310 | Milford and Charlie were in the Renegade Light Sport Studio for their 310th FlightTime Radio Show!! Spent a lot of time talking about all the different places we have broadcast from and the exciting people we have talked to! We talked a bit about the companies that stand behind us, propping … no pun intended… us up through the years. We are excited about some great news for FlightTime Radio coming up soon!... Stay tuned!!! We’ll be right back to start our 7th year on the air!!

"Bowing Boeing" UCAP #342 - Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | A Triple-Seven makes a successful go-around… Shell has an idea… and transitioning to ultralights. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded December 8, 2013. Alt titles: "Hit the TOGA button", "other-illities", "drag monsters"

The Curse of the Cargomaster - Air & Space Magazine | They’d fly it again, if they had the chance. Among the group gathered at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base, there’s a man for every crew station at the ready. They flew, maintained, navigated, and sometimes cursed one of the least understood aircraft in the history of the U.S. Air Force, the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster. In a conference room at Dover’s Air Mobility Command Museum, papers are shuffled—Where was that article from the base news? Smudgy documents, their margins trailing off the page from copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy Xeroxing, are offered. A small stack of VHS tapes forms a centerpiece. The men, some slowed by age and ailment, chatter and argue. A clamor of “There I was” stories fills the room, accompanied by hand flying. Then, with quiet authority, Hank Baker, a retired C-133 flight engineer, holds his hand up, as if to take an oath...

The Bomber on the Golf Course - Air & Space Magazine | On the night of may 31, 1944, my brother and I were awakened by engine noise—overhead. We were up and outside in an instant. I was nine, and in my mind, nothing ever happened in Enterprise, a small town in northeastern Oregon. Hearing what sounded like a big multi-engine airplane circling Enterprise in the middle of the night was thrilling. The few airplanes we had seen were small, single-engine varieties. Our father ran to the car and drove off...

Fighting Hitler’s Jets by travelforaircraft | ...This is not a book which discusses in-depth the grand strategy the Allies developed to defeat  the Luftwaffe's jet powered aircraft in the latter part of World War II in Europe. Fighting Hitler's Jet's is a text rich with historical insight, experiences of American as well as German pilots, and knowledge of aircraft and their designers not commonly found in other books...

The usefulness of IRST - Bayou Renaissance Man | A reader asked me whether the IRST (infra-red search and track) sensors mounted on many modern fighter aircraft (such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Russian Sukhoi Su-27 family, the Swedish Saab Gripen and the US F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-35 Lightning II) was of any real utility compared to radar and other sensors.  Here's a picture of the IRST sensor (circled in red) on a Eurofighter Typhoon...

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Our Friend Jeff Lee featured in Faces of Aviation

Steve Wittman Among 2014 National Aviation Hall of Fame Inductees - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The late Sylvester J. 'Steve' Wittman, the pioneering aircraft designer, builder, and racer who was an early EAA member and the namesake of Oshkosh's Wittman Regional Airport, is among six individuals who are among the class of 2014 inductees for the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF).

AirVenture Exhibitors - eaavideo.org | Exhibit at the World’s Largest Aviation Celebration, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh!

AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 - One Week, One Oshkosh - eaavideo.org | December 18, 2013 - It’s the planes that bring you here. It’s the people that bring you back. Reignite your passion. Oshkosh – you gotta be there!

'Lightning in the Desert' a rebirth of Luke's air show - Glendale Star | After cancelling the event last year, the Luke Air Force Base Air Show will be revived March 15 and 16, base officials said. The show attracts several hundred thousand military and aviation fans for a series of demonstrations by the Air Force's ...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: EAA Wright 1903 Flyer Replica - The Aero Experience | The 110th anniversary of the Wright Brothers 1903 flight provides a backdrop for a look at the EAA AirVenture Museum's  Wright 1903 Flyer Replica as seen during our visit for the Young Eagles Banquet at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013.  The full-scale replica of the Wright 1903 Flyer was completed by the EAA with the Blackhawk Technical Institute of Janseville, WI in 1978.  The replica was constructed using...

Video; Lockheed Vega Returns to the Air - NORDO News - Aviation Unedited | Today, December 17th, 2013, John Magoffin put one thing right in aviation; he returned a Lockheed Vega to the air.  Others exist but they do not fly and that is important. Without the roar, a lion is not a lion; mounted heads do not make a zoo and static airframes do not make an airport...

This Day in 1913: Aero Club of America recognized 10th Anniversary of Flight - Wright State University | On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made their famous flight at at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (view photos on CORE Scholar). That was 110 years ago today. Now we’d like to share with you some details...

Fantasy of Flight: Benoist 2014 - Countdown to Flight - 3 Weeks | ROBERT'S ENGINE ARRIVAL AND TEST RUN - Just three weeks to go till the Benoist 100 year anniversary flight, and things are really starting to pick up...

Army aviation reflects on 2013 milestones - Theredstonerocket | PEO Aviation's newest project office unfurled its colors during a ceremony in September in which the legendary American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers were a part. PEO Aviation, with Fixed Wing Project Office in the lead, arranged for the family members...

Pacific Aviation Museum preserves civilian, military airplanes at Honolulu's ... - OregonLive.com | ... Aviation Museum preserves civilian, military airplanes at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. TR.Hawaii2013TJR005A.JPG. A B-25 bomber, similar to those used in the famous Doolittle air attack on Japan in 1942, is displayed at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor.

Low level flying and bombing run from the Harrier Jump Jet cockpit - The Aviationist | About three years ago a fleet of about 50 perfectly working Harrier GR9 aircraft belonging to the RAF Joint Force Harrier were retired as a consequence of a spending review. Some of them were sold to...

And here's a low flying B-52 | Really low!

Dave Thatcher's CX5 Flies for the First Time - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The greatly anticipated first flight of Dave Thatcher's latest creation, the two-place CX5 N14GB, took place on Tuesday, December 17, at Jack Edwards Airport in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Let's play it again! - La'Shanda Holmes, The Coast Guard's first African American female helicopter pilot...

Landing Signal Officers - a book recommendation - Bayou Renaissance Man | My post last night about Landing Signal Officers seems to have attracted a fair amount of attention, with more visits than usual...

Virginia Air & Space Center wins NASA grant - Daily Press | The Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton is one of 10 educational institutions across the country chosen to share in $7.7 million in NASA grants to attract students to science and engineering careers. NASA announced the Competitive Program for ...

Spacewalks @ISS Planned for December 21, 23 and 25 to replace faulty pump module - Spaceports | Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins will venture out of the station's Quest airlock on Dec. 21, 23 and 25 to remove a pump module that has a failed valve and replace it with an existing spare that is stored on an external stowage platform. The pump is...

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December 17, 1903 – December 17, 2013 -110 Years From The First Flight - Warbirds News | At 10:35 a.m. on December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew the Flyer for 12 seconds over 120 feet of ground. This flight, conducted on Kill Devil Hill just outside of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was the very first flight by a manned, controlled, heavier-than-air aircraft that flew under it’s own power. In other words, it was the first flight of an airplane. This...

National Air and Space Museum marks anniversary of first flight · General Aviation News Staff | On Dec. 17, 2003, America looked back a century to celebrate the first successful flight of a powered airplane. Ten years after the Centennial of Flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright’s achievement at Kitty Hawk is still inspiring creativity and provoking discussion. In time for this year’s anniversary, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is focusing a spotlight on its updated exhibition, “The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age.”...

'Ohio's Aviation Heritage' podcast tour now available - National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | DAYTON, Ohio -- 110 years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful powered, heavier-than-air flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. These two brothers from Dayton were the first of a number of Ohioans who have played an integral role in the history of the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations. The history of many of these contributions, from the early days of flight through the Space Age, is outlined in the latest self-guided audio tour available from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force...

Cincinnati helped get aviation off the ground - Cincinnati.com | Today marks the 110th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ historic flight at Kitty Hawk. On this anniversary, let’s not just look north to honor Dayton and its achievements in aviation. The Cincinnati area has played a critical role in the development of flight. Here are some little-known facts that put Cincinnati on the aviation world’s map:...

‘SKY FIESTA’ 2013 to mark 101 years of Lankan aviation a success - ft.lk | ...Our objectives were to celebrate the 101st year of Sri Lankan aviation industry, celebrate the World Civil Aviation day, gather all the aviation lovers in to a one place and enhance the Aviation subject and also our Ceylon Aviation Club etc...

Catalina Air Show 2013 - Photorecon.net | Catalina Island hosted its second annual Air Show on the weekend of October 26th and 27th. Sponsored by Scheyden Glasses, the show boasted aerobatic air show performances by “Super Dave” Mathieson in his customized Scheyden MX2, John Collver’s AT-6, Team Rocket Aerobatics with Eric Hansen and Ken Fowler, John Melby’s Muscle Bi-Plane, Ross Granley’s YAK 18-T, Marcus Paine’s Super Cub, Mike Blackstone’s Waco YMF-5, and the Red Bull Chopper piloted by Chuck Arron, the only pilot in the United States licensed to perform with a helicopter...

Red Arrows try to track down young fan who sent them a letter - This is Lincolnshire | The Red Arrows are trying to track down the address of a young fan who sent them a letter saying they wanted to meet the team. The letter, sent by 9-year-old Tahnee Johnson, is decorated with hand drawn Red Arrows planes as a border and asks how Tahnee can meet the team...

BBC Radio recognises Shoreham Airshow Achievements - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | BBC Community Heroes Award - Derek HarbarBBC Radio Sussex and Surrey recognised the achievements of the Shoreham Airshow by awarding Derek Harber – Airshow Organiser the Community Hero’s Award under the Volunteer Section Banner for 2013...

Warbirds show to host first French presence - Otago Daily Times | A delegation of French military officials and a specialist surveillance aircraft will arrive in Wanaka next Easter, jointly hosted by the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow. The French will be bringing a CASA CN-235-300 aircraft, which will be open for the public to view throughout the three days of the airshow...

Duluth International Airport showcases ‘The Lark of Duluth’ - General Aviation News | DULUTH, Minn. — Jan. 1, 2014, marks the 100th anniversary of the world’s first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line. To commemorate the anniversary, The Lark of Duluth, a replica of the first airliner, is now on exhibit inside the Duluth International Airport terminal, in the baggage claim area, through January 2014, according to officials with the Duluth Aviation Institute...

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum | Located on Miramar Way in San Diego, California, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum offers visitors the opportunity to view a wide range of aircraft and military vehicles, along with exhibits and artifacts detailing the exciting history and fascinating legacy of the United States Marine Corps Aviation. In summer months, the museum has scheduled days during which visitors can sit in the cockpit of a static airplane, examine the controls and get the feeling of what it must be like to be a real pilot. Visitors can also take a stroll along the Walk of Memories which features memorial bricks inscribed with the names of US Marines...

Oldies & Oddities: The Alraigo Incident - Air & Space Magazine | ...As Sea Harrier ZA 176 settled on the slick containers, it began sliding backward. Watson tried to retract the landing gear. The main gear dropped off the back edge of the container...

Air Force museum poised to grow · General Aviation News Staff | DAYTON, Ohio – The world’s largest military aviation museum is about to get bigger. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is set to expand its legacy with a new 224,000 square foot building to be constructed by Turner Construction Co. of Washington, D.C...

Last SR-71 Blackbird engine test in full afterburner at Edwards Air Force Base - The Aviationist | “To experience a J58 in full burner close up and personal is hard to describe. Picture a gigantic blow torch, 40 inches in diameter, putting out a blue-yellow-orange flame over 50 feet long. Imagine standing 30 feet from this, feeling the vibration and heat. You wear both foam plugs and earmuffs. Your ears still ring afterward, because the...

Kalamazoo man builds plane in honor of grandfather - Hilton Head Island Packet | ...Flaten, a 2010 STAR Award winner and a metal artist who had taken art classes at Kalamazoo Valley Community College prior to the accident, has now finalized his dream project. It's taken years of recovery to get to where he is now, nearing completion of a B-25 Mitchell model plane to honor his grandfather, a World War II veteran who died in 2002...

Video: Wow! Did You See This Cub Land On Skis? - AirPigz | So, I was searching for a nice video to post today... there was a fresh people are awesome video with a variety of extreme death-defying sports feats including various airborne activities... then there was a new-just-yesterday extreme wingsuit video with an impossibly long-and-low flight down a slope (literally just a few feet off the ground)... and then I stumbled onto this video of a humble Cub on skis landing on a packed and icy patch next to a runway at an airport up in Canada last January.  Sorry extreme freaks, the Cub wins...

Long Beach businesses donate to Veterans Airlift Command · General Aviation News Staff | LONG BEACH, Calif. — At a holiday fundraiser at the Long Beach Airport (LGB), Aeroplex Aviation, in partnership with Signature Flight Support, made a donation to Veterans Airlift Command, a nonprofit organization that provides free air transportation to wounded warriors, veterans and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes through a national network of volunteer aircraft owners and pilots...

Wichita Aero Club gets $10000 for scholarship program - Wichita Business Journal | The Wichita Aero Club on Monday was awarded a $10,000 grant from BBA Aviation's Charitable Giving Program for the club to use for its scholarship program. BBA Aviation is the parent company of Signature Flight Support, which operates a fix-based ...

New Plymouth student set to fly in space - Radio New Zealand | An engineering student from New Plymouth could become the first New Zealander in space in a year's time. Hamish Fagg, 21, has returned from a space academy camp in Florida, after winning a competition for a place on a commercial flight into space...

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EAA's B-17 Makes NFL Debut Sunday - EAA | Aluminum Overcast takes pregame flyover at Lambeau Field | November 21, 2013 - One of America's most historic military aircraft will fly over one of football's most venerable sites on Sunday, as EAA's B-17 Aluminum Overcast performs the pregame flyover at Lambeau Field before the Green Bay Packers-Minnesota Vikings game at noon (CST).

Open Letter to Our Air Race Fans - Reno Air Racing Association | Dear Air Race Supporters, On the heels of a spectacular and historic 50th National Championship Air Races, the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) is looking forward to the next 50 years. This year's event marked a recovery from the many emotional, financial and operational challenges of the last three years. The crowds were back, the weather was good and the racing was thrilling and safe. However, as we work to build for the future, we are faced with a set of significant challenges posed in the wake of a third year of financial losses. As a not-for-profit organization, RARA is committed to preserving and growing air racing and we are dedicated to creating long-term financial sustainability. As such, we have carefully evaluated our current financial position and we have been forced to make some agonizing and difficult decisions. Effective immediately, we have implemented furloughs and wage and benefit reductions on all RARA staff. Additionally, we have made the heartbreaking decision to eliminate certain positions....

Reno Air Racing Association Announces Cuts - KTVN | The president of the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) announced Friday the implementation of furloughs, wage and benefit reductions; as well as the elimination of certain positions, effective immediately...

Jimmy Graham, an NFL Star Takes Off - Men's Journal | Graham has been defying expectations for so long now, he doesn't bat an eye when nonbelievers scoff at his latest ambition – to become a competitive airplane racer in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. "In my life," he says, "the sky is ...

The Family Legacy Continues, Col.Paul Tibbets IV Qualifies on B-52 · Warbirds News | The grandson of the pilot whose historic World War II mission helped end that conflict set a milestone of his own Thursday.Col. Paul Tibbets IV, Air Force Global Strike Command deputy director of operations, was certified to fly the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, making him one of a handful of fliers qualified to fly all three of the U.S. Air Force’s bomber platforms. He flew the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers during previous assignments...

Red Arrows pilot Sean Cunningham inquest: Shocking footage will not be shown ... - This is Lincolnshire | Distressing amateur film footage of Red Arrows pilot Sean Cunningham being ejected from his aircraft will not be shown publicly at his inquest, a coroner has ruled. Flight Lieutenant Cunningham, 35, died after his ejector seat fired while his Hawk T1 ...
   
Flying Tigers' 70th anniversary exhibition kicks off in Taipei - China Post | TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan military yesterday kicked off an exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW) in commemoration of this joint organization that represents one of the strongest ...

Wright Brothers History Questioned by Gustave Whitehead Historian | TIME.com | ...Without Jane’s involvement, Brown’s research and website – gustave-whitehead.com – would’ve likely been relegated to the far reaches of the Internet. With Jane’s on board, however, Brown appeared to have tipped history’s scales in favor of Whitehead for the first time. But a number of aviation historians and academics are lining up against Brown, including those at the Smithsonian, the longtime home of the Wright Flyer. “When you get right down to it, to the Whitehead claim, there is – no – evidence,” says Crouch, the Smithsonian’s curator. “None.” Born in Dayton, Ohio, where the Wright Brothers grew up and tested many of their planes, Crouch has been with the Smithsonian for almost four decades. He wrote a book chronicling the Wrights’ achievements as well as a history of aviation from kites to manned space flight. In 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed Crouch to the Chairmanship of the First Flight Centennial Federal Advisory Board....

Santa to visit New England Air Museum · General Aviation News Staff | WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN. — The New England Air Museum will hold its annual Santa Visit & Behind the Scenes Tour Friday, Nov. 29, the day after Thanksgiving. Santa, who will meet and pose for photos with children between 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will have a gift for each child...

T-6 formation - Apron 6 | Two more photo’s from one the photoflights during the Hahnweide treffen. We were lucky to have these two T-6's next to the Dornier. The first one is a behind the scenes photo showing how it is done. The second one shows one of the T-6's flying above the forrest. As the sun was already […]

Maintenance Airmen keep A-10s in the air - ACC | U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Adam Fingleman, 757th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, cleans an A-10 Thunderbolt II canopy prior to flight Nov. 18, 2013, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The A-10 Thunderbolt II can be serviced and operated from austere bases with limited facilities near battle areas.

This is what happens inside an AC-130U Gunship firing 105mm projectiles - The Aviationist | The following footage shows  Special Missions Aviation Airmen during preflight, and live fire training mission aboard a U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130U gunship over Hurlburt Field and the Eglin Air Force Base range [photos]

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Airplane enthusiast builds life-size replicas out of scrap metal - The Globe and Mail | ...Their front lawn now features a 1918 DR1 Fokker (the same kind of plane the Red Baron flew), a 1916 Sopwith Camel (cartoon character Snoopy's plane), a 1944 Spitfire Mark 9 and its rival, a 1944 Messerschmitt ME 109 G, modelled after German flying ace Adolf Galland’s plane (although, in this case, it’s a mustached mannequin setting at the controls). Although the planes are static and don’t fly, the rudders and other controls are operational....

Former CAP cadet joins Air Force, becomes 'Master Air Pilot' - Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- As a child, he was inspired by meeting a commercial airline pilot as he walked down the aisle greeting passengers. At 15, he completed his first solo in an AT-6 Texan World War II trainer and went on to serve four years in Civil Air Patrol. Now after nearly 24 years of service, he is being recognized for his accomplishments as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. Meet Lt. Col. Alexander Newuman, chief pilot of the 1st Special Opeations Squadron at Kadena Air Base, who was presented a Master Air Pilot Certificate from the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators’ based in London, England, during a recent banquet at the Guildhall in London.

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Indianapolis Air Show | The Executive Committee of the Indianapolis Air Show has decided not to produce an event in 2014 and thereafter. We appreciate the support the Air Show has received over the past 16 years however current circumstances indicate that it is impracticable to produce future Air Shows.

OUHSD 2013 Hall of Fame: Samuel Broadnax's dreams of flying made him one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen - ChicoER | OROVILLE — Samuel L. Broadnax is one of three people being inducted posthumously into the Oroville Union High School District Hall of Fame on Sept. 28. He attended Oroville High School from 1941-1944. Two months into his senior year, he left to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and become one of a unique group of fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen...

Daring duty from the skies: 'Doolittle Raider' recalls historic attack on Japan - Auburn Reporter | Daring duty from the skies: 'Doolittle Raider' recalls historic attack on Japan. Edward Saylor, one of only four remaining 'Doolittle Raiders,' visits Auburn to talk about the World War II bomber mission...

R.I. Aviation Hall of Fame to honor CAP's Blackman - Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | RHODE ISLAND -- The Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame will induct five new members at its annual dinner in Cranston on Nov. 8. The five inductees (all deceased) include Lt. Col. Richard Warren Blackman, who made a major contribution to aviation in Rhode Island through his lengthy service with Civil Air Patrol. Blackman, who died earlier this year, joined the 102nd Composite Squadron of CAP’s Rhode Island Wing, and by 1980 he was heavily involved in Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency training, search and rescue missions and radio communications monitoring. Blackman often served as mission commander on the wing’s many search and rescue missions in the 1980s and ’90s – most notably the search for John F. Kennedy Jr.’s downed aircraft.

Jan Bartelski - Telegraph.co.uk | ...Travelling via Romania and Greece, Bartelski eventually arrived in England and enlisted in the RAF, completing his training in Medicine Hat, Canada... Jan Bartelski did wartime service with Coastal Command, flying Wellingtons over the Atlantic...

The Wings Museum Bell P-63C Kingcobra Restoration · Warbirds News | The UK based Wings Museum is restoring a P-63C Kingcobra, the restoration is based around the substantial remains of 43-11137. Accordingly to Aaron Simmons ,Wings Museum volunteer and Licenced Aircraft Technician, the aircraft maintains approximately 85% of its original structure...

Bloch MB-152 du GCII/1  - Passion for Aviation | Jacques Hemet shared with us once again a picture of excellent quality after a negative 6X6 from his personal collection with a mission to identify drivers to the Bloch 152. After a short survey of experts aéroforum, among other responses Alain Coste and Dan Gilberti ( http://www.histavia21.net/ ) came to enlighten us...

When Will Connecticut Admit Their Mistake? - NORDO News - Aviation Unedited | If you read NORDO News, you know about the recent fight to right a major wrong in Connecticut. Wait, I just realized I need to be very specific.  I'm talking about the bill the Governor of Connecticut signed decreeing Gustave Whitehead as the first in flight despite absolutely ZERO credible evidence of such a thing...

Navy unmanned helicopter begins flying - Examiner.com | The MQ-8C industry team is led by Northrop Grumman and also includes Bell Helicopter, Rolls-Royce, Summit Aviation, Cubic Corp., General Electric Aviation, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Honeywell...