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Bonhomme triumphant in thrilling Red Bull Air Race New York
NEW YORK - Paul Bonhomme of Britain won the first-ever New York Red Bull Air Race on Sunday with a scintillating performance under pressure in front of the most spectacular setting in the eight-year history of the sport. Nigel Lamb of Britain took second in a thrilling four-way battle while American Kirby Chambliss got his second straight podium with third place. ...

Hollywood high-flyer lands at Red Bull Air Race
NEW YORK – A-list movie star and doting father Liev Schreiber is spending his father’s day at the Red Bull Air Race in New York and had the rare to chance to get a bird’s eye view of the ...

US authorities go above and beyond duty with huge boating audience
NEW YORK - A host of federal, state and local authorities jumped in without any further ado to help secure the waters outside the perimeter of the Red Bull Air Race track on Sunday after an ...

New York Qualifying

American takes home third place in Red Bull Air Race championship behind two British pilots - The Star Ledger
As American pilot Kirby Chambliss stood on winners podium today and accepted his third-place trophy, 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Champion Paul Bonhomme sprayed him in the eye with champagne.
Chambliss’ face turned bright red, and he rubbed his eyes, but it was a small burden to suffer in exchange for standing on the winner’s podium at the Red Bull Air Race World Championships at Liberty State Park today in front of his fellow Americans. ....

Wounded warriors leave their cares up in the air - KOMO News
Soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan got a special treat Friday - they were the guests of honor at the Olympic Air Show. ...

Forces sweetheart at Cotswold air show - Gloucestershire news
Forces sweetheart Hayley Westenra added a touch of glamour to this year's Cotswold Air Show.
The 23-year-old soprano, who became a modern day Dame Vera Lynn after singing for troops Iraq, made a flying visit to Kemble yesterday to support the work of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
The two day show took the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain as its theme.
The world-famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team wowed the thousands of visitors to the show with their daredevil manoeuvres in the Gloucestershire skies. ...

Historic flights wow at the Cotswold Air Show - BBC News
The Red Arrows, which were based on the site for almost 20 years, also put on a display for aviation enthusiasts. The two-day event was staged at Costwold ...

Kemble air show really takes off! - Swindon Advertiser
Among the key attractions at the show were the world-famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team, a Battle of Britain memorial flight, a Eurofighter Typhoon, ...

Air Race Classic takes off June 22 from General Aviation News
The 34th annual Air Race Classic, an all-women transcontinental air race, takes off June 22. Celebrating 100 years of licensed women pilots, race teams consist of at least two women pilots and have four days to complete the 2,100+ mile course.
Participating in the race to raise money for the Wings of Hope Medical Relief and Air Transport Program, USA (MAT) are pilots Beverly Cleair and Teresa Camp, flying in a 1953 plane donated to Wings of Hope by iconic entertainer Roy Clark. ...

Four inducted into Canada’s Hall of Fame from General Aviation News
Four aviators — Julie Payette, Vi Milstead Warren, Redford Henry “Red” Mulock, and Willy Laserich — were inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame (CAHF) at its annual induction ceremony and dinner, held earlier this month in Vancouver, B.C. The event was attended by more than 280 guests from across Canada’s aviation and aerospace community. ...

Candy Bomber plane makes crash landing - The Local
The DC2 plane was one of the original Rosinenbomber or "Candy Bombers," so called due to the

sweets the aircrews would throw out of the windows for children during the 1948-49 airlift operation.
It is now used by Air Service Berlin, providing tourist tours above the city. A statement from the airport authorities said it “had to make an emergency landing after take-off for unknown reasons.”
It landed in a field near Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport carrying 25 passengers and three crew members. Those who were injured are not said to be seriously hurt.
Schönefeld was closed for 15 minutes after the incident, an investigation into which was started immediately. ...

Man escapes serious injury in single-engine plane crash - IndeOnline.com
A 72-year-old pilot of a single-engine airplane crashed in a wooded field in Sippo Lake Park in Perry Township Sunday morning, but escaped serious injury.
Wayne J. Noall, of Westfield Center, Ohio, was traveling from the Akron-Canton Airport to the Beach City Airport just before 9 a.m., when the 1943 Taylor Craft L2 plane lost oil pressure and engine speed. Noall, who was later treated and released from Aultman Hospital, attempted to return to the Akron Canton Airport after going off radar five miles south of the airport, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.
The control tower at the Akron Canton Airport attempted to contact Noall, but was unsuccessful. ...

An Airman’s Story Presents – B-26 Pilot Ben Ostlind by Matt
WARBIRD RADIO – Join host Leon J. DeLisle this week for the first episode of a special three part series on WWII B-26 pilot Ben Ostlind. An Airman’s Story is 501C3 Non-profit that depends soley on your gifts to survive. For more info on this special project visit them online via the Quick Link below. Enjoy [...]

Pilot Hurt In Curtiss Replica Crash from AVwebFlash Current Issue
Officials of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, N.Y., say their summer flying schedule is in doubt after the crash of one of its aircraft Friday seriously injured their chief pilot. Jim Poel, 67, is in critical but stable condition in an upstate New York hospital after the 1910 replica Curtiss Albany Flyer he was flying went down in a cornfield about a quarter of a mile from Penn Yan / Yates County Airport. "To rebuild it would take a couple of years, so it's ... changing our game plan for our flying programs for 2010 and 2011," Trafford Doherty, the museum's executive director, told the Elmira Star-Gazette. The aircraft was slated for some high-profile flights this summer.

RTB from NESA MAS 2010 - Airspeed
I'm back from Camp Atterbury and Columbus, indiana, where I spent the last week attending Mission Aircrew School at CAP's National Emergency Services Academy. I arrived last night in time to watch a DVD with FOD and Deadly and unload the car. Then a night in my own bed. Nice!
I took the intermediate track as a mission pilot trainee. The track is for pilots with 175+ hours PIC who want to go out and learn search patterns and the ins and outs of CAP aircrew operations. We completed five scenarios over the course of three flights. ...

This Week In Space – June 20, 2010 from Uplinks by Miles O'Brien
The latest edition of “This Week In Space” is now available! Give us a watch…