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Wing walker sets world record above San Francisco - abcnews.com
A woman [Ashley Battles] set a new world record for standing on a wing of an airplane for four straight hours above San Francisco Bay.
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Tulsa Woman Sets New Wing Walking World Record - newson6.com

Rob Reider weighs in during Geraldo Rivera's segment on Red Bull Air Racing in New York.
Red Bull Air Race Zooms Over NYC
Thousands turn out to watch planes zip through Hudson River obstacle course.

Red Bull Air Race: Highlights, NYC
from Aerial Sports Feed 
Race Day highlights from the fifth round of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in New York and New Jersey.

Red Bull vs. Us for Getting New Pilots - AOPA Pilot
Red Bull cola, which must have a corner on the world's caffeine market, puts on an air show in New York and 75000 people show up; in past years, ...

2010 Air Race Classic from Life on the Road as a Pilot 
We'd like to interrupt our regularly scheduled blog posts  about AcroCamp for a particularly timely notice...
Tomorrow is the launch for the Women's Transcontinental Air Race Classic!

I participated in the race last year and blogged about it in a series of posts starting with this one.

I had the time of my life and hope to participate again next year. I know so many of the wonderful women participating this year that I hope you will visit the Air Race Classic website and see more about the FIFTY EIGHT teams this year (last year there were fewer than 40!) ...

Women to compete in 2500-mile air race - The News Herald
In a few hours, two female pilots from Bay County will fly it across the country in a multi-state air race. Mary Sittman and Leah Dunn are the first local ...

Navy's Blue Angels to Launch Inaugural Air Show in St. Cloud - PR Web
... Franklin's Flying Circus, Minnesota flying legend John Mohr, Mike Wiskus and his Lucas Oil plane, Team Chaos and warbirds like the B-25 and the P-51. ...

About 5000 brave the heat for final day of Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival - Southeast Missourian
John Dissauer, air show spokesman, said Sunday's heat advisory may have affected the day's attendance. "The forecast was calling for an extremely hot ...

Horsemen: Bringing the P-51 experience - P51 Models
The founder of the group, Ed Shipley, is a long-time air show performer with more than 18 years of experience flying the T-6 Texan, P-51 Mustang, the F8F Bearcat and the F-86 Sabre. He was also one of the civilian founders of the USAF ...

Flying Across America - Promoting your General Aviation
One day to go. At this time tomorrow, we’ll be approaching Destin and get ready to meet our friends at DestinJet. And guess what we did yesterday and tomorrow? We spent all day on Florida’s beaches, hit the swimming pool, drink cocktails, and … No forget about that. Apart form the rally and burgers in Dunnellon, we spent the day in Jason’s office here in Ocala, sending mail, calling contacts and updating our plans…

Green Aviation Show in Paris - Examiner
The Green Aviation Show takes place from June 18th to 20th 2010 at Paris-Le Bourget Airport. Egis Avia will be conducting a conference on the new procedures in air traffic. ...

Rain fails to dampen the party at Margate's Big Event 2010 - Kent Online
by Martin Jefferies The Red Arrows defied the gloomy weather to light up the sky with a dazzling display at Margate's Big Event. ...

'Gifted' pilot killed performing stunts for festival crowd - Yorkshire Post
Chris Penistone, a pilot with Yorkshire airline Jet2, was also an instructor with Sherburn Aero Club, near Leeds. The 31-year-old was killed on Saturday ...

Great Britain goes for European and World gold from Airsports.TV's Blog 
2010 or the year when Great Britain could produce a World and European Champion in the sport of aerobatics for the first time ever.
This summer, teams rigorous selected during 2009 and 2010 by the British Aerobatic Association will compete in the European and World Advanced Aerobatic Championships.
The Unlimited European championships are to be held in the Czech Republic in September. The Unlimited Team is formed by Tom Cassells, British Champion Gerald Cooper, Nick Onn, Richard Pickin and ex-World Champion Eric Vazeille. ...

100 years on the wing - Living in Niort
Climax on Sunday with the airshow and the exceptional participation of the Patrouille de France. Born in March 1910, during the week of the air ...

Mitchell & Mustangs flyover at Boeing Field - WIX
Saturday night was the B-17 75th anniversary gala held at Clay Lacy aviation. Boeing Bee was towed over and in the hangar for the event. I never got my ticket so I have no shots from that. However, this freed me up to be able to shoot the flyby of Grumpy, Impatient Virgin & Upupa Epops with the perfect evening light. They really beat up the field good especially John Sessions in Grumpy. It's nice to see the drop tanks on I.V.
   
World War II bomber to visit capital - The State Journal-Register
Sentimental Journey, a restored World War II-era B-17 bomber, will be flying into Springfield's Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport today. ...

Strizhi Russian Acrobatic Air Team - You Tube
The Strizhi (Swifts (Стрижи) are a Soviet and later Russian aerobatic performance demonstrator team connected with the Russian Air Force.
In July 1983 the 234 Guards Fighter Regiment based in Kubinka air base was among the first regular aviation regiments to receive 4th generation fighters Mig-29. Regiment started tailoring a team of military pilots, boasting perfect aerobatic techniques, to carry out demonstration flights on Mig-29s in the mid-1980s, when the Air Force was just embarking on mastering aircraft of this type. Military pilots, headed by Lieutenant Colonel A.N. Kutuzov, an Honorary Military Pilot of Russia, were tasked with perfecting aerobatics in a formation of six aircraft sometimes spaced three metres apart. ...

YF-22 comes home to stay from F-22 Raptor news
A prototype YF-22 Raptor fighter plane that was built in Palmdale, Calif., flight tested here, and put on temporary display at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, returned to Edwards AFB where it will stay for Air Force Flight Test Center Museum visitors to see.
With approximately 100 military and civilians in attendance, Maj. Gen David Eichhorn, Air Force Flight Test Center commander, welcomed all to the AFFTC Museum for the dedication of the Raptor June 11. ...

What Goes Up, Stays Up (Hopefully) from Ares 
Can you identify this unmanned aircraft? Its makers plan to launch the aircraft at Yuma Proving Ground this week on a flight they hope will last two weeks, setting a new world flight duration record for an aircraft, manned or unmanned. ...

Suspected WWII US plane wreck found in India - SIFY News
A trekker in India stumbled across the wreckage of a plane thought to be an American aircraft that crashed during operations to supply China's army in World War II, officials said Monday.
The wreckage was spotted earlier this month by T. Bagang, 26, who had climbed to 14,000 feet (4,200 metres) in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh state's East Kameng district, local administrator Tope Bam said. ...

Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces – Aircraft of the Aces 95 from Let Let Let - Warplanes Polikarpov family of fighter’s I-15, I-16 and I-153 were first Soviet fighters produced in serial mass production. More than 17.000 of these were produced and delivered to the units. At the beginning of the world war two Polikarpov fighters formed the backbone of VVS. Although they were successful fighters they were replaced in 1943 with more modern fighters who were able to withstand German invasion and to provide air dominance. ...

Museum's World War II era plane damaged in crash - Chillicothe Gazette
CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio aviation museum believes it can salvage a 1943 military training plane that crashed on its way to a Father's Day event.
Pilot Wayne Noall, 72, wasn't seriously hurt when the single-engine Taylorcraft L2 Grasshopper lost oil pressure and engine speed and went down Sunday morning in northeast Ohio. The ...

Flying Fortress 5K Run for Mighty Eighth - Bryan County News
6, at 8:30 am, which will benefit the restoration of the museum's B-17 bomber, City of Savannah. Runners will begin the 5K course at the museum and wind ...

B52 in Darwin by drej08
Spent the weekend up in Darwin, and finally found the time to drop into the Darwin Aviation Heritage Museum. Featuring a variety of both civil and military aircraft, from Gyrocopters to a Spitfire replica and even an original RAAF Tiger ...

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
... But before I can talk about the Convair Model 6, I have to jump back a bit and talk about both the XC-99 and the YB-60 as they're both derivatives of the B-36 Peacemaker. Convair's work on the B-36 began in the midst of the Second World War as there was a concern that Great Britain would fall to the Reich and we would need strategic bombers that could reach Europe from the United States. But in parallel to the development of the B-36 ...

Living Aviaton History from The Wings Stayed On! 
Trans Canada Airline's first stewardess, Lucile Garner Grant, celebrated her one hundredth birthday on Sunday, June 13, 2010.

Plane Crash Pictures: Pilot Survives, Makes 911 Call - WJW
from www.fox8.com
... The 1943 Taylor Craft L2 single engine airplane sustained heavy damage to the left wing, right rear tail flap, landing gear and underside of the fuselage.
Fox 8 News contacted Noall about his survival story but the family preferred not to comment. As of Sunday afternoon there was no information available on Noall's injuries.

Lunch in Muncie with the family by Steve
... The clouds were still at about 4,500 feet and I wanted to climb above them both for the smoother, cooler air and to take advantage of the tailwind. I had to make a few gentle turns as we climbed to remain clear of the clouds and then turned on course once we were 1,000 feet above them. I then called Dayton Approach and requested VFR Advisories - for those of you skimming this post, here's where things get fun.
Roughly 25 miles away from Stewart I had started our descent from 7,500 feet through an large break in the clouds when ATC called out traffic 6 miles ahead, below us, 1 o'clock to 12 o'clock. Then he advised they were  ...

Northrop Grumman wins contract to build US Army's long-endurance hybrid airship
from Engadget  | Northrop Grumman's announced that it's won a contract from the United States Army to build its LEMV surveillance ship. The Army is building the ship specifically to assist troops in Afghanistan, and they are expected to go into use sometime in 2011. Northrop Grumman has been commissioned to build three of the ships, which can carry up to 2,500 pounds and hover 20,000 feet above sea-level with a top speed of about 34 miles per hour. The Army will pay NG 517 million dollars for the project. ...

SpaceShipOne, government one? - The Space Review
SpaceShipOne flew two more times, the two flights it needed to capture the $10-million Ansari X PRIZE, later in 2004. SpaceShipOne was retired after the ...

John Glenn to NASA: Keep shuttles flying - MSNBC
Fleet’s retirement should be put on hold, retired senator-astronaut says

Vertical Challenge Helicopter Air Show 2010 - San Carlos - 06/18/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Members ride day at fly fest 2010 , Canadian War Plane Heritage Museum from Theo Spark