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Miami Could Host An International Air Show from Aero-News Network - Hopes To Compete With Paris, Farnborough, Other International Exhibitions There is no international aviation trade show like the Paris Air Show or Farnborough in the UK in the U.S. But a Miami, FL group is looking to change that dynamic as early as 2012…

P-51 Mustang aerobatic team to perform at 'Thunder' air show - Heritage Newspapers | The world's only P-51 Mustang formation aerobatic flight team, The ASB.TV Horsemen, will perform Saturday and Sunday at the Thunder Over Michigan air show ...

AirVenture attendance down 7 percent, space shuttle among possible 2011 attractions
from The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines - Heavy rains in July contributed to a 7 percent decline in attendance this year at the Experimental Aircraft Associations annual convention, but event organizers are already working on preparations for next years event, throwing out hints of big spectacles, including the possibility of a space shuttle, to keep the moment from the worlds largest air show rolling forward.

Oshkosh—Down Just Seven Percent—and Check Out the Photo Gallery
from Business Aviation Now by John Morris | There was no Noah's Ark (although airplane salesman "Watcha" McCollum who once owned my Taylorcraft claimed to have found the remains on Mt. Arafat) to salvage Oshkosh. But aircraft arrived two by two anyway as the grounds dried out, and by the end of the week the torrential rains and flooding of the grass areas were forgotten. "Our volunteers worked 16 hours a day—and they were on vacation," said EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski. "If we hadn't told them to go home at night they would have worked 24 hours."…

WTVO/FOX 39's Joelle Parks Flies with Aerobatic Pilot for Rockford's AirFest - MyStateline.com | Our own Joelle Parks got to fly high in one of the most competitive aerobatic airplanes in the world this weekend, as part of Rockford 's AirFest. ...

SnottsSpot: Idaho Falls Air Show by Lettie | Gabe was excited to attend the Idaho Falls Air Show, he was ecstatic about the blue planes (Blue Angels). Curtis was there with his helicopter; he flies an Apache for the Idaho National Guard. It was fun to see him in his uniform with ...

F-4 Phantom II - 2010 Postings
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B-17 bomber on display at The Air Zoo - WOOD-TV | The Texas-based Commemorative Air Force Gulf Coast Wing is making a 22-day tour of the Midwest to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first flight of ...

Maintainers resurrect F-16s that will become targets from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua - "Mothballed" F-16 Fighting Falcons are parked in the "bone yard" at Davis-Monthan AFB, July 30, 2010. Maintainers from the 309th AMARG are regenerating F-16s so they can be converted into usable manned or drone targets allowing Airmen to train and test new weapons platforms. Specialists with the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group are regenerating F-16s so they can be flown to a Boeing facility in Florida where they will be converted to QF-16 full-scale aerial targets…

X-Racer Aircraft Explained from Rocket Racing League Games by smitty | Ever wonder how the X-Racer Aircraft are made, tested and flown? RRL Chief Test Pilot Len Fox gives us a great walk around of these amazing rocket powered planes developed for the Rocket Racing League…

CVW-7 Homecoming 2010 - NAS Oceana (VFA-103, 143, 131, 83)
from FenceCheck Forums - Thanks. Last part...VFA-143 Pukin Dogs Homecoming...

Our Aviation Community: You're a Pilot? I Love Ya', Man! from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel [Note, this is part one of a two-part article on the camaraderie that we pilots share.] Many of us are still coming down off our EAA Airventure Oshkosh high, trying to blend back in to daily life without thinking about flying machines 24/7. We're washing the brat stains from our "Rock Your Wings!" t-shirts, trying to find the bottom of our overstuffed rollaboard bags, and trying not to focus on how many days there are left until Oshkosh 2011…

Dayon-Wright Bros & Stewart Field - Trip Part 2 from Rob's Flying Adventures by Rob | No time to waste, 08R was secured and instructions given for fuel, and Steve wisked us off towards Red Stewart Field where he had booked us some time in a Piper Cub and a PT-17 Stearman! We chatted a bit while we drove, catching up on the flight out, Steve's trip with Gina that they recently made, Work,… yes, we talked about work, but only briefly…

Elevated, Rooftop Inner-City Circular Airports, 1919 from Military Photos by FrankBooth0 | The presumption of this Illustrated London News article ("On the Impulse to Fly Commercially", 18 October 1919) on the growing popularity of commercial flying for business and pleasure was correct, but the placement of the airports to service the growing community of flyers was, well, not…

Thirteen New Scholarships Added to WAI's Diverse Offerings - AMTOnline.com | In addition to these other new scholarships, Jim Campbell, president of Aero-News Network, is sponsoring two $1000 scholarships in memory of US Aerobatic ...

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago - On May 1, 1960 a lone CIA U-2 spyplane took off from a forward operating base in Peshawar, Pakistan for what would be one of the most fateful flights of the Cold War era. After over 5 years of uneventful US overflights of the Soviet Union, this mission, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, would change the strategic balance of the Cold War…