Friday, April 8, 2011

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Video: Kim Passoth Flies with the Blue Angels - Kiii | CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Every year about 100 people from around the country are selected to hop on board and take a ride with the Blue Angels, the Navy's Elite Flight Demonstration Squadron. Our Kim Passoth was one of the lucky few here in Corpus Christi and the only member of the local media to get that invitation to fly on the F-18 Hornet...

Team RV rebounds after severe storm  - AOPA | Team RV, a formation and aerobatic display team, is back at full strength after two of its airplanes were destroyed and others damaged by the March 31 tornado that struck during the Sun ’n Fun Fly-In. The event was to have been the 12-airplane team’s national debut...

Video: YouTube – Sun’ Fun 2011 Fly-In Tornado Aftermath - CRUFC | Sun’ Fun 2011 Fly-In Tornado Aftermath.

2011 CF-18 Demo Jet - Windsor Int'l Airshow | Here's some pictures of the 2011 CF-18 Demo Jet coming to Windsor in September. The theme for this year is Supporting Our Military Families. I like it.

It’s Airshow time again at Wickenby Airfield - Wickenby Airfield | Lincolnshire has been famous for it’s airshows for many years, with the likes of RAF Coningsby and RAF Waddington hosting some fantastic events, and more recently the Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby.  But now Wickenby Airfield...

Rockford AirFest 2011 Ticket Sales Strong - WIFR | Advance-ticket sales continue to be strong for Rockford AirFest 2011, which is June 4 and 5 at Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD). Ticket buyers have taken advantage of deeply discounted prices through March, General Admission tickets were half of the gate price. Already, 6,500 tickets have been sold, a 50 percent increase from two months before last year's show...

Air War over Libya, in The Pilots' Words - Popular Mechanics | Peace one day, war the next: It's the life of a combat pilot. And because Operation Odyssey Dawn—the U.S.-NATO effort to curtail Muammar Gaddafi's suppression of a revolt in Libya—so far relies exclusively on air power, American airmen are again at the sharp edge of history...

Podcast: Uncontrolled Airspace Episode #232 "Strange Brew" - UCAP | The boys are still together in Florida, at Jeb's poolside, doing one last bit of face-to-face hangar flying.

Museum of Flight hosting shuttle announcement broadcast - Seattle PI | Seattle’s Museum of Flight will host a live broadcast of NASA’s announcement next Tuesday of who will get retiring space shuttle orbiters, the museum announced Thursday. The Museum of Flight is one of 27 sites around the country competing to be the home of the shuttle orbiters Atlantis, Endeavour and Enterprise (which was used to test atmospheric flight) after the retirement of the shuttle fleet later this year...

Astronaut John Glenn on the Future of Space Programs - PopSci | John Glenn's biography reads like that of a superhero: first American to orbit Earth, then a United States senator and eventually the oldest person to go into space. So when PM ran into him at a recent gathering at Ohio State University (home of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs), we couldn't help but ask him his thoughts on the current space program and America's world standing...

Air Zoo didn't intend to infringe on Battle Creek's 'Field of Flight' with disc golf course name, official says - MLive | The Air Zoo's new disc golf course continues to gain attention and that has some people in Battle Creek concerned. The Air Zoo's 18-hole course — Field of Flight — shares its name with Battle Creek's hot air balloon competition held each year on the Fourth of July...

Video: Spaceship Lands at San Francisco Airport - Wired | One of the first planes to dock at Virgin America’s new San Francisco International Airport terminal was a spaceship. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo arrived hitched between the twin fuselages of WhiteKnightTwo, its mothership and launch platform...

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