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Air Force joins celebrations - Stuff.co.nz | The Royal New Zealand Air Force aerobatic and precision flying team the Red Checkers will take part in the traditional Waitangi Day commemorations at the Treaty Grounds on Monday.  It will be the first time the Royal New Zealand Navy and the RNZAF have co-ordinated forces in support of the festival programme at Waitangi and the first time the aerobatics team has put on a public display in the Bay of Islands....

Alabama's Courtland Air Show Returning This Fall from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ...Airport in Alabama will host the Courtland Air Show and Music Festival, September 29, 2012. Kim Prince, TVA Center, says the event schedule is growing with a top Alabama Band, a variety of Air Show Performers, Static Aircraft Displays, Food Vendors and much more. This year’s event will be a Saturday only show. Making his air show debut las...

CUC airshow threatened after director fired - CJME | The future is uncertain for the Canada Remembers International Airshow in Saskatoon, after the firing of Brian Swidrovich who organized the event for over a decade.  CUC executive director Will Lofdahk said they're constantly analyzing every event held at the centre.  "We're taking a look at the show for this coming year, and whether or not we will be going forward with it," he said....

Fly In set to draw big crowd - Warwick Daily News | AVIATION enthusiasts will flock to the Clifton Airfield next month for the Annual Fly In.  On March 11, pilots from all corners of south-east Queensland will park their aircrafts in the field for all to admire....

2011 California Capital Airshow Pictorial - Blurb.com | Celebrate one of the greatest aviation events in the US By Tyson V. Rininger | Noted for being one of the fastest growing and most successful airshows in the country, the California Capital Airshow continues to impress after only its sixth year.  Following a stellar lineup in 2010, showcasing the largest gathering of P-38's since WWII, the 2011 California Capital Airshow had big shoes to fill. Despite not having a jet team, the show did not disappoint....

Sun ‘n Fun Now ‘StormReady’ - Flying Magazine | The property damage, destruction and flooding caused by the E-1 tornado and torrential downpour that hit the Sun ‘n Fun grounds on March 31, 2011, will likely be on the minds of many as the 38th Annual Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-in & Expo approaches. Though the odds of a repeat performance happening again at this year’s Spring Break for Pilots (March 27 through April 1) seem unlikely, show organizers took the lessons from the...

Nelson Ezell – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday – 10am (EASTERN) | Restoration guru Nelson Ezell joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio...

Women Fly it Forward at KFDK on March 10th - Airplanista Aviation Blog | Last year, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first female pilot earning her license. It was around this time that I learned that only 6% of the pilots in the world are women.  The number of women in aviation was never something I thought about much. I was so preoccupied in my flight training to care about the genders of the people around me....

Meet the high-flying team members - New Straits Times | Mior, 41, is in his second tour in the MiG-29N aerobatic team. He currently flies the Blue Tail Jet as Smokey 1. Mior joined the...

Keep em Flying: Columbus Air Force Base from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ...Alabama. After 13 months, it's time for wings and aircraft-specific training. Advance airmen- Immediately after graduation, Johnson said, all graduates hear a presentation on base history, what happens at the base beyond their pilot training and the economic impact of the base. In fiscal year 2010, the base had an economic impact of $257 m...

Super Constellation at Photoflying Days - Apron 6 | ...It’s with great pleasure that I can announce that Breitling’s Super Constellation will land at Zoersel Airfield on august 17th to participate at the Photoflying Days!...

Rural pilot only woman on National Geographic show - The Artic Sounder | In Alaska, you don't have to be big city to be a big story. At least, not when you're Zaz Staheli.  The National Geographic Show "Alaska Wing Men" is in its second season now, and features the 24-year-old Kiana pilot, along with a number of other wing men from around the state. Staheli is the only female pilot featured this season, making her place in a field historically dominated by men....

The Great Debate: too old to fly - Air Facts | We have had the debate on pilot age and it goes on. Review that article and add your comment. For this one we are talking about airplanes.  The last year in which a lot of airplanes were built was 1979. There was big production in the few years before that and if memory serves me, the last time production numbers were as low as they have been recently was 1952....

Russian Sukhoi Su-27s + Iranian F-14s + Iranian F-4s = the most exotic formation ever! - The Aviationist | Although some pictures of this unbelievable formation have been already published on aviation website, the Russian Knights, Russian Air Force aerobatic display team has released some more images of the weird formation of Russian Su-27s (with the supporting Il-76), IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantoms taken during...

Historic Airfield Has Dynamic Future - Part 2 - Avionics Intelligence | ..."Bryant Airfield has a very rich history here on JBER," Katkus said. "It was provided as a resource to the Alaska National Guard in the late-90s, and since then, there's really been no effort to improve or make it a relevant resource. Relevancy is everything in the National Guard, and part of being relevant is making sure your facilities are modernized to meet the mission - not only as a military platform for training but as a resource to project resources and address domestic emergencies."...

Video: Amelia Earhart Retrospective (1962) - Airboyd.tv | ...Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying...

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Chilling tape from Air Force One on day JFK shot - HNN | ...For the first time, the complete audio record of the flight back from Dallas to Washington is available to the public online, from the National Archives, for free....

Lockheed Martin Delivers 2,400th C-130 Hercules - Defense Talk | Lockheed Martin's C-130 Hercules program has reached yet another historic milestone with the delivery of its 2,400th aircraft. The aircraft is an MC-130J Combat Shadow II assigned to U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command and will be operated by the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M....

Working on the line. CF-105 Arrows - Planeshots | More great line photos in the archives  

Boom times for the Boneyard - DOD Buzz | The Air Force has decided it has “excess capacity,” Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said last week, and as such, many of its airplanes are going away....

Scholarships for A&Ps -- ACT NOW! - WAI | ...AWAM still has multiple scholarships for which the applications were extended and will be closing Feb 4th. Only female applicants for these particular scholarships....

IN FOCUS: Bringing aviation training to high schools  - Flightglobal | Advances in gaming technology are bringing mission training experience to high-school classrooms to spark student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (or STEM).  "The gamers were demanding higher and higher pixel count and more and more computational capability. This led to advances in graphics engines and graphics cards, which are now phenomenally capable," says Chester Kennedy, Lockheed Martin vice-president of engineering, global training and logistics....

World's Largest Rocket Contest Helps Aspiring STEM Leaders Take Off - PR Newswire | ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --  Nearly 700 teams of middle and high school students across 48 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands are gearing up for the 2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge, the world's largest student rocket contest and a critical piece of the aerospace industry's workforce development pipeline.  The 10th anniversary competition is the most challenging in the history of the event. This year, each team is tasked with designing and building a rocket carrying a two egg payload to 800 feet and back during a 43- to 47-second flight without cracking. A strict limit on liftoff weight forces students to focus on designing the payload bay while building a lighter, stronger rocket. The top 100 teams will advance to the National Finals May 12 at Great Meadow in The Plains, Va....

NASA, University Of Maryland Invite Public To Astronauts' Discussion Of Recent International Space Station Missions  - NASA | NASA and the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering invite the public to a discussion with three astronauts from recent International Space Station expedition missions at 5:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Hoff Theater inside the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The crew members will give a video presentation about their mission and answer questions from the audience....

Documenting Discovery: NASA, Archivists Work to Record Space Shuttles' History - Space.com | While the Smithsonian gets ready to receive the retired space shuttle Discovery for display this spring, NASA, together with archivists spread across four states, is preparing to preserve the historic orbiter and its sister ships digitally and on paper....