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Airshow display plane makes emergency landing at St. George Airport - The Spectrum | There were no injuries this afternoon when a vintage civilian aircraft painted as Blue Angel plane made an emergency landing without landing gear at the St. George Municipal Airport....

WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE SET TO HOST AIRSHOW - Macon CH | Wings Over Whiteman 2012 is scheduled to take place May.19 and 20. This free, family oriented event is expected to draw spectators from all over the region. Although still in the planning stages, the schedule already features the US Army Golden Knights, world class performers, dozens of static displays,...

Top 10 reasons to go to Heli-Expo 2012 - Helihub | See the largest helicopter trade show and exposition in the world. Learn about HAI’s new...

Reno Air Racing Foundation welcomes new board member - KRNV | The Reno Air Racing Foundation welcomes Jack Prescott, market president for U.S. Bank, as the most recent addition to the board of directors. In his new role, Prescott will assist the board in its promotion of aviation through a variety of programs focusing on literacy, math, science and history....

Bournemouth pupils design tributes to Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging - Daily Echo | CREATIVE school pupils have risen to the challenge of designing a fitting memorial to Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging. Young pupils at Kinson Primary School are among those eager to help create a tribute to the 33-year-old Red Arrow pilot...

World War II Veteran, 89, Flies Again Above South Florida - NBC 6 Miami | Stuart Newman flew his last mission of World War II 67 years ago, in the spring of 1945. On Friday he returned to the skies, high above South Florida, in a vintage B-17. “It was a real thrill being up there, particularly with my son,” said Newman, 89....

Link by Link (and Webinar II) - CAF Red Tail Squadron | I was going to write today’s blog about landing gear – an airplane requirement if ever there was one. One website I went to talked about early airplane designer Jack Northrop. Because I’m from Minnesota that name struck a chord. The University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus houses the huge Northrop auditorium, site of countless cultural events ranging from...

Engineer promotes African-Americans in early days of aviation - AF.mil | An engineering student from Chicago would go on to become an important link in African-American aviation history and do much to take the accomplishments of the early pioneers in aviation and propel them to national acclaim. William J. Powell was born in Kentucky in 1897 and moved with his family to Chicago, where he went on to attend the...

WWII radar station RAF Dunkirk is auctioned in Kent - BBC | The site of a former radar station in Kent which played a role in defending Britain during WWII is to be auctioned. RAF Dunkirk near Faversham was built in 1937 to provide early warning of bombing raids over the Thames Estuary area....

Video contest - Women of Aviation | Meet the video contest finalists (in alphabetical order): Elizabeth – Altamonte Springs, FL | Esther – Silver Spring, MD | One of these two ladies will travel to Europe to be the guest of honor and act as the ambassador for America’s next generation of women pilots at the “Across the Channel: Women Unifying Nations” event on March 10, 2012....

185 women received free flights in March 2011 setting a world-wide record... - Women of Aviation | Fly it Forward is brought to you by Women of Aviation Week, whose aim is to introduce as many women to aviation as possible during the week that the first female pilot, Raymond de Larouche received her pilot's certificate in 1910. In March of 2011, Frederick Municipal Airport won the honor of...

Women of Aviation Week News FROM THE DESK OF MIREILLE GOYER - Toria Flies |"It was my turn at last. Everybody was expectant. I was eager to get into my seat and be off....

The Flyin' Hawaiiowans - Our 2012 Air Race Classic adventure will take us from eastern Iowa to Lake Havasu AZ and then to Batavia OH via New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We invite you to join us on this flight of fancy...

Fighter jets to land in city for museum event - My Desert | At least two Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets will swoop into Palm Springs for a special “Fly-in” event hosted by the Association of Naval Aviation, Desert Storm Squadron. The jets, from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101 (VMFAT-101) based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, will arrive at the Palm Springs Air Museum ramp at 10 a.m. Saturday. The...

What a photo of two Soviet Mig-29s intercepted by four U.S. F-15s over the Bering Strait says about fighter tactics - The Aviationist | Although it has been already published on several websites, this image suggests some interesting analysis. It was taken on Aug. 1, 1989, and shows two Soviet Mig-29 being intercepted by four (one is the camera ship, another one is not visible in this photograph) F-15s of the 21st Composite Fighter Wing, whosee 43rd and 54th Tactical Fighter Squadrons patrolled 580,000 square miles from the North Pole to the tip of the Aleutian Islands....

Video: U-2 Training (2012) - AirBoyd

Martin MGM-13 Mace, descendent of the V-1 - Seattle PI | The Mace first flew in 1956 and was part of NATO’s nuclear deterrent since it was located both in fixed launch bunkers as well as portable sites. Though a large surface-to-surface missile it could be flown in on its translauncher (a portmanteau of transport and launcher) and repositioned quickly, relative to the standards of the day. Large rockets were unreliable so the Mace was boosted to flight speed using an expendable solid fuel rocket where a turbojet engine would be used for the remainder of the flight....

Dan Linn's Blog: Sunny Sunday Flight - Antique Airfield | Some days I wonder why my fellow aircraft owners aren't pulling their airplanes out to enjoy the nice warm winter days we can have here in Texas. Last Sunday was one of those warm days and...

Dream Flight: Youngsters from SOS Children’s Villages treated by the Phoenix Aviation Limited - Kathryn's Report | Ten youngsters from SOS Children’s Villages selected according to academic excellence, talent, good behaviour and involvement in hobbies and sports were treated to a dream flight by Phoenix Aviation Limited....