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Nev. backs $600000 sponsorship of Reno Air Races - San Jose Mercury News | Nev. backs $600000 sponsorship of Reno Air Races. By SCOTT SONNER Associated PressAssociated Press. Posted: 07/26/2012 06:07:23 PM PDT. RENO, Nev.—Nevada's tourism commission approved a $600000 sponsorship Thursday of Reno's National ...
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Veterans always have a home at AirVenture - Marshfield News-Herald | Re-enactors talk Wednesday about the gear pilots used to wear at the Warbirds in Review forum at Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture. / JEANNETTE MERTEN/Gannett Wisconsin Media...

Oshkosh Fire Department Covers Wittman Regional Airport During AirVenture By Scott | For 51 weeks a year, the nine members of “silver suit” crew at the Oshkosh Fire Department station protect Wittman Regional Airport 24/7. During EAA AirVenture, however, roughly a dozen Oshkosh firefighters, and a handful from the...

Women Soar You Soar from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | EAA's Women Soar You Soar is the ideal place for high school girls to find out what it's like to fly an airplane, or soar into space. This unique program in the heart of Oshkosh introduces girls with women, from engineers to fighter pilots, working in a variety of aviation and aerospace fields. It's an event filled with career exploration, discover, inspiration, and fun. And the reason I’m in Oshkosh this week...

Podcast: Build A Plane Works to Inspire Education from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | Lyn Freeman, president of the nonprofit Build A Plane organization, talks with AVweb's Mary Grady at EAA AirVenture about BAP's projects, including hosting a forum for dozens of teachers at Oshkosh and finding airplane projects for school kids to build.This podcast is brought to you by Aspen Avionics, Aviation Insurance Resources, WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather, and Bose Corporation.

Plugging into a new era of flight - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | A man examines a Long-EZ aircraft outfitted with an electric motor and battery pack at the EAA AirVenture convention in Oshkosh. Aviation enthusiast Chip Yates hopes to retrace Charles Lindbergh's historic New York to Paris flight. But he and his team ...


Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories |FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force...

Airshow pre-show at Bergstrom Aircraft - KNDO/KNDU | PASCO, Wash. -- With the HAPO Over the River Air Show just around the corner, what better way to celebrate than to display all the up and coming acts at Bergstrom Aircraft in Pasco. "We bring in Miss Tri-Cities, we bring in some VIP's to meet the ...

East Fortune Airshow: Airship cancelled due to technical problems - BBC News | Technical problems have prevented an airship from taking part in the East Lothian airshow at the weekend. The state-of-the-art Lindstrand HS110 Hot Air Airship was due to take to the skies at the event at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune...

Aerobatic thrills as modellers take wing - This is Cornwall | CORNWALL'S biggest model flying show takes to the air in a field near Camborne next weekend. Redruth and District Model Flying Club's event has grown from two days to three this year, starting with a practice day on the Friday. Spokesman Sue Burrows ...

PREVIEW: World famous Red Arrows set to make their mark on Sutton on Sea ... - Louth Leader | Organisers are quietly confident the Royal Air Force's flagship team will put on a display for the thousands of people expected to attend this year's event on Sunday. Before that though, this year's Olympic-themed carnival is anticipated to be as big ...

Bournemouth night air show has best line up ever - Bournemouth Echo | THIS year’s air festival will boast its best ever night-time programme, including two live music stages at Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers. Night Air Between the Piers will see two Corona stages set up at the piers, with the one at Boscombe presented by Wave105 and the one at Bournemouth presented by Alex Dyke. The Boscombe stage will be ticketed on the Friday and Saturday...

AIRSHOW NEWS: New Night Air Programme announced for Bournemouth Air Festival from Flightline UK | Air Festival organisers are finalising the finishing touches to what promises to be an incredible Night Air programme, jam-packed with stunning dusk air performances, jumping Tigers, and top-notch entertainment in the Lower Gardens. And the jewel in the Night Air crown and brand new to 2012, is ‘Night Air Between the Piers’ live music programme...

Swiss Power from Apron 6 | Last photo for the Florennes airshow 2012 album.

New Planes of Fame Museum marketing director is no newcomer to flight and ... - Avionics Intelligence | ANSWER: My role is to present the uniqueness, educational value, and benefits of the Planes of Fame Air Museum, and motivate people in the U.S. and abroad to visit us and take part in the vast array of genuine aviation history and boundless knowledge ...

Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa welcomes Russian MiG-21 fighter aircraft - Idaho Press-Tribune | NAMPA — Delivery of a Russian MiG-21 fighter jet to the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa this morning will add to the museum's collection of early Cold War aircraft. The jet will be on display beginning today. “It's a very unique airplane,” Warhawk ...

Aviation history in Greenville: Fighter pilots to commercial flights - The Republic | GREENVILLE, Miss. — When Col. Noel Cumbaa read that Greenville Air Force Base was reopening its base in 1950 and needed a commanding officer, he said he told his boss, "Gee, I'd like to have that job." "I didn't quit thinking about the job," he said ...

Pemberton Waco EQC-6 First Flight Video from Antique Airfield News |  Addison Pemberton and the crew at Felts Field, Spokane WA have cut together a video of the first flight of Addison's Waco EQC-6 two weeks ago. Addison says...

Modern No. 19 Demoiselle - Seattle Post Intelligencer | I was excited when I learned the Wings Over Miami Air Museum was keeping a modernized version of Alberto Santos-Dumont's No. 19 Demoiselle — the 1908 design which was ahead of its time. Santos-Dumont was written about in the previous week so let ...

Back In the Day from Warbirds Online by Scott WRG Editor | This former RCN aircraft was purchased by Ivan Gustin in 1966, registered as CF-JJB and converted into a sprayer. While on contract in Greece it was destroyed in a crash near Agrinion on October 16, 1967. It was not unusual for Avengers that had been converted to sprayers or tankers to have there canopies radically modified. In some models this...

End of an era for Academy's gliders from Air Force Link Top Stories  | The TG-10C gliders that have been the Academy's sailplane of choice for basic and aerobatic training for the last decade ascended for its final flight here Monday.  The TG-10 trainer, which has been replaced by the new German TG-16A model, was flown for the last time on Academy grounds by Cadet 2nd Class Kurt Luithly, who flew the plane as a...

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