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DRACULA” PREMIERES AT ICAS IN LAS VEGAS December 10, 2012, Las Vegas, NV: The...
from Franklin's Flying Circus's Facebook Wall | December 10, 2012, Las Vegas, NV: The tapering fuselage, speed ring cowling, and sloped windshield hearken back to the racing airplanes of the 1930’s. The airbrushed blood in the paint comes straight from the opening scene of a horror movie. The modern prop, nearly full span ailerons, and attention to detail on the weight are 21st century technology. The Franklin Demon 1 biplane, known as “Dracula”, bursts onto the air show scene at the ICAS convention in Las Vegas this week. Air show legend Kyle Franklin has completed and tested this radical one of a kind biplane, which...

Those magnificent men - New Zealand Herald | Aerobatic planes will race side-by-side at a large Auckland air show next month in what organisers claim is a world first. The inaugural New Zealand International Air Show will be at at the North Shore Airfield in Dairy Flat on Anniversary Weekend...

Annual Tyndall Air Force Base air show canceled - San Francisco Chronicle | About 75,000 people attended the Gulf Coast Salute Open House and Air Show in 2011. It's a longstanding tradition in Bay County, though it has been canceled periodically for various reasons...

Tributes paid to airshow founder - ITV News | Organisers of the Royal Air Forces Association Shoreham Airshow have paid tribute to Don Bean MBE, following his death from illness at the age of 80. Mr Bean was was awarded the MBE in 2000. He founded the airshow 23 years ago. Acting organiser ...

Historic DC-3 will be on hand at Vero Beach Aviation Day - TCPalm | After a very successful 2012 Air Show season throughout the USA culminating in appearances at the Wings Over Homestead Air Show and the Stuart Road to Victory Air Show, the oldest flying DC-3 in the world, the American Airlines Flagship Detroit, has ...

AirPigz National Air And Space Museum MeetUp January 25-27, 2013 (Washington DC) from AirPigz by Martt | Rather than make another trip to the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio like we've done the last two years, this year I'm looking to have an AirPigz meetup at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC on January 25-27 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), 2013....

Aviator recalls life and B-29 bombers on Tinian Island from War Tales by Don Moore | 1st. Lt. Guice Johnson was the bombardier on the 12-man crew of the first B-29 to land on Tinian Island during the closing months of World War II. In fact, when Capt. Walter Schroder put down the wheels, the Seabees were still working to build the runway. Johnson was in the 484th Squadron, 505th Bomb [...]

Buried Spitfires set to take to the sky from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | A lost squadron of Spitfires buried in Burma after World War II could fly over Britain within three years. According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, digging for the hoard of at least 36 Mark XIV fighters will begin in January at a remote airfield. Should the efforts succeed, a number of the aircraft will be carefully packaged and brought home next spring, where they will be restored.The discovery could more than double the number of Spitfires flying...

Sixteen Helicopters Participate In Alabama Toy Delivery from Aero-News Network | Gifts Intended For Kids At The Children's Hospital Of Alabama It had all the markings of a well-oiled Christmas machine. Santa Claus arrived by state police helicopter Thursday, the first of 16 aircraft that would arrive on the helipad of the old Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, AL, while young patients at the new Children's Hospital of Alabama nearby watched from their rooms.

Armed Forces Military Museum from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Larg0, a town without notability or notoriety, has a museum dedicated to the military that is world class — it is fabulous in scope and display. Exhibits are not merely stored, they are arranged with artful skill and organization to best illustrate the historical [...]

F-22 Raptor scrapes tail on runway as it lands after Pearl Harbor flyover sustaining 1.8M in damage from David Cenciotti's weblog | An F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, 19th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force, sustained 1.8 million USD in damage in a landing incident at Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hickam, on Dec. 7. The aircraft was returning to its homebase from a training exercise, about 90 minutes after conducting a Missing Man Flyover during the 71st Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration ceremony at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, and scraped both horizontal stabilizers on the runway at Hickam as it landed....

6 Incredible, Human-Powered Aircrafts--And The Gutsy Pilots Who Flew Them - Fast Company | Built by the American team Paul MacCready and Peter Lissaman of AeroVironment, the aircraft had an unusual control setup a little reminiscent of the Wright brothers' aircraft and was made of lightweight plastics and aluminum spars in a very aerodynamic ...

Ballooning Federation Of America Announce Youth Camps from Aero-News Network | Ensure The Future Of Ballooning And Get A Tax Deduction The Ballooning Federation of America (BFA) will be holding two Youth Summer Camps in 2013, one in Dubuque, IA, (June 23-27) and the other in Reno, NV, (Dates TBA). The camps are organized and run by volunteers and volunteer counselors donate their time to the camps. Donations provide the scholarships for campers to attend and goes towards the campers expenses for the week.

Day 47 - December 9, 2012 from TeenFlight! by TeenFlight Crew | After many weeks of wiring around the firewall, we finally got to a point where we could hang the engine. Between the avionics and the power plant wiring harnesses, there were quite a few sensors that had to be hooked up prior to engine installation (or else one would have to make up some pretty interesting arm...

North Carolina community college’s aviation program takes off from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Back when he was just 5, Zachary Harrell would race outside each time the local crop duster flew by his home in outside the little town of Seven Springs, N.C. “He flew over my house purposely playing with me,” the teenager recalls. “It was from these roots that I knew I wanted to do something involving aeronautics.”...

The Supersonic Man: Felix Baumgartner - PilotMag | ...While Baumgartner himself explained that he didn’t feel the shockwave as he passed through the speed of sound, Clark acknowledged that the team experienced some anxious moments, especially when Baumgartner went into a spin – which early analysis suggests lasted some 40 seconds before the 43-year-old managed to straighten out using...

Dorothy J. Anderson - LimaOhio.com | Over the years she taught hundreds of students and flew in numerous air races throughout the country, most notable participating in 32 Air Race Classics, with a 4th place her best finish. Her last race was in June 2011. In 1978 she became a flight ...

Video: Sir Patrick Moore, the "fearlessly eccentric" Voice of the Space Age, Gone at Age 89 from Spaceports | The late Sir Patrick Moore presented the BBC program The Sky At Night for over 50 years, making him the longest-running host of the same television show ever, notes the BBC. More from Sky&Tel....

Astronaut Catherine Coleman on Apollo 17 from Spaceports