Monday, January 21, 2013

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Airshow numbers soar - Wairarapa Times Age | Bob Francis, Wings Over Wairarapa Community Trust chairman, said the mass of visitors had poured through the gates over the course of the airshow, which began on Friday with a practice day ahead of the two-day airshow involving 70 planes at Hood...

Miramar Air Show - Weekend America | Sean Tucker is one of the hardest working stunt pilots in the business. He's performed in over 20 air shows just this year. Back in June, we spoke to him after he lost his beloved stunt plane, Challenger, in a tragic crash. This weekend, Sean is ...

Appeal for air show support - The Northern Echo | The Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport plan to hold an air show for the first time since 1989 at the venue, with displays from the Red Arrows, Tornado and Falcons Parachute demonstration teams. The group, formed by 50 flying enthusiasts, is working ...

A weekend where everything flies - Philippine Star | Aside from aerobatic display, there will be aerial display of colorful balloons in different formation, routines and even synchronized maneuvers. A thrilling performance from the Breitling Jet Team, the largest civilian aerobatic display team in Europe ...

Retiree to direct air show for third time - Daily Inter Lake | The air show receives a cut of the profits, which are distributed to nonprofit groups that worked the show. At the 2005 air show that money amounted to more than $50,000. Any groups interested in working the upcoming air show should contact the ...

Coast Guard Air Station host "Women in Aviation" event - NBC40 | Team members of New Jersey Researchers of Paranormal Evidence searched high and low through Absecon Lighthouse Saturday night in search of paranormal activity experienced by visitors and lighthouse staff. Using high. Team members of New Jersey ...

Working on the line. “B-29 final assembled at the Boeing... from Planeshots

Flight pioneers look back - Boston.com | But Bryant wanted to be a pilot like his older brother, who flew a B-25 with the 477th Bombardment Group. He wanted to be an officer. Bryant was still in flight school when the war ended, but he took his ambition to the University of Michigan, with the ...

Flying high at 94: Fairbanks WWII vet pilots fighter plane he didn't fly ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Rahoi continues to seize each day as it comes and work to make his dreams come true, aviation and otherwise. Flying the P-51 Mustang wasn't at the bottom of Rahoi's bucket list. He has a lead on a B-17 that may be available to fly in May in Anchorage...

Perilous missions over Japan - Waterbury Republican American | Lt. Rodin initially trained for combat on a B-17, at Walker Army Airfield in Walker, Kan., and continued his training at Batista Field in Cuba, which was located 30 minutes southwest of Havana. He trained at Batista for a month in late 1944, when he...

Video Helps Encourage Women To Try Flying - Canadian Aviator Magazine | More than 60 events are planned for Women of Aviation Worldwide Week from March 4-10 and most of them will involve discovery flights for girls and women who have never flown in a small aircraft...

Briefly, a showroom of Cubs from General Aviation News by Drew Steketee | Imagine yourself in a dealership filled with new Cubs! That was the scene at Florida’s Spruce Creek Fly-In community recently. For a moment, the FBO morphed into a gleaming showroom of Cubs, both Legend and legendary. Stick-and-Rudder City!..

Myanmar Spitfire hunter still optimistic from AIRBOYD.TV | Myanmar Spitfire hunter still optimistic (via AFP) An archaeologist involved in a search for dozens of rare Spitfire planes said to have been buried in Myanmar played down doubts Friday about the existence of the rumoured trove. The BBC reported that the British-led team believes that no planes are buried at the locations where they [...]

From Antique Airfield:
Day 52 - January 19, 2013 from TeenFlight! by TeenFlight Crew | After taking off the lower cowling half, we extracted the clecoes from the dried resin and inspected the bonding work. It set up very nicely and formed a nice thick bond between the cowl half, the cooling duct, and the cooling duct interface...

NASA rebuffs Florida's request for property takeover at KSC, Florida Today reports from Spaceports | "NASA has rebuffed the state's request to take over property at the north end of Kennedy Space Center for development of a commercial launch complex, a potential setback in Florida’s effort to keep SpaceX from moving some launches to another state", James Dean of Florida Today reports...

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