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This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar!

EAA Agrees To Pay  - AVweb | Thursday, EAA finalized a one-time agreement with the FAA that will assure air traffic control services for the 2013 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in at a cost to EAA of nearly $450,000, but according to EAA Chairman Jack Pelton, "this isn't over." Pelton has described the FAA's position as "holding AirVenture and GA hostage this year." The FAA, acting under budgetary constraints created by the sequester,...

Four-Day Pylon Racing Seminar Underway in Stead - KOLO | The Reno Air Racing Association is holding the 16th annual Pylon Racing Seminar through this weekend. “It's designed to take brand-new race pilots and teach them the ins and outs of racing,” Reno Air Racing Association President and CEO Mike Houghton ...

Excitement Grows for Airshow in Thanet. - This is Kent | It has been twenty years since the last airshow took place in Thanet, and the return comes after the cancellation of the annual Folkestone Airshow. Manston Airport will play host to some of greatest modern and historic aircrafts.The show will be a ...

A couple of thousand people expected at Holdrege Air Show - Omaha World-Herald | HOLDREGE, Neb. — The skies above Holdrege will be filled with airplanes and aerobatics Saturday afternoon for the 2013 Holdrege Air Show. Event coordinator Dan Powers said he's expecting a couple of thousand people to attend the air show, which ...

Father's Day Fly-In one of many promising foothill events - Merced Sun-Star | This Father's Day weekend, foothill communities will hold events for families, dads and music lovers. It's Airport Appreciation Day at the Father's Day Fly-In on Sunday. At the Columbia Airport from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., vintage aircraft and WWII planes ...

All Lady Pilots To Start Cross Country Plane Race in Pasco - KNDO/KNDU | The 100 or so ladies manning the aircraft are gearing up for the 2013 Air Race Classic. The 2,500 mile cross country races takes off from the Pasco Airport on Tuesday. Terry Carbonell and Ellen Herr took top honors in this race in 2010 and placed third ...

Embry-Riddle Prescott, Daytona Beach Teams Compete in Women's Air Race ... - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | June 13, 2013 – Teams from Embry-Riddle's campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., will represent the university in the 2013 Air Race Classic (ARC), a four-day transcontinental flight competition for female pilots. Flying for Prescott are ...

The Women of The Air Race Classic  - Flight to Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday Flyers... Meet the ladies of the Air Race Classic

The Aero Experience Forms Partnership with The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum | The Aero Experience is proud to announce a formal partnership with The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum to promote Midwest Aviation from the museum's location at historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2, St. Louis Downtown Airport. The objectives of The Aero Experience and those of The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum are compatible to the point where a natural synergy has developed between both groups....

Planning - The Enemy of Surprise  - Rich Davidson Nordo News | ...No more than five minutes later we had changed lanes, taken the first exit, made our way to Bowman Field, and found, to our surprise, a familiar Lockheed 12A sitting in front of an FBO. It was our friend Joe Shepherd. Ginger and I had arrived so fast, Joe wasn’t even out of the plane and yet the surprise of seeing such a beautiful aircraft on the field was already generating a crowd....

Ray Jasica trained to deliver nuclear bomb to Russian sub pens during Cold War - War Tales | Ray Jasica, who now lives in Punta Gorda, Fla. was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in Marine Corps Aviation after graduating from training at Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1954. After he got his wings, he was sent to a squadron of F9F “Panther” jet fighters based at El Toro Naval Air Station in Southern California. […]

Pakistan’s woman pilot ready for combat - The Times Asia | Pakistan’s first combat-ready female fighter pilot has said she is fully prepared for her first mission and that she feels no different from her male colleagues. Ayesha Farooq, 26, is one of five female fighter pilots in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s Air Force, but the first to have completed exams allowing her to carry out active combat missions in her Chinese-made F7PG fighter jet, a variant of the Soviet MiG21....

Video: Airbus A350 XWB Is In The Air! (First Flight 6-14-13) - AirPigz | Airbus has put the A350 XWB into the sky for the first time today... and in fact, if you're checking out this post before 8:00am EDT on Friday 6-14-13 then it's probably still on its first flight! This initial test flight is expected to last around 4 hours....

A Successful Flight School Understands Their Responsibility to Educate and Inspire Young People - Dan Pimentel Airplanista | Ask anyone in the flight training business and they'll talk at length about the need to reach out to children and young people as a means to "light fires" for aviation, as we often say. Kids are the next generation of pilots, and everyone in the aviation family knows the future health of GA depends on these "young people" growing up to eventually earn their Private Pilot's license and replace a senior aviator who has lost their medical, and thus their flying privileges. We need to keep the ratio of new tickets to lost medical certificates at 1-to-1, or do the math...GA's pilot population continues to shrink year after year....