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Navy-bound Winlock native participating in 2128-mile air race - Longview Daily News | The 22-year-old U.S. Naval officer-in-training will compete in the 2013 Air Race Classic — a three-day, 2,128-mile race that starts Tuesday in Pasco, Wash., and ends Friday in Fayetteville, Ark. The race is an annual all-female-pilot event in which ...

Robert A. “Bob” Hoover at Gathering of Eagles Video  - Alabama Aviator | MAXWELL AFB Alabama- Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you Bob Hoover, the greatest stick-and-rudder pilot who ever lived." That airshow introduction from General "Jimmy" Doolittle only scratches the surface of the military and civilian career of someone whom Brigadier General "Chuck" Yeager called the "greatest pilot I ever saw." Hoover learned to fly at Berry Field, just minutes from his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. At the age of 15, he paid for his own flying lessons by sacking groceries while dreaming of his heroes Charles Lindbergh and Eddie Rickenbacker....

Dusty, star of Disney’s Planes to appear in Dayton | Dayton, Ohio – The summer release of Disney’s Planes, the animated comedy adventure from above the world of the popular 2006 film Cars, has the entire aviation community buzzing. Disney’s Planes captures all of the thrill and excitement that flying has to offer—plus a lot of heart and humor....

Sukhoi SU-35 fighter has all the right moves at Paris Air Show  - James Holloway, gizmag.com | The Paris Air Show this week hosted the first foreign demonstration of the Russian supermaneuverable multirole fighter the Sukhoi Su-35.

Nine nifty images from Day 1 of the Paris Air Show and more (photos) - The Birmingham News - al.com | The Associated Press Scale models of Airbus planes are displayed at the firm's booth during the first day of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, Monday June 17, 2013...

VIDEO: Display highlights from the Paris air show #PAS13 - Flightglobal By Stuart Clarke | View the visual delights from the flying display at the Paris air show. Footage is courtesy of FLIR Systems.

INDIANAPOLIS AERO CLUB 80TH BIRTHDAY BASH  | Please join us in celebrating the 80th
of the Indianapolis Aero Club. The Aero Club was formed in 1933 and holds monthly dinner meetings featuring some of the most widely known names in the aviation and space community. It is one of the oldest and finest Aviation oriented clubs in America. We will be celebrating this occasion with cake, balloons, streamers, proclamations, letters of congratulations and special guests. Our speaker for the evening will be retired Col. Don James, USAF, who will tell of his experiences flying the U-2 and the SR-71 spy plane....

Solar-Powered Plane Faces the Human Factor - New York Times (blog) | A Solar Impulse plane, an eye-catching proof-of-concept vehicle, arrived at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum's branch at Dulles Airport over the weekend from St. Louis, part of a photovoltaic barnstorming tour. The plane's designers say the successor ...

B-29 Superfortress touchdown in Akron stirs memories for 92-year-old WWII pilot - Akron Beacon Journal | Kyle and other spectators were there to see a number of aircraft in the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) arrive for a three-day visit as part of an AirPower History Tour. “Oh yeah,” said Kyle, as his mind raced back in time to the Philippines in 1944 and ...

Fly-In takes off, lands in Keosauqua - KTVO | KEOSAUQUA, IOWA -- The Pilot Fly-In is your one stop shop for toy planes and real planes and an all-you-can-eat pancake and sausage breakfast. “We have the Ottumwa Radio control flyers here do an amazing job entertaining people with their aerobatic...

Red Bull Racing Pilots Train In Slovenia  - Aero News Network | Practice In Anticipation Of A 2014 Racing Season Pilots hoping to fly in anticipated Red Bull Air Race events spent a week in Slovenia at a small airport called Rakican training to qualify for licences to participate in the events.

Ninety Nines Hosted by Alabama State Trooper Aviation Division - Alabama Aviator | Cullman Alabama- Converging on Folsom Field for their June meeting, members of Alabama International Organization of Women Pilots discovered there is a lot to know about the diverse activities of the State Trooper Aviation Division. It's not just about law enforcement anymore....

FlightTime Radio Show 282 - "Live" from America's Hangar... The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington, D. C...

Pearson Field Education Center Rises from Pearson Air Museum Ashes  - Warbird News | We’ve been reporting on the ongoing saga of the breakup of the Pearson Aviation Museum at Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington. In a dispute between the US National Parks Service and the local non-profit, Fort Vancouver Trust, which until recently operated the Pearson Air Museum, the Park Service objected to the Pearson Air Museum making its historic hangar facility, collection and grounds available for dances, marriage ceremonies, church picnics and other fundraisers that the museum...

Donated Fedex Express Boeing 727 Finds Home at St. Louis Downtown Airport  - The Aero Experience Exclusive! | The latest resident at St. Louis Downtown Airport, a Boeing 727 donated by FedEx Express this spring, has been placed on concrete pads across Vector Road from the Parks College ramp and hangar. There was no ceremony to mark the end of the eight-week journey from landing to final tie-down, but a collective sigh of relief could be heard after another day of carefully coaxing the former cargo jet across a bean field to the prepared site...

Tail Guns - Planeshots | Today's theme is Tail guns

Late aviator's 'brilliant' career recalled - Truro Daily News | His name was Neville 'Ned' Henderson and once upon a time he was that close to becoming Canada's first astronaut. Not bad for a kid from Brookfield, one of Don and Marge's seven children. But Henderson's career could hardly be defined by a 'what if.

Build a Plane builds two planes, Day 1 - Jill Tallman, AOPA | Can they build an entire airplane in two weeks? Build a Plane is betting they can. If you’re in aviation, you’ve probably heard that phrase before—particularly if you did an accelerated rating or a type rating. Today I heard that phrase applied to the process of building an airplane...

Video: NASA Names Eight New Astronaut Candidates - Spaceports | NASA has eight new astronauts -- its first new batch in four years. Monday's announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American woman in space, Sally Ride and the day following the 50th anniversary of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova. There is no glass ceiling in space - just planets, moons and asteroids to explore....