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Amelia Rose Earhart Takes Flight; Announces Plans to Retrace Namesake's ... - MarketWatch | OSHKOSH, WI, Jul 31, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Pilot Amelia Rose Earhart will announce today her intention to circumnavigate the globe in a Pilatus PC-12 NG single-engine aircraft. Departure from Oakland, California is scheduled for June 2014. "My passion for flight and adventure has driven me to explore new experiences I never would have imagined possible as a child," said Amelia. "Hard work, persistence and great role models have enabled me to fly outside the lines and achieve my dreams. Aviation plays an integral role in my life and I hope to share some of that joy with others through this adventure."...

Flying with Amelia - Blog | ...In December of 2011, I retraced her namesake’s transcontinental flight across the US in the Cirrus. It was a life changing event that inspired me to continue to retrace the flights of Amelia Earhart. Up next, a Trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, then a circumnavigation around the globe to recreate and complete the flight that Amelia herself never got to finish...

'Jetman' Yves Rossy Shows Us How to Fly His Carbon Fiber Jet Wing · Jason Paur | OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – There’s a moment in every flight where gravity cedes control to Yves Rossy and for a few minutes he flies as birds do, with only a wing on his back and the wind at his face. Sure, there are jet engines, but he hears mostly the wind. It’s perhaps the greatest feeling of freedom one can experience, and after all these years, it never gets old....

3,000 Images and Counting: First Look at @PilotIan24's Oshkosh Galleries - Airplanista Aviation Blog | Here is Ian Hoyt's photography from his first few days at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, or #OSH13 to those in the Twitterverse. It sounds like his first day at the show was memorable, and generated over 3,000 images...

OSH13: Tuesday Airshow Action - CoolPix Triple Play! - AirPigz | You'll notice that my OSH13
coverage this year is scaled back from previous years... 18 hour days for a week straight just doesn't fit my life at the moment. So I'm sharing thinner slices of the activities taking place at the world's greatest aviation event, but hopefully they are still quite compelling. Today I've got three hi-res CoolPix images that come from the airshow on Tuesday....

BD-5 at #OSH13 - You like airplanes, too? | Folks were wondering what the biggest aircraft in Aeroshell Sq… *ahem* Phillips 66 Plaza was going to be this year. I’m not sure, but I certainly know that this little BD-5 is in the running for the smallest! Photo by Ian Petchenik. More #OSH13 photos

CAF Announces Eight Finalists for New CAF National Airbase Location ... - DigitalJournal.com | Midland, Texas (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is pleased to announce the eight final locations under consideration for the home of the new CAF National Airbase. The search for a new headquarters began in May of 2013 with more than 25 interested and viable locations. After careful consideration of each potential location, the CAF Board of Directors has narrowed the list to...

Yankee Air Museum gets extension on bid to acquire Willow Run bomber plant - Detroit Free Press | A group trying to save the Yankee Air Museum won a two-month extension to raise enough money to buy a portion of the former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti, which otherwise will be demolished within months. The 5 million-square-foot plant, which was a General Motors powertrain manufacturing plant for a half century, has been closed since December 2010. The bankruptcy trust that controls GM properties left behind in the 2009 restructuring plans to tear it down to make way for new development opportunities....

Bill Thompson's 1938 N3N Floatplane - adventuresinmikeslife | I was invited to help a friend take two boats from Vancouver to Garden Bay, BC. He drove his 1957 Grenfell "Heaven"....and I took his 24 ft 550hp "Hellfire"...

Ho Chi Minh’s Helo by travelforaircraft | The Vietnam Military History Museum (Bảo tàng Lịch sử Quân sự Việt Na) in Hanoi has on display a fixed wing personal transport of Ho Ch Mihn, an Ilyushin Il 14 "Crate" — but there is a rotary wing personal transport which flew President Ho Chi Mihn in another Hanoi museum, the Vietnam Air Defense – Air Force Museum Air Defense (Bảo tàng Phòng không– Không quân). This is where a Mil Mi 4 (NATO reporting name "Hound") which flew President Minh sits atop a...

Bittersweet 50th anniversary for Canada's patched-up Sea King helicopters - CBC.ca | Canadian Armed Forces pilots have been flying Sea King helicopters for 50 years, with the anniversary celebrations taking place today and tomorrow. That these aging beasts are still flying at all is testament to both the talents of those who have been operating and maintaining the old aircraft, and to the failings of a series of governments that have been unable to replace the tired, often grounded Sea Kings since at least 1986....

1st Marine F-35B to land at MCAS Miramar · Douglas Aguillard, Photorecon.net | It was around noon on July 30, 2013, and several F/A-18′s from Marine squadrons, VMFA 314 “The Black Knights” and VMFA(AW) 225 “The Vikings” were taking off from the runways at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, just northeast of San Diego and heading out over the Pacific Ocean, when word came from the Base’s Control Tower, “She’s 65 miles out”...