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Air Show flies into town - Newstalk 1010 | The Canadian International Air Show is doing test runs as it gears up for a weekend of flying tricks. The Show signals the last weekend of the CNE. You can catch performances by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, as well as daredevil Mike Wiskus...

In pictures: Bournemouth Air Festival 2013 - BBC News | In pictures: Bournemouth Air Festival 2013. The Red Arrows flying over Bournemouth Pier The Red Arrows, RAF Typhoon and Vulcan bomber are included in the line-up of aircraft on display at Bournemouth Air Festival this year. Royal Marines Band Service...

Russia's Famed Aerobatic Team Tests New Su-30SM Fighter Jets - RIA Novosti | MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosit) - Pilots of Russia’s famed Russkiye Vityazi (the Russian Knights) aerobatic display team on Friday tested new Su-30SM multirole fighter jets, the aircraft’s manufacturer said. “During the flights, pilots of the famed aerobatics team performed a series of aerial stunts and familiarized themselves with unique super-maneuverable capacities of the Su-30SM fighter jet. They spoke highly of the plane’s performance,” said Alexander Uvarov, a spokesman for the plane’s manufacturer, the Irkut Corporation....

Mt. Vernon Airport to Host Historic B-25, P-51 Planes - WJBD Online | The Mt. Vernon Airport will be hosting two historical planes on the airstrip next month. On Labor Day, the Airbase Arizona of the Commemorative Air Force, a non profit group, will be bringing a historic B-25 J Bomber Aircraft entitled "Maid in the Shade" to the airport for the week. The aircraft will be joined on September 6th by a World War II Era P-51D Fighter entitled "Red Nose". The aircraft will remain at the airport until September 8th....

Pilots coming from far and wide for fly-in - Ottumwacourier | BLAKESBURG — Late Thursday afternoon, more than 200 airplanes were tied down in long rows with another one landing every few minutes at Antique Airfield located on Bluegrass Road midway between Ottumwa and Blakesburg. According to Cynthia Hallinger, who was keeping count of Luscombe airplanes, 45 of this year’s featured aircraft were already on the ground with more coming....

Warbirds take flight in model aircraft show - LubbockOnline.com | Flight or fight?  These warbirds are ready for both. West Texas Warbirds will bring more than 50 model aircraft to take flight this weekend just north of Abernathy. Planes at the show are designed to resemble their real-life counterparts from periods in military history. World War II is among the most common themes....

Lisa Schlichtman: Steamboat Springs Airport's Ted is one cool cat - Steamboat Pilot & Today | ..For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Ted, Sunday provides the perfect opportunity. It’s Day Two of the Wild West Air Fest at the Steamboat Springs Airport. Members of the public are invited to spend a portion of their Labor Day weekend enjoying a number of activities at the local airport between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. There are vintage aircraft displays, radio-controlled airplane shows, airplane rides and, of course, the chance to meet the legendary Ted...

Ohio Air News #249 - Charles Johnson | SARL: MERFI 150 coverage

Historic D-Day plane at centre of air museum plan - Scotsman | A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD Douglas DC-3 Dakota which took part in D-Day and the Berlin airlift is to be flown back from Alaska to form the nucleus of a planned new air museum at its former Prestwick base. The news coincides with today's start of the inaugural...

Swedish Air Force Historic Flight Preserves Sweden’s Unique Military Aviation Heritage By Warbirds News | In a relatively short time, the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight (SwAFHF) has built an impressive collection of airworthy warbirds, documenting the proud history of Flygvapnet, the Swedish Air Force. Though a relatively small country and officially neutral through both World Wars and into the Cold War, throughout the 20th Century Sweden inhabited a very dangerous neighborhood indeed. Unlike most countries their size, the Swedes were able to rely on their domestic aviation industry, Saab most particularly, to produce world-class fighter jets in those years when they once again found themselves sandwiched between the front lines of a global conflict. The SwAFHF has become the...

Boeing’s Advanced Super Hornet - The DEW Line · Dave Majumdar | This past Tuesday I visited Boeing’s facilities in St Louis where they were showing off an F/A-18F Super Hornet equipped with prototype conformal fuel tanks and an enclosed weapons pod. It also has some enhanced radar cross-section treatments. Here are some photos.

Pioneering female pilot will share ejector seat problems at inquest - This is Lincolnshire | The first female Red Arrow will recount her lucky escape with an ejector seat at the inquest into the death of pilot Sean Cunningham. Flight Lieutenant Cunningham, 35, was killed after his ejector seat fired while his Hawk T1 plane was grounded at RAF Scampton on November 8, 2011....

Novel captures semi-historical flights of fancy - The Telegram | A few years ago, Harbour Grace hosted a celebration of Amelia Earhart’s 1932 cross-Atlantic flight, and I interviewed a women who had presented Earhart with a bouquet of flowers. Even to meet someone who had briefly encountered the gallant aviatrix was a thrill, so count me in the Earhart fan club. Earhart’s fame was, in some ways, as carefully calibrated as her flights; she knew her attractiveness was important, not to her but to her goal of building training and employment for female pilots, and was aware of how she was photographed....

Solar-powered UAV could fly in the upper atmosphere for 5 years at a time - Gizmag | Conventional satellites may be decent at their jobs, but they do have some drawbacks – the spacecraft themselves are quite expensive, getting them into orbit is also a costly process, and they can’t be reclaimed once they’re in use. Titan Aerospace, however, is offering an alternative that should have none of those problems. The company’s Solara unmanned high-altitude aircraft is intended to serve as an “atmospheric satellite,” autonomously flying in the sky’s upper reaches for as long as five years continuously....