Retired Canadian Forces Snowbirds Commander To Be Honoured - Ottawa Citizen | TORONTO, ONTARIO– Recently retired Commander of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, Lt.-Col Maryse Carmichael, will be one of six women honoured at the fifth annual Northern Lights Award Foundation Gala on September 27, 2013 in Toronto...
Photos and Video: Wings Over Gatineau-Ottawa air show - Ottawa Citizen | The press conference for 
Local wing walker set to soar at the Gatineau Airshow - CTV News | Carol Pilon has two very different jobs. For most of the year she is the Produce Manager at her family’s grocery story in Masham Quebec, north of Gatineau. But for a few weekends each summer she takes to the skies as Canada’s first, and only, professional wing walker. As the name suggests, she literally climbs out of the cockpit of a two-seater biplane and walks out onto the wings freehand, striking poses as the plane dives and rolls through the air...
Airport Festival and Air Show in Ocean City this weekend - shorenewstoday.com | OCEAN CITY — As the shoulder season gets into full swing in Ocean City, there is no lack of weekend entertainment. The annual Ocean City Airport Festival returns 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 14 at 26th Street and Bay Avenue and includes ground displays of unusual airplanes...
Two-day beach air show in the works for fall - PNJ.com | Island Authority OKs event without go-ahead from Blues | With an eye to fill hotels, restaurants and Casino Beach during one of the slowest tourism months of the year, the Santa Rosa Island Authority board voted unanimously Wednesday to spend $117,000 to $170,000 on a two-day air show in November. The board is gambling on the chance the Navy’s Blue Angels may be able to fly during the show, even though there’s been no official word that the performance flight team, grounded by sequestration, will do so....
Thirty years in the air - Novato Advance | Wings Over Marin will celebrate women in aviation at its Sept. 21 event at Novato’s Gnoss Field, which is home to 295 aircraft, from bi-planes to private jets. The event will feature a seminar with female pilots from...
Annual Fly-In at Wilkes County Airport is Sept. 21 - Wilkes Journal-Patriot | The annual Fly-In at the Wilkes County Airport on Airport Road in Hays, organized by the Mountain View Ruritan Club, is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 21. In addition to a variety of aircraft and classic cars on display, the event will include airplane rides, food, drinks, live music and paratroopers jumping from a plane at 11 a.m. and noon. The Wilkes County Flying Club will hold a drawing for one free ticket for an airplane ride every hour for five hours...
14th Annual Fly-In set Sept. 12-15 - Carthage Press | It’s a fun and unique event for those who enjoy having their heads in the clouds. Ernie and Alice Baugh, along with the Sho-Me Chute Flyer’s Club, will host the 14th Annual Fly-In Sept. 12-15 at Baugh Flight Park, in Reeds, Mo. There will be all kinds of aircraft keeping locals’ eyes looking up...
Simsbury Fly-In Promises Fun for Enthusiasts, Families by Kaitlin Glanzer | There’s plenty of givens for the 2013 Simsbury Fly-In. There will be airborne demonstrations, a close look at an aviation controversy, plenty of viewable aircraft and cars, food and a host of family fun....
Crossville Memorial Fly-In set Sept. 28 - Crossville Chronicle | CROSSVILLE — The 2013 Crossville Airport Open House and Fly-In, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28, will have an AH-1 Cobra Helicopter on display. The Cobra, which is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter, will 
October air show adds performers, Canadian Hornets - Rome News-Tribune | The Wings Over North Georgia Air Show will feature the Canadian Forces CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team along with the Black Diamond Jet Team, GEICO Skytypers and Aerostars. The teams will be performing at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport on Oct. 12-13...
Folkestone Airshow to return with new backing - yourcanterbury.co.uk | Show was cancelled this year but will return in 2014 with new management and funding in place.
Video: Stunt pilots take Rob for a spin - channelonline.tv | Islanders have been getting a taste of life as a stunt pilot in Guernsey today. Aerobatic display team The Blades took passengers into the air with them today for barrel rolls, corkscrews and other expert manoeuvres. The Blades are all former Red Arrows pilots and tomorrow they will be taking part in the annual Guernsey Air Display, which supports the RAF and commemorates the Battle of Britain. That display will begin at 11am.
The Push and the Pull - Fly with Amelia | During a skydive, the threshold of an aircraft door is the shortest, yet widest, distance between frozen fear and unbridled flight. Crossing that threshold for the first time is uncomfortable, unnatural, and for most, unnecessary. Unnecessary? That’s right. You can stay right where you are. You can absolutely stay belted in. Often the first leap is the toughest… that comfort zone sure is cozy. Come to think of it, it’s crowded, hot, loud and common. In this blog, I suggest we allow ourselves to ask for a little push, or maybe a little pull to help with kicking that threshold out and really seeing the world for what it really is… a place to be experienced....
Boeing Delivers Last C-17 Globemaster III To USAF - WARBIRD RADIO | According to new release earlier today, Boeing delivered the 223rd and last U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III airlifter today, fulfilling the production contract more than 20 years after the first delivery. The aircraft left Boeing’s Long Beach facility to fly to its assignment at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., where a ceremony will mark its arrival...
AOPA to focus on grassroots events in 2014 by General Aviation News Staff | The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has decided to suspend holding its annual Aviation Summit next year in favor of reaching more members “where they fly.” The association’s Aviation Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, from Oct. 10-12, this year will be held as planned, according to officials. “We are on track for thousands of members to join us and the exhibit hall is nearly sold out, with new exhibitors still signing up,” officials said in a prepared release. “But convention plans for 2014 have been cancelled.”...
Lambeau opener will have flyover - FOX11 | ...The planes will be from the Aeroshell Aerobatic team. The air team is a regular at EAA Airventure in Oshkosh and Thunder on the Lakeshore in Manitowoc....
Up and away! aviator attempts to cross Atlantic with 370 helium-filled balloons
- The Telegraph | An aviator has begun a world first attempt to cross
the Atlantic Ocean, dangling from 370 helium-filled balloons, in a
real-life version of the Disney film 'Up'.
Video: Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system - CNN | Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system...
Friday, September 13, 2013
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