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Hinton Scores Fifth Straight Unlimited Gold at Reno - EAA | Steve Hinton grabbed his fifth consecutive Unlimited Gold championship Sunday at the 50th National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada, flying the P-51 Mustang Voodoo an average speed of 482.1 mph to edge arguably one of the best racing fields in the event's history.

Reno Air Races – a few minutes with the new CoolPix P7800 · Bill Pekala | One of the pleasures of my job is the opportunity to shoot some of our newest gear. Last week Nikon announced a new CoolPix P7800 and since I was headed to.

Fourth annual Grass Strip Foundation Fly-In set · General Aviation News Staff | The fourth annual fly-in for the Grass Strip Foundation at the Berg Park Aerodrome (9GA2) in Midway, Georgia, will be held Saturday, Oct. 19. The force behind the fly-in, Steve Berg, said he hopes to attract between 300 and 500 people to this year’s event...

Video and photos: Cromer carnival aerobatics flight winners loop the loop - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | Both winners flew with Wildcat Display Team pilot Willie Cruickshank, experiencing an intense combination of dynamic aerobatic manoeuvres including loops, barrel rolls, figure of eights and stall turns which subjected them high roll rates and extreme ...

Timeless Voices - Bill Raney · eaavideo.org | Bill Raney served as a multi-engine flight flight instructor in B-25s at Pampa Army Air Field before joining a B-29 crew as a flight engineer during WWII. He flew 8 combat missions to Japan with the 768th Bomb Squadron of the 462nd Bomb Group.

The Long and Winding Road of the City of Calgary’s Mosquito Finally Leads to a Restoration By Warbirds News | Calgary Mosquito Society CoverIf we had to name one warbird that has grabbed headlines this year, it has to be the de Havilland Mosquito. From the historic airworthy resurrection of a Mossie, orchestrated by Jerry Yagen and the Military Aviation Museum of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the restoration of another to flying condition by Victoria Air Maintenance, near Victoria, Canada, or the still-nascent efforts of The People’s Mosquito project in the UK, which...

Airport commemorates B-17 pilot through new fuel system · General Aviation News Staff | U-Fuel has installed one of its “Box” fuel stations at the Lee County-Butters Field Airport (52J) in Bishopville, S.C. The airport took advantage of the new installation to honor the airport’s namesake...

The Roar of Four - Vintage Wings of Canada | By Dave O'Malley There are not many man-made objects more awe-inspiring and more emotionally and physically impacting than the sight and the sound of a Second World War Rolls-Royce Merlin engine running flat out just thirty feet from you, except maybe the sight and sound of four of them in harmonious thunder, sending blow torch blasts of blue flame from 48 exhaust stacks and spinning four massive three-bladed, variable pitch, constant speed and feathering propellers at nearly 50 revolutions per second! When all four engines are attached to the same airframe, it can only mean one thing and one thing only – an Avro Lancaster Heavy Bomber. There are only four Lancasters in the world...

Scorpion tales - Flight Image of the Day · Dominic Perry Now, whether or not it ever racks up any sales is a slightly different matter, but it’s not every day that you see an all-new (budget) strike aircraft unveiled, so, Textron AirLand’s new Scorpion jet is interesting on that basis alone. It’s...

Sean Tucker settles into new role as Young Eagles chairman · General Aviation News Staff | OSHKOSH, Wis. — Hall of Fame aerobatic pilot Sean D. Tucker is beginning to settle in as the new chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program. Tucker, who was introduced as chairman last month at EAA’s AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is an active participant in Young Eagles, which has provided free introductory flights to more than 1.8 million youth ages 8-17 since 1992....

NASA Confirms Voyager on Star Trek Spaceports | After decades of exploration, Voyager 1 has been confirmed as reaching a historic milestone for mankind--interstellar space over 11-billion miles from Earth. Voyager's journey past the heliosphere and into the interstellar medium is one of the most astonishing and moving feats of human exploration.