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California International Airshow Salinas celebrates the wild blue yonder this weekend · By WILL HOUSTON Herald Correspondent | If British Airways is all that comes to mind when you think of international airplanes, it's time you vamp up your expectations by going to the 32nd annual California International Airshow Salinas this weekend.The show, Saturday and Sunday at Salinas Municipal Airport, will feature a number of new aviation performances along with some old (and historic) favorites from across the globe...

Photos: California International Airshow Salinas- The Herald | Dramatic Weather emerges during the California International Airshow Salinas on Saturday September 21, 2013.

FAA shuts down Aerial Cavalcade at Flabob Flying Circus but the Fly-in Goes On! - Antique Airfield News | ...The good news is that the fly-in is still on and we're expecting a great turn out. Lots of great antiques and classics parked for your viewing pleasure. There will be plenty of flying going on too, just normal airport operations instead of an organized aerial demonstration. The airspace will not be closed and we'll be open all day for arrivals, departures and all other normal airport operations...

EAA Aviation Adventure Fall/Winter Speaker Series Begins Next Week | Learn about unique and historic aviation experiences is a series of free presentations at EAA's Aviation Adventure fall-winter speaker series, which begins next week at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. All presentations are also followed by a "beyond the ropes" museum tour.

Tullo and the Giant - Air & Space Magazine | For pilots shot down over North Vietnam, the way home was jolly and green. | Frank Tullo has never forgotten his first day as a captain. He was 25 years old and flying from Korat Royal Thai Air Base, one of two F-105 bases in Thailand. News of his promotion had come through late the evening before, and he had sewn a pair of shiny new captain's bars on his flightsuit. He was wearing those bars when North Vietnamese gunners on the outskirts of Hanoi shot him down....

The First Test Pilots - Air & Space Magazine | Not long after ex-World War I aviator John Macready left his California ranch at the age of 54 to serve again in World War II, he was checked out in one of the B-17 bombers he’d soon be flying over North Africa. A young lieutenant, eager to tout the modern, high-altitude capability of the Flying Fortress, pointed out the supercharger that made such missions possible. “Know anything about these, sir?” he asked the veteran of the Great War. Today, Sally Macready Wallace chuckles at the irony: “Daddy just looked at him and said, ‘Yes Lieutenant, I believe I do.’ ”...

Flying The Focke Wulf FW-190 · Warbirds News | As we recently reported, Jerry Yagen, owner of the Military Aviation Museum (MAM) of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is selling off part of his collection. The Focke Wulf Fw 190 is one of them as we reported here. Few days ago Ray Fowler actually delivered the Fw-190 to its new owner, The Tillamook Air Museum. The flight took few days and a eleven stops but the airplane was finally delivered to the museum....

The Replica of The Legendary Avro Arrow Will Be Moved Into a Storage Facility · Warbirds News | The Avro Arrow (CF-105) was an advanced, supersonic, twin-engined, all-weather interceptor jet aircraft developed by A.V. Roe of Canada until the government’s controversial cancellation of the project in 1959. The controversy engendered by the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the aircraft in production remains a topic for debate among historians, political observers and industry pundits. Many thought that this decision effectively put Avro out of business and its highly skilled engineering and production personnel scattered...

Restoration: Vought V-173 from AirSpaceMag.com | The two propeller shaft fairings emerging on either side of the round fuselage give the Vought V-173 a creepy sea-creature look. You wonder if designer Charles H. Zimmerman, an aerodynamicist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, had studied manta rays before attempting to design an airplane that could take off almost vertically from a Navy ship....

B-36 moves the XB-58 by travelforaircraft | Convair easily transported an XB-58 airframe by air from Ft. Worth TX to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio for testing with the use of a modified B-36 Peacemaker bomber (also made by Convair). The left and right inboard engined had their propellers removed, along with the bomb bay doors since they did not clear the wings of the XB-58 which was mounted...

Have you sent your photo in yet for The Photo Issue? · General Aviation News Staff | Airplanes are among the most photogenic beings on — or above — earth. Have you taken a picture you are particularly proud of? Would you like to share it with our 92,000 monthly print readers? If so, send it to Janice Wood with image details by Oct. 14.

History of Laconia Airport featured in exhibit · General Aviation News Staff By Carol Lee Anderson | NEW HAMPSHIRE – Two significant histories in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire came together for the month of September at the Belknap Mill, a fully restored, early American textile mill located in Laconia. The mill once played a part in the development of the Industrial Revolution and is the nation’s oldest unaltered textile mill. Today it serves the community as a cultural arts center and museum, hosting monthly exhibits throughout the year...

Daily 49er : In case you missed the Airshow… · Danielle Carson | The Red Bull Flugtag drew masses from all over California to Downtown Long Beach on Saturday, when contestants from Alaska to Hawaii launched their comically designed aircrafts into Rainbow Harbor. Since 1992, when Red Bull held its first Flugtag in Vienna, Austria, teams of five have been assembling each year to build a craft that would get air, laughs or both. The Flugtag came to the U.S. in 2002....

Cygnus Docking to ISS Delayed 48-hours - Spaceports |The docking of the new space freighter Cygnus ORB-D1 with the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed for at least 48 hours due to a software glitch, Orbital Sciences Corp. has noted. Orbital Sciences has confirmed that “at around 1:30 a.m. EDT, Sunday, September 22, 2013 its Cygnus spacecraft established direct data contact with the International Space Station (ISS) and found that some of the data received had values that it did not expect, causing Cygnus to reject the data. This mandated an interruption of the approach sequence. Orbital has subsequently found the causes of this discrepancy and is developing a software fix."