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Chennault International Airshow returns Sept. 28-29 - KPLC | The Chennault International Airshow will be held Sept. 28-29 at Chennault International Airport. The event will feature jets, aerial stunts and vintage aircraft. Gates open at 10 a.m. with the show starting at 1 p.m.. Attractions will...

Thousands flock to Winston-Salem Air Show on Sunday (Photos) - Fox8 | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Instead of sitting in lawn chairs and watching planes do loop-de-loops, teen brothers Blaine and Dakota Mercer spent Sunday learning about the mechanics and technology of airplanes at the Winston-Salem Air Show. “I’m kind of interested in piloting,” said Blaine, 13. “So it’s kind of nice to learn more about it so I can become one someday.”...

Winston-Salem Air Show - 9/22/2013 - NYCAviation | Sunday, I went to the annual Winston-Salem Air Show. Last year, this was the first big event I attended after moving to CLT. For 2013, the show was moved back a month, from late August. Saturday was all but lost to the ...

Red Bull Flying Competition makes splash with five competitions in one day · General Aviation News Staff | SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The National Red Bull Flugtag, the homemade flying craft competition, took off in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Sept. 22, and landed in Long Beach, Calif., with layovers in Miami, Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth. Adding to the already-extraordinary day, the The Chicken Whisperers, a team of aerospace and mechanical engineers from Palo Alto, Calif., proved that chickens can indeed fly, soaring 258 feet and shattering the old world record, set in Germany in 2012, by 29 feet....

Malmstrom AFB squadron hosts annual open house Headline News - Civil Air Patrol MONTANA -- Civil Air Patrol’s Malmstrom Air Force Base Composite Squadron hosted two open houses on and off base on Sept. 10 and 17 to inform Team Malmstrom and the Great Falls community of the many benefits of CAP. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Jacob Webb, 341st Medical Operations Squadron dental craftsman, and Malmstrom CAP commander, the annual open houses aim to educate the three missions of CAP – aerospace education, cadet programs and emergency services, to include ground and air resources in search and rescue, disaster relief and homeland security....

CoolPix: Strega Passed Everyone But Voodoo In The Race For Reno Gold (2013) ·AirPigz | Between recovering from the long drive to Reno and back (4,100 miles), plus getting back to my day-job, trying to keep my FLY Energy Bar project moving forward AND having some form of a life, it's been a challenge to keep AirPigz posts coming this last week. So today I'm taking the easy way out again and just posting one CoolPix image. It's Matt Jackson in Strega from pylon 2 during the big race for the Gold between the fastest Unlimiteds on Sunday September...

Vietnam “Welcome Home” Parade and Event · Warbirds News | This Saturday, September 28, we will finally give the Vietnam veterans the “Welcome home” they should have received 40 years ago.Beginning at 11:00 am, there will be a parade in downtown Fayetteville, including a flyover of helicopters and planes provided by the Sky Soldiers and CAF Dixie Wing. Afterwards, there will be a program of speakers and period music, as well as a tribute to our fallen, at the Southern Ground Amphitheater.

The World’s First Combat Jet By Diane Tedeschi, AirSpaceMag.com | The Germans had it. The Americans wanted it. | With a top speed of 540 mph, Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262 was by far the fastest fighter of World War II. It was powered by jet engines, a new technology that was not always reliable. Still, the streamlined Me 262 looked—and behaved—unlike anything else in the skies over Europe, and Allied pilots initially feared it. Eventually, U.S. airmen discovered that in a dogfight, North American P-51s could often...

ASL Camguard Inventor Ed Kollin & The CAF Dixie Wing Photo Clinic Guys – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Episode 519 - WARBIRD RADIO – ASL Camguard inventor and engine test guru Ed Kollin joins Matt Jolley with a lively discussion about aircraft engine oil and oil additives. Ed dispels all the myths and gets down to the hardcore data about additives and proper engine care. Matt also welcome Moreno Aguiari and Tony Granata from the Commemorative Air Force’s Dixie Wing in Peachtree City, Georgia...

F-22 pilot tells Iranian F-4 pilots, “You really oughta go.”   - AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points, Al Marsh | Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, son of an Air Force combat veteran and father of an Air Force pilot, likes to brag on his personnel. At the Air Force Association convention in New Harbor, Md., this month he described what happened when Iranian pilots intercepted a remotely piloted vehicle doing surveillance over the Arabian Gulf. The encounter was...

Rarest stamp error in U.S. history flies again · General Aviation News Staff  | WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a move to celebrate the grand opening of the William H. Gross Gallery at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and promote October as National Stamp Collecting Month, the Postal Service dedicated a new $2 version of the most publicized stamp error in U.S. history today — the 24-cent 1918 Curtiss Jenny Inverted airmail stamp....

Quilt challenge to benefit Curtiss museum · General Aviation News Staff  | HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. — Local quilters will create finished quilts in just six hours at the Iron Quilter Challenge at the Glenn Curtiss Museum on Saturday, Oct. 5. The finished works of art will be sold through a silent auction on Sunday, Nov. 4. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the museum....