Top pilots buckle up for 2014 - Red Bull Air Race | The return of the Red Bull Air Race in 2014 is a dream-come-true for the pilots who helped build the high-speed, low-altitude racing into a popular motorsport watched by millions of fans around the world. The seasoned pilots all said they had remained confident the Red Bull Air Race would return and spent the last three years during the sport's reorganisation phase keeping their aeroplanes, bodies and minds in peak condition...
Chip Yates Breaks His Own Speed Record – Twice! - CAFE Foundation Blog | ...He did break his 
Gallery: Wings & Wheels Festival - newszap.com | GEORGETOWN -- The 2013 Wings & Wheels: A Georgetown Fall Festival featured a number of attractions last Saturday, including a huge car with 376 entries, and some 40 aircraft, including a pair of B-25 bombers. The festival was highlighted with the ...
California Capital Airshow Wraps Up - KTXL FOX40 | Marin Austin reports from the final day at the California Capital Airshow.
Canadian Hornet thrills crowds at Salute America Air Show - Examiner.com | As the 2013 air show season draws to a close, it was set to go out with a bang at the Salute America Air Show near Atlanta. The show, held on Oct. 5-6 at the Paulding Northwest Atlanta airport in Dallas, Ga. (airport details can be found on GlobalAir ...
Victor Valley's airshow features aerobatics, warbirds, wingwalkers, and more! - Highland Community News | Other favorites such as Rich Piccirilli with Just In Time Skydivers, radio control airplanes, the N-9M Flying Wing and warbirds such as the F4U Corsair, P-38 Lightning, B-25 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang, P-40 Warhawk, Fw190, and all from Planes of Fame Air ...
Planes of Fame Living History Event October 12th 2013 · Warbirds News | The Planes of Fame Air Museum (Chino, CA) presents its monthly Living History Event. The topic for the October 12 event is ‘United We Win – Minorities in WWII’, featuring the North American P-51 Mustang. The featured speakers for this event are Lt. Col. (Ret.) Robert J. Friend and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Henry ‘Hank’ Cervantes. Their presentations will be followed by a question & answer period and flight demonstration when possible. The P-51 will be on display and will perform a flight demonstration. At 12:00 noon, the Membership Sponsored raffle flight will occur...
Georgetown AirFest - Community Impact Newspaper | Aviators, history buffs and families will gather for the annual festival, featuring WWII-, Cold War–era and other static display airplanes and helicopters, flyovers as well as rides in different aircrafts for a fee. A complete schedule is available on ...
Back to Blakesburg By SPARKY BARNES SARGENT General Aviation News Staff | The AAA’s 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee celebration attracted 398 airplanes — the highest number since the fly-in was shortened from a 10-day event in the 1970s and 1980s to a five-day event. Several of the antique aircraft that attended the...
2013 Fly-In scheduled for Oct. 12 - The Randolph Guide | The N.C. Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame has rescheduled the 2013 Fly-In to Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Asheboro Regional Airport. The Fly-In was originally to be held June 8 but stormy weather caused postponement. The 2013 Fly-In will ...
FlightTime Radio Show 296 | In the Renegade Light Sport Studio, Milford and Charlie talked to Jack about the Ford Tri-Motor coming to Jacksonville to give rides!!.... Yes … November 14th through the 17th, You can get a ride in one of the few remaining Ford Aircraft in the world!!...
Queen's Cup Balloon Race 2013 won by Richard Parry - BBC News | Mr Parry was presented with the Queen's Air Race Challenge Cup afterwards. "This is a wonderful race which tests not only balloonist's long distance flying capabilities but also their tactical skill," said event director Don Cameron. "Working out ...
Ashfield: Race ace targeting prestigious King's Cup victory - Hucknall Today | AMBITIOUS pilot John Kelsall has set his sights on winning the prestigious King's Cup after finishing runner-up in this year's British and European air racing Championships. The 63-year-old Sutton flyer had high hopes of clinching the two titles going...
WWII B-17 Bomber to Tour Trenton-Mercer Airport This Month - Patch.com | Trenton-Mercer 
Red Tail pilots to be honored with monument at Orlando Science Center · General Aviation News Staff | ORLANDO, Fla. — On Monday, Nov. 11, Mike McKenzie, founder of Vision of Flight, hopes to give some long overdue recognition to a group of African-American World War II bomber pilots. Known as the Red Tail Pilots, these Tuskegee Airmen played a quintessential role in U.S. aviation history in spite of the racial discrimination they faced at the time. While the Tuskegee Airmen were collectively awarded a Gold Medal by Congress at a 2007 ceremony in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, the Red Tail Pilots have yet to receive such an honor...
Remembering a wartime narrow escape - Bayou Renaissance Man | The late Flight Lieutenant Ken Trott was a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II, flying Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers (roughly comparable in ground-attack capability to the US P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber)...
New England Air Museum to Feature Women Aviators November 3, 2013 - CT Newsjunkie | New England Air Museum The New England Air Museum will host its ninth annual Women Take Flight event on Sunday, November 3, 2013, featuring 20 women who have built careers in aviation and aerospace engineering. The featured guests will share...
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force temporarily closed due to government shutdown by Sarah Swan, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 10/7/2013 - DAYTON, Ohio -- The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will temporarily close, effective Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, due to the federal government shutdown. As part of the Air Force's recall of furloughed civilian employees, the museum temporarily opened on Monday. But following further review of guidance from both the Air Force and the Department of Defense, it was determined that opening the museum did not fit within the list of operations that can continue to be supported during the lapse in appropriations. Therefore the museum will remain closed until a continuing resolution or final appropriations bill is passed...
[Video] Chinese Ka-28 helicopter barely manages to land on warship in high seas - The Aviationist | The following video shows a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy‘s Kamov Ka-28 “Helix”, one of the 8 twin contra-rotating rotor choppers reportedly flying with the Chinese Navy, trying to land on a Type 054A Frigate. As the footage shows, the pilot performed at least a couple of attempt before eventually managing to put the helicopter, an export version of the Russian Ka-27 on the warship...
New Air Force Planes Go Directly to 'Boneyard' - Defense Update | New cargo planes on order for the U.S. Air Force are being delivered straight into storage in the Arizona desert because the military has no use for them, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. A dozen nearly new C-27J Spartans have already been taken out of the US Air National Guard service and shipped to the so-called ‘boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. Five more are expected to be built by April 2014, all of which are headed to the boneyard unless another use for them is found....
Newest Aviation Explorers Post slates first meeting by General Aviation News Staff | LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Aviation Explorers Program is launching a new chapter in Long Beach and will have its first Welcome and Information meeting Wednesday, Oct. 9. Students between the ages of 14 through 20 and their parents are invited to attend...
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