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27th FAI World Aerobatic Championships - www.flickr.com | Event classification: First Category Event Type of event: World Championship Disciplines / Task Styles: Unlimited Aerobatics (Power) Place: North Texas Regional Airport

KC Flight attempts to break world record at Chiefs game - fox4kc.com | LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Pilots from 17 states and Washington D.C. are touching down in Kansas City this week, gearing up for Sunday's Chiefs vs. Raiders game. Fans on the ground will try to become the...

Great Georgia Airshow goes on despite government shutdown - Fox Atlanta | PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. - The government shutdown and sequestration are taking a toll on the air show industry. One of the state's biggest air shows is set for this weekend in Peachtree City. Organizers of the Great Georgia Airshow say they have had to be creative to fill the sky due to politics in Washington...

Copperstate Fly In, Bucking the Trend - InFlight USA | Much has been said about sequestration and the negative effect it has had on not only aviation, but many public events. To be sure, elected representatives who serve inside the beltway seem to have gone out of their way to make sure recreational events are adversely affected, perhaps highlighting what the ruling elite consider to be “unnecessary activities.” Airshows and celebrations of our military services have been hit particularly hard, with the shutdown of military demonstration teams (like the Blue Angles and Thunderbirds), causing the cancellation of many aviation programs that have long and proud traditions. FAA political management follows the leadership of our politicians by implementing illegal service fees on programs that have used pre-paid FAA services in the past. Such fees, often running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, have caused many airshows to simply pack it in. Others fear potential liability issues (the predatory legal system), and do not proceed with an airshow in a non-towered environment. It is a disappointing trend...

Crowds gather for Aviation Day at Melbourne airport | Pilot News Magazine | More than 3,000 people flocked to Melbourne International Airport to see a vintage collection of aircraft and vehicles Saturday.

EDITOR’S BLOG: 40 years of IWM Duxford Airshows: 2003 Archives – Part 1 - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | Tomorrow will see the Duxford Autumn Air Show celebrate 40 years of airshows organised by IWM Duxford. To mark the anniversary we’ve been posting some archive material of IWM Duxford Airshows over those 40 years and this time it is our first of two looks at 2003.

Angelina Jolie's first 'Unbroken' - Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY | Angelina Jolie has released the first picture from her directorial effort Unbroken. It's a photo of the director with the inspiration of the story, Louis "Louie" Zamperini. The famed Olympic long-distance runner survived brutal conditions as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. Jolie and and Zamperini are actually neighbors in the Hollywood Hills and have become close friends over the film's development....

Lucky Louie by Martin Jacobs | Lou Zamperini was lucky. He survived a risky, put-up-your-dukes childhood  and made it into the Olympics. But in May ’43, in a B-24 over the Pacific, his luck seemed to run out...

We Served Too - The Story of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots of World War II - wstthemovie.com | This is a story of a group of young, determined and courageous women during World War II who broke through barriers and shattered stereotypes.

Aircraft Graveyard scene from The Best Years of Our Lives - www.youtube.com | By popular demand the entire aircraft graveyard scene from the 1946 movie "The Best Years of..

Planes of Fame Air Museum - Ready to meet another speaker for our 7th Annual Taste of Flight Gala? POF is proud to welcome Conrad Lohoefer. Conrad was a top-turret gunner and flight engineer on a B-17 Flying Fortress. After completing training in Texas, Nevada, Nebraska, and Tennessee, Conrad travelled to England on the Queen Mary and was stationed at Bassingbourne just outside of Cambridge. Over the next 6 months, he completed 35 combat missions in the Eighth Air Force with the 91st Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Squadron....

Celebrating the Sea Vixen · Warbirds News | On Wednesday 16th of October at Bournemouth international,from 6pm to 9pm, DS Aviation Ltd will organize an event to celebrate 50 years since the first flight of Sea Vixen FAW2 G-Cvix “Foxy Lady” to the day. Participants will have a chance to meet Chief Pilot Matt Whitfield and the team who care for the airplane...

Charlie Cartledge’s TBM Avenger Restoration · Warbirds News | It took 14 years of work, but the plane finally became flyable a few weeks ago. On Aug. 14, Charlie Cartledge took to the air with his plane for the first time, in Wadsworth. Cartledge and his team rebuilt the airplane in a hangar at the Wadsworth Municipal Airport,OH. In August, for the first time, Cartledge flew the torpedo bomber, landing at the Wayne County Airport...

Rare Wright brothers posters to be sold at auction · General Aviation News Staff | Swann Auction Galleries will offer two posters from 1909 featuring the Wright brothers at its Rare & Important Travel Posters auction on Oct. 18. Originally met with skepticism in the United States after their initial 1903 flight, the Wright brothers traveled to Europe and became increasingly popular, especially in France after a number of demonstration flights in 1908...

U.S. Army Aircraft 1908–1946 - Travel for Aircraft | Friends of mine purchased this book from a used book store and what a book. Written in 1946, shortly before the U.S. Air Force became a service branch of the armed forces, by James C. Fahey the title promises to catalog aircraft flown by the U.S. Army Air Service (until 1926) and U.S. Army Air Corps (1942) and U.S. Army Air Forces (1947) and this promise is fulfilled — and then some! Beginning with aircraft flown in...

VIDEO: Lockheed YF-12 Blackbird - The DEW Line | Check out this NASA video about the Mach 3+ Lockheed YF-12 Blackbird interceptor, which was developed from the Central Intelligence Agency’s A-12 reconnaissance aircraft. Though ultimately it would not go into production, the three pre-production aircraft did find success as research planes for NASA....

Country star rocks Summit - AOPA Pilot | As part of the Commemorative Air Force's Red, White, and Loud Tour, Country music star Aaron Tippin performed his signature patriotic songs for several hundred AOPA members at The Flying Saucer outdoor concert venue in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 10...

To OSH or bust! EAA AirVenture 2013 in photos, part 2 - The Blue Muse | Greetings from the desert! Literally, I'm writing from Phoenix today, and also from that desperately dry patch between big aviation events where I'm assured to see warbirds in abundance. The California Capital Airshow livened up Sacramento last weekend (though sadly without yours truly, damn work commitments!). We hit the Reno Air Races a few weeks before that (look forward to pictures one of these days). Before that it was Watsonville Airshow and Fly-in and of course, EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh ahead of that. As I've got several probably-warbird-free months ahead, I thought I'd reminisce about the Summer fun with lots of photos. Enjoy!

COPPERSTATE scholarship winners travel to Oshkosh · General Aviation News Staff | CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — In July, four high school students travelled to Oshkosh to attend the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Advanced Air Academy 2013 — a trip funded by an Air Academy Scholarship from COPPERSTATE FLY-IN, Inc....

Young Eagles Flight Rally takes place in Stow, Oct. 12 - Wicked Local | The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 196 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally each month. “The basic concept is a bunch of pilots get together, a bunch of kids show up, and we fly,” chapter coordinator Andy Goldstein said. The events are ...

Timelapse of SAS plane getting striped with Disney "Planes" characters - www.youtube.com | SAS is a partner of the Disney animation movie "Planes" and have striped a plane with characters from the movie. The whole process took about 12 hours, and b...

Virgin Galactic Readies for Commercial Flights - Spaceports | Sir Richard Branson reaches out to the public to join in on the adventure that their spaceliner will provide. Virgin Galactic is reportedly three months away from spaceflights, according to The Telegraph.  Space.com develops the story from the will-be astronauts.