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Sequestration Update: DoD ANNOUNCES END TO PROHIBITION ON MILITARY AIR SHOW SUPPORT · WarbirdsNews | From the ICAS Newsletter: Although there are a few specific details yet to be worked out, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recently announced that Department of Defense public outreach programming – including performances by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels – will resume, “…starting immediately at a reduced level.” Hagel did not elaborate on what “reduced level” might mean as it relates to the military’s air show support, but shortly after Hagel’s announcement, the U.S. Navy announced that the Blue Angels and the Leap Frogs parachute team would both perform a “full schedule” in 2014. The U.S. Air Force has not yet announced details on the Thunderbirds’ schedule, but it appears likely that the team will fly something close to a full season in 2014...

Museum volunteer to be inducted into Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame by Sarah Swan National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 10/23/2013 - DAYTON, Ohio -- Anna Beall, a Dayton resident and volunteer at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, will be inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Nov. 7 at Veterans' Memorial Auditorium in Columbus...

Gustave Whitehead and the Case of the Fallacious Photo - Huffington Post | The image -- hidden in a blurry photo of a January 1906 Aero Club of America exhibition in New York -- was supposedly revealed through use of modern scientific "forensic" techniques. The 'discoverer' of that photo posted a lengthy explanation on a web ...

Lindbergh Monocoupe returns to Lambert–cool time-lapse video! - AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points | A 1934 D-127 Monocoupe once owned by Charles Lindbergh has returned to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport after a two-year absence. It was removed in March 2011 to make way for terminal renovations. Originally installed in 1979, the airplane carried more than 30 years of dust...

The Golden Age of the National Air Races - Ace Flying High | From 1929 to the late 1940's Cleveland, Ohio was a major player in the early days of the US National Air Races (a testing and proving ground for new aviation technology). Initially from the first race in 1920 until 1928, the races alternated between various cities such as...

Sea Vixen 50th Birthday · Warbirds News | ...The event held at the DS Military hangar at Bournemouth was very well attended by dedicated fans and followers from across the country as well as many ex Vixen engineers and crew. Fans were given unprecedented access to inspect and photograph the aircraft up close and personal...

Army aviation took flight from humble start By RUSS RODGERS AMCOM command historian | It was 11:05 a.m, and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker of the American 94th Aero Squadron decided to fly one last mission. On that date, Nov. 11, 1918, nobody was supposed to be flying over the battlefields in France, but Rickenbacker wanted to see what the front looked like when at peace. For close to 20 minutes he flew low over the trenches of both sides, above grimy and war-weary men who had just begun to realize that they might live to see another day. Flying in his...

Convair XC-99 — making the B-36 Peacemaker small by travelforaircraft | As large as the Convair B-36 Peacemaker was there was the XC-99 (see bottom image, below) which shared the wing, engines and landing gear with its B-36 relative. Only one example was built but it flew a decade in the U.S. Air Force routinely crossing the continent as well as across the Atlantic. Back in the days...

Inside the cockpit with the RAF: Collection of photographs reveal the reality of high-octane life in the danger zone By Lizzie Parry | A Tornado GR4 soars through the skies above London to celebrate the Queen's birthday, the gleaming Shard piercing the grey skyline in the background. The stunning image, captured by Senior Aircraftsman Andy Masson, from RAF Marham in Norfolk, has won the coveted photograph of the year category at the Royal Air Force Photographic competition...

The Strangest Airplanes in the World - Photo Vide | Since mid-1979 to January 1983 at an air base NASA conducted tests of two remotely piloted vehicles HiMAT. Each plane was about half the size of the F-16, but had almost twice the superiority in maneuverability.

AirPigz #CampBacon Gets Some Love From AOPA And Av8rdan : ) - AirPigz | Avgeeks and social media seem to go together very well... kinda like how bacon and mmmm go together! In the five years since I started AirPigz I've found that connecting with people who love aviation is pretty easy and has led to lots of great friendships. That same kind of friendly spirit spills over into those of us who make up some of the new media that use the internet to educate and entertain about the wide world of flying. A good example of that is how @Av8rdan (Dan Pimentel) has just posted a story about AirPigz #CampBacon (at Oshkosh) on the AOPA Opinion Leaders blog page....

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Volunteers get young people flying planes - StarNewsOnline.com | Members of the EAA Chapter 939 credit Ginny and Richard Largent with getting a Young Eagles program started here. The Largents explained that in 1992, EAA members realized that interest in aviation was waning and the national organization wanted to ...

Boeing Plans to Build Spacecraft in Former NASA Shuttle Hangar - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | CAPE CANAVERAL FL - Boeing has finalized an agreement with Space Florida to use a processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to build the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft, an important step toward...

Former Astronaut David Wolf Reviews Gravity - Indianapolis Monthly | The number-one movie in America, Gravity, is receiving universal praise for its depiction of space, but there are only a few people in the world who can actually compare the movie to a real-life NASA mission. Indy native and Purdue grad Dr. David Wolf ...