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Monroe Air Show returns to the skies this November - WBTV | The Sixth Annual Warbirds Over Monroe Air Show will once again entertain crowds this year on November 9 and 10, at the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport. The show will feature dozens of WWII aircraft that will fly and show their air superiority, while ...

Date change aimed at making Watsonville Fly-In soar - Santa Cruz Sentinel | WATSONVILLE -- Watsonville Fly-in organizers plan to move the annual air show from Labor Day weekend to October in 2014. The date change, the second in five years, is an attempt to grow an event that showcases the Watsonville Municipal Airport and...

Historical warbird to be displayed at WWRE 2013 - Orange County Breeze | Other aircraft on display will be a B-25 Mitchell Medium Bomber from the Lyons Museum at John Wayne Airport, a Vietnam era CH-21 Shawnee Helicopter and D-Day Doll, a flying WW2 Gooney Bird that actually flew paratroopers during the Normandy...

Blue Angel to speak at Aero Club of New England · General Aviation News Staff | BEDFORD, Mass. — The Aero Club of New England will host its second annual Reese Dill aviation safety lecture on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the USS Constitution Museum in Charlestown, Mass. The event will feature Capt. Greg Wooldridge, a three-time commanding officer and flight leader for the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels, as its keynote speaker...

Harrison Ford accepts humanitarian honor previously presented to CAP, Cessna - Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | NEVADA -- Harrison Ford may be best known for his iconic portrayals of movie heroes such Han Solo and Indiana Jones, but it was his invaluable and often unsung work as a general aviation advocate and humanitarian pilot that were in the spotlight Tuesday morning at the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA 2013) in Las Vegas as Ford accepted NBAA’s 2013 Al Ueltschi Award for Humanitarian Leadership. “I am humbled...

Will the community support the air museum? - Tillamook Headlight Herald | It's been an icon in Tillamook since WWII – the massive wooden hangar used to house blimps in the 1940s. Dubbed “Hangar B,” it measures 1,072 feet long, 296 feet wide and 175 feet high and includes 10,349,500 board feet of lumber – one of the largest...

Perlan Project Gets Good Press in the New York Times · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | Science reporter Matthew Wald visited the Perlan Project in Bend, Oregon recently to see for himself an aircraft that just might conquer the heights – 90,000 feet – in a world-record attempt that will investigate the polar vortex and the ozone hole...

Over South Jersey, a WWII 'Turkey' flies again - philly.com | As a boy during World War II, Ed Wuerker dreamed of being a pilot. He watched the torpedo dive-bombers flying over his Cape May County home, and heard the roar of their 1,900-horsepower engines....

Museum of Flight becomes Museum of Fright this weekend · General Aviation News Staff | SEATTLE — Every year around Halloween, The Museum of Flight becomes The Museum of Fright. On Sunday, Oct. 27, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. the museum will offer a selection of family fun and games. Bigger than a haunted castle, the museum’s galleries provide safe Halloween strolling and treating where every child’s imagination takes flight, according to museum officials...

EAA Proudly Hosts Returning National Guard Unit - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | For the fifth time since 2006, EAA facilities played host to a Wisconsin military unit deployed to the Middle East, as the Wisconsin Army National Guard's Battery B, 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery unit returned home to a rousing welcome on Friday, October 18.

The Curse of the Cargomaster - Air & Space Magazine | Readied to transport the first U.S. ICBMs, the Douglas C-133 had a peculiar habit. It kept crashing.

From the Archives: Concorde, End of an Era - Aviation Week | British Airways plans to give its Concordes to museums, including possibly the Intrepid Air & Space Museum in New York and ironically the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle. The U.S. Congress scuttled the proposed Boeing SST in 1971. Concorde service ...

The weird story of a U.S. jet that recovered from flat spin and made a gentle landing. Unpiloted - The Aviationist | An unpiloted aircraft recovers on its own from an uncontrollable flat spin and makes a gentle landing in a cornfield. In the drones era, this could be an almost normal headline for the news of a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) accident somewhere in the U.S., unless the episode took place about 44 years ago and the aircraft was unmanned because its pilot was forced to eject after the F-106 he was flying had entered an unrecoverable flat spin...

Air Force Museum Foundation to hold second annual 'Air Legacy Competition' by Eric Henry Air Force Museum Foundation | 10/24/2013 - DAYTON, Ohio -- This November, don't let the cold weather keep you stuck inside. Visit the National Museum of the United States Air Force to find out if you have what it takes to call yourself an "Ace." For the entire month of November, the Museum Foundation will be sponsoring an "Air Legacy Competition" using our two 360° Interactive Simulators...

Young Eagles Student Memberships Top 25,000 - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | In just three short years, more than 25,000 Young Eagles have signed up to be EAA student members.

Video: Wow, We were Amazing! Apollo 11 Launch - July 16, 1969 (USA) - AirPigz | I bought a cool NASA meatball t-shirt at Target last weekend and I was wearing it yesterday evening... gotta say it made me feel special. Seriously. And while I know there are great things done everyday by modern NASA, most of that 'special' feeling came from looking back to our stellar past. Those thoughts are magnified even more since I may be stopping by Wapakoneta Ohio and the Armstrong Air & Space Museum this Saturday while...