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Dubai Airshow Closes Early as Storm Collapses Roof, Floods Main Hall - Defense News | DUBAI — The Dubai Airshow has shut down after stormy weather hit the city on Thursday morning, causing a roof collapse and flooding at the venue’s main exhibition hall. Organizers say the show, which began on Sunday and was supposed to run through Thursday, will not reopen and warned the public, exhibitors and contractors to steer clear of the venue...

Photos: Dubai Airshow hit by flooding and thunderstorms - Arabian Business

Dubai Air Show amazed with JF-17 Thunder attainments - News Tribe | Dubai Air Show provided an international platform to at least 200 companies across the Globe willing to exhibit their aviation products and aircrafts. The PAC JF-17 Thunder, or CAC FC-1 Xiaolong, is a light-weight, single-engine, multi-role combat ...

Photos: U.S. Navy Blue Angels Hornet Crew Pays Visit to St. Louis - The Aero Experience | Two members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Aerial Demonstration Team arrived at Spirit of St. Louis Airport this afternoon in their Number 7 F/A-18D Hornet. Lt. Ryan Chamberlain, No. 7 Narrator, and Lt. Commander Michael Cheng, Events Coordinator, are visiting the St. Louis area for non-public events today and tomorrow before departing tomorrow afternoon...

South Shore Air Show lands new home at Fair Oaks - nwi.com | ...The 2013 South Shore Air Show was canceled because of the impact of federal budget sequestration. Batistatos said with the recent cancellation of the Indy Air Show, the move will draw even more visitors. The show, which traditionally took place at the beaches of Marquette Park in Miller and has featured Thunderbirds and F-22s, was sponsored by the city of Gary in its early years. Admission to the show always has been free and, since 2007 has been financed by a group of supporters, including the SSCVA....

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Helicopters and Gyrocopters - The Aero Experience | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is known for attracting a wide variety of aircraft in addition to the core homebuilt community. The Aero Experience continuing coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 now focuses on helicopters and gyrocopters from various manufacturers on display and on the flight line (excluding those in the "warbirds" and "airshow performers" groups to be featured in future posts). The main rotorcraft exhibit, the Heli-Center sponsored by Helicopter Association International (HAI), featured a Robinson R22 inside the...

Yankee Air Museum’s B-25 “Yankee Warrior” Birthday Celebration · Warbirds News | Airplanes are part of us aviation enthusiasts , for many they have a soul, a personality. They are almost like human creatures and as such they also have birthdays! On December 8,2013 the Yankee Air Museum’s B-25 “Yankee Warrior” is turning 70 years old , in fact this beautiful B-25D was manufactured by North American Aviation in Kansas City, Kansas in 1943 ans rolled out of the factory on December the 8th.For this day at the Yankee Air Museum Hangar 1 facility from 1-4pm museum’s members, volunteers , friends and family will celebrate this young lady in style...

Impressive Video Of The CAF Arizona Wing’s Bombers · Warbirds News | H5 is a production company which offers the convenience, technology and talent that make it easier than ever to capture brilliant, high definition aerial and ground videography. This video si an example.The company works has been broadcasted on national networks including History Channel and Discovery. IN occasion of the Veterans Day celebration...

75 years of Harvards' roar - Auckland stuff.co.nz | The distinctive roar of one of the world's most popular Warbirds aircraft will be heard over Ardmore this Sunday. The New Zealand Warbirds Association is holding an open day at its Ardmore Airport base to mark 75 years of service of the North American Harvard....

Congressional Gold Medal for Doolittle Raiders Would be Housed at Air Force Museum - ABC22 | WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Legislation moving through Congress would award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Doolittle Raiders of World War II and that medal would be housed in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that was co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown, and is endorsed by the Ohio Department of Veterans Services. Brown introduced the legislation in the Senate...

VIDEO: Emotional tribute to B-17 crew 70 years on - Diss Express | Relatives of US airmen killed in an air crash in Redlingfield have paid their respects on the 70th anniversary of the disaster. In poignant scenes on Tuesday, a service at the memorial in the village paid tribute to the ten crew, serving with the 95th Bomb Group, who died when their plane crashed in Green Farm, Redlingfield, at about 8.30am on November 19, 1943...

World War I in Pictures - Air & Space magazine | In anticipation of next year’s world war I centennial, the United Kingdom’s Imperial War Museums and Alfred A. Knopf have produced a stirring retrospective: The Great War: A Photographic Narrative. The 20th century’s first titanic upheaval created a line between old world and new; when the war ended, almost nothing was the same as it had been...

Revenge of the Drones: target drone hits side of a Navy’s guided missile cruiser - The Aviationist | On Nov. 16, a Northrop Grumman BQM-74 target drone hit guided missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) punching a three to four foot hone in the side of the warship. The mishap occurred at 01.25 local time during a “tracking exercise during an air tracking event,” resulting in “minor injuries to two sailors,” according to Navy officials...

What's in an airport name? - CNN | ...We'll skip the presidential airports -- JFK, Reagan National and so on, and look at some of the less evident namesakes. Check out the gallery to meet the people behind the airport names.

Oops! Boeing cargo jet lands at wrong Wichita airport - CNN | A Boeing Dreamlifter landed at the wrong airport in Wichita, Kansas -- one with a runway apparently too short for the mammoth cargo plane to take off from again.... [Note: USA Today reports they will attempt to take off at 1pm EST]

Successful maiden flight of the world’s first green helicopter - sUAS | E-volo’s Volocopter is a revolution in aviation Made in Germany. Safer, simpler, and cleaner than normal helicopters, it has a unique way of moving – a groundbreaking innovation. The Volocopter is an environmentally friendly and emission-free private helicopter. Instead of one combustion engine, eighteen electrically driven rotors propel it....

Video: NASA Administrator Salutes International Space Station's 15th Anniversary - Spaceports | The station's first module, Zarya, launched from Russia on Nov. 20, 1998. The ISS now is the largest structure in space ever built, where international crews have occupied it since 2000...