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Relocation will allow air show to expand, organizers say - Post-Tribune | FAIR OAKS — Air show enthusiasts will have to head about 45 miles south next summer when the South Shore Air Show relocates to Fair Oaks Farms in Newton County. The unique partnership was announced by the two entities in a news conference Thursday and shifts the focus of the air show from the shoreline to the only agritourism venue of its kind in the state...

St. Tammany CAP participates in regional fly-in, salutes veterans - CAP | LOUISIANA – The St. Tammany Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol recently participated in the St. Tammany Regional Airport Fly-In, which included a salute to U.S. veterans. Sixteen single and multi-engine civilian and prior military aircraft landed at the airport. “It was an honor to serve the pilots, especially the veterans,” said St. Tammany squadron Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Sarah Nogueras. Joining the St. Tammany squadron at the fly-in were the Billy Mitchell Senior Squadron from New Orleans and the Ponchartrain and Alvin Callendar composite squadrons.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: L-39 Albatross Is the Jet of Choice for Airshows - The Aero Experience | Airshow organizers across the country faced a dilemma during the 2013 season: what jet aircraft performers to offer in the place of the idled USAF Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet teams. In some cases, the entire event collapsed for lack of a suitable substitute for the excitement of these military jet team headliners, while other airshow organizers persevered with innovative civilian jet teams and solo acts that successfully...

Video: Big jet that landed at wrong airport takes off safely - WTHR | WICHITA -The Boeing 747 jumbo cargo jet that mistakenly landed at a small Kansas airport yesterday evening, instead of at a nearby Air Force base where it was supposed to land, took off safely Thursday afternoon. The runway at the airport in Wichita is just 6,100 feet long -- much shorter than it should be for the takeoff of a plane like that. But airport officials said the plane should be able to take off....

'Flying Tigers' exhibition celebrates ROC-US air squad - Focus Taiwan News Channel | Taipei, Nov. 22 (CNA) An exhibition opened Friday to commemorate military cooperation between the United States and Republic of China during World War II, marking 70 years since the establishment of the Flying Tigers air squads. The exhibition, which features photos, relics and even a combat flight simulator, memorializes the contributions of the squads of American and Chinese pilots -- and brings back old memories for some...

Andre is Pilot of the Year - Kormorant | Hartbeespoort paragliding pilot, Andre Rainsford-Alberts, was awarded the coveted Lewis-Lang Trophy at the annual Aero Club of South Africa Awards function recently. This trophy is awarded to the 'Pilot of the Year'. This is the first time a ...

The Birth of American Aerobatics - Hiller Aviation Museum | In January 1910, the first air show in the United States was held at Dominguez, California, just a short road or rail journey from Los Angeles. Over a quarter million people flocked to the meet, with most seeing an airplane fly for the first time in their lives...

San Diego Air & Space Museum receives Atlas rocket film collection - San Diego Source | Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance have donated about 3,000 reels of 16-millimeter film on Atlas space launch vehicles and missiles to the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The collection will be digitized and put online for public access...

Meet Fitz Fulton - Air & Space Magazine | The photograph shows a boy of five or six, jug-eared and happy, holding on to the wing strut of a biplane. Taken in rural Blakely, Georgia, in the early 1930s, the image captures the joy afforded by small pleasures during hard times. But what boy would not be cheered by being close to a real, honest-to-goodness airplane? His mother evidently sensed the effect on her son, for she labeled the photo “1st. Love.”...

CAF Officially Votes to Relocate Headquarters 11/21/13 - KOSA | Midland - Officials with the Commemorative Air Force have confirmed that the headquarters is leaving West Texas. CAF members had to vote on the proposal earlier this year, for it to become final, 75 percent of the votes had to be in favor. Well the numbers are in and according to CAF President Stephan Brown, it passed by 75 point one percent, passing by only two or three votes...

Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Completes Carrier Tests - Aero-News Network | The Navy concluded another round of carrier testing Nov. 19 to further demonstrate and evaluate the X-47B unmanned air system integration within the aircraft carrier environment. Tests aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) included deck handling, carrier approaches and landings in off-nominal wind conditions, digitized ship systems interfaces, and concept of operations development...

Zee.Aero's flying car concept would fit in a standard parking space - Gizmag | Zee.Aero, a small company located near the GooglePlex, home to Google, is working on a flying car concept that can take off and land vertically using a plethora of small electric motors turning four-bladed propellers. According to illustrations ...