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Air Races Will Return in 2014 - KOLO | RENO, NV - Two weeks ago, the Reno Air Racing Association announced a fundraising effort for $500,000. They said without the money they could not cover the cost of holding the event, and would have to cancel it in 2014. Thursday they revealed the...

Navy's Blue Angels to fly past World Trade Center - Fox NY | NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -The U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels jets will fly along the Hudson River and past Ground Zero Friday afternoon, the city announced. Seven F/A-18 Hornets will fly in front of One World Trade Center for a photo shoot, according to the Office of Emergency Management. One jet will take photos while six will fly in formation....

CV-22 Osprey Landed At The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE – DAYTON, Ohio — Yesterday one of the U.S. Air Force’s more unique aircraft landed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force  a day later than what originally planned.In fact the arrival of a CV-22 Osprey at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force  originally planned for Wednesday morning was postponed because of weather concerns...

Flight of Dreams fly-in offers fun for you, toys for kids - KLTV | Head to Mineola this weekend for a fun event for your whole family! The 2nd annual Flight of Dreams fly-in will be a fun event for all who like to watch R/C pilots do breathtaking aerial demonstrations. The fun begins at 11:00am and lasts until 3pm, weather permitting. Bundle up to keep warm, as the weather forecast looks like a wintry day on Saturday.  Pilots will still fly unless rain/high winds roll in...

A stunt from the 2013 Atlantic City Air Show. - Atlantic City Weekly | ...David Schultz, president of David Schultz Airshows LLC, which has been the operations and coordination company for the Thunder Over the Boardwalk Air Show since its inception in 2003, has made the announcement that the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will participate in the 2014 show....

Dr.Sky Interviews Christina Olds - Photorecon.net | Dr Sky interviews Christina Olds the daughter of Legendary Triple Ace Robin Olds at the Reno Air Races 2013.

Donate to the WASP Museum - You Fly, Girl | I had blogged a few days ago about receiving a WASP calendar (sending a calendar must be the "gift" of choice these days...got one for the Redtails and one for Pacific Theatre Museum as well). Anyway, the WASP Museum, located in Sweetwater, Texas, on the airfield where most of the WASP trained during World War II, is gathering funds to expand and also to rebuild the air traffic control tower there....

Meet the young woman who test flies the world's biggest planes for a living - Telegraph UK | Isabelle de Montet-Guerin, 32, is Airbus’ youngest and first British female test pilot, with almost 15 years of experience. Her childhood passion has led her to fly some of the largest aeroplanes in the world.

Lost in Shangri-la — a deep jungle rescue mission by travelforaircraft | Lost in Shangri-la: a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff with cover design by Richard Ljoenes. Zuckhoff writes well of this nearly forgotten footnote of World War II’s history which took place in New Guinea. He tells the tale of three aircraft crash survivors and their fantastic rescue, as expected from the title, but weaves into the telling of the tale with the backstory as well as the lapsed understandings of the time. Zuckhoff gives a...

The Avenger - Apron 6 | A couple more shots made during the first day of the A2A Academy.

3 Videos: The Future Belongs To The Wingcopter! (OK... Maybe Not Just Yet) - AirPigz | The Bubbleship VTOL from yesterdays Oblivion movie post has me cranked up on vertical flight concepts, so I did a little digging to see what VTOL dreamers are up to. I turned over a few rocks on youtube and found: the Wingcopter... and I gotta say this is a very impressive concept from a small team in Germany led by Jonathan Hesselbarth. It's just an RC model at this time but after several prototypes they seem to be on to a really good thing....

Let The US Army Teach You About Plane Acrobatics - Jalopnik | Buying a plane and getting a license is the first step towards winning the Red Bull Air Race at some point. Listening to the US Army's how to video from 1942 on airplane acrobatics is the second. Loops, rolls, spins. Mastering them sound easy enough given the space up there, but back in the early forties, there were no computers to help you keeping things tidy. In fact, British Spitfires used to stall while being upside down. That's carburetors for you...

Terminally Ill Teen Granted Wish To Fly In Helicopter - CBS Local | LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A terminally ill 18-year-old was granted a special wish Thursday to fly in a helicopter. Adrian Pineda, of Watts, has been battling cancer for the past three years. He lost his leg to the disease when he was just 16, but taught himself how to walk on a prosthetic...

Institute for Aerospace Education student awarded Ninety-Nines scholarship · General Aviation News Staff | FRANKFORT, Ky. – High school senior Victoria “Tori” Williams has been awarded a 2013 Fly Now scholarship from the Ninety-Nines‘ Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund...

At 100, the sky's the limit for Vernon Maynard - The Desert Sun | PALM DESERT — "It was just like landing on a pillow." This is how Vernon Maynard describes the conclusion of his 13,000-foot tandem jump Nov. 4 from an airplane at Perris Valley Skydive, about 75 miles west of his Palm Desert home. It was his 100th birthday...

Jacksonville University Aviation celebrates 30th anniversary · General Aviation News Staff | JACKSONVILLE, Florida  — Jacksonville University’s Davis Aviation Center highlighted its 30th anniversary recently with a special ceremony at the Davis College of Business, with more than 140 students, alumni, faculty, staff and special guests taking part...

PR: PilotWorkshops.com Celebrates 10,000th WINGS Course Completion - You Fly, Girl | December 3, 2013 - Nashua, NH - PilotWorkshops.com announced that the FAA has now issued over 10,000 WINGS course completion credits for their online pilot proficiency training courses. The company has been creating WINGS-approved training programs since 2006.  “Many of our customers participate in the FAA WINGS program and appreciate the convenience of being able to continue their proficiency training while earning WINGS credits,” said Pilotworkshops’ founder Mark Robidoux...

Plane on the Brain - EAA | December 12, 2013 - Greteman Group, an aviation-specialty marketing firm that has worked with companies such as FlightSafety International, Bombardier, and the Lindbergh Foundation, has designed an online aviation trivia game that will tease the brain on the ever-changing world of aviation and provide a bit of friendly competition as well....

NASA Fellowships, Scholarships Bring Diversity To Future STEM Workforce - Aero-News Network | Forty Students From Around The Country Receive Education Awards | NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has awarded fellowships and scholarships for the 2013-2014 academic year to 40 graduate and undergraduate students from across the United States to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines...