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Former Blue Angels pilot runs for Congress - WTSP 10 News | St. Petersburg, FL -- Mark Bircher has never run for political office before. But serving others has been the story of his life. A graduate of the Naval Academy, Bircher was a fighter pilot who flew with the Blue Angles for three years. He was once ...

Body English - Vintage Wings of Canada | You are standing at the very edge of a steel cliff, high above the Indian Ocean. You look backwards across a hot steel deck shimmering in the 100ºF heat to the vast expanse of pale white-blue ocean. A white churning wake recedes in an arrow straight line, like pale smoke, until it disappears into the steamy haze that hides the line where the warm ocean meets the heat washed sky. A long, quiet ocean swell steadfastly raises and drops you 15 feet through a twenty second period. The soles of your feet burn through your tennis shoes. You do not have the benefit of a wind screen, so you lean backwards against the hot 35 knot wind pushing down the flight deck. Your feet are...

Hayward Air Rally to celebrate 50th anniversary - General Aviation News | ...The Hayward Air Rally is sponsoring scholarships to the 2014 EAA Advanced Air Academy to 16- to 18-year-olds who live in or near the communities of Hayward, Silver Springs, Nevada, Wendover, Utah, Lander, Wyoming, Rapid City, S.D., Montevideo, Minn., and Madison...

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Celebrates 10 Years - Flying Magazine | Named after Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, a Hungarian entrepreneur who donated millions to the National Air and Space Museum, the facility is home to a large collection of small aerobatic, taildragger, biplane and warbird airplanes from all eras. The massive...

Happy Birthday To The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver · WarbirdsNews, By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC Seventy-three years ago today, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver took flight for the first time.  A carrier-based dive and torpedo bomber, the Helldiver was designed to replace the Douglas SBD Dauntless.  SB2Cs were large aircraft due to the requirement of an internal bomb bay; Helldivers were built to carry a 2,000 pound bomb internally, or two smaller 1,600 pound weapons, or a torpedo.  SB2Cs first went to...

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First Powered Flying in Asia, the Spirit of Sha Tin (?????) and the intrepid Charles Van den Born by travelforaircraft | Charles Van den Born was began life in Belgium though raised French and eventually becoming a citizen of France to live out his last days there. He became France's 37th licensed aviator and Belgium's 6th licensed aviator in March of 1910 when in his mid-thirties using a Henry Farman design aircraft. Farman designs had become...

CoolPix: Boeing 307 Stratoliner At The NASM (Udvar-Hazy) - AirPigz | I'll start by saying that the late January 2014 AirPigz MeetUp is being planned for the National Navy Aviation Museum in Pensacola Florida. More info on that will be up soon. The January 2013 AirPigz MeetUp was in the Washington DC area to experience the two amazing National Air & Space Museum facilities, the one on the National Mall and the Udvar-Hazy. This CoolPix image of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner is one I captured on that trip...

Belite Achieves Maiden Flight of Ultralight Floatplane - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Belite Aircraft announced the first powered flight of its new SeaLite amphibious carbon fiber float-equipped aircraft, designed to legally fly under U.S. FAR 103 regulations off of either water or land. The flight occurred on Tuesday, December 17, the 110th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.

Low-flying plane shocks Hamilton onlookers - ELTON SMALLMAN  |  A low flying military aircraft took a quick trip over Hamilton leaving surprised and shocked onlookers in its wake. The plane, believed to be a C-17 Globemaster, was in New Zealand for tactical low level training flights and was part of Operation Southern Katipo in the South Island...

Video: Firefighters Accidentally Spray Jet Fuel On Blaze Because Oops - Jalopnik | That's exactly what happened in late October to some Washington State Patrol firefighters during what was, thankfully, a training exercise. According to recently-obtained video from...

Video: Station Cooling System Still a Problem - Spaceports | Expedition 38 Lead Flight Director Judd Frieling joins NASA Public Affairs Officer Dan Huot for an update on the International Space Station's ammonia pump module and the efforts by the Flight Control Team to resolve the issue with a software upload.