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11th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards takes flight · General Aviation News Staff | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The 11th Annual “Living Legends of Aviation” Awards, presented by Bell Helicopter and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, will be held Jan. 17, at the Beverly Hilton. Frederick W. Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx, will be presented the “Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award.” Bruce Whitman, Chairman and CEO of FlightSafety International, will receive the “Lifetime Aviation Industry Leader Award.”...

Commemorative Air Force Announces 40th Anniversary Tour of the B-29 FIFI, Celebrates with SUPERFORTRESS Calendar - PR Web| Addison, TX (PRWEB) - The year 2014 marks the 40th year of flight with the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) iconic B-29 Superfortress, FIFI; queen of the CAF fleet. The airplane, rescued and restored by the CAF in the early 1970s, has been a regular feature at airports and airshows all across the country. The B-29 Squadron of the CAF was the first group to...

Special FAI medals and safety delegate for the Red Bull Air Race season 2014 - World Air Sports Federation | Red-bull-air-race NewsFollowing the announcement of the resumption of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2014, the FAI and the Red Bull Air Race management have signed an agreement confirming FAI’s official international recognition of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship as well as detailing the FAI’s support in the form of safety supervision.

Kirby Chambliss Announces Team Chambliss Intern - Aero-News Network | Teenager Has Been Working At Airports Since He Was 14 | It's the internship a lot of us wish we'd had. Saying he "feels a strong responsibility toward encouraging the next generation of pilots and empowering our youth to realize the dream of flight," Kirby Chambliss has announced that Danny Onofryton (pictured) will be joining Team Chambliss as an intern. At 19 years old, Onofryton said he is thrilled to be a part of the team and is its youngest member...

Meet the team behind the world famous Red Arrows - Grimsby Telegraph | The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, are world famous but little is known about the 100-strong team behind the 11 pilots. The team was officially formed in 1965 and has displayed to millions of people in 54 countries. The Telegraph finds out more about the team behind the team at RAF Scampton...

Chipmunks Display - Grand Rand Airshow 2013 (w/Video) - Infozone.tv | Father and son team Larry and Jason Beamish at Grand Rand Airshow in Germiston South Africa flying the Chipmunk display. The Chipmunk was designed to succeed the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainer that was widely used during the Second World War. Wsiewolod Jakimiuk, a Polish prewar engineer, created the first indigenous design of the aircraft at de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. It is an...

A Video You Never Want to End - NORDO News | ...How often to you see video of the Pan Am seaplane operations you haven't already seen?...

Nogales war hero once again honored among peers - Nogales International | Inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame in April 2012, World War I ace fighter pilot Ralph Ambrose O’Neill, formerly of Nogales, will be lauded in February by the Commemorative Air Force’s Airbase Arizona Aviation Museum. O’Neill was selected as one of four inductees into the museum’s Arizona Military Aviation Walk of Honor as a tribute to his distinguished contributions to the field of military aviation. He is also listed on the distinguished roster of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame....

Timeless Voices - Jeannette Goodrum · eaavideo.org | Jeannette Goodrum Served as a WASP - Womens Airforce Service Pilot during WWII. Graduating with Class 43-8 in December 1943, she was involved in production line maintenance and aircraft testing before the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944.

The War Eagles Air Museum’s FJ-2 Fury · WarbirdsNews By Elena Early DePree | The “FJ-2 Fury” was the Navy version of the F-86. These airplanes were delivered to the Navy in the autumn of 1952. After the Korean Conflict, the construction contract was reduced to 200 and all “FJ-2s” were assigned to the Marine Corps. Elena Early DePree takes a closer look to the history and development of the this icon jet and the aircraft exhibited at the War Eagle Air Museum in Santa Teresa, NM....

Nose Of Comet Mk2 Saved by Volunteers · Warbirds News | Ian Wilson, a former Royal Air Force mechanic updated us on the Comet Mk2 named Sagittarius. Back in November the nose of the Comet Mk2 was saved by the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (BDAC) by using the “scrap value” of the back end to fund its removal.This De Havilland Comet C2 XK699, named...

Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer — First for the Royal Malaysian Air Force by travelforaircraft | Scottish Aviation produced the Twin Pioneer — "Twin Pin" — during the 1950s to meet a need civilian and military operators had for a cargo aircraft with STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) capabilities. The Twin Pin more than fit the bill...

My Dad Bailed Out Of This Exact 'Navy Museum' N3N! - AirPigz | My dad, who passed away in 2009, retired from 35 years at United Airlines in 1987, and while he did bail out of the exact Navy N3N pictured above, he was never even in the Navy. He spent two years in the Air Force after graduating high school in 1947, but the post-war military didn't need pilots, and he...

WTF? - Vintage Wings of Canada | Compiled by Dave O'Malley from the World Wide Web, with the assistance of Alex Soupy Campbell and Omer Syed.   Over the past seven years of researching aviation stories on the web, I have kept a folder on my laptop dedicated to images of Second World War aircraft that had been captured and had suffered the indignity of being painted in the national makings of the enemy they were designed to fight and vanquish–like a Spitfire in the service of the Luftwaffe, a Zero in US Navy markings....

Enjoy a Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane · David Cenciotti | In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion or, generally speaking, Armageddon, the U.S. Air Force’s four E-4B planes based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska will be responsible to keep the U.S. Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top personalities alive whilst Obama would be on board the Air Force One....

A-10 escapes fresh cuts; Spartans divert - The DEW Line | Fans of the awesome A-10 can rejoice (for now at least), as Washington’s recently-signed National Defense Authorisation Act has blocked the USAF from planning to retire any additional examples until at least the end of this calendar year...

Merger of museums is lost in air & space - U-T San Diego | ...The Air & Space Museum, cramped in Balboa Park’s southern cul-de-sac, asked the adjacent Automotive Museum to consider a merger for the purpose of building new exhibit space for the benefit of both museums. The marriage makes elegant conceptual sense, believes Jim Kidrick, the energetic CEO who kick-started the courtship. (Ironically, the Air & Space building was underwritten by Ford.)...

Son Gets Dad Back in the Saddle - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | January 7, 2014 - Matthew Polak, 29, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, always considered earning his airframe and powerplant (A&P) certificate at age 20 to be his greatest accomplishment in aviation. But he feels like he surpassed it this past December when he passed his checkride and gave his non-current pilot father, Allen, a ride for the first time...

Experimental Aircraft Association offering aviation scholarship competition - Southwest Times | The EAA does this by treating children (8-17) to flights at their Young Eagles rallies, and helping plan local air events. They also speak in local schools during career days, and work with local airports to find ways to involve the community ...

6 out-of-this-world attractions for space cadets - Fox News | Are your kids fascinated by the miracle of flight? Whether they dream of piloting jets or rocketing into a galaxy far, far away, a circle tour of our dispersed fleet of retired space craft is a great place to foster their interest...

Explore the edge of space with 'Red Bull Stratos' exhibit at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force by Sarah Swan, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | DAYTON, Ohio -- Just over a year ago, Felix Baumgartner ascended to 127,852 feet in a stratospheric balloon and made a freefall jump, rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground. This amazing mission broke world records and holds the potential to provide valuable medical and scientific research data for future pioneers....