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Budget Woes Hit Snowbirds by Deb Mitchell | The Royal Canadian Air Force informed all U.S. air shows on Thursday that its military jet team, the Snowbirds, will not be able to support U.S. air shows in 2014 due to budget cutbacks.

Very Limited Tickets Remain For Bob Hoover Tribute - EAA | January 30, 2014 - Only a very limited number of individual tickets remain for the February 21 Tribute to Bob Hoover to be held at Paramount Studios Theater in Hollywood, as aviation's top personalities gather to honor the man called by many as "The Pilot's Pilot" and one of the greatest aviators in history...

Bob Hoover To Be Honored At Movie Premier, Gala - Aero-News Network | A Cavalcade Of Aviation Industry Stars Will Celebrate The Life Of The Aviation Legend | The legacy of Robert A. "Bob" Hoover will be celebrated February 21 as the aviation community gathers in Los Angeles, CA to honor Bob's long, successful flying career. Known as the “Gentleman Pilot”, Hoover is a World War II combat aviator and Prisoner of War, unparalleled test pilot, one of the airshow community's all-time performers and the legendary airborne starter of the National Championship (Reno) Air Races in his P51 Mustang 'Ole Yeller'...

NWOC Guest Speaker Announcement and Warbird Rides · Warbirds News | The world’s largest gathering of warbird owners, operators, maintainers and suppliers will soon meet at the 20th Anniversary National Warbird Operator Conference. The schedule of activities is getting busier day-by-day, and NWOC expect it to be their biggest convention to date. The host city, Dallas, TX, features two major airline hubs for...

FAI Asian Oceanic Championship to be held May 10-17 - Pattaya Mail | Pattaya will play host to radio-controlled airplane enthusiasts from Asian and Australia at the FAI Asian Oceanic Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft May 10-17. Organized by the Royal Aeronautic Sports Association of Thailand as part of the ongoing Air Sea Land Games, the International Air Sports Federation event will be for owners of FA3 planes only...

Meet Amelia Rose Earhart, The Woman Flying Around The World In 17 Days - Huffington Post | Growing up, Amelia Rose Earhart never thought she'd be a pilot. Despite being named after the famous aviator, who disappeared while attempting a flight around the world in 1937, the Denver news anchor did not become interested in flying until she was in her 20s...

Air Battle Over Rabul At Planes of Fame · Warbirds News | The topic for the February 1 Planes of Fame Air Museum   Living History Event  is ‘Air Battle Over Rabaul’, featuring the Douglas SBD Dauntless. Staff Sergeant Sidney H. Zimman, USMC. The SBD Dauntless, one of the two still airworty ( The other one being the...

Happy Birthday To The North American Aviation T-2 Buckeye · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts | Fifty-six years ago today, the North American Aviation T-2 Buckeye took flight for the first time.  The T-2 served the Navy as a two-seat intermediate carrier-capable jet trainer from 1959 until 2008.  Originally powered by a single engine, the Buckeye evolved into a twin-engine aircraft.  Aircrews initially...

Letters From a WWI Jenny Pilot By William Crawford Woods Air & Space Magazine | In 1918, my grandfather’s wish was simple: “Give me a Lewis gun in the cockpit of a fast fighter plane, and I know that I’d be satisfied with life.”

Russian Aviators' Accidental 1937 Landing in Washington State - WYSO | ...In June of 1937, a one-of-a-kind airplane landed at the Pearson Army Airfield in Vancouver, Washington. It flew from Moscow  non-stop; that’s 5200 miles. And this fact is amazing: the Antonov- 25 had a wingspan of 112 feet, nearly the entire length of the Wright Brother’s first flight...

Historic aircraft to be retired at Amarillo museum - Amarillo.com | A Douglas DC-3 aircraft is about to complete its nearly seven-decade career by retiring to a museum in Amarillo. In February, the DC-3 will leave Oklahoma City and land at Texas Air & Space Museum at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, where pilots will kill its engines one last time...

Airspeed project's wings clipped - The Press, York | York looks to have missed out on a new attraction in Piccadilly that would have celebrated a unique 1930s aircraft factory and an extraordinary ‘age of adventure’. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the ‘missed opportunity’ of Reynard’s garage...

CoolPix: Getting Hooked On The F-35 - AirPigz | ...While the CoolPix photo above is from last year showing an F-35B STOVL (short takeoff/vertical landing) making a short takeoff from a carrier deck (note the lift fan doors open and the downward rotation of the aft nozzle) there's an article from the U. S. Naval Institute about how the F-35C (the actual carrier variant) has recently completed shore-based testing of the redesigned hook. Problems catching the wire was an issue that many people made a big stink about, but as is the case when something doesn't work as originally envisioned, you make changes to the design. It's called development and every military aircraft goes thru lots of design changes along the way....

“Dambusters” Squadron’s final mission. Will reform and get F-35B in 2018 - The Aviationist | Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron known as the “Dambusters”, from the daring night missions against the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams, pivotal to Hitler’s industrial heartland in the Ruhr Valley, back in 1943, completed their last operational mission (over Afghanistan) with the Tornado GR4.,,,

Guest Post: Where We Belong - Airplanista By Victoria Neuville Zajko, U.S. Team Leader, Women Of Aviation Week | Annual airshows and fly-ins: these are places that feel like a second home to pilots. Meeting up with friends sharing the same passions and being surrounded by the sounds of the soaring airplanes you love is a feeling like no other. You have seen them at rock concerts and airshows alike: wristbands. More than a simple access pass, they signal the belonging to a unique and like-minded group...

Dramatic moment unconscious skydiver rescued mid-air captured on helmet camera· Aviation News TV

Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit - Fox News | The U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has now circled Earth for more than 400 days on a hush-hush mission that is creeping closer and closer to the vehicle's orbital longevity record. The X-37B spacecraft launched on Dec. 11, 2012, meaning that it has been aloft for 413 days as of Tuesday, Jan. 28, on the third mission for the program, which is known as OTV-3 (short for Orbital Test Vehicle-3). The endurance record is 469 days, set during OTV-2, which blasted off in 2011...