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Collier Trophy competitors revealed · General Aviation News | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) has unveiled the names of the nine aviation and aerospace projects that will compete for the 2013 Robert J. Collier Trophy...

Air show offers look at helicopters - Gainesville Sun | Some people don't know the full role helicopters play in law enforcement. The American Heroes Air Show on Saturday hopes to teach them...

Navy Blue Angels to highlight Selfridge Air Show - The Macomb Daily | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and their thrilling, high-precision maneuvers will highlight the 2014 Selfridge Air National Guard Base Open House & Air Show, in September. Flying F/A-18 Hornets, the pilots are scheduled to perform on both days of the show,...

Black Team Takes To The Blue Skies Of Homestead - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | The Black Demonstration team closes out week three with baton pass maneuvers, canopy relative work (CRW) and mass formations. The entire teams to include the newest demonstrators are proving they are ready to take to the skies...

War birds to descend on Fort Lauderdale on Friday - Sun-Sentinel | Three vintage war birds, including a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator and a P-51 Mustang, are scheduled to swoop into Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport at 2 p.m. Friday and remain on display over the weekend...

EAA AirVenture 2013 – Matt Younkin - Other People's Airplanes | In this episode of Other People’s Airplanes, we talk with Matt Younkin of Younkin Air Shows. Matt flies a beautiful black and red Beechcraft 18 … and he does it inverted! Join us for this short talk about the performance and what you can expect when you see (and hear) this gorgeous bird take to the skies.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Jim Peitz and His Aerobatic Bonanza - Fred Harl and Carmelo Turdo | The Aero Experience coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 continues with the Jim Peitz Aerosports airshow.  Peitz masterfully displays his unique  aerobatic Beechcraft F33C  Bonanza performance. The Pierre, SD native has been flying since 1975, aerobatics since 1992, and has...

There's more than a whiff of danger in the Air Race - Metro | The Red Bull Air Race is back later this month – and for its returning adrenalin junkies, it's a flight into the unknown. With the Series' safety issues addressed and some new circuits ready to go, Red Bull Air Race head of aviation Sergio Pla is...

Chasing Reno Gold · General Aviation News | An air racing symposium will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, Calif. It will feature top winning race pilots, who will share some of the best air racing stories from the last five decades, museum officials promise.

SUN ’n FUN Radio celebrates milestone · General Aviation News | The annual SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-in & Expo is hitting a benchmark April 1-6. Also hitting a milestone this year is SUN ’n FUN Radio. Twenty years ago, as the SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-in & Expo feted its 20th year, a media volunteer launched a new communications service for guests at the fly-in...

Flying Tigers want to see history respected - Chinadaily USA | As the tension between China and Japan deepens since Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, US soldiers who fought in the World War II who were members of the Flying Tigers, shared their stories and called for respect for ...

Freshly Restored P-40 Goes on Display in New Orleans · Warbirds News | The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana took delivery of their freshly restored P-40E Warhawk in early February. A crane lifted it into position, hanging in the museum’s new Campaigns of Courage pavilion, while Claire Chennault’s granddaughter, Nell Calloway, looked on with much appreciation. Claire Chennault’s American Volunteer Group, better known as the “Flying Tigers”, has become synonymous with the P-40...

Sandbar Mitchell Project Update · WarbirdsNews | Warbirds News has been keeping very close tabs on progress with the Sandbar Mitchell project. As readers will know, Patrick Mihalek and Todd Trainor’s team have made remarkable progress in a very short space of time since their recovery of the B-25’s center section from Alaska last summer. They have...

Urbana's B-17 restoration project now halfway done - Dayton Daily News | Volunteers working on the B-17 construction project at the Champaign Aviation Museum said they are about halfway done with making the “Champaign Lady” fly. Bill Albers works on the plane and led a presentation Thursday to update about 40 people from...

Support the Dakotas Over Normandy – Buy The Official T-shirt · Warbirds News | If you have been following Warbirds News for a while you are already familiar with the Dakotas Over Normandy project.For the 70th commemoration of the renowned D-day Invasion, which is to take place in June 2014, a group of parachutists called the Round Canopy Parachuting Team, has set its goals at...
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Strategic Bomber for IAF - The New Indian Express | When Jawaharlal Nehru's government first approached the United States for arms aid in 1948, it was the war-tested B-25 Mitchell bomber which topped the procurement list. During the Second World War the Walchandnagar aircraft company (precursor to the...

F-14 Tomcats flybys, treetop passages and gun strafing video - The Aviationist | There are not so many videos showing the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat on the range, perfoming some insane, treetop flybys before being cleared for a gun strafing pass. The much interesting and rare footage was shot in 1993 at Fort Chaffee, in Arkansas.

DC-9-15(F) returns home to Long Beach - Aero Pacific Flightlines | This 47 year old "Baby9" was originally delivered to Continental Air Lines as a DC-9-15(RC) registered as N8905 on June 26, 1967. In 1972 the DC-9 was bought by Air Canada and registered CF-TOR then changed to C-FTOR in 1974. In 1981, the aircraft was...

Randall Brooks - Flight To Success | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | ...Randy was born at Edwards Air Force Base while his father attended the Test Pilot School. He soloed in gliders while in high school and began flight instructing during college. While attending the University of Colorado in Boulder working toward a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Randy learned aerobatics in sailplanes, and was instructing in Decathlons, Great Lakes, and Pitts Specials before he graduated....

James E. Spanier - Mendota Reporter | As a licensed pilot, he was involved with the Young Eagles Flying Program, taking up over 400 young people to introduce them to flying. He was also a member of the Mendota Moose, Mendota Lions Club and was a past exalted ruler of the Mendota Elks ...