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EAA Staff Remembers Paul Poberezny Featured - EAA Video | February 11, 2014 - EAA staff members share memories of Paul Poberezny, EAA Founder.

Great Lakes Aviation Conference This Weekend - EAA | February 12, 2014 - A variety of keynote speakers and other educational opportunities for all levels of interest in aviation will be featured at the 14th annual Great Lakes Aviation Conference and Expo on February 14-15 at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing, Michigan...

Think Global Flight Journey to Launch at Sun 'n Fun - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | February 12, 2014 - Aviation enthusiasts from around the world will fly into Florida's Lakeland Linder Regional Airport for the Sun 'n Fun International Fly In and Expo April 1-6, but there will also be one very significant departure on April 3: The Think Global Flight (TGF) crew is set to take off from Sun 'n Fun to launch its around-the-world flight promoting S.T.E.M. education and aviation...

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Looking ahead to SUN ’n FUN - General Aviation News | Won’t make the “Living Legends” dinner for Bob Hoover in Los Angeles this month? Perhaps you’ll grab another opportunity to dine with the legendary aviator and other aviation celebs at SUN ‘n FUN’s “Dinner with Legends” event — part of a full plate this year at the airshow season opener in Lakeland, Florida April 1-6...

Joyce Delaney Skydives with the Golden Knights, Tandem Style - US Army Golden Knights | Joyce Delaney from WFTL 850am Radio out of Fort Lauderdale, Fl spent the morning with the United States Army Parachute Team. She made a tandem jump with SSG...

Twenty-fifth "Thunder Over Louisville" to look back at show's history - WDRB | LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The 25th Thunder Over Louisville celebration will take a look back at the history of the popular fireworks show. Wednesday morning, the Kentucky Derby Festival announced that this year's theme will be "Throwback Thunder." The soundtrack will highlight songs from each year of the annual show...

2014 Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival canceled - KFVS | The 2014 Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival has been canceled, according to Bruce Loy, airport manager at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Loy said Tuesday that the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, previously scheduled for a May 17 through 19 air show in Cape Girardeau, have canceled all of their 2014 U.S. air show appearances due to financial budget cuts...

Vintage Ford Tri-Motor plane available for rides in Miami - MiamiHerald.com | To soar in the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor is to take a step back in time, when only the daring ventured into the sky. When men dressed in suits and women in silk stockings to travel. When a pilot maneuvered a plane by wits and skill not computers. When a passenger was protected from the elements by nothing more than a sheet of glass in a window. When aviation was more than novel: It was a luxurious adventure for the lucky few who could afford to fly...

Superfortress stop in Pensacola postponed - Pensacola News Journal | The scheduled Pensacola visit of a vintage World War II B-29 Superfortress has been postponed from this week until April 3 through April 6...

Air show needs donations to take flight - WFMJ | VIENNA TWP., Ohio - The Youngstown Air Reserve Station is among the 16 locations where the Air Force Thunderbirds are set to perform this year, but the show can't take off without thousands of dollars in private donations. The Vienna base has not hosted an air show since 2009 and it will need to raise $200,000 for Thunderbirds to take flight....

Gee Bee Q.E.D. to Appear at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | When we last spoke with Rich Alldredge following the flawless first flight of the late Jim Moss' outstanding reproduction 1934 Gee Bee Q.E.D. last fall, he said, 'We definitely have Oshkosh in our sights.' Well, this week he confirmed plans to fly the burly two-place Golden Age racer to Oshkosh this summer to participate in EAA AirVenture 2014.

Fallbrook airman has blue sky in his veins - U-T San Diego | FALLBROOK — Tucked away inside an inconspicuous hangar behind the runway at the Fallbrook Community Airpark is Tom Aberle’s pride and joy, perhaps the fastest bird of its kind on the planet....

B-17 Lacey Lady Restoration Update – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Ep534 | Sean O’brien from the B-17 Alliance Group joins Matt Jolley with a restoration update on their B-17 “Lacey Lady”.  Gary Velasco (Fighting Colors.com) also stops by to announce the start of a nose art panel give away here on Warbird Radio...

New Space Shuttle Exhibit to open Feb. 26 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will be cleared for liftoff when the museum's new Space Shuttle Exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 26. The exhibit, which features NASA's first Crew Compartment Trainer, allows visitors to experience the size and shape of an actual space shuttle orbiter by entering the payload bay and looking into the flight deck and mid-deck levels....

Timeless Voices - Dorothy and Bill Tunstall · eaavideo.org | Dorothy Nash and Bill Tunstall met and married in 1943 while both serving in the Navy, Bill as an Aviation Machinist Mate and Dorothy in the WAVES. Bill served aboard the USS Hornet and USS Kitkun Bay, while Dorothy was stationed at Sand Point.

EAA’s Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, December 13, 2014 · eaavideo.org | Scotty Wilson describes his quest to build a full-scale, flyable replica of the Bugatti 100P racer, one of the most elegant and technologically advanced airplanes of its time, at EAA’s Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, December 13, 2014.

AirplaneGeeks 286 – Jason Rabinowitz, the AirlineFlyer | Freelance aviation journalist Jason Rabinowitz joins us to talk about FAA deadlines, passenger behaviour on charter flights, and the state of U.S. airport infrastructure. Also, the best aviation museums, Jetblue’s new FlyFi system, travel technology, and analyzing travel data.

Marine aviator receives high-flying British honor for saving lives - DVIDS | FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. —A UH-1Y Venom pilot received the British Distinguished Flying Cross, Feb. 12 at the British Embassy in Washington. Capt. Brian Jordan, the second Marine aviator to earn the medal since World War II, was honored for his actions on June 21, 2012, while deployed in Afghanistan...

Air Force Association and Air Force Museum Foundation offer reciprocal memberships - National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The Air Force Museum Foundation (AFMF) and the Air Force Association (AFA) announced today that they will be offering reciprocal memberships. Current members of one organization can now join the other organization at a discounted rate...

NextGen Space Entrepreneur Jeff Feige Takes Helm of Space Frontier Foundation - Spaceports | The Board of Directors of the Space Frontier Foundation announced today that Bob Werb, Co-Founder and long-time Chairman of the Board, has retired from the position, and that they have unanimously elected space entrepreneur Jeff Feige to take over as the Foundation's new Chairman...