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International Skiplane Fly-In Changes to Sunday - EAA | February 13, 2014 - The weather forecast in the Lake Memphremagog region has led organizers of this weekend's 6th annual International Skiplane Fly-In to move the event back one day - from this Saturday, February 15, to Sunday, February 16. Skiplane pilots from the United States (Vermont) and Canada (Quebec) can land on frozen Lake Memphremagog behind their respective borders along the 45th parallel just west of Providence Island. The U.S.-Canadian border is readily apparent - a 20-foot-wide line cuts across the island...

Fly-in coming to FPO over Valentine's weekend - Bahama Islands Info (blog) | FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- This Valentines weekend the Grand Bahama International Airport’s FBO will welcome approximately 6 private charter flights with some 26 passengers from the Bahamas Flying Ambassadors program (pilots with extensive experience in flying the Islands of The Bahamas) from Florida for a weekend of island soaring and exploring. c are nothing new for the island of Grand Bahama, in fact, the Ministry of Tourism in its aggressive campaign to appeal to the multi-billion dollar general aviation and private aircraft market is pleased to welcome these and other private charters to participate, travel, explore and share what the island of Grand Bahama has to offer...

Stephanie Myers' Classic Car & Vintage Plane Show - Community Impact Newspaper | The third annual Classic Car and Vintage Plane show features classic cars of all makes and models and awards trophies for Best of Show, People's Choice and more. The Commemorative Air Force supplies air crafts, including the Devil Dog, which will offer...

Living history lands at Boca Raton airport - Sun-Sentinel | The World War II war birds are coming to the Boca Raton Airport — and so is a thinning cadre of living history. Ninety-one-year-old Irwin Stovroff, who survived parachuting into enemy territory from a B-24, is hoping to rustle up at least two dozen World War II veterans who can tell the next generation about their experiences...

Tuskegee Airman from Louisville laid to rest - WAVE | LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The community came together Wednesday to bid a final farewell to a World War II veteran with Louisville ties. Family and friends gathered at A.D. Porter & Sons Funeral Home on W. Chestnut Street to pay their final respects to Alvin LaRue, a flight officer with the Tuskegee Airman...

If These Planes Could Talk - CAF | The CAF's B-29/B-24 Squadron has put together a really cool video that shows how our planes commemorate veterans.  If you get a chance, check out the video If These Planes Could Talk. It's about 2 minutes long.

Gee Bee QED: Gigantic Homebuilt Vintage Racer · eaavideo.org | Project patrol with Jim Moss and friends who built a flying replica of the gigantic vintage racer. [excerpt from December 2013 Chapter Video Magazine]

Historic airplane takes off from OKC to new home - KFOX14 | A historic aircraft listed on the National Register of Historic Places is relocating from Oklahoma to a museum in Texas. The Douglas DC-3 aircraft is...

Those Kiwi Moths - Vintage Wings of Canada | I have never been to New Zealand, that nation of two islands on the far side of my world, but I have this dream-like image that runs in my head when that adventurous nation comes to mind. It is not the Middle Earth fantasy world created by Peter Jackson or tourist professionals, but it is just as beautiful... maybe more so....

The Restorers – Mike Porter on Warbird Restoration · Warbirds News | Recently Kara and Adam, producers of The Restorers” have been getting a lot of posts on their Facebook page by people who want to make a career out of restoring old airplanes. People have been asking them, “How do I get to do that for a living?” So they thought we’d ask someone who happens to restore vintage airplanes. Mike Porter was...

The Boneyard · Warbirds News | Here at Warbirds News we have been tossing around the idea of adding a section dedicated to the “The Boneyard”, known more officially as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tuscon, Arizona. We have decided that although AMARG hosts many current aircraft types, it does have a unique fascination to aviation enthusiasts and more importantly it hosts several warbirds. So starting today we will run a monthly column called “Ghosts of the Boneyard”....

Unique Mustang Model Now on Display at The RAF Museum Cosford · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE – Now on display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford is a 1:5 scale scratch built North American P-51D Mustang. This unique model took almost ten years to build and was kindly donated to the Museum in autumn last year. This remarkable Mustang model now forms a centre piece display in the Museum’s Visitor Centre where visitors can view all its intricate details up close.The model is the work of retired journalist and avid modeller David Glen and was built in tribute to the US pilots and crews who gave their lives in support of their European allies over two World Wars. At over 6ft in length with a wing span of over 7ft the model bears the markings of VF-B 413317, the aircraft flown by Captain Donald R. Emerson, 336 Squadron, 4th Fighter Group who was killed on Christmas Day 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge...

Awesome helicopter exit, by Andrey Veselov. - Bonjour Bluesky

Here is Pentagon’s Future Tilt-Rotor Drone - The Aviationist | Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System will perform cargo resupply, CASEVAC and ISR missions | According to Darpa “ARES is a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight module designed to operate as an unmanned platform capable of transporting a variety of payloads. The ARES VTOL flight module is designed to have its own power system, fuel, digital flight controls and remote command-and-control interfaces. Twin tilting ducted fans will provide efficient hovering and landing capabilities in a compact configuration, with rapid conversion to high-speed cruise flight.”...

Virginia Aerospace Days Leads to Two Senate Joint Resolutions and Budget Support - Spaceports | Two resolutions have been offered this week by Virginia State Senator Bill Carrico (R-Grayson County) and State Delegate Terry Kilgore (R-Scott County) relating to student space science activities in Wise County and Norton, Virginia (Senate Joint Resolution No. 141) and the recent efforts of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (Senate Joint Resolution No. 142). Other legislators offered their support to expanding the spaceport budget in the next fiscal year...