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Red Bull Air Race World Championship Ready For Abu Dhabi Season Opener - The Checkered Flag | Following a three-year hiatus the Red Bull Air Race World Championship returns to the skies as the series starts the 2014 season in Abu Dhabi at the end of February. The series started in 2003 and features a course which is marked out by inflatable...

Singapore Airshow Outtakes (2014) · AIRBOYD | Video by Lance Cpl. Cansin Hardyegritag | III Marine Expeditionary Force Combat Camera Military Personnel from participating countries, demonstrate the...

Birthday makeover for the Red Arrows as planes' tail fins are painted with Union flags to celebrate 50th anniversary - Daily Mail | They are among some of the most easily-recognised planes in the world and now the Red Arrows jets have become even more distinctive after they were given a makeover to celebrate their 50th display season. The famous jets have retained their famous red...

Red Arrows confirmed for all four days of the 2014 Bournemouth Air Festival - Blackmore Vale | It's officially a first for the Bournemouth Air Festival, but the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows have confirmed today they will be displaying at on all four days of the much anticipated summer event. Jon Weaver, Air Festival Director ...

Tandems,Tandems, Tandems - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Another great year has started for the Tandem Section of the United States Army Parachute Team. After a year of sequestration, the team is happier than ever to be back in the sky with civilian and military centers of influence. Already the section has taken to the beautiful skies over Homestead Air Reserve Base providing over a hundred fortunate tandem passengers with a thrill of a life time. All of these select individuals were nominated due to their commitment and involvement within the community....

2014 Thunder on the Lakeshore Grounded - WBAY | Manitowoc - The annual Thunder on the Lakeshore Airshow has been grounded for 2014. Organizers say they are taking a break this year due to financial issues....

The 2013 EAA Sport Aviation Halls of Fame Induction Ceremony · eaavideo.org | An overview of the 2013 EAA Sport Aviation Halls of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Executive Sweet B-25J Bomber to revisit Sedona March 1, 2014 - Sedona.biz | There must be some “magical connection” between our WWII B-25 Bomber and the community of Sedona. We have never had this much support from any community – and the airport staff has been wonderful, providing us with a 1st class ramp and services.

Eugene Bullard, the World’s First Black Fighter Pilot By Larry Greenly, Roger-Wilco | A generation to whom an African-American US President is a normal thing may have some trouble imagining an age where a young guy with top-notch credentials and abilities had to go to France to realize his true potential, becoming a fighter pilot in World War I and then being active in the French Underground in World War II. He was simply ignored in the United States when he returned home, his multiple decorations notwithstanding. At age sixty four in 1959 he was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a fact showing clearly that the French had not forgotten him even after his return to America. Not only was he not forgotten, he was in fact fondly remembered so much so that General Charles De Gaulle personally invited him to a ceremony in New York where Bullard was embraced by the General himself...

Miracle Landing Off Korea | Setting down on a carrier is difficult under the best conditions—but next to impossible if you can’t see.

Timeless Voices - Bill Richardson · eaavideo.org | Born with dwarfism, Bill Richardson overcame major orthopedic surgeries on his legs to learn to fly. Unable to enlist during WWII due to his stature, Bill became an instrument flight instructor under contract with the War Training Service.

Profile 84 - FINAL: "573" as flown by Bob Mock and John Stiles · JSM |...BANG! 573 was smacked sideways as if hit by a titanic baseball bat! The force required to move 19 tons, moving at 500-some miles per hour sideways is enormous—imagine what it would take to do something similar to a car speeding down a highway! However, the explosion didn't merely move the Phantom into the other lane, it also flipped it over, sending it spinning like afrisbee. Upside down. It was pure, unmitigated chaos. BANG! Just like that! And in case you're trying to visualize what 573 is doing in the air, know that19 tons of flightless metal doesn't glide. It plummets...

New Dornier Do-17 Exhibit at RAF Museum Hendon - Warbirds News | Like most of our readers, Warbirds News followed the RAF Museum’s historic recovery of the sole surviving Dornier Do-17 last June with profound interest. Since then, the renowned “Flying Pencil” has found itself in a specialized conservation tent at RAF Museum Cosford, where its components are under a...

Can This P-38 Be Saved? - Air & Space Magazine | On June 27, 1944, the U.S. 5th army had the Germans in northern Italy on the run. That day, Army Air Forces First Lieutenant David Toomey, a pilot for the 3rd Photo-Reconnaissance Group, took off from an airfield at Tarquinia, 50 miles north of Rome, to photograph German fortifications along the northern perimeter of the Arno River valley, from Florence to Pisa. It was his...

WATCH: The biggest Airfix ever! Midland Air Museum to rebuild Tornado fighter jet - Coventry Telegraph | The Midland Air Museum, based at Coventry Airport in Baginton, has got its hands on a much-loved Tornado GR4 – however, it is currently dismantled and museum bosses are now preparing for the painstaking job of piecing it back together. The wings, nose ...

Video: ‘Snoopy’ an incredible helicopter act - General Aviation News | A video from 1990 shows an amazing helicopter act, “Snoopy” at an event in Australia. The closeness of the audience alone is far different than what we see today.

CoolPix: Beautiful Berkut At OSH13... (Remember What Summer Is Like?) - AirPigz | For those of us who live where winter is wintery, it's been a very wintery winter! In northern Indiana where I live, we've had bitter cold and loads of snow for weeks on end, and it's snowing again this evening. However, the forecast is for above freezing temps for the next several days as winter finally gives us a bit of a break. That gets me thinking about summer, and when I think of summer, I think of OSHKOSH!...

Red skies for Red Flag - Flight Image of the Day | From the US Air Force this one, showing a pair of Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles at Nellis AFB in Nevada where they were participating in exercise Red Flag, along with 123 other aircraft from the US and allied nations. The two combat aircraft are assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

Kate Upton Goes Zero-G for Sports Illustrated's 2014 Swimsuit Issue - Space.com [video] |  Swimsuit-clad model Kate Upton dives and floats, not in water, but through the air for a new spread in Sports Illustrated. Upton flew on a Zero Gravity Corporation flight to...

This Day in History: First Test Flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise (February 18, 1977) - WTVY, Dothan | In 2012, after the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the Enterprise flew over Washington D.C. And New York City, once again on the back of a jet. It is now on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Although it sustained damage from Hurricane ...

UNO grad makes the first cut to train for Mars trip - Omaha World-Herald | Being president of UNO's Women in Aviation group taught her about leadership and group dynamics. She already communicates via the Internet with her family in Bangladesh. And if she were selected for Mars One, she said, it would be a testament that ...