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‘Schumacher of the sky’ Nadas dies in Al Khor crash - Gulf Times | World champion aerobatic pilot Tamas Nadas died in a plane crash while performing a daring stunt at Al Khor airstrip yesterday. Hungarian Nadas, popularly known as the “Schumacher of the sky”, was flying his plane upside down above the runway as part of a race with a sports car when it spun out of control and hit the ground....

Cherry Point Air Show lineup unveiled - Jacksonville Daily News | The 2014 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show "Inspiration to Innovation," will take place May 16-18 aboard MCAS Cherry Point. Friday's show will feature nighttime performances, while Saturday and Sunday's shows will feature many daytime performances. Gates will open for the Friday night show at 5 p.m. and flying will go from 5:45-10 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, gates will open at 8 a.m. and flying will go from 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m....

2014 Cape Air Festival back on after Snowbirds recommit - KFVS | CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) -The City of Cape Girardeau announced the 2014 Cape Air Festival is back on. They say the Canadian Forces Snowbirds reversed direction and told Air Festival organizers that the team would be able to perform at several U.S. shows this year, including Cape Girardeau. As a result, Bruce Loy, Cape Girardeau's airport manager, announced Friday that organizers have decided to move forward with the Air Festival on the originally scheduled dates of Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18....

Why Your Company Should Be At The Spirit Of St. Louis Air Show And STEM Expo By Mark Sutherland | This May 3-4, the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show and STEM Expo takes place in Chesterfield. The Blue Angels will be in the air, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) will be on the ground....

Out of the Gold and into the Black ….. Rodeo Arenas and NASCAR Tracks! - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Words can’t begin to sum up how much we all have progressed throughout these past six weeks of training down here in Homestead, FL (our home away from home).  Since week three the black demonstration team has filled the Homestead skies with diamond track maneuvers, diamond formations, and big way formations as well as our signature stack out maneuvers into the...

Red Arrows will return to Blackpool Airshow - Blackpool Gazette | Coun Graham Cain, Blackpool Council Cabinet Member for Tourism and Leisure, said: “We are delighted to be able to announce the initial allocation for this year's Blackpool Airshow and, of course, it is always thrilling to know that the Red Arrows will...

Mojave Experimental Fly-in | Check out the latest on those who have committed... Jeff Lange and the tubro-charged Sonerai, Tres Clements and the Boomerang,  Matt Liknaitzky and his Black Christian Eagle, and more...

Blue Angels Pilot Relives Tour Flying "Fat Albert" at St. Louis Missouri Pilots Association Meeting By Carmelo Turdo | The Midwest Aviation community eagerly awaits the arrival of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron for the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show in May.  As a prelude to the airshow, the St. Louis Chapter of the Missouri Pilots Association hosted a program Wednesday evening dedicated to the history of the Blue Angels, produced by aviation historian Joe Gurney, with special guest Rob Wunderlich, U.S. Marine pilot of the "Fat Albert" Hercules support aircraft during the 1997-98 seasons.  Gurney presented the history of the Blue Angels as they progressed from the Grumman F-6F Hellcat in 1946 to the...

WomenVenture Moves to Wednesday For EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 - AirVenture News | March 6, 2014 - The annual WomenVenture gathering, designed to encourage and inspire women in aviation and those who want to fly, will welcome hundreds of female aviators on Wednesday, July 30, during the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in convention....

Shout Out To Jerrie Mock! - WAI Connect Blog | Since WAI members are savvier than the average, you may know that it wasn't Amelia Earhart who was the first woman to fly solo around the world, as many believe, but rather Jerrie Mock who was surprised to discover in 1964 that the feat had yet to be accomplished...

Women's Airforce Service Pilot veteran visits EAA AirVenture Museum - The Oshkosh Northwestern | For Betty Strohfus, going through the EAA AirVenture Museum on Friday morning was like taking a flight back into time. The 94-year-old former World War II pilot got a chance to relive her time in the...

Museum to Pay Tribute to Tuskegee Airmen - The Oakland Tribune | ...Their heroism will be recognized at Alameda's USS Hornet Museum on March 15, when Grimes and fellow Tuskegee veteran Burl Smith of Oakland will talk about their experiences. David Cunningham, whose father was a Tuskegee Airman, also will be on hand...

Video: Reno air Races – Rare 1965 Sky Ranch Documentary - World Warbird News

Bugatti 100P re-creation to debut in museum exhibition - AOPA Pilot | The restored original graces the Experimental Aircraft Association’s EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wis.—and now, the flyable re-creation built by a devoted group of volunteers under the management of former fighter pilot Scotty Wilson of Tulsa, Okla., is approaching completion. Among the group’s participants have been two grand nephews of Louis de Monge, a Belgian engineer who was one of the original airplane’s designers...

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Record Flight * Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Museum Docent Scott Wiley describes the final record-setting flight of the National Air and Space Museum's SR-71...

Happy Birthday To The Junkers Ju 52 · Warbirds News | Eighty-two years ago today, the Junkers Ju 52 took flight for the first time.  One of the most important aircraft in European aviation history, “Auntie Ju” served with numerous air carriers as an airliner and freight hauler.  Derived from a single-engine aircraft, two additional radial engines were mounted on either wing to improve performance.  Corrugated metal skin was used to strengthen the structure against torsion and large, fixed landing gear could cope with rough fields.  The Luftwaffe employed the type as a bomber, transporter and minesweeper during World War II...

The Hammer - Air & Space Magazine | For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.

Sold-out 'Tin Goose' flights aid local 'Young Eagles' - Kendall | “Sell-out” crowds boarded a 1929 Ford “Tin Goose” passenger plane to enjoy nostalgic fly-overs of Miami-Dade County from Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport, Feb. 13-16...

Red Flag 14-2 - Photorecon.net | Nellis AFB is hosting Red Flag 14-2. The increase in military aircraft activity began March 3rd and runs through March 14th. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air, space, and cyber forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range...

Air museum to hold Big Band Dance March 29 - Sioux City Journal | SIOUX CITY | The Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation will hold a Big Band Dance March 29. Doors open 5 p.m. for swing and ballroom dance lessons with the Morningside College Dance Team. Dinner, catered by Aggies, begins at 6 p.m. with dance to follow at 7 p.m. The 1930s and 1940s dance music will be provided by the Mearl Lake Orchestra...

EAA Flight Plan Helps Fulfill Dream of Flight - EAA | In August 2006, an 11-year-old Jarin Leake of Keenesburg, Colorado, had his first airplane flight on an American Airlines MD-80 from Denver to Chicago. "That was my first exposure to aviation," he recalled. "Right then and there I knew I wanted to be a pilot."...

Space Camp launches crowd-funding effort to land NASA shuttle training aircraft - collectSPACE.com | One of four business jets converted to train NASA astronauts to land the space shuttle is on final approach to the Alabama home of Space Camp, pending the result of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's first crowd-funding campaign...

Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 Coming Together with Delta IV Booster - Spaceports | On March 4, 2014, two of the three Delta IV Heavy boosters for NASA's upcoming Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) with the Orion spacecraft arrived by barge at Port Canaveral. The core booster and the starboard booster were offloaded and...