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Sailplane racers to compete in Nationals - General Aviation News | Sailplane racers will gather in Minden, Nevada, this June 10-19 to compete in the 18 Meter Nationals. “This contest will pit up to 60 pilots who will each day fly a weather-dependent course,” said Reba Coombs, contest manager. Each pilot will be towed aloft by airplanes to a predetermined release height and then dive through the “start gate.” The pilot who completes the course with the fastest speed wins...

Seventy aircraft make it to the 2014 Clifton Fly-In - warwickdailynews.com.au |  AFTER returning from the Vietnam War with an ambition to fly, Vince Clegg was talked out of it. But decades later, he has built his own plane and was one of the members of the Darling Downs Sports Aircraft Association who had their planes at the Clifton Fly-In yesterday...

Tiny Fly-In - Concho valley homepage | Many demonstrated their tiny aircrafts at the Tiny Fly-In event at Foster Communications Coliseum. Many from around the Concho Valley and from out of state enjoyed demonstrating their tiny aircrafts at the Tiny Fly-In event at Foster Communications Coliseum Saturday. While some aircrafts come ready to fly out of the box others are contructed by hand. The event was open to the public with free admission and sponsored by the San Angelo RC Club. The Fly-In featured a flight simulator allowing participants to learn how to fly...

Spruce Creek Fly-In aids Pilot N Paws rescue - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Rose Scaglia reaches for one of the rescued dogs from Gayl Henze, after arriving at the Spruce Creek Fly-In. - News-Journal photos/Taylor Ashley | PORT ORANGE – One by one the planes landed March 1 at the Spruce Creek Fly-In, each holding a most precious cargo – dozens of dogs and puppies. It was another successful rescue by members of Pilots N Paws, a nonprofit organization whose mission is saving the lives of shelter animals...

Lone survivor of B-17 crash awarded Purple Heart - KY3 | On March 18, 1944, Sgt. Richard Faulkner's B-17 was shot down over France. He was the only member of the crew to survive. The Germans hunted him but he was secreted out of the country by the French underground. When Faulkner, who now lives in...

Video Vault: Cleveland National Air Show 1991 and 1992 - Tom Livingston, newsnet5.com | CLEVELAND - Due to Washington budget issues, there is no 2013 air show in Cleveland. Fear not, our Video Vault is chock full of footage from air shows past. I've chosen stories from 1991 and 1992 for this look at Cleveland National Air Shows from Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport...

Video: Fourth Annual Fly It Forward Celebrates Women In Aviation - WHAG | FREDERICK, Md.--The fourth annual Fly It Forward event took off this weekend in hopes of promoting women in aviation. At Frederick Municipal Airport, local women in aviation got together on Saturday with one common goal: Teaching young girls flying planes isn't just a guy thing....

Sky’s the limit at Oshawa women in aviation event - durhamregion.com | DURHAM -- Dozens of females from across Durham and the GTA celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 by soaring to great heights...

Inspiration in the Sky - Flight To Success | ...Saturday we flew until the visibility fell and we had to shut down the event, leaving a few tears standing in the rain. Yet we flew 92 women. We came back Sunday to give it another shot and mother nature took better care of our event, and we flew another 132 women!...

Women's Airforce Service Pilot veteran visits EAA AirVenture Museum - postcrescent.com | 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 Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, also known as WASPs...

WWII Heritage Days to Honor the Women of The Greatest Generation - Warbirds News | The sights and sounds of The Greatest Generation will come alive when the Commemorative Air Force’s Dixie Wing hosts its eleventh annual “WWII Heritage Days” event over the weekend of April 26th/27th.  The history festival will take place at The Historical Airpower Facility, Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field, Peachtree City, GA from 9am-4pm both days. Go beyond the jump to find out more…

Women in aviation: Ann Arbor flying club encourages girls to become pilots - MLive.com | Kathryn Robine fulfilled a lifelong dream when she earned her pilot’s license in the 1970s. Emily Howell Warner became the first woman to work as a pilot for a major commercial airline in 1973, and Robine firmly decided that she, too, could learn to fly a plane. “I’ve wanted to do this since I was young. …For me, when it was in the news that the first woman pilot was hired, I thought, ‘Good, I can do this now,’” Robine said...

Fantasy of Flight — an evolving business model so see it while you can - Travel for Aircraft | Kermit Weeks built an incredible home to house and maintain his incredibly extensive aircraft collection and called it Fantasy of Flight. The aircraft there range from faithfully built replicas of before World War I aircraft through World War II era aircraft — both civil as well as military. Located in Polk City FL...

Museum Hosts Scout Troop, Assists With Merit Badge Activities | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum hosted about 70 Cub Scouts Saturday at historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at St. Louis Downtown Airport.  The museum periodically assists...

'Let's go!' 80th birthday of Yury Gagarin, first man in space - RT | On March 9, legendary Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, would have turned 80. His 108-minute epic orbital flight on April 12, 1961 ushered in the era of space exploration – and his charming smile became its symbol...