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Blue Angels Change NAS Pensacola Practice Times - NorthEscambia.com | The Blue Angels are changing their Tuesday and Wednesday weekly practice demonstration times onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) for the 2014 air show season. The scheduled practice demonstrations will now begin at 11:30 a.m. onboard the air station...

Air Fest Update by Howard Altman | ...All systems are go for the air show known as MacDill Air Force Base Presents Tampa Bay AirFest 2014, the first to be funded in part by the community. “We crossed the $150,000 mark late last week,” says Chase Stockon, who headed up efforts by the ad-hoc community group called the Bay Area Community AirFest Committee to raise money for the show, scheduled for March 22 and 23 and expected to draw at least 200,000....

Paul Dye To Speak At Awards Dinner - Mojave Experimental Fly-in | ...Paul Dye was the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's human spaceflight program, supporting shuttle operations as a flight controller for the first 12 years of the program before being selected as Flight Director in 1993. Paul then directed 39 missions as a Flight Director, 9 of them as Lead Flight Director....

Women in Aviation, International Holds 25th Anniversary Conference - Aero-News Network | Celebrates Past, Present And Future With Record Attendance | Women in Aviation, International (WAI) hosted its 25th annual conference with three days jammed with activities to honor the past, guide the present, and plant seeds for the future. Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, was the scene for the 2014 International Women in Aviation Conference held March 6-8, 2014. More women than ever attended this year’s conference, with attendance setting a new record at more than 4,500 registered individuals, representing all segments of the aviation community...

Spencer Airshow grounded - Spencer Daily Reporter | The Spencer Municipal Airport announced its Flagfest event, Flight Breakfast, is on for June 15 this year, but the Spencer Airshow is off. Spencer Airport hasn't conducted an airshow in conjunction with the Flight Breakfast since 2010. According to the chair of the Airport Board of Trustees, Tim Steffen, no one has come forward to lead and organize the once annual event...

Swiss cancel Swedish fighter-jet air show » - The Local.se | The Swiss government's eagerness to avoid graft accusations could explain why the Swiss cancelled Swedish fighter jets taking part in an air show, Swedish reports suggested on Tuesday. Saab's flagship product had been due to be part of an air show on the weekend to mark the Alpine World Cup Final in Lenzerheide...

Flight of a lifetime for $20 - General Aviation News | Stallion 51 has donated the flight of a lifetime to Mercy Flight Southeast to raise funds for this critically-needed charity. In this raffle, you can win a chance to fly a P-51 Mustang while helping others....

Aerobatics, job fair, films to add zing to aviation summit - Times of India | HYDERABAD: Four years after the inaugural session of the India Aviation Summit-2010 ended in tragedy after a naval HJT-16 Kiran Mk2 trainer carrying out aerobatic stunts crashed into a residential building, the roar of aircraft engines will once again fill the Hyderabad skies as daredevil pilots show off breathtaking aerobatic maneouvres to enthrall enthusiasts at the fourth edition of the biennial international exhibition & conference on civil aviation...

Congratulations to our new Squadron Safety Officer and Red Tail Crew Chief Steve Kaminsen! - CAF Red Tail Squadron | The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Tail Squadron is pleased to announce a change of command with Steve Kaminsen as our new squadron safety officer and Red Tail crew chief. Steve is a long-time volunteer with the squadron and we are enthusiastic about this recent appointment...

Land of Lincoln Honor Flight to make first trip of season March 25 - Washington Times-Reporter | On March 25th, 2014, Land of Lincoln Honor Flight will honor 88 veterans by taking them on a no-expense, day-long trip to Washington, D.C., so they may visit and reflect at their national memorials...

OV-10B Bronco 99+18 Restoration Completed! - Warbirds News | Warbirds News is pleased to announce the completion of Bronco Demo Team’s latest North American OV-10B Bronco restoration. Known by its West German Luftwaffe serial, 99+18, the Bronco flew for the first time in more than twenty years in May, 2012, but sadly this was shortly followed by the loss of Bronco 99+32, and serious injuries to her pilot Tony De Bruyn that July. Thankfully Tony made a full recovery and he recently flew Bronco 99+18 on her first photo-sortie following a complete and accurate repaint in her original Luftwaffe markings. We bring you some of the gorgeous photographs from that flight here; all courtesy of the Bronco Demo Team...

World War Two Era Bomber, Fighter on Display at Stinson - WOAI.com | It was a blast from the past at Stinson Field, as one of the only 12 World War Two era B-17 'Flying Fortress' World War Two era bombers still flying glided to a stop at the historic station, followed by a P-51 Mustang fighter plane...

Freeman Field Recovery Team On NatGeo – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Ep535 | WARBIRD RADIO – Our friends at the Freeman Field Recovery Team will be featured on NatGeo’s popular show Diggers this Tuesday (March 11th) at 10pm (EST) on the NatGeo Channel.  David Gray joins Matt Jolley with an update on the buried WWII German aircraft on Freeman Field.  Find out how the recovery is progressing and how you can get involved.

A Sexy Beast - Vintage Wings of Canada | As the RCAF began their decades-long right-sizing, some of these low-time, solidly-built, practicable trainers were put into storage, struck off charge and sold through Crown Assets Corporation to buyers who felt there would be a market for jet aircraft as survey platforms, research aircraft, commercial target towing ships and above all, as playthings for the wealthy business man, who having survived the Second World War as a pilot, desired to rekindle the joys of flying exotic aircraft. Entrepreneurial American buyers such as Leroy Penhall of Chino, California made deals with the Canadian government to purchase large numbers of these jet trainers at rock bottom prices. All they had to do was hire some pilots, fire them up and fly them away. Soon, former Royal Canadian Air Force Silver Stars were repainted and registered as American and scattered from California to Florida, Wisconsin to Texas....

Two women share same name, goals in aviation - KFVS | PHOENIX (CBS5) -Meet Amelia Earhart.  It's OK to do a double take or ask about her name - people do it all the time. "My parents wanted to give me a good female role model and give me a name that would spark conversation and hopefully lead me to adventure, and it looks like that's what happened," said aviatrix Amelia Earhart...

Amelia Earhart featured in International Women's Air and Space Museum program for Women's History Month - The Plain Dealer | CLEVELAND, Ohio – The International Women’s Air and Space Museum at Burke Lakefront Airport will celebrate Women’s History Month with a March 21 presentation about famed aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Historian Betty Darst will tell the story of Earhart, who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempted around-the-world flight in 1937, using photos, maps and handwritten notes made by Earhart herself...

Air Museum gets million dollar surprise - Quinte News | A million dollar red letter day for the National Air Force Museum at CFB Trenton today as it received the donation of a major art collection...

Happy Birthday To The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King · Warbirds News * By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King flew for the first time fifty-five years ago today.  A twin-engined anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and utility maritime helicopter, the SH-3 formed the backbone of the Navy’s ASW helicopter force from 1961 until 2006.  The Sea King featured a voluminous main cabin which could accommodate dipping sonar and radar and a rugged fuselage that incorporated a watertight hull.  The main...

EAA 677 awards scholarship to Young Eagle - General Aviation News | COLUMBUS, GA. — Chattahoochee Valley Chapter 677 of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA 677), based at Columbus Airport (CSG), has awarded a full scholarship to the EAA Air Academy to 17-year-old Kennedy Davenport of Columbus, Georgia...