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Mock, 1st female pilot to circle globe, dies at 88 * Chron.com | Fifty years after she made aviation history, Jerrie Mock chuckled when asked whether she ever got scared while circling the globe alone. "Scared? Let's not use the word scared," she said. But she had plenty of harrowing moments, from landing by mistake on an Egyptian military base to seeing a burning wire aboard her plane loaded with extra fuel....

Local vets to be honored at Wings Over North Georgia Airshow * WRCB | ROME, GA (WRCB) - The Wings Over North Georgia Airshow and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will honor all former, current and retired members of the U.S. Armed Services Saturday, October 18th....

AOPA hosts Homecoming Fly-In Oct. 4 * General Aviation News | FREDERICK, Md. – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) will celebrate its 75th anniversary Oct. 4 with a Homecoming Fly-In at its headquarters on the Frederick, Md., Municipal Airport, giving members and the public a chance to tour its facilities, view aircraft, take part in aviation seminars and a Pilot Town Hall meeting with AOPA President Mark Baker. The Frederick fly-in will be the sixth of seven AOPA regional fly-ins in 2014. It promises to be the largest, with hundreds of AOPA members, aircraft and aviation product exhibitors taking part, AOPA officials said...

Six more inductees for Aviation Hall of Fame * Daily Advertiser | SIX more giants of the aviation industry will be inducted into the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame (AAHOF) at a ceremony at Charles Sturt University on November 8. This year marks the third wave of inductions for the hall of fame and this year two of the six inductees will attend the ceremony...

AeroSports Update: 38th World Military Parachuting Championship * Aero-news Net | The competition is part of a program administered through the Conseil International Du Sport Militaire (CISM). This is one of the largest multidisciplinary organizations in the world. They organize various sporting events for the armed forces of their 134 member countries. Soldiers who may previously have met on the battlefield now meet in friendship on the sports playing field ... and in this case the sport was skydiving...

This is "Women of Aviation Worldwide Week"! * aeronewstv.com | This is "World Women in Aviation Week", and will be celebrated in 37 countries until 9th., March. Launched in 2010 by the Women in Aviation Association, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, this event aims to promote the female contingent of this normally, very masculin, activity. The organization today comprises some 2,000 women worldwide...

Bud Anderson to speak at Museum of Flight Saturday * General Aviation News | SEATTLE — Bud Anderson, Fighter Ace, veteran, co-author of “To Fly & Flight-Memoirs of a Triple Ace,” and member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame, will speak at the Museum of Flight about his experiences in combat against the Luftwaffe in Europe, World War II, and his 30 years of military service. The presentation will take place on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 2 p.m. in the William M. Allen Theater...

The new American Air Museum website launches today * The Economic Voice | Today (Wednesday 1 October) IWM Duxford has launched a new crowd-sourcing website for the American Air Museum. The American Air Museum website is a digital record of the memories and stories of the men and women of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) who found themselves serving their country from ‘somewhere in England‘, during the Second World War. It also records the memories of the British people who met and befriended them...

Video: The Blue Angels Were The Baddest When They Flew The F-4 Phantom * Foxtrot Alpha | Flown for just five years by the Blue Angels, from 1969 to 1974, the F-4J, with its ominous size and smoke billowing General Electric J79 engines, was the baddest machine the team ever flew. The Phantom was also flown by the USAF Thunderbirds during this same period of time...

Hidden History Links Airplane to Retiring Museum Director * National Naval Aviation Museum | Today, Captain Robert L. Rasmussen, USN (Ret.), retires as director of the National Naval Aviation Museum, a position he has held for nearly three decades. He is the longest serving director in the museum’s fifty-one year history and there is not much about naval aviation that has escaped his attention during that time. Yet, just recently the previously hidden history of a fixture at the entrance to NAS Pensacola, revealed a surprising twist for him....

“Just Fly This Sumbitch Myself” - Air America’s pilots liked danger—and a bit of fun By Rebecca Maksel, airspacemag.com | Known as a “journalist’s journalist,” H.D.S. Greenway has reported wars from Indochina to the Balkans, Gaza, and Afghanistan—everywhere the United States has had combat troops in the last five decades. In his new book Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster), Greenway tells this story from his time in Laos...

Living the dream of wearing Air Force blue * Air Combat Command | He long dreamed of living above the clouds, soaring through the skies and flying off into the wild blue yonder. He could see his path to the Air Force clearly. But in an instant, his dream became blurry....

Top 25 Most Beautiful Airplanes * Flying | Flying presents 25 of the most beautiful airplanes of all time.