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Cash woes ground Windsor Air Show - Windsor Star | Windsor's annual air show is dead - and a lack of city funding is to blame, says the show's chief organizer.  "Financially, we're tapped. We can't do it anymore," said Keith Baxter, director of operations for the Windsor International Air Show.  "Unfortunately, we've got big bills to pay, and we can't keep going year to year on hope. We need big sponsors. We need support."  Fighter jets roared through local skies when the third edition of the...

The Blue Angels at MCAS Miramar 2011 Air Show - Youtube (via ASB) | Don't let the slow pace at the start of this video fool you. Hold on as the best flight demonstration team in the world shows our cameras why they are the be...
   
Barossa air show to take off - Barossa & Light Herald | Organisers' spirits are soaring in the build up to the Barossa Airshow this Sunday at the Rowland Flat airstrip. Even the announcement of aerobatic pilot Matt Hall's emergency back surgery, which has pulled him from the line up of events, ...
   
Fly-in won't get off ground - Lismore Northern Star | At last year's Great Eastern Fly-in at Evans Head this Avenger torpedo bomber from the Second World War was a crowd favourite. THE organisers of the Great Eastern Fly-in at Evans Head have axed the popular January event, citing council constraints and ...

Peter Besenyei wings fans - Sportpiac.hu | The double world champion aerobatic Peter Besenyei this year, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship did not get bored during a break: regularly participate in various air shows and is working full blast development of Hungarian-made aircraft. ... 

Palm City 'Living Legend' to attend Stuart Air Show - TCPalm | 12 and 13, the 89-year-old will be one of the Living Legends invited by the 8th Air Force members to attend the Stuart Air Show. To prepare to be a WASP, Leckie took flying classes while attending college. Her family, she said, was not against her...

Air museum marks 75 years of aircraft - The Desert Sun | The Palm Springs Air Museum will celebrate “75 years of the DC-3 / C-47” at 1 pm Saturday at the museum. The Douglas DC-3 is an American fixed-wing propeller-driven aircraft whose speed and range revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s....

In celebration of the 100th Super Herc from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Lockheed Martin's iconic airlifter, the C-130, currently in its J incarnation, has hit several milestones this week with the latest aircraft delivery. Pictured is the 10th C-130J Super Hercules for Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The aircraft is also the 100th overall C-130J delivered to the US Air Force and the 150th overall to the United States government...

No license, no problem for Young Eagles - Mercer Space | That's what the nearly 145 kids who participated in a Young Eagles free flight Oct. 8 had to say after they had enjoyed free plane rides out of the Trenton Mercer Airport, courtesy of local pilots who belong to the Experimental ...

VIDEO: Most amazing F-16 vs dishwasher dogfight ... ever from The DEW Line by Stephen Trimble | Plot: F-16 fighter pilot/mom forgot her coffee mug at home. Luckily, her dishwasher can transform into a 9g-maneouvring aerial robot, who somehow engages mom's F-16 in a non-shooting dogfight. Mom/fighter pilot's...

Video: LOT 767-300ER makes gear up landing at Warsaw from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower | LOT Polish Airlines flight 16 from Newark made a gear-up landing at Warsaw airport around 1:42 PM local time with 230 aboard. The 1997 Boeing 767-300ER (SP-LPC) sustained heavy damage upon landing, none of the 230 aboard were injured...

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Air Show tickets now on sale - Lewiston Sun Journal | Tickets are now available for the first Great State of Maine Air Show to be held in Brunswick after the Navy departs. ...

Boeing to unveil stealthier F/A-18 aircraft - Daily News & Analysis
... will unveil a stealthier version of the F/A-18 at the air show to be held at the Air Force Station Yelahanka between February 9 and 13. ...

A Really Good Show from Air Facts Online Column | Most of you never heard of The Reading Show. It was, though, a measure of general aviation that clearly separated post WW-II general aviation into two eras, pre-1980 and from that year to the present. The contrast is amazing. | The activity, sponsored by Reading Aviation Service at Reading, Pennsylvania, started in 1950. It was originally a one-day affair billed as an operations and maintenance clinic. Pilots got together with “experts” and talked about their flying and their airplanes. By the second year, the event attracted 75 airplanes. There was steady growth after that and ...

“Blue Thunder II Crew Report” January 2011 - Blue Thunder Air Racing | As I reported last month, Blue Thunder II is in the wintertime conditional inspection, modification and update mode. Doing a valve job and T-bar clearance inspection is going a little beyond the scope of CFR 43 appendix D, but we are interested in establishing service limits as well as a trouble-free 2011 season. ...

Plows clear OHare runways (unedited video) - Chicago Tribune

Saturday, Sep 10, 2011 - EAA Chapter 865 Salute to Veterans Fly-In Breakfast, Niles, MI
from FunPlacesToFly.com Aviation Events | Salute to Veterans Fly-In / Breakfast. EAA Chapter 865, Inc. will hold it's annual Salute to Veterans Fly-In / Drive In Breakfast on Saturday, Sept.10, at Jerry Tyler Memorial Airport, Niles MI 3TR. The event will start at 7:00 AM and run till Noon. The Public is welcome. The menu will be the ...

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Pilot, rights pioneer honored at Tuskegee - Montgomery Advertiser | The title of the program was "Flying Into History," and it couldn't have been more appropriate for a woman who refused to allow racism to keep her out of the cockpit. Mildred Carter's dream of becoming a pilot came true 70 years ago, and Tuskegee turned out  ...

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Aviation fundraiser passes $20000 in donations - New Bern Sun Journal | HAVELOCK — Friday's annual fundraising event for the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation raised more than $20000 toward the organization's goal ...

Aviation authors convene at 2011 WAI Conference - BlueSky Executive Aviation News | Aviation authors and their devoted readers will be mixing and mingling during the 22nd Annual International Women in Aviation Conference which will be held ...

Ohio Air News #152 by Charles Johnson
Page 2 01/29-30/2011 AIRPIGS Meeting (NMUSAF)
Page 3 NMUSAF—Cold War Gallery
Page 4 & 5 NMUSAF—Pictures
Page 6 B-26 Marauder

Air Force Museum: Ryan X-13 Vertijet CoolPix 2Fer (+ Video) from AirPigz
The Ryan X-13 Vertijet fascinates me. So you can image how much I enjoyed getting to see one of the only two X-13's ever built when I was at the Air Force Museum this last weekend. The other one has been on loan to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, but it appears to be headed back to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC where it ...

Onex Makes 1st Flight; Fits 99% Size Pilots from Jetwhine | Stopping by Sonex Aircraft the morning of  January 28, Mark Schaible greeted me with the news that its single-seater, the Onex, had made its first flight the day before. It passed its FAA inspection just after noon, added Sonex Founder John Monnett, and Jeremy Monnett lifted it from Runway 27 at Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport just after 3 p.m. ...

Aero-TV: Adventures in Gas Ballooning — Mark Sullivan’s Dedication to the Sport from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | Aero-TV: Adventures in Gas Ballooning — Mark Sullivans Dedication to the Sport  Wed, 02 February 2011 . One Of The Most Amazing Aspects About Ballooning Are The Folks Who Are Devoted To It Its been a few months now and still the sites, sounds and sensations of the 2010 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta bring a ...

Hickam C-17 drops a Navy boat over Pacific from AF.mil Photos | The Navy Special Warfare Unit ONE Maritime Craft Aerial Delivery System deploys from the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III during airdrop operations Jan. 13, 2011 over the Pacific Ocean near Guam. Nine Sailors jumped out of the back of a C-17 after the aerial drop. Airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, worked with the Naval unit to deploy the boat off the coast of Guam while merging the capabilities of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Photos: WEF 2011 - MilCAP over Davos, Part III from AirSpace by Grimmi

Can aviation change America? - General Aviation News | ... they’re so consistent in their negative response to anything unconventional or unique. But I’m telling you the truth, and I can prove it.Allow me to introduce you to the Tuskegee Airmen, the WASPs, and Rosie the Riveter. If you take a mental journey back to anywhere in the United States around 1940, before the Tuskegee fellows made their mark on history, before the WASPs proved beyond a reasonable doubt that girls can fly pretty darned well, and before Rosie made it clear  ...

Boeing Marks a Milestone With Rollout of 1,000th 767 from Planenews Aviation News Portal  | EVERETT, Wash. (PRNewswire): Boeing (NYSE: (BA)) marked a proud moment in the company's history today at a ceremonial rollout of the 1,000th 767 airplane. Hundreds of current employees, joined by Boeing retirees who worked on the first 767, gathered to celebrate the occasion at the Everett, Wash., factory.

Buzz Aldrin Book Signing from San Diego Air & Space Museum w/Video | Yesterday was an exciting day for the Museum and space enthusiasts in general. In conjunction with the opening of our newest exhibition, SPACE: A Journey To Our Future, astronaut and author, Buzz Aldrin, visited the Museum to greet fans (a lot of them) and sign copies of his newest book, Magnificent Desolation.  Much to our surprise, people started showing up at 9 in the morning to ...

NASA Deputy Administrator Meets With Commercial Space Innovators from NASA Breaking News | NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will travel to Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo., this week to meet with leaders of two commercial space companies, Bigelow Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp., and tour their facilities.

Peoria space center aims to build legacy from tragedy from www.azcentral.com | The space shuttle lifted off the Florida launch pad, piercing a clear blue sky for 73 seconds.  Children across the nation watched live in their classrooms as for the first time, a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was strapped into the cockpit with six other crew members.  Then, the unthinkable happened on Jan. 28, 1986. In a burst of white smoke, the spacecraft broke apart, flinging pieces across the sky and into the sea. ,...

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Report: Airshow Performer Among Victims In Florida MX-2 Downing - Aero-News Network, FL
Aero-News has monitored reports throughout the day of a fatal plane crash in Pasco County, Florida... and has learned an up-and-coming airshow performer is among the victims. ...

Aerobatic pilot, teen die in Pasco plane crash during practice - Tampabay.com, FL
By Helen Anne Travis, Times Staff Writer DADE CITY — A nationally known aerobatic pilot and his high-school-aged passenger died while practicing maneuvers over east Pasco County orange groves Monday. The pilot, Paul Lopez, 40, performed in air shows ...

Stunt Pilot Killed In Crash - Tampa Tribune, FL
He was scheduled to fly next month in Lakeland's Sun 'n Fun Fly-In festival, the second-largest civilian air show in the nation. "My kids are going to be upset," nearby resident Brent Westberry said. The children like to lie "on the trampoline and ...

ASB MEMBER AND AIR SHOW PILOT PAUL LOPEZ DIES IN MX-2 CRASH
Paul Lopez, a rising star in the air show world, died Monday after his MX-2 crashed in Dade City, Florida. Authorities report a passenger was also killed; more details to follow. The Latest Information and Fan Reaction / Lopez's "Smoke On" Video

Local Air Show Expected To Be US's Largest - News4Jax.com
What's shaping up to be the largest air show in the United States this year will be landing in Jacksonville's Cecil Field next month.

Vulcan XH558 now expected at Leuchars and East Fortune in 2009 - Vulcan tails Lancaster © Vulcan to the Sky Trust Thanks to the Vulcan To The Sky Trust for a note about one of our heroes, the last flying Vulcan bomber, XH558. Last year, as XH558 prepared to make its first return to the 2008 Leuchars Air Show since the Cold War bomber had been grounded in 1992, we learned that the loss of some major sponsorship meant that an inability to meet the annual running cost of the aircraft might mean it would be grounded again , after only one season…

F-111 bows out at Avalon from Military Photos by Bushranger
The mainstay of the RAAF - the F-111 - is making its last appearance at the Avalon Air Show before it goes into retirement next year. For Top Gun pilot Wing Commander Terence Deeth, who has only known the Flying Cadillac in his 20 years in the RAAF, it'll be a sad moment…

What Does 2009 Hold For Air Racing's Experienced Pilots? Pt. 3 ... - Bleacher Report, CA
by Sheiban Shakeri (Columnist) In Part III of air racing’s 2008 pilot review and what to expect for 2009, I look at the top four pilots of last year’s Red Bull Air Race series. Part I of the series talked about the bottom third while Part II talked ...

Wings of Freedom Tour lands in SETX - KFDM-TV News, Texas
The Wings of Freedom Tour is bringing a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Libertator and P-51 Mustang to the Southeast Texas Regional Airport from March 9-11. The planes are scheduled to arrive at the airport at 2 pm on March 9. ...

Fly-In set for Saturday - Opelika Auburn News, AL
The event is from 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday at Auburn-Opelika Robert G. Pitts Airport in Auburn. Attractions include vintage and experimental airplanes; war birds and military vehicles; parachutists; helicopter rides; veterans’ hospitality area; ...

Wellington2905 from http://www.wellingtont2905.co.uk/
To start with I decided to take a trip to Bristol and visit the library in order to look in the local newspapers for April 1941 to see if I could find out any more about the crash. I thought I'd also go to St Andrews Park and see were the crash had happened and maybe talk to some local people to see if they had heard anything about it…

Milestones of Flight: 3/10 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

Milestones of Flight: 3/11 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

Milestones of Flight: 3/13 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

Women's History MonthMilestones of Flight -- Trout from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite
Evelyn Bobbi Trout (1906 - 2003)was born in Greenup, Illinois, on January 7, 1906 and got her name when she had her hair bobbed. At the age of twelve she saw her first airplane flying overhead and it was love at first sight…

Women's History Month Milestones of Flight - Bailey from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite
"Having learnt to fly and having acquired a British light aeroplane, able with reasonable luck to take its owner anywhere in the Empire, it seemed a natural thing to use it to join my husband in South Africa."

Aviatrix Lady Mary Bailey from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua
On March 9th 1928 - The English aviatrix Lady Mary Bailey (1890-1960) takes off from England on what becomes the first round-trip flight between London and Cape Town flown by a woman.

Uncontrolled Airspace #124 "Flying Monkeys" from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
For some odd reason the boys are back in the virtual hangar after only three days. They admire some forthcoming green aviation tech... sum up the LASP comment period... and send good wishes to a grass roots aviation legend. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #124 "Flying Monkeys"

Share Thumbs-Up Moments With Everyone from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler
If you haven’t heard, the Internet and blogs like JetWhine are killing print journalism. Slowly, community journalists, everyday people with an interest in their community, are becoming our primary source of news. If you doubt this, watch TV news and count how many times the talking heads attribute part of their stories–or the subjects themselves–to an online course…

Floatplane flying in Paradise from rand peck, a life aloft by Rand Peck
Although when I arrive here each time I'm flying a magnificent Boeing 757, in my mind I'm flying something that more resembles the NWA DC-6B above. I can hear the rumble of her three-bladed R-2800's, as her props move toward high pitch for landing. This is the golden age of American Air Transport, while those sipping cocktails below at the Royal Hawaiian and Waikiki Outrigger look skyward as this sophisticated, four engined, reciprocating monster flies past. The cockpit, after nearly ten hours across the Pacific, smells of leather, high octane aviation gasoline, oil and cigarette smoke as her crew prepares to land at John Rogers Field. The cabin, probably half full with excited tourists, watching Waikiki and Diamondhead slide past their right wing, eagerly anticipate their two weeks in paradise. After landing, they'll step out onto the tarmac, Hawaiian music playing, palms swaying and grass skirted dancers greet them with flowers as a Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 taxi's past…

Please welcome...Doug Scroggins from Mojave Skies by Alan Radecki
Mojave Skies would like to welcome our new Victorville correspondent, Doug Scroggins. Doug has worn many aviation hats over the years, including writer, photographer, video producer, aircraft preserver and aircraft scrapper…

Victorville Report: Airbus Down from Mojave Skies by Alan Radecki
Photo essay by Doug Scroggins.

Victorville Report: Boeing's 767 Project from Mojave Skies by Alan Radecki
Aircraft Recycling Corp. of Victorville worked to supply Boeing with parts of an old TWA 767 in this photo essay by ARC's Doug Scroggins.

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