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Paul Allen buys a MiG-29 fighter (Herald)  from Aerospace News by Aubrey Cohen | Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has bought a restored Soviet MiG-29 fighter jet, The (Everett) Herald reported Tuesday. Here’s a photo gallery of the jet. The two-seat MiG-29UB was built in the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991 and saw service with the Ukrainian Air Force after the U.S.S.R. dissolved in 1991. In 2005, Ukraine demilitarized [...]

Goodyear firefighter to fly F-16 at Luke Air Force Base - AZ Central.com | Oscar Navarro was chosen as the "hometown hero" of the year by the US Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 Demonstration Team. He was chosen because of his involvement with the community through the Goodyear Firefighter Association's charity organization and ...

Sun ’n Fun offers new VIP hospitality options  from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Sun ’n Fun is offering new ways to experience this year’s Fly-In & Expo, which will be held March 29-April 3 on its campus at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) in Florida. Two new VIP Hospitality programs will be made available for the first time during this year’s event that combine the best qualities of membership in an exclusive club with the amenities of a “Skybox” at premier athletic events, according to fly-in officials. Read more...

Roller Derby Gals, Navy Planes And Cupcakes - Patch.com | Good Plane Fun: If you have a high flyer or two under your roof, you may want to reserve part of a Saturday or Sunday to visit the Quonset Air Museum in North Kingstown. You'll find two dozen aircraft, including helicopters to a plane flown by the Blue ...

How to enjoy a Spring "stay-cation" – Prospectus | The Chanute Air Museum houses more than 3000 items, including more than 30 aircraft. It is located on the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul but is easy to get to and worth the trip to see what life was like for soldiers and officers especially ...

Australian Defence Force at Avalon 2011  from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | This year commemorates the Royal Australian Air Force's 90th anniversary and Avalon was an opportunity for the air force and other branches of the ADF to show off their hardware.  Unfortunately the NH90 did not fly and to the best of my knowledge the Tiger attack helicopter employed by the Army was not on location…

Airshow returns to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - Stoney Creek News | There are also plans underway to celebrate the museum's 40th anniversary with the Salute to Allied Veterans Airshow on the same weekend. It's been a day of frantic phone calls and emails to the home country for members of Hamilt. ...

CF-18 Hornet Demo Pilot Bio  by Sounds of Freedom III - 2011 Demonstration Pilot |  Capt Erick O’Connor was born Quebec City and enrolled in the Canadian Forces (CF) in August 1991 while attending Chicoutimi Flight College. In 1994, after completing his Basic Flight Training in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he was selected to fly helicopters. Capt O’Connor trained on the Kiowa before being posted to 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS) in Edmonton where he flew the Twin Huey and Griffon helicopter for 9 years, deploying on multiple domestic operations and training exercises…

RAF Waddington International Airshow bookings 'up' - BBC News | Organisers of the Waddington International Airshow have said that bookings are up for this year's event in July compared with last year. Held each year at RAF Waddington, near Lincoln, the show attracts more than 100000 people over two days. ...

Hill Air Force Base defers popular air show to 2012 - Deseret News | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recent warning that budget priorities might prompt base commanders to cancel the air show this year are now official. "Given our current budgetary environment, I don't believe it would be fiscally responsible for Hill Air Force ...

Airport manager: No Cape Girardeau air show in 2011 - Southeast Missourian | Visitors to the Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival seek refuge from the sun under the wing of an aircraft Sunday, June 20, 2010. Following a successful Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival last year, ...

Intrepid Museum's Shuttle Pitch - myfoxny.com | Susan Marenoff, the president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space museum, stopped by Good Day to talk about the museum's effort to land a retired space shuttle from NASA's fleet. The Intrepid Museum has applied to NASA for consideration to bring the ...

Fokker C.V book  from Let Let Let – Warplanes | On march 3d, 2011 the book “Fokker C.5: ontwikkeling, gebruik en ondergang” was presented at the Militaire luchtvaart museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands). After a period of six years of research and writing, a 256 page work about the use of the Fokker C.5 reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft was complete. This book deals with the intensive use of the type in Dutch service, the “Luchtvaart Afdeling” (which can be translated as army aircorps)…

RetroNews: Diamandis Rallies WAI Crowd Around Private Spaceflight  from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Aero-News.net, 19 Mar 2008: Diamandis Rallies WAI Crowd Around Private Spaceflight  - Hopes To Grow Zero-G Program Significantly by ANN Correspondent Aleta Vinas | The Women in Aviation International Conference always has top speakers in the aviation field, and the messages these speakers impart to the audience have no time limit. So, even though the WAI conference is over for this year (start making plans for Atlanta (GA) February 26 - 28 2009) the speakers' words are worth repeating…

'Smiles for miles': Maryland event takes 185 women aloft - AOPA Pilot | The Joneses had come out to the airport in 2010 to watch women pilots entered in the Air Race Classic land at Frederick, which was the terminus of the race. Victoria said she was “very excited” to take her first flight, while Nancy admitted to being “a ...

Where is My Jetcar?  from J Clark | When the clocks ticked over from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, everyone in the entire world collectively held their breath to see if all of the computers would crash. There had been a great deal written and published about the problems of the internal clocks within the computers; there were questions of whether or not they would recognize the year 2000. Back in the 1970s and 80s, code writers did not think about the turn of the coming century when they incorporated time into their computer software and hardware. Computer software companies wrote code as fast as they could to avoid the problems. As fast as they wrote new code, the world waited and speculated as to how bad the crash would be at the end of New Year’s Eve…

Helicopters Unable to Drop Water Over Japan’s Nuclear Reactor.  from Planenews Aviation News by gil | High levels of radiation prevented helicopters on Wednesday from dropping water over a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear reactor in north-eastern Japan, a news report said…

Classic 58: 2011 Race Team!  by Classic 58 | The ERAU Prescott Women's Air Race Classic team for 2011 has been selected, and we're so excited to race to victory this year! We are Kristine Anthony and Kristen McTee, both ERAU instructor pilots and full-time Master's students. ...

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World’s largest air show team to perform at Sun ‘n Fun  from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Team RV, the world’s largest air show team, will fill the sky at Sun ‘n Fun with 11 homebuilt aircraft in a display of close formation, formation aerobatics, and difficult rejoins on March 30. Read more...

Blue Angels to miss Commissioning Week in 2012 - Annapolis Capital | Joshua McKerrow — The Capital / file The Blue Angels will miss their annual flight demonstration during the Naval Academy's Commissioning Week next year because of scheduling conflicts. AP VIDEO more>> After performing for decades at Naval Academy ...

Welshpool air show to go ahead after cuts fears allayed - BBC News | Fears that a popular Mid Wales air show would be cancelled this year because of cuts in military spending have been allayed. Welshpool Air Show will go ahead with the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic display team opening the show. ...

Hill AFB air show won't be held this year – StandardNet | The Top of Utah Military Affairs Committee has always played a major role in assisting Hill AFB with their biennial two-day open house and air show. Utah and Hill AFB is slated to have another open house in September 2011. ...

Kiwi Connections at Avalon 2011  from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon: 

Aviation High School Receives $7 Million In Grants Toward New ...  by Scott Schaefer | Des Moines Aviation High School received $7 million in grant money this week, to be used toward construction of a new facility to be located next to Boeing…

Clay Lacy to speak at Aero Club - Wichita Business Journal | Wichita native Clay Lacy will be the speaker at the next Wichita Aero Club luncheon. The event will begin at noon on March 22 at the Wichita Airport Hilton. He flew his first plane when he was 12 years old and went on to log 28000 hours as a commercial ...

IMAGEM DA SEMANA: Piloto da USAF em seu F-16 com bandeira do Brasil no macacão de voo from CavokBlog - Notícias de Aviação, Tecnologia e Fotografia by Fernando Valduga | O piloto da USAF, a bordo de um F-16C Fighting Falcon, com a bandeira do Brasil no seu macacão de voo. (Foto: Wagner Damasio / Cavok)

A few prayers folks....... - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion  from http://www.aafo.com/  |  I met Mr. Summers last September when I invited him to our local fly-in here in Elko. He did not even hesitate to say yes to my invite despite the fact that we didn't have a huge budget to pay him from. All he asked for was enough money to cover his fuel expenses, which in the Skyraider, is huge! Anyhow, when the day of our fly-in arrived, here came Danny in that beautiful bird of his! After shut-down he greeted us all with a smile and an apology for being slightly late. After introducing myself, I was honored by being allowed to climb up on the wing and eventually into the cockpit of his AD-5. The others on the ground far below were so jealous! Later during the day, I had the opportunity to take a break from my duties and cruise over to the Skyraider to chat with Mr. Summers and Ms. Wyatt. I had a great conversation with him talking about his love of aviation and his experiences flying warbirds and cropdusters. We even chatted about friends we had in common. Mr. Summers was a great man who loved sharing what he had with others. I am always impressed with warbird owners who are willing to spend the money and time to share with those of us who don't have those same opportunities.  Thank you Mr. Summers! Blue Skies and Calm Winds!

The Last Sikorsky JRS-1 Makes A Move to the Udvar-Hazy Center  from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | On December 7, 1941, a US Navy squadron consisting of ten Sikorsky JRS-1 amphibious seaplanes was on station in the Hawaiian Islands. Shortly after the Japanese attack that Sunday morning, the planes were launched in an effort to locate enemy submarines and ships near Oahu. Initially not armed, the first missions included riflemen positioned on board near open windows and doors to shoot potential adversaries in case any were discovered. Later, these ten JRS-1 craft were armed with depth charges, one under each wing that could more effectively attack Japanese submarines…

Florida museum to raise rare plane from ocean floor  from Aviation eBrief  | The National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Fla., plans to raise a rare plane from beneath the sea.  -More- 

Classic warbirds stir memories - Shreveport Times | A B-17 and a P-51 also flew in, and the public can pay to tour the planes or fly on them. / Val Horvath Davidson/The Times The Collings Foundation B-24, B-17 and P-51 are on display at the Royal Air facility until the tour leaves at noon Friday. ...

B-17 missions are topic of roundtable - Post-Bulletin | Three Rochester men who flew B-17 missions for the 8th Air Force in Europe will describe their experiences Monday at the Scott Hosier World War II Roundtable meeting. Joyce Johnson, Dwayne Schacht and Ken Strom were based in England during ...

Fighting FIVE Takes the US Navy into the Jet Age  from J Clark | VF-51 Panthers aboard the USS Essex | Sixty-three years ago today, Fighter Squadron FIVE became the first Navy squadron to land jet fighters aboard an aircraft carrier.  On March 10, 1948, they took their brand new North American FJ-1 Fury jets to sea to land aboard the USS Boxer…

Flying high in Pensacola - Winnipeg Sun | We couldn't have had a better guide than Charles Ellis, a retired navy captain with a lifelong passion for aviation history, who shared some amazing personal anecdotes (make sure to ask him about the O-1 Bird Dog). Very few aircraft that were combat ...

Flying it Forward Out of the Blue!  from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Out of the Blue Aviation - Fly It Forward Free Flights | Saturday March 12th, 2011 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.  March 12, at 9:30 AM, girls and women are invited to go on a FREE short flight in one of the most beautiful locations in Washington State: Arlington.  Click HERE to register.  Various types of aircraft will be involved. Pilots will be on hands to answer all your questions about flying.  Helicopter Flights will also be available for the highly discounted fee of $30...

Celebrating International Women's Day with an Aviation Bent  from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | The news story below is a great one. But WAI member and "Women of Aviation Worldwide" instigator Mireille Goyer tells us that what the video does not mention is that the last three phases of the flight (Approach, Land, Taxi) were handled by female controllers as well.  "I even had the female police clerk make PA announcements in the terminal about the important arrival," laughs Goyer, who is…

Pilot ready to soar over Australia - Hawke's Bay Today | Late last month, along with fellow Hawke's Bay and East Coast Aero Club team members, he flew at the National Wigram Trophy championships in Christchurch and at the end of the competition he was approached and asked if he would like to go to Australia. ...

Boeing conducts broad avionics review after Wi-Fi interference  from Runway Girl by Mary Kirby | Boeing's investigation into why in-flight connectivity interfered with Honeywell's Phase 3 Display Units (DU) during electro magnetic interference (EPI) testing is not merely limited to those particular Honeywell parts.  The US airframer, which has offered the Phase 3 DUs on aircraft since July 2009, is currently mired in the laborious process of determining whether any other airplane part numbers have the same issue, RWG can reveal.  There are three categories of systems being studied - critical, essential and nonessential required. Boeing is reviewing these systems to ensure they are not susceptible to Wi-Fi or cellular devices…

Rescue wing Airmen launch entire fleet during hurricane exercise  from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil (Staff Sgt. Annamarie Wyant)  Airmen from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing here launched the wing's entire fleet of aircraft March 6 during their drill training weekend.  The mission simulated a mass hurricane evacuation prior to the start of Florida's storm season, as well as the 920th RQW's busy deployment schedules. Three HC-130P/N King fixed-wing aircraft were launched at approximately 9 a.m. Immediately following their takeoff, Airmen launched six HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters. more...

Corporates at Avalon 2011  from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | There was some 20 bizjets at Avalon over the course of the biennial exposition and the photos below are but a few of those present…

The Northrop XP-79 “Flying Ram”, circa 1945 (via)  from x planes: 

Flypast: Kissing the concrete - Skyport Heathrow | Stern words, and plenty of them, have come winging my way from the plane-mad brigade for stating that DC-3 N1350M (featured in Fly Past last week) had served with BEA. Unfortunately, I misread the construction number 14897/26342 as 14987/26432. ...

Acrosport : Post a Picture of your Acro Sport!!!  from The Biplane Forum | This one was built by Mike Finney and now owned by Steve Smith near me in Naperville, Illinois. This is a view you do not see and i got some cowling info from it…

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Cirrus Acquired By Chinese Company  from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Cirrus Industries Inc., parent company of Cirrus Aircraft, has been sold to China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co. (CAIGA) of Zhuhai, China, but it appears the company will continue to build parts in Grand Forks, N.D., and assemble airplanes in Duluth, Minn. It has long been rumored that a Chinese company would acquire Cirrus and the final announcement was made Monday morning. CAIGA is a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC), the state-owned aviation company of China that makes everything from military jets to airliners…

Plane wreck believed to be Earhart - THE discovery of an aircraft wreck at the depth of 70 metres north-west of Buka in Bougainville may hold some answers to the 74-year mystery of the disappearance of world-famous aviatrix – Amelia Earhart.  There are strong indications that the aircraft is a Lockheed Model 10 Electra which took off from Lae on July 2nd 1937 destined for Howland Island. The crash site is in direct alignment with Earhart’s flight path out of Lae, past north of Buka Island in a straight northeast direction to Howland.  Information emerging from Buka say that certain interested parties were in the process of engaging the services of a professional diver with appropriate diving gear from overseas to help in the recovery process...

Thunderbirds fly the Blue Angels « Recollection Of Memorabilia  by modelworks | The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds hosted three members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels team at the Thunderbird Hangar at Nellis Air Force Base, Feb 23 as part of the two demonstration units' traditional exchange program. Blue Angel No. ...

Hudson River crash: Pilot was scheduled to fly plane to Florida air show - Poughkeepsie Journal | KINGSTON — The 38-year-old Rhinebeck Podiatrist who died Saturday after the vintage British military jet he was piloting crashed in the icy Hudson River was scheduled to fly the plane to an air show in Florida. Michael Faraldi of Germantown had taken ...

Libya requests its Mirage F1s back  from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | Libya has formally approached Malta to return two Mirage F1 fighters that defected there recently.  The Libyan government has formally requested the return of two Mirage F1 fighter jets flown to Malta by defecting pilots on Monday.  The aircraft are under armed guard at the airport. The pilots have requested political asylum and their case is being considered. The pilots claimed they flew to Malta after being ordered to bomb fellow Libyans in Benghazi…

Aviation past and future on show at Avalon – Ninemsn | Fighter jets - including the F22 Raptor (pic) will feature at the Avalon Airshow in Victoria. The centenary of Australia's first passenger flight and the 90th anniversary of the RAAF are combining with the future of aviation at this week's Avalon ...

Change in Leadership for Wide Bay Australia International Airshow Board - Wide Bay Australia Air Show | At the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow meeting on Friday the Board was informed that Mr Peter Tuffield had tendered his resignation as Chairman and Director due to serious illness.  Peter, who recently retired from the National Australia bank, where he was Regional Business Banking Manager, has been Chairman of the Airshow for the past six years and has been instrumental in making the Airshow into a professionally run organisation that contributes substantially to the region’s economy every two years. Since he took over leadership in 2005, he has been the face of the Airshow and has worked tirelessly to build this event to the International standard that it is today. Peter has also been actively involved in the community and is recognised for giving freely of his time to assist the Airshow and many other community-based initiatives. ...

Look Ma! No Propellers!  by Joe Clark | F-84 Thunderjet - Today, the jet age truly turns 65 years old. It was born when the prototype XP-84 Thunderjet flew for the first time at Muroc Army Airfield on this day in 1946. Current jets are far more powerful than the first jet, they fly faster, farther, and higher; and Muroc is no longer under control of the Army, it is now Edwards Air Force Base…

Museum of Aviation focused on long-term goals, short-term improvements - Macon Telegraph | But there is one aircraft not currently at the museum that he would love to lay his hands on: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. That's not just the wish of one man longing for a B-17 bomber to put in the backyard. A dream for the museum since it opened in ...

Aloft on a streetcar named courage - Buffalo News | His B-17,with a nine-member crew, was 26000 feet above Cologne, Germany, and had just dropped bombs on a sprawling railroad yard. “We got hit with a lot of flak. We lost one of the engines, and its propeller was windmilling,” Kane recalled. ...

World War II, from the ground up - Daily Commercial | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24J Liberator and North American TP-51C Mustang have drawn more than 1000 visitors at Leesburg International Airport since Friday. Today is the last day to see the planes, from 9 am to noon. ...
 

Tour of Duty: Eskildsen, Chodacki saw World War II from B-29 Superfortress - Baxter Bulletin | The B-29 bomber that Eskildsen and Chodacki flew during World War II was recreated and is in the New England Air Museum. / Bulletin Photo by Kevin Pieper Niel Eskildsen, 86, (left) and Henry Chodacki, 91, met during World War II while serving ...

WWII vet shares bomber stories | INFORUM | Fargo, ND -  www.inforum.com | Air museum lecture series takes flight Bazil “Bud” Murray’s experience aboard bomber aircraft in World War II got off to a bumpy start…

Auckland/ Ardmore visit - Post 1: X-Flight and the Warbirds Dakota  from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | After a bit of an absence, I made another visit to Auckland last weekend. This was an opportunity to catch up with some people I hadn't seen for a while [more details on my other blog, Rodney's WTAOG Stuff - Andrew, Anita and Tahi will be making an appearance shortly :-)].  My first visit was to see Rob and Helena at Rob's Patisserie in the suburb of Ponsonby. Well worth a visit if you're looking for a bite to eat, or a fancy cake for a special occasion!...

It's About The Tailwind!  from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Robbi and Doug DeVries invited my husband and myself to the first release part of Robbi's wine---Tailwind Cellars, and Doug's Grumman Goose project. What a night it was.  I happened to be in Reno at the Women in Aviation conference and flew home a day early for the party of the year. I lured my friend Kathy McCullough to join us with promise of music by Billy Joel. Yes, she shopped, changed her airline ticket, skipped town a day early, and flew to Seattle with me. So what's in a "L" anyway? ;)…

Re-igniting the Spark of Flight, by Christian Lienemann  from Aviation News by christian lienemann | The General Aviation community consists of individuals from all walks of life who all share the dream of flying. The article below was written by an Auto Repair shop owner in Metraire, Lousiana, Christian Lienemann, who finally made his lifelong dream of wanting to become a pilot a reality. It was a life changing event for him and he now owns his own airplane and enjoys sharing his passion for aviation with customers and other people he meet. Thank you Christian for sharing this experience with all of us!...

The history of aviation and the impossible  from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | In a blog post at The Atlantic, Alan Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Aircraft and now the force behind the new Kestrel Aircraft Co., talks about a recent visit he made to the National Air and Space Museum. And while Klapmeier says that anyone who loves aviation would thoroughly enjoy the museum, both on the Mall and the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, he adds that “everyone needs to see this place. Why? Because the history of aviation is linked to the development of our society. Behind the airplanes, spacecraft and associated artifacts is the story of people striving to do the impossible.” Read the full post here.

Gorgeous photo of this shiny Airbus A330 making some weather...  from You like airplanes, too?

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An Insider's Look at the Centennial of Naval Aviation - Patch | Here is what she had to share, including what it meant to learn about the first female naval aviator: Coronado Patch: Can you explain a little more about ...

Celebrate 100 years of Naval Aviation aboard Flagship Cruises & Events Parade ... - 1888 Press Release | The Parade of Flight begins with a jump by the elite Navy Leap Frogs, followed by the skies over the San Diego bay being filled with more than 200 historic ...

Aerobatic pilots turn up the heat in Al Ain - Sport 360 | Gravity-defying manoeuvres and top-class aerobatics were the order of the day as the Al Ain Aerobatic Show's centrepiece competition - the inaugural FAI ...

Hannes Arch Gives World Premier To 'Rhythm & Air' Routine In Al Ain - Abu Dhabi City Guide | ... Arch is a global ambassador for show organiser, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) and a former winner of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. ...

Breathtaking spectacle in air - Khaleej Times
AL AIN — Spectators came in droves to watch the ninth Al Ain Aerobatic Show after it opened on Friday amidst clear blue skies. The ground adjacent to the ...

Eurofighter Typhoon, Super Hornet strike fighter and more at Aero India 2011 - MyBangalore | India's largest-ever air show, Aero India 2011, will take place from 9th to 13th February 2011. ...

Steel birds test Bangalore skies ahead of Aero Show - Daily News & Analysis
With just over four days to go for Asia's biggest air show, preparations at the Air Force Station, Yelahanka, ...

F-22 for Avalon - Australian Aviation | Among the attractions to be seen at next month's Australian International Airshow at Avalon will be the US Air Force's stealthy F-22 Raptor air superiority ...
  
Wings of Freedom Tour - Tampabay.com | See a national touring flying tribute to the crews of bombers and fighter aircrafts including the WWII Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, ...

World War II bomber goes on display in Columbia - WMBF | The South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation is offering tours of a B-25C bomber on Saturday at Hamilton-Owens Field in Columbia. ...

Flying high at 90: Ernest Thorp of Wapella recalls days as World War II bomber ... - Herald & Review | Thorp was a B-17 bomber pilot and POW in Germany during the war. Herald & Review/Kelly J. Huff An invitation to celebrate Ernest N. Thorp's 90th birthday: ...

Palm Springs Air Museum took flight from dream to destination - The Desert Sun | Nine original board of directors of the Palm Springs Air Museum: Harold N. “Pete” Madison, Charles H. Mayer, Bill Byrne, Morton Gubin, MD, John Lake, DDS, ...

Air Museum's Aviation Science Center encourages learning - The Desert Sun
Ken Miles Aviation Science Center at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Douglas is a retired teacher. / Crystal Chatham The Desert Sun Bob Douglas uses a model ...

Rare jet fighter are being restored on driveway - Chronicle Live | ... He has a fighter jet there, and not just any jet, but the remains of a Vampire T11 Jet which he is restoring. It was up for grabs at an auction at RAF Millom Aviation and Military Museum in Cumbria and Neil, who is a display pilot in his spare time, jumped at the chance to own a piece of aviation history. ...

How The Vomit Comet Works – Convair C-131 from AIRBOYD.TV

Since 1986 aviation history flies high at the Arkansas Air Museum (Includes first-hand account) from www.digitaljournal.com | Fayetteville - Celebrating 25 years of operation, the Arkansas Air Museum is the state’s first and largest air museum and features a one-of-a-kind collection of historic and modern aircraft, including Walmart founder Sam Walton’s first plane purchased in 1954. ...

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park - RVbasics News | This week, the National Park Getaway series of travel articles takes you to Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The park tells the stories of three amazing people—the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and the famous innovators—and first pilots—Wilbur and Orville Wright. ...

Dr. Hans Multhopp's Raven and Its Legacy - from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Dr. Hans Multhopp and a model of his Ta 183 fighter.  By 1942 both Messerschmitt and Heinkel had flown jet fighter prototypes but other great fighter aircraft manufacturer of Germany at the time, Focke-Wulf, was lagging behind in jet aircraft development with the technical director of the company, Kurt Tank, still working on preliminary ideas for a jet fighter aircraft. Tank's first designs resembled the Heinkel He 162 with a single, dorsal-mounted engine. As Tank refined the design further, the engine moved into the  ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 25 from War and Game | Entering service in 1969 was the MiG-25, a large interceptor capable of reaching Mach 2.8 at altitude. This aircraft was originally designed to counter the U.S. XB-70 and SR-71 and was produced in several reconnaissance variants. The MiG-25 (NATO code name “Foxbat”) achieved notoriety in 1975 when Lieutenant Viktor Belenko flew an example to Japan, […]

Today in Aviation History – February 5 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club 

Navy pilot gets 1st chance to fly F-35B - NavyTimes.com | ... first F-35 flights solo — a break with the traditional approach. This will be the model for training aviators in the fleet, according to the announcement.

Latest F-35 News: here

X-47B First Flight from Ares by Guy Norris | Northrop Grumman’s X-47B unmanned combat air system (UCAS-D) demonstrator successfully completed its long-delayed first flight at Edwards AFB, Calif., late today. The stealthy, single-engine UCAS took off early in the afternoon Pacific time and landed some 29 mins later, having achieved an altitude of  ...

Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords' Husband, Decides to Fly Space Shuttle Endeavour - ABC News | Kelly was faced with a difficult choice -- stay with her, or resume training for the flight, possibly his last chance ever to fly in space. ...

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El Paso UFO? from US Army Golden Knights by Joe Martin | Or USAPT pyro?

Airshow anniversary - Werribee, Hoppers Crossing Star | NEXT Year's Avalon Airshow will recognise the 90th anniversary of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), with an increase in visiting military aircraft ...

Pilots speak to Rotary - Parkersburg News | Sweet and members of the US Air Force A-10 Demonstration team spoke briefly with Rotary members and showed video of the team from an air show last year in ...

CEO says Cessna Aircraft staying in Kansas - Kansas City Star | AP WICHITA | Amid fears of Kansas losing some aviation companies, the head of Cessna Aircraft says the company is staying put. "Cessna's not going anywhere ...

World's Fastest Form of Motor Sport from Pacific Wings Magazine | Article by John Kokshoorn. The US National Air Race championship is in its 47th year and "Australia" is about to have its first competitor (a Kiwi) in the Jet class. John Kokshoorn—better known in air racing circles as Johnny Rocket—has traded his 250 mph Formula One aircraft Outrageous for a jet in which he will compete with up to seven other jets at speeds of more than 500 mph, just 50 ft above the ground, in pylon races in Nevada…

October 2010 from Pacific Wings Magazine by Rob | Oskosh…By Gosh—a DC-3 Odyssey - When Geoff and Jessica Cooper took a rare break from their Fly DC-3 New Zealand duties, what did they do? They went to Oshkosh to look at DC-3s, of course! The husband and wife guardians of New Zealand Warbirds' beloved Dakota each give their own perspectives on the unique celebration at the 2010 Oshkosh air-show honouring the mighty DC-3. | Monochrome Memories—Whenuapai & Ohakea 1953–1958 - A keen aviation enthusiast and photographer, Dick Endt has been taking aviation photos since he was a boy. This month, he graciously shares some of his wonderful—never-before-published—images, taken at Ohakea and Whenuapai air bases in the 1950s. | Letters from War—O' Dark-Thirty - Early morning starts are bad enough for the rest of us when the most dangerous part of our day is the possibility of missing the train to work. The crews of the scores of helicopters flying supply missions in Afghanistan have other things to worry about after their early wake-up calls each day, as Don Harward relates…

B-17 brings WWII history to life – WACH | The Experimental Aircraft Association is offering the public the opportunity to travel back in time on a B-17. WEST COLUMBIA (WACH) -- A B-17 was parked on ...

Around the chamber - Gonzales Inquirer | We learned last week that the Texas Air Museum at Stinson Airfield in San Antonio has an exhibit on a Gonzales County native RA Juengermann, ...

NBC29World War II Planes on Display in the Valley - NBC 29 News | National News from AP Virginia News from AP Dozens of Collings supporters are racking up frequent flyer miles in the restored B-24 Liberator and B-17 Flying ...

A must read for aviation enthusiasts – SunLive | It follows the development of our military aviation and warbirds. It concludes with a look into the infamous past of New Zealand's agricultural industry. ...

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Gulfstream G650 Travels 5,000 Nautical Miles Nonstop At Mach 0.90 from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | Just prior to the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Meeting and Convention in Atlanta, Gulfstream test pilots and engineers made a compelling demonstration of the Gulfstream G650's exceptional high-speed cruise capabilities, flying a 5,000-nautical-mile (9,260 km) closed circuit at Mach 0.90 over the Atlantic Ocean in 9 hours and 45 minutes.

Aviation Leadership: Change the World from Jetwhine by Robert Mark | by Rob Mark — The fact that I grew up during the radical insanity of the 60's is not going to come as any great surprise to some readers. It might actually explain quite a bit about my personality to a few in fact. But before any snap decisions, readers need to know that when most kids on college campuses were carrying signs and burning bits of everything, I was serving on active duty with the U.S. Air Force. I mention this only as a point of reference though, not because we differed in philosophies…