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‘Schumacher of the sky’ Nadas dies in Al Khor crash - Gulf Times | World champion aerobatic pilot Tamas Nadas died in a plane crash while performing a daring stunt at Al Khor airstrip yesterday. Hungarian Nadas, popularly known as the “Schumacher of the sky”, was flying his plane upside down above the runway as part of a race with a sports car when it spun out of control and hit the ground....

Cherry Point Air Show lineup unveiled - Jacksonville Daily News | The 2014 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show "Inspiration to Innovation," will take place May 16-18 aboard MCAS Cherry Point. Friday's show will feature nighttime performances, while Saturday and Sunday's shows will feature many daytime performances. Gates will open for the Friday night show at 5 p.m. and flying will go from 5:45-10 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, gates will open at 8 a.m. and flying will go from 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m....

2014 Cape Air Festival back on after Snowbirds recommit - KFVS | CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) -The City of Cape Girardeau announced the 2014 Cape Air Festival is back on. They say the Canadian Forces Snowbirds reversed direction and told Air Festival organizers that the team would be able to perform at several U.S. shows this year, including Cape Girardeau. As a result, Bruce Loy, Cape Girardeau's airport manager, announced Friday that organizers have decided to move forward with the Air Festival on the originally scheduled dates of Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18....

Why Your Company Should Be At The Spirit Of St. Louis Air Show And STEM Expo By Mark Sutherland | This May 3-4, the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show and STEM Expo takes place in Chesterfield. The Blue Angels will be in the air, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) will be on the ground....

Out of the Gold and into the Black ….. Rodeo Arenas and NASCAR Tracks! - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Words can’t begin to sum up how much we all have progressed throughout these past six weeks of training down here in Homestead, FL (our home away from home).  Since week three the black demonstration team has filled the Homestead skies with diamond track maneuvers, diamond formations, and big way formations as well as our signature stack out maneuvers into the...

Red Arrows will return to Blackpool Airshow - Blackpool Gazette | Coun Graham Cain, Blackpool Council Cabinet Member for Tourism and Leisure, said: “We are delighted to be able to announce the initial allocation for this year's Blackpool Airshow and, of course, it is always thrilling to know that the Red Arrows will...

Mojave Experimental Fly-in | Check out the latest on those who have committed... Jeff Lange and the tubro-charged Sonerai, Tres Clements and the Boomerang,  Matt Liknaitzky and his Black Christian Eagle, and more...

Blue Angels Pilot Relives Tour Flying "Fat Albert" at St. Louis Missouri Pilots Association Meeting By Carmelo Turdo | The Midwest Aviation community eagerly awaits the arrival of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron for the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show in May.  As a prelude to the airshow, the St. Louis Chapter of the Missouri Pilots Association hosted a program Wednesday evening dedicated to the history of the Blue Angels, produced by aviation historian Joe Gurney, with special guest Rob Wunderlich, U.S. Marine pilot of the "Fat Albert" Hercules support aircraft during the 1997-98 seasons.  Gurney presented the history of the Blue Angels as they progressed from the Grumman F-6F Hellcat in 1946 to the...

WomenVenture Moves to Wednesday For EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 - AirVenture News | March 6, 2014 - The annual WomenVenture gathering, designed to encourage and inspire women in aviation and those who want to fly, will welcome hundreds of female aviators on Wednesday, July 30, during the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in convention....

Shout Out To Jerrie Mock! - WAI Connect Blog | Since WAI members are savvier than the average, you may know that it wasn't Amelia Earhart who was the first woman to fly solo around the world, as many believe, but rather Jerrie Mock who was surprised to discover in 1964 that the feat had yet to be accomplished...

Women's Airforce Service Pilot veteran visits EAA AirVenture Museum - The Oshkosh Northwestern | 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...

Museum to Pay Tribute to Tuskegee Airmen - The Oakland Tribune | ...Their heroism will be recognized at Alameda's USS Hornet Museum on March 15, when Grimes and fellow Tuskegee veteran Burl Smith of Oakland will talk about their experiences. David Cunningham, whose father was a Tuskegee Airman, also will be on hand...

Video: Reno air Races – Rare 1965 Sky Ranch Documentary - World Warbird News

Bugatti 100P re-creation to debut in museum exhibition - AOPA Pilot | The restored original graces the Experimental Aircraft Association’s EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wis.—and now, the flyable re-creation built by a devoted group of volunteers under the management of former fighter pilot Scotty Wilson of Tulsa, Okla., is approaching completion. Among the group’s participants have been two grand nephews of Louis de Monge, a Belgian engineer who was one of the original airplane’s designers...

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Record Flight * Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Museum Docent Scott Wiley describes the final record-setting flight of the National Air and Space Museum's SR-71...

Happy Birthday To The Junkers Ju 52 · Warbirds News | Eighty-two years ago today, the Junkers Ju 52 took flight for the first time.  One of the most important aircraft in European aviation history, “Auntie Ju” served with numerous air carriers as an airliner and freight hauler.  Derived from a single-engine aircraft, two additional radial engines were mounted on either wing to improve performance.  Corrugated metal skin was used to strengthen the structure against torsion and large, fixed landing gear could cope with rough fields.  The Luftwaffe employed the type as a bomber, transporter and minesweeper during World War II...

The Hammer - Air & Space Magazine | For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.

Sold-out 'Tin Goose' flights aid local 'Young Eagles' - Kendall | “Sell-out” crowds boarded a 1929 Ford “Tin Goose” passenger plane to enjoy nostalgic fly-overs of Miami-Dade County from Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport, Feb. 13-16...

Red Flag 14-2 - Photorecon.net | Nellis AFB is hosting Red Flag 14-2. The increase in military aircraft activity began March 3rd and runs through March 14th. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air, space, and cyber forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range...

Air museum to hold Big Band Dance March 29 - Sioux City Journal | SIOUX CITY | The Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation will hold a Big Band Dance March 29. Doors open 5 p.m. for swing and ballroom dance lessons with the Morningside College Dance Team. Dinner, catered by Aggies, begins at 6 p.m. with dance to follow at 7 p.m. The 1930s and 1940s dance music will be provided by the Mearl Lake Orchestra...

EAA Flight Plan Helps Fulfill Dream of Flight - EAA | In August 2006, an 11-year-old Jarin Leake of Keenesburg, Colorado, had his first airplane flight on an American Airlines MD-80 from Denver to Chicago. "That was my first exposure to aviation," he recalled. "Right then and there I knew I wanted to be a pilot."...

Space Camp launches crowd-funding effort to land NASA shuttle training aircraft - collectSPACE.com | One of four business jets converted to train NASA astronauts to land the space shuttle is on final approach to the Alabama home of Space Camp, pending the result of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's first crowd-funding campaign...

Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 Coming Together with Delta IV Booster - Spaceports | On March 4, 2014, two of the three Delta IV Heavy boosters for NASA's upcoming Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) with the Orion spacecraft arrived by barge at Port Canaveral. The core booster and the starboard booster were offloaded and...

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Fat Albert Practice Demonstration and Silent Drill Platoon - US Navy Blue Angels | Must see photo set!

Local Training Opportunities [photos] - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | The Demonstrators on the Golden Knights had the great opportunity of working with a local vendor to help enhance the training for the Annual Certification Cycle.  The benefits of jumping at various venues are perilous, as it is the first time for many of the newest team members to jump outside of a typical drop zone arena. The team...

Gallery | Point Cook Air Show 2014 - Maribyrnong Weekly | Click through the carousel above for our picture gallery. More than 33,000 people flocked to Point Cook at the weekend for the Centenary of Military Aviation Air Show. Spectators at Royal Australian Air Force Williams were treated to flying and static displays featuring aircraft that have contributed to Australia’s rich military aviation history...

Red Bull Air Race: Matthias DOL Interview - translated | On 1 March starts the fastest motor sport series in the world into a new season ( Servus TV , 13 clock). In eight chapters, 12 racers fight for the world championship title. For Germany flies Matthias DOL. In an interview with Digital TV reveals the 43-year-old, what excites him most at the Red Bull Air Race and what he expects from this year's championships....

Family Flight Fest offers aviation opportunities By Laura Smith | The EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh hosted the annual Family Flight Fest this weekend. Kids could watch demonstrations by volunteers and aviation enthusiasts from across the country. They could also build their own model airplane, and test their flying skills in a simulator...

Get ready for the return of the raptor! - Air Combat Command - ACC Headlines | The F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team will perform on base for the first time since 2010 as part of the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show on July 19 - 20...

Glendale officials hope Luke Air Force Base air show will include F-35 - Arizona Republic | Luke Air Force Base’s first F-35 Lightning II fighter jet has yet to arrive for its official party — the base’s air show on March 15 and 16. However, Air Force officials and Lockheed Martin executives are hopeful that if technical issues keep the plane in Fort Worth, Texas, where it was built, Luke’s second F-35 will fly to Arizona in time for the event...

Intrepid Museum Celebrates Women's History Month with Tour Guide Talks - City Guide Magazine | The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will celebrate Women’s History Month this March with a special edition of its regular Tour Guide Talks. Three different talks will be given on various days and times from Saturday, March 1, 2014 until Monday, March 31, 2014....

And Then There Were Two - Vintage Wings of Canada | Back in 1991, working at Ottawa’s National Capital Air Show, I welcomed a young Rockwell B-1B bomber pilot as he stepped down from the ladder of his “Bone” after the long flight from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. The Bone was call sign TIGER 11 from the 32nd Bomb Squadron of the 28th Bomb Wing. The pilot dropped his flight and helmet bags to the hot tarmac, stretched his back, pulled a ball cap from the lower leg pocket of his speed-jeans, put it on and then reached into his left shoulder pocket, pulled out a velcro-backed “Fun Meter” patch which showed the fun level pinned in the red zone and slapped it on his shoulder. Then he reached out his hand, and with a wide flashing smile said, “Now I am ready, ...name’s Captain Tibbets, Captain Paul Tibbets”...

Mig fighter jets chief designer Rostislav Belyakov dies at 94 - The Aviationist | Belyakov became the chief designer back in 1969, succeeding the firm’s founder Artyom Mikoyan. When Mikoyan died in 1969 due to the heart attack Belyakov had taken over the bureau and its running projects, including the development of MiG-25 Foxbat heavy interceptor, MiG-23 Flogger swing-wing fighter and MiG-29 Fulcrum...

Convention center lauded for its Doolittle publicity - The Northwest Florida Daily News | NEW YORK — The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International recognized the Emerald Coast Convention and Visitor’s Bureau with a Platinum Adrian Award for public relations excellence for its publicity surrounding the Doolittle Raiders’ 71st and final reunion. This year’s Adrian Awards, held last month, attracted more than 1,200 entries from around the world, with entries judged by top executives from all sectors of the industry...

Bugatti 100P re-creation to debut in museum exhibition - AOPA Pilot | The restored original graces the Experimental Aircraft Association’s EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wis.—and now, the flyable re-creation built by a devoted group of volunteers under the management of former fighter pilot Scotty Wilson of Tulsa, Okla., is approaching completion. Among the group’s participants have been two grand nephews of Louis de Monge, a Belgian engineer who was one of the original airplane’s designers...

SLIDESHOW: Mighty Eighth installs ball-turret on its B-17 - Savannah Morning News | Project volunteers at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Tuesday morning installed the ball-turret on its B-17G the City of Savannah. The installation of the small, rotating turret on the massive World War-II era bomber’s belly marked a major milestone for the museum that has been restoring the plane since 2009...

Take a ride on the "Memphis Belle" B-17 Bomber - KTAL | A famous World War II B-17 bomber is in town on display. The Liberty Foundation's infamous "Memphis Belle" is one of the 14 B-17s still flying today. It’s called a “Flying Fortress” for its bombing and machine gun capabilities. The B-17s were flown mostly in Europe during WWII...

20th Century Pterodactyl — Westland–Hill Pterodactyl spinless airplane by travelforaircraft | Pterosaurs (also known as pterodactyls) flew in the Mesozoic Era for quite a long time — from 228 million years ago to just 66 million years ago prior to their extinction. Much later, in the 20th Century, the name would be brought active flight by aeronautical designer Geoffrey Hill who worked on a tailless aircraft design, inspired by...

Happy Birthday to the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter - Warbirds News | Exactly sixty years ago today, [March 4] the very first Lockheed Starfighter took to the skies over Edwards Air Force Base with legendary test pilot, Tony LeVier at the controls. Technically, it was not the first flight for the XF-104, but a brief hop about 5′ in the air during high speed taxiing tests in late February hardly counts as first flights go. Interestingly...

Swansong of the DC-10 - Flight Image of the Day | When two engines are too few and four are too many, the logical solution must be three.  Or so both McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed concluded in the late-1960s when conceiving large airliners to compete with Boeing’s mighty 747...

World's Largest Aircraft Could Fly in Early 2015 - Mashable | The Wright Brothers flew their first flight in a 21 ft. airplane over the Outer Banks of North Carolina. About 14 of their planes could fit inside the world's newest, largest aircraft, the Airlander, a 300 ft. zeppelin-shaped, helium-filled vessel. The U.S. government originally funded the development of the voluminous aircraft, but scraped plans due to budget cuts. The aircraft — built in England — made one flight in Lakehurst, N.J., at McGuire Air Force Base in August 2012...

Aviation Photography Workshop at the CAF Dixie Wing - Warbirds News | Fresh from the success of their popular aviation photography workshop at Stallion 51 in Kissimmee, Florida, the talented staff from 3G Aviation Media return to the Commemorative Air Force’s Dixie Wing hangar in Peachtree City, near Atlanta, Georgia for another seminar over the weekend of March 28th thru 30th, 2014. 3G Aviation Media and the CAF – Dixie Wing have paired up to...

Free small plane rides for girls in Frederick - Washington Post | ...The free flights and on-the-ground exhibits honor Raymonde de Laroche. On March 8, 1910, Laroche passed the test of the Aero Club of France to become the first woman in the world to receive a pilot’s license....