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Commemorative Air Force Announces Hall of Fame Inductees for 2014 - PR Web | For nearly 60 years, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) has worked to preserve and honor American military aviation history. The organization’s success can only be attributed to its dedicated volunteer-members, called Colonels, who have been the foundation and the driving force to keep the organization’s mission and aircraft going strong since 1957....

Sally Ride Inducted Into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame - PR Web | [March 7], the Women in Aviation, International (WAI) inducted four new women into its International Pioneer Hall of Fame, with Sally Ride—America's first woman in space—joining Nancy Currie, Beryl Markham, and Sheila Scott as honorees. These women are ...

Celebrating Women in Aviation - abc40 | NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WGGB) — Northampton Airport celebrates women in aviation with free scenic flights from volunteer licenses pilots to girls and women. Pilots from the area came out to celebrate the cause of introducing girls to being a pilot. The goal of the event was to get at least 100 girls on a flight. Pilots say they are always looking for any excuse to fly and introduce a girl to the joys of aviation...

Pilots try for a chance to fly in Thunder Over Louisville airshow - WHAS 11.com | LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Local pilots took to the skies Saturday hoping to get the chance to fly in this year's Thunder Over Louisville. Pilots practiced in vintage planes which will be used in the upcoming air show....

3 News is a Proud Sponsor of this Year's South Texas Air Show in Kingsville - KIII TV3 | KINGSVILLE (Kiii News) -They're considered the most electrifying and precise flyers around, of course we are talking about the pilots of the Blue Angels. In just three weeks from now, they'll be returning to the skies in Kingsville. It's all part of the South Texas Air show at Naval Air Station-Kingsville. They're back and better than ever!..

Aviation Day - Apron 6 | Event number 2 of this month was the Aviation day. An event held at several airfields in Belgium including Ostend, Wevelgem-Kortrijk, Deurne-Antwerpen and Brussels airport. It gives the opportunity to get to know your local airfield...

Wings of Freedom: Legendary combat pilots' endless mission - Pensacola News Journal | The volunteers who occasionally bring World War II planes on tour through Pensacola and other cities say the historic bombers and fighters may still be flying a century or more, long after hostilities ended in 1945. "There really isn't a life limit on the airplanes. You could literally fly these for another 100 years if you keep them maintained right," said Ryan Keough, flight coordinator for the Collings Foundation, a nonprofit based in Stow, Mass...

Harry Thetford: B-17 pilot lived to tell tale of ferocious aerial firefight - Greensboro News & Record | First Lt. John Koehne, a B-17 pilot, probably had a hunch the mission of April 2, 1944, would be different. In his previous combat missions, he had generally flown as co-pilot. On this mission, a less experienced replacement pilot would co-pilot Ole Mose, and Koehne would pilot...

1944 B-17 joy ride links pair - Enterprise-Record | RED BLUFF >> Records show the U.S. Army Air Force's B-17 Flying Fortress "My Baby" was shot down over occupied France Sept. 5, 1944, during a bombing run on a German chemical plant. However history is made up of more than just records. And while "My Baby" crashed in Piermont, France that day, the story of the aircraft continues through the memories of the 91st Bomb Group and those who know them. Two of those people met up in Red Bluff recently...

'Those who deny the past have no future' - People's Daily Online | The Chennault Aviation and Military Museum, not far from the airport of Monroe, Louisiana, is a plain building at the first sight. However, it used to be the site of the Selman Field Army-Air Force Navigation School, which was the largest such facility in the US, offering the nation's only complete navigation course during the WWII and over 15,000 navigators graduated from here...

Dick Rutan Recalls Historic Round-the-World Flight - NASA |Nearly 27 years ago, the one-of-a-kind, purpose-built Voyager aircraft embarked on a non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world, setting a world record that remains unchallenged today. Dick Rutan, the pilot of this historic flight that departed from and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California desert, recently recounted the Voyager's almost 25,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe to employees at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center...

Even Lindbergh Got Lost - Air & Space | In the year following his historic transatlantic flight to Paris, Charles Lindbergh, flying again in the Spirit of St. Louis, lost his way somewhere between Havana, Cuba, and the southwest coast of Florida. It happened in the middle of the night, and it alarmed Lindbergh enough that years later he recalled the incident in his...

RAF Museum Youth Apprentice Awarded Prize for Outstanding Service - Warbirds News | Warbirds News believes in giving notice, when it’s due, to the achievements of today’s youth in their endeavors with aviation history. It’s important to show that their hard work is noticed in a positive light, especially as this might encourage other young people to become involved as well. With that in mind, we are happy to report that Bethany Colburn, an apprentice at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, recently received recognition for her outstanding conservation work on the Dornier Do-17 project. The Rotary Club of Wolverhampton named Bethany their “Apprentice of the Year” and also presented her with the George Sidebotham Memorial Award at their annual awards evening on February 28th...

Is The Air Force's Secret Shuttle The Key To Russia-Free ISS Trips? -  Jalopnik | Ever since the US retired the Shuttle fleet, we've been bumming rides to the ISS on Russia's old reliable spacecraft, the Soyuz. Technically, this arrangement works well, but tensions with the Russians over the Ukraine, gay rights, and other issues are making the US realize that maybe it's time for a new ride...

'Airplane' Commercial Spoof Lauds Wisconsin's Summer - Aero-News Network | Robert Hays And Former Milwaukee Buck Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Reprise Iconic Roles | Many of us spend some time in Wisconsin during the summer, but the state's tourism agency Travel Wisconsin would like even more people to know about what the state has to offer ... at least in the summer time...

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Indianapolis Air Show calls it quits - Indianapolis Star | Duncan said he thinks attendance was falling because “it got to be kind of ‘same-old, same-old.’” “People had been to the air show once or twice, and they said, ‘Well, we’ve seen that.’” “It’s unfortunate, I’m disappointed, but sometimes something may rest for a while and then get re-energized, and that may happen here.”...

The Temora Aviation Museum Is Making Final Preparations For Warbirds Downunder 2013 This Saturday 2nd November. · Warbirds News | More than 18 months of planning is complete and the staff and volunteers of the Temora Aviation Museum are now in the final stages of preparation for Warbirds Downunder 2013, which will take place this Saturday 2nd November. Warbirds Downunder will feature warbird aircraft from as far away as South East Victoria and South Australia to Toowoomba and Caboolture in Queensland....

Plans are under way for 2014! - RAF Waddington International Air Show's Blog | ...The 2014 Air Show will focus on the following themes: Commemoration of the onset of the First World War, 65th Anniversary of NATO, 70th Anniversary of D Day and the 50th Display Season of the Red Arrows.  The spectacular 7-hour flying display will feature the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the RAF Falcons freefall parachute team and many more military and civilian aircraft from the UK and around the world...

Red Bull Air Race training camp-on track - YouTube | On board with Peter Besenyei

Boeing VP Jean Chamberlin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace - Aviation.ca News | ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 30, 2013 – Jean Chamberlin, Boeing [NYSE: BA] Defense, Space & Security (BDS) vice president of Program Management, has been honored by Women in Aerospace for her “outstanding career and lifelong commitment to furthering the advancement of women’s opportunities in aerospace...

RI Aviation Hall of Fame to honor seven - The Providence Journal | This was the group that took over from the American Volunteer Group, or Flying Tigers. On this tour he had five confirmed kills and three probables. He returned to the U.S., and with another ace helped form the Air Commandos. He returned to combat with ...

Re-hang of the Lindbergh Monocoupe at Lambert International Airport from Missouri History Museum | Charles Lindbergh’s plane, which had previously hung in Terminal 1 at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport since 1979, has returned to its place of welcoming passengers to the St. Louis airport. Lindbergh’s 1934 Model D–127 Monocoupe, an iconic...

Heritage Flight Museum moving from Bellingham to Skagit - bellinghamherald.com | The Heritage Flight Museum has announced it will be moving out of Bellingham International Airport to a new home at Skagit Regional Airport. Since the museum moved to Bellingham in 2001, its "Warbird Weekend" events have been popular with aviation and military history buffs. Vintage aircraft from...

Patuxent River Naval Air Museum loses formal status - So Md News | The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum is no longer a formal Navy museum, its association told the St. Mary's County commissioners in a letter last week. The Navy will no longer be paying the monthly utilities for the museum, but the terminated ...

Soon-to-be DC-7 Grille walkaround by travelforaircraft | Home of the Jack Bolt Memorial*, New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport will soon have a new and unusual restaurant which will be contained within a Douglas DC-7 — the soon-to-be DC-7 Grille! N381AA was built in 1957 and now resides, wheels on the grass, in the southeastern corner of the airport property. Carlos Gomez and the Perna family are the...

Connie V - Apron 6 | This weekend it is exactly one year ago we went to Lahr to visit the Super Constellation crew. So I think it’s matching to post some more shots from our photoflight we did last summer...

Photos: Final flight for 81 A-10s headed to boneyard - Air Combat Command

MIG 21 crash near Stead Airport - MyNews4 | A MIG 21 plane has crashed near the Reno-Stead Airport.  The crash happened near the East end of the airport.  The pilot of the airplane is being transported to the hospital with minor back injuries.

William Foard was reunited with a P-51 restored in the markings of the very one he flew during WWII

Photos: Guinness Rosie the Riveter Record | Yankee Air Museum's attempt to gather a world record number of Rosie the Riveters at the Willow Run Bomber Plant drew 143 lovely ladies, including four real WWII Rosies! Although we didn't gather quite enough to set a record, everyone had a great time, and we raised awareness for the campaign to save a small part of the Bomber Plant as our NEW home at www.savethebomberplant.org

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Thunder Over Michigan air show dazzles audience over Ypsilanti - The Detroit News | The Thunder Over Michigan air show rumbled the heavens over Willow Run Airport during its final day Sunday. Preliminary estimates indicate up to 40,000 people attended the two-day event that kicked off Saturday - serving up excitement and American aviation history, which was not always airborne. Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson knows intimately the inside of the P-51 - the World War II era single-pilot fighter plane flown by both the British Royal and U.S. air forces - which was on display at the Tuskegee Airmen area. He flew one as a member of the first and only all-black aviation 332nd Fighter Group during World War II called the Tuskegee Airmen....

Historic and unique airplanes part of Thunder Over Michigan air show - AnnArbor.com | The sight of a small plane diving and twirling to the ground is unnerving to the uninformed but an exciting stunt for visitors to Thunder Over Michigan, the two-day air show at Willow Run Airport that runs Saturday and Sunday. Watching the WWII aircraft rumble by overhead felt like a visit to the past. "I love the WWII part of the air show," said Bob Galysh, who came from Cleveland. "There's nothing like the music of a round engine." "We're lifers here," said his wife Nanette Galysh. They're members of the Yankee Air Museum, which is sponsoring the weekend event....

Brothers rebuild aerobatics biplane to enjoy 'real flying' - Grand Forks Herald | VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Jarrod and Paul Lindemann have sewn, painted and tuned up a tie to their family’s past that they hope will take them into an extreme flying future. The brothers, owners of North Valley Aircraft, spent last winter rebuilding a Pitts Special S-2B stunt flying plane from the nose of the propeller cap to the back of the rudder. Pitts Specials are small, tough, biplanes that are a favorite of airshow pilots for their ability to climb, dip, dart, corkscrew and otherwise dance around the sky....

Olympic Air Show goes old school on new date to wow crowd - Bellingham Herald | Thousands of people turned out Saturday to watch vintage aircraft take flight at the 15th annual Olympic Air Show. “I love aviation,” said Jimmy Walker, who watched the planes and helicopters with 5-year-old daughter Janae while sitting in lawnchairs near the Olympia Regional Airport tarmac. He said he was especially interested in the show’s vintage planes. “There’s just something amazing about how reliable they were,” Walker said....

Canadian Forces Snowbirds want Rupertites to be in awe - Prince Rupert Northern View | You will want to look to sky this Wednesday afternoon as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds put on their acrobatic flying skills on display. The show, which gets underway at four p.m. over the harbour on Aug. 14, will include music, play-by-play that can be heard at Rotary Waterfront Park or on CFNR at 98.1 and a variety of different formations. The best place to watch the show is either at Waterfront Park, Mariner's Park or the Rupert Square parking lot....

Warbirds on Parade - Star Community Newspapers | Lancaster, TX -- There are numerous war movies, history books and stories handed down from servicemen and -women about how warplanes played a significant role in our fight for freedom over the years. Now is your opportunity to walk among some of those planes and experience up close the beauty and silent strength that earned them our respect and gratitude. "Warbirds on Parade" will be held at the Lancaster Airport, Beltline Road at Ferris Road, Between I-45 and I-35 on Saturday, Aug.31, 2013, from 10 am to 4 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 a carload or $5 per person, so bring the family, a friend or a whole carload. This year’s event is bigger and better than ever before!...

Chennault airshow set for September - Sacramento Bee | LAKE CHARLES, La. -- The Chennault International Airshow is planned for Sept. 28-29 in Lake Charles, spotlighting aerobatic stunts, precision maneuvers and dozens of rarely seen aircraft. The Beauregard Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/16xOhMM ) attractions will include the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team; a Canadian CF-18 fighter jet demonstration; stunt flights by a MiG-17 Cold War-era Soviet jet; "Fifi," believed to be the only Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber still flying; a North American P-51 fighter of World War II vintage and a traveling exhibit on the Red Tail Squadron and the Tuskegee Airmen....

Blackpool Air Show: Thousands line promenade for 2013 show - BBC News | Thousands of people are in Blackpool for the resort's annual air show which has been extended to two days. Spectators have lined the promenade to watch the 2013 show which mark the return of the RAF's aerobatic team the Red Arrows. A Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster bomber opened the show with a Battle of Britain memorial flight. The world's last flying Vulcan will also take to the skies as well as the Breitling Wing Walkers....

Famed Aerobatic Team to Put on Show in Xinjiang - CRIENGLISH.com | A technician of Breitling Jet Team, a famous European aerobatic team, checks the aircraft at the Yinchuan Hedong International Airport in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 11, 2013. The team will give performances at Karamay City in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, during its tour in China...

Photos: RIAT 2013 - Let Let Let - Warplanes | RIAT 2013 took place on 20-21 July 2013.

OMAS air show features the realistic and the surreal in radio-controlled aircraft - OregonLive.com | There are two schools of thought in the world of radio controlled aircraft modeling. You can go for reality -- constructing a plane that’s a near perfect scale replica of the actual aircraft it’s modeled after. And you can perform the same kinds of maneuvers the real thing would be able to do. Or you can embrace the improbable -- hovering planes at a 90-degree angle, sending a “lawnmower” soaring into the air, vertically bouncing an inverted helicopter to clip the glass below it. It’s the latter that drew father and son Matt and Nathan Mallory of Tigard to Forest Grove on Saturday, for the two-day Oregon Miniature Aircraft Squadron’s 32nd annual air show....

B-17 makes at stop at the Purdue University Airport - WISH | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - What normally would just be the sound of a plane engine starting, was the sound of an opportunity of a lifetime to flyers at the Purdue University Airport Saturday. "I've read about them since I was a kid," Mark Thom said. "I've seen this airplane fly over forever. I decided I just had to do it." One of the six working B-17 Aluminum Overcasts made a stop at the airport. It was not only on display, but some people even got to fly in it....

B-25 makes pit stop in Plainview - Plainview Daily Herald | If you were sitting at home Friday evening and thought you heard the low rumble of a World War II-era bomber flying over Plainview, you were not mistaken. Gerald Dean Holt and her husband Dan were outside their house when they heard the plane coming in to land at the Plainview/Hale County Airport. “We were painting the house and heard it come over. So we drove to the airport,” said Gerald Dean Holt. “You don’t often get a chance to see something like this.”...

CAF High Sky Wing Prepares for National Organization’s Departure From Midland, TX - Warbirds News | The relocation of the Commemorative Air Force’s national headquarters under the auspisises of the CAF’s “Airbase” reorganization plan that was announced earlier this year, recently narrowed down to eight locations, has the High Sky Wing of Midland, Texas preparing for the departure of the national organization. While undoubtably the loss of the national headquarters to a higher-profile metropolitan area stings the pride of Midlanders a bit, the move represents a tremendous opportunity for the the wing, who will be taking over the facilities that were under the control of the CAF and will be in charge of what will become “Airbase West Texas.”...

Groundbreaking held for new Fargo Air Museum wing - Charlotte Observer | FARGO, N.D. A new hangar at the Fargo Air Museum honors two area aviation pioneers who died in crashes. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Saturday for the Beck-Odegaard wing. It is named for Gerry Beck and Bob Odegaard, the two men who helped establish the museum. Beck died at an air show is Oshkosh, Wis., in 2007, and Odegaard was killed in 2012 while practicing for an air show in Valley City...

New Book Traces "The Lindbergh Line" Coast-to-Coast Air Travel Route | The Aero Experience would like to promote a new book that traces the route of "The Lindbergh Line," the primary cross-country flight path used by Transcontinental Air Transport, later TWA, a staple of Midwest Aviation for many decades. We will let the author, Mr. Robert Kirk, describe the book in his own words...

Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Shares the Dream of Flight With Young Eagles, Scouts | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum hosted two group tours today, with approximately 35 Young Eagles earning their logbooks, and a group of Boy Scouts touring the museum. The two groups were treated to appearances by the MO CAF B-25, “Show Me,” and a T-6 Texan based at St. Louis Downtown Airport where the museum is located...

Video: The Slick View Of OSH13 - Must See!  - AirPigz | We didn't get a video from 'Slick' for OSH12 with his involvement in the U.S. Navy, but this year he was able to get behind the camera at OSH13 and capture more awesome avgeek beauty from the world's greatest aviation event!

Best AirVenture ever? - General Aviation News | Was 2013 the best EAA AirVenture Oshkosh ever? In one way obvious to every attendee, this year’s event was superlative: Wisconsin’s weather was nearly perfect. Each day of the event was blessed with mild temperatures, mostly clear skies, and a comforting breeze. EAA officials surely thanked their lucky stars, having endured last year’s blistering heat and prior years of rain or airplane-tossing wind. I hasten to add this year’s event was also one of the safest, for which all are thankful....

Dr. Seeley at AirVenture 2013 by Dean Sigler | Imagine being able to walk one morning from your front door to a nearby small airport, step into an electrically-powered small airplane, point to a destination on an illuminated map on the airplane’s display screen, and be whisked to your destination so quietly that your passage overhead will not wake your neighbors. This is part of the dream that Dr. Brien Seeley, founder and President of the CAFE Foundation, presented to an appreciable and appreciative crowd on Friday, August 2 at the Rotax Pavilion during the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2013.

British astronaut Michael Foale retires to build electric aircraft - Wired.co.uk | Michael Foale, Britain's most experienced space traveller, has retired from Nasa with plans to help develop an electric aircraft. The dual UK-US citizen, astrophysicist and general all-round badasstronaut has spent more than a year in total in orbit ...

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La Ferté Alais 2013 - Highlights - EADStv | On the outskirts of Paris, nestled away in the woods, EADS took the time to discover La Ferté Alais! What a great Air Show with fantastic people and amazing aircraft...take a look for yourself.

Academy of Model Aeronautics: The 2013 National Electric Fly-In (NEFI) will be held June 21-23 at the IAC. Make plans to attend this fun-fly, which benefits several charities and organizations! More details and information will be announced soon, but in the meantime, enjoy photos from last year's event!

Friends, volunteers hope to recover B-25 from Alaska sandbar from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | Patrick Mihalek and Todd Trainor, long-time friends, and a handful of volunteers will be in Alaska next month to prepare a 70-year-old North American B-25J Mitchell for rescue. The B-25, nicknamed “Sandbar Mitchell” sits on a sandbar in the Tanana River outside of Fairbanks.

“Charles A. Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, just... from Planeshots | ...before departure, at Rockwell Field, 10 May 1927. At left is...

They called her "aviatrix". Amelia Earhart was a legend. 81 years after the historic flight ...  - Gazeta.pl | Exactly 81 years ago, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo Atlantic. A few years later as a star and an icon of aviation grabbed a flight around the world. Missing two-thirds of the way, after taking off from Lae, New Guinea.

Doolittle Raiders Part 2 - WJHG - WJHG-TV | "The aircraft's a B-25 Mitchell bomber. It's the same type of aircraft the Doolittle Raiders flew off the carrier Hornet when they bombed Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor" said Pilot Tim Black. Commanders decided the B-25 Mitchell was the best ...

Remembering WWII: Special event allows Veterans to fly again - Emery County Progress | In 1954 SSgt Paul Sersland was traveling from Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to make repairs on a B-25 bomber. Over the Grand Canyon the plane began to experience problems and Sersland talked with the Lord and told him he didn't need to fly anymore...

Sky is filled with history - Western Advocate | They will retrace the route taken by Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson when they became the first Europeans to cross the Mountains in 1813. From O'Connell, 56 aircraft will head to Bathurst for a barbecue hosted by the Bathurst Aero Club. The first...

March 26, 2013 Who's Up First? from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | ...Considered the foremost authority on aviation history, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft has been published annually in England since November 1909. We turn to Jane’s for detailed descriptions of every type, make and model airplane produced. The publication has historically supported the Wright brothers as having been the first to fly. But now in their 100-year anniversary issue to be... Other Posts

Strategic Air & Space Museum To Participate In Blue Star Museums - WOWT | Strategic Air & Space Museum announced Monday the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to...

Carolina CAP pilot honored for 50 years of safe flying from Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | NORTH CAROLINA -- The skies hold a special place in Ray Davis’ heart. At one point or another, the Hendersonville resident has flown through the skies, monitored the skies and monitored space. Over the last 50 years, Davis has not only flown, but has had more than 50 years of safe flight operations. For that...

Observatory moving to Air & Space Museum in Ashland - Omaha World-Herald | An observatory that has been housed at Fontenelle Forest is moving to the Strategic Air & Space Museum. The telescopes and astronomy programs at the Millard Observatory can now be found at the museum in Ashland. The observatory will continue to be...

Buzz Aldrin Book Signing - KPBS | Whenever possible, the San Diego Air & Space Museum loves to give our visitors the opportunity to meet inspirational and historical figures. It's hard to think of a more important event in living history than the first landing on the moon in 1969. The ...

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Group hopes to help veterans at air show - WZVN-TV | The Florida International Air Show is almost here. Planes are in place and performers are gearing up for this weekend's show in Punta Gorda. One group is using the event as a stage to reach out to veterans. It's hard to miss. Shining in the sun, a B-25...

Florida International Air Show 2013 - DAV Flight Team | Photos

Para-Commandos to freefall at FL International Air Show - Wink News | PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - The skies are buzzing above Charlotte County. From high-speed military aircraft to skydivers, the Florida International Air Show is in its 33rd year. We spent the day with the U.S. Special Operations Command Parachute Team, also ...

AirFest air show canceled; fly-in, air races still on - ReporterNews.com | “Abilene has always had a strong partnership with Dyess Air Force Base. In 2007, when the Air Force scaled back their air show to every other year, we stepped in and said we could offer it at the Abilene Regional Airport,” said Steve Krazer, AirFest ...

Spring Break for Pilots- 39th Annual Sun n Fun is On from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | As Officials at SUN ‘n FUN 2013 have been saying all along, "The event will take off as scheduled with official, certified FAA Air Traffic Controllers insuring safe and expeditious handling of all arrivals and departures at Lakeland Linder Airport, April 8-15. Contrary to popular belief, the issues in Washington, D.C. will not deter the aviation community from coming together to share the thrills and excitement of the 39th Annual SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-In & Expo. We thank our sponsors, exhibitors, vendors, volunteers, benefactors, airshow performers and guests for their continuing support," according to a memo from Sun n Fun CEO, John R. "Lites" Leenhouts...

Patrols throughout Europe invited to the 60th anniversary of the PAF - AeroBuzz.fr | The Patrouille de France 60 years! On Sunday 26 May 2013, at the airbase in Salon de Provence, where it is parked, a major air free (100 000 spectators expected), will stage all patrols and European...

VIDEO: Launch of Bournemouth Air Festival 2013 - Daily Echo | The 2013 Bournemouth Air Festival was launched last night with the promise of another land, sea and air spectacular this summer. Topping the bill, the Red Arrows and Typhoon Eurofighter will be performing three displays each....

The Ladies First Project | Welcome! The Ladies First Project! has been created by aerobatic champion Patty Wagstaff and US Air Force pilot Jill Long. The Ladies First Project was established to provide a platform for women in aviation around the world to share their stories. Whether flying airliners, turning wrenches, directing traffic, managing FBOs, or pumping Avgas, women in aviation have a unique story to tell....

Red Arrows set to fly in once again - in-cumbria | Red Arrows set to fly in once again. By Gillian Ellison. Last updated at 12:11, Thursday, 21 March 2013. THE spectacular Red Arrows – one of the world's premier aerobatic teams – are heading back to thrill the crowds at this year's Whitehaven Festival ...

Tuskegee Airman shares experiences at MCC - Shelby Township Source Newspapers | At war's end, Ross was assigned to Tuskegee Army Air Base as a twin-engine instructor for North American B-25 Mitchell bombers. When Tuskegee closed, he was transferred to Lockbourne Air Force Base in Ohio and honorably discharged after four years of...

Merritt Island pilot will fly again on Honor Flight - Florida Today | He also was an instructor on the B-25, which he calls, “my favorite aircraft.” “It was a great life,” Shook said of his career as a pilot. “We enjoyed it, really.” Shook said his love of flying started when, living in Ohio, as a child he would go to an ...

Carlsbad WAC continues to support female veterans from Air Force Link Top Stories | In the 1940s, women's roles in the military were much different than they are today. Women's auxiliary units had just begun to integrate with the service branches and people were concerned about how females serving would affect the nation. One southern congressman even addressed the House saying, "Who will then do the cooking, the washing, the mending, the humble homely tasks to which every woman has devoted herself; who will nurture the children?"

Lindbergh’s Trainer: The Brunner-Winkle Bird - Air & Space | The plane that taught Anne Morrow Lindbergh to fly is flying again.

Fargo Air Museum Raffles Mustang for Hangar Addition - Valley News Live | It's not what they would have wanted, says Fargo Air Museum Executive Director Fran Brummund. She adds, it wasn't their intention that their names would be on the building. But their friends and fans say building an aircraft hangar addition at the ...

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SUN ’n FUN begins gearing up for this year’s show from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The SUN ‘n FUN Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers are deep in the planning stages for the 39th Annual SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-In & Expo being held April 9-14.  As an anticipated 200,000 visitors convene throughout the week on 2,200 acres dedicated to the event, the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport will become the busiest airport in the world. The SUN ‘n FUN Fly-In is Florida’s largest convention and independent studies have recently identified it as having a $64 million economic impact on the area...

Buckeye Air Fair slated for Feb. 23 from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Buckeye Air Fair 2013 is slated for Feb. 23 at Buckeye Municipal Airport (BXK) in Arizona. Admission and parking is free for the show, which runs from 9 am to 3 pm.  More than 70 vendors will be at the show. There also will be vintage and modern aircraft on display, a classic car and motorcycle show, flying displays and rides for kids of all ages. There will also be science and technology exhibits with educational presentations and career discussions by colleges, universities and aviation professionals....

Granville woman to be inducted into aviation hall of fame - Glens Falls Post-Star | Silitch, 77, will be traveling to the 24th annual conference of Women In Aviation, International and will be inducted into the WAI's International Pioneer Hall of Fame. Her husband, Nicholas, will travel with her to the conference, scheduled for March...

A B-29 flies again after donors back 'Fifi' - AOPA Pilot | The last flying B-29 Superfortress is back in the air, thanks to a six-figure response to an urgent plea for donations from the Commemorative Air Force in November, after Fifi blew an engine in October. The CAF announced Jan. 24 that Fifi is back in...

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Area residents invited to French sister city celebration - Crestview News Bulletin | CRESTVIEW — Europe's last operational B-17 "Flying Fortress" will roar over the beaches of Noirmoutier, Crestview's sister city, as the island community pays homage to a similar bomber's crew members who crash-landed there in July 1943. A contingent...

F-35 durability testing overview from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | This brief produced by Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office highlights the trial and error process of the jet's durability testing. A lot of the problems identified are particular to the US Marine Corps' F-35B, which is perhaps not unexpected. But the other versions have some issues too...

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Even Lindbergh Got Lost - Air & Space | In the 1920’s, only one man held the key to aerial navigation. | In the year following his historic transatlantic flight to Paris, Charles Lindbergh, flying again in the Spirit of St. Louis, lost his way somewhere between Havana, Cuba, and the southwest coast of Florida. It happened in the middle of the night, and it alarmed Lindbergh enough that years later he recalled the incident in his memoir...

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Tulsa miniature plane enthusiast take over sky - kjrh.com | Dozens of Warbird enthusiasts flocked to Tulsa for the 3rd annual Warbirds Over Tulsa Fly-in. Spectators are invited to attend for free. There are more than 50 radio controlled planes showing. The event continues Sunday 9 a.m. to 12noon at Grant Wilson ...

Aviation Heritage Fair to fly Sept. 15 at Kent State Airport - Hudson Hub-Times | ... be on display, including a B-25 "Georgie's Gal" and the Heritage Air Museum's C-123 Provider. The Flying Black Squirrels, KSU's chapter of Women in Aviation, will be selling T-shirts and memorabilia as a fundraiser.

Oldest fly-in Breakfast Club in U.S. to land in Greenville from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 30th, The South Carolina Breakfast Club will be landing at the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU), the same weekend as the Southeast Aviation Expo...
 
Media Storm - Vintage Wings of Canada | The NORAD Media Storm Command Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba has issued a warning to all operators and/or lovers of vintage aircraft, that due to the rarely seen convergence of four massive media fronts, a Level Five Media Storm has been predicted for areas in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. In colloquial terms, the Level Five Storm is often called the Perfect Press Storm. This spectacularly compressed low pressure area is a cyclogenesis of TV, radio, print and web fronts, resulting in a massive 500 mile diameter counter-clockwise rotation of cloud-based web presence seamed with stunning TV coverage. The killer storm, just days before our September 15-16 Gatineau-Ottawa en vol Air Show, will no doubt drive heavy localized interest and result in precipitous attendance at never before seen levels... 

Could Red Bull return? - Windsor Star | Cost is the major hurdle for Windsor sponsoring the return of the Red Bull air races to the waterfront in 2014, one of several international events Mayor Eddie Francis continues to pursue. The mayor pulled another of one of his unannounced overnight...

Area man recalls riding bike to scene of plane crash - The Newark Advocate | Related Links. 70 years later, declassified documents shed new light on B-25 crash. Longtime Newark resident Clyde Lane, now 83, was junior-high age when the B-25 crash occurred. Despite the rations and deprivations of wartime life in 1942 -- a time ...

70 years later, new light shed on B-25 crash - The Newark Advocate | The residential building on the corner of Wyoming Street and Hudson Avenue was directly struck by the banking wing of a World War II-era B-25C bomber on Sept. 8, 1942. The crash, the area's worst aviation disaster, killed eight people and left more ...

Unbroken — book review of a lost B-24 and an outstanding person’s survival from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Unbroken — book review of a lost B-24 and an outstanding person’s survival Laura Hillenbrand has written the biography of an extraordinary man — one who nearly broke the 4 minute mile barrier in track— and survivor of a 2000 mile ordeal adrift on a raft with two other B-24 Liberator crewman as a prelude to [...]

Sticks for Hire - Air & Space |"Uh oh. Why is this piston rod left over?" Meet the pilots who are gutsy enough to fly freshly restored airplanes.

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1912: Aviator crashes twice at Hubbard Heights and walks away - Stamford Advocate | 1912: Aviator crashes twice at Hubbard Heights and walks away. Published 7:43 p.m., Sunday, September 9, 2012. View: Larger | Hide. Sept. 16, 1987: Laura Gold, 7, pushes her brother Steven, 2, on a tire swing in a new playground built by Rotary Club ...

Air museum gets funding boost from local board - The Republic | The planned Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum Complex expansion has received a $150,000 boost from the local aviation board. Museum leaders plan to add display space, a conference area and a library as part of a 3,100-square-foot, $350,000 expansion that ...

Drones As Art from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Drones are a fact of life and since art imitates life it's perhaps no surprise that the capabilities that make them so useful can also use them to create something like what Ars Electronica Futurelab did at the Cloud in the Net festival in Linz, Austria, earlier this month. The company used 49 Hummingbird quadrotor UAVs, each carrying a variety of lights....

Teen's first solo flights a 'rare achievement' - The Bay of Plenty Times | Not content with celebrating his 16th birthday on Saturday by flying solo in the Tauranga Aero Club's student workhorse, the Cessna 152, he also went solo in the club's four-seaters - the Cessna 172 and Piper Warrior. Chief flying instructor Aidan ...

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GK Canopy Team brings home medals and a World Record from US Army Golden Knights by wfallin | Over the last two weeks the Golden Knights Canopy Piloting team were in the midst of an epic battle.  The team started out at the final FLCPA meet of the season on June 9th.  The last meet brought the top canopy pilots in the country to the competition.  Everyone was trying to get in one last meet before US Nationals. The final meet also turned out to be one of the longest days of the FLCPA’s history.  The competitors started out with a 0700 safety briefing followed by the mandatory practice round.  A light tail wind helped the jumpers through speed course and led to some blistering fast times.  After the two rounds...

'Breakout year' for Denton Airshow - Denton Record Chronicle | It was a “big breakout year” for the Denton Airshow, said Amanda Addington, marketing director for the annual event that drew more than 10000 people to ...

Flying Musicians Announces AirVenture Schedule from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Be sure to pack your guitar for AirVenture this year as the Flying Musicians Association returns with the FMA AirVenture MusicJams. Everyone with a passion for music is invited to this nightly jam session, which runs 7-10 p.m. Monday, July 23, through Friday, July 27, at Honda Forums Pavilion No. 9...

Are You Flying into EAA AirVenture 2012? from inflightusa.com | Yes, it may seem like this topic is a bit early. Perhaps the July issue would be a bit closer to show date.  But if that is your first thought, it is also your first mistake – you need to start planning now!  Flying into EAA AirVenture is exciting, fun, scary, memorable and a topic of hangar flying that will gain strength as the years wear on.  The show itself is mind bending.  With more than 800 vendors in attendance, you have the opportunity to spend the national debt before you are half way through the displays.  Yep, EAA AirVenture is a fun, educational, event … with a possible dark side....

CF18 Demonstration Team To Perform at the Mont-Laurier Air Show ... - Ottawa Citizen | Press release from the RCAF: MONTREAL, June 20, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - The 2012 CF18 Demonstration Team will be performing at the Mont-Laurier Air Show ...

Planes will serve veterans in the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | Aircraft restored the periods I and II World Wars will be apesentados for the first time, the air show in the city of Jukovski (outside Moscow), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force, said Anatoli Serdiukov, Minister of Defense of RF...

March Field Airfest 2012 from inflightusa.com | With temperatures in the high 80s under clear, blue skies, the skies in Riverside, Calif. were filled with the sweet sounds of fighter jets and vintage planes May 19 and 20. More than half a million people viewed nearly 20 acts and dozens of static displays on the airfield at March ARB....

New territory brings excitement to pilots lives - Purdue Exponent | Keck said the 55 teams participating in the Air Race Classic are racing ... Keck and Steele have been preparing for the Air Race Classic by flying together...

WWII pilot flies again: Bud Jones takes a ride in a B-17 - The Rolla Daily News | In 1943 Maries County native Bud Jones could be found in the pilot's seat of a P-40 Warhawk flying over the Mediterranean coast of Italy. On Monday, he ...

Two Airmen missing from Vietnam War identified from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of two servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Lt. Col. Charles M. Walling of Phoenix was buried June 15 at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. There will be a group burial honoring Walling and fellow crew member, Maj. Aado Kommendant of Lakewood, N.J., at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 8 -- the 46th anniversary of the crash that took their lives....

Featured flyers restore WWII 'living history' to Fargo - Jamestown Sun | Toby McPherson pulls a B-25 named Betty's Dream into the hanger at the Fargo Air Museum Monday night after the Texas Flying Legends Museum pilots flew ...

Reeve Lindbergh to speak at museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Reeve Lindbergh, youngest daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, will speak at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire Saturday July 21, at 11 a.m....

Tante Ju — Jünkers Ju 52 - travelforaircraft | Odd how the nation which developed the first modern fighter design leading into of WW II, the Me 163 rocket fighter and the FW 190 as well as Me 262 just did not develop large cargo carrying aircraft in any number. The design began at the end of the Ford Trimotor's manufacturing with the Douglas C-47 its contemporary — it was in production from 1931 through 1945 when rockets and jet aircraft were becoming the norm...

Flying Lions from Latest Vlog | Watch the Flying Lions perform their waterskiing act not so long ago up in...

Missionary Pilot Steve Saint Suffers Paralyzing Injury from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Steve Saint, who founded I-Tec (the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center) in Dunnellon, Florida, was seriously injured during the morning of June 12 while conducting an aerodynamic test on a small aluminum airfoil mounted on a rolling test stand, according to I-Tec. The accident left Saint with...

Watch It Live: Gamera Human-Powered Helicopter Attempts World Record Flight Today - POPSCI | Already demolishing the standing world record more than twice over, a massive human-powered quadrotor designed by students at the University of Maryland is poised to make aviation history today. The Gamera II helicopter is shooting for the Sikorsky Prize, one of aviation’s last great challenges, by hovering for one full minute under human power only. Their first attempt Wednesday morning lasted 35 seconds!...

Deaf, blind student gets to fly plane - St. Augustine Record | It doesn't matter what disability you have, you can still fly in a plane.” Katie, who lives with her family in Atlantic Beach, was born blind as a result of a genetic ...

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SPOTTED: The Blue Angels Doing What They Do Best - Business Insider | As a precursor to the upcoming festivities throughout New York, our friend Ari Solow was at Andrews Air Force Base's open house where the Blue Angels came out to put on a show. Seeing precision flying like this in person has to be incredible.

Hundreds of thousands expected to attend air show - ABC 4 | LAYTON (ABC 4 News) - The "Warriors over the Wasatch" air show returns to Hill Air Force Base this weekend and they're gearing up for a big crowd. That's because the last time this event was held in 2009, about 400000 people showed up.

Memorial Day parades and ceremonies in Belleville and metro-east - Belleville News Democrat |An air show will feature historic aircraft, including a B-25 J Mitchell Bomber. There will also be a military medal and helmet display and a display of military vehicles. Complimentary shuttle service will be provided by Monroe-Randolph Transit from...

Vintage Aircraft Tell Tales of Past and Present - Patch.com | Geico Skytypers make special appearance in advance of weekend's big air show at Jones Beach. By Joe Dowd Marguerite Peugeot of Oceanside gets a front-row seat in the cockpit of a vintage WWII T-6 Texan, now a high-tech member of the Geico Skytypers...

Shell Knob Fly-In is Saturday - Cassville Democrat | Turkey Mountain Airport in Shell Knob will be hosting the first fly-in of the season on Saturday, May 26. In addition to area pilots and planes arriving at the gathering, a Super Cub group from Gaston's Resort will be using Turkey Mountain Airport as a...

All set for air tattoo - This Is Wiltshire | THE dramatic flypast of RAF Hawks that flew over Windsor Castle at the weekend as part of the Armed Forces' tribute to the Queen will provide the centrepiece of the Royal International Air Tattoo's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

May 24, 1930: Crowd wowed by stunt flying as Red Deer airport officially opens - Edmonton Journal | Thousands turned out to watch an air circus hosted by the Red Deer Aero Club at the official opening of the Red Deer airport. Addressing the crowd, Mayor Harold J. Snell pointed out the historic location of the field, 5.5 km south of town on the main...

A day out for Dallas aviation enthusiasts - Dallas Morning News | Take to the Skies AirFest features two days of air shows, static displays, rides and more. Spanky Gallaway, commentator for the Red Bull Air Races, will be the announcer. See solo aerobatics, formation flights, precision teams and the ARC Aerobatic Air...

Andrews air show switches to biennial event from Air Force Times - News | MORNINGSIDE, Md. — Officials at Joint Base Andrews near Washington say budget cuts are forcing them turn a popular air show into a biennial event instead of an annual one.

Cazaux, in secret Alphajets - The Dispatch Basin (translated) | Twelve aircraft, nine pilots and thirty-seven mechanics for the Patrouille de France (PAF). The device, installed this Thursday, May 17, on the track of the Cazaux Air Base 120, is supported by a Tra On the sidelines of the gathering of seaplanes...

B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" flies over Seattle - Seattle Post Intelligencer | The WWII-era B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber is one of only a dozen remaining airworthy aircraft. From May 24 through 27, the Experimental Aircraft Association and the Museum of Flight will offer ground tours and "mission" flights over the Seattle area...

Remembering a fallen hero - Willcox Range News | He was a radio operator with a 10-man crew flying the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses. These four-engine bombers were considered at that time to be the most advanced bomber in the world. Powered by four 1200 HP turbo-charged cyclone radial piston engines...

A-10 jet engine nacelle damaged by missile in Iraq on display at Air Zoo - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com | ... Selden | Mlive.com Master Sgt. Ron McKellar closes the back of the Penske truck that transported an engine nacelle off an A-10 Thunderbolt that wasmoved from the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base to the Kalamazoo Air Museum on Wednesday, May 23.

Free admission to Grissom Air Museum on memorial Day - Kokomo Perspective | Grissom Air Museum is offering free admission to the public on Monday, May 28th in observance of Memorial Day. Families are encouraged to spend the day at the museum, and to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at the picnic pavilion.

Spitfire Classic from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | About five years ago I stood on the 10th tee box at a golf club which occupies land along the Nation River directly adjacent but lower than the former No. 10 EFTS at Pendleton. It was a lovely, hot afternoon in the dead of summer. I waggled my driver over the ball and looked up at the fairway – a par 5 dogleg right, into the afternoon sun. I froze in mid-waggle. Rounding that dogleg about 400 yards down and 200 feet up was a Spitfire, sun dazzling off its banked wings, looking like it might have in East Anglia in the hot summer of...

Wingsuit Skydiver Lands Without Chute (On Purpose) from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Forty-two year-old Gary Connery Wednesday may have become the first person to land a wingsuit without first deploying a parachute, on purpose and without injury, with the aid of about 18,000 cardboard boxes. Connery performed the stunt near his hometown of Henley, England, and flew two test jumps from a helicopter hovering at 2,400 feet about one mile from his landing site. He landed those under canopy,...

Chip Yates announces plan to trace historic Lindbergh transatlantic flight in electric aircraft - autogreen | Chip Yates retired his electric motorcycle last year after setting records at the Mohave Mile and Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and notching several (slower than Lightning) FIM World Land Speed achievements on the Bonneville Salt Flats. If you thought he was done with his pursuit of battery-powered feats, however, you have underestimated just how crazy this Californian is. Case in point? He's just announced a plan to trace the path Charles Lindbergh took during his historic flight from New York to Paris in an electric airplane....

Four years later from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by Steve | ...Another year has come and gone as I sit here writing about my annual birthday flight. It's hard to believe that I've already been flying at Stewart for four years; it's still as great as it was the first time I set foot there in 2008. Today there was a new twist to the annual fun - my friend Mike went flying in the other Cub at the same time....

"King Tut" UCAP #287 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

The Inquisitive Astronaut - airspacemag.com | Don Pettit turns his curiosity—and his camera—loose on board the International Space Station.

Blue Origin Charon VTOL test vehicle on display at Museum of Flight from RLV and Space Transport News | ...KENT, Washington. – A new exhibit opens today at The Museum of Flight in Seattle that features Blue Origin's first flying vehicle, Charon. Built as an early development project in 2005, Blue Origin has loaned the vertical take-off, vertical-landing jet-powered vehicle to the Museum. Charon will be on display in the new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on the west side of the Museum of Flight campus, accompanied by the NASA Full-Fuselage Space Shuttle Trainer and the TMA-14 Soyuz space capsule...

Would You Ride This Pencil-Shaped Capsule To Space? from POPSCI | The amateur rocketeers at Copenhagen Suborbitals are getting closer and closer to orbit, testing a new bi-liquid fuel combination for a hand-built, donation-funded, non-profit rocket. The group tested its alcohol- and liquid oxygen-powered TM65 rocket over the weekend, the largest amateur bi-liquid rocket in the world....

100-year starship projects from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Tonight, High Power Rocketry points us to a proposed fantasy-scale project that would Build the Enterprise.   The term fantasy-scale, borrowed from NAR contest rocketry, implies a flying model of a fictional or proposed, but unflown, subject.  The term fantasy further implies because the scope of the project will...

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Blue Angel makes special stop in the Tri-State to be commencement speaker - kypost.com | Dozens of people, including family and friends, gathered to watch Lt. John Hiltz of the Blue Angels land his F/A-18 jet at Lunken Airport Monday afternoon. The Blue Angels team consists of only 16 pilots who perform very complicated and dangerous air...

Blue Angel's air show acrobatics - Washington Post | By Sarah Kaufman At an airshow, no one can hear you scream. Because we are all quite deaf. Some of the vendors at Saturday's Joint Service Open House and Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base were selling earplugs alongside their T-shirts and model ...

Maryland air show just as thrilling for crew - Washington Times | By Meredith Somers A crowd watches as a member of the Army Golden Knights lands after parachuting out of a plane at the Joint Service Open House & Air Show on Sunday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. This year marked the 55th anniversary of the...

Joint Service Open House - 2012 from Military Photos by Jon91498 | Here are some pictures I took at yesterday's Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. Due to budget cuts the air show will now be every other year. As a...

Andrews clips wings on annual air show - Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online | After the weekend's Joint Service Open House and Air Show, the base will move from offering the show annually to every other year — in an effort to save money, base officials said. Eric Sharman, a base spokesman, said that although the cost of the air ...

Massive air show coming to Utah's Hill Air Force Base - Salt Lake Tribune | By Kristen Moulton Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected at Hill Air Force Base next weekend for Warriors Over the Wasatch, a massive air show and open house. It's the first time since 2009 that the northern Utah base has hosted the show,...

Soaring to give Douglas County tourism a lift - Northern Nevada Business Weekly | After more than a decade-long absence of the event, Minden-Tahoe Airport will host a national soaring competition this summer — and airport officials says they are aggressively pursuing more soaring competitions as a means to boost tourism to the Carson Valley. The 2012 U.S. Open Class Nationals will be held over a 12-day span beginning June 10. The event features 15 glider pilots and an international field taking advantage of the world-renowned winds rolling off the Sierra Nevada. More than 100 pilots, crew, race officials and fans are...

Navy Leap Frogs Parachute Into Rancho Bernardo High - Kbps | By Beth Ford Roth The San Diego-based Navy Leap Frogs parachute team made a special appearance this weekend at Rancho Bernardo High School. The Leap Frogs high-flying performance helped kick off RB High's inaugural 12-hour relay marathon Sunday to ...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Countdown to RAF Cosford Airshow from Flightline UK | With less than four weeks to go the Cosford Air Show (Sunday, June 17) is counting down the days to the biggest aviation event in the West Midlands. The flying display promises to be one of the most exciting yet with everything from fast jets to biplanes and from helicopter to gliders. The Great War Bird Team will be honouring the hundredth anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps and a line up of training aircraft in the air...

A new year and a new version of “Rise Above” - Hemlock Films | The award-winning “Rise Above” traveling exhibit has educated and thrilled kids and adults nationwide for the better part of a year.  Now the exhibit will get a slight, but necessary, update....

Spitfires and parade mark Queen's Diamond Jubilee - CNN | By the CNN Wire Staff London (CNN) -- Thousands of members of the British Armed Forces took part in a parade and flypast at Windsor Castle Saturday as part of celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne. World War II era Spitfires ...

Historic landing in Paris – 21 May 1927 from Roger-Wilco by steve | On 21 May 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St Louis near Paris completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours....

Earhart footage found 80 years on - U.TV | Rare footage has been uncovered of Amelia Earhart making one of the most famous flights in aviation history exactly 80 years ago. We're sorry. This video is unavailable from your location. She was the most famous woman in the world when she took off...

Museum wins grant from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) has received funding from the Wolf Aviation Fund for the conservation treatment of an Eric Sloane oil portrait of award winning balloonist Constance Wolf...

MAAG's Blog: May MAAG Event at Rucker Field from Antique Airfield News | ...The May meeting of the MAAG was hosted by Steve and Roxane Turner at Rucker Field today with lots of help from their friends.  After a little overnight rain, the skies were clear and cooled by a northerly wind.  Approximately 40 people attended the event.  Seven airplanes flew in. Chicken with many side dishes and deserts were enjoyed by all....

Spitfire adventure story at library - Derry Journal | Jonny told the 'Journal': “It will provide an excellent opportunity for anyone who has been interested in the story to hear first hand how I found the crash site and organised the recovery of the iconic WW2 fighter as part of the three-part 'Dig WW2' ...

Video: Skydivers intercept gliders midair. The low cost fighter jet solution for air forces in financial crisis? from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following video shows what (theoretically) could be achieved by future paratroopers equipped with proper wingsuits. Five wingsuit skydivers joined up with and maintained formation with two gliders over Austria, in the last Red Bull sponsored adventure....

T-6 supports Weapons Instructor Course at Nellis from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Hawker Beechcraft T-6 Texas II primary trainers from the 33rd Flying Training Squadron are providing adversary support to the US Air Force's elite Weapons School--joining a long list of other types that have done so previously. The USAF Weapons School is where the service takes its best instructor pilots and molds them into weapons and tactics officers in their respective airframes. Those few aviators who...

Manager quitting Wright-Patterson Aero Club, which faces closure - Dayton Daily News | By John Nolan, Staff Writer 5:47 PM Monday, May 21, 2012 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The manager of the Wright-Patterson Aero Club is quitting and its members are vowing to move with him to Greene County's airport, now that Wright-Patterson Air ...

Head in the clouds? Learn to Fly Day shows what it's about - The Town Talk | PINEVILLE -- The next time Lester Bullitt goes on vacation with his family, he won't be a passenger in a plane. The Hineston resident wants a private-pilot's license and decided to enroll in Flightline Air Service of Pineville with his son, 13-year-old Phillip Bullitt. Phillip, Lester Bullitt and his wife, Melissa Bullitt, gained knowledge of several types of aircraft at the International Learn to Fly Day hosted by Flightline Air Service at the Pineville Municipal Airport on Saturday....

At Arlington Municipal Airport, soaring like Young Eagles - Fort Worth Star Telegram | This is the gift that members of the Dalworth chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association gave about three dozen area youths Saturday during a Young Eagles Rally at Arlington Municipal Airport. Kids ages 8 to 17 could take a free introductory ...

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Air show organizers release attendance figures - New Bern Sun Journal | Cherry Point has released attendance figures for the 2012 air show estimating that about 165000 people attended the weekend event. “We are extremely proud to call the citizens of Eastern North Carolina our neighbors and friends, and we're delighted ...

Aviator Sean D. Tucker Talks Time-Keeping - Los Angeles Confidential | by roberta naas It's hard to imagine entrusting more than a select few with your life. It's one thing to put faith in a commercial pilot, but it's a whole other situation to take to the skies with aerobatic aviation legend Sean D. Tucker—a master of ...

Annual Fly In and Air Show now scheduled for October - Reno Gazette Journal | SILVER SPRINGS — TheSilver Springs Area Chamber of Commerce usually holds its annual Fly In and Air Show in May, but this year, the chamber is focusing on holding Founders Day this montg–and will move the Fly In to October. Ron Bell, chamber president ...

May Fly Air Show returns to its roots with two-day extravaganza - SCNow | Who knows, but the Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce is serving up those acts and many more at this year's May Fly Air Show, and organizers promise it will be a weekend full of good, family fun. “I think this year we've got the best air show we've ...

Navy bringing three ships to air festival - Bournemouth Echo | BOURNEMOUTH Air Festival fans can enjoy three Royal Navy ships moored off the seafront this year. It is the first time the Navy has brought three vessels to the festival, which organisers say promises another “unmissable” line-up for its fifth year....

Apachecrew from Apron 6 | I’m currently editing the pictures I took back in 2007 during the (unfortunately) last Helidays at Bierset. There were quite some interesting heli’s participating in the event. The mighty Mi-26 was rising above all...

Doolittle Raider Ed Saylor — No. 15 “TNT” would have been pushed over the side except for him from Travel for Aircraft | It is an open secret that NCOs are why the military works, as well as usually not getting the credit they deserve. One such NCO was on the Doolittle raid. His name is Ed Saylor and he managed to remove and repair his aircraft’s Number 2 engine while at sea, on the flight deck with crude equipment — and it had not been done outside a heavy maintenance facility before. The aircraft flew because of Ed Saylor’s outstanding work, otherwise it would have been committed to the Pacific Ocean so that the USS Hornet would be able to launch her aircraft for patrolling and air defense....

Monument to Lindbergh landing put in storage - The Telegram | This grassy spot on the shore of Bay Bulls Big Pond used to be the home of a battered and obscure monument to pioneer aviator Charles Lindburgh. Access to the area is now blocked and the refurbished monument will be relocated.

High-Flying Salute - Military Times | Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class Thomas Kinn, assigned to the US Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, salutes as he steps off the ramp of a C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to the 139th Airlift Wing of Missouri Air ...

The Unbelievable Twin Beaver Story - A Most Impressive Piece Of Work! from AirPigz by Martt | Some of you reading this will already know how unbelievable the story of the Twin Beaver is... and how so few of us knew anything about this incredible project before the amazing story surfaced over at VintageWings.ca early in April of this year. Wow, how could such a fascinating aircraft be so unknown to...

Boeing Gives US a Tour of Aviation History with New iPad App - PadGadget | This app showcases nine decades of aviation history and aviation with gorgeous high definition imagery and an interactive timeline. The app begins with the founding of the company in 1916 by Bill Boeing, and culminates in the first delivery of the 787 ...

Ivy Tech to offer several summer camps - Kokomo Perspective | ROCKETRY Participants will tour the Grissom Air Museum and learn about the history of aviation. They will participate in a rocketry information/safety orientation session, and then will assemble and launch a model rocket!

Farewell to Boeing's 720 from Things with Wings by Guy Norris | All being well, the very last flyable Boeing 720 is due to land for the final time today at CFB Trenton, a Canadian Forces base in Ontario, after a short flight from Saint-Hubert in Quebec. The aircraft will be inducted into the National Air Force Museum of Canada on indefinite loan from Pratt & Whitney Canada which has used it as a flying engine testbed since the 1980s....

BREAKING: Superjet 100 missing in Jakarta from Flightblogger by Stephen Trimble | Sukhoi confirms on spokeswoman Olga Kayukova's Facebook page that a Superjet 100 went missing 20min after take-off on second demonstration flight from Jakarta, Indonesia. More news coverage is available here. The first demonstration flight from Halim Perdamakusama Airport earlier today was completed successfully. A Russian photographer, Marina Lystseva, posted photos on her blog of Sukhoi pilot Sergei Alexander Yablontsev giving instructions to another photographer before the first or second flight. Lystseva flew on board the first demonstration flight, but it wasn't clear from her postings if she was on the second. "It was already a demo flight," she wrote, as translated from Cyrillic by Google. "I also fly."...

Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta during demo tour: Controlled Flight Into Terrain and Hijacking not ruled out from David Cenciotti | On May 9, at 15.30LT, a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 (97004), involved in a demo tour in southeast Asia, with 46 people on board has disappeared from radars, approximately 36 nautical miles to the south of Jakarta, during a planned 2,5 hr demonstrative flight from Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport to Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport (Indonesia)....

Missing Sukhoi super-Jet-100 - Up to date news HERE