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53rd Wing pilot to become lead Thunderbird - The Northwest Florida Daily News | His first stop on his track to take over the Thunderbirds will be learning to fly the jet at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. Then he and his family will relocate to Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas where he will undergo intensive training to learn ...

Frecce Tricolori: thousands for the show of the Rose Garden Air Show VIDEO  - CityRumors.it  | A huge crowd has invaded Roseto to see the Frecce Tricolori. Despite the wind and a few drops of rain, several thousand people attended the exhibition of the aerobatic team (Pan) was founded in 1961 following the ...

Hundreds of Pilots Head to Valdez for 10th Annual Fly In - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska | VALDEZ - Hundreds of pilots spent the weekend in Valdez for the 10th Annual Fly In. The festival started as a way to bring in money during the off season, and now attracts people from all over the world. "We've had close to 300 planes. I think the ...

Steam Plant Fly-In takes off June 22 from General Aviation News | EAA Chapter 1343 and GTO Aviation are hosting the second annual Steam Plant Fly-In and Expo Saturday June 22 at Sumner County Regional Airport (M33) in Tennessee.

RC air show takes off from Stephenville next weekend - Western Star | RC air show takes off from Stephenville next weekend. Tom O'Brien's Snowbirds Tudor Jet takes off from the Model Flying Field on the Kip Kaus photos. Tom O'Brien's Snowbirds Tudor Jet takes off from the Model Flying Field on the east ramp in Stephenville.

Historic B-17 draws Felts Field crowd - KREM.com | Generations of people packed Felts Field on Saturday to see an historic B-17 "Memphis Belle." Pilots offered flights around the area in the B-17 Flying Fortress. People like Vietnam Veteran Gary Barnes lined up for their chance to ride in the historic ...

Band of two: Diz Kronenberg meets WWII B-17 gunner buddy he's not seen in 69 ... - Leader-Telegram | World War II veterans Joe Collector of Norfolk, Va., left, and Harold "Diz" Kronenberg of Eau Claire meet May 3 at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia. The former B-17 Flying Fortress gunners in World War II hadn't seen each other since they ...

Former Air Force Two DC-9 Auction from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A DC-9-32 owned by the U.S. Department of State is up for auction May 15, with a starting bid of $50,000 and, according to the seller, the aircraft was "part of Air Force Two" and "may have acted as Air Force One." According to auction documents provided by the government, "In the thirty years this aircraft was assigned to the 89th Airlift Wing (Feb 1975-Sep 2005) it flew Presidential missions." The document (PDF) does not specifically name individuals flown, but does list the positions those individuals held.

Museum Plans Constellation Flight Re-enactment from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The countdown has begun for the ambitious re-enactment of a record-setting flight that helped usher in the modern age of air travel. The National Airline History Museum hopes to re-create the inaugural coast-to-coast flight of a Lockheed Constellation flown by Howard Hughes and Jack Frye in its own Connie. Right after the first Constellation was rolled out on April 17, 1944, Hughes and Frye jumped in the cockpit and flew across the country in less than seven hours....

Phantom Pharewell from Photorecon | The German Air Force bought 175 F-4F and 10 F-4E in 1971. The first aircraft had its maiden flight on 18th May 1973.The difference to the common F-4E were the the omission of the seventh fuselage tank, the AN-APQ-120 radar in a simpler version and the omission of the capability of air refueling and the use of the AIM-7 Sparrow.

Skymaster Walkaround in Ft. Worth’s Best Kept Secret by travelforaircraft | Ft. Worth's best kept secret is the Veterans Memorial Air Park which is actually a museum 3-fer (use the search window to find the posts describing the museums and the aircraft on exhibit). Many Forward Air Control (FAC) aircraft are present and this is the museum for FACs... 

F-35B performs first vertical take-off from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar  | Sources say that test pilots at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, performed the first Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) vertical take-off on 10 May.

Winners of Build A Plane contest named from General Aviation News | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and Build A Plane have named teams from Canby High School in Canby, Minnesota, and Saline High School in Saline, Michigan, as the winners of its nationwide Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) aviation design challenge competition.

Week One of "Blogging in Formation" was a GREAT Collaborative Effort from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | Last week, I participated in an awesome new aviation blog series called "Blogging in Formation," six bloggers, one topic, all week. The project was initiated by Brent Owens of iFlyblog.com, and while simple in design, the formation blogging concept was nothing short of brilliant....

EAA Chapter 640 donates funds for new scholarship from General Aviation News | EAA Chapter 640 in Wausau, Wis., has donated $10,000 to the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame to establish a new scholarship fund for aviation/aerospace students from Wisconsin. The largest gift WAHF has received by an individual or organization, the fund will be established at the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, Wausau, to endow a named scholarship. Successful applicants for the...

International Space Station Command Passed from Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield from Spaceports | The official command of the International Space Station was successfully passed from Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency to Russian Cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, Commander of Expedition 36, during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on Sunday, May 12, 2013.... 

Video: Astronaut Mom Prepares for Space Stay from Spaceports | Astronaut Mom Karen Nyberg talks with Parenting Magazine about being a parent and her upcoming launch to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan on May 28, 2013.

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World's top aircraft descend on Melbourne for Avalon 2011 - Herald Sun | "We have dreams here; we do want Avalon to be an international airport." Airshow chief executive Ian Honnery said the show would feature the F-22 Raptor. "The F-22 Raptor boasts stealth technology, speed, agility and long- range capabilities," Mr ...

Northrop Grumman Showcases Key Capabilities at Australian International Air Show from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | CANBERRA, Australia -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will highlight a wide range of its key capabilities and programmes at the Australian International Air Show, including unmanned aircraft systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), airborne ...

You so fly: Wings Over Illawarra 2011 - Illawara Mercury | "I remember I went to my first one when I was about eight years old and I couldn't take my eyes off the late Australian pilot Tom Moon doing a low-level aerobatic display," Mr Clark said. "From that point on I knew that's what I wanted to do. ...

Boston Portsmouth Air Show - Official Site | Tickets for the 2011 Boston - Portsmouth Air Show go on sale today at http://bostonportsmouthairshow.com/purchase_tickets.php#box. They've got the Thunderbirds and another awesome lineup!

Davis-Monthan prepares for air show season - KGUN | According to a DM press release, "the Heritage Flight Conference is held each year prior to the beginning of the spring and summer air show seasons to provide a forum for civilian and Air Combat Command demonstration pilots to train together to prepare ...

People, Planes & Helicopters At Coronado Navy Plane Airshow by Rob Hurlbut | Many photos from Centennial Of Naval Aviation airshow on Coronado NAS navy base in February 2011.

Michigan B-52 bombers take flight again in Ric Mixter's 'Bombs Away' - The Bay City Times | Wurtsmith was named in honor of a US Army Air Force major general, a Detroit native killed in a B-25 bomber crash in 1946 in North Carolina. “Selfridge has had the most impact on aviation but all the bases have their own accolades,” Mixter said. ...

Women In Aviation, By The Numbers from Things with Wings | ... There are plenty of women in the aviation field, but the numbers of women in leadership positions in the airlines could be better.  My friend Kelly Murphy of Emerald Media, partnered with the Regional Airline Association to create this special supplement of RAA's Regional Horizons magazine to salute this year's conference. ...

Confederate Air Force Voted Favorite Don´t Mess with Texas Ad of Past 25 Years - Live-PR.com | After nearly 600000 total votes cast in the Face-Off, Texans have declared the Confederate Air Force, now the Commemorative Air Force, the favorite Don´t Mess with Texas TV ad of the past 25 years. The Texas Department of Transportation celebrated the ...

World War 2 Lancaster Bomber Taxi Run Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum - Skegness | The Avro Lancaster Bomber NX611 ‘Just Jane’, often treats spectators to a taxi run at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum at East Kirkby near Spilsby. ...

The DC-9 from J Clark | Forty-six years ago today, the DC-9 flew for the very first time.  Douglas Aircraft began researching the need for short- to medium-range airliners in the late 1950s.  The original thought was to design a smaller version of their popular DC-8, complete with four engines.  The airlines did not show enough interest in that particular design and the engineers and managers at Douglas began rethinking their ideas. ...

Friday Video: The MiG-29 - the second line air superiority fighter of the Indian Air Force from Bangalore Aviation | While many are familiar with the front line air superiority fighter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) the Sukhoi Su-30MKI, the MiG-29 Baaz (meaning Hawk) has remained in relative obscurity with the public. A further development of the MiG-29 is the MiG-35 which was a contender for the 126 MMRCA tender of the IAF.  India was the first international customer of the MiG-29. The IAF placed an order for more than 50 MiG-29s in 1980 while the aircraft was still in its initial development phase. ...

Flashback Fridays: A Few Words About Jet Engines from Nuts About Southwest | Along with our 40th anniversary this year, we should be celebrating another almost forgotten 75th anniversary.  On January 27, 1936, Frank Whittle and three other English investors formed Power Jets, Ltd. to make and market jet aircraft engines.  Whittle was a career Royal Air Force officer who had a unique eye on the future.  He patented his design for the jet engine in 1930, and he began experimenting with what would become the components of jet engines, including compressors and turbines during the 1930s.  In World War II, Britain and Germany both introduced operational jet aircraft, and the US began making license-built versions of British jet engines.   ...

Monika Petrillo from Flight To Success | Friday's Fabulous Flyer! Life is all about the journey. The best journey's are those that we learn something about ourselves in the process.  Monika's journey began the day she decided to get her pilot's license at the age of twenty-four. Quite often we follow in our parent's footsteps, but this time Monika's father followed in her's.  A year after Monika got her license, her father, at fifty-eight, got his license too. Dad came to came to California, slept on her floor and flew during the day.  ...

Joe Smith: Six decades aloft and still flying - Mt Shasta news | Drivers up near the top of the Dunsmuir grade on I-5 who hear a sound like a lawnmower overhead, and who take the trouble to scan the sky for its source, may catch sight of a tiny airplane with translucent yellow wings heading in for a landing at Mott Airport. In the cockpit would be Joe Smith, who is required to take off and land six times a month to keep his pilot's license. But for Smith, this is hardly a chore. “I've been flying since 1949,” he said, smiling in the cockpit on the tarmac last month. “I've always flown for pleasure.” ...

Things Not To Do to An Airliner from Things with Wings | Standing in a hangar in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, for the unveiling on Feb. 21 of the first Embraer EMB-145 for India's airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) program - and looking at all the antennas, radomes, lumps and bumps on what was a regional jet - got me thinking about other airliners that have been chopped, stretched, added to and otherwise poked and prodded to become less-than-beautiful military platforms. ...

Aerial Photographer James Cavanaugh - ANN | ANN's Paul Plack talks with aerial photographer James Cavanaugh about his background in both aviation and photography, his profession, and how amateur photographers can get better aerial photos.

Giant Model Airplanes Take to the Skies This Weekend - First Coast News | The pilots fly their giant models through various aerobatic and high-skill maneuvers, and it's all to benefit the Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund. The planes will be flying at Lannie Road Model Airplane Flying Park, just east of the national ...

Photos: Shuttle Discovery lifts off for the last time from RGJ.com | 48 images from the historic flight

Gov't Shutdown Wouldn't Leave Shuttle Discovery Stuck in Space from SPACE.com | What will happen to space shuttle Discovery's flight if there is a partial government shutdown?

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