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New look night show set for Avalon - Australian Aviation | A new look night show spectacular featuring a high energy laser show and flare drop is set dazzle audiences ahead of Avalon's 2011 Australian International Airshow. Popularly known as 'Friday Night Alight', the airshow's signature event will also ...

Australia Post celebrates RAAF's 90th Birthday - Australian Aviation | The stamp issue will also be available at the International Air Show in Avalon from March 1 to 6. The recent stamp release also marks the retirement of the F-111 after 37 years' service, farewelled at RAAF Base Amberley in early December 2010. ...

Hornets put on show for city - Quest News | SUPER Hornets are expected to complete final preparations above the skies of Ipswich tomorrow for an upcoming air show. The RAAF Base Amberley jets will help mark the 90th anniversary of the air force with displays at the biennial Avalon International ...

RAAF celebrated at Point Cook - Wyndham Weekly | THE story of the Royal Australian Air Force, which began as a fledgling runway in Point Cook 90 years ago, will be celebrated next week with its milestone to be a key theme of this year's Avalon International Air Show. ...

Real Top Guns F-111 Belly Landing - YouTube | RAAF Crew looses a wheel, so they bring it home the hard way.
  
Vance commander speaks about being part of Thunderbirds - Enid News & Eagle |  The Thunderbirds, the US Air Force's elite aerial demonstration team, are a close-knit unit that spends some 200 days each year performing at air shows throughout the country. Col. ...

Dreamlifter making short AirVenture visit - polypoke | The modern day guppy is making a short visit to EAA AirVenture this year! The heavily modified Boeing 747-400 known as the DreamLifter will arrive late Monday July 28th and then depart on Tuesday July 29th. ...

Council Approves Airshow and Hearing on Utility Rate - WSET | Council also approved the city taking out a permit for the Lynchburg Regional Airshow -- hopefully featuring the Blue Angels. The airport is in Campbell County, but it is owned by the city of Lynchburg, so City Council had to approve that permit. ...

Inspiring Other Women from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Linda Wieland, ERAU: As a Professor and Director at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Kaneohe, Hawaii, I am passionate about education and aviation. I believe my passion inspires women to continue life-long learning in the aviation field. Prospective students from the age of 19 to 49 walk through my office door inquiring about college education. For the majority of the students I speak ...

Fly It Forward Challenge from FreeFlight Aviation | ... Women, have you always had an interest in flying?  Do you dream of taking to the skies and heading to destinations unknown?   Well, it’s now time.  Freeflight Aviation will answer the call Saturday March 12 and Sunday March 13 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 to take non-pilot girls and women for flights.  If you are interested in taking a flight with us, please visit our RSVP link on the Women of Aviation Site. ...

Founding Member Of Twirly Birds To Attend Annual Meeting - Aero-News | ... Graham is credited with countless aviation firsts, awards, designations, and multiple helicopter records during the early years of helicopter evolution. He is also largely responsible for helping develop the helicopter into the true multi-mission aircraft that it is today. The 24 year U.S. Coast Guard career of Commander Graham began in 1937 as a surfman, later earning his wings on 5 SEP 1941 as a naval aviation pilot (airplane). ...

Personal perspective provided by Tuskegee Airmen - Explore Baltimore County | This year, the school's Aviation Club, Black Student Union and History Club teamed up to bring members of the airmen to campus. "We thought we could ramp it up this year by having some of the guys talk about their experience," said Stephanie Molholt, ...

Scientists Try to Solve Amelia Earhart Mystery Through Her Saliva - TIME | Scientists are attempting to create a genetic profile for Amelia Earhart through her saliva -- taken from letter seals -- to determine if a bone fragment found in 2009 does belong to the missing aviator. In July 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, ...

Ben Epps Statue to Grace City Hall Block - Flagpole Magazine | Their first assignment could be picking a spot for a new statue of pioneer aviator Ben Epps, an Athens electrician and auto mechanic who at age 19 built and flew Georgia's first airplane from a field that is now Athens-Ben Epps Airport. ...

Kansas Aviation Museum won't keep B-29 named 'Doc' - Wichita Eagle | The historic B-29 airplane known as "Doc" won't be returning to the Kansas Aviation Museum. Lon Smith, the museum's executive director, said Tuesday that many visitors didn't realize "Doc" was on loan and owned by a resident of Cleveland, Ohio.  The owner, Tony Mazzolini, could not guarantee the airplane would stay at the museum for more than two years, Smith said. So the museum abandoned plans for a permanent hangar last summer. ...

P-38 Lightning Newsletter from p38assn.org | Hello, P‑38 Fans:  Well, it's time for another somewhat delayed P‑38 Newsletter!  Relocating and a new computer have kept me wrapped up, but I'm back now and plan to get these newsletters out for you every 4‑6 weeks from here on out.  As always, if there is a larger size of the photos available, just select the photo with your mouse and the larger size will show. Then just click the "back" button on your browser to return here. So, let's press on...

Development History Of The Curtiss P-40 Used By The Original AVG Flying Tigers from Flying Tigers News | Curtiss knew that their radial engined P-36 couldn’t be developed any more, so to increase its life they decided in July 1937 to install an Allison V-1710 inline engine with integral supercharging. Curtiss gave it the designation of Model 75P and the USAAC gave it the designation of XP-40. ...

Borden honors Norman Coats, author who wrote of life in his hometown - Louisville Courier-Journal | As a young man flying bombing missions over Nazi Germany in a B-17 bomber, Norman Coats occupied his mind with thoughts of his childhood. He fantasized about one day writing a book about the people and places in his hometown of Daisy Hill in Borden, ...

Herbert Walker Leaverton - LubbockOnline.com | He proudly served in World War II in the Army Air Force as part of the "Bloody 100th" B-17 Bomb Squadron, Thorpe Abbotts Airbase in England. In addition, he created and ran a number of businesses over his lifetime and was always the perfect provider. ...

Arado Ar 234 Blitz — the first jet bomber from Travel for Aircraft | Another leap ahead in aviation employed by the Luftwaffe in WW II was a still modern looking twin turbojet engined bomber. Crewed by a single person the aircraft looks fast and it was completely aerobatic. The pilot was ensconced in a streamline fuselage which had no stepped cockpit window. Rearward provision was provided by a periscope and another advancement used were the RATO (rocket assisted take off) units that  ...

Mustang Aces of the 357th Fighter Group from Let Let Let - Warplanes | “On 1 December1942, nearly a year after the United States entered World War 2, the US Army Air Forces ordered the 357th Fighter group into existence at Hamilton Field, California. No one could know at the time that this order had created the Eighth Air Force’s greatest ace-making unit. In just over a year of combat in  ...

New pictures of the Libyan Mirages in Malta by David Cenciotti

Today in Aviation History – February 23 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | In 1909… John A. McCurdy flies the Aerial Experimental Association’s Silver Dart biplane 40 feet over the frozen Bras d’Or lake at Baddeck Bay – the first flight of a heavier-than-air machine in Canada. ...

«Pizza Mafia» from fox2magazine | A fighter aircraft of type F - 16AM the Dutch Air Force is one of the stars of the new Dutch, feature film «Pizza Mafia», which premiered in The Hague last week.

B-3 bomber shoots lasers - bust bunkers - mothership for a swarm of drones? from Black Horizon | Wired: The Air Force’s new stealth bomber might do more than just drop bombs, top generals said in recent days. The so-called “Long-Range Strike” plane — likely to be designated B-3 — could also carry bunker-busting, rocket-boosted munitions, high-powered lasers for self-defense and datalinks, and consoles for controlling radar-evading drones.  ...
  
Aeromodelers air show this weekend - Yuma Sun | Yuma will have a flock of new visitors flying in from the north this weekend as the Yuma Aeromodelers plan for their annual R/C Air Show and Fun Fly 2011. The Yuma Aeromodelers is a group of 150 radio control ...

Warbird Central’s Paul Krumrie – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday from WarbirdRadio.com | WEDNESDAY – Paul Krumrei from Warbird-Central.com joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Let’s say you’d like to find a photograph of your grandfathers P-51…Paul is the guy to ask.  Warbird Central is a great resource for any warbird historian and Paul is the guy who started it all.  Tune in tomorrow and find out [...]

Episode 136 – Spotting with Jason from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Our guest this episode is Jason Bong, one of the writers and photographers at PHXspotters, a great site for plane spotters and aviation enthusiasts. Jason attended the annual Red Flag event and captured some amazing photographs of military aircraft. See his post, Rookie at Red Flag. ...

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Red Bull Air Race Final World Championship To Be Crowned In Germany from AvStop » The Red Bull Air Race in Budapest has been cancelled this year due to lengthy delays in the permissions process, the organization announced with regret on Tuesday. Interrupting a six-year tradition of racing in the Hungarian capital, the Red Bull Air Race World Champion will now be crowned after the final race of the 2010 season at EuroSpeedway in Lausitz, Germany on 7th & 8th August…

Red Bull air race scrapped - Caboodle.hu - The Red Bull Air Race held annually on August 20 has been cancelled, as the National Transport Authority has deemed it too risky and refused to issue a ...

2010 Marks 100 Years of Air Shows - Wright Brothers' 1910 Performance Credited as First Dayton Show | Dayton, Ohio – When the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and other air show performers take to the Dayton skies this weekend they will be marking the 100th anniversary of air shows in North America as well as in Dayton. Following on the heels of the first air show in Reims, France in 1909, organizers in Los Angeles are credited with hosting the first official North American air show in January, 1910 that drew 250,000 fans. But Dayton was soon to follow with "air shows" of its own…

Dayton Air Show ready to take off – DAYTON, OHIO (WDTN) - The Vectren Dayton Air Show is taxing down the runway and ready for take-off this weekend, July 17-18. ...

Thrills expected at Durban Airshow – Sowetan | THE Durban Airshow on Saturday will have a huge impact on the the regional economy with an R18million to R25million windfall expected. ...

Dreamlifter to appear at Rockford AirFest - Rockford Register Star - The Boeing Dreamlifter, a modified 747-700 passenger plane, will make an appearance at Rockford AirFest 2010 from July 31 to Aug. 1 ...

Airfest Needs Your Help! - ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Rockford Airfest is a little over two weeks away and event leaders are looking for more volunteers. They already have more than 600 ...

Air festival just months away – KTVO | Entertainment includes an A-10 Thunderbolt demolition team and a Heritage Flight. "Just a lot of variety, in that vein we have a jet powered school bus this ...

Sunshine and good times at Arlington from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski - You know it is July in Washington state when vintage and experimental aircraft migrate north for the annual Arlington Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention. The fly-in, held July 7-11 at Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO) north of Seattle, attracted aircraft ranging from helicopters and warbirds to experimental, vintage and light sport designs…

Southwest Airlines Partners With EAA at 2010 Air Venture from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | DALLAS TX- Southwest Airlines and the EAA announced the carrier's participation in this year's Air Venture air show to be held in Oshkosh, WI from July 26 until August 1.  The annual air show, which draws more than 550,000 visitors from 75 countries each year, is the world's premier aviation enthusiast event. The highlight of Southwest's participation will be the arrival of one of the airline's Boeing 737-700 aircraft on Saturday, July 31.  The aircraft will feature a unique decal and will be open for tours throughout the day to Air Venture visitors…

EAA Chapter 32 Hosts B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" in St. Louis, July 13-14, 2010 from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo

Other Warbirds Join EAA's B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" in St. Louis from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo

WWII pilot to finally get her honors - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | While visiting EAA AirVenture a decade ago, Jim's son stopped at the tent dedicated to WASP history and introduced himself to the pilots who were then in ...

WWI-era training plane made in Ithaca comes home - Glens Falls Post-Star ... Co. and Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corp., now Emerson Power Transmission, the manufacturing complex was once the site of aviation history and innovation. ...

Frosinone Open Day – 28.05.10 from David Cenciotti's weblog - An airshow was held in Frosinone on May 28, 2010, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ItAF helicopter school. For more information about the 72° Stormo, read the article I wrote for the June 2006 issue of Air Forces Monthly here…

First Frame Grabs from the T-38 Talon Ride from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) The Talon ride is in the logbook! 1.2 dual received on the orientation flight in the mighty Northrop T-38 Talon! Jo, Mark, and I just departed Beale AFB and I'm posting this from Sacramento (KSMF) on the way home to Detroit…

Live Twitter coverage from the Royal International Air Tattoo from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News by Flightline UK | Flightline UK will be tweeting live from the Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford (RIAT.) The tweets can be accessed at the following web address: http://www.airshows.org.uk/2010/airshows/royal-international-air-tattoo-fairford-riat-twitter.html

Best of day 22: Pensacola and the Blue Angels from Flying Across America | We had more tailwinds today flying from Baton Rouge to Pensacola. We plan our flights using a very conservative 70 knots ground speed and we were in the 90 to 100 range for the whole flight. This changed a 3 hours flight into a 2 hours 20 minutes one. Weather was not optimal but manageable…

Flying Across America - We did it! from Flying Across America | 23 days ago, we left Dunnellon airport in central Florida to fly to the Atlantic ocean, and then cross the country to Catalina Island in the Pacific ocean, abeam Los Angeles. We flew over plains, deserts, mountains and two oceans in a Cessna 150 and met incredible people along the way. We're now back at our starting point after a total of 31 flights and 62 hours 50 minutes of flying. This trip was a life changing experience. We got exposed to many different aspects of aviation, and did our best to promote General Aviation and pass the passion along…

At least the Red-Arrows survived… from Roger-Wilco by steve

Uncontrolled Airspace #194 "The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Department" from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast - All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #194 "The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Department"

Airdrops break records in Afghanistan from AF.mil Photos | Container Delivery System bundles parachute to the ground from a C-17 Globemaster III transport jet over a drop zone May 9, 2010, in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez) When your unit is surrounded by an enemy hitting you with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, and mortar rounds are screaming in and you're running low on food, ammunition and everything else, you can't exactly send someone to Walmart for supplies. That's when you pray for an airdrop. Now. "Sometimes these missions are like driving an 18-wheeler through a 5 o'clock traffic jam while trying to ask for directions with a cell phone that isn't getting any reception," said Capt. Scott Huffstetler, an airdrop mission planner with the 8th Airlift Squadron in Afghanistan. "Eventually, you just muscle your way through and get the job done. more...

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Blue Angels to perform in Tennessee by Toni | Danny Clisham will serve as Master of Ceremonies, fresh from his recent induction into the Air Show Hall of Fame. In addition to the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, the list of featured aerial and ground performers includes Cheryl Stearns, ...

Brothers to fly in Saturday's Naval Air Facility El Centro Air Show - Imperial Valley Press | Ben remembers seeing the Blue Angels as a child growing up in Reading, Penn., he said. They used to have a show in the town, but there is not one scheduled ...

New Air Show Comes To Hollister - KSBW The Central Coast | Organizers jumped at the chance to hold an air show after the Watsonville Fly-In moved from Memorial Day weekend to the Labor Day weekend. ...

Airshow back on - Coleraine Today | By Staff reporter THE Portrush Airshow will go ahead after all this year after it was saved at the final hour by the local business community. ...

ROB HOLLAND LANDS NEW SPONSOR – ASB.tv | NASHUA, N.H. - Rob Holland Ultimate Airshows announced today a marketing partnership with Window World, the nation's largest replacement window company, for the 2010 airshow season. The partnership represents Window World's first foray into airshow entertainment. Learn more and find out where you can catch Rob

Tim Decker Airshows - Retired Lt. Col. Tim Decker has over 5,000 hours as a US Air Force pilot and now airshow performer. Here's a terrific look at who he is and what he does.For...

Salute to Veterans Air Show Features the Harrier Demo Team! from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The 2010 Salute to Veterans Air show will be held at Columbia, MO Regional Airport May 29 and 30, 2010.  The Harrier Demo Team from Yuma Arizona will be back after a 12 year absence.  The F/A-18 Super Hornet Demo Team, Aeroshell Team, A-10 West Demo Team, Kevin Eldridge's P-38 "Ruff Stuff" and Clyde Zellers' SNJ-5 Texan will also be on hand to delight the crowd.  Please visit the air show web site http://www.salute.org/index.shtm for more information, and make it a priority to support this privately produced aerial event.

Thunder returns to air show - Santa Maria Times | An F-18 makes a practice run over the Santa Maria Public Airport in a recent Thunder Over the Valley air show. //Bryan Walton/Staff The roar of American air ...

Racing pilot loves extreme norm - London Free Press | The native of Red Lake, Ont., and University of Western Ontario graduate is entering his second year on the Red Bull Air Race World Championship circuit. ...

Flying high on adrenalin - The Australian | The former air-force fighter and part-time aerobatics pilot is embarking on his second year in the Red Bull Air Race, but his first at the controls of his ...

NEW VIDEO: DUXFORD - FLYING LEGENDS – ASB.tv | The newest video in the Horsemen Cometh series finds the team humbled by the honor of flying Mustangs off the historic grassy grounds of Duxford, England during the annual Flying Legends air show. It was a moment where history not only came to life, but quietly became a vivid reminder of the pilots who never returned home. Watch this beautiful video 

Gray Eagles - Mustangs and Legends from PropBlast by mjg\|\Chris Woods, a filmmaker and P-51 Pilot, has put together an amazing short documentary about the venerable P-51 Mustang and the brave young men who flew them into battle win WWII by focusing on the story of his neighbor and WWII Mustang ace Jim Brooks. Woods' project began when he began restoration of a basket-case Mustang and discovered that the plane was named "February" amd was originally flown by his neighbor Brooks. You can watch this amazing HD movie on AirShowBuzz website or viewing the embedded video below. Or better yet, go to Amazon.com or the GrayEagles.org foundation website to order your own copy of the DVD. For every copy purchased, the Foundation will donate another copy to an educational institution so that youngsters can not only learn about these great men and fantastic machines but, perhaps, to help inspire them to great things as well. As Siskel and Ebert would say "Two Thumbs Up!" You've Got to Watch This!

Marlborough - Sydney Morning Herald | The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre combines the largest private collection of World War I aircraft in the world with the dramatic inspiration of Lord of the ...

Aviation pioneer Hudson dies at 84 – KTUU | by Channel 2 News staff Cliff Hudson, the founder of Hudson Air Service, passed away last Friday after a battle with Alzheimer's, said his son, Chuck Hudson ...

Virgin Galactic's Latest - Free Liberal | It seems like only yesterday that Burt Rutan flew SpaceShip One into near-orbit and received the Ansari X-Prize for piloting the first manned ...

Currently at KSC..... from How I Am Becoming An Astronaut by Damaris B. Sarria | Discovery is currently at Launch Pad 39A. Launch of STS-131 is targeted for April 5, 2010 at 6:27 a.m. This past week, the STS-131 astronaut crew went through a mock countdown/dress rehearsal to prepare themselves for their actual launch date operations.

Atlas Air Awarded Boeing Contract to Operate Dreamlifter Fleet from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | Beginning toward the latter part of 2010, Atlas Air will operate Boeing's Dreamlifter fleet of four 747-400 aircraft that have been modified to transport major assemblies for the 787 Dreamliner from suppliers around the world to Boeing production facilities in the United States. The parties have structured the nine-year agreement in a manner consistent with the outsourcing business model under which Atlas Air typically operates. Under that model, Atlas Air will receive contractually determined revenues for the operation of the Dreamlifter aircraft, with Boeing assuming responsibility for certain direct costs, including fuel. Under the CMI arrangement, Boeing will provide and maintain ownership of the aircraft assets.

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The development of the only turboprop fighter to go into production in service was quite checkered, to say the least. The Westland Wyvern underwent three different changes of engine before ending up with the definitive Armstrong-Siddeley 3,667-horsepower Python engine- the first versions used the 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce Eagle engine, then a change to the Rolls-Royce Clyde turboprop before ending up with the Python in the S.4 version of the Wyvern. One of the reasons for the Wyvern's protracted development was that the first prototypes had three new components that test pilots were less than eager to test- a new airframe, a new engine, and a new contra-rotating propeller mechanism…

United States - Arizona - Heritage Flight Conference 2010 - Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson - 03/03/10
from FenceCheck Forums - A few from off base on Friday.