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Organizer: EAA AirVenture attendance rises 5-6 percent, helped by ... * Minneapolis Star Tribune | EAA Chairman Jack Pelton said Tuesday the attendance was helped by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, who made their first appearance at an EAA event. The convention featured daily air shows that include everything from aerobatic feats to warbirds...

Observations Of A Week At AirVenture * Aero-News Network | As The Annual Pilot Pilgrimage Ends, Just A Few Parting Thoughts. In no particular order here are a few thoughts about this years annual event called AirVenture.

Thunder Over Michigan to feature custom biplane fitted with Lear jet engine * The Ann Arbor News | Peaking at speeds of 250 miles per hour, the Screamin' Sasquatch isn't your typical air show plane. But this weekend, the Screamin' Sasquatch will be one of several planes participating in Thunder Over Michigan, at Willow Run Airport, but the Sasquatch...

Airport Fly-in is Saturday * Moody County Enterprise | The annual Fly-In at the Flandreau Airport will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at the Flandreau Airport. The Team of Angels will be serving breakfast. There will be free airplane rides, the opportunity to see medical helicopters up...

Video: Hawker Sea Fury Crash-Lands at Airshow * Flying Magazine | A Hawker Sea Fury that was flying as part of the Royal Navy Culdrose Air Day in Cornwall, in the southwestern corner of England, crash-landed last week in front a large crowd. Video shows smoke coming out of the engine cowl as the 1940s-era fighter...

WWII bomber flight signals approach of Colorado Springs air show * Colorado Springs Gazette | The plan was to fly about 100 miles north to Erie for an air show flyby to promote the museum's upcoming air show. Several media members had come to strap themselves in, and experience the ride. Piloting the bomber was museum volunteer Bill Klaers, who...

B-17 on Display in Honor of "Dutch" Van Kirk * wnep.com | During the graveside service, a B-17 flew over the cemetery to honor the man who was the navigator on the Enola Gay. After the service, the B-17, also known as the “Memphis Belle” flew into the Sunbury Airport. “It's unique. I mean, I've never seen one...

Herschel Walker visits Fightertown [Image 6 of 8] · DVIDS Unit RSS Feed: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort , Cpl. John Wilkes | Capt. Christian Lapp, a pilot with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533 shows former NFL icon and mental health advocate, Herschel Walker, an F/A-18 Hornet aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Aug. 5. Walker, who was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, addressed service members, dependents and retirees during his visit in an effort to promote the Patriot Support Program’s Anti-Stigma Campaign which aims to educate and inform the audience about Depression and other behavioral health issues. The...

Canada's last airworthy Avro Lancaster embarks on UK tour * CBC.ca | Dave Rohrer, president and CEO of the museum, was riding in a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber with a documentary film crew behind the Lancaster when it became airborne. The film crew followed the Lancaster all the way to Oakville's waterfront and got...

EAA AirVenture hopes to bring B-29 “Doc” to Oshkosh in 2015 * Wichita Business Journal (blog) | EAA AirVenture hopes to bring B-29 “Doc” to Oshkosh in 2015. b29 doc1 WEB. View Photos. Daniel McCoy / WBJ. Doc, a World War II-era B-29 bomber, is being restored in Wichita. The restoration group, Doc's Friends, put the aircraft on display for an open...

B-29 Superfortress Nears First Flight * Flying Magazine | Volunteers in Wichita, Kansas, who are working to restore a B-29 Superfortress named Doc have brought the massive airplane close to completion and are getting ready to return the bomber to the skies before the new year. The non-profit volunteer...

Rebuilt 'Baby Ace' Plane Brings AirVenture Back to its Wisconsin Roots * AviationPros.com | Aug. 01--OSHKOSH -- This was the plane that put the Experimental Aircraft Association on the map. The red and yellow open-cockpit, single-engine "Baby Ace" built by Paul Poberezny was featured on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated in May 1955 along with...

Small-Block Chevy Reno Air Racer * Hot Rod Magazine | There's an aerospace-spec, small-block Chevy nestled into “Sweet Dreams,” the Reno Air Race GP-5 of retired U.S. Air Force pilot Lee Behel. What else would you use in an Unlimited Air race class where the only restriction is the engine must displace...

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First Flight: One Week Wonder · eaavideo.org | On August 5, 2014, the airplane that was built in seven days at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 flew for the first time—carrying more than 2500 signatures of those who helped build the plane into the air...

South Dakota CAP Wing wins award · General Aviation News | South Dakota’s Civil Air Patrol Wing has been awarded the North Central Region’s Search and Rescue Missions Award. The commander of the North Central Region, Colonel Robert Todd, remarked that the award is well merited as the Wing has been aggressive finding new missions for its aircraft and personnel. Despite its small size, South Dakota Wing ranks 10th in the nation (each state is a Wing) in aircraft utilization...

Video: Is Space X’s Elon Musk looking to aircraft for his next project? · General Aviation News | Elon Musk appeared on The Colbert Report on July 24. At the 1:50 mark of this video he says, “Aircraft should be vertical take-off and landing.” Could a Musk revolution being coming to aviation?...

Astronaut Mike Massimino Departs NASA For University Position * Aero-News Network | Was First Astronaut To Tweet From Space After almost two decades with NASA, including two space shuttle missions, astronaut Mike Massimino has left the space agency for a full-time position with Columbia University in New York...

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Wing walker Jane Wicker wows crowd at Cleveland National Airshow - Plain Dealer | Girls of all ages lined up to see svelte blond, with windblown hair who the Cleveland National Airshow's announcer described as maybe "120 pounds, soaking wet with a rock in her pocket." "Did you see the airplane with the lady on it," one mother asked ...

Air Show crowd in awe of sights - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | Scattered showers and ominous clouds certainly didn't deter the thousands of people who descended on southwest Allen County for the three-day Air Show hosted by the Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing. Dennis and Chris Felger of ...

CNE air show delights Sick Kids fans - Toronto Star | While her siblings flipped proudly through their pilot autograph books, Karissa Kruk's eyes were glued to the sky. The 7-year-old leukemia patient at Sick Kids has just spent the last month and a half in the hospital. On Sunday, she was given a rare ...

Red Arrows star at Uffington White Horse Show - The Oxford Times | On Sunday, sunny weather saw the turnout increase by 40 per cent on last year, while yesterday rain failed to keep the visitors away from one of the main attractions, the Red Arrows display. Other activities included helicopter rides, historic...

VIDEO: Avro Vulcan swoops in for third day of Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | BEACHES, clifftops and Bournemouth's waters were crammed with spectators on Saturday to witness the thrills of the Air Festival's jam-packed weekend of flying. Space was at a premium on the beach between the two piers as people jostled to get prime ...

Two weeks of the highly anticipated Air Show tricolor arrows in Imperia  - Ventimiglia.biz  | The preparation work started almost three years ago, and in recent months the meetings, meetings, appointments to make dot the machine organizer took a frantic pace. And now we are in the home stretch. To ...

Fastest race on earth by Ben Murphy The Armidale Express | AN ARMIDALE man will become the most experienced Australian ever to challenge for the competition billed as the fastest race on earth. Lachie Onslow is preparing to head to Reno, Nevada for the jet class of the 49th US National Championship Air Races on September 12-16. The heart-stopping competition features...

Thousands get unique look at aircraft in Atwater - ABC30.com | Castle Air Museum in Atwater hosted its annual fall Open Cockpit Day. Visitors were allowed to climb inside 30 of the museum's 55 restored military aircraft. The collection includes planes used in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. A crew chief ...

Memorable Moments With American Warbirds  - KMPH Fox 26 | But twice a year at Castle Air Museum the curious get the chance to sit in the cockpit of a bomber. It was open cockpit day Sunday at the museum in Atwater. Kids big and small got a chance to pull back the controls and watch the flaps respond. Rick ...

Lee Bottom Clothing Rescued After Tornado from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | During the tornado clean up, some very special friends offered to take home the Lee Bottom apparel that got wet. Thousands of dollars of shirts and other clothing with the logo on it needed to be laundered and they stepped in to make it happen. Now, as the fundraiser approaches, it is time for us to gather up all the clothing and get it ready for the event. If you...

Geez Beez Honey from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Ginger’s world class flying machines, also knows as Geez Beez, delivered a bumper crop of honey this year. If you are near Lee Bottom and...

This month's Duluth airshow will feature Canadian Forces Snowbirds  - Duluth News Tribune | The Duluth Airshow is pleased to announce that NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson will be participating in this year's events. This is the first time in Duluth history that a NASA astronaut has been able to attend. In the past, NASA has brought moon ...

AirFest scheduled for Oct. 13 - Culpeper Star Exponent | October in Culpeper is spectacular. I met with Mike Dale, former President of Jaguar North America and Culpeper resident to talk about one of the highlights this fall, the annual Culpeper AirFest on Oct. 13. Mr. Dale serves as the Chairman of the ...

Plan to bring Red Bull Air Race to Gold Coast - Courier Mail | THE Queensland Government and Red Bull Air Race supremos are in talks to lure the lucrative event to the Gold Coast, The Gold Coast Bulletin reports. The event, which features displays of high-speed aeronautical acrobatics, has long been coveted by the ...

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Podcast: Flying to America from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | It's an ambition for many pilots in the U.K., and Flyer magazine publisher Ian Seager invited some of them along for the ride on his trip to AirVenture Oshkosh. Seager flew his Cessna 182 and talked to AVweb's Paul Bertorelli at the show in late July.

67 Years Later: WWII Veteran Flies Again in B-17 - Patch.com | The 90-year-old Park Ridge, IL, resident rode in the B-17 Aluminum Overcast at the Waukesha County Airport Friday during a special media flight in preparation for the Wings Over Waukesha air show this weekend. “It brought back memories,” said Karl ...

Eye woman tracks down relatives of B17 crash crew - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | At 10.30am on the morning of Wednesday, November 10, 1943 a B17 heavy bomber crashed in Brome, near Eye, killing all 13 onboard. Nearly 60 years on, Diane Godbold, 61, of Eye has put five years of research into the crash. “We only found out about it ...

Relaxed Sunday at Antique Airfield from Antique Airfield News | After Saturday's rain and overcast Sunday has turned into a good flying day at Antique Airfield. The Gone West Memorial service was held in the morning. Some folks are...

Video: Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet buzzes highway drivers from David Cenciotti's weblog | Filmed on Aug. 9, 2012, the following video shows an extreme low pass of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 combat plane over a road between Volgograd and Kalach-on-the-Don, Russia. The Su-24 Fencer is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in...

September 2, 2012 Video of the Day – Human-Powered Helicopter Flies to Record Height in Maryland from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey

Arrow Sport Model F in SFO’s Terminal 3 from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Arrow Sport Model F in SFO’3 Terminal 3 The San Francisco Airport Museum & Library uses most of the airport spaces for exhibits, some rotate and some semi-permanent. Truly, it is a joy to spend time there and well worth walking around — but go to the International Terminal for most of the displays as well as the [...]

U.S. Army Apache Helicopters Reach Flight Milestone from Warplanes Online Community by yna | The fleet of the AH-64 Apache helicopters of the U.S. Army has surpassed 3.5 million flight hours. Boeing and Apache suppliers all over the world are commending the impressive milestone.  The milestone is a proof of the endurance and reliability of the helicopter model. Apaches had been in service since 1984 and it had flown combat missions in Afganistan, involved in exercises in South Korea and trained alongside the new AH-64D Apache Block III....

LCHS student gets license to fly solo - The Decatur Daily | COURTLAND — When Lawrence County High School student Trent Morris saw the Blue Angels fly in Huntsville at age 7, he knew he wanted to get into aviation. “For my 14th birthday, my grandpa took me to Pryor Field” at Regional Airport in Tanner “and got ...

Wreckage Of 707 From 1966 Found In French Alps from Aero-News Network | Diplomatic Mail, Newspapers, Other Debris Discovered By Hikers The wreckage of a Boeing 707 which went down 46 years ago in the French Alps has been discovered by some hikers on Mont Blanc. The wreckage is thought to be that of Air India Flight 101, a Boeing 707 which impacted the mountain on January 24, 1966 on a flight from Mumbai to New York with several intermediate stops. The flight had departed Beirut on its way to Geneva when the accident occurred.

Elon Musk Considering A Holding Company For SpaceX, Tesla from Aero-News Network | Company Would Not Be Publicly Traded The founder of both SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors is mulling a plan that would create a holding company that would own stock in both companies, but Elon Musk says the stock would not be publicly traded.

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Blue Angel Practice at the National Naval Aviation Museum - WKRG-TV | In addition, following most of the Wednesday practices, there will be an autograph session with the Blue Angels inside the National Naval Aviation Museum*. Stay on top of the action with the Blue Angels mobile app now available to download from iTunes ...

Thunder Over Utah March 17, 2012 Photo Gallery - Dixie Press Online | US Navy Blue Angels Take Off at Thunder Over Utah, St. George, UT March 17, 2012 | Photo by Troy Hoskins, St. George News US Navy Blue Angels at Thunder Over Utah, St. George, UT March 17, 2012 | Photo by Troy Hoskins, St. George News US Navy Blue ...

12-day flight to warbirds show - Otago Daily Times | The latest in international military training aircraft, the high-tech T-6C Texan, is flying from the United States to Wanaka for the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow. Photo supplied. A small but highly advanced military training aircraft left the United ...

Cocoa Beach Air Show by Mike | Saturday, Nov. 5th, 2011 | It was supposed to be a nice day in Cocoa Beach, FL, but the weather refused to cooperate. With the scattered showers and high winds, I was surprised that the parachute teams still jumped....

Volunteers needed for this summer's airshow - KEYC TV | More>> With the Blue Angels preparing to land in Mankato this summer, there is one deficiency on the pre-flight checklist for the upcoming airshow, and that's volunteers. Spokespeople say 450 volunteers are needed every day during the event.

30 Days of Gratitude Day 6 from by Lisa | Today we went to the Air Show in Monroe NC. I am grateful that the day went without any problems and the show was AWESOME!!! Even my teenager enjoyed it and was asking about coming back next year....

Celebrate women this month from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...More than 214,000 women are serving in the United States military. That is almost 15 percent of all of our service members. Yet when we think of war, we tend to think of men fighting for our freedom. I can remember my mother talking about the Women Airforce Service Pilots and wishing she had applied to be one of the first females to fly military aircraft. Perhaps I wouldn't be here if she had followed her dreams. While Rosie the Riveter was considered to be doing her duty for our country during World War II, the WASPs were considered a little on the wild side. After all, the women who flew noncombat missions were the first to deliver planes to military bases, including the B-29s that were thought to be difficult to fly. But throughout the ages, women have proven the status quo wrong.

Skydiving with the Valkyries - vimeo.com (via GoPro's Facebook Wall) | Skydiving with the Valkyries, a 4 woman formation skydiving team. The Valkyries are currently training for the Australian Nationals in April 2012, with the goal to represent Australia at the World Championships in Dubai 2012. At Picton on Sunday March...

Civil Air Patrol honors World War II member from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | One of the Civil Air Patrol’s earliest members, Dean Hammond, now holds the rank of colonel after being recognized with not only the new grade but also lifetime membership and the Distinguished Service Medal this month at the Mississippi Wing’s annual conference at Keesler Air Force Base. Hammond, who had already soloed in January 1938, joined CAP at the first organizational meeting in Wichita, Kan., where he was working for Boeing....

Bruce Del Mar from Hiller Aviation Museum | A Voice From California’s Golden Age of Aviation by Jon Welte | In the mid 1940s, a young Stanley Hiller Jr. and his father traveled from the Bay Area toSanta Monica,California, home of Donald Douglas and the Douglas Aircraft Company. Hiller had recently built and tested the XH-44 helicopter, and sought to consult withDouglason the prospects for creating the West Coast’s first helicopter factory....

MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting March 22 - Dr. Fred Roos Presents On Thomas Benoist from The Aero Experience | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is a group of folks with a love of aircraft, and we are striving to record and document the rich aviation history that has been a part of the great state of Missouri for the past century. From Benoist to Zenith, the aviation industry in the "Show Me" state has always been at the forefront of technology, and has produced some of the world’s best known aircraft. Famous pilots, from Jimmy Doolittle, to Slim Lindbergh, all called Missouri home for a...

Ryan Aeronautical photo archive traces development of combat drones from the factory floor to deployment in southeast Asia from David Cenciotti | Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the most innovative and successful unmanned aerial vehicles, the most famous of those is the Ryan BQM-134 Firebee....

Ultra-Long-Endurance Progress from Ares by Graham Warwick | It's proving a long wait, given they are supposed to be "rapid" programs, but Boeing has begun taxi tests of its private-venture Phantom Eye hydrogen-fueled high-altitude, long-endurance UAV, while Mav6 has attached the payload/control car to its M1400 surveillance airship. Both are aimed at providing endurance measured in days, not hours....

Counter-trend: Air Force shoots down high-tech UAV in favor of ancient U-2 - ITworld.com | The U-2 also carries a pilot, making it the first Air Force plane to defend its own mission against UAVs that don't risk the lives of pilots and which are usually less expensive to build, buy and operate than piloted planes. The decision sounds bizarre ...

Navy conducting security exercises at installations nationwide this week ... - NOLA.com Susan Poag/Times-Picayune | The Navy's Blue Angles circle the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse during a recent N'Awlins Airshow. The Navy is conducting exercises at the installation this week designed to train its security forces....

The Supersonic Jet of the Future Will Be a Biplane from POPSCI | When supersonic travel inevitably returns to the skies, the airplanes are going to look a lot different. At least one design harks back to the early days of aviation with a biplane design, rather than a sleek delta-winged jet like the Concorde. This shape can apparently...

C.M. Wright honored for service; space program spotlighted - Baltimore Sun | The talk, entitled "Project Mercury," led the students through a short history of NASA, a history of rocketry, and a walk through the training equipment needed to make the astronauts at home in space. Many elements of the Redstone booster and the Atlas ...

Billionaire Elon Musk to Neil Armstrong: Get On Board with Private Space Travel from SPACE.com | SpaceX chief Elon Musk is laying the foundation for a revolution, and he'd like some support from luminaries like Neil Armstrong

The Stratospheric Balloon: Red Bull Stratos from Aerial Sports Feed | The stratospheric balloon that will lift Felix Baumgartner and his capsule to the height of 120,000 feet is clearly a vital component of the Red Bull Stratos mission to the edge of space.

Red Bull Stratos | Our Beautiful Balloon from Aerial Sports Feed | With the launch date for the record-breaking freefall edging ever closer, we’ve taken a closer look at the vital piece of kit that will take Felix Baumgartner and his capsule to the edge of space – namely the helium balloon…

NASA Launching 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes This Week: How to Watch from SPACE.com | NASA's five-rocket ATREX mission will spray glowing chemicals in high-altitude winds to make light up the night sky.

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40/29 Chief Meteorologist Drew Michaels Flies With Thunderbirds - KHBS-KHOG Northwest Arkansas | FORT SMITH, Ark. -- 40/29 Chief Meteorologist Drew Michaels is getting to fly with the US Air Force Thunderbirds on Friday as part of the Fort Smith Air Show. As part of his experience, Drew is sending in some web extra videos talking about his ...

Marine Corps portion of air show is fiery, loud - SignOnSanDiego.com | Marines file out of an MV-22A Osprey in a demonstration of the Marines' Marine Air-Ground Task Force during the airshow. — John Gastaldo The Marines just finished strutting their stuff at their annual air show in San Diego. For the Corps, it couldn't ...

Air Fest not just for planes - Culpeper Star Exponent | Culpeper County Airport's Air Fest on Oct. 8 will not only be a spectacle for aviation enthusiasts, but automobile enthusiasts as well. About 22 hot rods, muscle cars and racecars will be on display as attendees make their way into the compound at the ...

Gold Team and Team 6 pull together to continue the mission. - US Army Golden Knights | The Friday demonstration at any air show is typically the eye-catching experience for media and early attendees.  However this year for the first time our C-31 Fokker aircraft suffered minor damage to the right landing gear, shutting down the Golden Knights for our first show.  Although faced with logistical issues, Team 6 back at Fort Bragg has kicked into high gear and has already  ...

Navy Week Runs to Oct. 9 in Albuquerque - Albuquerque Journal | ... 10 am US Navy Parachute Demonstration Team the Leap Frogs parachute onto Balloon Fiesta Field; Friday, sailors undertake refurbishment projects at Casa Esperanza and Ronald McDonald House, 10 am Navy Leap Frogs parachute onto Balloon Fiesta Field; ...

Redlands Air Show is Canceled - Patch | Committee members say they are forced to pull the plug 10 days before the show after being hit with service and permit fees by the city. 

Leeward remembered as skilled pilot, loving family man - Ocala | The local pilot crashed his P-51and died during an air race in Nevada on Sept. 16, 2011. A total of 11 people died in the crash. By Marian Rizzo To say that Jimmy Leeward lived life to the fullest might be an understatement, friends said at a memorial ...

NTSB: pilot amid maneuver before W.Va. crash - Times Union | ... Mangan, a decorated retired Air Force pilot, was performing with the T-28 Warbird Aerobatic Formation Demonstration Team when he and another pilot began a maneuver in which both planes fly directly at each other at 300 feet above ground, ascend and then roll their aircraft, Knudson said. ...

U.S. Sport Aviation Expo Expands Attractions for 2012 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Since 2004, the Expo is the place to see, try, buy and sell Light Sport Aircraft, and is the event where new businesses establish relationships with people who learn about LSA, Sport Pilot Certificate and other LSA related certifications. This year will mark the eighth annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, Sebring Florida, and it is a must-go to event for aviation enthusiasts. EXPO has grown to over 200 area volunteers orchestrating an event for over 10,000 attendees per year.

World War II fighter planes at Nashua Airport - Nashua Telegraph | A machine gun is seen in the window of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is seen as part of this weekend's Wings of Freedom Tour at Boire Field in Nashua. The North American P-51 Mustang sits at the front of the line-up of the three warplanes visiting ...

Tuskegee Airmen traveling exhibit comes to Maine - WCSH-TV | Their story has inspired a group called the Commemorative Air Force to create a unique, traveling exhibit called "Rise Above", which tells the story of the Red Tails - the nickname for the unit because of the distinctive markings on their P-51 Mustang ...

The 63rd anniversary of South Korea's Armed Forces Day from Military Photos | Korea celebrates its 63rd Armed Forces Day today at the Army's Kyeryongdae military headquarters and various other sites. The red-letter day was established in 1956 to mark the day that the South Korean Army broke through the 38th parallel in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. While traditionally an eventful occasion, it has become more limited to military and public officials since the HQ was relocated to Kyeryongdae.  

Cleveland Air Race Revival - ... This year, the Sport Air Racing League, now in its fifth season, welcomes the addition of a new air race: The Cleveland Air Race Revival | Saturday, October 15, 2011 | 6R3 Cleveland Municipal Airport | Cleveland, Texas ...

Air and Space Museum shut down - Toronto Sun | Lancaster WWII pilot Leonard Levy stood in front of a Lancaster aircraft at the Canadian Air & Space Museum last week, before the facility was forced to close its doors for good.

Armless pilot arrives in Ghana for motivational talks - Myjoyonline.com | The phenomenal armless American pilot, Jessica Cox, is arriving in Accra Friday to begin a four-day motivational seminars in Ghana. The seminars, which kick off from the capital at the Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday October 1, 2011, ...

Lindbergh Prize To Be Awarded To The Quietest Aircraft from Aero-News Network | Award To Be Presented At NASA's Green Flight Challenge Erik Lindbergh said on the blog of The Lindbergh Foundation that the first annual Lindbergh Prize for Quietest Aircraft will be awarded at the NASA Green Flight Challenge being held this week at Charles M. Shulz airport in Santa Rosa California.

Electric Planes Take to the Sky at NASA Green Flight Challenge from Autopia by Jason Paur | SANTA ROSA, Calif. — There is no roar of a 3,000 horsepower V-12 at an electric airplane race. Instead there is only the whir of an electric motor as pilots entered in the NASA Green Flight Challenge take off into the morning sky above the Sonoma County vineyards.  Minutes later the aircraft begin their speed runs overhead on a rectangular course with no perceptible  ...

Today in Aviation History – October 1 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Starts October 1 (PHOTOS)  - Huffington Post | The 40th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta lifts off October 1, with more than 600 balloons headed to the New Mexico skies for the more-than-week-long event. It's the world's largest hot air balloon rally.  With more than 100,000 people expected to attend, the crowds start lining up to see balloons and ...

milairpix  | A site devoted to Military Aviation Photography with images using both Film and Digital formats from the early Eighties to the present day. These images were taken at some of the major Airshows and Airbases in the UK including, the ...

Who gets the Shuttle Enterprise, NYC or Houston? - Albany Times Union | In April, NASA announced that the space shuttle Enterprise will be retired at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. (Associated Press, CHANG W LEE) From Stewart M. Powell at the Hearst Washington Bureau Texas lawmakers rekindled efforts to ...

Elon Musk Sees A Future Fully Reusable Commercial Space System from Aero-News Network | Booster, Second Stage, Crew Or Cargo Capsule Would All See Multiple Uses SpaceX Founder Elon Musk outlined a fully re-usable commercial space system Thursday in a speech that was webcast from the National Press Club in Washington, DC and archived by C-SPAN. In a video SpaceX has placed on YouTube, the company foresees a transportation system in which all components can be recovered and re-used.

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T-Birds Add Third Female Pilot from Pacific Flyer | The USAF has announced that a third female will join the Thunderbird Air Demonstration Team beginning in 2012.  She's Maj. Caroline Jensen, an Air Force Reservist serving as a T-38 instructor pilot stationed at Sheppard AFB, Texas. Then-Major Nicole Malachowski was the first female T-Bird pilot, followed by then Capt. Samantha Weeks. ...
  
Air show opens Fair St. Louis - STLtoday.com | The Air Show entertains patrons of Fair Saint Louis Saturday afternoon in downtown St. Louis. Photo by Johnny Andrews | jandrews@post-dispatch.com ST. LOUIS • Fair St. Louis started its three-day run on the Arch grounds with an air show ...

Fair St. Louis Aircraft Gather Before First Airshow from The Aero Experience

The wow heard 'round today's air show - Battle Creek Enquirer | The skyway stunts of the 2011 Field of Flight Air Show & Balloon Festival got its official start this morning as a biplane spelled the words “AIR SHOW” in plumes of exhaust and the national anthem was sung over the speaker system at the WK Kellogg ...

Pyrotechnics to be part of Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Open House and Air Show ... - The Herald-Mail | Organizers of the Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Open House and Air Show have added a little "fire" to this year's event hosted by the 167th Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard at Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport. "I don't know exactly what kind ...

Air Show comes Sunday; Meet The Pilots Gala Today - KYTX | If you enjoy action-packed movies such as "Top Gun" and "Pearl Harbor," then don't miss the first Wings Over Tyler Air Show. The show, planned from noon to about 3 pm Sunday, is expected to include death-defying maneuvers ...

60 seconds of free fall: Army's Golden Knights will skydive to Warner Park - Capital Times | A member of the US Army Golden Knights parachute team surveys the landing area at Warner Park ahead of Saturday's jump into Rhythm and Booms. The team will jump from 12000 feet above the park before the fireworks begin. As the small “troopship” ...
   
American Heroes Air Show at Hansen Dam canceled due to 'Carmageddon' - Contra Costa Times | Many of the law enforcement aircraft that would have been participating in the air show will be on duty - standing by to ferry trauma victims to hospitals. Paules said some sponsors had pulled out, and the helicopter team that normally does a ...

RAF Waddington International Air Show 2011 from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Photos from the RAF Waddington International Air Show 2011

AIRPOWER11 surpassed all expectations - via Translator | An exciting program with 222 aircraft from 22 countries as well as optimal weather event provided the AIRPOWER11 for a new record: 290,000 fans were surprised on Friday and Saturday of every ten hours of pure fascination with flight. They got a taste of the ability of the Austrian Air Force, among others who demonstrated the trapping of a C-130 Hercules by two Euro Fighter. They saw the shows  ...

Airpower 2011 Photos from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Some 290 000 people have visited this year's Airpower (July 1st-2nd, 2011) in Zeltweg, Austria. Airpower is one of the major European airshows, and is held every...

Wings Over Washington - AirSpaceMag.com | In more innocent times, it was okay to buzz the Capitol.

Combat Air Museum boasts special plane - Topeka Capital Journal | Howerter, chairman of the Combat Air Museum board of directors, said the P-51 Mustang likely won't be on display for long. He makes no secret of his desire for folks to come visit the museum to see this treasure while it is still at the museum, ...

Today in History: Amelia Earhart Disappeared; 'Lawnchair' Larry Took Flight - Patch.com | Two very different North Hollywood/Toluca Lake residents took off on two very different flights -- one tragic, the other bizarre -- on this date in aviation history. On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart, ...

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EAA Postpone $60K Prize for Electric Flight from Pacific Flyer | Despite a strong influx of applications, EAA announced July 23rd that the $60,000 Electric Flight Prize has been postponed until EAA AirVenture 2012 to allow viable candidates to complete Phase I flight certification according to FAA regulations. ...

Kids take to the sky in Newton - KWCH | “Young Eagles” was one of the most popular programs Saturday afternoon; the program gives kids a chance to learn everything they can about air travel. On the ground, kids are shown how the plane works and what makes it fly. Then once up in the air each ...

Visually impaired campers soar through clouds - Cedar Valley Daily Times | Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) Young Eagles arrived at the Vinton airport in order to take the campers from Iowa Braille's June summer camp on a skyward journey, teaching them about their planes and the experiences of flying. ...

7 Notable Space Shuttle Astronauts from SPACE.com | As we say goodbye to the iconic space planes, here are some of the program's most notable astronauts.

8 Surprising Space Shuttle Facts from SPACE.com | As we say goodbye to the iconic space planes, here is some trivia to remember.

Musk wins one prize, eyes a bigger one from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust | At a luncheon on Wednesday in Washington, the Heinlein Prize Trust awarded its second Heinlein Prize for accomplishments in commercial space activities to Elon Musk, the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX. At the luncheon, which attracted an audience from the public and private sectors, including NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver and FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation George Nield, Musk received the $250,000 prize and its accoutrements, a “Laureate’ Diploma” and a sword. Yes, a full-sized sword, the “Lady Vivamus Sword”, from ...

Indy Transponder 04-MAY-2011- Heritage and Space Edition

Marjorie Morris served in Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in WWII from War Tales | Before she signed up for the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in World War II, Marjorie Morris , who lives North Port, Fla.’s Jockey Club, said she led a rather cloistered life. Growing up in the Bronx in the late 1930s and early 1940s, she graduated from Manhattan Industrial High School and went to work in [...]

For Sale, An Amazing Piece of Local History: The "Last Fool Flight" of the Dallas Spirit - Dallas Observer | ... That meant first flying from Dallas to San Francisco to Hawaii for the so-called Dole Air Race of 1927, the winner of which would receive $25,000. Then Erwin planned on flying from Hawaii to Hong Kong and then back to Dallas, where local businessman William Easterwood Jr. was offering another $25,000 in prize money. ...

In Pictures: Work begins on restoration of Imperial War Museum's Flying Fortress - Culture24 | The large-scale project sees a team from the museum conserve the B-17 Flying Fortress Mary Alice, which is currently on display in the American Air Museum. Visitors can see the conservation team, who have already removed the propellers and engine from ...

The day the Dam Busters returned... in Canada from History News Network | “The physics of bouncing something on water is relatively simple,” says Dr Hugh Hunt, breezily. “But actually doing it, at scale, under a plane, building a dam and blowing it up, is much more of an engineering exercise than a science exercise.” ...

Yorkshire Air Museum to feature on The One Show - The Press, York | The Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington, will be providing the backdrop to The One Show. The theme of the programme will be major British inventions which have been attributed to others. The programme will focus on Sir George Cayley's glider, ...

Cold War Air Museum: Lancaster Airport, 1st Annual Air Race - 30 April 2011 from blog.cwam.org | Special event days start early for the Cold War Air Museum located at the Lancaster Airport. More activities and events attract more visitors and we are happy to see them. ...

The Boeing Archives PART 3a: Interview With Boeing Historian Michael Lombardi from Airline Reporter | Here is the long awaited part 3 of my inside look at the Boeing Archive. I apologize it has taken so long to get this published.  In part 1 I took a look at what is inside the Boeing Archive. Then part 2, I took a closer look at some of the models in the Boeing archive. Now, I will post my interview with Boeing Historian Michael Lombardi. What is amazing is Lombardi did our whole interview from memory. I broke our interview it into two parts, with the second one posting tomorrow. Enjoy is our exclusive interview: ...

Wow! Virgin Galactic Completes First 'Feathered' Flight! from blog by AirPigz | (3 pix and full flight details) Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial spaceship, demonstrated its unique reentry ‘feather’ configuration for the first time. ...

Astronaut Alan Shepard Immortalized on Forever Stamp from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | The Postal Service dedicated two stamps today commemorating two historic events — one that occurred a half century ago, and the second that's making history now. ...

FAQ: Alan Shepard's Historic Flight as First American in Space from SPACE.com | Here are a few basic questions and answers about astronaut Alan Shepard's historic spaceflight of May 5, 1961.

Spotted: A Very Rutan-Looking Experimental Aircraft Cruising California Skies - Popular Science | Very, Very Rutan gazurtoid via Militaryphotos.net | An undeniably Burt Rutan-esque aircraft has been spotted in the airspace just a few dozen miles south of Beale Air Force Base, prompting aerospace buffs to post the question: what is this Burt Rutan-esque aircraft doing in the air near Beale Air Force Base? Flight Global has since identified (possibly) the plane as Scaled Composites Model 355, but what’s less clear is what sort of aircraft it might be.  ...

Elon Musk comments on SpaceX costs and "why the US can beat China" from RLV and Space Transport News | Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs | Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics.  So when I started SpaceX, it was not surprising when people said we wouldn’t succeed. But now that we’ve successfully proven Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon, there’s been a steady stream of misinformation and doubt expressed about SpaceX’s actual launch costs and prices. ...