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A New Cool Blue Angel Website is Now Online from Milcom Monitoring Post | The Navy Blue Angel website has undergone an overhaul and the new version is simply awesome. The new website has a really incredible feature called Inside the Demo. The site has all the maneuvers that the team makes during an airshow, including the C-130 performance. ...

Photos - 2011 Blue Angels Team

Sights, sounds of an F-16 - Record-Searchlight | Kristin Hubbard of the Thunderbirds prepares to head back to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas after a meeting with Redding Air Show officials. The team of six F-16s will headline the show Sept. ...
   
Homestead air show wins $7.5 million from Miami-Dade, hopes for federal aid too - MiamiHerald.com | Miami-Dade commissioners Tuesday approved spending $7.5 million to bring a commercial air show to the Homestead air base, but the hunt for public dollars continues. A delegation from Miami-Dade plans to lobby Washington lawmakers and ...

Tricolour Arrows, no restrictions on airspace - Turin News Today | Turin - To mark the presence in Turin of the Tricolour Arrows for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, Thursday, May 5 from 13 to 14, will be put in place constraints on an airspace over the city to allow a test of .. .

Belgian Air Force returning to Royal International Tattoo | A dramatic tiger-painted aircraft from the Belgian Air Force will be among a number of striking aircraft heading for this summer’s Royal International Air Tattoo.

Jupiter aerobatic squadron of Indonesia flies with six aircraft and new paint from CavokBlog | The Air Force of Indonesia made an acrobatic display with his demo team Jupiter and increased to six aircraft Woong Bee KT-1B, which received a new red and white paint. The new color scheme of the Indonesian flag, was presented on March 16 in Yogyakarta. The planes are also equipped with generators of white smoke. ...

GUEST COLUMN: Connecting some historical dots - PNW Local News | The Liberty Foundation's 2011 Salute to Veterans tour will feature the Boeing B-17 “Liberty Belle” and the rare Curtiss P-40E “Warhawk” fighter aircraft. The B-17 flying fortress is particularly fascinating for a couple of reasons. ...

Wings of Freedom Tour at Ramona Airport - Ramona Journal | May 4 to 6, a display of the World War II vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine,” Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” and a North American P-51 Mustang will be held at the Main Ramp of the airport, 2926 Montecito Road. The B-17 and B-24 ...

In pictures - BBC News | Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford celebrates the role of women in aviation at its spring air show on 22 May. Above, a WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Intelligence officer works with colleagues at RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, in 1940. ...

Edmonton aviation hero takes last high flight - iNews880.com | Cedric Mah will be remembered as an original member of the "Flying Tigers," a war hero, a northern bush pilot, and more recently, a dedicated supporter of Edmonton's Aviation Museum. He was 88. During WWII, Mah and his brother Albert broke the record ...

Battle of Britain is focus of presentation at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Author and aviation artist Paul Jacobs will present "The Battle of Britain: Three Perspectives" at 7:30 p.m. on May 17 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  This presentation is based on research conducted to support Jacobs' book on the Battle of Britain, which took place during the summer of 1940 when the German Luftwaffe attempted to gain air superiority over the RAF as a prelude to Hitler's planned invasion of England. ...

Spitfire Prom relaunch set for firework finale - Sleaford Today | The World War two aircraft from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will provide an aerobatic display over National Trust owned Belton House on Saturday, June 4. As the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra performs its opening overtures, ...

Hurricane-hunting turboprop touches down for tours on Cape - CapeCodOnline.com | If the Eastern Seaboard has a guardian angel, it might well be the aircraft with a 100-foot wingspan and Doppler radar tail parked on the tarmac at Air Station Cape Cod on Monday.  The turboprop Lockheed Orion is one of three hurricane hunters operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and it touched down on Cape Cod as part of a NOAA hurricane awareness tour. ...

The Flying Heritage Collection from Airplanes Channel: | Located in a 51,000 square foot hangar at the southeast corner of Paine Field in Everett, Washington State, the Flying Heritage Collection offers visitors the opportunity to view an extraordinary collection of historic aircraft. Privately owned by American billionaire and philanthropist, Paul Gardner Allen, the collection highlights an era of great advances in aviation during the 1930s and 1940s and includes combat aircraft from World War II – a time when the boundaries of technology were pushed with a sense of urgency in a battle for dominance of the skies. ...

Learn about helicopters during Family Day at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Learn and experience the wonders of the incredible and complex flying machine known as the helicopter during Family Day from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 21 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  ...

Goodyear and Zeppelin: Together Again, 70 Years Later from Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site | More than 70 years after the dissolution of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation the two companies are working together again.  Beginning in January, 2014, the famous “Goodyear Blimp” won’t be a blimp at all, but a Zeppelin NT. ...

Unmanned Phantom Ray makes first flight - CNET | Boeing said today that its Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft has flown on its own for the first time. The prototype unmanned airborne system, which sports a striking flying-wing design, flew for 17 minutes on April 27, reaching a speed of 178 knots and an ...

Mystery Chopper? from The Unwanted Blog | An American helicopter crashed during the takedown of Osama bin Laden. The helicopter was then burned to prevent classified data from falling into enemy hands. Which seemed to me a little odd… what secret info would be on a helicopter during a mission like this? A few photos have been released showing parts of the wreckage… and I can’t identify the helicopter type. Seems that the helicopter was destroyed because it’s either an all new type, or an existing type, heavily modified. ...

VIDEO & PHOTO: F-22, F-35 in loose formation from The DEW Line | I could be wrong (and you'll no doubt feel free to correct me!), but I believe this is the first time that both stealth fighters have been photographed and filmed in formation.  ...

Brooke Regier from Flight To Success | Brooke, an Aviation High School student, was tasked with writing an essay to help bring the Space Shuttle to The Seattle's Museum of Flight. Brooke's essay is one of many that received an award at the Seattle Chapter 99 meeting. While we all know that The Museum of Flight did not get the shuttle, we also know we got something much better: The simulator! ...

May 3, 2011 Lauren Jones, Aviatrix part 4 by Linda Street-Ely

ISDB students enjoy flights above Magic Valley - Twin Falls Times-News | After a few cancellations because of bad weather, 65 students from the Gooding school were finally able to buckle in and fly with volunteer pilots from Nampa, Idaho Falls and Pocatello as a part of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles ...

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Unique WWII German fighter reassembled in Everett - Seattle PI | The German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter plane shocked its adversaries when it debuted in World War II. Just getting the one that Everett’s Flying Heritage Collection owns flying again took more than a decade of restoration work. And then they took it apart. The airplane rotted in a marsh outside of Leningrad from 1943, when pilot Paul Ratz crashed there, until someone found it in 1989. After a Soviet helicopter pulled it out of the muck, the plane traveled to England and then Arizona, where the Flying Heritage Collection had it restored...

VIDEO: AirVenture 2011 promo - EAA | An exciting look ahead to AirVenture 2011, July 25-31. Tributes to Hoover and Rutan! Concerts by REO Speedwagon, Aaron Tippin, and the Lt Dan Band! Daily airshows—including an even BIGGER nighttime show than last year!

F-35's 1st air show appearance will be ... - Flightglobal | ... maybe later this year, says Adm David Venlet, F-35 program executive officer, who briefed reporters this morning at Joint Strike Fighter headquarters on the 6th floor of a a typically non-descript office building in Crystal City...

Second F-35 Production Jet Takes First Flight - Defense Update | AF-7, the second F-35 Lightning II production jet, takes off on its first flight Friday, March 4, from Naval Air Station Fort Worth JointAF-7, the second F-35 Lightning II production jet, takes off on its first flight Friday, March 4, from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base...

Blackburn Buccaneer – the last British bomber - Shortfinals Blog | I once had the great privilege of living (and working) at the Royal Air Force’s premier navigation school. Inevitably, one met members of the instructing staff who had been in contact with the Blackburn Buccaneer. To say that this aircraft was held in affection would be a massive understatement...

Primeira mulher a pilotar um Gripen na Suécia (First woman to fly a Gripen in Sweden) - Cavok | A capitã Anna Dellham recentemente completou seu primeiro voo solo num caça Gripen tornando-se a primeira mulher piloto de um Gripen na Força Aérea da Suécia. O voo ocorreu junto ao Esquadrão F7 na Base Aérea de Satenas...

VIDEO: Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (1945) - AIRBOYD | The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (Curtiss-Wright CW-24), was a 1940s United States prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss. Along with the XP-54 and XP-56, it resulted from United States Army Air Corps proposal R-40C issued on 27 November 1939 calling for unconventional aircraft designs. A highly unusual design for its time, it had a canard configuration, a rear mounted engine, swept wings and two vertical tails...

VIDEO: Stinson L-5 Sentinel (1942) - AIRBOYD | The USA light aircraft L-5 Sentinel began life as the pre-war Stinson Model 105. The model 105 was nicknamed Voyager, built by the Stinson division of Consolidated Vultee. When World War II broke out, the Voyager was redesigned and then entered into service as a liaison aircraft. It also flew in the artillery spotter role and as an air ambulance...

Open Line Friday – Warbird Radio LIVE! - Warbird Radio | FRIDAY – It’s time once again for an open line show on Warbird Radio LIVE!  This means it’s your turn to call in and discuss whats on your mind…this Friday at 10am (EASTERN).  FYI…we have some cool stuff for give aways …so call in.

FAA administrator to speak at Atlanta Aero Club - General Aviation News | Randy Babbitt, administrator for the FAA, will be the featured guest speaker at the regular bi–monthly meeting of the Atlanta Aero Club scheduled for May 5. Babbitt, a veteran pilot who flew 25 years for Eastern Airlines, is an internationally recognized expert in aviation and labor relations...

Warbird Restoration Enthusiast and Aviation Experience of Clyde Zellers - Covington Aircraft | Covington Aircraft believes that remembering and honoring the history of aviation is vital to our daily operation in Okmulgee, OK.  We highlight an important figure in Aviation, in this blog post, Clyde Zellers...

More Books About Flying - Joe Clark | After finishing yesterday’s blog about books on the subject of the Doolittle Raid, I began thinking of other books written of flying that all serious pilots should read. There are so many great novels and historical accounts written of flying that once started, many become very difficult to put down until finished...

All female pilot group encourages women to take to the sky - KTRE | LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - In 1929 men told them they could never be pilots. With the help of pioneers like Amelia Earhart, women from around the world formed their own group- the Ninety-Nines, Inc. Their mission is to mentor other female pilots. They hope high flying inspires more women to take to the sky...

Heliboarding Copter? - Yanko Design | Have you heard of heliboarding? I haven’t but apparently it’s the hot new thing with adventurists. The AvA 299 DROP is a helicopter designed to take crazy snowboarders to locations not accessible by normal lifts. The entire cabin can lower them just enough to leap out and carve their stake across a mountain...

Amateur High-Altitude Balloon DOES NOT Launch Tonight - MT Utility | The Project Blue Horizon 5 high-altitude transatlantic balloon flight originally scheduled for Friday, April 22 [UTC, tonight in Pacific time], has been postponed to April 27 - 29...