Spectacular aerobatic display at Skydive Dubai - Emirates 24/7 | Officially known as the Royal Air 
Red Bull Air Race World Championship Tickets Now on Sale - Marketwired | SANTA MONICA, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 3, 2013) - Tickets for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship season are now on sale, as the world's fastest motorsport series returns to the skies at exciting new locations around the world after a three-year break.
Blue Angels to return to Seafair air shows in 2014, 2015 - KIRO Seattle | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels, which were unable to appear at this year's Seafair weekend, will be back for the annual August air shows in 2014 and 2015. The squadron canceled appearances across the country this year because of government budget cuts.
POF’s Living History Event: Attack On Pearl Harbor · WarbirdsNews | As reported on Planes of 
CAF High Sky Wing Hosts Toys for Tots Fly-in on December 7 - Newsday | The CAF High Sky Wing and the CAF Airpower Museum will host the 7th annual Toys for Tots donation drive on Saturday, December 7 beginning at 9 a.m.. Midland, Texas (PRWEB) December 03, 2013. The CAF High Sky Wing and the CAF Airpower...
Airport holding cookie fly-in - Daily Journal Online | The Bonne Terre Airport will hold a Sugar Rush Fly-In and Cookie Exchange from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the airport, located at 7444 Williams Road in Bonne Terre. Prizes will be awarded for the yummiest, prettiest and most unique cookies plus the ...
Coast Guard Searches for Aviator, Cumming Native, 70 Years After Crash - Patch.com | The body of a Cumming native and U.S. Coast Guard aviator who died during World War II attempting a rescue has never been found. But more than 70 years later, the remains of Petty Officer 1st Class Benjamin Bottoms may be recovered and returned to ...
Santa Rosa to donate Korean War memorial to air museum - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | Santa Rosa has agreed to donate a long-ignored Korean War memorial to the Pacific Coast Air Museum. The plaque honors the efforts of the U.S. Navy's Carrier Air Group Two, which operated at the Santa Rosa Auxiliary Landing Field in southwest of the ...
The Hunt For the Spitfires In Burma Continues · Warbirds News | This morning we have received an email from Vincent Miles, a manager with Claridon Group Ltd, with the following title “CLARIDON GROUP SAVE THE SPITFIRE PROJECT IN BURMA”. No need to say that this got our attention and put all the things we have planned for the day in the back burner. We called Vincent to get more information about this news...
Replica WWII glider becomes casualty of air museum split - Iosco County News Herald | The Waco CG-4A combat glider, constructed by Bill Erb for the past 20 years, will be relocated from the Wurtsmith Air Museum in Oscoda to the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in Van Buren this spring....
Patuxent naval air museum due date now 2015 - So Md News | A new contractor is on the verge of resuming construction of a new Patuxent River Naval Air Museum and Visitor Center. The Maryland State Highway Administration has given its approval of a new contract, and the St. Mary's County commissioners approved...
Vickers Vulture II — film star by travelforaircraft | This aircraft looked familiar though for an unknown reason but in researching the aircraft on this Wikipedia page it was learned that this the aircraft type used (as a set and as a model) in the 1977 adventure film, The People That Time Forgot. But the Vulture II registered as G-EBHO was more than a mythical aircraft in a film, it was used in a world circumnavigating attempt which began in 1924 at Calshot in the UK...
SR-71 Blackbird was so fast it outran every missile, Mig fighter jet encountered over enemy territory - The Aviationist | Even if the development of the hypersonic strike aircraft dubbed SR-72 has been recently announced, its predecessor, the iconic Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird, remains one of the fastest planes ever flown operationally...
The Pentagon's New Top Woman Inspired Kelly McGillis' Top Gun Role - Gawker | Christine Fox is set to become the highest-ranking woman in the history of the Department of Defense tomorrow. She is unquestionably uber-qualified—and what's more, her review of Maverick's flight performance was spot on. Fox is slated to act as deputy secretary of defense, the No. 2 role at the Pentagon, until a permanent successor to the outgoing Ashton Carter is named. It's the culmination of a long and respected career as a naval analyst. But Foreign Policy's profile of Fox this morning reminded readers of another entry on her CV: She was the inspiration for Charlie, the tough-talking ground instructor who fell for Tom Cruise in Top Gun....
I'm A Fan Of Amelia Rose Earhart! (Watch Her TEDx Speech To Learn Why) - AirPigz | I hope the people who found it necessary to beat up on Amelia Rose Earhart back in August, when it surfaced that she's not actually related to the Emelia Earhart aviator of the 1930's, know enough today to feel bad for the things they said... if they don't (maybe you're one of them?) then this video, recorded back in October at a Denver TEDx event, should do the trick. She's done an excellent job here explaining the past, the present, and the future.
Video: Russian Mig-31 Foxhound as you’ve never seen it (using GoPro cameras) - The Aviationist | One of those videos that don’t need much comments. This is what happens wen you couple some Russian Air Force Mig-31s and GoPro cameras mounted in various positions on the Mach 2.83 Foxhound.
Scholarships available for women, youth, aerobatic students - AOPA Pilot | ... aviation industry to make you aware of opportunities for financial help. Scholarship applications have opened for women considering careers in corporate aviation, youths wanting to learn to fly or study aviation, and those interested in learning ...
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A fascinating piece of aviation history from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter It's reported from Antarctica that the remains of a 1911 Vickers REP monoplane (link is to a .PDF file), taken there as part of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), have been rediscovered. The BBC reports: Australian explorer Douglas Mawson had the single-propeller Vickers with him on a 1911-12 expedition but it was abandoned because of engine troubles. Brought to the frozen continent without its wings, the plane was used for a time as a kind of motorised sledge…
Anniversary – First US flight school, established by the Wright brothers, opens from Roger-Wilco by steve 100 year anniversary on 15 February 2010 - Seven years after their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, Wilbur Wright was scouting locations suitable for a flight school. The idea was to train a number of pilots who could in turn teach flying to the wealthy individuals who were expected to buy the airplanes manufactured by the Wrights. Perhaps it is important to note how the commercial aspect of aviation was already rising to the surface just a few years after the success of the Wright Flier…
A Goal And A Passion: Restoring A WW II Corsair To Flight - Hartford Courant McBurney and his team of volunteers built a 7-foot model for the world-famous Paris Air Show in June, which they attended as part of the state Department of ...
A man of three worlds - Santa Maria Times They were Doolittle's Raiders, zooming in from the deck of the USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in broad daylight. The Japanese propaganda machine cranked into high ...
History enthusiasts take unforgettable flight in Fort Lauderdale - MiamiHerald.com A traveling history program allowed civilians to fly in a WWII aircraft as part of the History Flight tour. BY BRIAN HAAS Maybe it was the history behind it ...
Edward Steers Jr. publishes 'We'll Meet Again' - Martinsburg Journal Two members of his family were highly decorated combat pilots whose war records exemplify the characters within his latest book about the B-17 bombers that ...
Natick native served as a WASP in World War II - MetroWest Daily News It was getting all varieties of military aircraft, including the B-17 and B-29 bombers, to the places they needed to be. "We were aware that we were kind of ...
Top local stories to watch for in 2010 - Oshkosh Northwestern Some notable aviation anniversaries will be celebrated during AirVenture 2010, which runs July 26 to Aug. 1. It's being dubbed "The World's Greatest ...
Rose Parade Thrilled Thousands – KESQ And the former Naval aviator was honored with a Navy fighter fly-by, in the missing man formation. Flower-covered hot air balloons from the state of New ...
Alberton bookseller steeped in dad's history since making WWII connection - The Missoulian Zwanenburg relived with Wales how he, as a 15-year-old boy, heard anti-aircraft fire shooting at the "Holy Mackeral," the B-17 that Kenneth Wales was ...
Lecture series on history of flying - Maidenhead Advertiser ... will by taken by Richard Poad, chairman of the Heritage Centre starting on Tuesday, January 12, in the West London Aero Club at White Waltham Airfield. ...
City readying for IAF airshow - Express Buzz A fleet 12 HJT-16 Kiran Mk II will present an airshow on January 12 to mark the culmination of the five-day youth festival, which is being hosted by Orissa ...
Waterford students have eyes on the sky - Flight school new program for wannabe pilots from The Kathryn Report by TheKathrynReport A handful of juniors at Waterford Kettering High School are proving to be high achievers -- really high achievers. They soon will be soaring in single-engine Cessna 172s, as part of a new district program to cultivate wannabe pilots and aircraft mechanics before they even get out of high school. (Full article here)
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