Demonstration Team CF-18 Hornet Canadian Air Force will attend the 60th anniversary of the Smoke Squadron - Cavok (Translated) | The Team Official CF-18 Demonstration of the Canadian 
Armed Forces returns for the season of air shows in 2012 with a mission: to provide spectacular performances throughout the year. And in 2012, the team will participate in 15 air shows in Canada, including two in the north of the country (Yellowknife and Inuvik), four shows in the United States, as well as the first deployment in South America, when the team will be present at the Anniversary 60 of the Smoke Squadron, the 12th and May 13th, the Air Force Academy in Pirassununga, São Paulo. The Demonstration Team CF-18 embodies the excellence required to...
Impromptu ceremony at Banner Boswell honors Blue Angel - Your West Valley | ...Tom Fenner, military liaison with Hospice of the Valley, performed a small ceremony to commemorating Crain’s service to the country as a member of the Blue Angels Squadron. He presented Crain with a lapel pin and flags representing the Navy and United States....
Salinas aerobatic star summits Africa's Kilimanjaro - As if he doesn’t already have enough thrilling things to do, world famous aerobatic pilot and Salinas resident Sean D. Tucker has decided to add mountaineering to his resume as an adventurer. And, in his typical style, the 59-year-old decided to tackle none other than Tanzania’s famous and iconic Mt. Kilimanjaro...
The City of Homestead Welcomes Golden Knights to their 2012 Winter Training - USAGK | On 
Golden Knights Promote Three of Their Own - USAGK | This week, the US Army Parachute Team promoted three of their own to the rank of Sergeant First Class. SFC Drew Starr, SFC Scott Janise and SFC Laura Dickmeyer, along with previously promoted SFC Dannielle Woosley, SFC Josh Coleman and SFC Justin Blewitt, are all members of the Golden Knights Competition Team and have contributed to putting the “Gold” in Golden Knight multiple times over the past three years....
Pilots zoom in on theme park ride - The Press Association | Former Red Arrows and RAF fighter pilots have been drafted in to test a new ride at a theme park. Thorpe Park in Surrey took the unusual step after crash dummies were left with limbs missing during a previous test of The Swarm....
Herald and Gazette series teams up with Shoreham Airshow - THE Herald and Gazette series is 
FIFI B-29 and The Brat III P-51 Mustang Coming to Mobile -Video Link from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | FIFI, the world's only flying B-29 and The Bratt III, a WW II P-51 Mustang will land at the Mobile Downtown airport on Thursday, February 24 for tours and rides through Sunday. The B-29 Superfortress regularly tours the US each year in remembrance and honor of our American military...
FAA Production Studios to Broadcast During 2nd Largest U.S. Airshow from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | SUN 'n FUN 2012, the 2nd Largest Airshow in the United States will take place March 27 - April 1, 2012 in Lakeland Florida. During this event, the volunteer FAA Production Crew (National Aviation Safety Foundation) will be operating from the CFAA, Central Florida Aerospace Academy, Room 103 and a Satellite Uplink Truck next to the Sea Plane Pilot's Association facility...
Civil Air Patrol squadron to hold open house - The Leader | Big Flats —The Chemung-Schuyler Cadet Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol will host an open house from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday Feb. 28 to raise awareness of the group and its purpose. The Civil Air Patrol is the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, and is open to anyone 12 years old and older. The group...
Pneumatically Pumped Up - Cafe Foundation | Robert J. Englar is Principal Research Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Aerospace & Acoustics Technology Branch. ...His research combines attempts to achieve low noise, high lift and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities while applying pneumatic power to the equation. Not to be confused with inflatable rafts, pneumatic, in this case, refers to the careful routing of high-pressure airstreams over very different airfoil and high-lift device surfaces, and has led to...
Aero club future up in the air - ABC | The board of Tamworth Aero Club has called a public meeting next month to discuss its fate, after Tamworth Regional Council decided not to renew the club's lease. President Adele Mazoudier says...
Then & Now Explains Present With Past from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler | If there’s a poster child for the public’s misunderstanding of the physics of flight, it has to be the stall. Every time some poor reporter in print or on TV, who hasn’t dug deep enough, relates it to the airplane’s powerplant, haven’t we all shaken our heads and thought less than nice things. So, my smug aeronautical compatriots, let me ask you this. Who first used stall in an aerodynamic sense, when was it first used, and whose flying inspired it? If you know the answer, you’re either a...
Wingsuit Pilot Releases Video Of Near-Fatal Jump - AVweb | Professional base jumper Jeb Corliss is due out of the hospital Friday and Tuesday released comprehensive video of the accident that broke both his legs and came within feet of taking his life when he clipped a rock formation at roughly 180 mph. The accident happened last month while Corliss was filming a jump for a TV documentary at Table Mountain in South Africa. Corliss cleared the rock formation with his upper body, but his legs hit. The contact significantly changed Corliss' trajectory causing him to nearly tumble but he quickly recovered and deployed his parachute. Multiple cameras placed on the ground, on a trailing wingsuiter and on Corliss himself captured the flight and the impact. Click through for video....
Video: The East Coast at Night - airspacemag.com | The sprawl of major metropolitan areas, the lights on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and the northern aurora are all visible in this sequence of images shot by the astronauts on the International Space Station on January 29. The time-lapse is speeded up slightly more than 11x: the pass actually took 15 minutes, beginning over Central America and heading northeast.
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Wingsuit Flyer Injured In Crash - AVweb | Wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss broke both legs in a fall after jumping from Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday. A YouTube video shows Corliss and a videographer jumping off together, and a few seconds later Corliss hits the mountainside and tumbles to a stop. He was evacuated by helicopter. Corliss, 35, has successfully jumped from the...
Air show raises $115,000 for Hasbro hospital - Turn to 10 | PROVIDENCE --The Rhode Island National Guard on Tuesday presented a check for $115,000 to Hasbro Children's Hospital....
Rifle Airshows -- Joe Shetterly - Vans Airforce | Some months ago, my mother-in-law sent me a clipping from the Kansas City Star about an airshow performance featuring Joe Shetterly in his RV-8. Capt. Shetterly also flies an A-10 Warthog in airshows, and the...
National Air and Space Museum opens art exhibit showing history of Marine Corps aviation - The Republic | WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is marking the 100th anniversary of U.S. Marine Corps aviation with an art exhibit retracing the history of military aviators. The exhibit "Fly Marines!" opened Saturday and will be on view for a year. It includes 91 works for art from the Marine Corps Art Program that is managed by...
Only Airworthy B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" to Journey to Florida for the Spring | ADDISON, TX— The Commemorative Air Force B-29/B-24 Squadron is proud to announce that the world's only flyable Boeing B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" is going to visit Florida during the month of March. While in Florida "FIFI" will be visiting, Gainesville, Daytona, Titusville, Ft. Lauderdale, Punta Gorda, Lakeland and Tallahassee. The highlight of the tour will be the appearance of "FIFI" at the TICO Warbird Airshow, Florida International Air Show, and Sun N Fun; demonstrating that the "Commemorative Air Force is unique, we aren't like other...
CAF Only Flying B-29 Coming to Mobile Alabama from Alabama Aviator | ...Alabama on February 24-26, 2012. Tours and rides will be available at Mobile Downtown Airport. After that, the Florida tour will commence. -FiFi, world's only flying B-29 coming to Mobile, Alabama, CAF image- The highlight of the tour will be the appearance of "FIFI" at the TICO Warbird Airshow, Florida International Air Sho...
Wings of Freedom Tour brings vintage warplanes to Brevard - Florida Today | MELBOURNE — Pilots don’t all strive to be fighter top guns. They simply want to fly. “I had a chance to get into the B-17,” said John “Pat” Ryan of Melbourne. “To me it was a big deal. A lot of people wanted to be in fighters.”...
Red Tails Set to Premiere | After nearly 20 years in development by legendary producer George Lucas, Red Tails is set to premiere on Friday, January 20th. The film recounts the struggles of the first black fighter squadron in the Army Air Corp. These men became known as The Tuskegee Airmen because of their training base in Tuskegee, Alabama. LiveAirShowTV interviewed three surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen at the 2010 Wings Over Houston Air Show. “This was a great honor to ask these American Heroes about their experiences as aviation, and cultural pioneers”, said LiveAirShowTV President Jeff Lee. “They were focused on flying and their missions at the time, but it didn’t take long before they realized that they were changing America.”...
Fouga Magister aircraft on auction (2): history and technical card (VIDEO) - Avio News | Paris, 
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Coming to Huntsville for Employee Tours from Alabama Aviator | Boeing says it's excited to visit Boeing Huntsville engineers from the Huntsville Design Center (HDC) who support the 787 in the areas of primary and secondary structural design and stress analysis of composite and metallic components. HDC also provides thermal analysis, flight test and systems analysis support for the 787. -Boeing Dream...
Video Proof: Chickens CAN Fly! (Awesome Italian Homebuilt) - AirPigz | I've got a couple 
The Army's Newest Surveillance Drone Can Shoot 80 Years' Worth of Video In a Day - PopSci | Sometimes the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and the U.S. Army is about to find out if they can create some amazing ISR synthesis by combining two pieces of bleeding-edge technology from its own stores: Boeing’s A160 Hummingbird unmanned helo and ARGUS--the Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System. Together, the duo will reportedly be able to collect 80 years’ worth of HD video each and every day....
PICTURES: Northrop adapts B-2's flying wing into airliner for NASA study - The DEW Line | 
Kestrel Relocating to Northern Wisconsin - Kestrel | January 17, 2012 - Kestrel Aircraft Company, which is developing a new single-engine turboprop aircraft, announced Monday that it would bring its manufacturing operation and corporate headquarters to the city of Superior in northern Wisconsin. Kestrel CEO Alan Klapmeier was joined by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for the joint announcement at the Richard I. Bong Airport in Superior, claiming the area would add 600 permanent jobs by 2016....
The Importance of An Airport’s Name (Guest Post) - The Cranky Flyer | The name of an airport: we see it when we book reservations, on billboards as we cruise down the highway, on signs directing us towards the terminals, and we hear it constantly over the airport’s PA and on the airplane itself. As frequent fliers, we try to tune it out and focus on the three-letter airport code—it’s a daunting task given how often we’re exposed to the actual name....
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Navy Blue Angels to perform in March at Thunder Over Utah Air Show in St. George - The Republic | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will be the featured performers at the next Thunder Over Utah Air Show at the municipal airport in St. George. The show is set for March 17-18. This will be the 
Blue Angels' first time performing in southern Utah....
Phantoms and Angels: Blue Angels F-4 Phantom Teams | Precision, team work, unending dedication to perfection. Since its formation in 1946, these have been the traditions of the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron - the Blue Angels. From 1969 to 1973, the Blue Angels flew the F-4J Phantom II, a high-performance jet fighter which flew more than 1,600 miles per hour and achieved altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet. For the first time, read the first hand accounts of the Blue Angels who flew on the wings of the F-4 Phantom....
My biggest fan came for a visit in Burbank - Flying with Amelia | We woke in Oakland, CA to a 
Air show officials remember pilot - News and Sentinel | Local air show officials remember a pilot who was a staple at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport events and other aerial programs throughout the state. On Dec. 22, pilot Michael Lakin, 42, who had participated in many Air Expos at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport, was killed while performing aerial stunt maneuvers for recertification near Columbus, Ohio....
More Info On Sponsorship for the Air Race Classic - You Fly Girl | We can certainly use all available hands. But I would like to add a comment about sponsoring the race: Sponsorship does not entail thousands of dollars. We have sponsors for $25 on up and we have many who sponsor the race by...
Air Racers 3D | 3D Entertainment has released the new poster for the upcoming Giant Screen film "Air Racers 3D." - "A Spectacular Air Show Experience"
Fly into Nevada’s “Valley of Speed” for a breathtaking exploration of the fastest race in the world 
combined with spectacular air show entertainment: the legendary Reno National Championship Air Races. Join today’s elite pilots as they fight for position, wingtip-to-wingtip, and skim 50 feet (15 m) above the ground around an oval course at twice the speed of a “Nascar” race.
Discover this ultra-competitive world through the eyes of rookie pilot Steve Hinton Jr. as he attempts to fly his P-51 Mustang fighter plane to victory in the most highly-anticipated and unpredictable race class. Learn about the history and science behind the sport, whose concept dates back to the dawn of aviation and see top-notch aerobatic performers, including the Canadian Forces Snowbirds.
With spectacular aerial photography filmed entirely in 3D and unprecedented access granted to the course, Air Racers puts you in the cockpit to experience the intensity and high-speed thrills of a sports event like no other for the very first time in IMAX 3D theatres.
The film opens in IMAX and Giant Screen theaters April 5, 2012.
Old Buckenham airshow to return in 2012 - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | Officials from the Touchdown Aero Centre, which operates the airfield, said the airshow would offer displays from perennially popular vintage aircraft to the latest in modern aerobatic machines. The event will also feature a fairground, military static...
Venues set New Year's Eve plans By LINDSAY PEYTON, CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT | As 2011 draws to a close, local restaurants are creating special menus and area venues are booking acts for their New Year's Eve celebrations. Spring residents will have their pick of entertainment for the big evening – from listening to the classical compositions of the Houston Symphony to dancing to Sinatra tunes in an airport hangar-turned 1940s nightclub....
Studio plans to film 'Duggy' episodes - AndersonValleyPost.com | He recently starred in “Thunder Over Reno,” a film that partially takes place at the Reno Air Races. The movie was directed by Mitch Farley, creator of “Duggy.” “He (Foxworthy) did share his excitement for the project and he appears to have quite a bit...
Museum to feature B-25 - Fremont News Messenger | The centerpiece at the Liberty Aviation Museum, under construction at the Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport, will be a B-25 bomber manufactured by NA Aviation in 1945. The plane has 13 machine guns and is one of only 30 worldwide....
U.S. Air Force & Combat Infantry: Intense Love-Hate Relationship - Salem News | ...The first American Airplanes got to Britain in June ’45. By July 27th there were 47 B-17 Bombers, 74 P-38 Fighters and 52 C-47 Cargo planes. Almost none of the Bombers survived their missions. The Memphis Belle was the first to survive 25 missions to great celebration!...
Secret Squirrel Stratofortress — the B-52 known as El Lobo II - Travel for Aircraft | 16-17 
Video: Nearly 14' Wingspan RC Airbus A400M - With Paratroopers! - AirPigz | This amazing and very large (1:10 scale) Airbus A400M RC model has been around for a while but there's so dang much cool stuff on the interwebs these days that sometimes it takes a while to find the must-see items. With a nearly 14 foot wingspan, a little over 90 pounds, and with 18 servos operated by two people with two radios, this is one complex RC model. And, as this video shows, it has video cameras mounted in the cockpit(!), under the...
Video: Wingsuiters at it again - in formation! - Bayou Renaissance Man
Aviation for Kids - NBC26 | E.A.A. Airventure may be about a half a year away, but that's not stopping the staff at the E.A.A. Airventure Museum from getting Northeast Wisconsin kids excited about airplanes....
XB-70 Engines - The Unwanted Blog | A photo from a NASA report showing the tail end of a B-70, with engine #3 removed. The B-70 was a carefully shaped vehicle, every line and....
NASA space camp scholarship offered to children of military from Air Force Link Top Stories | NASA Space Camp is a place of learning where children come together for a journey they will never forget. For many, it is a life-changing event - helping them make decisions about their educational and vocational careers. This extraordinary adventure teaches our youth about astronauts and space travel and so much more. They learn leadership and they develop bonds of friendship that can last a lifetime....
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Blue Angels land in the Valley, look forward to their stay - Imperial Valley Press
... jets flew in about 1 pm Monday, followed a few hours later by the group's C-130 carrying crew and equipment for the Navy's flight demonstration team. ...
Blue Angels in Lincoln on 9/11 - Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN — Only one sleek F/A-18 Hornet with the blue-and-gold Blue Angels logo landed Monday in Lincoln. But many more will be in town on ...
Waterloo Air Show - Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
Waterloo Air Show in Ontario, will occur on August 20 & 21, 2011. We will be having the Snowbirds, CF18 Hornet Demo, Mike Wiskus, Kent Pietsch, the Harvards, and others. We're really excited about putting on a great show this year for ...
Abby Airshow takes wings - Abbotsford Times
Clear skies and hot days brought out enthusiastic aviation crowds to the 48th Abbotsford International Airshow, declared an overwhelming success by its ...
January 4, 2011 Honor Flight Network part 1 from Ely Air Lines
... We’re saying good-bye to over one thousand World War II veterans every day. Time to express our thanks is of the essence. ...
Night Witches - Fox2
Women as fighter pilots? Even Stalin was reluctant at first. Eventually the Soviet dictator said okay ...
AE5X (John): “The School That Fell From the Sky” and W0EBG/VK9FH from Planet Ham
... In short, Mr. Hargesheimer’s specially outfitted P-38 was shot down over the island of New Britain in 1943. For 30 days, he lived in the jungle, eating whatever he could find to sustain himself. After a month of ongoing malnutrition, he was taken in by natives of the island who hid him from the Japanese and nursed him back to health. An eventual rescue by submarine brought him back to the States. ...
Tiger Moth charity censured for health and safety failure - Civil Society Media
A charity which provided flights in a World War II aeroplane to sick and terminally ill children invalidated its insurance by failing to ensure the plane ...
Wingsuits: Soaring Above the Clouds from ASB.tv
Imagine yourself flying. Not in the cockpit, but literally flying. Wingsuits are about as close you can get to actual human flight without growing wings. ...
Lost in Time: The Oldest Flying Boeing 747 – N93101 from Airline Reporter
N93101 was first delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) in August 1970 after her first flight on July 13, 1969. She was the fifth Boeing 747 to be produced and the first to be delivered to TWA. The airline celebrated that this was their first Jumbo Jet with painting a “5″ on the front of the aircraft. The 747-100 didn’t stay in service with TWA for long. It was ...
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Dian Page column: Young Eagles benefit from De Pere pilot - Green Bay Press Gazette
All pilots in the Young Eagles program explain the safe operation of airplanes and principles of flight before the short trips. ...
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Lockheed workers, Navy and Marines help Santa reach more kids from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | A good photo spread on Star-Telegram.com shows Santa arriving at Naval Air Station Fort Worth on Thursday aboard the Blue Angels "Fat Albert" C-130 to collect toys gathered by local Lockheed Martin employees for the Marines Toys for Tots program. - Bob Cox
Famed fliers coming back after tragedy - Wairarapa Times Age - Wings Over Wairarapa this summer will see the return to the skies of the Red Checkers, the air force precision aerobatic display team that has been out of ...
Visit our booth at ICAS 2010 - This year you can find Melissa Aerobatics at Booth #'s 820-822. Stop by to hear about our incredible acts:'Wingsuit & Aerobatics' Formation between husband and wife in an airplane and in free-fall! This was a big hit in 2010 in shows all across North America. To see a video follow this link…
Local pilots enjoy experimental aircraft adventure - Valley News | The roundabout route taken by Wayne Flemington of Winchester and Les Seymour of Fallbrook led them to an international air show, over the Rocky Mountains ...
Goodyear Blimp Ride Like Being At Sea by flyer98 | It doesn't take Matthew St. John long to come up with his favorite part of his job. It's the view. Really, what other answer could there be? St. John, a pilot on the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Innovation, said he usually spends two or three hours daily in the sky, hovering over stadiums or taking jaunts in the 4-year-old craft. "You get in a Zen-like state," he says. "You kind of relax."
McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II from Planeshots:
Shuttle Woes Pull Plug on Students' Space Station Talk - The Ledger - Students had expected to communicate with astronauts in space from the FAA Production Studios located on the Sun 'n Fun complex of Lakeland Linder Regional ...
Rocket launching teaches innovative skills - LubbockOnline.com | The students in the Lubbock Independent School District's new All Systems Go rocketry class cheered following the successful launch. ...
Today In Aviation History – December 4 « Calgary Recreational and ... by bikeal | Today In Aviation History – December 4. 4 12 2010. In 1908… The Englishman J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon (later Lord Tara of Brabazon) makes a flight of 1350 ft. in a Voisin biplane at Issy-les-Moulineaux in France. ...
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