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Military plane crashes in Dubai - The National | DUBAI // A military training aircraft returning to Italy after the Dubai Airshow crashed in the sea near Deira about midday yesterday, less than half an hour after take-off.  The two pilots from the Italian-made trainer M-346 ejected from the aircraft just before it went down in the Gulf near the Palm Deira, which is under construction.  Dubai Police said the Italian crew were rescued from the sea and taken to Rashid Hospital, one suffering a broken leg and one suffering minor injuries. There were no other reported casualties when the plane hit the water....

Thunderbirds thrill thousands at Aviation Nation, wrapping up 2011 show season - Air Combat Command |  NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- As the Thunderbirds demonstration pilots landed their F-16s and rendered a synchronized salute to tens of thousands of spectators on the flightline atNellis Air Force Base, Nev., it signaled the finale of a busy and historic 2011 show season.  The team traditionally concludes each eight-month season as the headlining performance at "Aviation Nation," the annual Nellis Open House and largest free public event in Nevada....

Blue Angels Visit Tuscaloosa in Advance of 2012 Air Show from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | US Navy Blues Angels advance planning team landed at Tuscaloosa late yesterday to check on details for the upcoming air show.  The visit, which will last less than 24 hours, is to ensure proper logistics and show plans are in place during a series of meetings with air show officials in anticipation of the event scheduled for March 31 and April 1, according to the Tuscaloosa News.....

The acts the producer of Thunder Over Louisville has planned this year - WDRB | Thunder Over Louisville is set for April 21st, 2012 on WDRB. Wayne Hettinger tells us about his recent trip to Las Vegas and which military aircraft he's already locked down for Thunder's Air Show.  Rated as one of the top 100 events in North America, the Derby Festival's Opening Ceremonies is truly a sight to behold. And each year, more than 500,000 eager thrill-seekers do just that.  The day-long event kicks off the two exciting weeks of events that are part of the annual Kentucky Derby Festival. The Thunder Air Show dazzles the crowd with more than 100 planes, aerobatics teams, daring sky diving teams and breathtaking stunts....

Operational pause lifted on Hawks at 15 Wing - Moose Jaw Times Herald | An operational pause put in place last week on the CT-155 Hawk fleet used at 15 Wing Moose Jaw has been lifted.  The pause was activated after a Royal Air Force pilot was killed in the U.K. after being ejected from his plane while still on the runway....

Sikorsky X2 makes Fort Worth appearance - Sky Talk | Sikorsky X2 in Fort Worth 11-18-2011 1 of 2One of our sharp eyed readers and an aviation buff spied the world's fastest helicopter (or something like that), the Sikorsky X2 on display this morning outside the company's south Fort Worth office (4800 Overton Plaza). And our citizen journalist snapped some cell phone pics we'll drop in here....

Airventure Photos - Northwest Flying Photography Blog | ...Just to catch all three of you up on the last year and a half, I did fly to Oshkosh and back, I took a bunch of pictures, I posted them on the social network, but never wrote up my stuff here....

Battle Scars - Vintage Wings of Canada | The Disappointing Battle in Battle | The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company in the late 1930s for the Royal Air Force. The Battle was powered by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that gave contemporary British fighters high performance; however, the Battle was weighed down with a three-man crew and a bomb load. Despite being a great improvement on the aircraft that preceded it, by the time it saw action it was slow, limited in range and highly vulnerable to both anti-aircraft fire and fighters with its single defensive .303 machine gun.  During the "Phoney War" which took place prior to the Battle of France, the Fairey Battle recorded the first RAF aerial victory of the...

The Blitz - CAF Red Tail Squadron | As this fall’s “Occupy Wall Street” movement expanded from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, protesters in the London, England offshoot camped out in front of St. Paul’s cathedral.  The protesters were left alone for awhile, but eventually the church’s staff members shut the doors to the cathedral, citing a concern about potential health and safety hazards. A newspaper article about the closure mentioned that “it was the first time since the German Luftwaffe blitzed London during World War II that St. Paul’s was closed to worshipers.”  The word “blitz” – which is German for “lightning” - is not typically capitalized.  However, in describing the pounding that England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland endured for eight months, courtesy of the Luftwaffe, the word...

Updated: Mysterious Stealth Helicopter photographed in California is a retrofitted obsolete chopper turned into gunship - The Aviationist | Helikopter Hysterie blog’s editor Axel M. Vollmer, who posted my Stealth Black Hawk digital mock up in May,  has recently taken the following pictures of a mysterious Stealth Helicopter sitting out in the open at Torrance Airport / Zamperini field, home of Robinson Helicopters, in California....

LOOP Aviation Magazine Now Available on the iPad - PR Web | LOOP Digital Media has launched LOOP magazine as a bespoke iPad app available from the Apple App store. It follows on from the succesful launch of the FLIGHTTEST and P1 Apps | A new iPad app brings you the very best in flying, and celebrates what it takes to fly for fun, to fly for a career, or simply to fly better. It can be downloaded by clicking here.  LOOP for iPad is a new addition to the App Store, celebrating every aspect of just what it takes to be a pilot and shining a light on the best of leisure flying – the place where every person who made the decision to chase the dream of being a pilot can marvel at the sublime pleasure of flight....

SpaceX Searches for New Commercial Launch Site - Hobby Space | Hawthorne, CA – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is searching for a new launch site to meet increasing demand from commercial customers.  SpaceX already has an active launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and is currently developing a new launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The company also operates a rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas....

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Blue Angels: Speed, precision … the coolest job ever - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Rochester Air Show and Blue Angels: Marine Corps Maj. Brent Stevens of the Navy's Blue Angels and Rob Holland of Ultimate Airshows show off some of the moves they have in the air as they warm up for the ESL International Airshow Saturday and Sunday. ...

Red Wings' Abdelkader to fly with Blue Angels - Detroit Free Press | Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader will spend about 45 minutes flying with the US Navy Blue Angels on Wednesday at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti. The special flying demonstration by the Navy's elite jet team is not open to the ...

Rare Zero Among CAF Warbirds Headed to AirVenture from The Fabricator | In addition to the world’s only airworthy B-29 Superfortress, “FIFI”, Commemorative Air Force units (wings) from throughout the U.S. will be bringing 10 legendary aircraft that will be part of the air shows and ground displays in the Warbird area. ...

EAA salutes our veterans throughout AirVenture 2011 - EAA News | This weekend marks Independence Day celebrations in the United States, and in three weeks EAA and hundreds of thousands of attendees will continue honoring those who have defended our nation's freedom throughout AirVenture 2011, July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.  ...

Coming To EAA AirVenture? - Able Flight | Celebrate with us at Able Flight's WINGS PINNING CEREMONY on Tuesday July 26th at 10:30 AM in ConocoPhillips Plaza  We'll be pinning Able Flight Wings on three of our new pilots, so be there and help us honor Eric Ingram, Kevin Crombie and Spc Jermaine Strachan. And we'll have a special new award for our first Career Training Scholarship recipient, Paul Lampasso. See You There!

Stampede flyover - CTV.ca | The skies lit up high above Stampede Park on Friday morning as the Snowbirds took to the air and treated visitors to a special flyover. The Snowbirds are in the area for the Airdrie Regional Air Show this weekend. Members of the aerial acrobatics team ...

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England gets ready to celebrate Hilda Hewlet with "Women in the Air" day from Women of Aviation Worldwide Community | Hilda Hewlett owned and ran a flying school at Brooklands motor racing circuit in Surrey. She learned to fly there and on August 29th 1911, at the age of 47, became the first British woman to be issued with a pilot’s licence. Hilda taught her Naval officer son to fly later the same year. ...

Hawker Beechcraft to Feature Trainer and Attack Aircraft at Royal International Air Tattoo - defpro.com | Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) today announced it will highlight its AT-6 light attack and reconnaissance aircraft and its T-6C trainer at the 40th Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT), July 16-17, at RAF Fairford, United Kingdom (UK). HBC will host guests at Chalet #6 on Friday, July 15, and will be at static display ...

Flankers arrive for showing off at RIAT from Flight Image of the Day | Two aircraft dating from the Cold War era have arrived from the Ukraine to take part in the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire this weekend.  The Russian-built Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker', ...

Red Arrows team primed to join Shoreham's air spectacular - The Argus | Flying aces the Red Arrows could stage a spectacular flypast at this year's Shoreham Airshow. Event organisers are talking to Britain's crack display team about an appearance at the event next month. The team hopes to stage a fly-past at Shoreham ...

Mighty Vulcan exits Yeovilton - This Is The Westcountry | The Vulcan is now heading to RAF Fairford for this weekend's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. The plane is one of the most popular among aviation enthusiasts for its sheer size and power. ...

Local Tuskegee Airman to National Aviation Hall of Fame - NBC Washington | When Col. Charles McGee enrolled in flight school at Tuskegee University, he wasn’t out to break down the barriers that existed for African-Americans who aspired to fly for their country.  “The country declared war, and everybody was interested in doing their part,” he said.  He admits that it wasn’t all pleasant and there were challenges on the home front. ...

TOPGUN DAYS - Home base | In honor of the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation and the 25th anniversary of the release of "Top Gun," for a limited time we are offering an incredibly low price on the e-book version. Check out Amazon Kindle, B&N NOOK, and other e-book retailers.    In San Diego? You can buy a copy at the Kansas City Barbeque in the Gaslamp District, while enjoying "Top Gun" movie memorabilia where the "sleazy bar" scenes were filmed!  Topgun Days straps readers into the Navy's hottest jet fighters, a world many have seen in ...

The Amazing Story of the B-17 Flying Fortress from Fear of Landing | The 398th was a B-17 bomb group in the 8th Air Force 1st Air Division during World War II. The US Eighth Air Force was the largest of the Army Air Forces, engaged in heavy bombing of enemy targets in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft which was heavily used in the strategic bombing campaigns of World War II.  ...

Ferndale Veteran Imprisoned by Nazis Makes Film Debut - KGMI | Geer says Saturday's showing will also serve as a fundraiser, with a dollar from each ticket sold going to a scholarship fund in Moser's name. He says a B-25 Bomber will be at the Heritage Flight Museum over the weekend for the film debut. ...

Low Flying Complaint from PPRuNe Forums ... The complaint is:  You were too high, and only made 4 passes....
   
Sikorsky retires record-breaking X2 with one goal unmet - Flightglobal | As recently as the Paris Air Show last month, Sikorsky President Jeffrey Pino predicted a central sail fairing would be installed for the final flight. Adding the aerodynamic surface to soften drag induced on mast between the coaxial rotors had been ...
     Video: Sikorsky’s Record-Setting Helicopter Retires from Autopia

Breitling Jet Team and Airbus A380 Formation Flight  - YouTube

Electric Gull Flies at Arlington from CAFE Foundation Blog wVideo | EAA’s annual fly in at Arlington, Washington was an electric landing zone for Mark Beierle’s Gull 2000, powered by his own design 20-kilowatt motor.  The 36-coil, 42 magnet disk, weighing 16 pounds, is mounted on a truss arrangement behind the airplane’s high wing, and drives a ground-adjustable pusher propeller. ...

Bruce Achterling: Friday's Fabulous Flyer! from Flight To Success 

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Parachute Into Oshkosh? Fly With Sean Tucker? Your Opportunity Awaits! from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Bid and compete for once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in our Gathering of Eagles online auction to support the Young Eagles program. Win fantastic items and help raise funds to educate and inspire young aviation enthusiasts.

Legendary C-47 Flying Over the Pond in Time for Oshkosh - EAA News | A legendary flying World War II aircraft, the C-47 Dakota N1944A, is coming back home from a long stay in Europe, and just in time for AirVenture Oshkosh. The aircraft, which saw duty in some of the most important battles of the war, was purchased in the UK this week by Kermit Weeks for Fantasy of Flight's flying aircraft collection in Polk City, Florida. But first, according to FOF's Facebook page, "N1944A will make its Homecoming Debut at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where it will be displayed for a few months, before flying south to Fantasy of Flight."  N1944A is among the relative few surviving WWII aircraft that saw duty during the conflict, including ...

Flying Musicians to jam at Oshkosh from General Aviation News | The Flying Musicians Association’s first “FMA AirVenture MusicJams” will take place during this year’s

Vintage aircraft will soar into Hagerstown - Pal-item | The skies over Hagerstown will be abuzz with vintage aircraft Tuesday as the community plays host to the Fourth Annual Hagerstown Flying Circus. ...

You're Invited! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Idaho Falls Younkin/Franklin Fundraiser |  "An All-Day event planned to raise funds in conjunction with the Moonlight Fund for Kyle Franklin, husband of fallen wing-walker Amanda Younkin Franklin.  Amanda and Kyle were injured in a tragic accident in March, and Amanda survived for 76 days, ultimately passing from complications due to the extensive burns she received in the accident. Although Amanda is now in a better place, the bills remain and Kyle and the Younkins need our help. This event will give everyone an opportunity to lend a hand.  In the works are ...

TAHOE SHOW TO BENEFIT FRANKLIN FAMILY - via ICAS Fast Facts | An all-star cast has signed on for a benefit air show to be held at the Minden-Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nevada on August 27 and 28. The proceeds will be used to support and address some of the medical expenses of the Franklin Family. Air boss Wayne Boggs, announcer Danny Clisham and soundman Jay Rabbit will be at show center. Performers signed on thus far include Patty Wagstaff, Greg Koontz, Mark Peterson, Chuck Coleman, the E Team Skydivers, Dave Mathieson, Jon Melby, Marcus Paine, Team Rocket, Rich Perkins and Greg Colyer. The show will also include an extensive static display and a wide range of vendors and concessionaires. For more information on the show, visit www.aviationroundup.com or contact show organizer Bobbi Thompson at 775-782-9871 or by e-mail at bthompson@co.douglas.nv.us.

Rifle air show was the 'bomb' - Citizen Telegram | The crowning moment of the air show was Aaron Tippin's Red, White and Loud concert, Saturday night, which was very well attended. Condie said that the concert area, which can hold 12000 people, was estimated at 70 percent of capacity. ...

AMERICAN VISITOR FLIES IN - RIAT | IT MIGHT be a familiar visitor to the Royal International Air Tattoo, taking place this weekend at RAF Fairford, but no-one tires of seeing the venerable American B-52 bomber. ...

Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Displays Jetstar Once Owned by Howard Hughes from The Aero Experience | Lockheed Jetstar, s/n 5145, arrived at the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum in early 2007 and has since stood guard in front of the museum's historic 1929 Curtiss-Wright hangar. 

Bastille Day marked with pageantry and pomp (Photos) - Washington Post | French air force Alpha Jets (Patrouille de France) fly over the Arc de Triomphe during the annual Bastille Day military parade. (Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images) Get your French on. It's the anniversary of the beginning of the French ...

Warbird in town for tours Friday-Sunday - SC Times | Ground tours of a World War II-era B-17G, one of the most famous airplanes ever built, will be available at St. Cloud Regional Airport from 2-5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  “Aluminum Overcast,” the Experimental Aircraft Association’s restored bomber ...

Keeping everyone happy at an Airshow - The Feast Bowl | It’s about now that things normally start slotting into place: the paperwork is in order, the licences are issued, the pilots are briefed and all we have to do is wait for the day.

Geneseo Air Show photos - The LCN

Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation – Warbird Rescue Hour – Thursday -8pm (EASTERN) from WarbirdRadio.com | WARBIRD RADIO – Chris and Rob welcome the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation on this week’s show.  Tune in Thursday evening at 8pm (EASTERN) for all the details.  For more information on Warbird Rescue or the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation just click on the Quick Links posted below.  Thanks for tuning in! QUICK LINK:  The Berlin [...]

Wasabi Air Racing: EAA's Timeless Voices Interview by Elliot "Stinky" Seguin | Home of Wasabi Air Racing. Elliot Seguin's Formula One class air race team based out of Mojave, California. Pylon racing at the National Championship Air Races in Reno Nevada. Eight airplanes racing head to head around ...

Gidley takes an aerobatic tumble - Newcastle Herald | A third-generation pilot with an 18-year career as an F/A-18 fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force as well as a Red Bull Air Race pilot, Mr Hall is launching a new arm of his business, which combines corporate speaking with his flying prowess ...

STARS Air Show 2011 - The Villager | Prepare for some high-flying excitement this Saturday and Sunday at the Southern Tier Aero Radio Society’s 34th Annual Airshow and Scale Rally.  The airshow, which has run every July since 1978, will take place at the Cattaraugus County/Olean Airport located at 5420 Hatch Hill Road, Ischua, on July 16 and 17. Saturday’s show will run from will run from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., and Sunday’s show from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.  According to STARS, the rally is ...

Hot Rods of the Sky - Kustoms and Choppers Magazine | Now some of you may be thinking “this is a Kustom Magazine why is there an article about Aircraft?” Well the other night I was watching Stacey David’s Gearz and the episode was about an Aircraft that could be considered a Hot Rod. Which was the Stearman Model 75, and  ...

Happy birthday and Godspeed, John Glenn from Boing Boing | Ben Cosgrove at LIFE sends word of a new batch of never before publicly viewed photographs from the "seemingly bottomless LIFE archives." On the occasion of astronaut John Glenn's 90th birthday (the actual day is Monday, July 18), LIFE published a gallery of 25 previously unpublished pics of Glenn from the late 1950s and '60s.  ...

BERRIOCHOA RECEIVES AWARD FOR AIR SHOWS MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON HOOVER - ICAS Fast Facts | The prestigious communications organization Communications Concepts, Inc. has given its 2011 APEX Award of Excellence to the magazine article about legendary pilot Bob Hoover that appeared in the fourth quarter, 2010 issue of Air Shows magazine. The article was written by frequent contributor Mike Berriochoa. It chronicles Hoover’s aviation career and included his reflections on the many changes that have taken place in the air show industry both during his career and since his retirement.
The article was among a field of more than 3,300 entries submitted from across the country and around the world. “We’re proud that Mike received this important award. It is a reflection on his writing talents but it is also a reflection on the quality and value that his writing brings to our industry,” said ICAS President John Cudahy. Berriochoa is an air show announcer and professional writer with many writing awards to his credit.  The APEX awards program is a leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals.

reblog: goodluckmrgorsky “Test pilot Lawrence A.... from x planes | reblog: goodluckmrgorsky | “Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California.”

All the Soviet and Russian Aviation History In One Museum  - English Russia | The Museum of civil aviation is located in Ulyanovsk near an airport. It is a unique place that you just shouldn’t miss if you like planes.

Flypast: What was bomber's mission? - Skyport Heathrow | That someone was Flypast reader Peter Hawkes, who recently found the picture in a box that he had not opened for years. "I think I must have taken it on an old Voigtlander plate camera that I had at that time, just after I came out of the RAF," he said ...

Award-Winning X2 Technology™ Demonstrator Takes Its Final Flight from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | ikorsky Aircraft Corp.'s X2 Technology™ demonstrator has flown for the last time ...

Is the F-22 Too Difficult to Use? - defpro | Many pixels have been spilled on the recent grounding of the F-22 Raptor fleet, problems with the plane's oxygen systems, and the possible role of the oxygen system in the November 2010 crash of an F-22 in Alaska and death of ...

Man builds turbine-powered Batmobile, brags about having the only one (video) from Engadget | So you think you're a huge fan of the Dark Knight, huh? Not so fast. Do you own a full-sized Batmobile? Yeah... we didn't think so. But, auto restoration guru Casey Putsch does, and to launch himself further into super-fanboy status, he upgraded the engine with a Boeing turboshaft -- snatched out of a naval drone helicopter. According to him, this makes ...

Final Shuttle Launch From The Eyes of a Booster from SPACE.com | Another view you'll never see again, space shuttle launch and solid rocket booster separation from the vantage point of the booster itself. The STS-135 mission, the last of the shuttle era, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on July 8, 2011.

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Planes of Oshkosh by Barb | Planes, planes everywhere.  OK, I hear you.  It is called AirVenture after all.  And for airplane lovers far and wide (of which my Dear Hubby is one), it is the place to be in July.  Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  And cool temps for people who live in much warmer locations.  I'm all about the cooler temperature….

OSHKOSH Pic Stream #8 - Departures (Includes C-5 Galaxy - 22 pix) by Martt | Some people drool over a Piper Malibu, Beech Bonanza, or a Cirrus SR22, but if I was able to have any airplane that could take a few friends along and get there kinda quick, I'd want this Mr Mulligan replica! I'm assuming this is the one from the Arkansas Air Museum as I'm not aware of any other replicas of this most amazing aircraft from the mid 1930's. 550 hp hangin' off the nose and room for four... I'm likes it!...

Jack Roush Reported On The Mend from Aero-News Network | The Premier... Didn't Do So Well ANN has learned that Racing Pioneer and Aviation Afficianodo Jack Roush, 68, is apparently healing well after a landing accident, last week, at the 2010 Oshkosh EAA Fly-In. Roush was reportedly trying to land when his aircraft stalled and impacted the airport just off the runway after the close of the daily airshow on July 27th.

RAF Waddington International Air Show from Pacific Wings Magazine - By Peter Cooper | It has been 26 years since its last operational roar, but the Vulcan bomber once again ruled the sky over Lincolnshire at the recent RAF Waddington International Air Show. Just south of the city of Lincoln, ensconced deep inside the renowned World War II Lincolnshire "Bomber County", lies the important Royal Air Force base of Waddington. Today, RAF Waddington has a specific role as the hub of British ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) and not only supports the UK Forces but also NATO…

Rare Zero fighter plane to be filmed for documentary - A Japanese company is flying to Minot on Aug. 23 to film footage of the 1941 A6M2 Model 21 Zero, one of a few Zeros in the world still capable of flying. The late Gerry Beck, former warplane builder, along with Warren Pietsch, Minot, and Tim McPhearson, Page, bought the Zero about 30 years after it was first recovered from the Solomon Islands in 1969. Schreiber-Beck resumed her husband's partnership in the group, referred to as Dakota Blayd Zero, after he died in a plane crash in 2007. "It's such a remarkable airplane in itself, and it gives credit to the technology that the Japanese were using to build it," said Schreiber-Beck. "They had a different mindset than the American population - it was built to be nimble and quick, not necessarily to protect the pilot…

Cataloging, Taking Notes, and Jim's G-Face from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Hey! Bet you've wondered where we've been! All over the place, to be honest. I've hit several airshows, toured the American Champion plant, and been to Beale AFB capturing footage, and other stuff for the movie. With the airshow season winding down here in the northern part of the United States (or at least the northern part of the midwest), I've begun to have time to really sit down and systematically go through the video and audio that we captured in May. Tonight I got all the way through Jim Rodriguez's first flight in the Super D with Don Weaver on 14 May….

Mix of planes will be featured at Flying Circus - Oxford Press | In addition to a space shuttle, this year will feature the Doolittle Raiders of World War II, 200 mph turbine-powered jets, giant scale B-29 and B-17 ...

Thunderbirds to fly at Ventura County air show - Santa Maria Times | US Air Force Thunderbirds lead solo, Maj. Rick Goodman, and Capt. Aaron Jelinek, the opposing solo, perform the crossover break May 1, 2010, during the Big ...

Thunderbirds' support team member has county ties - Ventura County Star | Jason McCree, Thunderbird public affairs officer, discuss details of an airshow. Photo courtesy of US Air Force Tech. Sgt. Russ Martin, a public affairs, ...

Flying Feathered Foe from From the Flight Deck | Well that 3:30 a.m wake up seemed to come extra early this morning. But a straight out departure off runway 25 in Ottawa to a straight in approach on runway 23 in Toronto proved uneventful especially with two large Tim Hortons consumed. Usually, I only have one but this morning I upped the dosage…

Letters From War—Aeroscouts from Pacific Wings Magazine - By Donald Harward | The two young "warrants" (warrant officers) caught my eye as they walked past my aircraft on their way towards their company area. They looked tired—very tired—and I noticed the green canvas boxes, which held their ANVIS night vision goggles, draped over their shoulders. Their faces were streaked with dirt or dust, and trails of tears led from the corners of their eyes—something that is common here, as our eyes are constantly irritated by all the dirt and dust in the air…

Sikorsky X2 Pushes Its Way Into The Rotorcraft Record Book by Martt |  I've never really considered myself a 'rotorhead' before, but after riding recently in a Huey and a Bell 47, and then also seeing what's going on with Sikorsky via their display booth at Oshkosh, I'm warming up to the rotary wing concept. You've probably already seen some news about the fact that on July 26th, Sikorsky's X2 coaxial rigid-rotor demonstrator set an unofficial speed record of 259 mph. That's a pretty big deal…

Senate Passes NASA Authorization Bill from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The United States Senate Thursday passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 as recommended by the Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee. The measure advances while leaving the House NASA Authorization Act of 2010 to be debated on the floor of that body in September and subject to floor amendments…

Cold War: The Peacemaker Takes to the Sky from About.com Military History | August 8, 1946 - The Convair B-36 Peacemaker (right) first flies. Responding to the US Army Air Corps' needs for a very long-range bomber in 1941, Consolidated (Convair after 1943) began work on what was to become the B-36. Delayed due to other wartime needs and various issues, the prototype did not fly until August 1946…

The Equation for a Thriving GA Community: Pilots x Planes + Kids = New Aviators for Future Prosperity from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | [Note, this is part two of a two-part article on the camaraderie that we pilots share.] In part one of this series, I took a look at exactly how rare it is to possess a pilot's license in the United States. The conclusion – while not really news to most flyers – was quite a stunner to non-pilots on the street..