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Air show to take flight - Denton RC | The Denton Airport is opening its doors and runways for the 14th annual Denton Airshow on Saturday. This year’s event will be headlined by the U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II Aerial Demonstration, along with other performers, including Ray Kinney in the Commemorative Air Force FG1D Corsair, Mike Gallaway in the Extra 300, Aaron Taylor in his T-6 Texan and more....

Gold Team Never Quits from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | Blue skies and light winds are the ideal conditions for any skydive but Golden Knights do not always have those luxuries.  Even in the face of questionable weather their mission still remains the same, to bring the U.S. Army to the American public. This was the first year that the Golden Knights jumped into the 2012 Never Quit Challenge.  Since the event has a large Navy and Marine Corps influence the honor was previously held by the Navy’s Parachute Team the Leap Frogs.  This year was different though, the event coordinators wanted the best so they called upon the Golden Knights to get the crowd pumped and ready to go...

Father's Day Fly-In Scheduled - Daily American Online | By KATIE WALKER Daily American Staff Writer Aircraft tours and an all-you-can-eat breakfast will be featured at Somerset Aero Club's annual Fly-In/Drive-In Breakfast on Sunday. The annual breakfast will be held from 8 am until noon at the Somerset ...

Silver City Pilots to take on challenge of 2012 Air Race Classic - Grant County Beat | ...The Baldwin Family Flyers - Caroline Baldwin, her daughter Lydia of Ft. Collins, CO, and granddaughter Cara of Morgantown, WV – will be racing a Piper Cherokee.   While Cara just completed grade ten and is a new student pilot, Caroline is racing for the eighth time and Lydia for the third.   In 2009 and 2011, Caroline and Lydia raced together with their friend Terry Carbonell of Alva, FL. ...

10 month Russian hold up puts pioneering UK world flight in doubt! from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe by The GYROX Team | We at the Gyrox Team are really saddened that once again we are having to call out to Norman's dedicated followers to come to our aid in a last ditch attempt to keep the flight on track.  The reasons for this are best described by publishing here the press release Norman has sent out to the world's media. The plea for your help is at the bottom of the release....

New team gearing up for Cosford Air Show spectacle - shropshirestar.com | A new team is preparing to wow aircraft fans with a revamped event at RAF Cosford Air Show this weekend. Long-serving air show co-ordinator Norman Branagh and his two assistants retired after last year's show, handing over the reins to a new team...

Lockheed Martin Announces 'Centennial Flight Contest' for 2012 Farnborough ... - MarketWatch | BETHESDA, Md., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) today announced a Centennial Flight Contest to be held in conjunction with the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow. The contest invites Lockheed Martin's ...

Super Fortress Stops In WNY - WGRZ-TV | It had the capacity to fly for much longer distances and at higher altitudes than it's predecessors, the B-17 and B-25. The most famous B-29 is arguably the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Last month 2 On Your Side sat down with ...

Wings of Freedom tour stops in Pasco - KNDO/KNDU | To go up in the air for a half hour flight it costs $425 per person in a B-17 or B-24 and $2200 in a P-51. In their prime, these planes were famous for being able to sustain damage and still finish a mission. Many of the planes were scrapped for their...

B-24 Single Plane Attacks Borneo (1944) from AIRBOYD.TV

RC air show Saturday in FdL - Fond du Lac Reporter | The Fond du Lac Aeromodelers remote control hobby club host its annual Fun Fly remote control air show from 9 am to 4 pm Saturday, June 16, at Wellnetz Field, weather permitting. The air show will include acrobatic planes — some with wing spans up to ...

20th annual model airshow comes to the South West - clevedonpeople | One of the country's biggest model air shows will be taking place on Saturday 7 July and Sunday 8 July in North Somerset. The Woodspring Wings show is now in its 20th year, attracting thousands of model ...

Balloons cancelled for weekend festival - Evesham Observer | Kevin Jones, of Evesham Hot Air Fest, said: “It was an extremely difficult decision, especially as we had received interest from a record number of hot air balloon crews for this year's event. "But the safety of the public and crews must come first and ...

Eagles Portrait Signing from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | MAXWELL AFB AL-Each year the graduating class of the Air Command and Staff College  commissions an original oil painting for display in Spaatz Hall. Since the inception of the Gathering of Eagles program, this painting commemorates the achievements of the aerospace leaders honored as Eagles each year...

Let's honor the memory of a fallen hero - Quad City Times | The 21-year-old Moline native was the co-pilot on a B-25 bomber that disappeared with its crew of seven on April 22, 1944 as World War II raged on in the brutal conditions of the South Pacific. Years of searches and work by excavators and forensic ...

Richard (Dick) Abrams 1938-1994 from Test & Research Pilots, Flight Test Engineers | Richard (Dick) Abrams, was a 14-year Lockheed employee who served as flight test director for the company's top secret "Skunk Works" facility in Palmdale. In 1980, Abrams joined the then Burbank-based Skunk Works--Lockheed's Advanced Development Co.--as a senior engineer. From 1989 to 1991, he served as flight test program manager for Lockheed's YF-22 fighter plane, supervising test flights of the aircraft in the Antelope Valley at Edwards Air Force Base and the company's Palmdale facility....

June 12, 2012 Rocket Man part 2 from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | ...Building his reputation as an expert airplane builder, Mark and his "Team Rocket" saw sales of the quick-build F1 Rocket soar to 175 to date. Mark doesn’t just build, fly, and teach in airplanes, he races them too. For years the world’s second largest fly-in, Sun n’ Fun, held each spring in Lakeland, Florida hosted an arrival race called the Sun 100. Mark, having finished his first airplane, an RV4, headed to the Sunshine State and entered the 1992 race....

Orange Lion II from Apron 6 | Part 5 in the Orange Lion serie. During the flight the F-16 was flying very close to our photoship. Even with a wide-angle lens I couldn’t get it framed! This gave the opportunity to photograph the pilot in close up. The yak-52 was...

Tail sitting aircraft galore from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | This past weekend, Dark Roasted Blend presented their History of Tailsitter Aircraft, both real and imagined.  I had seen the majority of the 'real' photos before but not the 'imagined' ones. Still, this post is a nice review of tail sitters...

Navy, Air Force expect more collaboration - Dayton Daily News | C. Douglas Forcino said he believes it's the “recipe for success” as the services work in tandem, as they have recently in trying to find answers to pilots reporting hypoxia-like incidents, or a lack of oxygen, in the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter...

Feel-good aviation news of the day from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Well, actually it's a few days old, but better late than never!  The Birmingham News reports: It was quite a fifth birthday for McKaylee Borklund....

Youngest Pilot Award Chapter Challenge from Antique Airfield News | Todd Harders and the Nebraska Chapter have a great idea and a challenge for other chapters: Every year at Blakesburg there's an award for Youngest Pilot. To encourage a lifetime of engagement with antique & classic aviation the...

Taikonaut Liu Yang May Get Nod for Space from Spaceports | As the countdown for the Shenzhou-9 taikonauts blast to low earth orbit in northwestern China and near Inner Mongolia, speculation continues as to the first Chinese female to be among the crew to board the Tiagong-1 space lab this month, with one report suggesting a preference may already be in the making...

Weeks Marine Hoists Enterprise Shuttle - breakbulk.com | Weeks Marine has used its 533 floating crane to lift the Enterprise space shuttle onto a barge for transport to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum up the Hudson River. The lift took place at the John F. Kennedy International Airport. After a short stay at Weeks Marine yard in Jersey City, the barge with its historic cargo made the voyage to the museum at pier 86 in Manhattan....

IN FOCUS: Virgin Galactic looks to the stars - Flightglobal | Then, at the 2005 AirVenture general aviation show in Oshkosh, Branson and Rutan announced the formation of the Spaceship Company, which would take SpaceShipOne as a starting point for developing what has become the much larger SS2...