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NORAD Provides Website, Apps To Track Santa - from Aero-News Network | Annual Holiday Countdown Underway By The North American Aerospace Defense Command Children of all ages will be able to track Santa Claus on his annual journey, thanks to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" website is up and running. The site features a holiday countdown, games and daily activities, video messages from students around the world and more, officials said.

Greg Koontz Air Shows and ICI Aviation Insurance Team Up for 2013 Season from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- Greg Koontz Air Shows and ICI Aviation Insurance have teamed up for the upcoming 2013 Air Show Season. Greg Koontz has performed in over 350 air shows since 1974. He wows spectators with outside loops, vertical rolls, snaps, tumbles and inverted passes in his Super Decathlon. He and "The Alabama Boys" also entertain air show audiences as the hapless, farmer and somewhat unwilling "student pilot" Clem Cleaver in his zany "first lesson" J-3 Cub Comedy Act....

Living History Flying Day - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | On Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 10:00am to 12:00 noon, Planes of Fame Air Museum hosts its monthly Living History Flying Day. Museum doors open at 9:00am. The theme for January 5 is the “Luftwaffe vs. the 8th Air Force”, featuring the Focke-Wulf Fw 190...

RAF’s Tornado Role Demo Team to return to the UK airshow scene in 2013 from David Cenciotti's weblog | The RAF has recently announced that its highly acclaimed Tornado Role Demo Display Team is to return to the UK Air Show circuit for 2013. The two-ship display team using radio callsigns Poker 1 and Poker 2 provides a display that shows the British public the RAF’s frontline...

Searching for a Christmas present? The 2013 air show season is ready for take off - Saffron Walden Reporter | Shows include the spring event, called 'Remembering the Mighty Eighth', on Sunday May 26, the popular Flying Legends Air Show (July 13&14), the Duxford Air Show (September 7&8) and the Autumn Air Show (Sunday October 13). IWM Duxford is the ...

Sad news from South Africa, the C-47 support aircraft for the Silver Falcons aer... from AirShowMedia.net's Facebook Wall | Sad news from South Africa, the C-47 support aircraft for the Silver Falcons aerobatic team crashed Wednesday killing all 11 on board. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by this horrible tragedy. -Jim

Honor Flight Documentary Opens Dec 7 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2005, nearly 60 years after the War.

Holiday shopping at the Museum Store from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Shopping online for holiday gifts? Check out the Museum Store online and give the gift that gives twice!   The Museum store carries unique and interesting aviation-themed merchandise, and 100% of the proceeds directly support the many fine programs and events offered at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force -- from educational programs and lectures to special events such as the Doolittle Raiders Reunion....

The Doolittle Raid on Japan - Ag Journal | Doolittle had gained his fame as a flyer by the records he had set in air race competitions and distance flying. He had three degrees in Aeronautical Engineering - a BA from the University of California Berkeley and an MS and PhD from M.I.T. Doolittle ...

Pearl Harbor Day Recovery: One Wildcat from AVwebFlash Current Issue | An FM-2 Wildcat that rolled off the deck of a ship on December 28, 1944, after suffering an engine failure during take-off was plucked from Waukegan Harbor on Lake Michigan in Illinois, Friday, reportedly thanks to a donation from 78-year-old pilot Charles Greenhill. The aircraft's pilot, William Edward Forbes, was rescued when the aircraft went into the water more than 60 years ago. He passed away in 2008 at the age of 85. Now, local enthusiasts hope to use the aircraft to encourage development of a museum at a former Naval Air Station museum in nearby Glenview, Ill.. But before that, the aircraft will be headed to Greenhill's hangar in Kenosha, Wisc., if only temporarily.

Flight museum expects to leave Bellingham over disputed lease - Bellingham Herald | B-17 Bomber+. People line up for a chance to tour the B-17 bomber, Sentimental Journey, as it visits Heritage Flight Museum in Bellingham from July 6 to July 9. The museum and plane will be open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday and will make only ...

Millville Air Museum dedicates wing to chairman - Gloucester County Times - NJ.com | A new section of the Millville Army Air Field Museum has been named to honor Hugh McElroy. ... The museum was founded at the airport in 1983 with the mission to help preserve U.S. aviation history, especially the role the Millville Airport has played ...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (トラトラ虎) from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Tora! Tora! Tora! (トラトラ虎) This is the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor which occurred on 7 December 1941. The attack was part of Japan’s strategy to become the preeminent colonial power in Asia and proved the supremacy of the aircraft carrier over the battleship (though some battleship supremacists influenced both the Imperial Japanese Navy [...]

Commemorating Pearl Harbor Day: CAF's Tora! Tora! Tora! Team from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo 

Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting December 20 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

John D. Silva dies at 92; introduced news helicopter - Los Angeles Times | "I never thought about being a pioneer," Silva told Air & Space magazine in 2009. "All I ever wanted to do was get us there and get the picture — before the competition got it." Silva is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Steinkraus-Silva; daughters ...

Dakota from Apron 6 | One of the two Dakota’s that visited us during the Photoflying days. It should have been 1 Dak and the Breitling Super Constellation, but than the Connie cancelled. Breitling decided to send us their Dakota instead…


Skinning the right wing from The EAA Zenith Project by ChadJensen | Skinning the wings is not something I thought we would be doing before Christmas! But because the team skills have built quickly, and we have consistent participation each and every session, being ahead of schedule by a good margin is the result....

See the Apollo 8 mission and learn more from the astronaut who lived it - The Seattle Times | The Heritage Flight Museum website includes information on visiting the museum Anders founded at the Bellingham International Airport. The site includes flight schedules for the museum's historic war birds, some of which Anders still flies. Anders says ...

Video: We are all children of Apollo! from Spaceports