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Record Crowds at Air Show - Pro8news | Well each year, this month long WBCA celebration brings a boost to our local economy.  And today event planners are reporting a record breaking crowd at this mornings Stars and Stripes Airshow....

SRIA looking into options for Blue Angels show in case of cuts - WEAR | Authorities are looking at ways to save this summer's Blue Angels air show on Pensacola Beach, if it ends up being canceled due to budget cuts. The Navy recently put out a plan saying many of the Blues' 2013 shows would be called off if deep budget cuts start on March 1....

Airshow Industry Hit By Sequestration Fears from Aero-News Network | Event Cancellations Mount, More Expected ANN is in the process of cataloguing a number of aviation events, airshows, and open houses, that are already shutting down or getting canceled due to the expected budget cuts and concerns raised by the pending Sequestration deadline imposed by the inaction of our governing body to... well... govern. So far...

Avalon airshow poised to take region by stealth - Geelong Advertiser | WING walkers, astonishing aerobatic displays and a top-class US fighter jet will take to the skies for Avalon International Airshow next month. Airshow executive manager of media and communications Laureen Deale said organisers were hoping to attract ...

Yankee Air holds line on cost of B-17 flight experience - Hometownlife.com | Established in 1981, the Yankee Air Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. Visit the www.yankeeairmuseum.org website to learn more about us and how the USAF Thunderbirds demonstration team will Thunder Over Michigan June 15-16. Tweet ...

Blades help support 500-mile wheelchair challenge - Northampton Chronicle & Echo | Sywell's Blades aerobatic team has helped support a former RAF serviceman's epic 500-mile wheelchair challenge. The Blades are supporting Push 500, a challenge former RAF Regiment Gunner Sean Allerton has set himself. He aims to roll 500 miles in a ...

Help a trio of women pilots participate in the Air Classic Race! from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Just discovered this GoFund site for 3 women pilots from Middle State Tennessee University who want to participate in the Air Classic Race (the successor to the Powder Puff Derby which took up where the PPD left off in 1977....

WWII airman later served 28 years as - Toledo Blade | Edward Carl Martensen, a World War II airman who flew 70 missions as a gunner aboard a B-25 bomber over targets in Europe and later served 28 years with the Toledo Fire Department, died Friday at Flower Hospital. Mr. Martensen, 90, died from renal...

Earhart mystery takes 3 to Saipan - Saipan Tribune | Could a journey back to Saipan lead a group of experts to finally lay to rest the 76-year mystery of the disappearance of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart? That is what U.S.-based film director, producer, screenwriter, and freelance journalist Richard...

Funding Pulled For Spitfire Dig from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The English farmer who claims there are more than 100 Spitfires buried in Burma vows to continue his search for the aircraft even though his financial backer has pulled out. David Cundall says the reason the six-week effort to find some of the Second World War aircraft has failed is that the government won't allow him to dig in the right place. He said it now seems the aircraft, which eyewitnesses have told him were packed in grease paper and...

Work is underway on the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver, the first aircraft planned for... from National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian's Facebook Wall | Work is underway on the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver, the first aircraft planned for restoration in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar...

Scaled Modelling Video from Wasabi Air Racing

Women in Aviation German chapter mounts international photo exhibition from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Women in Aviation International German Chapter, based in Frankfurt, has mounted its largest and most ambitious project to date: A worldwide traveling photo exhibition titled Women in Aviation.  The traveling exhibition, organized in cooperation with Women in Aviation, International, will be staged at airports throughout the world in the coming months....

Third Annual Women Of Aviation Week Kicks Off March 4th from Aero-News Network | The American Aviation Community Gets Ready To Celebrate The 3rd Annual Event The Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide announces the 3rd annual Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, March 4-10, 2013. Held annually during the week of March 8, anniversary date of the first female pilot certificate worldwide, the week aims to foster diversity in aviation by celebrating history, raising awareness, and sparking vocations as thousands of girls and women are introduced to aviation through industry-wide collaboration....

American Hot Air Balloonists Rank 1-2 In The World from Aero-News Network | USA Home To Three Of Top 10, Five Of Top 20 Ranked Pilots Worldwide Two time World Champion Johnny Petrehn of Leawood, KS is again the top ranked hot air balloon pilot in the world according to the "Hot Air Balloon World Ranking List" recently released by the Ballooning Commission of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale....

CA Skydiver Survives/Videos Chute Problem from Aero-News Network | Fall And Impact Caught On Helmet-Mounted GoPro Camera Authorities said he was "lucky to be alive," and Geraldo Flores spent two weeks unconscious in a hospital with broken ribs and a lacerated tongue, but the California skydiver survived a failure of his parachute after exiting an airplane at 13,000 feet, and his fall and impact were captured on his helmet-mounted GoPro camera....

Words cannot describe the feeling. Time stands still. from Bonjour BlueSky

Scholarship fuels Alaska teen’s dreams of flight from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Less than a month shy of his 18th birthday, Alexander Agosti is a little closer to his dream of becoming a professional pilot thanks to Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Alaska petroleum distribution group, which sponsored the Alaska Air Carriers Association (AACA) 2013 Forrest Jones Memorial Scholarship. Agosti earned the scholarship for his outstanding academic record and passion for aviation....

Day 56 - February 16, 2013 from TeenFlight! | We had a great day of work at the hangar, as we progressed closer to completing the TeenFlight 2 RV-12. There seemed to be an abundance of space in the hangar with the TeenFlight 1 RV-12 gone, so we...