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10000 join campaign to save Southend Airshow - Echo | A Facebook page called Save Southend Airshow, set up after Southend Council announced plans to axe the event to save £130,000, now has more than 10,700 'likes' and an e-petition against the cut has more than 1,100 signatures. John Delaney, 52, of ...

Aviation: You're Invited to from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | 2013 NW Aviation Conference and Trade Show  | Feb 23 & 24, 2013 | Puyallup, WA | SAT 9-5:30 | SUN 10 - 4 PM

Tuskegee Airman dies at age 91 in Massachusetts - Fox News | Luther McIlwain, an aviator with the famed Tuskegee Airmen who broke military racial barriers during World War II, a retired New York City police officer, and a civil rights advocate in Massachusetts, has died. He was 91. The Charles Dewhirst funeral ...

'The ones that didn't come back are the heroes' - KVAL | Troyer was a flight engineer on C-47's and B-25 bombers in the Army Air Corps (June 1942 to the end of 1945). He went on an Honor Flight last fall. Troyer recalls when his jet landed at Dulles Airport in October and adds, "A little girl, 7 years old ...

Kids These Days from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | By Dave O'Malley Here's the scene. A couple of us 60 year-olds are sitting in a food court in some nameless mall, just starting in on their double double coffees and hot breakfast sandwich on a biscuit, the wife unwrapping a cinnamon bagel, double toasted with butter. The morning paper is shared out between them – the sports section for him, the style section for her. Couple of hot sips into the coffees and don't you know it, but four teenagers shuffle by and plunk down at the next table. They wear clothing deliberately modelled after one of Canada's finest groups of role models – convicts. Their pants, worn belted below the hips, defy gravity and comfort. Each wears headphone sets larger than those worn by submarine sonar operators, puffy jackets of camo with dubious ability to make them less visible, and hats clearly made with the intent of expressing an...

Spitfire enthusiast spends 28 YEARS building 'perfect' replica of plane flown by his friend during World War Two from The Kathryn Report | A spitfire enthusiast has spent 28 years building a life-size version of the famous fighter plane from scratch.Terry Arlow, 56, built the 'perfect' replica of a Spitfire Mk. IX, the same one flown by his friend Tony Cooper during World War Two, despite having no engineering skills, after landing on a plan for the aircraft.He was inspired by the 1969 war film Battle of Britain when a youngster.

Boeing 727-200 Latest Charter Flight to St. Louis Downtown Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Recently, there has been a flurry of charter flights arriving at St. Louis Downtown Airport, bringing in a variety of new aircraft types. Airport Director, Bob McDaniel, has recently commented, "Now, with our recently widened and improved runway, visiting sports teams can enjoy that same close proximity...

CARE Package - Code One | Under a modification program called CARE, or Cockpit Altitude Reduction Effort, Lockheed Martin mechanics are beefing up the structure around the cockpit of U-2 Dragon Lady high altitude reconnaissance aircraft at Beale AFB, California, to improve environmental conditions for the pilots....

Tenth Anniversary from Code One | RAAF C-130Js Mark A Decade in MEAO
Out Of The Storm from Code One | Rhode Island C-130Js Dodge The Storm

Monday Marked Anniversary Of First Cow Milked On An Airplane from Aero-News Network | Product Was Said To Be Parachuted Into St. Louis During Air Expo For many, Monday was Presidents' Day, the day the government set aside to honor the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But in the dairy industry, it was also noted as the anniversary of the first time a cow was milked on board an airplane.

Students visiting Air & Space Museum see that learning can be fun - Omaha World-Herald | Castelar Elementary School students took a field trip to the Strategic Air & Space Museum near Ashland, Neb., on Monday. The students spent Presidents Day learning about electricity and aerodynamics and had a scavenger hunt for aeronautical facts.

Scholarship launched to get new flying club airborne from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | It started like so many other great ideas in aviation: A bunch of pilots sitting around, talking about their love of flying and their concern about the dwindling pilot population....