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Hollister Airshow 2013 from Airplanes Channel: Aircraft, Pilots, Heritage, Photos, Video, Events, News by Editor | Head for the Hollister Municipal Airport on the Memorial Day Weekend (May 25 & 26) for plenty of aviation action. The program...

North American Dates Set For Mosquito from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The only flying De Havilland Mosquito will have a busy schedule in North America this summer, according to its owner Jerry Yagen of the Fighter Factory. As we reported earlier, the reconstructed Mosquito, which flew for the first time in September, has made several public appearances in New Zealand where AVspecs, the company that...

Video: Forget The Beatles, The Best Music EVER Comes From The Mosquitos! from AirPigz by Martt | The Historical Aviation Film Unit has just uploaded a new video of the incredible Avspecs Mosquito making some of the best stereo Merlin music ever! Forget the Beatles, it's all about the Mosquitos now! Even tho I'm a hardcore old-school radial engine guy, I have to admit that there just is no sound made by man that's better than the Rolls Royce Merlin V-12 engine...

de Havilland Venom at Wanganui from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney | Further to my last post, here is quick video of one pass of the de Havilland DH112 Venom, ZK-VNM at Wanganui. It was...

Living Legends of Aviation Awards takes flight from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The 10th Annual “Living Legends of Aviation” Awards, presented by Bell Helicopter and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and hosted by John Travolta (pictured), will be held Jan. 18, at the Beverly Hilton....

Amelia Earhart: American Aviatrix - Biography | The producers at BIO.com review hundreds of photos of famous figures each week, from award-winning actors and popular singers, to headliners and scandal makers. While we're digging through these archives, we often come across amazing photos that ...

Calloway helps dedicate Chinese museum's Chennault exhibit - Monroe News Star | Chennault Aviation and Military Museum director Nell Calloway recently returned from China where she helped dedicate a Chennault Flying Tigers exhibit at the Kunming Museum. Kunming was where Calloway's grandfather and Flying Tigers legend, Claire ...

Work continues to restore the B-17 Champaign Lady - Springfield News Sun | Irv Bence uses a grinder to shape a piece of steel for the Champaign Lady B-17 bomber, in the background, that he and other volunteers are restoring at the Champaign Air Museum in Urbana. Staff photo by Bill Lackey. By Andrew McGinn. Staff Writer ...

North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees - Beach Carolina Magazine | Before his career truly began, he took time out from his studies at UNC-Chapel Hill to fly 30 combat missions over Europe in a B-17 bomber during World War II. He began his newspaper career at the Rocky Mount Telegram and later became sports editor of ...

Mosquito bomber rebuilt in New Zealand from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | The Fighter Factory in Virginia will soon add a flying restored Mosquito bomber to its collection. It was built with recovered parts and new tooling by Avspecs, Limited, at Ardmore Airfield on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand. The company is owned by Warren Denholm and his wife, Shona and was started in 1997. As you’ll see,...

The Remembered Generation - Huffington Post (blog) | He only lived to 67, but he lived the equal of three or four lives: As a Depression boy he rode the rails with hobos, was a roustabout and razor blade swallower in the circus, dated Hollywood starlets, flew 32 missions in a B-17 as a bombardier and ...

We Fly a B-2 Stealth Bomber - Popular Mechanics | More people have been to space than have flown in a B-2 stealth bomber. PopMech gets an extremely rare ride, flying a B-2 training mission and going behind the scenes to meet the people (and dogs) who've kept the B-2 at the forefront of American power ...

Carl Anson Cover 1893-1944 from Test & Research Pilots, Flight Test Engineers by the_tartanterror

Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting Set for January 17 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

Actor Gary Sinise set to release ‘High Flight’ from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Award-winning actor Gary Sinise and Sleeping Dog Productions, an aviation and historical documentary production company, are set to release “High Flight,” a documentary narrated by Sinise that chronicles his 2011 experience at Beale Air Force Base in California preparing for his flight in a U2 spy plane....

Plane Driven's trip to Scaled Composites from Wasabi Air Racing by Elliot "Stinky" Seguin | This is a video the Plane Driven guys put together after their trip to Mojave to meet with the Scaled Engineers...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: E-2C Hawkeye from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | More U.S. Navy aircraft could be found at Phillips 66 Plaza, and this sharp Grumman E-2C Hawkeye from Reserve Squadron VAW-77 based at NAS Atlanta, GA taxied up...

"Airbii" UCAP #314 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | This time on UCAP... We've finally got an official FAA Administrator... A European cargo plane that touches down very short... Jeb's tells us about his new EFB tablet computer... And... What really caused the infamous Concorde crash, it may not be what you thought. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded January 3, 2013...

Podcast: Expanding Roles, Diminishing Budgets from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | The Civil Air Patrol has adopted a new governance structure that will help it cope with the challenges that lie ahead. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with Brig. Gen. Richard L. Anderson about how CAP will continue to serve the military and the public...

Another Ghost, Reborn from The Lexicans by Comjam | “They’re gone away, never to return.” “No more of them, except in museums.” Don’t tell that to people who care. Who find a place in their budgets to seek out the rare, the wreckage, the lost carcasses, then send them on to those who understand the meaning of the word “craftsmanship.” Slowly, steadily, with blood, sweat and above all love, they put a bird back into it’s natural environment...

Florida woman wins Skyhawk in raffle from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Jane Williams of Florida was chosen as the winner of a Cessna 172G Skyhawk, raffled off to benefit Winn-Aero, a non-profit aviation-based youth organization based at Laconia Municipal Airport in Gilford, N.H.  Williams will also receive a check for $1,200 to be used toward flight lessons or fuel.