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St. Cloud, MN Mayor Says 2013 Air Show Should Cost Less Than 2010 from Aero-News Network | Costs Of Initial Organization Won't Apply To This Year's Event Holding an air show in 2010 means it will be less expensive to hold an air show in 2013. That's the assessment of St. Cloud, MN, Mayor Dave Kleis, as he pushes forward for plans for the event this summer...

2013 Cable Air Show - AirShowVid | On a very cold weekend for Southern California, thousands braved the low temperatures to see one of the first airshows of the 2013 season. The 38th annual Cable Air Show kicks off the airshow season in California with it’s unique mix of powerful warbirds and graceful vintage aircraft . The Cable Airport is a...

It’s a people thing… from General Aviation News by Jamie Beckett |It’s long been my contention that people are the magnet that makes airshows and aviation gatherings worth attending — not the aircraft themselves. Admittedly, I am in the minority with that opinion, but the idea seems to be re-enforced for me year after year. This year’s US Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, was no exception. While wandering through the...

FlightTime Radio Show 261 | Milford hosted EXPO Radio at the Sebring - US Sport Aviation Expo...

Vintage combat planes coming to Pensacola - Pensacola News Journal | The nonprofit organization, based in Stow, Mass., is bringing a P-51 Mustang, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-24 Liberator to the Pensacola International Airport's Aviation Center. Tickets for 30-minute flights on the bombers are being sold for $425 each.

The Flightline features the B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" on Discover Comminications Velocity TV Network - Collings Foundation Newsletter (Sign-up) | Airing Saturday, January 26th. 9:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM CT  | The Flightline is a fast moving 30-minute aviation magazine TV show that brings the viewer into the cockpits of some of the world’s greatest aircraft. Using cutting edge high definition cameras and accessing the top air show acts, leading edge aircraft, and historically significant planes, and pilot’s reports, the Flightline packs visual thrills along with great stories into every feature. In this segment hosts Paul and Mark cover the Collings Foundation's B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" in depth and up close.  To find a Velocity channel on your television, you can go to our website www.flightline.tv

Roy Morgan Honored As A 'Living Legend Of Aviation' from Aero-News Network | Bell Helicopter Presented Air Methods Founder With First Vertical Flight Hall Of Fame Award Bell Helicopter honored Air Methods founder Roy Morgan with the first Bell Helicopter Vertical Flight Hall of Fame award at the 10th annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards in Beverly Hills on January 18. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the rotorcraft industry....

17th Annual Amelia Earhart Luncheon from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- She spoke about her mother, Lois Cutler- a military pilot and Ninety Nine member during WW II. Her likeness is minted on the Congressional WW II Victory Medal of Honor for the first women in history to fly American military aircraft as enacted by Congress 2009. One of over a thousand women pilots during 1942 to1944, they were expected to hang up their wings and dreams when war ended. Dr. Jamie Cutler, recalled stories her mother shared about life in the 1940s as a WASP speaking at the Annual Amelia Earhart Luncheon...

Call Me Argonaut 2 from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave |A truly unique event takes place in Reno, Nevada, every September - the National Championship Air Races. This gathering of pilots, aircraft, crews and crowds are all part of the fastest motor sport in the world.NASCAR and Formula 1 can’t hold a candle to this event, with speeds at Reno in some classes exceeding 500 miles per hour. I first attended three years ago and became instantly addicted to the sights and sounds. The racing of course is the main attraction, but visitors can also buy passes to tour the pits. The fans can see crews working on the...

Not Quite........... from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Earlier today we posted what we thought may have been the final landing in NZ of the fantastic De Havilland Mosquito. However mid/late morning we...

Pictorial tribute to Bologna by Round Table - NonSoloCinema (translated) | Round Table # 7 of Bologna organizes an evening with the commander of the Frecce Tricolori, which will be given a work of the painter Marie Antoinette Venturi Casadei. Sunday, January 27, 2013 - Guest of the Round Table 7 Bologna Commander ...

63 pilots at benefit fly-in for Carroll County pilot - Harrison Daily | 63 pilots at benefit fly-in for Carroll County pilot....

Flying Machine from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Did you know that the Goodland flying machine, a forerunner of the helicopter, was designed and patented by William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland, Kansas? Purvis and Wilson built...

World War II veteran to kick off St. Louis County Board history lessons - Duluth News Tribune | Bob Givens' B-17 Flying Fortress wasn't shot out of the sky by the Nazis on April 4, 1944 — it simply started to spin out of control and disintegrate 24,000 feet above the North Sea. By: John Myers, Duluth News Tribune. Bob Givens. image. World War II ...

Classic Aero-TV: Veteran's Airlift Command -- Serving Those Who Served from Aero-News Network | One Of Aviation's Most Positive Efforts... The VAC!!! In all the doddering, misleading, anti-aviation blather we've had to deal with over the last few years, we've been waiting for the world to wake up and discover just how cool aviation, and its pilots and aircrews, are. We present a case in point and while it was a quick impromptu interview amid the heights of excitement at NBAA 2011 (a more extensive interview is coming shortly!), the message is...

Louisiana Civil Air Patrol Participates In Navy Recruiting Commercial from Aero-News Network | Louisiana Wing Supplied Aircraft And An Aircrew For Production Effort Three New Orleans area members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) played important roles in the U.S. Navy Recruiting Command’s current, multi-million dollar, national advertising campaign. CAP’s Louisiana Wing supplied an aircraft and an aircrew to assist in the production of a multi-day series of TV commercials depicting the diversity of Navy careers...

Space Expo might land at Abbotsford Airshow - Abbotsford Times | It's just a matter of ironing out final details, but if all goes according to plan, the inaugural Abbotsford Space Expo will be coming to Tradex on airshow weekend, Aug. 9 - 11, 2013. "Everything in this industry is on the cusp of exploding; it has ...

Oklahoma spaceport may soon be history from Spaceports | The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority — a public body created by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1999 to lead the way in bringing the space industry to the state — has not had the best success rate over the past 13-years. The broken prospects at Burns Flat leaves some locals suggesting that the spaceport has languished in space dreams long enough. It's time to quit star gazing and convert the spaceport to a more traditional regional industrial park, according to Randy Ellis writing for The Oklahoman....

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