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Historic Serial #01 For Sale
The first Yak-50 ever built is available. With just over 200 hours since factory rebuild owner Gordan Price has decided to part with the...
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Birds Of A Feather...
The team at the Los Angeles County Airshow organized a very creative 'meet & greet' event that featured a baseball game between the...
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Grounded But...
Avro XM655 can no longer leave the ground but as you can see it doesn't mean she can't run...fast.
The Vulcan was delivered in 1964,...
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Time Lapse: Spy Plane Coming In From The Cold
The Science Museum of Virginia has suspended a SR-71 Blackbird in a new Speed gallery opening in a few weeks. Taking what they call a...
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Beak to Beak With A Boeing.
A bird strike with an EgyptAir passenger on its descent into Heathrow Airport made significant damage to the nose cone of the Boeing...
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Ivanoff Wins Abu Dhabi! Goulian / Chambliss / McLeod HIGHlites & Reaction
With some new rules and faces the 2016 Red Bull Air Race World Championship got underway yesterday. With one less training day because...
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Red Bull Air Race 2016: Abu Dhabi 1st Qualifying
While the weather has much improved the technical track in Abu Dhabi is causing problems for some of the Master Class pilots but Matt...
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What The Heritage Flight Is All About!
The Heritage Flight Public Affairs team have released a special video called the Robert Hertel Story. The story is told by the World War...
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So How Bad Was It In Abu Dhabi? Watch!
As we reported yesterday a rare storm with high winds ripped through Abu Dhabi forcing the Red Bull Air Race to cancel training...
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Watch & Listen To The Golden Knights Do Canopy Relative Work
Canopy Relative Work (CRW) is the intentional maneuvering of two or more open parachute canopies in close proximity to, or contact with...
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Actor Gerard Butler Pulls 9.3Gs With The Thunderbirds
The USAF Thunderbirds shared some photos on their social pages this week saying, "Today Thunderbird 7 and Thunderbird 8 showed movie...
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Red Bull: Crazy Weather Cancels Training & Other Wet News From Abu Dhabi
Unseasonal thunderstorms on the Arabian Gulf resulted in cancellation of today's training flights for the season opening Red Bull Air...
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Para-golf?
Paragliding and golf as well as soccer, tennis, basketball even bowling from the sky? Martin Schricke and Francois Ragolski have started...
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"Bitchin' Betty" Says "Goodbye"
The voice of the Boeing F/A-18’s cockpit warning system refered to by pilots and technicians as ‘Bitchin’ Betty’ has retired from...
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Freezing Fog Vortices @ Night
U.K. plane spotter / videographer Flugsnug has a new camera. While it brings light to the dark he and the aircraft he captures with it,...
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Airshow Great Stan Segalla 1924 - 2016
Stanley Segalla, The Flying Farmer at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome has died at 91. He liked to fly for fun becoming one of the main...
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In It To Win It, Mike Goulian's Rebuilt Racer
Team 99 completely redesigned its race plane for the 2016 Red Bull Air Races. Nothing was left untouched. Michael and Team Coordinator...
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UPDATE: More Photos Added. Canadian Hornet Demonstration Jet Trades Paint
**Update Friday March 4th: The CF 18 Demonstration team says, "Now that the sanding has been completed, members from 410 Squadron and 1...
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Red Bull 2016: Cool Inside Look At Martin Sonka's Edge 540 V3 Racer
Just days to go before the 2016 Red Bull Air Race season opens in Abu Dhabi. Czech pilot Martin Šonka offers this unique cutting-edge...
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How Happy Is Swiss With Their New Jet? Watch!
In “Queen of the Skies” the sixth and final “Triple Seven” movie from Swiss, they’ve put together the finest moments of her arrival and...
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