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• Rockford Airfest 2012

  Promoted as a "Celebration of Freedom", the Rockford Airfest will be taking place on 2-3 June 2012 at the Chicago Rockford International Airport.

• Origins of the Helicopter

  To understand the development of the present day helicopter we must first look at history to understand how this marvelous engineering feat was created.

• Aviation Goes ‘Green’ At Unveiling

  These days ‘green’ is a big buzz word that is influencing virtually every sector of life. From housewives to musicians, everyone is looking for new ways to make less of an impact on an ...

• Virginia Regional Festival of Flight

  The Virginia Regional Festival of Flight will feature two days of family flight and aircraft. New to the event is the Parade of Flight, which will include antiques, experimental aircraft and ...

• Farnborough International Airshow Set to Be a Success

  Taking place in the UK, the world-renowned Farnborough International Airshow attracts large numbers of aerospace industry participants every two years. This year’s event began on a positive note ...

• Prairie Aviation Museum in Illinois

  The Prairie Aviation Museum, located in Bloomington, Illinois, aims to educate, entertain and inspire visitors with its meticulously preserved collection of aircraft, artifacts and memorabilia ...

• Wing and Waves Air Show 2010

  The skies above the Atlantic Ocean will be filled with breathtaking aerial performances on the 9th and 10th of October 2010, at the 2010 Wing and Waves Air Show. There will be F-22 Raptors, F-16 ...

• Plane Spotters

  The Columbia News Service reported the other day that plane spotters, people whose hobby it is to photograph planes and record the registration number, are often mistaken for terrorists. Since ...

• Airplane Contrails May Increase Global Warming

  A new study published in the journal Nature suggests that contrails produced by airplanes may be increasing global warming. Contrails are the cloud-like white streaks planes often trail behind ...

• Sustainable Biofuels in Aviation

  >With greenhouse gases and climate change continuing to be in the spotlight, over the past decade aircraft manufacturers have made a number of improvements in aerodynamics and the development of ...

• Electromagnetic Interference to be Minimized Further

  A team of researchers from the University of York’s Department of Electronics have won a €1m European grant to help aerospace companies try to produce safer aircraft whilst at the same time ...

• Phantom Ray Takes to the Skies

  It has been an ongoing project by Boeing, but the success achieved by their test flight was only recently released. The stealthy looking delta winged drone, named the Phantom Ray, is a great ...