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Plant City, Fla. – Saturday, March 23, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the third annual Planes, Trains & Automobiles event will take place at the Plant City Airport. It's a chance to see real airplanes, remote control planes, helicopters, model trains in operation and on exhibit, and classic and exotic car displays. Antique [...]

Women Can Fly, a series of three special Saturday events scheduled for June of 2013, will introduce aviation to more girls and women in Virginia.  While the number of women working in the aviation industry has steadily increased, they are still underrepresented in the workforce and the number of women pilots is only 6% of [...]

From daredevil stuntmen to some of the top pilots in the U.S. Air Force, the OC Air Show is a pure and awesome atmospheric spectacle. The event began in 2008, after Bryan Lilley, now president of the OC Air Show, took in a similar event in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "It was the first beachfront air [...]

SPECTATORS and aviation enthusiasts gathered at Bournemouth Airport to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Red Arrows as they returned for the first time since last year’s tragic crash, which killed pilot Jon Egging. The jets had stopped to refuel at Bournemouth before taking part in a Diamond Jubilee flypast at Windsor Castle on Saturday [...]

Air Racers 3D, the first IMAX movie devoted to the Reno Air Races,  is rolling out across the country at select IMAX theaters, including the Naval Aviation Museum (Pensacola, Florida), Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center (Hutchinson, Kansas), National Infantry Museum (Columbus, Georgia) and U.S. Space & Rocket Centre (Huntsville, Alabama). The Smithsonian National Air and [...]