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Burlington Post
A collection of Ontario air cadets will show off some of the skills they have learned over the past year.
Every year the Burlington 715 Mohawk Squadron Air Cadets hold a ceremonial review where they provide demonstrations of the events that they have participated in during their 10 months of formal training.
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CBC News
Despite nasty weather that dogged them across Quebec and northern Maine, a small squadron of dedicated recreational pilots safely landed at Summerside airport. Only seven of 21 small aircraft were able to make the flight to P.E.I. due to the weather. "That's the way it goes sometimes," said pilot Lee (Leonce) Arsenault.
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Air & Space Magazine
According to Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth, as told to author Diane Tedeschi: I started wondering, "If aviation is considered a 20th century innovation, then why do we celebrate bush pilots like 19th century cowboys?" I think that we should move beyond the narrow, frontier narrative when explaining the role of aviation in the North. By understanding Alaska's bush pilots more broadly, we gain a better appreciation for their feats and their failures. Rather than conquerors, they become students of nature.
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Moments after opening the throttle and coaxing the red and white Cessna 172RG into the air, Luke Matchett smiled behind his sunglasses and admitted that even after 500 hours in the cockpit, he never gets tired of flying.
"It's really rewarding," the young pilot said as he banked the aircraft over downtown Saskatoon. "The ultimate goal is to fly for an airline, but right now I'm enjoying every step of the way."
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National Post
A single-engine airplane has made an emergency landing on Interstate 10 in south Mississippi's Jackson County.
Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos tells The Associated Press the landing is believed to have occurred around 12:30 p.m. The eastbound lanes of I-10, near Biloxi. No injuries were reported.
The landing happened near Mile Marker 48 between the heavily travelled D'Iberville and Ocean Springs exits.
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Washington Post via Toronto Sun
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Melvin Rector long carried Britain in his heart after he helped defend it during World War II, but 70 years passed without him stepping foot in the country.
The 94-year-old finally decided to leave his home in Barefoot Bay, Florida, to visit Britain earlier this month. The National World War II Museum in New Orleans conducts a travel program through which interested parties can visit certain sites of the war.
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Air & Space Magazine
With so many Predators deployed to hotspots overseas, the U.S. Air Force is having trouble keeping up with the increasingly high demand for drone support staff because they have few aircraft available for training. In 2009, officials brought a proposal to the Civil Air Patrol, the all-volunteer branch of the Air Force that provides support through education, training, and emergency services. Could the Patrol offer up some of its Cessna fleet as surrogate Predators in live training exercises — at least until the real thing returned from war?
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AVweb
As he promised in February, Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster appears intent on trying again to convince his fellow lawmakers to privatize air traffic control in the U.S. With just six weeks left in the short-term FAA funding authorization that was approved March 15, Shuster is reportedly gathering support, Washington style, for the privatization plan, which proved wildly unpopular when he introduced it in February.
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General Aviation News
Suresh Bista sent in these photos, noting they are two more photos taken during "proving flights" with a Cessna Caravan at Jomsom airstrip in Nepal.
The proving flights are required at high altitude airports by the Civil Aviation rules.
"This sortie was one of them at Jomsom airstrip in Nepal," he explains.
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