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October 05, 2004

Have You Ever Heard Of Blackbird Airpark?

Nestled In The California Desert, This Is A Gem For Aero-Tourists

In the California deserts, aviation history has been made practically nonstop since World War II. Experimental fighters and bombers, super-secret spyplanes, pioneering rocket planes, the new generation of private space launch machinery and manned spacecraft. NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, Mojave's Civilian Aerospace Test Center, The Air Force's legendary Plant 42 with Lockheed's more legendary Skunk Works, are all located nearby. Groom Lake -- the Area 51 of UFO fables -- is not near, but the machines that have flown from there were largely built here.

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If At First You Don't Succeed...

...Prang, Prang Again?

The way policy is written in Pretoria, a South African Air Force student who fails an exam and then fails the make-good test as well is a wash-out. But that's not what happened in the case of one student who crash-landed a Pilatus PL-7 MK II Astra trainer recently.

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Academy Airmanship Operations Take Flight Under AETC

Now The 306th Flying Training Group

The US Air Force Academy's airmanship operations realigned under the Air Education and Training Command as the newly named 306th Flying Training Group on Oct. 1.

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