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Awesome Blue Angels Welcome Home Finale Video-Gallery from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
NAS Pensacola- Media director for Pensacola NAS, Patrick Nichols' prediction that the 62nd Blues Homecoming Airshow would be bigger and better than ever, came true on November 14 and 15. The past years planning brought a great lineup of performers. A Friday night show and two full day shows on Friday and Saturday featured all time favorites: Julie Clark, John Mohr, Jan Collmer, Skip Stewart, Shockwave Jet Truck, Mike Goulian, Frank Ryder, Dale "Snort" Snodgrass, Rich's Incredible Pyro, Otto the Helio and top announcer Rob Reider…

AIR TATTOO PLANNING ON TRACK from Aviation & Aerospace News Updated Constantly
The planning is well underway for next year's Royal International Air Tattoo

Looking For Aviation Content That Is Provocative and Stimulates ... - PRLog.Org (press release), Romania
Flight Line Radio is an Indiana based company that provides private radio transmission services to the event industry. Flight Line Radio also provides an ...

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THE 2008 SHOW SEASON – AirShowBuzz.com
As we conclude the 2008 air show season in North America and most of Europe, our members share their favorite moments from the past season. For some, it was seeing the Red Arrows for the first time. For others it was the Raptor or a Red Bull Air Race.What Was Your Favorite Moment?

Remembrance Day 2008 # 9: Bristol F.2B Fighter from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
The last of the World War One aircraft on display was the Bristol F.2B Fighter. The Bristol Fighter was a fairly long-living aircraft with production starting in 1917 and continuing until 1927, with retirement from the RAF five years later in 1932. The aircraft was employed in fighter and reconnaissance roles - you'll notice from the pictures that there is space for two occupants, the rear occupant having a Vickers machine gun [the detail on these aircraft was amazing!]…

Remembrance Day 2008 # 10: Curtis P-40E Kittyhawk from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
While Remembrance Day is all about the signing of the armistice which came into effect on 11/11/1918, there were a couple of aircraft in the flying display that are not associated with World War One. The most obvious of these was the Curtis P-40E Kittyhawk. It's incredible to think that in the space of 20 years or so we went from bi-planes [and tri-planes], open cockpits, wood and cloth construction and rotary engines to monoplanes with closed cockpits, mainly metal construction [yes, I am aware of the mighty Hurricane, but still!], oxygen systems and over 1000hp…

Remembrance Day 2008 # 11: DH82A Tiger Moth from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Another aircraft at the display not associated with World War One is the De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth. The Tiger Moth arrived between the World Wars and trained several generations of military and civilian pilots around the world. The Tiger Moth was used extensively in New Zealand as it was not only operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a pilot trainer, but also in the civilian world; both as a trainer and also to introduce aerial applicaion of agricultural chemicals, such as superphosphate…

IAF's joint exercise with China on cards - Times of India, India
The 'Surya Kiran' aircraft team displayed an excellent aerobatic show there during the visit." On acquisition of 126 fighter aircraft for IAF, ...

B-17 Bomber provides flight back in history. - YourHub.com, CO
The B-17 earned its name as the "Flying Fortress." It bristled with guns and had a crew of 10 men. An average bomb load was about two-thousand pounds. ...

A Bunch of Warbirds in a "Warbird" Retires from Warbirds Online by Ryan Keough
Last week marked the end of an era for a truly unique "warbird" of sorts. I’m talking about the Convair C-131 TIFS (Total In Flight Simulator) simulator aircraft. Starting out life as a Convair C-131 Samaritan in 1955, the aircraft was later significantly modified by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories (later known as Calspan) as a unique aircraft with two completely separate cockpits — one in the standard position, and the other in an extended nose compartment that could be configured to simulate the layout and flying habits of a host of different aircraft. The extended nose section could also be configured to contain various avionics or radar test equipment as well…

Video: An Airplane Trip by Jet from Aircrew Buzz by B. N. Sullivan
For a change of pace, how about a little commercial aviation nostalgia. I came across this video on YouTube, and I just love it. It is an old 'educational film' about travel by jet airplane. In the film, two children called Bob and Sue go on a trip (as unaccompanied minors!) on a United Airlines DC-8. The process of air travel was so much simpler in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Everything depicted in the film -- the aircraft, the airport, the uniforms -- is evocative of the nascent days of the jet age, when everything about traveling by air was a novel experience. (One of my favorite bits is about the "huge moving corridor... called a jetway," said with a hint of awe.) …

Stick and Rudder Flying Club turns 60 from AOPA News
AOPA President Phil Boyer made a special trip to give the keynote address at the Stick and Rudder Flying Club's sixtieth anniversary celebration at Waukegan Regional Airport in Illinois on Nov. 15, but the group ended up giving him a special honor.

Pioneer Museum chronicles history of aviation in Valley - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, MT
Pond said she was so nervous for the opening, when experts in aviation would pick over their work, that she can only remember about half of the night. ...

Newsweek wanted to see all parts of Springfield life - Springfield News Sun, OH
Flying at a time when few women did, the Springfield aviatrix set world altitude records and was an aerobatic pilot in the years after she shuttled military ...

US Air Force from Fence Check - One of the 142nd FW's top pilots last flight:

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