MacDill AirFest Promises Heavy Traffic As Well As Fun - Tampa Tribune, FL
By RICH SHOPES | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - AirFest is flying into town this weekend, which means potential traffic headaches in South Tampa. Previous air shows had Dale Mabry Highway and MacDill Avenue turned into parking lots. ...
Airfest returns to MacDill Air Force Base - MyFox Tampa Bay, FL
TAMPA - The ever-popular MacDill Airfest roars back into the skies over MacDill Air Force Base this weekend. The airshow returns March 28 and 29, with the Air Force's Thunderbirds returning as the highlighting act. As with previous years, ...
Riverside Air Show - Riverside
The City of Riverside proudly presents the Riverside Airport Open House & Airshow 2009! March 28, 2009
Tyndall air show decision to be made by Saturday morning - The News Herald, FL
By JONAS HOGG / News Herald Writer TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE — Tyndall officials are keeping a watchful eye on the weather in anticipation of the 2009 Gulf Coast Salute air show. The National Weather Service forecast for Saturday calls for showers and ...
Air Force Week to include Thunderbirds show - Salt Lake Tribune, United States
While most of the smaller events will take place in Salt Lake City, the biggest spectacle will be at Hill Air Force Base, where officials have planned a two-day open house and air show that will include the Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration ...
Cecil Field AirShow will go 'to the ozone layer' from jacksonville.com
Patty Wagstaff sounded pretty excited Monday when talking about the aerobatics she'll display at the Cecil Field AirShow next month.
Twists and dives and whirls - it's the sort of display that made Wagstaff the first woman to win the title of U.S. national aerobatic champion, a prize she won three times.
But there was a tinge of sadness in her voice, too, when talking about the show. Wagstaff and the three dozen other scheduled performers won't be showing up simply to wow the crowd.
They'll also be performing to raise money for the Alan Henley Trust Fund, benefiting an aviator who was paralyzed last year. ...
Take a Ride in Historic CAF Warbirds at Sun 'N Fun 2009 - AMTOnline.com, MD
MIDLAND, TX – Get your hands on history with the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) at Sun''N Fun Fly-In 2009 when you take a ride in one of the CAF's vintage warbirds. Historic aircraft from the CAF fleet will be on display and available for rides at Sun ...
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Tanks, choppers trump Snowbirds' jets - Toronto Star, Canada
OTTAWA–New planes for the iconic Snowbirds air demonstration team are less important than tanks, helicopters and bomb-proof road clearing equipment in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says. "We have a lot of equipment priorities," MacKay said ...
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Stefano Romito (who I met for the first time during a flight inside a P-180 of the 71° Gruppo - his previous unit), a C-130J pilot of the 46^ Brigata Aerea of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) based in Pisa, sent me the following pictures he took during a paradropping mission with the Folgore. The picture show the parachute jumping from a different perspective: not, as usual, from the outside, but from the inside of the aircraft fuselage. The Folgore Parachute Brigade is the largest paratroopers unit of the Esercito Italiano (Italian Army, ItAy) made of 6 battalion-sized Regiments based in Livorno and stationed in Livorno, Pistoia, Siena, Pisa and Legnago (Verona), including also the Pisa Parachute Training Centre. Being on the same place of the C-130J and C-27J of the 46^ Air Brigade, the Folgore often trains together with the Italian transport aircraft jumping inside one of the dropping zones next to Pisa. ...
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B-17 flies through Fresno- KSEE, CA
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By RICH SHOPES | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - AirFest is flying into town this weekend, which means potential traffic headaches in South Tampa. Previous air shows had Dale Mabry Highway and MacDill Avenue turned into parking lots. ...
[Photo via MacDill Air Fest website]
Airfest returns to MacDill Air Force Base - MyFox Tampa Bay, FL
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Patty Wagstaff sounded pretty excited Monday when talking about the aerobatics she'll display at the Cecil Field AirShow next month.
Twists and dives and whirls - it's the sort of display that made Wagstaff the first woman to win the title of U.S. national aerobatic champion, a prize she won three times.
But there was a tinge of sadness in her voice, too, when talking about the show. Wagstaff and the three dozen other scheduled performers won't be showing up simply to wow the crowd.
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Red Bull Air Race - A Look at the Competitors - Aviation.ca (press release), CanadaRakhmanin aims to have flown 25 hours on the MXS-R by the first round of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Yet to take a place on the podium, the pensive Russian could well be building up to a breakthrough performance in 2009 if his assessment ...
Red Bull Air Race Newsroom: RUSSIAN ROULETTE from Smoke-On by Tom
THE smell of fear will be in the air this season as Russian pilot Sergey Rakhmanin unveils his all-new 350hp MXS-R race plane in Abu Dhabi on 17-18 April. Already revered by his fellow competitors for his considerable flying achievements gained in his pre-racing career, this potentially unstoppable combination of man and machine could see [...]
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Final preparations are being made for the EAA B-17 Aluminum Overcast's 2009 Salute to Veterans Tour, which kicks off its spring-summer leg April 3-5 at Chino, California. Each year the Flying Fortress - one of only a handful still flying - serves as an ardent aviation ambassador and a reminder of the commitment and sacrifice made by our nation's military during World War II.
B-17 flies through Fresno- KSEE, CA
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