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I flew with the Blue Angels ... and lived to talk about it - Tuscaloosa News, ALI was mesmerized, excited and couldn’t wait for my turn to sit in the navigator’s seat behind the naval aviator. No. 7 Blue Angel and, in an instant, was gone. It seemed like hours passed until the jet returned and it was my turn to saddle up. ...

Big turnout expected for Blue Angels - Tuscaloosa News, AL
The Blue Angels perform at the Florida International Air Show at Charlotte County Airport in Punta Gorda, Fla., on March 21. Tuscaloosa will host Blue Angels air shows April 4-5 at Tuscaloosa Regional Airport. By Stephanie Taylor Staff Writer The US ...

Air show was a great afternoon - Sun newspapers
It was very obvious from the event that a lot of preparation went on to make this a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. We took our chairs sat out on the runway and watched in awe as the aircraft were put through their maneuvers all afternoon.

Blue skied attract big crowd to Riverside Airshow - Press-Enterprise, CA
World War II-era warbirds on hand for the 17th annual show were shepherded into two hangars at the Riverside Airport to protect their fuselages from being damaged by debris and dust kicked up by strong Santa Ana winds. Before the start of the show, ...

75000 attend AirFest 2009's first day - ABC Action News, FL
About 75000 went through the gates at MacDill Airforce Base to check out the Blue Angels and all the high-flying action. This event is a way for Team MacDill to display to the public the many facets of military aviation, enhance community relations, ...

Time To Get Red Bullish About The Future! from Airpigz Blog by Martt Clupper

Red Bull top guns face new track in Abu Dhabi - WAM - Emirates News Agency, United Arab Emirates
WAM ABU DHABI, 29th March 2009 (WAM) -- The top guns of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship will face a new look race track when they soar and swoop into the new season at the Red Bull Air Race of Abu Dhabi on 17-18 April. ...

General Kelly, Admiral Mason made us proud - Reporter-Times, IN
His group attained the most outstanding record of any B-25 unit in number of missions flown, tonnage of bombs dispatched, enemy aircraft destroyed and highest bombing accuracy score in WWII. He returned to West Point as director of aviation in 1944. ...

There IS A Future In Aviation from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7
By now most of you know I am a pilot, but perhaps you did not know that my son is an A&P mechanic. I guess I should use the correct terminology - An Aviation Maintenance Technician, or AMT. Chad went to Lansing Community College in Lansing, MI, and took the extra courses to get his Associates Degree as well…

History's Warbirds: Living aviation history display comes to East ... - News-Journal.com, TXBy ADAM J. HOLLAND The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour of vintage aircraft landed Friday at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. Organizers call the event a living aviation history display, with opportunities for visitors to tour the B-17 Flying ...

Air and Space Museum renovates 'How Things Fly' gallery - Allentown Morning Call
It just doesn't make much sense that 200 people can climb aboard an almost 200-ton jet and then be launched into the air. The good news for the curious 5- and 50-year-olds is that the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's How Things Fly gallery ...

March Field Air Museum hopes to land a space shuttle - Press-Enterprise, CA
The March Field Air Museum has submitted a proposal to NASA outlining how it would display the shuttle. The March Joint Powers Authority, the museum's landlord and the agency overseeing the conversion of former military property at March Air Reserve ...

Max Says "Learn to Fly" … Pass it on from Jetwhine by Robert Mark
For writers, any kind of writers, the big league means writing books. My first foray came 20 years ago when Tab Books - eventually absorbed into the McGraw Hill network - gave me a chance to write about something I held near and dear to my heart, and still do … learning to fly. Called The Joy of Flying, the volume offered folks who possessed nothing more than a keen interest in learning to fly everything they needed to make the decision. It was a step-by-step guide that spoke to certification requirements, pricing, flight schools and airplanes. The nice part was that the book actually sold quite well for a number of years. I updated JOF in the mid 1990s because the market was there. People wanted to learn to fly…

Area man played major part in ending WWII - Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV
This was the island that the USS Indianapolis delivered the atomic bomb to that was loaded in the B-29 Enola Gay and dropped on Hiroshima. Muth was part of the Navy Seabees crew that built the runway which was responsible for ending the war. ...

United States - Arizona - Luke Days Open House & Air Show 2009 - Luke AFB, Glendale - 03/21/09 from FenceCheck Forums
United States - California - Riverside Airshow 2009 - Riverside - 03/28/09 from FenceCheck Forums

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