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Cocoa Beach Air Show Coming October 3-4, 2009 - PR.com, NY
The show’s inaugural performances will be carried out by some of the most skilled military pilots and aerobatic artists on the air show circuit. The performers announced-to-date for the inaugural event include the following…

Air show officials ready for weekend - Goldsboro News Argus
By Kenneth Fine Visitors to the 2007 Wings Over Wayne air show look skyward next to one of the F-16s on the tarmac that year…

Iran Plans Massive Air Show - The Media Line
Iran is planning the largest air show in its history this month as a further demonstration of the Islamic Republic’s military prowess.

Smoke on for 2009: A Season Preview of the Red Bull Air Race - Bleacher Reportby Sheiban Shakeri (Columnist) 2008 was a year when the Red Bull Air Race was making the turn into a serious sport, and now with four rookies added into the mix and a completely revamped system, expect some really close times and even a few ...

Be a Red Bull Reporter for Guardian.co.uk from Smoke-On by Tom
Show The Guardian your presenting skills for the chance to report from the San Diego leg of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship Read More…

Nigel Lamb prepares for Abu Dhabi Red Bull race - Bucks Free Press, UK
To ake part in the competition Mr Lamb had to qualy for a Red Bull Air Race World Championship 'Super License'. During the time trial he will be reaching speeds of 370km/h and flying less than 20 metres from the ground. The pilots will also have to ...

Classic World War II aircraft show coming - LubbockOnline.com, TXA B-17 and B-24J bomber will take flight along with a P-51C fighter as a part of the living-history event, and for those willing to pay for a ride, an opportunity for an intimate lesson in war-time aviation. Restored by the Collings Foundation, ...

Doolittle Raiders to gather again in Columbia - The State, SC
Blindfolded Lt. Robert L. Hite (co-pilot of Doolittle's Raiders crew #16) Doolittle's Raiders B-25s crowd the flight deck of the USS Hornet on their way to bomb Tokyo in April of 1942. In this April 20, 1942 photo, Doolittle Raider Horace "Sally" ...

Classic Fighters 2009 #3: Corsair from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
The Goodyear Corsair FG-1D, ZK-COR, always puts on a good show. I won't spend too much time on it here but get straight on to the pictures - here are three of the better ones I picked out…

Classic Fighters 2009 #4: DHC1 Chipmunk from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Here are pictures of some De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk aircraft taxying around the aerodrome. Unfortunately I do not seem to have snapped any airborne pictures. The chippie was designed as a military ab-initio trainer to replace another DH aircraft, the venerable Tiger Moth. Since then it has become popular as an entry-level warbird. Note the final picture in which the aircraft has quite a different canopy…

Classic Fighters 2009 #5: Yakovlev Yak-52 from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
The Yakovlev Yak-52 seems to spring up at pretty much every airshow in the country these days - not a criticism at all, and formation aerobatics are always fun to watch. The Yak 52 is a Russian designed and built ab-initio military trainer and [along with the Nanchang CJ-6] is very popular as a warbird in New Zealand - perhaps only the North American Harvard is more popular…

Classic Fighters 2009 #6: MX2 from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Now for something a little different, but still very aeronautical - the MXR Technologies MX2, registration ZK-MXT. It is certainly not a classic fighter, not even [ex-]military, but it certainly was a star of the show…

Classic Fighters 2009 #7: North American Harvard 3* from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
The North American Harvard 3* is arguably the most popular "warbird" aircraft in New Zealand [Although the Yak-52 is right up there also], especially with the type's military association with New Zealand as an ab-initio trainer for the Royal New Zealand Air Force [RNZAF] until replaced by the CT4/B from 1976…

Coors Light Silver Bullet Jet Team / Dual BD-5J Airshow / World's Smallest Jets Keith Breazeal Video Productions from http://www.kbvp.com/
The Coors Light Silver Bullet Jet Team was a rare airshow act. Dave Hoover and Bob Bishop flew the dual performance at the Sacramento Airshow in 1990. The world's smallest jet has a wing span of 17 feet, is 12 feet long, weighs 432 pounds and has only 200 pounds of thrust. It took 11,000 Coors cans for the all Aluminum BD-5J…

BAST-E Baltic Air Sovereignty Training Events from Military Photos by Kusch
Baltic Air Sovereignty Training Events (BAST-E) are one day NATO events that take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and neighbouring airspace. The events focus on enhancing interoperability and capability development in addition to the ongoing integration of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and other NATO and neighbouring Partnership for Peace member countries…

Peter Jackson causes stir - Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
By TAMMY BUCKLEY - Sunday News STAR TURN: Peter Jackson caused more of a scene than the mid-air dogfighting when he turned-up at an airshow. The King Kong of the New Zealand film industry Peter Jackson caused more of a scene than the mid-air ...

Where Pilots Stay On Vacation from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7
Pilots, as everyone knows, are an interesting group of people. They walk with a certain swagger, usually eyes covered with teardrop sunglasses, and a certain mystery surrounds them. Notice as they lean on the counter in the airport, talking to the ticket agent, looking through a long sheet of paper and making notes…

Plane crashes into water near Davis Islands bridge from www2.tbo.com
Sylvia Hatfield, 69, normally watches stunt aircraft from the window of her seventh floor apartment at Tampa Baptist Manor. So when she looked out and saw a plane headed straight down, she just figured it was part of a stunt maneuver. "Usually, when they do aerobatics, you'll see them come down, but you'll see them swoop back up," Hatfield said. "But I didn't see this plane swoop back up so I knew something was wrong."

Kevin Walsh Interview published from FenceCheck Forums

United States - Arizona - MCAS Yuma Airshow 2009 - MCAS Yuma - 03/14/09 from FenceCheck Forums - Last Yuma Shot--- Mucho Caliente F-16

USAF Plant 42 from FenceCheck Forums - Spirit Of New York making noise

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