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Air Show benefits far outweigh the risks - Hilton Head Island Packet, SC
If residents near Shanklin and Pine Grove roads in northern Beaufort County -- or anyone else under a flight pattern during the 2009 Beaufort Air Show -- look skyward this weekend with some trepidation, they would only be human...

Action Set to Take Off at MCAS Cherry Point Air Show - WNCT, NC
Philip Jones takes us inside the preparations for North Carolina's largest air show. The flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point was a work in progress Thursday—and over the next three days, more than 150000 folks are expected to pack in ...

Walking on air - Havelock News, NC
By Drew C. Wilson The veteran wing walker will be strutting her high heels between the struts of Gene Soucy's biplane for the next three days at the Cherry Point Air Show. "I get tired of hearing I'm crazy because there's nothing crazy about getting to ...

Snowbirds happy to be at Cherry Point - Havelock News, NC
Mark LaVerdiere, a member of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet demonstration team. But, even he admits there is something special about the team's first ever performance at the Cherry Point Air Show. "It's pretty exciting for us," he said. ...

Acadiana Airfest Stunt Plane Preview - KLFY, LA
The show will begin on Saturday with dozens of air and ground acts including aerobatic plane performances, the Indy Boys jet powered school bus , a jet powered outhouse and comedy segments. The Airfest will be held at the Acadiana Regional Airport in ...

Lyon County Fly-In set for this weekend in Silver Springs - Reno Gazette Journal, NV
SILVER SPRINGS--This year's Lyon County Fly-In features a hot air balloon ascension, Young Eagles Program, parachute jump, antique and military airplanes and more. The 13th Annual Fly In will be held this Saturday and Sunday (May 16, 17) at the Silver ...

Southern Wisconsin Airfest planning more than airplanes - WCLO, WI
The airfest is planned for the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport May 30th and 31st. How about moving it back to August/Sept like it used to be? Note: WCLO.com does not condone or review every comment. Read more in our User Policy Agreement Keep it ...

Fort St. John International Air Show is only 96 days away! - Energeticcity.ca, Canada
The show will be hitting the skies of Fort St. John on Sunday, July 19th 2009. The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will be the featured preformers, along with the Skyhalks and many other acts that will all celebrate 100 years of powered flight in Canada.

Aero-TV: ALL For One -- Alan Henley At Cecil 2009 - Aero-News Network, FL
... Announcer Danny Clisham, Greg Poe, Jim Peitz, John Mohr, Lee Lauderback and Stallion 51 Mustang, Glider Pilot Manfred Radius, Patty Wagstaff, Announcer Rob Reider and Steve & Susanne Oliver -- and that barely covers a third of those who flew! ...

Lowestoft airshow line up takes shape - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK
An air festival spokesman said: “All the flights are still to be confirmed in writing, but if they do display it will be the first time for several years that foreign air forces have accepted invitations to participate in the Lowestoft airshow. be ...

Red Arrows - Cumberland News, UK
Staff and governors at Warwick Bridge School, east of the city, could barely believe it when the Royal Air Force aerobatic team agreed to their request. The spectacle will be the climax of months of special events to mark the school's 100th birthday. ...

A Night at the Air Force Museum - Dayton Daily News, OH
What: The first after-hours open house at the National Museum of the US Air Force will feature IMAX movies, interactive exhibits, rides and cockpit look-ins at the B-24D Liberator, RF-86F Sabre, F22-A Raptor and the SR-71A Blackbird among others. ...

Wings of Freedom exhibit makes stop in Paso Robles - Paso Robles Press, CA
Sponsored by the Estrella Warbird Museum, the event showcased vintage World War II aircraft including the Consolidated B-24 Liberator Witchcraft, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Nine O Nine and North American P-51 Mustang Betty Jane from May 11-13, ...

B-17's flew missions over wartime Europe - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, UKThe Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft first developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) in the 1930s. The B-17 was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) in the daylight bombing ...

Air corps flyer recalls days as WWII bomber co-pilot - Mcalester News Capital, OK
On Friday, the Commemorative Air Force is holding an event at Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas, in honor of the men who flew B24 Liberators in World War II. Toni Stevenson, the tour director of the CAF for the B-29/B-24 Squadron tour, says, ...

Flightdeck Friday: The F6F-3/-5 Hellcat - Scourge of the Pacific from Tailhook Daily Briefing by Steeljaw Scribe
When WW2 began, the US fighter force (land- and sea-based) was woefully inadequate. Slow in speed and maneuvering, out powered in the climb, often times out-gunned and certainly outnumbered, the fighters that oversaw the US entry into the war were relics of an earlier age, even though most were relatively new production. P-40, F2A, F4F - even the vaunted P-38 all suffered various degrees of inadequacy. In the European Theater of Operations (ETO), the P-47 and ultimately the P-51 would rise to the top of the pile, asserting an ironclad air supremacy that knocked the Luftwaffe from its home skies. In the Pacific Theater - it was the Grumman F6F and specifically the F6F-3 and -5 models that gave the fast carrier task force its lethal offensive counter-air punch…

Tiger Tales: Aviation Legacy at Marion Military Institute from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
The Flying Tiger- While addressing the Corps of Cadets at Marion Military Institute (MMI) shortly before his death, General Bruce K. Holloway related to the enthralled audience how he had arrived in Marion, Alabama, to attend the School of Army and Navy, a program at MMI for prepping future West Point and Annapolis candidates. Lacking the price of a ticket, he had talked the bus driver into letting him ride with the luggage on the roof of the bus from his hometown in Tennessee. In 1932, it must have been quite a trip. After prepping at MMI and attending the University of Tennessee, Bruce Holloway qualified for entry into the US Military Academy graduating from West Point in the class of 1937 and flight training in 1938. His subsequent career in the Army Air Corps and US Air Force is the stuff of legends…

Tools of the (Astronaut) Trade from Air Space Magazine

T-6A Texan II Flight - Emergency Training and Life Support Fitting from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
This morning, I headed to Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. There’s a locker in the life support equipment room there with a helmet, mask, harness, and gee suit…

Miles O'Brien Brings GA to the Masses from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
Miles O'Brien, a Cirrus pilot, covered aviation and space for CNN for 16 years until his job was downsized last December. Since then, he's been finding new ways to bring stories about flight to a broad audience. He talks with AVweb's Mary Grady about his trip to Africa with Patty Wagstaff to film her work training pilots for the Kenya Wildlife Service — the documentary will screen at EAA AirVenture on July 28 — and he reveals the new ways he's finding to connect with his audience, from writing a blog to "narrowcasting" online.

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