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Blue Angels Practice Session Makes for a Spectacular Show - News Channel 8, DC
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - For the United States Navy Precision Flying Team, Tuesday was a day for practice over the US Naval Academy. On the ground in-the-know spectators said the more freewheeling dress rehearsal is just good as Wednesday's actual show. ...

Blue Angels cut practice short, resume after repairs - Annapolis Capital, MD
The Navy's elite Blue Angels flight demonstration team suffered a disruption during practice over the Severn River today when Plane No. 1 suffered an undisclosed maintenance malfunction. Joshua McKerrow — The Capital With plane No. 1 in the lead, ...

Southern Wisconsin Air Fest releases full slate of entertainment - WKOW-TV.com, WI
MADISON (WKOW) - The Navy Blue Angels are the headliner act at this year's Southern Wisconsin AirFEST, but the organizers have now released the full slate of entertainment that includes some of the top aerobatic performers in the world. ...

Blue Angels will practice at NAS Tuesday & Wednesday mornings - Mullet Wrapper, FL
The highest maneuver performed in an air show is the vertical rolls performed by the Opposing Solo, up to 15000 feet and the lowest maneuver performed in an air show is the Sneak Pass, performed by the Lead Solo at 50 feet. ...

Blue Angels soar into town - Annapolis Capital, MD
The flight demonstration is expected to start on schedule today at 2 pm, and flights will take place over the Severn River in front of the Naval Academy. The show will consist of maneuvers based on the skills that pilots use in real-world situations, ...

Remnants of a Blue Angels crash pop up 50 years later - OCRegister, Ca
A few hours later, Navy pilot Robert Nicholls Glasgow, 36, climbed into the cockpit of an F-11 Tiger for his first flight as commander of the Blue Angels. Some 30 miles west of Naval Air Station Pensacola, in Florida, he practiced a loop, ...

Thunderbirds to return to Oahu in September - Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI
By Star-Bulletin staff The Air Force's aerial demonstration team "Thunderbirds" will perform over Hickam Air Force Base Sept. 19 and 20. The "Wings Over The Pacific" show will include the Army's Golden Knights parachute team, airplane static displays, ...

Air Force Week ready to fly - Salt Lake Tribune
Air Force Week -- an annual celebration of the nation's highest-flying military service -- will come to Salt Lake City from June 1 to 6. A week of performances, demonstrations and educational events will culminate with an air show at Hill Air Force ...

Snowbirds cool wheels at Worcester Airport - Worcester Telegram, MA
By Bob Kievra TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF WORCESTER — A Canadian Forces Snowbirds plane and crew unload at the Worcester Regional Airport yesterday where the team spent part of the afternoon en route to Nova Scotia. The aerobatics team consists of nine ...

Free Snowbirds show in Greenwood, Wednesday May 20 - Nova News Now, Canada
Starting 6:30 pm, Canada's Snowbirds will take to the skies for 28 explosive minutes of aerobatic artistry, followed by a powerful solo performance by the "Century Hornet" CF-18 fighter-jet and a chance for your Future Flyer to meet and talk with the ...

Great News ... from Windsor International Air Show by Century of Flight
The Snowbirds were originally flying on the Saturday August 29 in our show and then were to travel to Montreal. Cpt Steve Thompson has graciously asked me if Windsor would host the Snowbirds on the Sunday August 30 as well. I accepted of course. When it comes to our Snowbirds, the sky is the limit(no pun, they already own the sky).
Hosting the Snowbirds is and always be an honor ...

Frecce Tricolori season's first display – Rivolto May 1, 2009 by David Cenciotti
On May 1, 2009, the traditional Frecce Tricolori' season's opening, held each year at Rivolto, became a sort of mini-airshow enriched by the presence of the RSV (Reparto Sperimentale Volo) displays. In fact, since the annual Giornata Azzurra (held each year at Pratica di Mare airbase) was canceled due to budget cuts, the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) decided to bring up an open day including also the 311° Gruppo Volo's displays of the AMX, the Tornado, the C-27J and the Eurofighter Typhoon, a CSAR event involving an HH-3F of the 15° Stormo and an AB.212ICO of the 9° Stormo, and a static display. ...

Army displays draw crowds at Armed Forces Day event United States Army (press release)
The Golden Knights' Black Demonstration Team also performed several jumps from more than 12000 feet in the air. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Golden Knights and a special commemorative parachute was opened to highlight the milestone. ...

BRIEF: 173rd Sky Soldiers exhibit opens at museum - TMCnet
An exhibit honoring the Army's 173rd Sky Soldiers opened Tuesday at the Airborne & Special Operations ...

The CIAF airshow cancelled and moved due to scheduled traffic and cutbacks from Technorati
The traditional CIAF air show hosted by the Brno International Airport will not take place here in September , the Brnensky denik daily wrote . The event will probably move to the airport in the city of Hradec Kralove that has general aviation and military movements only. Of course the reasons why this decision was made are debatable: the organizers argue that the development of scheduled-traffic operations has made the event more complicated to organize, but the immediately add that the ...

Proud to be American Day at Kawameeh in Union - Suburban News, NJ
The ceremony includes; Honor Guard, playing of taps, a reconnaissance helicopter and a special performance by the US Army Parachute team, the "Golden Knights." In attendance will be 1500 fourth grade students from the district. ...

Eastbourne Airbourne to be funded by charity collections - The Argus.co.uk, UK
By Ruth Lumley » An airshow which attracts tens of thousands of spectators could have to be funded by cash donated by residents and visitors. Eastbourne's Airbourne event made a £380000 loss last year after council officials decided to introduce a £6 ...

Are you ready for airshow's take off? - Basildon Recorder, UK
Staged along the seafront at Western Esplanade, above the Thames Estuary, on Sunday and Monday afternoon, this is the biggest free show of its kind in Europe and the 24th airshow held in Southend. Both days feature diverse flying displays, ...

Watsonville Fly-In takes off this weekend - Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA
WATSONVILLE -- From aerial aerobatics to vintage vehicles, the 45th annual Watsonville Fly-In & Air Show aims to provide a little excitement for everyone. Organizers expect planes to start arriving today for the event, which takes off Friday and runs ...

Tuskegee Fly-In set for Saturday - WZTV, TN
Roosevelt Lewis, says the 42nd annual Tuskegee Fly-In this weekend will hold a special re-enactment of Eleanor Roosevelt's flight with a black pilot in 1941. Lewis said it was the former First Lady's support of black pilots which led to President ...

51st Annual Fly-In/Drive-In features Navy fighter bomber - Canton Daily Ledger, IL
By Bill Burnham Over 650 people attended the Fulton County Flying Club's 51st Annual Fly-In/Drive-In Breakfast Sunday, May 17 at Canton's Ingersoll Airport. A feature of the show was a World War II Navy Fighter Bomber, a Grumman TMB Avenger (above). ...

James Bond Flies LoPrestiFury in Mid-Atlantic Fly-In & Sport ... - SBWire (press release), WI
James Bond's stand-in pilot, JW "Corkey" Fornof, will be sporting his latest airplane at the Mid-Atlantic Fly-In & Sport Aviation Convention held at the Lumberton Municipal Airport . Lumberton, NC -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/19/2009 -- James Bond's stand-in ...

Air station starts work on Air Show 2010 - Hilton Head Island Packet
The air station usually hosts the air show every other year but has postponed it if the Blue Angels don't include Beaufort on their schedule.

Memorial Day flower drop at the Palm Springs Air Museum - The Desert Sun
The Palm Springs Air Museum will host a drop of 3000 carnations from the sky on Memorial Day, May 25. The flower drop will be made at 1 pm by a B-25 Mitchell Bomber to honor veterans who died defending the United States.

Memorial Day meant to honor and remember - Columbia Missourian, MO
This year marks a milestone in maturity for the Salute to Veterans Memorial Day Air show and Parade–the 21st anniversary of its founding. Each and every one of those years has seen the air show and parade grow in attendance, participation and national ...

Hats off to all involved for air show at MCAS - Hilton Head Island Packet, SC
The air show was a tremendous display of superior flying, and an effort of superb courage and incredible dedication by our Navy and Marine Corps. I know they do this for a living, but every man, woman and child came away with a "wow" from Saturday's ...

Branson Air Show from Technorati
Molly and I are on vacation. We flew down to Branson on the very first commercial flight into a brand new airport ... and attended Branson's first ever airshow. Enjoy! My Airshow View! The Performers The Displays (my other Branson vacation posts: Grist Mill | Jed Clampett ) Branson Air Show on

Vaiden Airport Celebrates First Open House and Fly In Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
MARION AL- Armed Forces Day in Marion was celebrated for the first time at Vaiden Field Airport this year. A big crowd turned out for a Saturday Open House with fly in, lunch and family fun. Residents and area pilots heard first hand, about the changes taking place in local aviation business. New funding is available now to make the Vaiden Airport the economic engine for the Black Belt it could ultimately become. John Martin, Executive Director of Perry County Chamber was successful in recent years procuring airport improvement Grant Awards from both Federal and State agencies. Infrastructure enhancements and marketing for an over 400 ac - airport, commercial and industrial development could bring much needed jobs to the area. Volkert is the airport engineer consultant. ...

Thousands attend Fly-In - Reno Gazette Journal, NV
April Goodale also participated in the Young Eagles program and added, "I liked the fact that you can see more than usual (from the sky). You discover things you might not see." Her mother, Yana Goodale noted, "I feel its good experience for the kids ...

Dakota aircraft takes centre stage in historic Lichfield Bower fly ... - The Lichfield Blog, UK
All eyes will be on the sky in Lichfield come Bower Day when a historic fly-past takes place. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be in the skies over Beacon Park as part of the Bower celebrations. An historic Dakota will be the main attraction ...

Ontario students discover local air show solution - Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser, Canada
A group of economic development students from across Canada have come up with a solution they believe will save Wetaskiwin's air show. The future of the event, which runs every second year, and where tens of thousands of people are in attendance, ...

Calling all historical aviation buffs - we need your help? from Technorati
We have created a gallery dedicated to the significant historical moments in the 100 year history of the Paris Air Show , with over 100 images of aviation's premier show taken from the Flight archives. But we need your help! These images have been taken from our archives but unfortunately do not have specific data about the aircraft and the year. With this in mind we thought it would be an interesting challenge to test your aviation knowledge by allowing you to help us pinpoint the ...

Red Bull air race job has Damien Kinsey sky-high - Mackay Daily Mercury, Australia
Mr Kinsey is the team-co-ordinator for the Australian team in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2009. His role may be about organising publicity, the uniforms and the website for the team but he also gets to rub shoulders with some of the ...

Red Bull Air Race moves to Windsor Ontario - Aviation.ca (press release), Canada
Ivanoff narrows Arch's lead with stirring San Diego win Nicolas Ivanoff jumped ahead of Paul Bonhomme into second place in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship with his stirring victory over the British ace in San Diego on May 9/10 and the red-hot ...

Mike Goulian Speech and Extra 300SC Display Scheduled For Thunder On The Lakeshore from Smoke-On by Tom
Mike Goulian continues his busy air show schedule with a stop in Manitowoc, Wisconsin for the "Thunder on the Lakeshore" air show. On Wednesday June 3rd, the night prior to the air show, Mike will give a speech for a EAA hosted event which will include a display of Mike's air show plane, the Castrol [...]

Mike Goulian Speech before Manitowoc, WI Air Show from Mike Goulian Airshows by Karin
Join us prior to the air show in Manitowoc, WI (June 3rd) for an evening of food and educational & fun lectures showing the 'inside' of the new Extra 330SC by Mike Goulian & insights on military training from F-16 Pilots.

Glacier Girl Air Show Schedule from (title unknown) by P-38
I ran into Bob Cardin (Project Manager on the Glacier Girl Expedition) this past Saturday at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, and Bob mentioned that the only two air shows they have currently scheduled this year for "Glacier Girl" are Reno and Oshkosh. Thought you guys would want to know, so you [...]

"Glacier Girl" to Try England Trip Again? from (title unknown) by P-38
When I saw Bob Cardin at the Planes of Fame air show this weekend, he also mentioned that they are definitely planning to take another shot at the trip to Duxford, England to complete that re-creation flight attempted back in '07. He said it won't be this year, but their broad timeframe is about two [...]

B-17 Bomber Takes Flight At Boeing Field - KIROtv.com, WA
SEATTLE -- Chopper 7 was flying past Boeing Field when the crew spotted a restored World War II-era B-17 bomber taking off on a demonstration flight Wednesday. The aircraft is visiting the Museum of Flight through the Memorial Day weekend. ...

One-Of-A-Kind Restored Boeing 40 To Appear At Arlington 2009 from Aero-News Network
One More Reason To Go To Arlington THIS Year! Addison Pemberton of Spokane, Wash restored the only flying Boeing Model 40 in the world. The aircraft had been lost in an accident in October 1928. The Boeing 40C had not graced the skies for 65 years made its maiden flight in February 2008.

Anniversary of Charles Lindbergh and 'Spirit of St. Louis' - World Air Sports Federation, Switzerland
The route from New York to Paris was chosen because of the Orteig prize; $25000 offered by the New York hotelier Raymond Orteig for the first aviator to fly in either direction between the two cities. Lindbergh was an unknown outsider for the prize, ...

Air Force hero recalls World War II mission - The Detroit News, MI
The plane was on loan from the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville. Command Chief Master Sergeant Keith Edwards said he was excited about hearing Cole and Glines speak Tuesday. "It's a great story to tell," Edwards said. "It's not too often you get to ...

Honoring the legacy of heroes - Arctic Sentry, AK
There were Doolittle Raiders who did not come home, F-86 pilots shot down in MiG Alley and B-52 crews lost over North Vietnam during Operation Linebacker. We have lost 83 Airmen in Iraq and Afghanistan - one of the most recent was Staff Sgt. Timothy ...

Air Force hero recalls World War II mission - The Detroit News, MI
Cole, 93, is one of nine surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders, a group led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, to bombard Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Cole, who lives in Texas, paid a visit to the Selfridge Air National Guard Base on Tuesday ...

World War II veterans from southeast Michigan invited to gather ... - MLive.com, MI
Veterans who come to the Willow Run event will get a copy of the group photo, which will be taken in front of the Yankee Air Museum's restored and operational B-17 bomber. Famie believes at least 500 - maybe 1000 or more - veterans could show up. ...

EAA, WOA Offer Help to Owner of Seized Skyraider from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
The Department of Homeland Security recently notified a pilot, an EAA Warbirds of America (WOA) member and owner of a Douglas AD-4N Skyraider, that it intended to confiscate his recently imported aircraft.

15 Hours, 3.156 gph in a Husky from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
Indiana pilot Kris Maynard, EAA 751966, who last year established the world's first official aviation fuel efficiency record in his factory-standard Aviat Husky A-1A, had another remarkably fuel-frugal flight in that airplane last week. On May 12, Maynard flew the Husky for 15 hours, 3 minutes and 20 seconds straight on a single tank of fuel, covering a circuit of more than 1,200 statute miles.

Relocated air museum set for liftoff at HSBC Arena - Buffalo News
By Tom Buckham A year after rocketing off to Erie Canal Harbor from downtown Niagara Falls, the Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum is powering up for its Buffalo debut Saturday. The former Niagara Aerospace Museum will formally open in leased space in HSBC ...

The Candy Bomber from Op For by Lt Col P
Yesterday I had the great privilege of seeing and hearing Colonel Gail Halvorsen, the famous "Candy Bomber" of the Berlin Airlift. ...

When a hangar isn't just a hangar from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Tom Haines
It's almost June. Expensive wedding plans got you down? Rather than that lavish and highly expensive wedding hall, how about the hangar instead? For pilots and their aviation friends what a better place to celebrate a wedding ceremony than in the shadow of airplanes. ...

Free Pilot Study Courses Available for Young Eagles from Max Trescott
When you think of organizations that are working hard to preserve General Aviation, AOPA and EAA immediately come to mind. But Sporty's, best known for its catalog mailed monthly to virtually every pilot in the U.S., is also working to nurture a vibrant GA pilot population. As founder Hal Shevers said, "I never got the memo saying we have to convert over to just jet fuel." So it's not surprising that he's taking the lead in offering free pilot study courses for teenagers.
I was delighted to spend 24 hours at Sporty's last week. The staff pulled back the curtain and showed me...

British Pilot Lands Dream Job As An Astronaut. from Military Photos
An Apache helicopter pilot from Salisbury has been picked to join the European Space Agency as one of its six new astronauts ...

Videos of astronaut Scott Parazynski at the top of the world from Uplinks

Briefs: WK2 flight; Masten Space tethered flights; COMSTAC mtg from RLV and Space Transport News
Twitter postings from Mojave report that the WhiteKnightTwo had another test flight today.
[Update: I've heard that there might have been a glitch of some sort after WK2 landed. There were emergency vehicles around it on the runway for an hour or so before it was towed to the hangar.] ...

Uncontrolled Airspace #135 "Seven Days"
It's busy in the virtual hangar this week. Long distance flights... another GPS based next-gen system... a sad recap of the Colgan Air tragedy... Aviation Furniture... and seven days of podcasts. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #135 "Seven Days"

It's Awards Time for Aviation from Jetwhine by Robert Mark
Every year about this time aviation writers around the globe start getting a little goose bumpy wondering if they made the cut ...
ANG from FenceCheck Forums
Skydiver Survives 6,000ft Fall Without Parachute from A Welsh View by Robert Gale [video]
Chino Pictures on WIX from Another Time by Dan Linn
More Shots from the T-6A Texan II Flight from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
Planes of Fame Airshow 2009 - Chino - 05/16/09 from FenceCheck Forums
Video: 73 Identical Model Planes Flown At The Same Time from A Welsh View [this is why we need an air boss!]
The Spirit from Flight Level 390 by dave
VIDEO: Cockpit, ramp tour of Boeing C-17 (tail#189) at Long Beach from The DEW Line by Stephen Trimble

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