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Wings Air Show - KFYR-TV
The internationally renowned Candaian Snowbirds will be the show`s featured act. Typically the snowbirds don`t perform at smaller shows, but they said they ...

Wing walking for cancer awareness - WAVY-TV
A Williamsburg man is preparing to perform his 100th wing walk in Bealeton, Va. He's using the occasion to raise money and awareness for cancer research. ...

Patrouille de France faz treino em Natal antes da apresentação ... - Tribuna do Norte – Natal
Emanuel AmaralA Patrouille de France, um dos mais importantes destacamentos aéreos do mundo, faz treinamento nas praias do centro de Natal. ...

Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Four -- Anousheh Ansari ... - Huffington Post
Witnessing SpaceShipOne hanging in the Air & Space museum really proved that we had made history. And when we learned that the prize had sparked a new ...

Malta International Airshow to start on Saturday - di-ve.com
by di-ve.com - editorial@di-ve.com Local aviation enthusiasts will be enthralled for the whole weekend as this year's International Airshow will kick off on ...

Israel News: Iran's only AWACS type aircraft crashes in air show by News Service
Israel News: Iran's only AWACS type aircraft crashes in air show.

WWII pilot gets wish for final B-24 flight from Air Force Times - News
MANCHESTER, N.H. — World War II pilot Bernerd Harding feels he finally has completed his mission — 65 years after his B-24 airplane was shot down over Germany.Harding, now 90 and being treated for prostate cancer, was a passenger Friday in the Witchcraft — the last B-24 still flying. He sat in the cockpit behind the pilots. The skies were clear during the 30-minute flight from Laconia to Manchester that ended with a safe, smooth landing."It was fun. It was worth it. It's history," he said after the flight.As the four engines rumbled to life, Harding was taken back to another time — back when he was a 25-year-old first lieutenant piloting a bombing run to Bernburgh, Germany. On the way back to his base in England, fighters crippled his plane, forcing him and his crew to bail out with their parachutes.Harding waited for the others to jump, then turned and saluted a German fighter pilot for not blowing up the plane with the men inside."He flew alongside to make sure I jumped out," Harding said.Harding said he felt that mission — his 14th — was incomplete without one more landing. Friday's was "close enough," he said.Harding's B-24, nicknamed Georgette, was shot down a month after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, on July 7, 1944. One member of Harding's crew was killed. The others — including Harding — were taken prisoner.Harding landed in a freshly cut wheat field, barely missing a barbed wire fence. Three farmers, two with pitchforks and one with a gun, captured him and herded him into a cellar in Klein Quenstedt, a village southwest of Berlin. Fearing reprisals from villagers for being a bomber pilot, Harding buried his pilot's wings in the cellar floor.Two weeks ago, Harding returned to Klein Quenstedt to search for the wings with villagers' help. He didn't find his wings but a resident gave him a silver bracelet recovered from the body of a dead American airman that day. The bracelet belonged to Jack H. Glenn and is being returned to his sister in Anchorage, Alaska. She plans to send it to a museum in Texas where Glenn grew up.The Collings Foundation, which owns the Witchcraft, presented Harding with a new set of pilot's wings after Friday's flight.That wasn't Harding's first time inside the Witchcraft. He toured the bomber about 10 years ago with his grandchildren but didn't fly in it, so this time it was a treat."He says, 'I'm making my last landing.' In light of the cancer, what a gift," said his wife, Ruth, 84, who rode in the B-24 on Friday.Harding's only complaint about the flight is that he couldn't see outside the plane much."I was watching them in the cockpit," he said.It took a friendship, bonded across a generation, and a mutual interest in the war to pull off Friday's special flight.Two years ago, Harding met Bob Korkuc, who was writing a book about his uncle's death aboard a B-17. Korkuc had noticed Harding's POW license plate and asked if Harding was a ball turret gunner, since Harding was short enough to fit into that part of the plane. Harding told Korkuc his story and Korkuc asked if he could research it for another book. Their talks cemented a friendship.Last October, Korkuc decided to help Harding travel to Germany find his wings and land in a B-24 again. Korkuc called the Collings Foundation and arranged for Friday's flight. Korkuc, 47, of Amherst, also helped arrange Harding's trip to Germany.Harding of Milford, N.H., was also accompanied on the Friday flight by his son Brian Harding, 53, of Milford, and Korkuc. The Associated Press also was on the flight.The Witchcraft is in New Hampshire as part of the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour. The foundation, based in Stow, Mass., offers tours of military planes as well as flights aboard the aircraft.

WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous special early morning flight cancelled for Sept. 26 from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories by nationalmuseum.usaf@wpafb.af.mil (Sarah Olaciregui)
The World War I Dawn Patrol Rendezvous special early morning flight scheduled for 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 26 has been cancelled due to the weather forecast. The event is now scheduled to open at 9 a.m. on Saturday and will continue throughout the day until 5 p.m. For complete details about activities taking place during the WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous, please visit http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/wwiflyin.asp.

A WASP being interviewed at YouTube from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Ironic...or an in-joke... the blurb for this very brief interview, in which the WASP points out that no one knew the WASP existed for 35 years ... is that they don't even say who this woman is! Not in the blurb for YouTube, not in the title of the Video, not in an annotation on the Video. First name Elaine, I can see that on her name badge...but the last name?

WASP Elizabeth Strohfus at YouTube from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Short doc on 89 year old Elizabeth Strohfus

Maggie Gee at YouTube from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Maggie Gee was interviewed at the beginning of September 2009 about being a WASP. Only 2 minutes, unfortunately. Maggie was one of only two Chinese-American women WASP. At least one African-American woman attempted to join also, but was turned down. It would take another decade and the Korean War before integration took place.

B-2 Spirit Bomber scheduled to soar at Wings Over Homestead Air Show, Nov. 8 from http://www.homestead.afrc.af.mil/
HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. -- The world's most technologically advanced bomber is scheduled to pierce the skies over Homestead Air Reserve Base on Sunday, Nov. 8, during the two-day Wings Over Homestead Air Show on Nov. 7-8.

B-17 Sentimental Journey from FenceCheck Forums - I left this one un-corrected -- liked it

Entertainment Briefs - Pahrump Valley Times
The fifth annual Young Eagles event will offer free airplane rides to youth ages 8 through 17 from 8:45 am to about 1 pm, Oct. 3 at the north end of the ...

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