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Air Show Underway In Moreno Valley - CBS 2
A biennial air show featuring aerial acrobatics and skydiving demonstrations was underway this weekend at March Air Reserve.
On Saturday, more than 150,000 people attended "Air Fest 2010: Thunder Over the Empire." The crowd gasped and applauded during the F-22 flight and the Patriot Jet Team's performance, U.S. Air Force Reserve Maj. Donald Traud said. ...

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Air show takes off despite heavy rain - Oxford Mail
Mr Stanley said: "We went to Fairford air show in Gloucestershire last year and you could not really get near any of the aircraft. ...

A lot of public visits the air festival "Argentina Air Fest 2010" - via Translator
Hundreds of people came to enjoy the planes in the "Festival Air Argentina Air Fest 2010, held at Morón Air Base yesterday. ...

Yaks to return to Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo
That's the verdict from one pilot who will lead his display team at this year's Bournemouth Air Festival. Jez Hopkinson, who owns the ...

Famed Snowbirds to get first female commander - CTV.ca
I will look forward as always to seeing the Snowbirds perform this year. Congratulations to the new CO! MOOSE JAW, Sask. — The first female boss of the ...

First female boss of Snowbirds says gender doesn't matter under the helmet - Winnipeg Free Press
The first female boss of the renowned Snowbirds aerobatic team walks toward her CT-114 Tutor jet and laughingly glances at the rudder to make it hasn't been ...

2010 Canadian Snowbirds Schedule

AirPigz Podcast #10: Red Bull Air Race & Airshow Pilot Mike Goulian by Martt
...We also talk about his experience as an airshow pilot, including the upcoming performance on June 12th and 13th at the Indy Airshow. He flies the very cool green Edge 540 in the Red Bull Air Races and has a relatively new Extra 330, sponsored by ASB.TV that he flies in airshows around the country. ...

Rocketman: Space museum head sees dreams flying into reality - Tulsa World
A first-grader named Jim Bridenstine once drew a Crayola picture of himself smiling big and wide next to an airplane cast all in red. Then, as best as he could, the boy wrote "I want to be a pieolet."
That first-grader did, in fact, grow up to become a Navy pilot — one who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. But he also became a Tulsan unafraid to take the risks necessary to become a Rocket Racing League (RRL) independent team owner and pilot. And, in time, he became the man behind the QuikTrip Air & Rocket Racing Show, held last week at the Tulsa Air & Space Museum. ...

WASP & FLYGIRLS--What's NEXT! from WASP & WINGS
To the WASP and supporters online, a little news from Wings Across America. "FLY GIRLS TRAVELING WASP EXHIBIT" NEXT STOP on the national tour of the The "Fly Girls of WWII" traveling WASP exhibit will be the Kalamazoo AIR ZOO in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 31, 2010! Mom & I are just plain DELIGHTED to make this announcement, so that the WASP would be the FIRST TO KNOW!. All the other details ...

Warbird Radio Presents – The Harry Cochran Story from WarbirdRadio.com
WARBIRD RADIO – Harry Cochran retired from the United States Air Force as a Major General…but got his start flying B-25's from Corsica in World War II. Back then he was a world away from his family and a long way in rank from Major General. This week General Cochran tells his story during a [...]

DC-3 People Reunion At AirVenture from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The DC-3 has touched the lives of millions in its 75-year history and those drawn to the celebration of the venerable airliner and military transport at AirVenture Oshkosh this year have a way to renew old ties. Organizers of The Last Time, a mass arrival of 40 aircraft planned for AirVenture have set up an online searchable database (click on the red Reunion tab on the Web site) where anyone who has had any connection at all to the DC-3 can register and allow themselves to be found by likeminded souls they may have lost contact with over the years. Organizers says the arrival and the subsequent week of festivities at Oshkosh are as much a celebration of the people associated with the DC-3 as the aircraft itself. Registering will be especially useful for those attending AirVenture this year. ...

Paying Tribute to the 'Lady Ace 09' - On The Record With Greta - FOXNews.com
One of the historic events not caught on camera, a helicopter called the "Lady Ace 09," a hero helicopter. It evacuated Ambassador Graham Martin from the U.S. Embassy. The helicopter is making news once again. ...

Long Island, NY: Its role in aviation from You Fly, Girl
... Glenn Hammond Curtiss, the first to aerially triumph over Long Island with his Golden Flyer biplane, won the Scientific American trophy after making a 25-kilometer, 30-circuit flight round Mineola Airfield on July 17, 1909, attracting other aeronautically-inspired people and the first commercial buyer of an airplane. ...

Pilot awarded for wrestling U-2 from 52,000 feet from Air Force Times
Lt. Col. Joseph Santucci climbed down the ladder of the U-2 Dragon Lady, then felt his legs give way. That's when he realized how exhausted he was, physically and mentally.

Navy SEALs Help Fulfill Young Boy's Dream from U.S. Navy News Headline Stories
The Make-A-Wish foundation teamed up with U.S. Navy SEALs to help make a young boy's dream to be a Navy SEAL come true during his visit to Naval Special Warfare Group 2 at Joint Expeditionary Base, Little Creek, Va., April 28 and 29. ...

Reading the brief by Ian Seager
I decided to fly to the Popham Microlight Trade Fair. The weather was OK and set to improve, and as it's only a few minutes away by air I'd be there early enough to avoid the busiest arrival times. ...

Light Sport Circumnavigation Launched from AVweb Top News
Two Swiss airline pilots left their home base of Sion Friday on a around-the-world flight intended to promote ecological and economical general aviation and encourage young people to take up flying. Yannick Bovier and Francisco Agullo are also marking the 100th anniversary of the first flights in Switzerland by taking a pair of Flight Design CTLS aircraft on the challenging westward circumnavigation. With a couple of days of their departure they were scheduled to face their first major test with a 2,000-mile mid-Atlantic crossing from West Africa to Brazil. They'll spend a couple of days in the U.S. likely next week. ...

Icon Updates from AviationBull
The development of ICON's A5 is still going full-tilt. They've released a video of further testing that includes amphibious operations. It looks like things went pretty smoothly to me. I especially enjoyed the formation taxiing with jet skis. ...

Some stuff from me - Evan! from www.aafo.com
Hi Everybody! Here is my video interview with Tiger, Steven, and LD Hughes of Team Strega - sorry the audio isn't as good as it should be
Here is a quick video my dad and I made of the Pacific Coast Dream Machines
And my review and pictures of the show Evan

May 2 from Cut and Paste Aviation
1999 -- Serbian ground forces shot down a Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon over Šabac, a rural area of Serbia. It was the second and last U.S. aircraft lost in Operation Allied Force. An MH-60 helicopter rescued the pilot. ...

May 2010 from Pacific Wings Magazine