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Air show dazzles crowd - Florida Today | COCOA BEACH — The second annual Cocoa Beach Air Show, bolstered by near-perfect weather and thousands of spectators who lined the beach around Lori Wilson Park, hit awe-inspiring marks right from the beginning Saturday. That's when two Navy SEAL team members parachuted to the main staging area, one of them carrying a large American flag, to Air Force…

2010 Cocoa Beach Air Show – Sun, Surf and Sonic Booms! « AmericaSpace by Jason Rhian | I have been to a great many air shows in my day. Sweltering heat, dust and other issues often make them fun – but exhausting events. The organizers of the Cocoa Beach Air Show had a great idea – combine the joys of the beach – with the ...

Fort Worth Alliance Air Show features F-22 Raptor, Navy's Blue Angels, Army's ... - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Dave "Zeke" Skalicky slowed the F-22 Raptor to a halt in front of the Lockheed Martin tent. The crowd went wild, cheering on the Air Force pilot with ...

the maX files: Port Elizabeth Airshow 2010 by Max-e | The weather for yesterday's airshow was cool and overcast and because of the glare from the clouds it was not ideal an ideal day for photography. But that did not stop me. For today I will focus on my two favourites. ...

Parade Gives Happy Birthday to Nevada – KTVN | As well as celebrating our state and its aviation history, parade-goers said the event is a good way to bring the community together… Grand marshal Dick Rutan arrives for Nevada Day Nevada Appeal …

Pearl the movie - Meet Elijah DeJesus (Pearl) and Sean Cain (Scottie) at the AOPA Aviation Summit in Long Beach Veteran's Day weekend!

Firms sign up for Bahrain International Airshow - Trade Arabia | Aviation industry leaders have already signed up for the next edition of the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS), more than a year ahead of the event. ...

Liberal Air Museum schedules Veterans Day activities - Dodge City Daily Globe | The program, scheduled for the General Welch Theater, begins at 7:30 pm and includes special music by Janie Kitch and Steve Leete; ...

Artists invited to enter air show poster contest - St. Augustine Record | St. Augustine Air Show and Southeast Aero are calling all artists to submit their visions in a 2011 St. Augustine Air Show commemorative poster contest. ...

Monroe looks back on career - Parkersburg News | ''So the general made it a point that all personnel, including the cooks, who assisted with his operation were considered Flying Tigers,'' he said. ...

RN-T.com - 100 Years Ago in Rome News Tribune from romenews-tribune.com | Records continued to be broken at the International Aeroplane Meet at Belmont Park, N.Y. Maurice Tableau established a new duration and distance record by flying his machine for six hours and 10 minutes, covering 283 miles. Ralph Johnston's altitude flight of 8,470 feet was a new American record, and in a cross-country flight from Belmont Park to Garden City and back, a distance of 20 miles, it was flown in 19 minutes and 48 3/4 seconds, more than 60 miles an hour…

Virgin Galactic: inside the world's first spaceport - Telegraph.co.uk | But, suddenly, Sir Richard and Burt Rutan's team were actually making this a practicable possibility. "It is a lot of money, but how do you put a price on ...

Discovery Targeted to Launch Tuesday at 4:17 p.m. from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | The launch of space shuttle Discovery is targeted for Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 4:17 p.m. EDT. Managers are meeting to discuss the plan to repair helium and nitrogen leaks in the pressurization portion of space shuttle Discovery's right-hand Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) pod. The leaks must be fixed before launch and the decision was made to delay picking up the launch countdown by at least a day. Since the scheduled launch day fell close to election day, NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding said the launch team members have been encouraged to take advantage of early voting or absentee ballot options so they could take part in the elections…

The Disastrous Flop That Was the Brewster F2A Buffalo from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | If you'd been following my Twitter stream earlier today (@SentinelChicken), I had been posting tidbits about the failure that was the Brewster F2A Buffalo, quite possibly one of the worst fighting aircraft we sent into action during the Second World War…