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U.S. Navy Blue Angels greeted like celebrities at Lynchburg airport - WSLS.com | Lynchburg's last air show was in 1982 and the crowd is ready for the homecoming. "I just get excited, butterflies in the stomach. ...

Blue Angels plane makes Lynchburg landing - Lynchburg News and Advance | Team members from the Blue Angels flew into Lynchburg Regional Airport on Wednesday to evaluate the area before an airshow scheduled for May. ...

Blue Angels Scope Out Airport as Possible Air Show Site - WSET | AP National/International News Entertainment News from AP Campbell County, VA - Some members of the Blue Angels landed at the Lynchburg Regional Airport ...

Blue Angel 7 Makes Quick Turn at KBHM Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News -BIRMINGHAM AL- A misty dreary day at the Birmingham International Airport turned  exciting at the unexpected appearance of Blue Angel Number 7. The Boeing F/A 18 Hornet with the coveted second seat landed for a quick turn fuel stop…

Aviation Expo kicks off today - Tbo.com | The US Sport Aviation Expo begins today and will run through Sunday at the Sebring Regional Airport. By BRAD DICKERSON | Highlands Today SEBRING - The ...

Celebrating 100 years of Naval aviation - Pensacola News Journal ... Korean War. n 1954: The Blue Angels flight demonstration team relocates to Pensacola NAS from Corpus Christi. n 1962: The USS Lexington aircraft carrier ...

Navy Week heads to Tampa, just in time for another invasion - Tampabay.com | Last year, the Tampa visit in March accompanied the MacDill Airfest. But in 2007 and 2008, it was during Gasparilla, too. "We like to anchor onto an already ...

Red Checkers fly in honor of fallen pilot | 3News NZ | For the first time in over a year the Red Checkers will return to the skies this weekend for a public aerobatic display, at an air show in the ...

5 lucky girls or women to win a free Flyabout documentary DVD during Women of Aviation Worldwide Week from Women of Aviation's Facebook Wall by Women of Aviation | 5 lucky girls or women to win a free Flyabout documentary DVD during Women of Aviation Worldwide Week | Women of Aviation Worldwide Community | Blog | Flyabout documentary becomes our newest Bronze sponsor | Five lucky girls or women who go on their first flights during the 2011 Women of Aviation Worldwide Week will also win a free Flyabout documentary DVD signed by the director/producer, Monika Petrillo.

FAA Production Studio Announces Sun N Fun Forum Schedule 2011 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Today the FAA Production Studios at the FAASTeam National Resource Center announced the FAA Forum schedule for Sun N Fun 2011. Six days of seminars with outstanding topics will be presented. "The Aviation Safety Year Starts Here" is the theme with top rated speakers including John and Martha King and Congressman Sam Graves…

Navy Skins Retro Paint For 2011 'Centennial Of Naval Aviation' (Awesome!) by Martt |  For the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation taking place in 2011, the U.S. Navy has painted up several operational aircraft in retro colors. It's an awesome idea for so many reasons, but most of all for what it does in connecting the old with the new... for helping us to better know where we're headed by remembering where we came from. This one simple act of putting great heritage paint on a nice handful of aircraft has done more to get me excited about Naval Aviation than the movie Top Gun did - a big high five to the Navy for a stroke of genius! …

First 787 for ANA takes off from Things with Wings by Guy Norris | Boeing confirms that the first production configured 787, and the first scheduled to be handed over to ANA in the third quarter, made its maiden flight on Jan 19. The aircraft, ZA102, took off from Paine Field at 3.53 pm and landed just over one hour later having completed a typical B1 pre-delivery flight as well as a landing gear actuation test…

Winter Hide 2011: RDAF F-16 deployment to Grosseto by David Cenciotti | On Jan. 17, 2011, 11 F-16s belonging to the Royal Danish Air Force deployed to Grosseto airbase, Italy, to undertake training operations with the local based Eurofighter Typhoon of the 4° Stormo of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF). Dubbed "Winter Hide 2011″ the deployment will enable the Danish pilots to train in the mild Italian climate (since bad weather affects flying operations in Denmark during this season) until Feb. 11…

Aviation Exhibits at Mesa Public Libraries – EVLiving | Come see "Journey Together" as it follows aviation cadet Richard Attenborough, who later became an Academy Award-winning director and actor, ...

Doofus Of The Day #435 from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Nevada-based pilot and flight instructor Earl Griffin, 70, thought he'd say "hellow" to his buddy Dave, who was driving a white 2008 Ford Explorer on a dirt road in Crystal, Nevada in January of 2010. Problem was, Earl was flying a Piper Cherokee 235 (N9083W) at the time…

EAA Webinar Celebrates the Legendary Piper Cub from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | In tonight's EAA Webinar, "Buying, Flying and Owning a Piper Cub," Steve Krog gave his expert advice to anyone interested in owning or flying the legendary Piper Cub.  Over 19,800 were manufactured primarily between 1937 and 1947, most using a Continental 65hp engine…

South Florida Douglas DC-3's from Aero Pacific Flightlines by Michael Carter | While on our trip to Miami and Ft Lauderdale, we were on the look out for Douglas DC-3s and we did manage to photograph several of these Classic propliners. There were many more that we spotted but these were the only ones we could get close enough to for photos…

Today in Aviation History – January 20 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Polliwogs and Aluminum Foil at AMARG from Helikopter Hysterie - The Helicopter Blog by Axel | During the AMARG tour (remember to sit on the left!) the bus stopped at only one occasion and we were allowed to stand up and take some pictures, but not leave the bus. I took this photo of a row of several different helicopters. I see a US Navy Bell 412, a few Bell AH-1 Cobras, in the background wrapped in what look like aluminum foil, the polliwog-shaped OH-6 Cayuse or Loach, and I seem to also recognize a McDonnell Douglas Helicopters MD600 Notar, also wrapped in aluminum foil. The latter are possibly Department of Homeland Security or Border Patrol choppers…