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Thunderbirds salute aviation history in Charleston - Myrtle Beach Sun News | AP JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, SC -- The Air Force's famed Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team is flying high over the skies of Charleston during a tribute to aviation history. The Thunderbirds were scheduled to perform hundreds of air ballet moves while ...
  
Black Sheep fighter jets fly into Boyington Field - The Spokesman Review | Rick Seward, left, who served in Korea and Vietnam, talks with Sgt. Alfred Negron after the fly-in of the Black Sheep Squadron AV-8B Harrier at Pappy Boyington Field in Hayden on Friday. Two fighter jets from the US Marines' famed Black Sheep Squadron ...   
   
Vet who flew bombing missions during World War II is in B-17 again, this time ... - The Republic | The Peoria resident was a special guest of the Wisconsin-based Experimental Aircraft Association and was invited to fly in the plane called the "Aluminim Overcast." It's one a handful of the vintage B-17s still operational. During his service as an US ...

B-25H – flying artillery for the Pacific and CBI - Shortfinals's Blog | General William Lendrum ”Billy” Mitchell, US Army (1879-1936) was opinionated, outspoken and argumentative. He foresaw that Japan would be an aggressor in a future conflict, and even that Pearl Harbor would be attacked. In 1921 he demonstrated that the day of the battleship was over by arranging for the sinking from the air of the ex-German Imperial Navy battleship ‘Ostfriesland’ off Chesapeake Bay and successful attacks on other redundant warships. General Mitchell truly was ‘…a prophet who is without honor in his own land.’ He was court-marshalled, but resigned in disgust. ...
   
Tales of heroism mark POW Remembrance Day - The Spokesman Review | World War II ex-POWs Bud Kirchhoff, far left, and Jack Donohoe, center, both survivors of the Bataan Death March, and George Vasil, a B-17 navigator shot down in 1943 and held in a Nazi prisoner of war camp, watch a flag-folding ceremony at the POW ...

Lindy Hop to Lindbergh LEAP from CAFE Foundation Blog | Sun n’ Fun, following a disastrous sweep by an F1 tornado through the flight line on Thursday, March 31, came back strong the following day, with F-22 demonstration flights, the Blue Angels, and a full contingent of top-drawer aerobatic pilots.  The Green Aviation exhibits ...

Plane Pull is back on track at Delaware National Guard base - The News Journal | The Delaware National Guard's annual Plane Pull to benefit Special Olympics is set to begin at 9 am Sunday. The event was canceled Friday because of concerns over the possibility of a federal government shutdown. But due to the compromise reached in ...

Spaceships of the World: 50 Years of Humans Spaceflight from SPACE.com | See the spaceships that have launched astronauts and cosmonauts into space in the first 50 years of human spaceflight. 

Video: Yuri Gagarin and the Science of Orbit from Spaceports