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Thunder on the Lakeshore prepares for 19th season - Herald Times Reporter | MANITOWOC — The AeroShell Aerobatic team will highlight this year's Thunder on the Lakeshore Airshow, set for June 4-5 at the Manitowoc County Airport. AeroShell Aerobatic is a highly skilled team of four pilots flying World War II-era AT-6 Texan ...

Doolittle Raiders mark 69th anniversary - Omaha World-Herald | David Thatcher and a few Army buddies walked out of a downtown Lincoln movie theater one Sunday afternoon in December 1941 and learned that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. Less than five months later, Thatcher was an engineer-gunner ...

Remembering the past, making way for the future - Mount Airy News | I was able to see the B-17 flying fortresses, the B-25 bombers used on the Doolittle Raid launched after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Fat Man atomic bomb replica along with Bockscar, the B-29 superfortress that dropped the bomb, and even walk inside ...

World War I from the air from Bayou Renaissance Man | In November last year I reported that the BBC was making a one-hour documentary using still and moving images of the World War I battlefields. Only a preview was available at the time: but an e-mail from reader Erik C. informed me today that the program is now on YouTube. I simply had to post it here, for the benefit of history-lovers and aviation enthusiasts alike. ...

Early flying boat, early airliner — Benoist XIV “airboat” from Travel for Aircraft | Early flying boat, early airliner — Benoist XIV “airboat” walkaround 27° 54′ 43″ N / 82° 41′ 37″ W Back in the early days of powered flight, less than 10 years after the Wright Brothers historic flight, floatplanes and flying boats were also flying. One of the early designers of flying boats was Tom Benoist who named this type [...]

Rare warbird to fly in Toowoomba - Toowoomba Chronicle | THE world's biggest single engine bi-plane, the historic Antonov 2, will be at this year's David Hack Classic. And the good news is, guests can even enjoy a ride. There will be five available seats on each flight and rides will cost $80 per person for ...

Amusing memories of US Navy flight training from Bayou Renaissance Man | I'm currently reading John Trotti's memoir "Phantom Over Vietnam" (which I highly recommend: it's out of print, but used copies are freely available). In it, he recounts a couple of wonderful stories about US Navy and Marine Corps flight training, which I thought I'd share with you. ...

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A-10 Simulators at Davis Monthan Air Force Base from photorecon.net | On Friday March 4, 2011, Photorecon was invited to the A-10 flight simulator training facility at Davis Monthan Air Force Base outside Tucson, Arizona. The A-10 Thunderbolt II (later called the “Warthog” for it’s ugly appearance) was designed in the early 1970s as a close air support platform. The Warthog or “Hog” was built around [...]

April 13 – This Day In Aviation History from Aviation Earth | April 13, 1919 – The Vickers Vimy Commercial aircraft completes its first flight on this date, to Kent, England. The aircraft is a converted bomber airplane that featured a passenger compartment in the fuselage that could hold up to ten people. April 13, 1925 – Henry Ford began operations for the first regularly scheduled air [...]
   
Former Astronaut to Speak at Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Association ... - Bay Net | Former Astronaut and US Senator John Glenn will be the speaker April 13 at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Association (PRNAMA) fundraiser, “An Evening with John Glenn.” Earlier that day, winners in the St. Mary's County Science Fair, ...

NASA, Boy Scouts Of America Unveil New Merit Badge from Aero-News Network | Partnering To Help Youth Learn About Robotics Boy Scouts now have the opportunity to work with NASA and other technology professionals to design, build, and demonstrate a robot to earn the new Robotics merit badge.

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