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Wings Over Wayne Air Show is 'record breaking' - Seymour Johnson AFB | Approximately 160,000 people attended the Wings Over Wayne Air Show and Open House here April 16-17. The two-day event featured the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, U.S. Army Golden Knights, Tora! Tora! Tora! and other aerial acts, as well as demonstrations from the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard drill team and 4th Security Forces Squadron military working dogs...

Seymour Johnson Air Show Salutes NC’s “Unwavering Support” - NCNGA | Goldsboro, N.C…. Commanders of Seymour Johnson AFB expressed appreciation to North Carolina for ‘unwavering support’ as Colonels Patrick Doherty and Shawn Pederson extended invitations to attend an extraordinary Air Show, Wings Over Wayne County, April 16-17...

Blue Angels take aircraft, wide-eyed passengers ‘to the max’ in demonstration at Fort Worth air show - Dallas News | There’s a reason everyone who takes a ride on the Blue Angels’ “Fat Albert” gets a “sick sack.” During its jet-assisted flight, the C-130T Hercules takes off at a 45-degree angle traveling at a speed six times that of a commercial flight. Then it ascends 1,000 feet in 10 to 15 seconds...

All set for the airshow - Times Of Malta | Four of the Patrouille de France’s Alpha Jets come out of a twist over the Malta International Airport in Luqa as they rehearse for their performances on Saturday and Sunday at the Malta International Airshow...

Pioneer Flight Muesum Air Fair May 7th - Lotus Talk | Pioneer Flight Museum is having their annual Air Fair on Saturday, May 7th. This is a WW1 museum that preserves all things internal combustion. They dress in period uniforms and have a great exhibit and air show...

Snag hits test flight - Marlborough Express | DANGER AVERTED: The Focke Wulf Fw190 lands safely at Omaka airfield yesterday after a malfunction with the landing gear during its first flight. Organisers hope the plane will be ready for displays during the Classic Fighter airshow starting tomorrow...

Awesome Video Of B17 And B25 - Leaving Terra Firma | So, I’ve gotten carried away working on some exciting new things in the last couple of days and I neglected to actually complete the posts I’ve been working on. The good news is that I will have some new things to announce soon. Anyway, what I’ve got for you today is a very interesting video of some of the Commemorative Air Force’s aircraft flying in Arizona...

World War II Veteran Maurice Lehenbauer makes Honor Flight - Monroe City | Sometimes the most moving part of any story is the silence. There are times when no words are needed nor adequate, and the silence speaks louder than any written or spoken word could utter. That was the case last week when the Great River World War II Honor Flight carrying 29 WWII veterans, including Monroe City’s Maurice Lehenbauer, made its return from Washington, D.C. to Hannibal...

WWII soldier's remains returned home - Press Democrat | Mervyn Earl Sims, an Army private who died in an airplane crash 68 years ago in the Himalayas, came home to Petaluma on a gray, rainy Wednesday afternoon...

Skies over Edwards AFB full of history - Bakersfield.com | Edwards Air Force Base's contribution to aviation history and space exploration will be the topic of a lecture on Saturday at Kern County's Beale Memorial Library...

If You Speak German, You'll Love This Elektra One Video - AirPigz |  If you're like me and don't speak German... you'll still love this video since it gives some great visual insight into the sweet all-electric flying machine from PC-Aero in Germany. Not only do you see quite a bit of the first flight conducted back on March 19th (with the uber experienced former Scaled Composites engineer/program manager/test pilot Jon Karkow in the pilot's seat)...

New Life: Rutan's Catbird Being Readied for Oshkosh Flight - EAA | If a cat has nine lives, maybe a Catbird has at least two. For the past 15 years or so, Scaled Composites Model 81 aircraft, better known as the Rutan Catbird, could be seen hanging - inverted - from the ceiling between Scaled's offices and the flight center in Mojave, California...

Fairhaven students counting down to national rocket challenge - SouthCoast Today | FAIRHAVEN — For those who've ever wanted to build a rocket, a trio of seventh-graders want you to know it's not that hard to do. The Hastings Middle School Rocket Club team — Jared Fredette, Paul Katan and Connor Powers — say constructing the outer structure of the rocket and fitting it with a store-bought engine is a fairly standard task...

185 skydivers jump in phoenix formation - MSNBC | 185 skydivers from 24 nations fly in the phoenix formation above DeLand, Fla. (big picture!)