Spirits soar along with the aircraft at the Beaufort Air Show - Island Packet | The Blue Angels and a handful of other aerial acts dazzled thousands Saturday at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. The air station's flightline was flooded with spectators taking in the first day of the 2011 Beaufort Air Show. The event, which the base stages every other year, continues today at 11 a.m...
Eyes turn skyward at Beaufort Air Show - Bluffton Today | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT - Blue skies welcomed the Blue Angels and big crowds Saturday during the 2011 MCAS Beaufort Air Show, which celebrated 100 years of Naval aviation. “This air show gives us a chance to see what the military is all about and see the new and the old,”...
Cooper grad comes home as C-130 loadmaster for AirFest - Reporter News | Josh Thompson leapt at the chance to come home to Abilene to visit his parents and see friends. Sure, other young men travel home to see their folks. But for this visit, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Thompson, who is stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M., arrived in his flight suit aboard a C-130...
Volunteers and Vendors Wanted! - Windsor International Air Show | The next registration date for volunteers is just around the corner. May 8. It will only take a few minutes as we get to meet you in person. Check out the application HERE for more information. We need a lot of able bodied people who are looking to help out one of Canada's biggest civilian air shows...Three brothers among veterans on Honor Flight to D.C. - Post Bulletin | While serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Marvin Dumdei, 87, of Waseca, traveled completely around the world once on a ship. After unloading in Iran, which was then called Persia, he went onto Iraq, Australia, India, China, through the Mediterranean three times and to Murmansk, Russia, the deadliest of all shipping routes, he said...
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B-17 for re-vamp! - Classic-Aviation | Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress "Mary Alice", based at IWM Duxford, is to undergo major maintenance and a face lift after corrosion was found in significant amounts on the airframe...
Aviation Sights of Virginia - Travel Deals | Although Virginia, as an aviation destination, may seem a shadow of Washington with its world-reknowned National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, half of that magnificent facility actually sits in Virginia itself, and the state’s numerous other, although smaller, sights offer significant aviation focuses, from barnstorming airfields to space capsules...
Warbird Museum Grand Reopening - STG News | ST. GEORGE – The sights and sounds of planes flying in the skies above St. George is nothing new. However, in February of 2011, local residents were treated to something new – the roar of a MiG 15 soaring overhead. While the sight of a Soviet-produced jet fighter over a US city has nowhere near the same impact now that it would have had 60 years ago, it is nonetheless an amazing piece of wild-blue-yonder history...Valley Plane Pull Held at SHD - WHSV | The tarmac at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport was busy on Saturday, but instead of taking off for flights, the planes were being pulled across the ground by teams raising money for the Fairfield Center in Harrisonburg. About 20 teams each pulled a plane 150 yards across the tarmac...
Caption Contest #56 Winner - Critical Engine Edition... (Doak VZ-4) - AirPigz | As it turned out, it was a pretty close race in the voting for the winner, but someone going by the name 'GPS_Direct' wound up on top - congrats! You had my vote too, it definitely made me laugh. You've got yourself a tasty bacon sandwhich at Oshkosh 2011 for your hard work too...Business aviation gathers for Shanghai show - AIN Online | The first Shanghai International Business Aviation Show (Sibas) garnered mixed reviews from its exhibitors, but generally the perception was that it was a success, despite teething problems, such as no food on site and some issues with shipping. However, these were offset by the quality of attendees who showed up and the fact that organizer World Events Agency managed to pull off the show at all...
Aviation schools take flight - Carolina Live | Saturday afternoon, two aviation schools celebrated their opening with an open house at the Conway airport. Innovative Flying, LLC will lease space at the airport-which the county owns. Pilots can sign up for classes to get licenses from basic flight to commercial...
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