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Lynchburg gears up for Blue Angels - WSLS | The Blue Angels are headed to town this weekend and to get excited for the show we thought we'd drop by the Lynchburg Airport Port and talk with organizers about the big event. They have plenty of private jets here, but we jumped on the ...

USN Blue Angels 2011 Schedule

Snowbirds set to Grace the Skies over Kingston for RMC Graduation - Kingston This Week | If you miss this presentation, The Snowbirds will say goodbye to Kingston with a noon hour fly by the next day, Friday May 20. 114 jets. The Snowbirds have been performing for over forty years and have entertained opening ceremonies for the Olympic ...

Allard inducted into state Aviation Hall of Fame - Park Rapids Enterprise | Allard has written two books on Minnesota aviation history. He spent nearly 20 years doing research, he said. He wrote a biography of Speed Holman and a book that chronicles Minnesota aviation history from 1857-1945. He interviewed hundreds of pioneers ...

The Liberty Foundation – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday from WarbirdRadio.com | TUESDAY – The Liberty Foundation’s own Ray Fowler joins us on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Hear the details on their new P-40 and how you can go for a ride.  The Liberty Foundation operates several aircraft including the B-17 “Liberty Belle” and the P-40 seen in the picture above.  Tune in this Tuesday morning at 10am [...]

B-25 Honors Doolittle Raider With Fly-Over At Arlington National Cemetery from WarbirdRadio.com | WARBIRD RADIO – The last living Command Pilot of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, Colonel William Bower, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on May 16th 2011.  B-25 owner / operator Larry Kelley piloted “Panchito” over the ceremony as tribute to Col. Bower and all the Doolittle Raiders.  The video above shows his approach to the [...]

Rockford AirFest 2011 to feature record number of static aircraft - Aledo Times Record | Rockford AirFest 2011 is scheduled to feature 15 military and civilian performers, headlined by the US Navy Blue Angels and including a special performance by the US Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon. Rockford AirFest 2011 is one of only 32 events in ...

Air show soars in Jacksonville - Bizjournals.com | Spectators shake hands with Marines who participated in an air to ground assault demonstration during the air show. Parachutists open the festivities by bringing in Old Glory while a Marine Corps band on the ground plays the National Anthem. ...
    
New River Air Show Closed Early - WCTI12.com | ONSLOW COUNTY -- The New River Sounds of Freedom Air Show was cut short Sunday. The threat of dangerous lightning closed the show 2 hours early to keep the public safe. Still, 5000 to 10000 people visited the show Sunday. ...
   
B-17 grounded in Napa due to poor weather - Record-Searchlight | A fully restored World War II B-17 that was to arrive in Redding today has been delayed due to poor weather. But it's not known when the airplane, which is grounded in Napa, will arrive here. It's arrival is now dependent on ...

NATO Tiger Meet 2011: a real exercise with some interesting “hardware” rather than a gathering of friends from David Cenciotti's weblog | Taking place between May 9 and 20 at Cambrai airbase, in northern France, NATO Tiger Meet (NTM11) has been attended by about 60 planes and helicopters belonging to the Austrian, Czech Republic, German, Hellenic, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Swiss and Slovak air forces. From a simple meeting of flying units sharing a Tiger (or feline) emblem, the NTM has become a multi-national mid-size exercise offering a two-week program that includes all types of air-to-air and air-to-ground and a wide variety of  ...



Historic WWII planes to visit Hollister - Hollister Free Lance |  A little more than a week before the second Hollister Airshow kicks off, the Hollister Municipal Airport will be the home for three rare World War II airplanes as part of the Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour. ...

Video: Solar Airplane’s Maiden European Flight from Autopia | It took almost 13 hours, but an airplane powered only by the sun has completed the first international flight ever made by solar power, opening a new chapter in electric aviation.  André Borschberg, the CEO and co-founder of Solar Impulse, left Payerne aerodrome in western Switzerland at 8:40 a.m. local time. He touched down in Brussels 12 hours and 59 minutes later. ...

Ocala Palms community donates $7676 for Ocala Honor Flight - Ocala | Lanzara was in the Marines and served as a B-25 gunner in WWII. He said the trip “would be great.” Larsen, also a Marine, joined during WWII at age 17 and said going on the upcoming trip will be a “privilege.” Stewart, an Army Ranger assigned to a ...

Duxford’s New Air Show App Goes Live Today by Flightline UK | Imperial War Museum Duxford has today launched an innovative and exciting Smartphone Application for the 2011 air show season.  The Duxford Air Shows 2011 App is now available for download from the Apple store and Android marketplace.  The App provides a dynamic on-the-day flying schedule for each of the Museum’s famous air shows, which ...

Awesome Aviation Geek Groupon, 51% off EAA Airventure Museum! - The Aspiring Pilot | I'll be hopping in on this deal. Hopefully, along with a visit to 2011 Airventure, I can make two trips out there with the family.  I'll even aim at making the groupon purchased trip via airplane as a daytrip with the kids! (excerpt from my Chicago General Aviation Examiner column (see full article for details on the museumas well))  Are you interested in aviation and looking for a quick day-trip or mini vacation within a few hours drive of Chicago? ...

 The History of Glacier Girl: Part 1 from InFlightUSA | Owned by Rod Lewis this flight of the P-38 Glacier Girl flown by Steve Hinton, and the two F7F Tigercats flown by Stewart Dawson and Rod Lewis, were photographed from the ramp of an Alaska ANG C-130 over Pyramid Lake, Nevada during the Reno National Championship Air Races last September. (Jim Dunn)Editor’s Note: In Flight USA will run the story of Glacier Girl in three parts. This first part is the history of Glacier Girl. In the June issue of In Flight USA, Part 2 will cover The Recovery of Glacier Girl, and finally in the July issue we will cover the Restoration of Glacier Girl. This story leads us to AirVenture, July 25-31, where Glacier Girl will be on display. ...

ENGLAND -- MAY 5th TO 11TH , 2011 from WINGS AND WASP | ENGLAND  --  MAY 5th TO  11TH , 2011 Special edition report by WASP Bee Haydu Our Hosts, THE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION,  President Timothy Davis, Alicia Harms, Vice President of Communication and Jon Bunyak, Chief Financial Officer. WASP on the trip, Elaine Harmon, Shirley Kruse, Bee Haydu. From London our first stop was Duxford Air Museum, Cambridgeshire County,  about one hour north ...

'Spy from PEI' Cliff Stewart dies - Charlottetown Guardian | Cliff Stewart poses with a Lysander during an airshow in 2010. Stewart died Saturday in his Sherwood home at age 91. Clifton Elmer Stewart, better known as Cliff, a Canadian spy recruited by the British during the Second World War, died over the ...

Sharjah Museums organises photo exhibition - AME Info | As part of International Museum Day celebrations Al Mahatta Museum chronicles region's aviation history and development. The exhibition, which will run until Saturday 21 May 2011, side-by-side with a variety of related activities, including workshops ...

Book about the Vulcan released ahead of Shoreham Airshow - Shoreham Today | The AVRO Vulcan XH558 is set to return to the 22nd annual Shoreham Airshow on August 21 and 22 this year. All proceeds will go towards helping the last flying Vulcan reach the 2011 display season. A total of £350000 by the end of May is needed to keep ...

By the Dawn's Early Light wins the The Captain Duane Whitney Martin, USAF Award at the 2011 ASAA International Aerospace Art Exhibition from Pete Wenman Aviation Art | I'm delighted and extremely proud to to announce  that "By the Dawn's Early Light" won the Captain Duane Whitney Martin, USAF Award at the 2011 American Society of Aviation Artists International Aerospace Exhibition. The exhibition is currently hanging at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fl through until 31/08/2011. ...

1959 Martin-Bell Dyna Soar Inboard Profile from The Unwanted Blog | Note that the cockpit of this little spaceplane was designed to be ejected in the event of an emergency. At this stage in the Dyna Soar program, the vehicle had lost its role as a bomber, and had been reduced to an R&D vehicle, thus the “cargo bay” stuffed full of equipment. Boeing’s final Dyna Soar design also had the ...

Martin Wezel Lost in Crash of Green Flight Challenge Aircraft from CAFE Foundation Blog | This weekend, Rec.aviation.soaring reported, “Martin Wezel, well known aerospace engineer who created Flugzeugtechnik Wezel, the German company that builds gliders and microlights under the brands of Apis2, TL, and Viva, died on May 9th,after the crash of his airplane in China.” ...

"A 12 Step Program" UCAP #235 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Every week the UCAP gang gathers in the virtual hangar to talk about all things GA.

Father, son and daughter deploy to Iraq as Apache pilots from Warplanes Online Community | Having an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot for your dad is pretty cool. Even cooler is being an Apache pilot and having two of your children follow in your footsteps to become pilots, too.  Capt. Dennis McNamara decided to rejoin his former unit, the 8-229 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, as an Apache pilot when both his son and daughter were deploying to Iraq with the unit.  “Without a doubt, I’m the proudest man on earth,” said Capt. Dennis McNamara, an AH-64 Apache Longbow attack helicopter pilot for the 8th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, an Army Reserve unit based out of Fort Knox, Ky. ...

Video:  F15 lands with one wing from Wright Squawks 

More F-35s go into flight testing from Sky Talk | Another milestone for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was reached Monday with the departure of aircraft CF-2, the second flight test version of the Navy F-35C carrier-based fighter jet. The plane left Fort worth bound for the naval flight test center at Patuxent River, Md. ...

Young Eagles To Soar - Southern Pines Pilot | Young Eagles have to learn to fly, and that's the intent of an event at the Moore County Airport this Saturday, April 21. Any student from age 8-17 can experience the freedom of flight by coming to the airport May 21st from 9:00 am to ...

Kansas Aviation to host “Learn to Fly” day - Wichita Eagle Blogs | Kansas Aviation, a division of Yingling Aviation, will host a “Learn to Fly” day on Saturday for those interested in flight training.  Pilots, flight instructors and aircraft owners will be available to discuss training possibilities, careers and employment in aviation, organizers said.  The event is free and open to the public. It will run from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at 2010 Airport Road at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. ...

Young Pilots Take Off On Record-breaking Expedition - BERNAMA | KOTA BAHARU, May 15 (Bernama) -- The Young Pilots' Association of Malaysia took off on a record-breaking flight expedition around the country in three fixed wing aircraft from here today. ...

STS-134: Endeavour safely in orbit for packed mission from NASASpaceFlight.com | The 25th and final mission of Endeavour is underway following a visually stunning mid-morning liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Endeavour and her six-man international crew are for an orbital mission filled with firsts and unique and inspiring challenges. ...

Two Air Force officers inducted into U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame from AF.mil Photos | Retired Col. Karol Bobko (left) and Lt. Gen. Susan Helms (right) sit among fellow members of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame May 14, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. General Helms is the 14th Air Force commander.

Student Balloon Photographs Shuttle Endeavour's Launch Into Orbit - Space.com