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VIDEO & PICTURES: F-35's 1st airshow fly-over from The DEW Line | Lt Cdr Eric "Magic" Buus on 20 May recorded the first official F-35 airshow fly-over, banking the Patuxent River-based CF-2 test aircraft slightly toward the crowd at Andrews AFB, Maryland.  It's technically not the first time an F-35 has flown above an airshow crowd. Last year, F-35 flight test aircraft inadvertently made several fly-overs of the Fort Worth air show, which shared the runway with Lockheed's F-35 ...

Acro Camp 2: Announcement and Casting Call | In May of 2010, four pilots from around the country gathered in southeast Michigan at my home airport. Two men and two women. Experience ranging from 300 hours to 12,000 hours. ...

Air show season takes off at Duxford - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | For the first time, The British Aerobatic Association has been granted the right to award the inaugural Queen's Air Race Challenge Cup to the winner of its Speed Aerobatics contest. Participants in the 2011 competition are amongst the most skilful ...

'Red Arrows' display at Battle of Crete commemoration - ANA | The British Royal Air Force's (RAF) renowned aerobatics team, the Red Arrows, put on a breath-taking disply on Sunday at the Old Port of Chania, on the island of Crete, as part of annual commemoration events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the ...

Tricolour Arrows And 'show in the Gulf - La Nazione | The city has had the honor of being one of the few places that host the annual exhibition of the aerobatic team: maximum 22, in Italy and abroad (this year in Turkey, Austria, Poland, England and Malta) . And not all Italian cities have the same luck of Follonica. "Throughout the year - said the ...

Florida's St. Augustine Air Show To Be Held Memorial Day Weekend - AvStop Aviation News | After a five-year hiatus, the St. Augustine Air Show returns to the Northeast Florida Regional Airport Memorial Day Weekend, May 28 - 29, 2011, from 9:30 am to 5 pm, with a special salute to veterans. ...

Teter Airfield Hosts Spring Fly-in - WBOY-TV | A remote-control plane at that, but at the Teter Airfield's first annual spring fly-in Saturday, planes were the center of attention. "We want to get more of the local people interested to come out and fly," said Ron Carpenter, ...

Vintage planes fly to museum for May 28 display from General Aviation News | The Museum of Flight in Seattle hosts the annual Cascade Warbirds Fly-in of vintage military airplanes on Saturday, May 28

Naval Air Station Wildwood Honors Airmen - Cape May County Herald | The annual Airfest features operating aircraft from World War II, like this B-17 Flying Fortress. Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum provides fun for the entire family by offering visitors a great opportunity to learn about ...

Golden Knights Go Back to Their Roots at Raeford, NC from US Army Golden Knights | Forty years ago, the sport of skydiving was a somewhat obscure pastime marked with the stereotype of long haired hippies and crazy people. Because it was such a new sport, regulations were spotty and inconsistent at best. The equipment was still in its early stages of development and there was very little standardization in the [...]

WASP: Ethyl Meyer Finley from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | militaryheritage.org: Deleware Military History: Ethyl Meyer Finley | Some 1,100 Americans were Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II. Thirty-eight died in the line of duty.  Ethel Meyer Finley (1921 - 2006) was a WASP. A native of Minnesota, she won her pilot’s license in 1940 in her senior year in college. Her instructor was world-famous Max Conrad.Invited into the military, Ethel Meyer won her WASP wings in September 1943. She qualified in 12 different types of aircraft and ferried planes from factories, test-hopped planes after repairs, and taught male cadets to fly. ...

New Fighter Jet At Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum - Manhattan.NY1 [w/Video] | Just in time for Fleet Week, a new plane was added to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum.  The newly-restored Grumman Cougar now sits on the museum's flight deck.  The aircraft, which was used from 1955 to 1965, served with fighter squadrons in California and later as a chase plane at a Texas training center.  After it was retired, the plane spent nearly 30 years on display at a public park in Wall Township, N.J. ... ...

Air museum names new director of flight - The Desert Sun | Will Whiteside has been named to the newly created position of volunteer Director of Flight operations for the Palm Springs Air Museum. His duties include piloting some of the museum's planes and arranging for the planes to attend air shows, ...

WAI Corporate Member Southwest Airlines' Adopt-A-Pilot Program Brings School Kids to Airport from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Southwest Airlines' Captain Diane Meyers knows how to make a P.A., but this day, her P.A. is to a planeload of fifth graders from Canterbury School and Leigh Middle School. The 60 students have come to the airport at the invitation of Captain Meyers and her airlines' Adopt-A-Pilot program. They've met Capt. Meyers before, in their classrooms, where she explained how she did her job. That was the ...

The Japan Air Lines miracle water landing of 1968 (photos) from www.sfgate.com | Then Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken sent me some e-mails about the Japan Air Lines water landing of 1968 -- an event that I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know existed. (I was born two years later in 1970.) Bill and I both grew up in Burlingame, just a mile or two from Coyote Point, where an incoming DC-8 from Tokyo fell short of the San Francisco International Airport runway and a foggy late fall day and sloshed to a halt. Incredibly, all 107 passengers were evacuated safely and no one was killed, seriously injured or even got wet. ...

The Bombing of Waziristan - Air & Space Magazine | In the world's most rugged hiding place, outlaws are rarely run to ground. The Royal Air Force learned that lesson 80 years ago. ...

Fifth Honor Flight-Wyoming stirs WWII stories - Casper Star-Tribune Online | There was a moment during this whirlwind Honor Flight-Wyoming assignment that I set my cameras down and thought about what my grandfather went through when he was serving as a B-17 navigator in the European theater. During one of his flights, ...

8th FS 'Black Sheep' inactivated from F-22 Raptor news |  Almost two years after its reactivation, the 8th Fighter Squadron held its inactivation ceremony May 13 on the 8th FS trim PAD.  ...

CIA A-12 OXCART Project Pilot Frank Murray from roadrunnersinternationale.com | Frank Murray and his fellow CIA OXCART pilots displaying Blackbird Laurels medallions after being inducted into the Blackbird Laurels Fraternity, an elite honor society founded by the Flight Historical Foundation ...

Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed from news.nationalgeographic.com | ON TV:Area 51 Declassified premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.  | Suspended upside down, a titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype is prepped for radar testing at Area 51 in the late 1950s. After a rash of declassifications, details of Cold War workings at the Nevada

base, which to this day does not officially exist, are coming to light—including never before released images of an A-12 crash and its cover-up. ...

Aviators wing and BBQ sauce debuts - General Aviation News | Get ready to take off with the new Gourmet Aviators Wing and Aviators BBQ Sauce product lines.  The sauces are made from  ...

Youths take flight - East Oregonian | s, 11, has been waiting a whole year for the EAA Young Eagles program to return to the Hermiston Municipal Airport. Noah's 9-year-old sister, Hailey Roberts, earned her wings during last year's event. “She was telling me how fun it was, ...