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Blue Angels Will Not Perform Flyover or Air Show - Blue Angels facebook | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Release #: 008-11) MAY 26, 2011 -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels, has cancelled both the scheduled flyover for the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) graduation and commissioning May 27 and their air show performances scheduled May 28-29 in Millville, N.J...

Millville air show will feature Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team this weekend - Press of Atlantic City | MILLVILLE — The city’s biggest air show in years will feature the Army’s Golden Knights Parachute Team will be on hand Saturday and Sunday at the Millville Army Air Field for the 2011 Millville Wheels and Wings Airshow. The Navy's Blue Angels, a flying team that had originally been scheduled to appear at the show, will not. The team is grounded for a safety review...

Dancing in the Millville Skies: Wheels & Wings Airshow 2011 returns to showcase high-flying acrobatics - Press of Atlantic City | Dan McClung likes to call it aerial ballet. McClung and his flying partner, Billy Werth, both of Red Eagle Air Sports, will take to the sky above Millville Airport this weekend in a series of low-level, precision formations, their two 20-foot by 20-foot red bi-planes with trademark double-swept wings soaring past one another in graceful inside and outside loops...

Amelia Earhart contest returns at air show - HTR News | MANITOWOC — The Thunder on the Lakeshore air show will hold its second annual Amelia Earhart look-alike contest June 4. Contestants should dress up in Earhart gear, complete an entry form, and judging of the winner will take place by the air show marketing committee shortly after 9:30 a.m...

'Fat Albert' stuns spectators at Blue Angels show - New Era Progress | The behemoth sat motionless, deceptively so. It was the Blue Angels’ Lockheed C-130, known to all as Fat Albert, similar in size to a 737 or an A320, said the pilot, U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ben Blanton...

Meeting the US Navy Blue Angels - The Pilot Report | Back in the early spring of 2011 I had become aware of an air show coming to the Lynchburg Regional Airport (KLYH) in Lynchburg, Virginia. Having spent 5 years of my life living in Lynchburg, in addition to working as a flight instructor at KYLH...

Freeport pilot shows off new fighter jet to the public for the first time - WREX | ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD (WREX) - The newest U.S. fighter jet in the American arsenal makes its first air show appearance with a Freeport pilot at the controls...

The allure of Warbirds, Part II - GA News | In the first part of this story, I chronicled my flight with the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team at this year’s Sun ’n Fun. At the end of the flight, Steve Gustafson, who flies the left wing slot for the team, sighed and said, “And back to reality.” I was struck by Gustafson’s remark because I’d heard from people who give rides in Warbirds for a living that it’s the ultimate fantasy job, sort of a Neverland for pilots...

Pacific War Veterans Gather On Long Island Beneath Plane That Ended WWII - CBS | Pacific War veterans gathered Thursday beneath the plane that put an end to World War II as the world’s last operational B-29 arrives at the American Airpower Museum...

23rd Annual Salute to Veterans Features Missouri’s Best Air Show - CBS | A varied and exciting air show, aircraft static displays and a big parade in downtown Columbia, Missouri, are just some of the highlights of  their annual Salute to Veterans event. The air show segment runs May 28 and May 29  from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM each day...

Serving Canadian airmen visit Yorkshire Air Museum - York Press | SERVING officers and men from 426 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) have made a poignant visit to the Yorkshire Air Museum. The Elvington museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial hosted the visitors, who followed in the footsteps of Canadian airmen who served in the area during the Second World War...

The Flying Fortress - Times Republican | During World War II, it was synonymous with what has been coined "The Greatest Generation." And for those peering into sunny skies Monday, there was no mistaking its grandeur as a restored Liberty Belle B-17 Bomber took flight above Des Moines...

100,000 Airplanes - Joe Clark | Which aircraft manufacturing company first reached the milestone of 100,000 aircraft manufactured?  What company was most likely to do this?  Boeing, perhaps?  Mooney?  Lockheed?  Piper? No. The company was Clyde’s...

Aviation film fest cleared for takeoff - Winnipeg Free Press | GIVEN that our prairie landscape affords an expansive view of the sky, it is understandable that the subject of aviation should be a constant source of inspiration for Manitoba -- and, indeed, Canadian filmmakers...

Non-Pilots are People Too! - Flight Monkeys | It’s an occupational hazard, but pilots tend to talk about aircraft, airspace, procedures, navigation equipment, and airports. We find it fascinating. However, our choice of topics tends to leave the non-pilots among us out of the conversation...

New Guide Highlights Massachusetts' Historic Airports - Aero-News | Searching for the $100 hamburger ... and just flying in The Bay State in general, may be a bit more fun with "The Pilots' Guide to the Airports of Historic Massachusetts" by John Fiske. The author's latest book covers the local history, area attractions and aviation lore of the Commonwealth's 38 airports...

Mars: The Spacecraft Graveyard - Space.com | Mars has been a popular target for unmanned spacecraft since the dawn of the space age. Numerous attempts have been made to set human-built probes into orbit around the red planet and land them on its surface to find out more about our ruddy neighbor, particularly if it carried signs of life...