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Today You Wish You Were Me - Seattle Post Intelligencer [w video] | The best place to see an air show is on the ground and this is where several hundred thousand New Yorkers will be for the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach on Memorial Day weekend. The best place to sit for the air show, however has to be the seat in front of Lieutenant Colonel John Klatt, on the aerobatic plane he flies for the Air National Guard. ...

Rockford AirFest to feature astronauts, kids activities - Aledo Times Record | Rockford AirFest 2011 will feature many activities for kids, including a visit by two NASA astronauts and new, reduced pricing on some popular rides. Rockford AirFest 2011 is June 4 and 5 at Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD). ...

READY TO SOAR - Columbia Daily Tribune | Scott Sayre of the Lima Lima Flight Team unveils his T-34 plane Friday morning at the Salute to Veterans Memorial Day Weekend air show media day. BY CATHERINE MARTIN Among the many airplanes at this weekend's Salute to Veterans Memorial Day Weekend air ...

Weekened airshow to commemorate veterans - UM Maneater | The Columbia Regional Airport will host the 2011 Memorial Day Air Show this weekend from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Saturday and Sunday. The free event will have food, drinks and an aeronautics display. Shuttle buses will begin to leave at 9:15 am at MU ...

Thousands Expected At Jones Beach Air Show Memorial Day Weekend - CBS New York | Beachgoers will look up at the sky this holiday weekend for the annual Jones Beach air show.  Hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected for the 8th Annual Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show, where the young and young-at-heart will be pointing and stretching their necks to see Navy aircraft pilots flying high in the sky.  “We fly old WWII aircrafts,” said pilot Ken Johansen. “We do formations and thrill the crowd with tactics.”  ...

The unofficial start to summer, here's what you can do - KRCG | The Salute to Veterans Airshow is on Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at the Columbia Regional Airport. The event is free and open to the public. On Monday, Memorial Day, you can attend the Salute to Veterans Parade. ...

The St. Augustine Air Show returns with a bang - The Underground | ... The beauty in a perfect landing is one of the incredible elements of flight, but by no means is it the only. And from May 28 – 29, St. Augustine residents will get an up close and personal chance to see how amazing the field of aeronautics can be.  The St. Augustine Air Show began in 1967 and ...

Hemet-Ryan Air Show coming up - PE News | The Hemet-Ryan Air Show is back and engines are roaring. The annual air show is ready to get off the ground June 11.  The show is packed with performance including Tim Decker, a professional pilot with over 6000 hours in both civilian and military aircraft, and Melissa Aerobatics, whose air routine is action packed with extremely complex and technical aerobatic maneuvers. ...

‘Party time!’  - AOPA | Fat Albert has been with the Blue Angels since 1970. According to the crew, there are no bad seats on Fat Albert Airlines. ...

Blue Angels Will Not Come To Evansville This Summer - Tristatehomepage.com | Organizer Vernon Stevens says he just received word that the headline act, the Blue Angels, will not show up for this year's event. Stevens says he has not yet received a reason why, but he hopes to get more information, and he plans to make a public ...

Historic WWII warbirds make stops at 2 Iowa airports - Radio Iowa | The historic B-17 warbird will be in Council Bluffs on Saturday and Des Moines on Sunday. “It's one of only four still flying worldwide that folks can come out and experience,” he says. “We travel the country and allow folks to come out, touch the past ...

Fly on a vintage plane for Memorial Day - HeraldNet (blog) | There are two aircraft available for flights: a B-25 Mitchell “Grumpy” and a T-6A “Texan.” A ride on the Grumpy will cost you $450 while the Texan will set you back $550. The whole experience will take about an hour and a half, with 45 minutes of ...

John Crichton inducted to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame from Aviation.ca News | NAV CANADA congratulates John Crichton, President & CEO, on being inducted as a member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame. The induction took place last night at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario as part of the Hall. ...

North Salem parade to honor women who flew planes in WWII - lohud | Carla Howard Horowitz joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1944 because, as she says, "I wanted to be a hero."  She was among hundreds of WASPs who flew millions of miles during World War II in every type of military aircraft, forever changing the role of women in aviation. ... [logo via b29.org]

Former aviator celebrates Memorial Day remembering Vietnam - Anderson Independent Mail | CLEMSON — Byron Wiley learned a lot about flying in combat and taking off and landing on aircraft carrier decks while serving for 28 years in the US Navy. Wiley jokes that he stayed in the Navy as long as he did because he was trying ...

Remains from pilot missing since 1943 to be buried in Louisville - The Republic | The remains of a World War II aviator are to be buried in Louisville. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Jack E. Volz will be laid to rest with full military honors Saturday at Cave Hill Cemetery, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. ...

Spitfire museum opens in Pembrokeshire - Western Telegraph | The 90-year-old former Air Transport Auxiliary pilot is a patron of the Aviation Heritage Foundation which operates the museum and wowed the crowd with her memories of flying spitfires during the war. The Spitfire Museum, based at Haverfordwest ...

Memphis Belle nose art on display at Morgade Library - TCPalm | The replica of the famous nose art of the B-17-F heavy bomber the "Memphis Belle" is on display at the Morgade Library in Stuart. The original Memphis Belle was one of 12, 750 B-17s built by the Boeing Aircraft Co. ...

Today in Aviation History – May 27 - CRUFC

Terrence Blanchard To Score George Lucas Produced WWII Film 'Red Tails' - Indie Wire | LucasFilm has announced that Blanchard will head into the studio next month to record a score for the long gestating WWII film “Red Tails.” Produced by George Lucas and directed by Anthony Hemingway (”The Wire,” “Treme”) making his feature film debut ...

Sporty's Pilot Shop Celebrates 50 Years of Teaching People to Fly from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Sporty's Pilot Shop hosted its annual fly-in on Saturday in honor of both International Learn to Fly Day, and the 50th anniversary of the founding of Sporty's. The flying conditions were perfect at Sporty's home airport at Batavia, Ohio, just east of Cincinnati, and more than 200 pilots flew in for the day. ...

Learning to Fly: Aviation showcased on International Learn to Fly Day from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | With more than 200 scheduled events by EAA chapters, flight schools, and FBOs, along with countless pilots taking a friend up for a flight, the second International Learn to Fly Day attracted thousands of people to airports throughout the country and beyond last Saturday, May 21. From Sydney, Australia to facilities across America, people were introduced to aviation in a way they'd never experienced before.