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Blue Angels Return to Florida for Training Following Commanders Resignation (With Video) - WKZO | BATTLE CREEK --  The Blue Angels were scheduled to headline in Battle Creek on the 4th of July, but that may be in jeopardy. They were booked to return to the Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival in Battle Creek in about a month...

Despite weather, second Hollister Airshow dazzles crowds - Hollister Free Lance | Vietnam Veteran Vince Luna said it was great to hear so many people at the second annual Hollister Airshow thank those who risked their lives. "It's good that Hollister has an event like this that celebrates what Memorial Day is all about," he said Sunday, day two of the event...

Black Cats in action at RAF Cosford air show - Birmingham Mail | CROWDS at the RAF Cosford Air Show on June 12 will get to see the Royal Navy helicopter display team in action. Lieutenant Chris Chambers, last years No 2 Black Cat Pilot, has assumed the role as the Lead Pilot for 2011 and will be joined by Lieutenant Dave Fleming and Lieutenant Mike Curd...

First Scottish display for craft at airshow - Scotsman | Tickets have gone on sale for the National Museum of Flight Airshow at East Fortune near Edinburgh on Saturday 23 July. This year's Airshow display will include aircraft that have never been displayed in Scotland before and a further four that are new to the National Museum of Flight. Around 10,000 visitors are expected...

Glitch doesn't deter crowd from enjoying Flower Drop - My Desert | Patriotic colors fly at the Memorial Day Flower Drop at Palm Springs Air Museum. The event included music, the “missing man” formation by four T-34s and a flower drop. “Your heart just swells up,” when the flowers are dropped, said Palm Springs resident Kathleen Schultz, who wore a T-shirt that read, “Freedom is not Free” to her 10th Flower Drop...

Air Force Veteran Recalls WW2 Service - My Fox Atlanta | An 86-year old Air Force veteran spent this Memorial Day remembering his service during World War II. Marion Smith of northeast Atlanta had quite a story. He pointed to a photo of a B-17 bomber he flew in during World War II...

Fond du Lac pilot among first on Memorial day honor roll - FDL Reporter | DETROIT, MICH. — Though he is now mostly forgotten due to the passage of time, a former Fond du Lac resident was among the first to have his name added to the honor roll for the holiday we now call Memorial Day. Army pilot 2nd Lt. John Patton Boyle died in an aircraft crash as the United States was preparing to enter World War I...

The Vanishing Generation (with VIDEO) - WGRZ | Buffalo businessman Jerry Kelly never heard his father tell war stories. Lt. Col. Robert Kelly was shot down in a B-17 bomber while doing reconnaissance for D-Day in 1944. Jerry was just two. "My brother who was five does remember him a little bit, but I didn't..." He pauses to regain composure. "But I never knew him. Yeah."...

Aviation a long tradition for Wharton family - IV Press | If Donald Lee Wharton IV ever becomes an Air Force aviator, it’s likely the result of planes and military service being in his blood. On his father’s side, his grandfather Donald Lee Wharton Jr. was a captain for American Airlines...

EAA AIRVENTURE—HERE I COME! - AOPA Blog | Rain, rain, rain…and more rain. Only a very few brief windows for flying. I try to keep myself from severe flying withdrawal by reading anything to do with flying and watching movies featuring great flying. Then the phone rings. A good friend of mine in Tennessee has bought a Maxair Drifter...

"Immagini di volo" exhibition at "Caproni" museum in Trento (Italy) - Avio News | It is called "Immagini di volo" ("Images of flight") the photographic exhibition that showed, on Sunday, May 29, from 10:00 am, a glance to Andrea Pozza's shootings, an expert author of air photography. The exhibition’s opening happened together with the previous presentation of the homonymous photographic book published by the Air Museum...

Stolen Valor (with VIDEO) - TD Barnes | Memorial Day 2011, a day for remembering the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform. For many of us who listened to Coast-to-Coast radio last night, it is a day that we Roadrunners of Groom Lake, a.k.a. Area 51 realize that our valor has been stolen by an author who refuses...

Caption Contest #58 Winner - Early Burt Rutan? - Martt | It was the avgeek and caption expert 'Race 5' that came thru once again with this brilliant caption for the 5 person hang glider in contest #58. It's a truly inspired piece of work. So, it's another bacon sandwhich at OSH11 for Race 5! And, just in case you don't get it... Burt Rutan's first really big success in the airplane design biz back in the mid 70's was called the VariEze...

Pentagon Looks to Double Its Unmanned Air Force - Wired | Think the U.S. military has a lot of drones now? Just you wait. The Pentagon has just released its 30-year plan for buying and developing warplanes. And in a development that should come as no surprise, the future the military anticipates for its Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps air fleets — together numbering more than 5,500 warplanes — is more robotic than ever...