Blue Angels Continue Air Show Season - PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will resume all previously scheduled performances for the 2011 season beginning with Quad City Air Show in Davenport, Iowa, June 18-19. During the past two weeks, the Blue Angels completed rigorous training and air show demonstration practice to integrate Capt. Greg McWherter, the new commanding officer and flight leader, back into the flight demonstration team. Capt. McWherter last served with the Blue Angels as their commanding officer during the 2010 season…
OC AIR SHOW - Next Edition! - Ocean City Today | The organizers of the OC Air Show taking place this weekend are expecting the fourth annual event to be the biggest and best show yet. “It's going to be an outstanding show,” organizer Bryan Lilley said. “As far as lineups go, we have the top lineup in ...
Groups show support for Lowestoft air show - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | During the two day air show there will be about 300 volunteers helping with collection buckets. And another 200 people will be volunteer stewards to help the hundreds of thousands of people expected to turn up enjoy seeing a wide range of aircraft zoom ...Last Flying B-29 Bomber On Display At Lunken - WKRC TV Cincinnati | Witte flew 55 combat missions in B-25's in North Africa. He was a test pilot on the B-29. At 94, he was not about to pass up a chance to climb in the cockpit one more time. The old plane got a lot of love today. Aside from some modern radios, ...
Fly-in event landing with fun in Defuniak Springs - Destin Log and Walton Log | More than 2000 people and 40 pilots are expected Saturday at the first Marvel of Flight Fly-in at the DeFuniak Springs Municipal Airport. The event, initially inspired by another airport's fly-in, was created to help foster tourism in Northwest Florida ...
Fly-in event landing with fun in Defuniak Springs - Destin Log and Walton Log | More than 2000 people and 40 pilots are expected Saturday at the first Marvel of Flight Fly-in at the DeFuniak Springs Municipal Airport. The event, initially inspired by another airport's fly-in, was created to help foster tourism in Northwest Florida ...
Red Arrows set to fly over Folkestone on Saturday as part of Multi-Cultural ... - Kent News | The Red Arrows will fly over Folkestone on Saturday at 6.30pm as part of the four day Multi-Cultural Festival which began this week. The RAF aerobatic display team confirmed it would meet the request of the town and fly over. Chris Kirkham is manager ...
RAF rehearse Queen's birthday flypast in Lincolnshire - BBC News | The Red Arrows aerobatic display team will conclude the event. Sqn Ldr Martin Rendall, who is in charge of planning the flypast, said the rehearsals were important because of the different types and speeds of the aircraft involved. ...
RAF rehearse Queen's birthday flypast in Lincolnshire - BBC News | The Red Arrows aerobatic display team will conclude the event. Sqn Ldr Martin Rendall, who is in charge of planning the flypast, said the rehearsals were important because of the different types and speeds of the aircraft involved. ...
The Navy’s First Aircraft Walkaround — Curtiss A-1 “Triad” from Travel for Aircraft | This year, 2011, is the US Navy Aviation Centennial and the Curtiss A-1 “Triad” was the first aircraft purchased by the US Navy. Glenn Curtiss was an inventive and forward thinking man. While the Wright Brothers had essentially stopped advancing aeronautically by 1911, Glenn Curtiss’s designs continued to be trailblazers. The A-1 was not simply the Navy’s first airplane or even its first floatplane — it was amphibious with retractable landing gear. So novel was the concept of a machine operating from land, water and air the A-1 earned the nickname “Triad” very quickly…
Fargo Air Museum to unveil memorial - In-Forum | FARGO – Four fallen airmen from the Vietnam War will be permanently honored here after this weekend, when veterans will gather to unveil the Vietnam Memorial at the Fargo Air Museum. US Air Force Maj. Thomas Beyer, seen here during flight training, ...
Youngsters are transported back to the 1940s - The Press, York | NEARLY 300 primary school children have had a taste of the 1940s at the Yorkshire Air Museum, near York. To help them understand more about wartime Britain, children aged seven to 11, from schools across York and North Yorkshire have ...
Youngsters are transported back to the 1940s - The Press, York | NEARLY 300 primary school children have had a taste of the 1940s at the Yorkshire Air Museum, near York. To help them understand more about wartime Britain, children aged seven to 11, from schools across York and North Yorkshire have ...
World War II-era US plane found buried in mud in Thailand from PhotoBlog | Thai Air Force officials excavate the wreckage of a U.S. World War II combat aircraft, a P-51D Mustang, in Pathum Thani province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on June 9. Reuters reports: The plane was shot down during World War II as it was dropping bombs at a military camp in Don Muang in then Japanese-allied Thailand. The owner of the land recently discovered the wreckage and alerted officials who plan to display the remains in the Thai Air Force museum in Bangkok. The plane, a P-51D Mustang, was uncovered on the outskirts of Bangkok. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports…Former World War II POW gives thanks for mystery's end - Record-Searchlight | Eighty-seven-year-old John Russell of Redding had longed wondered who plucked him unconscious from the Baltic Sea when his B-17 was shot down during World War II. Russell, a Redding resident since 1966, met today the son of the late ...
Historical planes head to Aurora - Chicago Sun-Times | Residents will be able to see the “Liberty Belle,” a Boeing B-17, and a rare Curtiss P-40E “Warhawk” fighter aircraft Saturday and Sunday.. The aircraft have been modified to allow the public the unique opportunity of riding in the classic planes. ...
WWII veteran was also veteran philanthropist - Tulsa World | The interest found its ultimate fulfillment, however, in the part Smith played in the museum and the effort to preserve Tulsa's rich aviation history. Smith was the major donor behind the Hangar One Museum, which opened in November 2005 at the Air and ...
Booklist: A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | A jet-age pioneer, Carl was the only American woman to test-fly experimental planes during WWII and the first woman to fly a jet. She was one of about a thousand WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), women military flyers on the home front, whoAwith zero publicity and very low statusAferried planes to bases, served as flight instructors and test-piloted repaired aircraft. This extraordinary memoir is a spirited, timely story about staying aloft in a male-dominated profession…
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