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Crowd-pleasing Hunter Jet returns to Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | A MULTI-coloured crowd-pleaser is making a return to Bournemouth Air Festival in August. The Hunter Jet Miss Demeanour was one of the highlights of last year's weather-hit event as it was still able to display when other aircraft were ...

MIS president celebrates Army's birthday by going airborne - Detroit Free Press | GOLDEN KNIGHTS PARACHUTE TEAM/Special to the Free BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Michigan International Speedway president Roger Curtis took the plunge of his life Wednesday as part of the US Army's 236th birthday celebrations. Curtis took a tandem skydive with ...

What makes the aerial acrobatics team of the Red Arrows the best in the world? – Scotsman | Next week the Red Arrows will perform in the skies over Edinburgh for the first time in 20 years as part of the build-up to UK Armed Forces Day. Our reporter went to meet the magnificent men and woman FLIGHT Lieutenant Sean ...

Tricolor arrows, the return - The Nation | MARINA DI CARRARA, 18 June 2011 - BACK Apuan Coast tomorrow on the Tricolour Arrows. The Air Force's aerobatic team will bring in the sky over Marina di Carrara, the show dedicated to the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy. ...

A meeting of top-flight - the Journal of the Haute-Marne | Besides the presence of the Patrouille de France and the Rafale, the public will see the progress of patrols national Moroccan, Jordanian and English, the famous Red Arrows Royal Air Force. Bragard fly in the sky also F ...

Day One of Credentials from Air Race Classic 2011 by Jo Alcorn and Michelle Bostick | We've survived the first day of credentials check-in. Surprisingly, we had very few problems with people and their licenses, medicals, flight reviews, insurance forms, and training certificates. Nobody really got into any trouble! Almost all of the airplanes are here; I think we're only missing about six or so. Tomorrow is the arrival deadline, so everyone should be pulling in at some time or another…

WICHITA-FALLS.ORG » Two Texoma Women Compete in the Air Race Classic  by Wichita_Falls | Two Texoma women are ready to hit the skies to compete in the Air Race Classic. The women, who are from Wichita Falls and Vernon, are the first from our area to compete in the 82 year old competition. ...

Kansas Hall of Fame inducts inaugural class - Topeka Capital Journal | Richard Myers, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Pizza Hut founders Dan and Frank Carney; and aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Beth Fager, spokeswoman for the Great Overland Station, said the Kansas Hall of Fame was established to celebrate the ...

Restored B-25 bomber to be on display next month - Yakima Herald-Republic | A restored B-25 Mitchell, the World War II medium bomber made famous by the Doolittle Toyko Raid, will be on display at the Yakima Air Terminal from July 5-11. Named "Maid in the Shade," the restored B-25 is a veteran of 18 combat missions flying out ...

Make the Best of a Bad Situation from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | My recent editorial about Liberty Belle was, for the most part, well received and for a while I was pleased. But then today I received a comment from another B-17 operator slamming me for having my facts wrong and, from what could tell, that my facts were wrong because he believed they had the best B-17 operation. Well, here’s the deal; my opinions and experiences are just that, mine. If you are incapable of understanding that, or, if anything written above a third grade level, of which I rarely am capable of creating, throws you so off course that you cannot understand the difference between an editorial and a news piece, then I do not give a rats rear end what you think. Sorry, that’s my opinion… 

Weekend Wings #39: South Africa's "Franken-Mirages", Part 1  from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I'm sure readers know of Mary Shelley's famous novel 'Frankenstein'. Briefly, Dr. Victor Frankenstein assembles a monster in the form of a human being, using body parts from "the dissecting-room and the slaughter-house". Since then, the first part of his name has become a byword to describe anything that resembles a known thing, but uses parts from other things…I use the term in this article to refer to the front-line combat aircraft of the South African Air Force during the 1980's and 1990's. They began life as various models of the Mirage fighter built by Dassault in France. However…

A Couple of Interesting Things | Flying Friday  from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt | If you’re looking for a destination for your weekend flight, I recommend you check out the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The facility is part of the Smithshonian’s National Air and Space Museum (probably the best part for plane geeks) and will play host to the annual ‘Become a Pilot’ day tomorrow, June 18th. Unlike the main museum, the Udvar-Hazy Center is in Chantilly, Va., on the grounds of Washington Dulles International Airport. For directions, the address is 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway Chantilly, VA 20151…