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Blue Angels will take to the skies over Belleville - Journal Newspapers | The Blue Angels will star in the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show at Willow Run Airport this Saturday and Sunday. The Navy Flying Team has won worldwide acclaim for the daring precision flight skills and demonstrations. Proceeds from the show will ...

USAF Thunderbirds to Soar over Cheyenne Frontier Days - Larmie Live | In the morning starting at 7:00 downtown by the depot there is a pancake breakfast that is free and always a great event. You can watch the Thunderbirds from all over Cheyenne but the  ...

NASA Glenn Participates in the Thrill of the Dayton Air Show - Space Ref | CLEVELAND -- The public is invited to visit NASA's Journey to Tomorrow traveling exhibit at the Dayton Air Show July 23-24. Visitors will explore science exhibits and participate in educational hands-on activities. The show will be held at Dayton ...

Air show this weekend in Peoria - Galesburg Register-Mail | Heavy Metal Jet Team: This is a five-ship aerobatic civilian-owned team out of Lancaster, Penn., with four L-39s and one T-33 in Arctic camouflage paint scheme. • F-16 Viper West Demo Team: The F-16 has been a part of the United States Air Force since ...

'Thunder Over The Boardwalk' Details - Atlantic City Weekly | More details have been released about the 9th annual Atlantic City Airshow “Thunder Over The Boardwalk” returning to the sky over Atlantic City on August 17. Headlined by the US Air Force Thunderbirds and the US Army Golden Knights, the largest airshow ...

AirVenture returns with balloons, Navy pilots, Gary Sinise - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | The program's highlight is the combined night air show and fireworks display, beginning at 8:30 pm July 30. It features aerobatic flying and pyrotechnics choreographed to music. Last year's inaugural show drew more than 10000 spectators; ...

Wittman Airport Jumps Into The Social Media Pool - Just In Time For Oshkosh from Business Aviation Now | Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisc., is using the upcoming EAA AirVenture show to launch its social media efforts.  The airport is taking advantage of the show by using social media to reach out to the more than half a million visitors expected to attend this year. ...

Early EAA Campers Face the Heat - WBAY | The excessive heat hasn't gone unnoticed by thousands of people arriving in Oshkosh for the start of EAA AirVenture. The event officially begins Monday, but people are setting up camp now, and they're vying for spots in the shade. ...

Red Arrows to swoop back into town for Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | Bournemouth Air Festival fans can once again expect to see the stars of the show flying between the piers – the Red Arrows. The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team will take to the skies thanks to the support of companies from construction ...

Norman Arrives at Fukue by The GYROX Team | Earlier today Norman completed his second day’s flying of the resumption of the circumnavigation adventure and traversed the Eastern China Sea, flying approximately 460 miles (740km/400nm) in six and a half hours.  Setting off from the USAF air base at Kadena, Okinawa ...

Rare WWII-era bombers coming to Bellingham's Heritage Flight Museum - Bellingham Herald | BELLINGHAM - Two iconic and rare World War II-era bombers will be available for tours and flights beginning Friday, July 15, at the Heritage Flight Museum, at the Bellingham International Airport. The B-17 nicknamed "Sentimental Journey" is one of only ...

WWII book confirms what a Petaluma flying ace did over Java - Petaluma 360 | Petaluma’s Jim Morehead knows he did some good as a fighter pilot in both the Pacific and European theaters of World War II.  But ever since 1942, the decorated 94-year-old Morehead has rather doubted that he’d pulled off the aerial combat feat attributed to him by the late George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter.  Weller reported in March of ‘42, just months after the U.S. entered the war, that P-40 pilot Morehead had attacked and ...

First Flight of Stearman M-2 Speedmail from Antique Airfield News | Alan Lopez has news about his Bull Stearman's first flight after restoration. Alan says:  Stearman M-2 Speedmail C9055 flew for the first time since restoration on July 20, 2011. The flight was at Robbinsville Airport in New Jersey where the aircraft was restored by Posey Bros. The flight was uneventful. The first flight is dedicated to ...

Eagle Flyers Open House 7-20-11 at Mamilton County's Indianapolis Executive Airport from VP Business Manager of Montgomery Aviation by Carl J Winkler | Eagle Flyers held an open house last night to demonstrate our new equipment.  Six flew the Skycatcher.   ...

The Last of the Many - Vintage Wings of Canada | Former RAF pilot trainee John Mendes wrote this poignant story ten years ago. He died in 2005. We will leave the text in the present for it brings his voice back to life as he tells us about the last group of trainees of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan – Ed. ...

Turboprop Biplane Update from The Unwanted Blog | Just informed via email that someone showed the photos of the Turboprop Biplane to some Relevant People and one recognized it as being a Grumman concept. No further data.  In retrospect, the forward fuselage does bear a great deal of resemblance to the Grumman XF10F Jaguar. This would make sense… the XF10F was first envisioned in 1948, the same general time period as the Turboprop Biplane. The XF10F was a design for the   ...

Forget the Hindenburg: What I learned on board a zeppelin from Boing Boing | Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is as good a place as any to learn a hard truth. ...

STS-135 Atlantis looking quite regal as it’s towed back to... from You like airplanes, too? | STS-135 Atlantis looking quite regal as it’s towed back to the Orbiter Processing Facility following this morning’s final landing. ...

Last Space Shuttle Crew Reflects on Future from Spaceports

Atlantis Space Shuttle Final Landing from Flight Nest: Planes, Aviation Industry, Stories about Flight | Just before dawn this morning, the space shuttle Atlantis landed on Thursday, ending the era of American manned space exploration. Check out the video of the final landing at Kennedy Space Center below. ...