Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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Airshow Performer Dies Of Heart Attack - Pacific Flyer | Airshow performer Greg Poe, in his late 50’s, of Boise, Ida., passed away suddenly July 24th from an apparent heart attack, his team announced.  “It was completely out of the blue,” spokesman Greg Gibson tsaid. He said there had been no prior suspicion of health problems for Poe.  Poe was a passenger in a truck when he died, Gibson said, and had ...

Aero Experience Mourns the Loss of Fair St. Louis Airshow Performer Greg Poe from The Aero Experience | The Aero Experience mourns the loss of Fair St. Louis performer Greg Poe of an apparent heart attack yesterday at the age of 57.  St. Louis airshow fans were thrilled by his performance three weeks ago, and ...
   
Thunderbirds ready for Travis Air Force Base's air expo - TheReporter.com | The skies over Solano Air Power Expo will feature not only performances by the Air Force's premier aerial demonstration team but also a T-33 demonstration by Greg Colyer, a T-34 demonstration by Julie Clark, a P-51 demonstration by Eddie Andreini and ...

Thunderbirds Arrive - KGWN | The Thunderbirds air show plans to amaze on-lookers Wednesday morning with acrobatic stunts and daring maneuvers. Monday morning the Jets finally all arrived to Cheyenne and are preparing for Wednesday's show. Nicholas Holmes, the demonstration pilot ...

Military show: She’ll fly with Thunderbirds - River Falls Journal | A River Falls woman has been chosen to be an ambassador, but not the kind with a tiara.  Maj. Caroline Jensen of the United States Air Force was recently chosen to become a member of the “Ambassadors in Blue” with the USAF Thunderbirds for the 2012 demonstration season.  Jensen, daughter of ...

Seafair update: Blue Angels to arrive one week from tomorrow - West Seattle Blog | Handy info whether you love them or you hate them: Seafair says US Navy Blue Angels pilots 1-6 are scheduled to arrive at Boeing Field next Tuesday (August 2nd), likely between 11 am and noon. (#7 will be here sooner, as it's doing media flights on ...

Singapore Black Knights of the sky - CS Photography

Dayton Air Show sights and sounds - WDTN | The Vectren Dayton Air Show may be over for another year, but we have a way you can enjoy it all over again. Even though the show was cut short because of the weather, there was still two days of high flying fun. ...

Two days of the Vectren Dayton Air Show in two minutes - WDTN | Two days of the Vectren Dayton Air Show in two minutes.

Images from the Thunder Over Michigan air show in Ypsilanti - AnnArbor.com | The Thunder Over Michigan air show at Ypsilanti's Willow Run Airport meant plenty of craned necks Sunday — and a great payoff. Visitors watched the acrobatics of the Blue Angels, and got a closer look at vintage war planes from World War II to Vietnam ...

Air show will boost economy, Waterloo airport's profile - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | Instead, the airport has been and will be the backdrop for some of the Cedar Valley's most anticipated events, including the first air show in almost 30 years. With passenger traffic taking a dip since 2007, the airport is looking for new ways to get ...
   
Watch The Cheyenne Air Show This Wednesday - KOWB | After a year long hiatus The Wyoming Air National Guard will once again resume their air show at Frontier Days this Wednesday July 27th. The skies were empty and the mighty roar of jet engines screaming past were absent during last years Cheyenne ...

Flight with the US Army Golden Knights - TippNews DAILY | While many from “Gold Team” recently served in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan they seemed very comfortable as part of the US Army Parachute Team, fondly named the Golden Knights. The Strategic Army Command Parachute Team or STRAC was formed back ...

20th Alberta International Airshow Huge Success - 94.1 CJOC-FM | Close to 40000 people took in the Alberta International Airshow and organizers of the annual event couldn't be happier. The 20th annual Alberta International Airshow turned out to be a huge success. Spokesman Stacy Green tells CJOC News it was a ...

Thousands wing way to airborne spectacular - Irish Independent | The show climaxed with a display from the Blades, the UK's most extreme formation aerobatic team, and finished with parachutists making a precision landing in front of the bandstand on the seafront. ...

Wingwalkers set to thrill Sunderland International Airshow - Journal Live | ... for my degree that this is what I would end up doing. We are the world's only formation wingwalking team.” The planes roll and loop as the wingwalkers go through their routines. Next weekend the team will perform at Sunderland's International Airshow.

Warbird Radio Presents – 100 Years of US Naval Aviation – Episode 3 from WarbirdRadio.com | WARBIRD RADIO PRESENTS – Join us as we celebrate 100 years of US Naval Aviation history and look back on this amazing century of flight.  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curator of Modern Military Aviation, Dik Daso walks us through the hidden archives of their collection to see some of the unique Navy airplanes [...]

Gallery: WWII bombers fly into Wheeling airport By Bridget Doyle TribLocal reporter | As part of a stop by the Collings Foundation, a nonprofit historical foundation based in Stowe, Mass., that focuses on WWII aircraft tours and offers special flight opportunities for veterans, three vintage bombers flew into the Chicago Executive Airport on Friday for a weekend visit. The B-24 Liberator is the last ...

WWII Veterans Welcome the Planes - MAPS Air Museum | On August 12 at Noon, MAPS Air Museum will host a welcome the WWII planes event for the area WWII Veterans. There will be no charge for our WWII Veterans and their spouse/guardians. The Planes; B-17 Flying Fortress, ...

World War II bomber in Chehalis for tours, flights - KELA | The bomber called the “Maid in the Shade” will be offering tours and rides. It's operated by an organization called the Arizona Wing Commemorative Air Force, which flies and maintains a number of vintage military aircraft. ...

WWII aviator goes up in B-24 bomber - TribLocal | A World War II veteran got a chance Friday to climb into a B-24 bomber similar to those he piloted in combat and take a short flight into the past — but not without the kind of last-minute waiting that might have seemed all too familiar. ...

Son of heroic WWII pilot meets father's crewman in Bellingham - Bellingham Herald | Jim Oates was born in California two months after his father died during a World War II battle in the skies over Germany. Ten days ago, Oates, 66 and retired, came to Bellingham to meet for the first time one of the last people to see his father alive. ...

Andy refuses to forget Cody, 100 years on - Paisley Daily Express | HISTORY was made exactly 100 years ago today when the first aeroplane landing in Paisley took place.  There was huge excitement in the town as Texas-born aviation hero Sam Cody ...

Antique Airfield News
Spitfire Kit Builder Moves to U.S. - from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Michael O'Sullivan is no stranger to EAAers. The founder of Supermarine Aircraft, one of his spectacular 90-percent-scale Spitfire replica kit planes was on the cover of a past issue of EAA Sport Aviation, with a comprehensive story by Budd Davisson.

'Area 51' book stretches truth, ex-workers say - ReviewJournal.com | But former workers at the base, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, say some stories in the book -- such as the genetically engineered Soviet aviators whose flying saucer crashed in Roswell, N.M. -- never happened.  Three of Area 51's former CIA contractors -- T.D. Barnes, Roger Anderson and Harry Martin -- discussed their concerns about the book by Annie Jacobsen with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to "set the record straight." ...

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