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Forum reporter prepares to fly with Blue Angels - In-Forum | As much as I'm looking forward to the once-in-a-lifetime experience, I've heard some minor horror stories about other local reporters who have flown with the Blues as part of the Fargo AirSho's promotional efforts. Two years ago, the Forum's own John ...
   
Air show performers to attend Portsmouth Chamber annual dinner - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — Local business leaders will mingle with stars of the upcoming air show on Thursday at the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner. Special guests include the US Air Force Thunderbirds, US Army Golden Knights ...

Après Airshow 2011 - A guest post by Norm Webster, Flight Display Director for the Airshow at National Museum of Flight, East Fortune held on 23 July 2011 Well, it’s over.  It’s Monday morning and I’m back in the office, considering the weekend and what we could have done better.  As you will all now be aware, having read my previous blogs, there is always something in this business that will creep up and give you a surprise when you least expect it.  Last week it was the withdrawal of the Pitts aircraft on Wednesday morning.  As I was driving the length of th ...

Eyes to the sky for thrilling Red Arrows at Festival of Flight - Belfast Telegraph | The Red Arrows take to the skies during the "festival of flight" in Newcastle Co. Down This was the spectacular scene as the Red Arrows took to the skies over Newcastle. The amazing aerial display was the highlight of the Festival of Flight, ...

Thousands wowed by air show - Blackpool Gazette | DARING displays of aerial acrobatics filled the Blackpool sky as the air annual show soared into town. Jaw-dropping displays of flight were on display between Central and South Pier yesterday afternoon from world-famous exhibitors of skills and thrills ...

Video from Luftwaffe Day from Boeing and Aerospace News | Fw-190 Luftwaffe Day from Liz Matzelle on Vimeo. Did you miss Luftwaffe Day at Everett’s Flying Heritage Collection? Check out this video from Liz Matzelle.

Forest Park Balloon Race 2010 to Draw 130000 Spectators in 37th Annual Event - ThirdAge | Around 130000 spectators are expected this year in this air race. On May 23, 2000 the Great Forest Park Balloon Race was inducted into the permanent collection of the Library of Congress, the website said.

VIDEO: Smoke Squadron in Programa do Jô from CavokBlog | The Programa do Jô, Rede Globo, showed on Friday, five days, the interview with two pilots of the Smoke Squadron. The Aviator Major Alexandre Ribeiro de Carvalho and Captain Aviator Alvaro Escobar Verissimo talked quite relaxed with the host-comedian. We discussed various topics on the squadron and the Brazilian Air Force. In the auditorium, attended by more members of Flotilla 45, including pilots, mechanics and other helpers who work recognized in the Air Force demonstration squadron. ...

Historic Tuskegee Stearman makes final flight from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points | Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport on Friday would have seen this: the first half of an engine swap on the Spirit of Tuskegee, a PT-13 Stearman biplane conveyed to the Smithsonian by Matt and Tina Quy. After buying the airplane as a wreck, they discovered that it had been used in 1944 and 1945 to train Tuskegee Airmen at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala. Since its restoration was completed, they’ve been  ...

Take a flight through Singapore's 100-year aviation history - Straits Times | AN EXHIBITION which marks 100 years of aviation in Singapore was launched on Monday at the Changi Airport.  Running from Aug 8 to Oct 31, The Singapore Aviation Centennial Exhibition traces the historical journey of aviation here. The free exhibition - which lets  ...

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A&E Herb Heilbrun & John Leahr - YouTube | This is the video of my dad, B-17 pilot and original Tuskegee Airman John Leahr telling their amazing story on A&E.

No smoke, no sale - Coeur d'Alene Press | HAYDEN - Imagine what it would be like to be piloting or sitting in the tail of a B-17 or B-25 during World War II, ready at a moment's notice to bomb the enemy somewhere on the Eastern Front in Germany or the Western Front in the Pacific. ...

Forty-Seven Years in Aviation -- A Memoir: Chapter 4 -- Primary Flight ... - AVweb | Doolittle was also active in air racing: He won the prestigious Bendix, Thompson, Schneider and Mackay trophies. Recalled to active duty shortly after Dec. 7, 1941 Doolittle was selected to lead the B-25 raid on Tokyo in April 1942. ...

Florida Family Finally Learns Fate of Father Shot Down in Vietnam - The Ledger | APOLLO BEACH | On Dec. 1, 1965, Capt. Thomas Reitmann climbed into a F-105D Thunderchief for a bombing raid over North Vietnam.  He never returned. The Air Force notified Carol Reitmann that her husband had been shot down and was missing.  For 45 years, his family accepted  ...

RAF Valley 70th Anniversary from AVIATION-NEWS | 19 Hawks from 19FSqn and 208Sqn take to the skies over Anglesey to form the number 70. 18 T1 Hawks and 4 T2 Hawks were all used for the event answering to Mustang and Wizard callsigns. It had been a week of celebrations with the 70th Anniversary of Royal Air Force Valley and 70th Anniversary [...]

A New Restoration Project - Around the Pattern | As I mentioned in the last post, I saw an unfamiliar hulk sitting on the ramp at the Reno-Stead Airport the other day and was compelled to take a closer look.  I walked around the fuselage a few times while the crew was looking at their new project.  All the writing stenciled on the surfaces and in the cockpit is Cyrillic.  I don’t know who bought the  ...

Ryan YO-51 Dragonfly from Planeshots | The YO-51 Dragonfly was a United States prototype observation aircraft built for the US Army by Ryan Aeronautical. Typical for aircraft of its type, it was a high-wing braced parasol wing monoplane with fixed  ...

"Exhaust Muff" UCAP #248 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | The UCAP gang are all back in their respective homes. Recovering from Oshkosh and getting back into the real life thing.

Aerospace Museum receives Mirage flew that Ayrton Senna - Cavok | The Aerospace Museum (MUSAL) incorporated on Thursday (04/08), the aircraft in its collection 103DBR Mirage F-III, which flew in 1989, the Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna. In addition to the supersonic Musale also received umEmbraer Super Tucano (ALX) and an Embraer VU - 9 Xingu. The aircraft will be on display from August 9, Tuesday to Friday from 9 am to 15h, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 9:30 to 16h. The event that marked the arrival of the aircraft was attended by several civil and  ...

Aviation Day set for Saturday at Chennault Museum - Monroe News Star | Claire Lee Chennault of “Flying Tigers” fame. Nell Calloway, museum director, said a flight simulator, music, food and children's activities will be set up on the museum grounds. The museum will be open from 9 am-4 pm.

Electric Airplane Has 4 Seats, Two Fuselages, One Big Motor from Autopia by Jason Paur | The Taurus G4 is a test bed to develop a high-power electric propulsion system. It features twin fuselages, room for four and the biggest electric motor we’ve seen bolted to an airframe. In a nod to the early days of aviation, when new designs went from idea to runway in just weeks or months, the airplane came together remarkably quickly.  “The airplane was designed and built in the course of four months,” Pipistrel’s Tine Tomazic told us at the big Airventure airshow, adding that the G4 was built specifically for the NASA/CAFE Green Flight Challenge. “Its sizing and aerodynamic features, as well as the power train and battery capacity were matched to the requirements.”  The competition, which begins Sept. 25, is aimed at ...

An aviation club in every high school from General Aviation News | Aviation managers are worried about finding enough qualified people to fill the millions of job openings in the aviation industry that will be created by retirements and expansion over the next two decades. Especially vexing is the relatively small number of young people who are entering aviation-career-track education programs. The National Association of High School Aviation Clubs (NAHSAC) aims to help solve this problem by establishing an aviation club in every high school in the U.S. ...

The Last Space Shuttle Mission from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | I was thrilled to be a part of the NASA Tweetup for STS-135 July 7 and 8 at Kennedy Space Center. It was exciting — and almost surreal — to be there for the end of the space program that my generation grew up with. We weren’t around for the Moon landings, but we all remember the first time the space shuttle “took off like a rocket and landed like a plane.” ...