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Airborne mix of aggression, grace and discipline - Press Democrat | Patty Wagstaff will open the annual Wings Over Wine Country air show Aug. 20 and 21 with a touch-and-go landing of sorts.  One of the country's most celebrated pilots, Wagstaff will display the aggression and grace that made her the first female U.S. Aerobatics champion. But don't expect her to linger after signing autographs. No sooner will Wagstaff land than she'll start the short commute to her summer job, taxiing down the runway to Cal Fire's Sonoma Air Attack Base where ...

Volunteers sought for Waterloo air show - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | WATERLOO - Volunteers are being sought for the Kiwanis Club of Waterloo's "Thunder In The Valley Air Show" set for Aug. 27 and 28 at the Waterloo Regional Airport, featuring the US Air Force Thunderbirds. ...

Air National Guard tour featured at AirSho - In-Forum | FARGO – The Air National Guard will feature its traveling “Rise to the Challenge Tour” from 9 am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday at the Fargo AirSho. FARGO – The Air National Guard will feature its traveling “Rise to the Challenge Tour” from 9 am to 5 pm ...

Getting ready for Fargo, ND! - ASB  | ... Mace will be tearing it up in one our Viper West ladies, probably "California Dream'in", while Dan & Ed will be hittting hard with The Horsemen and their insanely gorgeous Bearcats! And with Viper West and Dan at the same show, you know what that means, right?  Yepper-depper, we are gonna present a wonderful 2-ship Heritage Flight Fri-Sun! ...

'Unmissable' Air Festival returns to Bournemouth - BHbeat.com | Now in its fourth year, the Bournemouth Air Festival is once again expected to attract millions of visitors. All three forces – the RAF, Army and Royal Navy have joined up for the show, and for the first time this year, festival organisers plan to ...

Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival 2011 - BBC News | The Red Arrows and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight are among the highlights of the Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival. The annual event is taking place in the skies above Lowestoft beach on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 August. ...

   
Gallery: Rhyl Air Show - Rhyl Journal | MORE THAN 130000 people packed Rhyl at the weekend for the town's third annual Air Show. Cloudy skies and damp weather failed to turn away spectators, with crowds gathering across the Denbighshire coast from Abergele to Gronant to watch the spectacle. ...

Event in the Air Force Academy brings together 50 000 people from CavokBlog | The Air Force Academy (AFA) held on Sunday (7 / 08), another edition of its traditional Sunday event Air. From 9am, the gates were opened the AFA to an audience of approximately 53 000 people who might know a little more closely the work of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB).  The Sunday sun has contributed to these aircraft will charm any audience. Military aircraft F-2000M, A-1, AT-26, A-29, F-5, C-105, CH-34, R-99, P-95, T-25, T-27, aircraft Sailing Club Flight of the AFA, among others, the various squads FAB present the public with flyovers and static display.  The civil aircraft were also present in air shows the ...

Full Throttle from Latest Vlog | Two months ago we filmed at the Zwartkop air show, From Canvas to Jets, and pulled these few seconds from the DVD we've just launched.

PAF s’ Academy ‘Sherdils’ Aerobatics Team performs at Airshow China 2010 | PAF s’ Aerobatics Profile paffalcons.com ‘Sherdils’! The romantic aura surrounding the PAF Academy aerobatics team is something real and exalting. Made up of instructors of the Basic Flying Training (BFT) Wing, ‘Sherdils’ seem to be a shade above the squalor of ‘patters and demos’ when they take to the air. Any one who has seen the ten-minute spectacle is bound to agree about one thing — it is technically superb and aesthetically pleasing. The T-37 four-shipper first flew on ...

Unreal from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | All thanks to the volunteer team at Chino's Planes of Fame we can see this uncanny, historic, and unique Northrop N9MB in the air. 

Giving The Tuskegee Airmen Their Due from Aviation Queen | ... As the daughter and granddaughter of Air Force officers, I grew up listening to tales of the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen.  When we lived at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., we went to Tuskegee to see where the Airmen trained.  I hope that this documentary will bring this ...

WWII vet from Salem will fly one more mission - WDBJ7.com | Baker was a tail gunner, in the famed "flying fortress, a World War II B-17. On that day, his plane was shot down. "The only thing that saved us really we were so low over the water they couldn't dive down at us, and they couldn't come up under us," ...
   
"Miss Mitchell" paying a visit - Valley News Live | The B-25 World War Two bomber was the first of the Airsho stars to arrive and is currently on display at the Fargo Air Museum. Rides are being offered for 395 dollars. On Monday, Valley News Teams Mike Morken hopped aboard and took a ride and shares ...

The SB2C Helldiver from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | Launched from a carrier with bombs or torpedoes, the SB2C Helldiver destroyed more Japanese targets then any other aircraft during WWII. Capable of carrying 1000lbs with a top speed of  ...

Model plane world titles in town - Bundaberg NewsMail | The Australian F3D team prepare themselves for competition at the 2011 F3D RC Air Racing World Championships. IT HAS been hailed as the “Formula 1 of plane racing” and over the next four days, fleets of model aircraft will take to the skies, ...

AMA Life Member #L888 R J EdisonAnchorage Alaska from AMA Stories | A brief interview at the EAA Museum during AirVenture 2011. An AMA member since the 50s an EAA member for over 30 years from Anchorage Alaska. RJ talks about his passion for Model Aviation, his career as a full-scale pilot, and how his local EAA Chapter and local AMA Club work together to promote aviation. ...

Front Seat, Back Seat: Pitts Acro and Transition - AirSpeed | It’s all here! In the meantime, enjoy this update about what’s going on in Airspeed’s world.  There’s front seat and back seat. And they mean different things in different aircraft.  In the Pitts S-2 models, the front seat is pretty bare-bones. You have a stick, a throttle handle, and a prop control. On the panel is an altimeter, an airspeed indicator, a manifold pressure gage, a tachometer, and a G meter. And ...

Up to 600 Boy Scouts to camp in Newington for air show - Seacoastonline.com | NEWINGTON — Town officials are opening their arms to hundreds of Boy Scouts expected for this weekend's Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show. Boy Scouts from all over New Hampshire are expected to begin showing up on the ...

Young Eagles soar above clouds - Big Bear Grizzly | The next Young Eagles flight is Saturday, Aug. 13. On the second Saturday of each month, kids between 8 and 17 can strap themselves into the cockpit for a view of the Valley like no other. The Young Eagles program offers children free airplane rides ...

In Preparation for Moving Retired Shuttles, NASA Crews Practice Heavy Lifting - Popsci | NASA's space shuttles have journeyed into orbit well more than 100 times, making more than 20,000 loops around the planet along the way. But their final journeys to Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and New York are a logistical feat all their own. NASA moves the shuttles on the back of a modified 747, but no one has shipped a shuttle like that in more than 20 years. So NASA is dusting off some old equipment at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week, practicing the careful business of lifting spaceships.  The space agency has ...

Suborbital Science Missions - Popsci | The new post-shuttle NASA has said it aims to work more cooperatively with private space industry and outside sources of innovation in writing the next chapter in space exploration and science, and the agency is putting its money where its mouth is. After selecting 30 future technology proposals for funding earlier this week, NASA has now inked  ...