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Air show draws 35000 in Portsmouth, NH - Boston Globe | PORTSMOUTH, NH—About 35000 spectators showed up for first of a two-day air show, featuring the US Air Force Thunderbirds, at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. Foster's Daily Democrat ( http://bit.ly/qURMaP) says many people attending the show ...
   
Record attendance expected at Fargo AirSho - In-Forum | “We have a lot of super performers,” he said Friday during a press conference at the Fargo Air Museum. New to this year's show are The Horsemen, the world's only P-51 Mustang aerobatic team. In honor of the naval centennial, the California-based team ...
   
Sonoma County air show growing in popularity - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | 20-21 to the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport north of Santa Rosa, with nationally known aerobatic pilots Patty Wagstaff and Kirby Chambliss, a flying formation of vintage World War II warbirds and fly-bys of military aircraft. ...

ICAS Foundation to Raffle WACO MYSTERY SHIP Pedal Plane from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -from ICAS- A small group of air show enthusiasts have built a pedal plane version of Kyle Franklin's Waco Mystery Ship. The ICAS Foundation will be selling raffle tickets for this one-of-a-kind work of aviation art/toy. All proceeds from the raffle will go to the Kyle and Amanda Fund being administered by the ICAS Foundation.   ...

Female pilots, vintage airplanes crowd Moraine Airpark for fly-in - Dayton Daily News | Aviation enthusiasts Judy Birchler, of Mount Comfort, Ind., and Heins' wife, Susan Theodorelos of Dayton, organized the Lady Taildraggers fly-in. Moraine Airpark offered better facilities to host the event than were available in Mount Comfort, ...

Air show roaring into Broomfield next weekend - Broomfield Enterprise | Here is a list of some of the Rocky Mountain Air Show's most highly anticipated events and performances. Aug. 26 -- 7 pm twilight air show begins, 8:45 pm fireworks display begins. Aug. 27 -- 8 to 10 am pancake breakfast, 11 am parade and salute to ...

Final day for Abbotsford International Airshow - BCLocalNews | Along with well-known returning acts, including the Snowbirds, a CF-18 Hornet TAC demo and the A-10 Thunderbolt II, two milestones are being celebrated. The Canadian Forces SkyHawks is celebrating its 40th anniversary and the Supermarine Spitfire is ...
   
Jets overhead - Abbotsford Times | With its high maneuverability and relatively slow speed, the Tutor is ideally suited to the formation and aerobatic roles of the Snowbirds. The Snowbirds symbolize more than the pride citizens have for Canada, said Chagnon. "We do our best to represent ...

An Arrow escape - The Sun | NOW that's what we call blue sky thinking! Two daredevil dockers make sure they get a great view of the Red Arrows - from the end of a towering crane. The pair hit the heights to escape a crowd of 30000 who turned up to watch the aerobatic display team ...

T-50 Fighter to Be Unveiled at MAKS - The Moscow Times | Russia has been developing the jet — known as the T-50 or by its Russian abbreviation PAKFA — for some years in the hope of competing with the established F-22 US aircraft made by Lockheed Martin/Boeing and the upcoming Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint ...

Reading WWII Air Show: 1911 Ely Curtiss "Pusher" by Nels  | The plane above is a 1911 Ely Curtiss Pusher, here is the website set up for the folks that own and show this replica of the original planes.  It’s called a pusher because the engine sits behind the pilot.  This was the first plane to take off from a ship, ushering in the era of Naval aviation.  Watching the Curtiss fly by was nostalgic, and very interesting.  We’ve come a long way from this plane to the modern day jets taking off from aircraft carriers. ...

Remote Control Air Show begins Thursday - Fond du Lac Reporter | The fifth annual Warbirds & Classics Remote Control Air Show in Fond du Lac is expected to feature more than 100 pilots and over 200 flying aircraft. The Fond du Lac Aeromodelers Club hosts the event from Thursday, Aug. 18, through Sunday, Aug. ...

Nearly 60 years after flying in the Korean War, Mike Stanton again sits at the controls of his Skyraider - Naple News | It was a reunion — not man to man, but flyer to his flying machine.  The reunion took place during a July visit to the Duxford Air Show in the United Kingdom. There I saw the attack plane — the AD-4NA Skyraider, BuNu 126922 — that I flew in Korea.  The plane was even painted in the same colors and markings that she had in 1953. ...

WWII veteran celebrates 91st birthday flying wartime biplane - Central Florida News 13 | He flew the famous C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain among many others, such as the B-25, B-17, C-124, C-119 and a fabric covered bi-plane called the Tiger Moth. So in honor of his 91st birthday, Shook requested to be able to fly again in the first ...

The Rutan Boomerang from Airspeed | I was admiring the Rutan Boomerang in the Wednesday of Airventure Oshkosh when I spotted two guys who appeared to be working on it. Intrigued, I approached and introduced myself and that's when I met Tres Clements. He is a manufacturing engineer with Scaled Composites. He lead a team of volunteers who worked over several months to get the Boomerang ready for a tribute to Burt Rutan at Oshkosh.  The asymmetric features of the Boomerang are apparent in this view but, as Tres describes the flying qualities, it's more symmetric than it looks. He discovered during the renovation why certain design choices were made and how they solved aerodynamic problems in an unexpected way. With the  ...