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Navy is gone but air show is back - WCSH-TV | BRUNSWICK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Every couple of years the Navy was instrumental in bringing up to 100000 people to the Midcoast with it's air shows featuring the Blue Angels. With the closure of the Brunswick Naval Air Station the navy is gone, ...

Upcoming Greenwood Lake Air Show follows months of detail work - The Record | WEST MILFORD — Spectators at this weekend’s air show at Greenwood Lake Airport will see gravity-defying acts cutting through the sky, but likely give little thought to the time and sweat that’s gone into making it happen.  Tim Wagner, manger of Greenwood Lake Airport, helps Brian Rosenstein push a 450 HP Stearman nambed 'Aurora' into the hanger after it landed at Greenwood Lake Airport Wednesday in preparation for the Greenwood Lake Air Show and WWII Showcase Aug 26-28.  For airport manager Tim Wagner, it’ll be the culmination of a lot of work to ensure a good, safe time at the Highlands strip: dealing with FAA permits, pilots, weather, flight and performance scheduling, local safety and first-aid and traffic management. ...

American Heroes Air Show Lands in Georgia - Helicopter Association International | Buckle up the entire family for high-flying excitement when the American Heroes Air Show, the US's premier aviation event devoted exclusively to helicopters, returns to the community of Canton outside Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 10th. ...

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT WEEKEND - KVOS | ... Flight Foundation along with many supporters including Cascade Warbirds, Castle & Cooke Aviation, Flying Heritage Collection, Future of Flight, Heritage Flight Museum, Museum of Flight, Paine Field, Port Townsend Aero Museum, and media sponsor - KUOW.

Air show to fly again - Santa Maria Times | Mike Geddry Sr. president of the Santa Maria Museum of Flight and event director for Thunder Over the Valley air show, is seen with a 1929 Fleet Mod 2, a training air craft similar to the PT13 trainer that will be shown at this weekend's air show. ...

Airshow celebrates 75 years of warbirds - Voxy | Wanaka - Three-quarters of a century of New Zealand's hugely varied military aviation history will be celebrated in Wanaka next April when the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow hosts the Royal New Zealand Air Force's 75th Anniversary. ...

The Original Blue Angel Bearcat Routine - ASB | ... We made a ton of calls and inquiries with no luck. Finally, a volunteer at the National Naval Aviation Museum sifted through all the Blue Angel archives. He emailed us to say he had found the routine... and it was hand written by the Blues first leader.... "Butch" Voris. ...

After Todd's death shocked Wing-walker Peggy - sz-online | Risky Show: The Peggy Krainz in Chemnitz is Germany's only wing-walker. She does gymnastics for years on the wings of aircraft (in photo with smoke train), is a stunt woman and aerobatic pilot. In a dramatic accident collapsed ...

Snowbirds to perform at Atlantic Canada Air Show - Times and Transcript | SUMMERSIDE, PEI - The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will perform in the Atlantic Canada International Air Show in Summerside this weekend. It will be a 30-minute show choreographed to music. There will be 50 different formations and manoeuvres performed. ...

Surrey airshow tribute to killed Red Arrows pilot - BBC News | Organisers of an airshow which was due to host the Red Arrows are to hold a minute's silence as a tribute to the pilot who was killed. The fleet, which has been grounded, was to perform at the Wings and Wheels airshow at Dunsfold Park in Surrey. ...
   
Red Arrows unlikely to appear in Morecambe - Lakeland Today | Picture Martin Bostock The Red Arrows wow the crowds over the beach at the Blackpool airshow. THE Red Arrows are unlikely to make an appearance at Morecambe's Seaside Festival following the shock death of a pilot during an aerial display. ...

Spitfire tribute to a hero at Clacton airshow - Gazette | A WARTIME flier's extraordinary story of survival after his bomber crashed into the sea will spark a moment of reflection during this week's Clacton Air Show. A flypast has been arranged in memory of Pilot Officer Charles Woodbine ...

Support the Captain Dahl Scholarship fund: get a chance to ride a Reno Air Race plane from FlyerTalk Forums | Experience the thrill of flying a high performance aircraft. FlyerTalk is teaming up with a Reno Air Racer Radial Velocity to help support the Jason Dahl Scholarship fund. Radial Velocity races in the T-6 class at the Reno Air Races and will be providing a ride to the winner of a raffle supporting the scholarship fund if we raise $5,000 for it.  Radial Velocity, a T-6 advanced trainer, was used to train fighter and bomber pilots in World War II. The  ...

The Ultimate Trainer – The T-6 from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | Before they flew the P-40 or P-51, pilots were trained in the T-6 Texan. Another of the amazing aircraft to come from North American, the T-6 was produced in huge numbers, 17,000+. Today, there are over 350 still flying so in the warbird class, that makes them pretty common. The Army Air Force called them T-6, the  ...

Golden Knights Return To Appalachian Fair - WCYB | One of the highlights of this year's Appalachian Fair is the return of the Golden Knights. The Army parachute team performed at the Fair for several years but have been absent for nearly 20. Along with their evening performances, the Golden Knights ...

'Black Wings' exhibit honors early African-American pilots - Chicago Tribune | The “of course” are people such as pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, World War II's Tuskegee Airmen and astronauts Mae Jemison and Joan Higginbotham. And the “wow” comes from the stories connected to them and others. “You always hear she was the first ...

Taiwan to honor Locke native for WWII heroism - Sacramento Bee | One of the elite Flying Tigers – an all-volunteer force of US flyers battling the Japanese – the easygoing King died Jan. 1, 2002 at 86, planning to take his war secrets with him. But his nephew Gene O. Chan, a retired Aerojet rocket engineer, ...

WW II veterans share, reflect at Wings of Freedom event - Farm and Dairy | Kim Kovesci, executive director of Military Aviation Preservation Society near the Akron-Canton Airport, helped coordinate a Wings of Freedom Tour stop that featured the landing of a B-17 and B-24 bomber, a P-51 Mustang, as well as rides in the B-24. ...

Fly Right Films from Flight To Success | "Listen up, Read Back, Fly Right"  Yesterday afternoon I had the opportunity to meet four outstanding individuals- Chris Jules, Kirby Kauffman, Charlie Hewitt, and Steve Rychetnik, who are all making a difference in Aviation Safety.  The Fly Right Team flew in from Anchorage Alaska to do some preliminary shooting for  ...

A Tribute to Frans Dely from Airstrike Aviation Photography | On Sunday the 14th of August 2011, two P166 Albatross aircraft took off from Tzaneen Airfield after an airshow, routing for Rand Airport. Sadly they never arrived. On Tuesday morning at 08h05, the two wrecks of the Albatrosses were found to have impacted a mountain peak leaving no survivors. We in the aviation community lost alot of friends and loved ones that day. It’s a day that will go down as one of the darkest in South African aviation history.  One of the souls on board was my dear friend, associate and mentor, Frans Dely. I met Frans some years  ...

Parachuting competitions in Kikinda: Day 3 - Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI | As day breaks at Kikinda the hot water and lifts are working at the hotel. The air is warm already suggesting another hot day ahead. Team Captains were briefed at 7.30 a.m and at 8.00 am the first load for the day takes off. ...

Parachuting competitions in Kikinda: Day 4 from Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI | Day 4 - 24th August  Yesterday a new World Record has been made, and we congratulate Deborah Ferrand from France for her outstanding performance of scoring eight "00" and a total score of 003 cm across 10 rounds to become the new World Record holder and the new European Champion in Women's Accuracy. ...

New Hampshire Air National Guard Training Mission ... - Photorecon | It was a routine training mission, except for the fact that the F-16 receivers were the US Air Force Thunderbirds. But then again, it was still routine. The same air to air refueling standards used around the world by the U.S. and ...

Annie's fundraising effort takes off - Northampton Chronicle & Echo | AN animal rescue centre manager has braved the heights to complete a wing walk to raise funds. Annie Marriott, centre manager at Little Irchester-based sanctuary Animals in Need, completed the wing walk on Friday to help raise the final cash needed to ...

Memphis to honor 'belle' Margaret Polk with statue - Weakley County Press | MEMPHIS (AP) — Memphis is about to de-but a statue of Margaret Polk, the “Memphis Belle” whose romance with a B-17 pilot became one of the most celebrated legends of World War II. The relationship between Polk and pilot Robert Morgan was promoted as ...

Today in Aviation History – August 25 - CRUFC

"Potato Cannon" UCAP #250 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | The boys ponder flying anvils, lost blimps, and green terminals. Uncontrolled Airspace Episode #250.

Airport Appreciation Days fundraising efforts to benefit Indiana USO, Young Eagles - The Banner-Graphic | To date more than 1.6 million Young Eagles have been given the opportunity to either experience their very first plane ride or at the very least experience their first flight in a general aviation aircraft (private planes or sport aircraft). ...

Neil Armstrong: Apollo 11 astronaut reveals pride of lunar landing in rare public speech from History News Network | Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, spoke of his pride at his historic achievement more than four decades ago during a rare public appearance in Australia.   The former astronaut relived the moment he set foot on the lunar surface on July 21 1969 as he provided a personal commentary to attendees of an accounting seminar in Sydney. ...