Friday, August 26, 2011

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Officials highlight air show safety record despite recent fatal incidents - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | On Saturday, Lt. Jon Egging, a member of the Royal Air Force Red Arrows, crashed his jet at the Bournemouth Air Festival in Dorset, England. That same day, Jensen went down with his Pitts Model 12 in Kansas City. He called his biplane The Beast because ...

Maine Weekend Airshow Still A Go - Aviation Week | The first Great State of Maine Air Show & Business Aviation Expo is set to go on as planned this weekend, though organizers are watching warily as Hurricane Irene makes its way north. ...

Newport regatta race and air show cancelled - The Providence Journal | Also an associated air show of World War II-vintage aircraft on Saturday and Sunday afternoon over Newport Harbor has been cancelled because of the approach of Hurricane Irene.

Planes to buzz over Waukesha for air show - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Aerobatics and stunt fliers will share the sky with a restored World War II-era B-25 Mitchell bomber from the Yankee Air Museum in Detroit. Among those scheduled to perform are Dave Dacy and Tony Kazian, who specialize in the fine art of wing-walking, ...

 Summit events celebrate naval aviation - AOPA Pilot | AOPA Aviation Summit 2011 will offer a variety of opportunities to meet US naval aviators, hear their stories of flight during war and peace, and discover their links to general aviation. Mingle with fellow naval aviators at the Navy Meet-Up session ...

WWII Bombers Fly Into Madras For Airshow - KTVZ | Restored World War II B-17 and B-25 bombers flew in as a special tribute to veterans past and present. Called the "Sentimental Journey" and "Maid in the Shade," the bombers come up from the Commemorative Air Force Museum based in Mesa, Arizona and give ...

Redding air show to feature T-Birds - Red Bluff Daily News | Civilian performers include: Melissa Pemberton in an Edge 540 and her husband, Rex, in his wingsuit; Eddie Andreini in a P-51 Mustang and Stearman; John Collver in his vintage AT-6 Texan Marine trainer; Evan Wolfe's T28C Trojan warbird; Julie Clark in ...

Candler Field Vintage Day Fly-In This Saturday August 27 from Antique Airfield News | Vintage Day is this Saturday, August 27 2011 at Candler Field, Peach State Aerodrome, Williamson, Georgia.

Fly-In visitors can experience thrill of flight in a Stearman - Galesburg Register-Mail | Ohio pilot Robert Preston will offer rides in his vintage warbird during the 40th National Stearman Fly-In on Sept. 5-10 at the Galesburg Municipal Airport. By Anonymous Thousands of young Americans — now remembered as part of World War II's “Greatest ...

Acro Camp 2 Now Filming! - Airspeed | In case you hadn’t heard, we’re shooting a feature film this week. Airspeed’s intrepid film crew is at Ray Community Airport 25-30 August shooting Acro Camp 2 with a cast of four new pilots who will fly upside down for the first time. ...

Red Arrows cleared to resume flying after crash that killed pilot - The Guardian | The Red Arrows plan to perform displays in an eight-aircraft formation after one of their pilots was killed in an air show crash, the RAF said on Thursday. Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, died when his plane came down near Bournemouth ...

Air force will conclude anniversary celebration at Warbirds airshow - Otago Daily Times | Many former air force personnel are expected to descend on Wanaka next year as the 75th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is celebrated at the biennial Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow. Wing Commander Bill Blaikie said yesterday the RNZAF ...

China's Air Force presents two new squads of officers flyby by Fernando Valduga | The Chinese Air Force (PLAAF) will present two new teams for the aerobatic air show Jiling in northeast China, on September 1. Both teams will join the current team official event on August 1st.

New aerobatic teams make debut in Beijing - China Daily | Aerobatic team "Hongying", meaning Red Eagle, practices aerobatic flight in Beijing, Aug 25, 2011. The team, along with "Tianzhiyi" (Sky Wings), is a new aerobatic team of China's Air Force and will perform in an air show in Northeast China's Jilin ... 

Gallery: Clacton Airshow success despite no Red Arrows - East Anglian Daily Times | EVEN though the Red Arrows not able to make it, this year's show went off to a great start as the crowds packed out the town's seafront. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address ...

Wings of Freedom Tour to touch down at NASW AirFest - Shore News Today | The B-17, B-24, B-25 and P-51 fly in formation. A boy gets a view from the cockpit of the B-17 Flying Fortress. Visitors mill around the planes at Naval Air Station Wildood. In the foreground is the B-24 Liberator.

Pagosa 130 SARL air race. - SARL |

Reno Air Races - YouTube | An eight minute slideshow of the Fastest Motorsport on the Planet from the perspective of a Pylon Judge!

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100th Anniversary Of 1st Air Mail in UK from What's On at RAF Museum London | On 9th of September at 11.00am we will be commemorating the 1st Air Mail Flight in the UK with a helicopter flight from the Museum to Windsor Great Park retracing the exact route taken by Gustav Hamel in a Bleriot aircraft on 9th of September 1911. This flight will be carrying letters to Her Majesty The Queen. As part of this commemoration, the Museum will be providing children with the opportunity to place a letter to  ...

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39 - Air & Space Magazine | An airacobra's journey to the eastern front...and back

A new flight for old times' sake - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | A World War II era B-17, a Flying Fortress, is flying into Kendallville on Sept. 2, so he'd bought a couple of tickets and was going to take his dad, who was a bombardier in WWII, for a ride on it. During the conversation, Hornberger looked at another ...

Flyers' memorial gets off the ground - Santa Ynez Valley Journal | The plot's official name is History of Women in Aviation Memorial Garden. Conceptual drawings show a decomposed granite walkway that encircles trees and seating areas. “We wanted to make it a little park where people could come and have lunch, relax, ...
Ouch: Navy Super Hornet Goes Home in a C-5 from Defense Tech | As you can see above, the poor Super Hornet was stripped down and loaded into an Air Force C-5 Galaxy and flown from Kandahar Afghanistan to NAS North Island in San Diego, Calif., nearly six months after a  ...

S. Tahoe air show to introduce budding pilots to the sky - Lake Tahoe News | Soaring through the air at eye level with the mountains. Lake Tahoe seems so much bigger from the sky, the boats so much smaller. All those trees. The Lake Tahoe Basin really is a forest and not a concrete jungle.  For youths ages 8 to 17 they get to experience this for free on ...

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