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Blue Angels to hold private showing for those with special needs - Lincoln Journal Star | The US Navy Blue Angels perform an intricate manuever at a previous Lincoln airshow. (Journal Star file photo) The US Navy's Blue Angels flight-stunt team will give a private performance for people with special needs or disabilities that prevent them ...
   
Crews Try To Clear Air Space Of Gulls Before Air, Water Show - WISN Milwaukee | "If an airplane strikes a bird, it causes significant damage to the plane, and especially this year with the Thunderbirds. They're single engine aircraft, so if we were to take out an engine, they wouldn't have no way to make it back to the airport ...

Oregon International Air Show: Tickets from oregonairshow.com | US Bank Community Kids Night is back. Be amazed by the beauty and skill of our performers as they light up the night sky. The night concludes with one of the biggest fireworks display in Oregon, presented by ATG and Homeland Fireworks. Ground Entertainment will feature the popular KOIN Entertainment Center and US Bank KidZone and Military Village. Bring a school donation and for every paying adult, one kid "flies free." Additional kids are $10 each. ...

Sikorsky to be Stuart Air Show's presenting sponsor - TCPalm | Sikorsky Aircraft will be the presenting sponsor of the 2011 Stuart Air Show, set for Nov. 11 through 13. Last year was the first year that Sikorsky participated in the airshow, where it displayed a replica of its new X2 helicopter, ...

GOLDEN KNIGHTS’ Bring Home Gold from 36th World Military Championships from US Army Golden Knights | The U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights’ competition teams returned from the 36th World Military Championships adding Gold, Silver and bronze medals and these medals are the first for the USA in the 5th World Military Games. The team competed in Accuracy at the Brazilian Military Academy in Resende, Brazil and 4-Way at Sky [...]

Golden Hawk lands in Abbotsford - Abbotsford Times | The team's legacy lives on through Canada's Snowbirds Air Demonstration team. To keep the history and excitement alive, the Hawk One often appears alongside the Snowbirds, as it will at the Abbotsford Airshow from Aug. 12 to 14. ...

Turkish Air Force F-16 Demo Team - from Articles | The Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Turkish Air Force, or TurAF, celebrates the centennial of its air force this year with the creation of an F-16 demonstration team called Solo Turk. The single-ship team with three demo pilots flies an F-16C Block 40 from 141 Filo or Squadron (also known as Anatolian Wolfs), which is ...

Watch my AOPALive Interview from AirVenture ’11 from Mike Goulian Airshows | Had a chance to chat with AOPA’s Editor in Chief, Tom Haines, during AirVenture to discuss what our air show team has been doing to promote aviation to young aviators and also how we work with EAA to host new AirVenture air show pilots to bring new and fun performers to the scene here in Oshkosh. ...

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#OSH11: Rolls Royce offers scholarships
from General Aviation News | At last week's AirVenture, Rolls-Royce pledged financial support for the 2011 EAA Young Eagles Scholarship Program. The scholarships fund flying lessons and flight experiences for teenage student pilots. ...

Quickcast 3 – Osh11 Day 3 - The Pursuit of Wings | This post contains the notes for a quickcast podcast episode. If you don't want to use iTunes, the audio file can be downloaded using this link. This is quickcast Day 3 from EAA's Oshkosh Airventure 2011.

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If you’re scratching you’re head wondering what the... - from You like airplanes, too? | If you’re scratching you’re head wondering what the heck this thing is, you’re looking at the Rutan Model 202 Boomerang. I quite enjoyed seeing this beauty fly at AirVenture ...

Lynchburg air show donates $25000 to Centra pediatric unit - Lynchburg News and Advance | Stanley said they should know by December whether the premiere flight demonstration team would return. Show organizers reimbursed the city for more than $86000 in costs, according to the city manager's office. Those costs included nearly $37000 from ...

Historic aircraft coming to Dayton next week on annual tour - Dayton Daily News | MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County — The Wings of Freedom Tour, which annually brings historic aircraft including the B-17 and B-24 bombers and the P-51 Mustang fighter for public displays across the country, makes its annual visit to Dayton-Wright ...

World War II Veteran B-29 Bomber Pilot Dick Windler Is Flown in EAA's B-29 "Fifi" Over St. Louis from The Aero Experience | St. Louis' own B-29 veteran pilot Dick Windler, 90, flew in EAA's B-29 "Fifi" today around the St. Louis area.  Mr. Windler flew 35 missions over Japan in B-29s, and later delivered B-29s to the Korean theater.  He was interviewed by local Fox 2 News and was greeted by the crew.  After his ride, he quipped, "It was almost like the old days," even though he flew near the tail section rather than in the cockpit.  Here are some scenes from the flight: ...

Brodhead Pietenpol Fly-In Photos - Antique Flying Field | Besides Blakesburg, there's another "B" fly-in place that's all about grassroots flying and that's Brodhead, Wisconsin. EAA Chapter 431 was kind enough to send us some photos of the recent Pietenpol fly-in. ...

Last of the Few - Air & Space Magazine | The Battle of Britain in the words of the pilots who won it.

CoolPix: The Complicated Rotor Head Of The MH-53 Sea Dragon from AirPigz | One of the aircraft on display at OSH11 as part of the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation was this Sikorsky MH-53 Sea Dragon mine-sweeping helicopter. This is the largest family of western helicopters, and third largest in all the world behind two of Russia's mega rotorcraft. The 7 blade rotor on the MH-53 is just under 80 feet in diameter! Max takeoff weight is just over 70,000 pounds and she can cruise about 175 mph. She's a beast to be sure.   I took a look at the ...

British pilot will become first to captain space flights from Pilot News Magazine | David Mackay, 53, will be the chief pilot for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic when it begins the first sub-orbital space flights by 2013. ...

Fear the Zippy Zapping Robo-Chopper from Danger Room | It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a fast-flying stun-gunning robocopter?  You better believe it. The Shadowhawk is the latest development in automated grenade flinging ...