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Cleveland Air Show - Cleveland Scene Weekly | With more "bangs" and "booms" than the Fourth of July, the Cleveland Air Show at Burke Lakefront Airport is undeniably our loudest Labor Day tradition. And now a flame-emblazoned, jet-powered school bus is bumping up the volume. ...

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Airfest to feature 1940s planes, stunts - Culpeper Star Exponent | The free event will feature several types of aircraft including World War II-era and civilian aerobatic. Attendees will watch as planes fly in formation and perform stunts. “We want the public to come out here and see their airport. We want them to see ...
   
Airshow set for Sept. 10 in Smith Center - Salina Journal | SMITH CENTER -- Kyle Franklin, of Franklin Airshows, will be featured at the Smith Center Airshow, which begins at 11 am Sept. 10 at Gary Gardner Memorial Field. A fly-in and pancake breakfast will take place from 7 to 9 am at the airport, ...

Flying is second nature for Air Show stunt pilot who touts 'wow factor' - Toronto Star | Competing on the Red Bull Air Race World Championship circuit, McLeod routinely pushes his customized, single-seater Edge 540 to speeds of 400 km an hour. While cornering, McLeod's lean 6-foot, 175-pound frame is ...

Acro Camp 2 QuickCast 2 from The Pilot's Flight PodLog | Michelle, Will, and David have all gathered at Ray Community Airport (57D) in Michigan for the principle filming for Acro Camp 2, the independent film that takes for pilots and teams them up with two aerobatic instructors. The “campers” spend four days learning acro in a Citabria, a Super Decathlon, and a Pitts S2B.  Will has returned as ...

Annual Fly-In and Air Show Soars into Town - Patch.com | The event, established in 1964, was created to help educate the public about aviation history and to support local charities and nonprofit organizations. This year, event proceeds will go to organizations like the Pajaro Valley ...

Red Arrows take to the skies at RAF Linton-On-Ouse's Family Day - The Press, York | HUNDREDS of people gathered to watch as the Red Arrows flew across the skies of North Yorkshire. The display, which was part of RAF Linton-On-Ouse's Family Day, was the first from the legendary aerial team since the death of one ...

Plovdiv Hosts a Unique Airshow - Standart News | September 3, Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv is expecting over 20000 guests who will come for a unique airshow dedicated to the centenary of the Bulgarian air forces. The base in Krumovo will host air aces of the whole world, who are coming ...

PROGRAM THIS AFTERNOON - La Voix du Nord |This afternoon, the demonstration of the Patrouille de France will take place between 15 and 16 h 30 h on the waterfront music and comments from the podium because the air force will accompany the air show. The public will raise wondering eyes to ...

Navy''s `Sagar Pawan'' take a break from aerobatic displays - IBNLive.com | PTI | 12:09 PM,Sep 03,2011 Panaji, Sep 3 (PTI) `Sagar Pawan', the aerobatic demonstration team of the Indian Navy's aviation arm, will take a break from its displays for a few more months, senior officials said today.The break has been necessitated as ...

Night Air Show at the Battle Creek Field of Flight & Balloon Festival by Michael Delaware | The night air show is one of the exciting events at the Battle Creek Field of Flight annual Festival. One of the most exciting annual events in Battle Creek is the Field of Flight Airshow & Balloon Festival that was just held this past weekend.  It is the largest 4th of July festival in the Southwest portion of Michigan, and with good reason.   The festival boasts not only an amazing airshow, but a ...

Naval Aviation: 100 Years And Another Battle Ahead - Bay Net | That was one of the conclusions from a panel of top brass at the Patuxent Partnership sponsored “Air Boss Panel” Thursday at the Bay District Volunteer Fire Department social hall in Lexington Park. The event was part of the week-long celebration of ...

'Navy Week' tour stops at Hamilton High School - Hamilton Journal News | The Navy also brought a flight simulator so students could try their hands at flying military aircraft, but the highlight was the landing of nine members of the US Navy Leap Frogs exhibition parachute team. It was all part of Navy Week Cincinnati, ... more on Navy Week here.

Castle Museum opens for tribute - Modesto Bee | ATWATER -- With the 100th anniversary of US naval aviation at the center of attention for those at Castle Air Museum, caretakers are celebrating the milestone the only way they know how — by showing off a naval addition to the museum's ...

Gone West: Betty Skelton Erde from Aero-News Network | One Of The Pioneer Women In Aviation News has come in to ANN that Betty Skelton Erde, known as one of the pioneer women in aviation, passed away in Florida Wednesday. She was 86 years old. Erde, a resident of Winter Park, Florida, was born in Pensacola, FL in 1926. According to Wikipedia, she set 17 aviation and automobile records and was credited with opening doors for women in aviation and the automotive world, as well as astronautics and advertising. ... Betty's bio on First Flight Society.

A Match for Men in the Skies - Wall Street Journal | Betty Skelton was a champion aviator and a speed-demon driver who set records for flying and land speed and so impressed the original seven Mercury astronauts with her skills that they joked that she was "No. 7 1/2. ...

Hurricane Irene — aviation’s history “no damage” report from Travel for Aircraft | Hurricane Irene — aviation’s history “no damage” report | Hurricane Irene had the potential to damage much of aviation’s history since so many museums and air parks where in her path. Winds, of course, get most of the media’s attention but water in the form of rain as well as flood does as much — or more — damage. A few days after Irene passed out of Vermont I emailed  ...
 

Alberta Aviation Museum set to roll out restored B-25 - iNews880.com | The museum's Tom Hinderks says the B-25 bomber has been restored to represent the 418 City of Edmonton Squadron aircraft of the 1950's. "In the 1950's 418 was a reserve squadron operating from City Centre Airport and its job was to be the guardians of ...

Fairey Firefly TT.1 – Pacific warrior turned target tug from Shortfinals's Blog | The Fairey Aviation Company had long been known for their naval aircraft. Their Flycatcher fighter biplane had served the Royal Navy for many years, and the company was always happy to contend when any official specification was issued by the Admiralty for a new Fleet Air Arm aircraft. However, in the late   ...

Flying history museum shows off more than a dozen vintage war planes in Heber City - Deseret News | Bob Wickern is a World War II veteran and one of several historians for the Heber Air Museum. He took part in the occupation of Japan. “World War II was a war that meant something to all Americans,” Wickern said. He is an aviation buff that knows this ...

42-102945 – B-17G-60-BO – “Sweet Pea” from Warbird Central - WWII Historical Aircraft Information Website | See also 43-38114 – B-17G-80-BO – “No Comment Needed”

Blue Origin flight said to have failed from RLV and Space Transport News | The Blue Origin suborbital test flight of their vertical take-off and landing vehicle on August 24th (see the copy of the NOTAM) is rumored to have gone badly: Bezos-Funded Spaceship Misfires - WSJ.com.  Of course, Pasztor must characterize this as a big setback for NASA commercial crew program, with which  ...