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Blue Angels Finish 2011 Schedule - WKRG-TV | The Blue Angels flew for the last time Saturday afternoon at NAS Pensacola. The homecoming airshow closes out the flight schedule for 2011. Thousands packed NAS on Saturday to see the Blue Angels up close and personal. Perhaps one of the biggest ...

Thousands pilot their way to Nellis for annual air show - Las Vegas Sun | “The air show itself brings in approximately $1.2 million into the local economy each year.” Aviation Nation continues Sunday, Nov. 13. Gates open at 9 am The last performance, the Thunderbirds, is at 2 pm The event is free. ...

Cocoa Beach Air Show - MyFoxOrlando.com | The 2011 Cocoa Beach Air Show will feature a diverse line up of performers including the Heavy Metal Jet Team, F-18 Super Hornet and US Navy Seals Leap Frogs! Military jet demonstrations, parachute team jumps, civilian aerobatic performers and ...

Stuart Air Show dazzles crowd and honors WWII Veterans - WPTV | The spins and spectacular aviation of the Stuart Air Show were on display once again Saturday. Pilots from all over put on the show, but inside the show were tributes. You see the planes in the sky and can hear them from a mile away, but on the ground ...

Kris Sakti team sets to blaze Langkawi skies - New Straits Times | The Extra 300L was designed in 1987 by Walter Extra, an award-winning German aerobatic pilot and built by Extra Flugzeugbau. In previous Lima editions, the RMAF put up aerobatic teams like the Taming Sari, comprising Pilatus PC-7 turboprops and others, ...

War plane replicas fly - The Spectrum | ST. GEORGE - Radio-controlled airplanes replicating the planes used during World War I and World War II flew over the Remote Possibilities RC Club Flying Field Friday in honor of Veterans Day.  The War Birds over St. George event continues through Sunday at the field, located at 3780 S. 1550 West in St. George.  It is a way for avid RC fliers from all over the western U.S. to get...

UAE Team Paints Sky with Its National Colors - Aviation International News | Al Fursan, the United Arab Emirates Air Force's flight display team, is making its debut at the Dubai Air Show this week. (Photo: David McIntosh) Al Fursan, the United Arab Emirates Air Force's flight display team, is making its ...

Canadian Air And Space Museum Chair Stresses Importance Of History from Aero-News Network | Remembrance Day Speech Decries Slated Demolition Of Museum Building Canadian Air & Space Museum chairman Ian A. McDougall used a Remembrance Day speech at the museum to strees the importance of the country's avaition history, and to call for the preservation of the building that houses the museum. The museum building is the original de Havilland Canada hangar in Toronto, and though certified as a 'Heritage Building' by the Canadian Federal Government, it is slated for demolition, to be replaced next year by a hockey rink....

Strategic Air & Space Museum to honor fallen Nebraska, Iowa military members ... - The Republic | The Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland will honor fallen military members from Nebraska and western Iowa in a special ceremony dubbed "Heroes Among Us/Portraits of a Hero." The museum's tribute takes place Sunday afternoon at the museum along ...

Veterans, public enjoy event at Chico airport - Enterprise-Record | The F-15 was acquired from the Air Force and motored in parts to Chico Air Museum at the Chico Municipal Airport this summer. Reassembled, the jet fighter was positioned into the museum's display yard, and dedicated during a ceremony today that ...
   
Plainfield ceremonies offer nonagenarians chance to reflect - MyCentralJersey.com | “Everything,” Nettingham said when asked what he recalled most keenly about his time serving as a radio operator and gunner in a B-25 bomber — ranking among the first five black airmen ever to receive radio training, he added. ...
   
Former POW honored by school, community - WLBT-TV | Rodgers became a top turret gunner on a Mitchell B-25 based in North Africa after joining the US Army Air Corps on May 8, 1942. He flew 35 missions successfully and ditched in the Mediterranean Sea on his 36th, as told during Friday's program. ...

Bee Haydu featured in AOPA Flight Training from WAI Connect Blog by Pat | The December 2011 edition of AOPA Flight Training magazine contains a profile of WASP Bee Haydu where she offers this advice for student pilots:  Stay with it. It's a challenge, but it's so worthwhile when you pick up that certificate. Don't let anyone talk you out of it.  As for her own "best aviation experience," Bee says it's "winning my wings." She goes on to say:  It was at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. My mother and sister witnessed it....
   
Before They're Gone - WDIO-TV | Wayne Johnson, from Beaver Bay, was part of the Flying Tigers. They flew combat missions in China, protecting that country from Japan. "I enlisted December 8th, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor," he said. Johnson told us there's only four pilots left ...

B-17G "Thunderbird" from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The Lone Star Flight Museum’s B-17G “Thunderbird” is a spectacular aircraft! In the classic European theater color scheme, this amazingly accurately restored and flying reminder of those flights is, well, there are no words...
   
Young Eagles flight rally at Minute Man Air Field - Wicked Local | 12, from 9 am to noon when EAA Chapter 196 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at Minute Man Airfield, 302 Boxboro Road, Stow. Registration takes place next to Nancy's Airfield Café, where you can enjoy a nice breakfast or lunch before or after the ...

Russians Prepare Soyuz for Next ISS Crew from Spaceports | The Russians have now placed the next human-rated Soyuz on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Desert Steppe of Kazakhstan to launch the next crew to the Interntaional Space Station on Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 11:14 p.m. EST. NASA Associate Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier sets forth the launch calendar in the linked video....