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Navy's Blue Angels to fly over Boston - The Associated Press | BOSTON—The U.S. Navy's famed Blue Angels stunt-flying team is conducting at least two flights over Boston to familiarize pilots with the area before performing there next year.  Two aircrafts from the Blue Angels squadron are set to fly over New England's largest city Thursday before performing aerial shows during the Boston Navy Week War of 1812 bicentennial celebration. The commemoration will be held over the July Fourth holiday in conjunction with Boston Harborfest....

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Red Bull air racing scratched for 2012 - AOPA | There will be no Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2012, extending a one-year break for the 2011 season.  “There will be no races in 2012, that’s true,” said Red Bull Air Race Team spokesperson Nadja Zele in an email message to AOPA. “A revamped concept and a fixed race calendar will be revealed in 2013.”...

Video: Kirby Chambliss Visits UNO Aviation School from Aerial Sports Feed | Red Bull aerobatic pilot Kirby Chambliss takes flight in Omaha, Nebraska, visiting students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha's school of aviation. Chambliss performs for the students and even...

Warbirds will spread their wings at the Temora Air Show - The Telegraph | The largest collection of still flying WWII fighters including Spitfires, Boomerang, Kittyhawk and Mustang will be on display along with a Hudson bomber, Tiger Moth and historic jets like the Sabre and Meteor and the nation's current front-line strike jet, the F/A-18 Hornet.  Temora is a mecca for historic aircraft buffs and plane spotters, but the warbirds spectacular will include aircraft from across Australia flown in for the event....

Pilot Who Buzzed Santa Monica Pier in Military Jet Goes to Jail - Live Leak (via ASB) | SANTA MONICA, Calif.; A pilot who buzzed the Santa Monica Pier in a military jet has been ordered to jail.  David G. Riggs surrendered to authorities Wednesday to begin serving a 60-day sentence....

The Man My Mother Fell in Love With - Air & Space Smithsonian | When the Navy retired the Tomcat, my father went with it.

Retired military combat pilot to speak at library - Rapid City Journal | The Piedmont Valley Library is continuing its guest speaker series with Gerry Teachout on Saturday, Nov. 26, at 1 p.m.  Retired Lt. Col. Teachout logged more than 12,000 hours as a pilot in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, as well as a civilian pilot. Teachout flew 1,264 combat hours and piloted multiple aircrafts, including the KC-135, B-24, B-25, P-40, C-119, C-46, C-47 and  others....

Curtiss Kittyhawk IV, a rugged warrior – RAF Museum, London - Short Finals | The Curtiss P-40 was on the shopping list of the British Direct Purchasing Commission in Washington, D.C.; established before the outbreak of WW2 to buy (using Britain’s foreign currency and our whole gold reserves), any and all war material that would enable Britain to defend itself against the coming storm of war. An article in ‘Flight’ (Dec. 5th, 1940) listed the Lockheed Hudson, Brewster Buffalo, Bell P-39 Aircobra and the Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk amongst types already on order. Of these, the...

First Professional Female Pilot - Flight to Success |Please meet another fascinating women in the history of aviation—Sophie Blanchard. Who is she? The first professional female pilot.  Sophie made her living selling tickets to her hydrogen balloon performances along with flights that had been commissioned by patrons such as Napoleon Bonaparte and King Louis XVIII. She was...

Today in Aviation History – November 17 - CRUFC