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Auburn to again experience ‘Thunder in the Sky’ - Auburn Journal | Despite an aviation disaster at an air race in Reno last September, Auburn’s air fair is scheduled to go off without a hitch.  Bernie Schroeder, Auburn’s director of public works who also manages the airport, said that despite recent extended awareness of safety concerns due to the tragic events in Reno, no operational changes have been made to Auburn’s event....

The Wings of Freedom tour starts January 20! - The Collings Foundation

Air tattoo plan put back to 2013 - The Berwick Advertiser | PLANS to stage an air show in Berwick have been put back 12 months after the huge amount of work involved became clear.  Initial plans to host the event this September have been abandoned following talks with Northumbria Police and the organisers of the Sunderland and East Fortune air shows....

Fleet Week Air Show 2011 by Jon Hammond [photos and video] | Fleet Week Air Show 2011 by Jon Hammond – shot from deck of Higher Hopes yacht near Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay...

Red Tails Opens in Birmingham Theaters January 20 from Alabama Aviator | ...Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban was able to screen the movie for his team (with Lucas' permission) before the National Championship Game Monday night. Saban told the press in his postgame press conference, "We went to see the movie 'Red Tails' last night, which I would recommend to anybody. But, you know, those ...

B-25J “Killer B” - Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | Built in 1944, “Killer B” was restored back to airworthy in 1995. Flying today in RAF colors, the B-25 was made well known as being the plane of the Dolittle Raid. Designed for the US Army Air Corps before the...

Record long-range bomber flight turns 50 from Air Force Link Top Stories | Fifty years ago on Jan. 11, 1962, a crew of eight Airmen embarked on a historic feat that would take them half way across the globe and reaffirm to the world America's dominance in long-range aircraft strike capabilities.  Piloting the newest model of long-range bombers, the B-52H Stratofortress, crewmembers broke 11 non-stop distance and course-speed records, for its aircraft class and time, when they successfully completed a more than 21 hour non-refueled flight-- flying approximately 12,500 miles across the globe. Operation Persian Rug was the name given to the pivotal flight....

On July 30, 2009, 108 skydivers set a new world record ... from Bonjour BlueSky | ...most jumpers linked up in a vertical dive...

January 12 – Aviation History - CRUFC

KC-130J: a tactical gas station in the sky. Serving fighters, bombers, choppers. And maybe even F-35s sometime in the future from David Cenciotti | On Jan. 10, I had the opportunity to take part to a refueling mission of a KC-130J of the 46^ Aerobrigata (Air Brigade) of the Italian Air Force involving several combat planes. The tanker version of the Super Hercules launched from Pisa to refuel its receivers in a reserved airspace located above the Adriatic Sea, off Cervia airport....

Build model planes, then see real thing - Arizona Daily Star | Every first Saturday of the month at the Pima Air & Space Museum, that's exactly what children ages 5 years old and up are able to do. In a classroom in the Dorothy H. Finley Space Gallery, members of the Sonoran Desert Model Builders work with Mina ...

UPS Foundation Provides Funding for WAI "Bring Your Daughter to the Conference Day" from Alabama Aviator | Two hundred girls, ages 10 to 17, will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about the exciting career opportunities in aviation thanks to a $15,000 grant from the UPS Foundation to fund Women in Aviation, Internationals' "Bring Your Daughter to the Conference Day." The $15,000 grant from the UPS Foundation will purchase tools ...