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Pensacola Beach Blue Angels show honored - PNJ | The Pensacola Beach Blue Angel Air Show has been named one of the “Top 20 Events” in the Southeast for July by the Southeast Tourism Society.  “We all know what a great, great event the Pensacola Beach Air Show is,” Buck Lee, executive director of the Santa Rosa Island Authority said in a statement. “It’s no surprise we’ve gotten the attention of the Southeast Tourism Society. But we like that they are spreading the good news.”  This year’s air show is scheduled for July 14....

This summer's Pensacola Beach Air Show will be one of the top 20 events in the southeast - WEAR TV | ...As a Top 20 designee the tourism society says the air show will get extensive exposure in print and electronic media in both the US and Canada....

Airspeed’s Steve Tupper – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Thursday – 10am (EASTERN) | Airspeed’s own Steve Tupper (AKA – Stephen Force) joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  In the wired and wireless world of aviation Steve’s podcast is king.  He’s flown with the USAF Thunderbird F‑16D, T-6A Texan II, T-38A Talon, and L-39 Albatross, been strapped into a...

American Heroes Air Show comes to SWFL with weekend long celebration and tribute - Naples News | FORT MYERS — Frank Ruckle knelt down to scan the seemingly endless list of names etched into the shiny, black wall, looking for one in particular -- a friend he served with in the U.S. Coast Guard who never returned home from the Vietnam War.  “He volunteered to go over there; he...

Whiteman Air Force Base set to host airshow in Central Missouri May 19-20 - Gallatin North Missourian | Wings Over Whiteman 2012 is scheduled to take place May.19 and 20. This free, family oriented event is expected to draw spectators from all over the region.  Although still in the planning stages, the schedule already features the US Army Golden Knights, world class performers, dozens of static displays, exhibition aircraft, vintage and modern war birds and much more. As plans progress, additional aerial acts will be added....

Airshow calendar announced for Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford - Haverhill Echo | Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford has detailed its air show calendar for 2012.  The Jubilee Air Show will be held on May 27 to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, with historic and contemporary aircraft from the last 60 years marking the occasion.  Over-60s are being offered a free ticket when bought in advance with an adult ticket....

Smoke Squadron announces schedule for presentations in March and April 2012 - Cavok | The Air Demonstration Squadron of the Air Force, known as Smoke Squadron, has just returned from a vacation and released its schedule of presentations for the months of March and April 2012. The season of 2011 was a record for most appearances for the squad, with seven shows with 122 Tucano aircraft. Among the highlights of the presentations is...

AIRSHOW 'DESPERATELY SEEKING' DEVON ELLIE - Royal International Air Tattoo | It's a case of 'Desperately Seeking Ellie' for the organisers of the world's largest military airshow after we received a touching letter from a Devon schoolgirl.  Nine-year-old Ellie Carter wrote to the Royal International Air Tattoo, to ask if we could feature her favourite aircraft at this summer's airshow – a US Air Force U-2 spyplane!...
   
Dubai Airshow to be held on Nov. 17-21 next year - Emirates 24/7 | The 13th edition of Dubai Airshow will be held from November 17, 2013, to November 21, 2013, at the Dubai World Central, its organiser F&E Aerospace said in a statement to Emirates 24l7. This will be the first airshow to be held at the newly-built Al ...

Tandem Team graduates new Tandem Examiners - US Army Golden Knights | The Golden Knights prides itself on being the most highly qualified parachutist in the world. We were founded in 1959 not only to compete against the Soviets who were dominating the new sport of skydiving, but to also test and evaluate new equipment and freefall techniques. It became apparent that we had to be subject matter experts.  In keeping with that tradition, the Golden Knights...

C. R. Smith Museum Celebrates Black Aviation Accomplishments - PR Newswire | Special Program Marks Black Aviation's 106 Years and Counting, Separate Tribute Celebrates Women in Aviation | The American Airlines C. R. Smith Museum is again recognizing the accomplishments of the pioneers of Black Aviation with the Second Annual Black Aviation Celebration. The celebration features special presentations by C. B. Rice, an author and historian, and Donald E. "Don" Elder, an original member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen. The Feb. 4 event is an aviation-themed kick-off for Black History Month in February....

The achievement of 'Red Tails' - Daily Press | The new movie "Red Tails" finally gave me a chance to see in dramatic fashion the story of the all-black aerial fighter squadron that I read about many years ago in books from my parents and other relatives.  Thankfully for...

P-51C Up Close - Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | This original P-51C was restored to the letter like famed Tusksgee flies Lee Archer flew in the ’40s (in fact, Archer autographed the armor plate behind the pilot seat). Everything from...

Mark Lightsey Restoration of Waco YKS-7 - Antique Airfield | Mark Lightsey of AeroCraftsman is making great progress on the restoration of a 1937 Waco YKS-7. The art deco paint scheme and colors this Waco is being finished in will make it a stand out at any fly-in it attends....

Sightings: VAQ-209 "Star Warriors" EA-6B Prowler at Spirit of St. Louis Airport  - The Aero Experience | A Grumman EA-6B Prowler ICAP II from VAQ-209, "Star Warriors," arrived yesterday at the TAC Air terminal at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in West St. Louis County.  Commander Dana Perkins, CO of Electronic Attack Squadron 209, and his crew arrived...

Matthew brings a piece of aviation history back to base - News and Crier | Part of a 1950s Canberra which used to be based at RAF Upwood has come home – after a couple now living on the site bought it. Aviation enthusiast Matthew Buddle was searching eBay when he saw the former RAF Upwood aircraft cockpit up for sale. Along with his wife Beccy, he seized the...

Boeing Dreamliner Makes Stop in St. Louis at Lambert-St. Louis Airport - The Aero Experience | The Boeing 787 Dreamliner made a stop at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport this week during the "Dream Tour."  A small group of St. Louis-based engineers support the Dreamliner project, and no doubt they were able to...

Ground school, AirVenture camp scholarships available - General Aviation News | For the sixth year running, the Cascade Warbirds is accepting scholarship applications. This year, students can apply for either Private Pilot Ground School and Introduction Flights or a trip to EAA AirVenture Aviation Camp 2012 to be held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  Cascade Warbirds has teamed with Galvin Flight Service at...

NASA to unveil unmanned X-plane - Black Horizon | A new U.S. Air Force X-plane designated X-56A will explore active control technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft....

Remembering Columbia - 'In their own words' - Space.com | The last crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia talk about their dreams of being astronauts and the spectacle of flying above the Earth in this retrospective.

NASA Glenn To Host Tweetup Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of First American To Orbit Earth | CLEVELAND -- NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland will host a special event on March 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's first orbital flight by an American. NASA also will invite 100 people for a behind-the-scenes Tweetup at GRC in advance of the celebration event. The Tweetup activities begin at 7:30 a.m. EST with a tour of Glenn's world-class flight research and ground test facilities that...