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Angels Fly Over El Centro - KSWT-TV | El Centro, CA - As the winter home of the Blue Angels, the Navy Air Facility El Centro annual air show is the first show of their season, every year. The events usually Draws a crowd of approximately 35000, it is the largest single-day event in the ...

HEMET: Local Marine a Blue Angel - Press-Enterprise | Brandon Cordill, a 1998 Hemet High grad and Marine Corps fighter pilot, debuts with the Blue Angels in El Centro Saturday. BY BOB PRATTE Capt. Brandon Cordill, a seasoned Marine jet-fighter pilot, expects to experience pre-game jitters Saturday like he ...

Will Whiteside shatters time-to-climb records - AOPA Pilot | Whiteside is a veteran of the Reno Air Races, and named his Yak-3 for Reno/Stead Field, where the races are held—and the speed at which it travels. SteadFast was built in Russia in 2005 (the last piston fighter produced there)....

Tico Airshow takes over Titusville - WKMG Orlando | The 35th annual Tico Airshow will be in Titusville over the weekend with vintage Warbirds on display. The show will be held at the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum through Sunday, featuring both new and old aircraft, including the world's only flying ...

Jelly bean airplane flying into airshow - Similkameen Spotlight | By Michaela Garstin - Similkameen Spotlight A fast-flying, acrobatic airplane decked-out in jelly bean design will be soaring to the Princeton International Air Show this summer. Pilot Kent Pietsch's act includes a dead-stick routine from 6000 feet and...

Gateway gets ready to host Aviation Day - AZ Central.com | The Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, which preserves military aircraft, will offer rides on B-17 and B-25 bombers, but the non-profit will charge passengers for the flights. "There will be many other exhibits, including a historical ...

Hot Air Festival returns to Van Wert - LimaOhio.com | After a 12-year hiatus, the Hot Air Affair is returning to Van Wert as the Hot Air Festival. The event is schedule to take to the skies over the Van Wert County Fairgrounds from Sept. 7 to 9. Reservations for distant hot air balloon rides as well as ...

Wings of Freedom brings history to life - WLOX | The group restores and flies WWII aircrafts all over the nation to allow people to get up close and personal with a piece of living history. "You crawl through the plane and you see the environment they [WWII soldiers] were set up in, and they tell you ...

Famed World War II warbirds fly into Gulfport on Wings of Freedom Tour (photo... - Mississippi Press | The first to arrive from Pensacola, Fla., was a sleek P-51 Mustang fighter, followed by a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber nicknamed "Witchcraft," and finally a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber named the "Nine O Nine." Among the onlookers was Tony ...

HAI Brings Helicopter Presence to Women in Aviation - Helicopter Association International | The 23rd Annual Women in Aviation International (WAI) Conference begins today at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. Wednesday was set up day, and also a first for WAI. HAI member company AirEvac LifeTeam of West Plains, Mo., flew in one of their local Bell ...

Celebrate Women of Aviation Worldwide Week from EAA | The second annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week (March 5-11) is in full swing, and Fly-It-Forward events designed to introduce flying to girls and women by taking them on a short flight are planned around the world.

Women in Aviation from The House of Rapp | ...Women of Aviation offers a plethora of activities and contests designed to get females of all ages involved. More important to me is that it welcomes the participation of anyone who believes that aviation would be better off with more women involved, and each one of us can make a difference....

AERO 2012 Just Around the Corner from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Organizers of the 20th AERO Friedrichshafen general aviation trade show are looking toward final preparations for this year's event, scheduled for April 18-21 in Friedrichshafen, Germany....

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'Red Tails' exhibit coming this month to Daytona - Florida Courier | The traveling exhibit is a project of the CAF Red Tail Squadron, a volunteer non-profit organization affiliated with the Commemorative Air Force. "This wonderful exhibit travels all over the United States, sharing this great American story to young ...

Docent Works Final Shift at EAA Museum from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Every Wednesday for the past 19 years, Milton Morris has been diligently at his post just inside the entrance to EAA AirVenture Museum - greeting visitors, giving tours, and talking about airplanes. This past Wednesday, March 7, Milt worked his last shift as museum docent.

Miracle of the Hudson - Vintage Wings of Canada | This is a story of two worlds. One, a world of isolation for a tiny farming community in Québec during the Second World War; the other, a world of global communications and social networking employed to solve a mystery which involved the first world. In the summer of 2011, my friend Paul Symes, owner of Wakefield, Québec's iconic Black Sheep Inn music hall, sent me an e-mail that brought together the many players who would, in the end, solve the mystery, and, in fact, discover information connected with the story that makes it far, far more interesting than first thought. Paul and I are...

Renowned Bush Pilot CC Pocock Will Present a Pilot Training Course at St. Louis Downtown Airport This Saturday from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | South African bush pilot CC Pocock will be in the St. Louis area this weekend to present an abbreviated training course to local pilots at St. Louis Downtown Airport on Saturday, March 10. Beginning at 9:00am, the course will include 4 hours of ground school, hands-on flight instruction, CC's book, Bush and Mountain Flying, lunch, and...

New pilot training center opens at former WWII training site - Tuscaloosa News | By Patrick Rupinski TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa site where the military once trained fighter pilots for World War II is now training a new generation of aviators — this time for civilian aircraft. General Aviation Center has opened a new facility at ...

An interesting read from Global Aviation Resource... from PlanesTV.com's Facebook Wall | An interesting read from Global Aviation Resource including Tomcat and Lightning articles and an interview with Paul Bonhomme...

Young Eagles/Sporty's Pilot Earns Instrument Rating from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Tyler Stargardt, of Marshfield, Wisconsin - who in 2010 became the first Young Eagle to complete the Sporty's Complete Pilot Training Course and earn his private pilot certificate - recently earned his instrument rating.

C.R. Smith Museum Makes Happy Campers With the Eagle Aviation Camp This June - Sacramento Bee | There are lots of summer activities for children in North Texas, but only one Eagle Aviation Camp. The American Airlines CR Smith Museum offers not only a one-week program that will ...

NASA's Kepler Mission Wins Aviation Week Award - Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Roger Hunter (left), the Kepler project manager at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and Jim Fanson (middle), the former project manager for the mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., accepted the 2012 Aviation Week...

Local man a finalist to win trip into space - Mercer Island Reporter | He has been teaching rocketry as an elective with his son and co-teacher Ryan, 13, to students at Seattle Country Day School. They learn to build low-power and high-power rockets and plan to launch them at 60 Acres Park in May....