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Fighter pilots gear up for Thunder Over Utah - The Spectrum | Standing in front of his F-22 Raptor fighter jet Thursday, U.S. Air Force Maj. Henry Schantz acknowledged his job was pretty cool. Even after more than seven years piloting fighter jets, Schantz has not tired of heading to the office, which for him includes the cockpit of one of the world’s most advanced aircraft....

Video: Blue Angel Pilot Captain John Hecker Talked About Thunder Over Utah - KCSG Television | The feature attraction of Thunder Over Utah are the US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team, known for their precision formation flying, have brought their adrenaline-rushing performance to Southern Utah! The mission of the Blue Angels is to enhance Navy recruiting, and credibly represent Navy and Marine Corps aviation to the United States and its Armed Forces to America and other countries as international ambassadors of good will...

Blue Angels to bring ‘thunder’ to southern Utah skies - The Salt Lake Tribune | More than 30,000 spectators are expected to watch the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels rip open the skies when they make their first visit to Utah Saturday and Sunday, putting their fighter jets through precision acrobatics over St. George....

F-22 Raptor to wow audiences at the Fort Wayne Air Show -WANE | The Fort Wayne Air Show set to take place in September will feature the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team. The show, which will be free to the public, will be hosted by the 122nd Fighter Wing at Fort Wayne International Airport on September 1 and 2. According to a press release issued by the Indiana Air National Guard, The F-22 Raptor is the Air Force's newest fighter aircraft. Its combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with...

Red Arrows returning for air show at Portrush - BBC News | The RAF Red Arrows are set to take part in this year's Northern Ireland international air show at Portrush. Last year, the aerobatics display team pulled out of the event after the death of a pilot in a crash in Dorset....

Air show remains a plain affair - The Times of India | HYDERABAD: Flying in the Dreamliner or the Sukhoi Superjet 100 seems to have done little good to India Aviation 2012, the air show which continued to be as lacklustre on Day 2 as it was on its opening day. Not only have a good chunk of exhibitors and visitors given this third edition of the show a miss, the event has also been...

patrols on patrol! Roll from Apache, the blog of the patrol by Breitling Grifil | Great Photo of Hubert Lecinski the two most beautiful in France chevron patrols over the Mediterranean.

Restored jet fighter revealed at IWM Duxford - Royston Crow | The de Havilland Vampire, which was the second jet fighter to enter service with the RAF, is now proudly on display at Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford’s AirSpace Conservation Hall. The WZ590 model of the aircraft has been going through a four-year conservation process at Duxford aerodrome, under the careful hands of the Cambridgeshire-based staff and volunteers – one of whom travelled from Australia to assist with the project....

Famous WWII Bomber & Fighter Planes for National Tour to Be Hosted by Valair Aviation at Wiley Post Airport - Market Watch | Valair Aviation, an AGC Aerospace & Defense Company, will host aircraft on display for the Collings Foundation's Wing of Freedom Tour at Wiley Post Airport. The tour is open to the public April 6th -- 8th. Being billed as "The Ultimate Living History Experience," this once-in-a-lifetime experience offers attendees the opportunity to fly aboard the B-17 or B-24 Bombers or get some "stick time" in the world's only Dual Control P-51C Mustang Fighter...

Saturday, Apr 21, 2012 - EAA Chapter 1246 Annual Fish Fry, McKinney, TX from FunPlacesToFly.com Aviation Events | Starting at 10:30 am, the annual fish fry is our first big chapter event of the year. All family and friends are welcome, come rain or shine. We will gather at Pete Huff's hangar in the MHOA area, next to the fire station at the Collin County Regional Airport....

Tuskegee Airmen to be honored at Alameda's USS Hornet museum - Inside Bay Area | The United States was two years into World War II when Burl Smith bumped into a friend from the Bay Area in the U.S. Army Air Corps base at Eglin Field in Florida. Smith had just finished training as an auto mechanic in a military where Jim Crow laws prevented many African Americans from reaching the front lines. But the Oakland native also attended community college before he was drafted in April 1943 and had shown academic promise. His friend mentioned the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where African Americans were training as pilots....

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High def vintage photos from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | General Aviation News columnist Ben Visser sent along this link to a page of high-def Kodachrome photos from 1942, with some really cool photos of workers at aircraft manufacturing plants during the war, plus more...

CARROLL LEFON: Navy aviator impacted others By Chaplain Dave Harvey 1-126th Aviation Task Force | ...For over eight years, Lex revealed himself through his gifted writings. He revealed to us his beliefs and his struggles with faith; his paternal fears about his daughter and his unmatched pride in his son. He regaled us with sea stories — some outright hilarious — others heartbreaking in their sadness — political musings, and all manner of various and divers lessons learned about flying, parenting, leadership, etc....

Lockheed begins test flights of final Raptor - Flightglobal | The last F-22 Raptor to be built for the US Air Force took-off on its inaugural test flight earlier today with a company pilot at the helm, a Lockheed Martin executive says. "I was just watching the take-off of aircraft 4195, so it's now made its first flight on its way to delivery," says Jeff Babione, Lockheed's F-22 programme manager. "We just had everyone outside the building watching the take-off of the final Raptor." Lockheed test pilot Bret Luedke-- a veteran aviator who has flown almost every Raptor the company has ever built--is flying the aircraft...

Old warbird inspires artists' air force tribute - Stuff | Feilding artist Michael Nidd's painting of Brendon Deere's Spitfire fighter plane has been drawing a lot of attention while hanging in Margaret Kouvelis' Feilding bookshop Poppies, and there have been several requests for a print of the original. "I never realised there were so many people locally who had an interest in aviation. Brendon's book [Spitfire: Return to Flight] has been the biggest seller in my shop," said Mrs Kouvelis...

Red Bull Stratos Project Makes Successful Jump from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Felix Baumgartner of Austria as part of the Red Bull Stratos project made one parachute jump from 71,580 feet over Roswell, New Mexico, falling at speeds that reached "nearly 365 miles per hour," Red Bull announced, Thursday. The project says the actual mark of 364.4 mph set a new world freefall speed record. The jump lasted a full eight minutes and eight seconds and took Baumgartner through the...