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Blue Angels Thunder Over Utah Air Show First Time Show Attracts More Than 45000 - KCSG | An all-star lineup headlined by the US Navy Blue Angelsdrew thousands of spectators to the 2012 Thunder Over Utah Air Show. Officials estimate more than 45000 people attended the first-ever show held at St. George...

Days of thunder come to an end - for now - St. George Daily Spectrum | Blue Angels Soar Over St. George: The US Navy Blue Angels land in St. George on Wednesday before this weekend's Thunder Over Utah Air Show. The US Navy Blue Angels end their show Sunday with the delta formation breakout as they soar over a ridge west ...

MCAS Yuma Air Show - KYMA | Commemorating 100 years of Marine Corps Aviation is the 49th Annual MCAS Yuma Air Show. This year's event showcased the US Air Force thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds fly in about 70 air shows a year across the world, with eight pilots and about 100 ...

Twilight formation airshow act to debut at FIAS - Jet Charters | Team RV will debut its formation twilight show on March 23 at the Florida International Air Show (FIAS) in Punta Gorda, Florida. Consisting of 12 aircraft, Team...

Red Arrows make a return for Portishead 2012 carnival - Portishead People | THE world famous Red Arrows will be making a return to Portishead to kick off the town's carnival celebrations. The RAF display team will be performing a dazzling display of ariel acrobatics on June 15 at ...

Red Arrows to fly two short after local tragedies - Leamington Observer | THE RED Arrows will be performing this summer with two less jets following the tragic deaths of two pilots from the area last year. Flt Lt Jon Egging, who grew up in Ufton near Southam and also attended...

Fly-In, Cruise-In planned - Mount Airy News by Mondee Tilley | Surry Central's Air Force JROTC recently toured the Mount Airy/Surry County Airport to prepare for an upcoming Fly-In and Cruise-In on April 28. There will be a Fly-In and Cruise-In at the Mount Airy/Surry County Airport on April 28 ... 

2012 Airshow Season Begins from Randy Rothhaar Photography | The 2012 airshow season is underway with successful trips to both the MCAS Yuma and Thunder Over Utah Airshows this past weekend. Next up is the Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona Airshow at Davis Monthan AFB in April.

Authorities search for missing hot air balloon pilot - Fox News | Authorities are searching for a hot air balloon pilot from North Carolina who went missing in the South Georgia woods when his balloon crashed during a thunderstorm. Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore says 63-year-old Edward Ristaino of Cornelius, N.C., was taking six skydivers into the air Friday during a festival in Fitzgerald, Ga., when a storm hit. The sheriff said strong winds forced the balloon up to about 18,000 feet before it plummeted to the ground...

Representing women - and nearly 700,000 airmen from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Aviation has come a long way since the days of the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart. In today’s Air Force, women are a common presence in the cockpits of the service’s premier aircraft, serving alongside their male counterparts in combat and at home station....

Sky-high sisterhood from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...Meet Kanchala Campos-Tortosa, 49, one of a handful of female pilots working in Thailand's male-dominated airline industry. If Thai female pilots flying commercial airliners are rare _ numbering between 30 and 40 _ it is rarer still for them to achieve the rank of full-fledged captain like Captain Kanchala (merely four). Those numbers are tiny for a country celebrating its 101st anniversary in aviation this year and a nation with a thriving airline business and strategic position as the region's air hub....

Senate Co-sponsors Secured for CAP Congressional Gold Medal Action from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS - Civil Air Patrol has secured the number of co-sponsors needed for committee action on its proposal for a Congressional Gold Medal recognizing its early members' service during World War II. Once the Banking, House and Urban Affairs Committee acts on the bill, the next steps are a full vote in the Senate. The measure then goes to the House for action. All of this should occur in the next several months....

Canada’s Arrow Is Still Remembered 60 years later from AirSpace by flyvertosset | March marks the 60th anniversary of the birth of one of aviation’s great “might-have-beens.” The start of development of an aircraft that became a source of national pride. The start of an aircraft that could have been a world-beater. I’m referring to Canada’s mighty Avro CF-105 Arrow fighter....

"Northwest Travel: Flight museums; Seattle area aviation attractions illustrate heritage of Boeing" - Bend Bulletin | In 1910, seven years after the Wright Brothers’ famed flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., a young timber merchant named William Boeing saw a manned flying machine for the first time. A century later, the company that Boeing founded is the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, and one of its largest aerospace and defense contractors....

The real Great Escape - Brisbane Times | Next weekend, on the 68th anniversary of the escape, a Czech Air Force fly-past and military band will honour Willy, Rusty, Leslie and Jerry with the unveiling of memorial in Most. We, their descendants, will be there. Then, in a hired minibus, ...

Aerojet Marks 70 Years Serving the Warfighter and Powering Exploration from Kathryn's Report | SACRAMENTO, Calif., Mar 19, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Aerojet, a GenCorp GY -0.01% company, announced its 70th anniversary today, marking the March 19, 1942 founding of Aerojet Engineering Corporation by world-renowned aerodynamicist Dr. Theodore von Kármán and five California Institute of Technology colleagues. These rocket pioneers leveraged their ingenuity and shared passion for...

Video: Randolph Air Force Base Training (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV by Airboyd

International council to celebrate 50th anniversary from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Association (IAOPA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary at its biennial World Assembly in Stellenbosch, South Africa, April 10-15. The event is hosted by AOPA South Africa, a founding affiliate of the association....

Watch AOPAOnline for More Favorite Aircraft Challenge Updates from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | I am elated that my coverage of AOPA's Favorite Aircraft Challenge is now being picked up by AOPAonline. For the next few weeks, you may visit the main aopa.org site to see the articles....