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Families welcome Blue Angles home from winter training - Pensacola News Journal | Brent Stevens, USMC, Blue Angels No. 4 Pilot, leaves the tarmac with is daughter Riley and wife Lindsey on Monday after returning to NAS Pensacola after around 12 weeks of training in El Centro, California and the first three performances of the season ...

No Blue Angels On Wednesday - NorthEscambia.com | The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels will not be performing a practice demonstration over Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola on Wednesday. The team is slated to return to their regularly scheduled practice demonstrations over NAS... 

RIVERSIDE: Airshow roars in on March 31 - InlandSoCal.com | BY FIELDING BUCK There will be a new attraction every 10 to 20 minutes at the 20th Annual Riverside Airshow. It takes place from 9:50 am-4 pm March 31 at Riverside Airport. Performers include wing walkers, sky divers, aerobatics and military airplanes...

Red Checkers prepare for Air Force show - Voxy | Former Freyberg High School student and Red Checker Lieutenant Commander Wayne Theobald is looking forward to putting on a polished performance for the crowds at the Air Force Air Show on 31 March at Base Ohakea. Wayne says trying to identify one best ...

Red Arrows display to launch Portishead Carnival celebrations this summer - This is Somerset | Flt Lt Jon Egging died when his plane crashed after a performance at the Bournemouth Air Festival, and Flt Lt Sean Cunningham was killed when he was ejected from his aircraft while it was on the ground at RAF Scampton. 1. Red Arrows display to launch ...

50th Annual MCAS Yuma Airshow attendance up - KSWT-TV | More than 60000 people attended the 50th Annual Airshow at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. Military officials say the number of people who attended Saturday's Airshow broke last years attendance record by nearly 15000. This years show celebrated 100 ...

RNZAF to mark 75 years - 3News NZ | A month-long series of celebrations will take in the Warbirds Over Wanaka event, Anzac Day and a tour of the country by the Red Checkers aerobatic display team, from March 25, birthday celebrations in Auckland and Wellington and an international air ...

Air show to display latest RNZAF gear - Voxy | Former Wanganui Collegiate pupil, RNZAF Flight Lieutenant and helicopter pilot Charlie Beetham is looking forward to showcasing the RNZAF's newest equipment at the Air Force Air Show in Ohakea on 31 March. Born and breed in Dannevirke, Charlie says ...

Dale Moody Classic Photos – Part One from classicwarbirds.net by davebudd | part 2

Free airplane rides planned in Crookston - Grand Forks Herald | The 13th annual Young Eagles Fly-In offering free airplane rides will be from 9 am to 4 pm April 15 at Crookston Municipal Airport, sponsored by Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1342. The 13th annual Young Eagles Fly-In offering free airplane ...

Sun 'N Fun CEO Issues (Long Over-Due) Memo Concerning Tornado Cleanup from Aero-News Network | Pays Outstanding Balance On Aircraft Towing, Cleanup After The Storm In a memo posted on the Sun 'n Fun website, the event president and CEO John "Lites" Leenhouts says that the organization has paid a "substantial" balance remaining following the cleanup of damage which occurred when a tornado hit the event last spring.

Text updates from Sun ‘n Fun from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | Sun 'n Fun is offering text updates from next week's fly-in. For event updates, text snfupdate to 69050; and for alerts, text snfalert to 69050.

Ohio Air News 177 - Charles Johnson | In OAN 175, Page 8, I posted an article about the B-17 on the Parade Ramp at Lackland AFB, TX | Mint Moore was there this past January and confirmed the story, the second in the series "My Pictures, My Story"... 

Tuskegee Airmen exhibit appearing in Daytona, New Smyrna - Daytona Beach News-Journal | The exhibit also will appear at the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest from Friday through Sunday at the New Smyrna Beach Airport and feature the Red Tail P-51 Mustang, the type of plane the Tuskegee airmen flew...

The US supports new search for Amelia- Will the mystery be solved? from Amelia Earhart | Monday evening, my phone started buzzing like crazy… Twitter notes, Facebook messages, and texts from friends linking to the article about the new US supported search for Amelia Earhart. This is exciting stuff! The mission is privately funded but now has the support of the State Department. What do you think? Will we ever find Amelia or her Lockheed Electra? I absolutely think we will.

Earhart Search 75 from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Visit this website to learn about the search for Amelia Earhart (and her navigator):  | June 1-3, 2012 | On the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s departure from the U.S. for her ill-fated world flight, TIGHAR will host “Earhart Search 75,” a three-day conference to explore what has been learned in three-quarters of a century of efforts to discover Earhart’s fate. Researchers, scientists, historians, archaeologists, and forensic experts will present their findings on a wide range of topics in support of a variety of theories....

B-24 'Sweet Chariot' 42-100261 392nd EC-A Part 1 - USAAF-ETO | Whilst at the LAHC at East Kirkby on the 17-3-2012, I saw the remains of a B-24 on show in the main hangar of which got my attention. After a while and thanks to the LARG, the story started to come together with regard to this incident. What you see before you, is the result of the aircraft being lost after mission 99 from USAAF station 118 Wendling in East Anglia. Mission 99 was to bomb the airfield of St. Avord where the Bf 110s of ZG.2 were based and with D-Day coming fast needed...

Biggin Hill Air Fair founder dies aged 87 - News Shopper | A FORMER RAF fighter who founded the 48-year Biggin Hill Air Fair series has died. Jock Maitland, who became the first civilian director of Biggin Hill Airport in 1959, passed away on Friday at the age of 87 at his retirement home in Pembrey.

It doesn't take a pilot... from PPRuNe Forums by kaaremi | A parked freight MD-11 of Nordic Global Airlinesin forgot to open the door before attempting to enter the hangar in HEL today. No injuries:

To the Museum and Beyond! Space-Flown Buzz Lightyear Heads to Smithsonian from SPACE.com | Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger, to the rescue!

Manhigh, Excelsior and Red Bull — it is really all about Joseph Kittinger from Travel for Aircraft | Soon the Red Bull sponsored Stratos project will likely break Joseph Kittinger’s long standing high altitude parachute leap he set in August 1960 from 102,800 feet (31,300m). The jump was made as on objective of Project Excelsior. The U.S. Air Force required data on parachute escape systems from high altitude to improve crew escape probabilities and Kittinger stepped up to pioneer leaping from near space. Over five...

Kittinger helping aviator break free fall record - Orlando Sentinel | Orlando's famed aviator Joe Kittinger is helping another adventure trying to break a record that has stood for decades since Kittinger set it as one of the test pilots for the pre-space program days. Last Thursday, March 15, Felix Baumgertner jumped...