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At air show, Blue Angels' appeal undeniable - Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Tens of thousands attended the 32nd annual Florida International Air Show Saturday in Punta Gorda. The US Navy's Blue Angels precision team was the main attraction. By CHRIS GERBASI, Correspondent PUNTA GORDA - Jet teams, parachutists and aerobatic...

RIVERSIDE: Riverside native soaring home for air show - Press-Enterprise | Riverside Airshow Coordinator Tom Miller said, “We always thought it would be wonderful to have one of our home town boys come home bringing a real fighter jet with him. It (McKee coming home) doesn't get any better than that.

Fate of air show still uncertain - Brant News | Brantford city council has allocated $450,000 to fix the crumbling tarmac at Brantford Municipal Airport, but is there enough time to resurrect the Rotary Brantford Charity Air Show this year?...

Rides provide added thrills at Volusia, Flagler air shows - news-journalonline | The UH-1H Iroquois flying tours over the air show Saturday looked and sounded like it was lifted straight out of Vietnam, where it and thousands more Hueys saw their first combat action 50 years ago....

Committee plans changes for Air Show - News and Sentinel | The 2012 Air Show at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport will be different from events as the committee is looking at new acts and more vendors. Donna Rusche, co-chairman, said a focus of the committee is to add three shuttles in Washington County to increase the number of Ohio residents attending the show. These new shuttles from downtown Marietta, Reno and Devola will be added to the existing shuttle areas in Wood County including West Virginia University at Parkersburg....

Red Checkers put on a show in the sky - 3News NZ | By Brook Sabin The Red Checkers are some of the most elite Air Force pilots in the country, and today the aerobatic team started a round-the-country tour, celebrating 75 years of the Air Force. 3 News went up for a spin with them.

RNZAF Red Checkers from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | The RNZAF Red Checkers aerobatic team made their way north to Whenuapai from Ohakea via a fuel stop at Hamilton 24 March and the...

New York City Transit Honors Tuskegee Airmen by Renaming Bus Depot from NYCAviation by Matt Molnar | Metropolitan Transit Authority officials, along with local politicians, NYC Transit employees, surviving Tuskegee Airmen and their families gathered on Friday at the 100th Street Bus Depot in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan to rededicate the facility as the Tuskegee Airmen Bus Depot...

John E. Legg, 87, teacher and WWII prisoner of war - Philadelphia Inquirer | His wartime ordeal, he said, began when his B-17 with a 10-man crew on a bombing mission to Berlin was attacked by German fighter planes. "Their 20mm cannon fire was exploding everywhere and it shook and vibrated the plane," he wrote...

Lawrenceville gunner Francis 'Bud' Owens has air base facility named after him - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | By Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Francis "Bud" Owens, a strapping Lawrenceville boy, left Pittsburgh for the big war in 1942 and became a B-17 gunner. The Germans shot his plane down over France in 1943. After four months of hiding from the ...

Veterans prep for 3rd Honor Flight to DC - SunHerald.com  WOOLMARKET -- Jimmy Gautier's father survived the Bataan Death March in 1942, but died a few years before the first Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight jetted a group of World War II veterans to Washington to see ...

Memories of a mammoth aircraft from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Older readers may remember the first thermonuclear-weapon-capable strategic bomber in the United States arsenal, the Convair B-36, the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built. This huge aircraft could carry a greater weight of bombs than the all-up weight of an entire B-17 Flying Fortress bomber of World War II! It was always a challenge to fly, slow, lumbering and not very maneuverable. Its six piston engines (later augmented by four early-model turbojets) simply didn't have enough power to propel its fully-loaded weight of over 200 tons at a more sprightly pace. This led to its early replacement by all-jet-powered bombers (first the shorter-ranged Boeing B-47 Stratojet, and later the B-52 Stratofortress)...

Women in Aerospace from Astronauts for Hire by Astronauts4Hire | In celebration of Women's History Month, NASA conducted a one day conference titled "Women, Innovation and Aerospace" (WIA) at George Washington University on March 8th. A4H Associate Member Kavya Manyapu represented Boeing at the event, which highlighted women's contributions to innovation and progress in the aerospace community. The conference also...

A piece of Norwegian aviation history - av Håvard Hvoslef Kvalnes | The first flight in Norway was held with this type of air craft. The flight was done by a Swede, and the plane coming to Bodø this summer is also owned by a Swede....

Boeing's history in Everett - HeraldNet | Workers there build bulkheads and sections for B-17 bombers. October 1956 -- Boeing moves 283 employees to facilities at the Everett-Pacific Shipyard, where they will build jigs and shipment fixtures for B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers.

Benoist Aircraft and Centennial of Naval Aviation Presented at MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | Members of the Missouri Aviation Historical Society, a  group of St. Louis area aviation history scholars and enthusiasts, meet monthly to discuss topics of interest and assist each other in producing papers and books.  Many members of the Society are also members of...

Civil Air Patrol trains at FYI airport - KFSN | Dozens of volunteers with the Civil Air Patrol spent today on a special training mission making sure they're ready to go on a moment's notice. Volunteers gathered at Fresno Yosemite International Airport to brush up on their search and rescue skills....

Another plane on a pole from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | This is the Have Blue, predecessor of the F-117, on a ground test stand.  Click through for some history and a lots more photos.

Giant paper plane flies 10 seconds over Arizona desert - GMA News | Dubbed "Arturo's Desert Eagle," the paper plane was named after Arturo Valdenegro of Tucson, Arizona, 12, who won a contest the Pima Air & Space Museum's Giant Paper Airplane Project. The project, which led to the building of the plane from dead tree ...

EAA 64 and The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Provide Young Eagle Flights for Scout Troops from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | EAA Chapter 64 and the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum hosted over 120 local area Boy Scouts at St. Louis Downtown Airport on Saturday.  The Scouts received Young Eagle flights from EAA pilots flying five airplanes - a Piper Tripacer, 2 Cessna 172s, a Mooney M22 and a Piper Cherokee - and an R-44 Raven II helicopter from...

Model aircraft take flight in Towamencin (VIDEO) - Montgomery Media | In the gymnasium at North Penn High School on Saturday, the entire space was covered with kids. The smiles and glows on their faces expressed how much fun they were having, giving off a powerful source of energy that could make anyone soar....

X-37B Space Plane "Game-Changing" Mission Extended Indefinitely; Third Launch Planned from Spaceports | The USAF X-37B space plane may be about as taikonauts enter space lab.
The military's mysterious, experimental unmanned space plane is doing such a good job that its mission has been extended indefinitely—if only anyone knew what its mission was. The mission is top secret. Details on the mission involving the X-37B are...

NASA Sets Launch Date for Five Rocket Mission from Virginia from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | LOGOWALLOPS ISLAND, Va., March 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA scheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream between midnight and 5 a.m., Tuesday, March...