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Blue Sky, Big Crowd for Sun 'n Fun Opening Day from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
Sun'n Fun opened today under blue sky, with airplanes and fans filling the campus.  Performers and their contrails fill the sky, FiFi arrived, the USAF Thunderbirds are here, it's show time at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport....

New boss = new ideas for Sun ‘n Fun from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt Everett | Last summer the nonprofit Sun ‘n Fun organization got a new president. John “Lites” Leenhouts, a veteran Naval aviator, was named president of the organization. He brought a multitude of new ideas and a level of enthusiasm for the show that is positively contagious....

History on Display: The B-29 at Sun 'n Fun Is the Only One Still Flying - The Ledger | A Boeing B-29 Superfortress with a P-51C nearby flies at the start of the air show on opening day of the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In and Expo. By John Chambliss LAKELAND | History landed at the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In on Tuesday. A B-29 bomber, like the one that ...

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Podcast: 2012 Raiders Reunion – Warbird Radio | Larry Kelley joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE! Tune in and hear all the details on the 2012 Doolittle Raiders Reunion that’s fast approaching....

Snowbirds pilot shares uplifting story with local women - Moose Jaw Times-Herald | Maryse Carmichael, commanding officer for the Snowbirds 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, was the guest speaker at an International Women's Day luncheon at Timothy Eaton Gardens on Tuesday. By Joel van der Veen When she was five years old, Lt.-Col...

"Thunder on the Lakeshore" air show to feature the best of the first 20 years - Herald Times Reporter | MANITOWOC — The 20th anniversary of “Thunder on the Lakeshore” promises to be the “best air show ever held in Manitowoc,” according to Curt Drumm, chairman and producer of the annual event and balloon rally set for June 2-3 at the Manitowoc County ...

Annual air show to feature historical flair - New Bern Sun Journal | The 2012 Cherry Point Air Show in May provides a dramatic up-close view of military aircraft in the air and on the ground. This year's free show also honors the centennial of Marine aviation and Cherry Point air station's 70th anniversary...

New air show heads to Fort Lauderdale - Sun-Sentinel | It's still just a speck on the horizon, but a new air show is on its way. The promoter of Air Lauderdale -- the new name for what was once an annual air and sea tradition at Fort Lauderdale beach -- said...

RFD announces AirFest kick-off concert - WREX-TV |  The Chicago Rockford International Airport announced Monday that Cheap Trick will kick-off this year's AirFest with a concert at the BMO Harris Bank Center on June 1. This is the first time an opening concert has been held ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Air Show Looks To Grow from Aero-News Network | Organizers Seeking New Acts, More Vendors Event planners at Mid-Ohio Vally Regional Airport (KPKB) in Parkersburg, WV, are looking to expand their 2012 air show in an effort to raise the airports' profile in the community. Donna Rusche, a member of the West Virginia chapter of the Ninety-Nines and co-chair of the air show committee, said they are expecting an expanded presence by the armed forces, as well as new civilian acts...

Thunder Day set to take off at Elvington airfield - The Press, York | TELEVISION presenter and actor Robert Llewellyn was filming at the Yorkshire Air Museum ahead of a special event this weekend. The star of Red Dwarf and presenter of Scrapheap Challenge was at the Elvington airfield yesterday filming for a Channel 5 ...

RNLAF Grounds Apache Solo Display Team from Ares by Nicholas Fiorenza | I didn't realize that the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has an Apache Solo Display Team, but I won't be able to see it fly, at least not this year. The Netherlands Ministry of Defense announced last week that the team would not participate in air shows or other events because the RNLAF doesn't have the resources to do so. All RNLAF Apaches and their pilots are tied down by exercises and training...

Civilians bring warplanes to Ohakea - Manawatu Standard | FLIGHT IN TIME: Pilots Guy Stevenson and Brendon Deere after arriving Ohakea in the Avenger, which will be on display at Saturday's airshow. As the air force celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend with a major air show, civilian aviation...

Roxy is Airborne Again! from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe by The GYROX Team | We at the Gyrox team are very happy to announce that yesterday, 28th March 2012, Norman was able to take to the air again in his autogyro, G-YROX (Roxy); the first true flight since last July!  Roxy has been in storage at Shonai airport, Japan, since the circumnavigation was put on hold last autumn because of weather conditions and bureaucratic delays. But as the weather is set to clear and the bureaucratic problems are solved it was time to dust off the rotors, put all the bits back together and following engine test runs earlier this week, take to the air again...

Win a flight in a P-51 | Warbird Wednesday from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt Everett | So, are you familiar with Stallion 51? If not, let me bring you up to speed. You give them money, they let you fly their P-51. Now, ordinarily this costs several thousand dollars–after all it isn’t exactly cheap to operate a P-51–but, thanks to a raffle being put on by SAFE, you could have this pleasure for as little as 20 dollars. Yes, 20 dollars...

Spitfire kit makes inaugural appearance at Sun 'n Fun - AOPA Pilot | The 90-percent scale Spitfire kit from Supermarine Aircraft of Texas made its first appearance at Sun 'n Fun this year. The warbirds, so proliferous that Sun 'n Fun organizers had to turn some away for the first time this year,...

Lindbergh Foundation and LEAP merge from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The LEAP Electric Flight Program, which includes the Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize, is now a program of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation...

Choctaw, OK, man builds microjet for air shows - NewsOK.com | Justin Lewis also is looking for sponsors for his air show performances around the country. At age 36, Lewis continues to pursue his passion for aviation through air shows across the country. With his expertise in aviation, Lewis founded the Lewis ...

Boom time: night-time first for F-35 from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | Lockheed Martin has released images showing the first night-time inflight refuelling sortie involving an F-35, with the milestone having been achieved on 22 March using conventional take-off and landing aircraft AF-4...

Donated Russian jet starts to take shape - The Desert Sun | TOP: A Cold War-era Russian MiG-21 supersonic jet fighter is being assembled at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Photos by Denise Goolsby/The Desert Sun ABOVE: Vladimir Hnatek, Tom Krueger and Ed Arredondo check out one of the wheel assemblies on the ...

Scaled Composites Career Day April 21st - Hot Company Looking For Cool Engineers! from AirPigz by Martt | If you're a hands-on engineer interested in aviation and aerospace and you're looking for a career, you should probably be RSVP'n to Scaled Composites to take part in their Career Day coming up soon on Saturday April 21, 2012. The event will run from 10am to 2pm at the Scaled facilities at the Mojave Air & Spaceport in Mojave, California....

Apollo 11 Saturn V engines located on sea floor from RLV and Space Transport News | This is pretty cool. A project initiated and funded by Jeff Bezos has located the engines for the Apollo 11 Saturn V first stage "lying 14,000 feet below the...