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Thousands flock to NAF Air show featuring the Blue Angels - KSWT-TV | My most favorite performers are the Blue Angels," says Jack Patteson an Air Show Attendee. The United States Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron "The Blue Angels" is made up of some of the worlds most elite pilots. "How amazing it is to do that, ...

Leap Frogs Jump Start 2012 Season at El Centro Air Show from U.S. Navy News Headline Stories | Almost 50,000 spectators watched the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, perform during Naval Air Facility El Centro Air Show, March 9-10....

Heritage air festival date - Diss Express | The event on July 8 which runs from 10.30am to 7pm, hosted by the Norfolk Gliding Club, which is based at the airfield, will include static and flying displays featuring planes such as the B-17, P-51s, DC3, AeroStars Yak display team, Spitfire,...

Women in Aviation, International Conference 2012 Sets New Record Attendance from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | With its largest attendance in a decade, the 23rd annual WAI Conference, held in Dallas, from March 8-10, 2012, could best be described as big and upbeat. In addition to a new record attendance, dozens of companies and organizations were actively recruiting new employees, producing a positive and encouraging attitude for all participants....

The chopper driver is now deputy commanding general of 1st Cav from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | Saw this on the blog Ink Spots and, even though it's a bit off our beaten path here, it still fits at Sky Talk. Brigadier General Laura Richardson has been named by the Army as Deputy Commanding General for the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood. She is the first female general officer to be tabbed as a division deputy commander....

Monday Motivation: Celebrating You from Flight To Success | Pictures speak a thousands words...especially coming home from a Women in Aviation Conference. Amazing connections, meetings, and people that I'm so grateful to know. All touching each others lives in pursuit of their dreams...

2012 Vicki Cruse Memorial Scholarship Winners Announced from Aero-News Network | Two Amazing Women Are The Latest To Follow Their Dreams -- In Memory Of Vicki By Jim Campbell, ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Nearly three years after the worst event in my life, the memory of an amazing lady is as strong as ever. As such, that memory drives me to make sure that the...

Linden, Michigan - Woman who retrained as jet engine mechanic shows 'people can reinvent themselves' from Kathryn's Report by Admin | Ryan Garza | MLiveDebbie Monchilov, of Linden, recently graduated with a technical school degree from the Aviation Technology Institute to be a jet engine mechanic. By Blake Thorne, MLive.com LINDEN, Michigan -- Debra Monchilov didn't listen to the criticisms surrounding her choice to change career paths. Criticisms that she was too old to become a jet engine mechanic. Or too female. "I always ...

Formation flight Sunday. USAF buffet from Planeshots

Royal Canadian Air Force In Waukegan Tuesday - GazeboNews | This world famous flight demonstration team is only appearing in seven US air shows in 2012. High flying maneuvers and exciting flight formations have made the Snowbirds an air show favorite across the globe. A record breaking crowd is expected at the...

Forty-Seven Years in Aviation: A Memoir; Chapter 11: Strategic Air Command, Part 3 from AVweb Top News | The KC-97 Stratotanker was way too slow to easily refuel B-47s, but the bomber pilots learned how to fly in tight formation at near-stall speeds and do it with finesse. Dick Taylor spent many hours flying 100-mile refueling racetracks in the sky, usually over the southeastern U.S., but sometimes even over North Africa...

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The 70th anniversary Doolittle Raid is just around the corner, a moment in our country’s history when one very ballsie, risky, brave act by a handful of aviators set the path for victory. The Reunion to be held in April in Ohio celebrates a handful of B-25 Mitchels launched from the Hornet and by spending just 30 seconds over Tokyo change the entire momentum of the Pacific war. The flight and...

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk — reconnaissance no, surveillance yes (write) from Travel for Aircraft | This UAV is named Global Hawk but could more accurately be called “Albatross” for its strong slender wings which enable the aircraft to cruise thousands of miles per hop. Nature’s albatross species annually migrate thousands of miles across hemispheres with tremendous endurance — at times into headwinds cutting ground speed to the speeds we typically drive around the neighborhood and at timed with tailwinds which propel these birds to high flying velocities akin to airliner take off speeds...

Vulcan at aviation-photocrew.com from Apron 6 | Let’s start the new week with a new update at www.aviation-photocrew.com. Tom updated the site with some stunning air to air pictures from the Vulcan Bomber. One of the best flights we did so far. More pictures from the Vulcan will follow later on on this blog....

Pilot putting region's old airports on the radar - Chicago Tribune | Veteran pilot Nick Selig is flying solo on a mission to salute Chicagoland's ghost airports, the grass airfields carved out of farmland that helped sow the seeds of victory in World War II. Almost all of the approximately 45 airports are long gone...

Honor Flight program lets veterans of World War II see their memorial - Bakersfield Californian | They were ordinary men and women who became extraordinary heroes after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into World War II. They watched comrades die terrible deaths on beaches and in foxholes, where the wounded in body and spirit bore witness...

Synergy Aircraft Prototype Construction Update - March 2012 from AirPigz | The prototype 5-seat Synergy aircraft is making some great progress as can be seen in the recent posting of 92 new images on John's facebook page. John, along with members of his family and a grass-roots team are having the experience-of-a-lifetime knocking down challenges and watching the airframe take shape as a result of their hard work....

Amateur video of the Challenger explosion released from The Unwanted Blog | Taken by one Jeffrey Ault on a Super 8, and kept in a box until recently....

LA museum prepares to display space shuttle Endeavour - Los Angeles Times | In June, it will be moved by barge to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum complex. The Atlantis will remain in Florida and be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center's visitor complex. Endeavor....