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Robins Air Show Called 'Record Breaking Success' - 13WMAZ | Base spokeswoman Chrissy Miner estimates between 150000 and 170000 people descended on the International City to see the Blue Angels and other acts in flight. In a statement Robins Installation Commander, Col. Mitchel Butikofer, called the air show a ...

The thrill is back: Air show wows the crowds, despite gray skies and drizzles - Sun-Sentinel | Brian Clark, 45, of West Palm Beach, said as he watched world aerobatic champ Rob Holland put his plane through a series of stalls, loops and gut-churning dives. "He's just twisting and flipping around. Definitely a good pilot...

Thousands attend Lauderdale Air Show - 7Online WSVN-TV | B-1 bombers and F-5 formations caught the eyes of 475000 people in the crowd watching the Lauderdale Air Show. "All the planes going like, 'Woo!' Across the sky, you could barely see them," said Colton Tanner, who attended the Air Show...

Sound of Speed Airshow promises lots of thrills - News-Press Now | This year's international edition of the Sound of Speed Airshow, set Saturday and Sunday at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, will include planes from World War I right up to today's newest stealth fighter. There will be huge walls of flame, acres of free ...

Casey Curry parachutes with the Golden Knights - abc13.com | Sargeant First Class Aaron Figel is part of the US Army's elite parachute team, the Golden Knights. "It's the best job in the world," Fiegel said. "Never gets old. It's one of the things I've found in my life that I could do it every single day, ...

Frecce Tricolori live in action in Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Translated | ...Rivolto, home of the Frecce Tricolore is about 20 km from Udine, a provincial capital of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia. From March to September you can visit the base and with their own eyes the Aermacchi MB339 to see that the stunts are performed....

The "news". With 5 ½ months in advance - Savona news | We are talking about the inevitable Tricolor Arrows to arouse much enthusiasm with entire seasons in advance, giving further reason for existence of the whole superstructure of the airport of Albenga Clemente Panero, equipped as NASA, but ...

Woman dies in tragic take-off - iol news | Aviators and spectators attending an aircraft convention watched in horror as a light aircraft crashed and caught alight minutes after taking off from Margate Airport on Sunday. The pilot and his woman passenger, who are believed to be from Cato Ridge, had taken off in a Rally two-seater plane just before 11am when they had difficulties and crashed...

Ohio Air News # 182 - Charles Johnson | Wrapping up the "Grimes Gathering of B-25's" & Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Reunion.

Daniel Bubb, Ph.D. joins Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame Staff - NVAHOF | The Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame is pleased to announce that Daniel Bubb, Ph.D. has agreed to serve on the NVAHOF staff as Director of Education Programs for NVAHOF. He will also serve on the Hall of Fame Selection Committee, which is...

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Moody, Valdosta relocate historic landmark - ACC | Moody crash recovery units responded to downtown, Valdosta, Ga., April 24 to 25, to recover an aircraft that has been a historic landmark in town since the early 1960s. The F-86L Sabre, which has been on display for decades, will undergo an extensive refurbishment before being put on permanent display at George W. Bush Air Park at Moody Field...

Key West Seaplanes and The Seaplane Pilot's Association feature article in ... - PR Web | The newest seaplane of the fleet has been named "Grand Champion" seaplane at the 38th annual Sun n' Fun International Fly-In and Expo. Key West Seaplanes, the region's premiere and long-established private seaplane charter company receives another ...

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Podcast: The Turkish Air Service of WWI – League Week IV – Warbird Radio | Dieter H.M. Gröschel, M.D from the League of World War I Aviation Historians joins Matt Jolley with a look at the Turkish Air Service.  Dr. Gröschel is an expert on this subject matter and will share his knowledge with us...

Dogfight Brewing Over Burmese Spitfires from AVwebFlash Current Issue | British farmer and aviation history buff David Cundall now says there are 124 new Spitfires buried in Myanmar (formerly Burma) and he knows where 60 of them are. As we reported two weeks ago, Cundall stunned the aviation world with news that he had found at least 20 crated, brand-new Spitfires wrapped in protective paper and tar to preserve them. Whether he'll be able to capitalize on his stunning discovery is in question, however, as...

The voices of the Greatest Generation continue to inspire - Jacksonville Daily News | More than 751 bombers — eight B-17 combat wings and four B-24 wings — lifted off from their bases in England on this mission. When each plane left the runway, so too did 10 American flyers. Imagine an aerial assault today with a fraction of the ...

Podcast: This Is The Year Of The B-52 from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The B-52 first flew 60 years ago in April, it was last produced 50 years ago, it dropped 15,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam 40 years ago, and now, it is being honored for its (continuing) decades of service with a "Year of The B-52" campaign. The Commanders Action Group of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) began promoting the campaign in earnest this April in commemoration of the first flight of the YB-52 on April 15, 1952. Since then, AFGSC says the...

Idaho Marine saves one of his own - The Idaho Statesman | “I don't feel really I am worthy in light of the other great things that for 100 years Marine aviators have been doing,” he said. This wasn't training. This time, Maj. J. Eric Grunke knew it was real. A half-dozen enemy vehicles were on the hunt for a ...

Video: Waving at balloons and other fun with Rob from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by Steve | My best friend Rob made another journey down from Kalamazoo this week and - as always - we planned on some fun in the Cub. We also spent a lot of time watching and photographing the twenty B-25s in town for the 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. I'll have a post with photos and videos from that incredible event up sometime soon...

Movie Monday: The Beeb's all-access tour inside Rolls-Royce from FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis by Stephen Trimble | ...It actually is a timely peek inside Rolls-Royce on the eve of a Pratt & Whitney media day, where surely a major theme of press conferences and interviews will be the newly-sealed long-term relationship between these propulsion giants on narrowbody turbofans. ...

MD-21 mothership with D-21 drone from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | The MD-21 was the designation for the modified A-12. Follow my tags for related posts. Click through for additional photos.

Richard Branson May Provide Last Chance to Hillary Clinton for Astronaut Wings in Space from Spaceports | United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut was dashed by NASA, but she may not be giving up on the dream of reaching the heavens (at least flying Virgin Galactic suborbital)...

LiveAirShowTV Returns to Joint Base Andrews!

PFLUGERVILLE, TX – APRIL 26, 2012 – For the second year in a row, LiveAirShowTV has been awarded the video production/LED screen contract for the 2012 Joint Service Open House at Joint Base Andrews, May 19th and 20th.  “This is one of the top air shows in the country, and we are honored to play such a significant role in the show”, said Jeff Lee, President of LiveAirShowTV.  “This will be the fifth show that I have directed at Andrews, and it is the second under the full banner of LiveAirShowTV. What a great privilege it is to serve the men and women of Joint Base Andrews, and the home of Air Force One.”

This multi-camera production will be displayed on two large LED screen right on the crowd line, and will feature not only up close shots of what it flying, but performer information and sponsor messages.  There will be something up on the screens a full hour before the show starts, so air show fans are encouraged to come early to stake out their best spot for the show.

This year fans will see the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, U.S. Army Golden Knights, the USAF F-22 Raptor, and V-22 Osprey.  Some of the warbirds include the world’s only flying B-29 FIFI, B-24 Diamond L’il, P-51 Mustang, and the only flying SB2C Helldiver.  Some of the top aerobatic pilots in the entire air show industry will all be together at Andrews!  Fans will see, Sean D. Tucker, Michael Goulian, Kirby Chambliss, and Chuck Aaron and his Red Bull Helicopter.

Virtually all of the airshow acts will be recorded and posted on the LiveAirShowTV web site not long after the show.  www.LiveAirShowTV.com Clips from the 2011 show are still available for viewing.  Fans can follow our progress on Facebook and Twitter, and once we are on the base, we will be posting mobile updates throughout the show. 

We will be right at show center, behind air show announcer Rob Reider.  Come by our production compound, you never know what you might see.

LiveAirShowTV will be there to make your air show experience even better! See you on the ramp!

May Fly-In/Cruise In Breakfast

	WINGS OF DREAMS & BOY SCOUT TROOP 146 are partnering to present the MAY FLY-IN/CRUISE-IN BREAKFAST Saturday, May 5, 2012   8:00 am – 10:30 am Keystone Heights Airport, Florida (42J) Proceeds will benefit Wings of Dreams and Boy Scout Troop 146 Breakfast Buffet Menu - "Eggs are back!" Eggs, grits, bacon, sausage, biscuits, fruit, juice, coffee $7 Adults - $4 children - WWII Veterans free Breakfast available for 150 people - First come, first served "Fly Into History" Program features Clarence "Kirk" Kirkland, WWII B-17  & B-29 pilot and Air Force intelligence officer until 1965. Vintage cars on display Winners of Wings of Dreams Essay Contest announced (Topic - "What Veterans Mean to Me") and flown in vintage aircraft (weather permitting) For more information: flyin@wingsofdreams.org or call 352-256-8037 PILOT INFORMATION Elevation: 196 ft. - Pattern Altitude 1196 Frequencies: CTAF/UNICOM - 122.7 WX AWOS-3 - 124.275 (352-473-8273) Airport Office: 352-473-0031 http://www.keystoneairport.com/ http://www.airnav.com/airport/42J Great fuel prices at Keystone Airport! For more information about Wings of Dreams, visit our website www.wingsofdreams.org

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Thunderbirds air, ground roles equally important - Sumter Item | Week after week for months at a time, the US Air Force's Thunderbirds air demonstration team takes to the skies to wow crowds across America with their precision, teamwork and acrobatic skills...

Lauderdale Air Show Cancelled Due to Severe Weather - NBC 6 Miami | By Karen Yi The Lauderdale Air Show was cancelled Sunday due to severe weather, Fort Lauderdale Police said. With the Lauderdale Air Show returning this Saturday and Sunday and Fleet Week also taking place, this weekend promises to be one of the ...

Big Crowd Leads to Long Wait At Robins AFB Air Show - 13WMAZ | Some 13 WMAZ viewers say their excitement came to a halt as they were trying to ... Macon Police charged a man with aggravated assault, aggravated assault family ... Thousands came out to Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins for the 2012...

'Dyess and Abilene is one big family': Air show celebrates 70 years - ReporterNews.com | David Been, base commander, said the air show doubled as an "open house" for the community. "Dyess and Abilene is one big family, and we love having our extended family on base as much as we can," Been said. "This is an opportunity for us to show ...

Golden Knights Shine At Dyess Airfest - KTXS | By Farron Salley, KTXS News ABILENE, Texas -- The Dyess Airforce Base had an open house for Saturday's Airfest that featured the parachuting team US Army Golden Knights. 20-year-old Trey Martin describes jumping out of a plane like sticking your head ...

Biz Bits: Chico Air Show may need a little help from its friends - Enterprise-Record | By LAURA URSENY - Business Editor Necks will crane as the CHICO AIR SHOW returns in September, but it may need more help from the area this year. The air show was one of the community groups asking the city of Chico for funding assistance, ...

Freedom tour brings rare aircraft to Ramona - Ramona Sentinel | Pilots will fly in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” World War II Heavy Bomber, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” WWII Heavy Bomber, and a P-51 Mustang. The planes will arrive at Ramona Airport at 2 pm on April 30 and will be on ...

Ohio Air News #184 - Charles Johnson | On April 25, 2012,We gathered on the hill at the end of an closed runway ,“Well, for a closed runway, it’s been very active the last two weeks”.  Today the Museum adds a new aircraft to their collection, C-17A Globemaster III (T-1) (SN 00025), T-1 made it’s first flight on September 15, 1991 and today it’s retiring to be part of the Museum collection...

Tora! Tora! Tora! at Oshkosh from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The “Tora! Tora! Tora!” aerial re-enactment of the events of Dec. 7, 1941 — one of the most dazzling warbird airshow performances flying today — will be part of the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh afternoon warbird shows for the first time this summer...

Warbirds migrating: B-25 co-pilot in Minot helping get warbirds ready for show ... - Minot Daily News | The 70th anniversary of the raid brought together the largest gathering of B-25 Mitchell bombers since World War II. Caraveo has flown the B-25 for about a year. "I'm pretty new to this warbird business," he said Tuesday. A civilian flight instructor, ...

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TV QandA - Boston Herald | It dealt with the adventures of the men who flew the B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II from a base in England. When the show began, Gen. Savage was in charge of the 918th Bomb Group, but after the first season, he was replaced by Colonel Joe ...

Warbirds migrating: Museum opens May 12 - Minot Daily News | The Texas Flying Legends Museum planes also will be taking part in the July 4 air show, featuring the Canadian Snowbirds, at the Minot International Airport. The Canadian Forces' Snowbirds from Moose Jaw, Sask., are giving a special flood recovery ...

Eerie Canal opens early and transports history - WXXA | The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City needed to make room for the Space Shuttle Enterprise, so a Supermarine Scimitar, a MiG-15, and an F-3d-2 Douglas Skynight, flown by the US Marine Corps during the Korean War, took a trip up the ...

Model builders show their skills at annual fest - NOLA.com | By Earl Hodges Dave Klanica and his two sons, Patrick and Benjamin, roamed from table to table observing the model planes, ships, tanks and cars on display at the recent 19th annual Flying Tigers Scale Model Builders Great South Tiger Fest...

If you thought the Presidential helicopter had tinted windows, you were wrong from David Cenciotti | ...I’ve always thought most VIP vehicles, cars and helicopters had tinted windows. First of all because they are cool. Second, for quite obvious security reasons: even if those are bulletproff windows, you might not want a sniper know where the very important person is sitting.  However, he might still guess his position, since interiors are very well known....

Lagoon unveils new ride "Air Race" - ksl.com | Amusement park enthusiasts got a sneak peek at Lagoon's newest ride "Air Race" on Thursday. "Air race, new for 2012, features stadium seating on all the cars," said Lagoon Marketing Department spokesman Adam Leishman...

XV-15 Tiltrotor - Kamov Helicopters | Two XV-15s were built, die first flying on 3 May 1977. One was demonstrated at the 1995 Paris Air Show alongside a V-22 Osprey. Flight testing continued until 1998 and eventually encompassed 530 flight hours in the hands of more than 185 ...

X-15A-3 from The Unwanted Blog | The most advanced variant of the X-15 that stood a fair chance of getting built was the X-15A-3. Where the X-15A-2 was a stretched version of the X-15, with increased internal propellant tankage and additional external tankage, the A-3 would have been stretched even further. Additionally, the wings...

Leonard Nimoy to Space Shuttle Enterprise: "Live Long and Prosper" from Spaceports | Leonard Nimoy, the Science Officer of the fictional Starship Enterprise, along with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, salute the Space Shuttle Enterprise during the ceremonies in New York City Friday, April 27, 2012...

Astronaut to Visit Fort Bragg Elementary School Monday - Patch.com | He was the top graduate of his flight class and was designated an Army aviator in June 1976. McArthur subsequently served as an aeroscout team leader and brigade aviation section commander with the 2nd Infantry Division in the Republic of Korea...

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Welcome to the new air show - Sun-Sentinel | The Lauderdale Air Show — successor to the wildly popular Air & Sea Show — comes to the beach this weekend, five years after the last performance of the old show. The good news: No city tax dollars are being spent on the show, with the cost of over ...

Beach packed for Air Show practice - Local 10 | Spectators thronged Fort Lauderdale Beach on Friday afternoon to welcome back the Air Show after a hiatus since 2007. The show in the sky appears to have been missed. "It's so fantastic to have the Air Show back. We've been waiting for this for years, ...

High Flying Acts Land At Robins Air Force Base - 13WMAZ | Around 10:00 am, Thursday morning, six of the Blue Angels landed at the base, but not without doing a few twist and turns in the sky. They came to the base from Pensacola. Leaders from Houston County were on hand to welcome the airmen to Central ...

The Spitfire and Mustang which will be on show at Old Buckenham Airshow on June 24 - Norwich Evening News | By dominic bareham Two of the world's most iconic fighters will be gracing the skies over a Norfolk village on June 24 when an airshow returns after a year off. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below....

Red Arrows flying back for air show - Clacton and Frinton Gazette | THE world-famous Red Arrows will be returning to Clacton this summer for the town's 21st air show. The display team will perform on the second day of the event on August 24. It was forced to pull out of the show last year following the death of Flight ...

P-38 'Glacier Girl' Returns To Oshkosh In 2012 from Aero-News Network | Appearance Celebrates The 20th Anniversary Of The Iconic Plane's Recovery The Lockheed P-38 Glacier Girl, the fearsome twin-boom fighter aircraft that has become one of the world’s most well-known warbirds since its rescue from the Greenland ice cap in 1992, will return to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture on the 20th anniversary of its first public appearance.

Holleder posthumously awarded Distinguished Service Cross from Stars and Stripes | Pat Tillman and Don Holleder played football well enough to draw the interest of NFL teams. Like Tillman, Holleder - a generation earlier - opted for military service. Both died in the line of duty in a far away land.

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Russia’s Golden Eagles helicopter pilots group celebrates 20th anniversary from AVIATION-NEWS by Marcel van Leeuwen | Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the Golden Eagles, the pilots group that is the symbolic calling card of the Russian helicopter industry. Based at the Russian Army’s Flight Training Centre in Torzhok, the Golden Eagles are one of the few helicopter pilots groups anywhere in the world to perform flight acrobatics in both the [...]

Local WWII vets prep for Honor Flight missions - Tbo.com | About 900 World War II vets die every day; today there are about 2.9 million left. About 81000 have been thanked for their service by being invited on one-day Honor Flights to see the monuments of Washington. DC, especially the ones dedicated to their ...

World War II Military Transport Plane, C-47 Dakota, Makes Final Leg of Voyage April 27-28 to New Home at Fantasy of Flight from State Aviation Journal by Kim Stevens | POLK CITY, Fla. (April 27, 2012) - After a nine-month layover at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a World War II C-47 Dakota, will make the final leg of its voyage this weekend to its new home at Central Florida's Fantasy of Flight, home to the world's largest private collection of rare and vintage planes. Fantasy of Flight creator and founder Kermit Weeks purchased the plane, also known as the Skytrain, last year from a private owner in the U.K. and began ...

The Sonex, a Back to Basics Kit-Built Airplane from Flight Monkeys | It’s called the Sonex. It’s a kit plane, which means you build it yourself. Much like the models you built as a kid, this one comes in a multitude of pieces, with an instruction manual that tells you which tab goes in which slot, and what type of glue you should use to hold the whole thing together...

The Spirit of Santa Monica - airspacemag.com | Between 1920 and 1975, Donald Douglas’ company—and a southern California city—helped shape aviation history.

Que Sera Sera from per Ardua ad Astra by Grant Piper | In the past I have written often about aspects of the sport of aerobatics, and alluded to whether it is, or should be, made into a form of public entertainment.   This may seem like heresy to those of us that participate in the sport, and naturally wish that we can evangelically ‘spread the word’ and show our sport to the world (big note ourselves?).   Do not for a minute think that I don’t also want this, or that I wish the sport to be (some would say, remain) ‘exclusive’!   In contrast, I want to make the sport more accessible to all those people and pilots out there who want the opportunity to participate....

Shuttle Enterprise's final journey - CNN.com Video | Space shuttle Enterprise flies past the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks on the way to its new home at the Intrepid.

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Thunderbirds and thunderstorms: Keep your eye on the sky this weekend - Sun-Sentinel | Kevin Sullivan, the West Palm Beach-based air boss, said the show could be halted if the cloud cover becomes too low or visibility too poor. "If there is rain of a significant nature, we will delay the show until it's clear," he said...

CBS4 Rides Along On A U.S. Air Force Thunderbird - CBS Miami | CBS4's Vanessa Borge gets the ride of her life during a ride-along with a member of the elite U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, the headline act at this weekend's Lauderdale Air Show...

F-22 Demo Team talks about weekend show - The Warner Robins Patriot | The f-22 Raptor. Two F-22s landed at Robins yesterday after a brief display of the speed and maneuverability of the high-tech aircraft. Various community dignitaries were on-hand to see the aircraft and speak with the men who pilot them...

'All you need to know' for this weekend's Robins AFB Open House and Air Show - The Warner Robins Patriot | by Gene Rector Here's what you need to know about this weekend's Robins Air Force Base Open House and Air Show. First, it will be a spectacular feast of sight, sound and patriotism … a chance to roam the flight line, rest in the shade of a massive C-5 ...

Planes of Fame Airshow Preview from Photorecon | On May 5th and 6th, the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino California is going to open its hangar doors and roll out some of the finest examples of restored aircraft in flying condition from years past.  This year’s airshow honors the turning of the tide in the Pacific in 1942.  The airshow [...]

Peoria air show won't happen in early June, if at all - Peoria Journal Star | By JOHN SHARP There will be no PNC Air Show along the Peoria riverfront in early June, as originally planned. It could be another week before an announcement of an alternative date is made or if the show will be canceled this summer...

Win a seat at Tennessee Air Show - Murfreesboro Post | NASHVILLE - Social Flights, the fastest-growing, web-based private aviation network in the US, is holding a drawing for two sets of tickets for two to The Great Tennessee Air Show. The Great Tennessee Air Show runs May 12-13 at the Smyrna Airport in ...

United we fall: US Army parachute team thrives on heights and violent speeds - ReporterNews.com | Set to perform today at the Dyess Big Country AirFest, this elite group of parachute performers went into the skies above Abilene on Friday to rehearse their routine. As they plummet toward the earth, group members interlock in elaborate formations ...

RNZAF celebrates 75th anniversary - Stuff | Swords were drawn and bayonets fixed as the ceremonial flags flew high through the streets of Auckland this morning as the Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated their 75th anniversary....

Hot-air balloon festival canceled - Andrews Journal |  The Up, Up in the Air Fair scheduled for Saturday, June 2, will be put off for another year to give the Andrews Chamber of Commerce more time and better financial footing to ...

B-25 crowd helps area businesses - Springfield News Sun | The event saw 20 B-25 Mitchell bombers and their crews fly into the city to honor the Doolittle Raiders. The 12000 visitors didn't include hundreds of additional visitors who stood outside the air field as the bombers departed for a ceremony at the ...

Vintage Wings of Canada launches flight season - Canadian Skies | The organization brings together aviators and aviation enthusiasts, who maintain a fleet and participate in flight activities and the promotion of Canada's aviation heritage. It offers educational programs and guided tours (by reservation only) of its ...

Pearse's first attempt to fly 'was in 1909' - Stuff.co.nz | The would-be aviator's attempts to fly in 1909-10 came to nothing and newspapers at the time said Pearse struggled to accomplish anything other than short hops into the air. Martyn notes that Pearse bought a farm near Milton, south of Dunedin, ...

Bristol Aero Collection: Storage sought - BBC News | The exhibits charting 100 years of the city's aviation history must leave the hangar where they are currently displayed in November, when the lease runs out. The exhibition closes to the public on 28 May to give a working party six months to pack it ...

Planning continues for new USAF Airman Heritage Museum from AVIATION-NEWS by Rob Vogelaar | JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — Efforts are underway to expand the Air Force’s enlisted heritage museum here. The Lackland Gateway Heritage Foundation plans to modernize the USAF Airman Heritage Museum with a new facility to be located on what is becoming Lackland AFB’s Heritage Campus. The site location, at the North end of the [...]

Podcast: 'Hell Above Earth' from AVweb Top News | A new nonfiction book by Stephen Frater unearths a twisting tale about a B-17 bomber pilot of German descent who flew for the U.S. in World War II, the co-pilot under secret orders from the FBI to kill him, and the lasting friendship they shared despite all the intrigue. Frater spoke with AVweb's Mary Grady about how he tracked down the story.

British Invasion from Randy's Journal | ...All of our Dream Tour stops have been wildly popular, but seeing the passion for the airplane here in Britain for myself was something special....

Waterway to open early for historic aircraft - Schenectady Gazette | State Canal Corp. officials will be opening the locks along the Mohawk three days early so the Skyknight and two other historic warbirds can pass through the system en route to their final home at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville...

Final Langley F-22 arrives in Virginia from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Here is tail number 10-4194, the penultimate Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor built for the US Air Force arriving at Joint Base Langley-Eustis near Hampton Roads, Virginia. It was flown in from the...

50 Ways to Space Out - airspacemag.com | Looking for ways to celebrate a half century of spaceflight? Here's fifty of 'em.

Sonic Cruiser returns, quietly from Flightblogger by Stephen Trimble | You thought the Sonic Cruiser was dead -- sacrificed more than nine years ago for the 787-yielding Super Efficient. Maybe you also thought Boeing was never really...

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USS Intrepid Hit By Norwegian Star Before Space Shuttle Enterprise Flyover - Huffington Post | "This morning at approximately 8:30 am, a Norwegian Cruise ship grazed Pier 86, the home of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as it was turning to pull into Pier 88," an Intrepid staffer confirmed in an e-mail to DNAinfo.com....

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Yes, Those Are the US Air Force Thunderbirds Flying Over Fort Lauderdale - Broward-Palm Beach New Times | If you are complaining about the noise as much as some of my colleagues are, you have no fun in your life and need desperately to go to the Fort Lauderdale Airshow this weekend. Because this is awesome. The show goes from noon until 4 on Saturday and ...

Lauderdale Air Show Opens With Parachute Landing of 101st Airborne at W Fort ... - MarketWatch | The four-hour lineup on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29 features: Black Diamond Jet Team, GEICO Skytypers, US Navy Seal Leapfrogs, 2011 Freestyle Aerobatic World Champion Rob Holland, a US Coastguard Search & Rescue demonstration and the ...

The Lauderdale Air Show is back with a roar - MiamiHerald.com | After a five-year hiatus, the Lauderdale Air Show returns this weekend. A pair of Air Force Thunderbirds planes criss-cross in the skies over Fort Lauderdale Beach during the last Air Show, in May 2007. BY ADAM H. BEASLEY When the Fort Lauderdale Air ...

WWII reunion in Bangor draws interest, adds air show - Bangor Daily News | The June 16 reunion banquet is being relocated to Bangor Auditorium to accommodate the public, and the four-day event will include a free air show by the Texas Flying Tigers. Reunions of the 5th Armored in Bangor in 1984 and 1995 went so well that ...

Warbirds enthrall crowd at Alva Regional Airport - Alva Review-Courier | Those warbirds represented nearly half of the remaining B-25s still in flying condition. In addition to the four Raiders, two World War II sailors from the USS Hornet attended the reunion. The sailors served on the aircraft carrier on April 18, 1942, ...

Zero on your six! - Bob Burns (submitted photo) | This is one of those serendipity moments.  While shooting the B-25's departing Grimes Field at sunrise for the flight down to the National Museum of the USAF at Dayton, Ohio I got this shot of Betty's Dream with the Nakajima A6M2 Model 21 Zero in a classic fighters pursuit curve.  If this had been a real WW II situation, the Zero was coming up on Betty's "six", and it would have been an easy target.  Oh yeah, I didn't even know I got the Zero in the picture.  I was concentrating on the B-25 takeoffs, and wasn't aware that the Zero had returned to the area after its takeoff.  Bob b

Eyes to the skies for Diamond Jubilee flypast - Get Surrey | By Jennifer Maxfield RESIDENTS of Surrey should cast their eyes to the skies next Wednesday (May 2) to witness the historic flypast of an RAF Tucano. For the first time the plane will show off its new colour scheme which has been designed to mark the ...

Captain Jim Baker from Rand Peck, A Life Aloft | I'm sorry to have to announce that Captain Jim Baker died just a couple of days ago, 25 April 2012. Jim was a Korean War, Marine veteran who was hired by Northeast Airlines in 1957. Jim was also the BOS Chief Pilot for Delta Airlines when he retired in 1993. Not ready to hang up his flight bag just yet, Jim became the Director of Flight Operations at Lawrence, MA based King Air Charters and later at the New Pan Am based in Portsmouth, NH....

Flying Through the Hurricane Eye from TAKEOFF TUBE

Me (avgeek toddler) Checking Out The May 1962 Flying Magazine (Circa 1963) from AirPigz by Martt | Finding my granddad's Private Pilot license issued on August 18, 1945 was really cool, but I also recently found this pic of me at about 2-1/2 years of age checking out the May 1962 issue of Flying magazine! Yep it's true, I...

Aviation Museum Educational Summer Camps Filling Up Fast - Cape May County Herald | By Press Release Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum and The Federal Aviation Administration will again partner to host an Aviation Career Education “ACE” Summer Academy. The full day ACE camp will run one week only, July 9-13, 2012, ...

Young Eagles Rally postponed - Albert Lea Tribune | The Young Eagles Flight Rally planned for Saturday at the Albert Lea Airport has been postponed to May 12 because of weather. On that day young people ages 8-17 will have a chance to take to the skies from 8 am to noon.

Virgin Galactic is looking for a few good pilots from AviationWeek.com Business Aviation Channel | Faced with tight budgets, Joint Strike Fighter partners are increasing pressure on the U.S. to share...

Space Station Trio Lands Safely In Kazakhstan from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | Three members of the Expedition 30 crew undocked from the International Space Station and safely returned to Earth on Friday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month mission in space.

“Full-scale mockup of Space Shuttle Orbiter Constitution... from x planes | More here.

Photos: Shuttle arrives in New York

Shuttle Enterprise puts on an air show in NYC - USA TODAY | From the Kennedy tower, air traffic controllers told the shuttle craft: "Welcome to New York, and thanks for the show." A little earlier, as the shuttle passed Manhattan, people gathered on rooftops to gawk. It was chased through the air by a NASA ...

NASA ready to move shuttle Enterprise to New York - CNN | New York (CNN) -- Space shuttle Enterprise will fly past the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks Friday as it heads to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. The shuttle will be mounted atop a NASA 747 for the flight ...

Space Shuttle Enterprise – The Orbiter that started it all from NASASpaceFlight.com by Chris Bergin | For 30 years, the Space Shuttle orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour wowed millions with their thunderous climbs to orbit, their graceful orbital dances with satellites, Hubble, MIR, and the International Space Station, and their tell-tale twin sonic booms that announced their landings back on Earth – landings that would not have been as smooth as they were if not for the help of their sister vehicle that very experienced space: OV-101 Enterprise...

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Snowbirds Arrive for 2012 Training - CTV Vancouver Island | COMOX – Pilots and technicians associated with the Canadian Forces Snowbirds team touched down at 19 Wing Comox this afternoon in preparation for their 2012 spring training session. The team is based in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan but travel to the Comox ...

VIDEO: Vulcan takes test flight in Lincolnshire to prepare for 60th anniversary - This is Lincolnshire | Vulcan XH558 is the only complex ex-RAF aircraft now in civilian hands and its team have been working tirelessly to renew its permit to fly which has come just in time for a flypast at Newark Air Museum on Saturday. The Vulcan will make a guest ...

Aircraft association hosts bomber tours - Napa Valley Register | “Aluminum Overcast,” the Experimental Aircraft Association's restored B-17 bomber, will descend upon Napa beginning on May 4 as part of its 2012 “Salute to Veterans” national tour. Flight and ground tours will be available at Napa County Airport May ...

Working on the line. C-54s from Planeshots

Pitts Special – Stuart Saward from Airstrike Aviation Photography by Justin | Aircraft: ZU-PIG Pitts Special S1-11B | Pilot: Stuart Saward

Silk from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | ...This week marked the 93rd anniversary of the first parachute jump with the chute deployed by a ripcord.  The inventor was also the tester, which makes sense when you think about it. Leslie L. “Skyhigh” Irvin was in control and remained in free fall until he decided to pull the cord and open the chute.  Prior to this historic jump in 1919 over McCook Field in Ohio, a parachute was ... The Mustang and RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit are at the FREE (love that!) Robins Air Force Base Air Show in Warner Robins, GA.  Brad Lang, the Squadron leader, is this week’s pilot...

WWII pilot's remains return to southern Illinois - Wisconsin Rapids Tribune | LOUIS (WTW) — The remains of a World War II pilot killed in a midair collision during training over England finally returned to his southern Illinois hometown Thursday, ending a decades-old mystery that might never have been solved had a group not ...

The Honourable Laurie Hawn Attends Launch of the Vintage Wings of Canada ... - MarketWatch | "Our Government congratulates the organization's members and volunteers on their activities and initiatives, which serve to inspire new generations to discover our aviation heritage." "Our Government is proud to be associated with Vintage Wings of ...

General Atomics Aeronautical MQ-1L Predator No. 3034 — first to strike after 9-11 from Travel for Aircraft | The General Atomics Aeronautical MQ-1L Predator has been flying since 1995 and is a generation beyond the UAVs of the 1980s. This is the first UAV to fly armed and the first to strike for the United States after 9-11. It is a large and powerful craft in its own right with a four cylinder reciprocating pusher engine of 115 hp (86kW) and borne aloft on a 48.7 foot (14.8m) wing. The Predator’s armament of as many as four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles marks it as an attack aircraft, perhaps UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) would be more accurate as a ...

Heinkel HE-219 found in Denmark - politiken.dk | A rare World War II German night-fighter has been recovered in Denmark

Special Tails from Apron 6 | I came across some special tails while editing the Melsbroek opendoor album. So I decided to...

On the day of the air force is measured with the Mini Cooper Robinson helicopter - Pilsner journal (translated) | Peggy Krainz acrobat performs extreme creations on the wings of the aircraft. This year will perform at an airshow in Plasy Author: J. Novotny Plasy - Dancer on the wings of Boeing, Vaclav Pech duel racer behind the wheel of the helicopter Robinson 44 and many ...

Raptors in the Sandbox from Ares by Amy Butler | As tensions between Iran and the U.S. and Israel continue to mount over the former’s pursuit of nuclear weapons technologies, the U.S. has quietly begun a deployment of its premier stealthy fighter, the twin-engine F-22, to the nearby United Arab Emirates...

Preview: Last Raptor to be delivered next Wednesday from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Next Wednesday on 2 May, the US Air Force will formally take delivery of the last F-22 Raptor from Lockheed Martin. Amongst the delegation attending the ceremonies will be 3d Wing commander Col Dirk Smith, 525th Fighter Squadron commander Lt Col Paul "Max" Moga and Lt Col Dave "Piff" Piffarerio--commander of the Air Force Reserve's 302nd Fighter Squadron...

Kadena F-15 video from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | This video commemorates the 67th Fighter Squadron winning the Raytheon Trophy--which is awarded to the best air superiority fighter squadron in a given year. 2011 in this case. The 67th is part of the 18th Wing, commanded by Brigadier General Matt Molloy. Molloy used to command 1st Fighter Wing until the middle of lastyear...

Video: Clayton's Story from AOPA Live: Latest videos from AOPA Live | Clayton's Story thumbnail The story of a pilot who overcame adversity to find new freedom in flying...

End of an Era: World's Last Continental Aircraft Gets United Makeover from ... - Albany Times Union | “We're honored to be a part of this historic moment as we say goodbye to one of the oldest and most celebrated brands in aviation history,” said Mike Manclark, President and CEO, LEAS. “Since before WWII, Continental has been a part of the American ...

Space Academy takes flight - Delmarva Now | ... science-and math-loving campers the opportunity to go behind the scenes at NASA Wallops Flight Facility to see firsthand the fascinating work that goes on there, as well as to learn about robotics and rocketry in a hands-on way in a laboratory...

NASA Astronaut To Visit Roxborough Schools For Space Day from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | NASA astronaut James Dutton, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, will relive his spaceflight experience for two Roxborough schools during their Space Day events on May 2 and May 4...

How Nerds Named NASA's Space Shuttle Enterprise from SPACE.com | Trekkies convinced president Ford to change the name of the first space shuttle.

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Blue Angels, F-22 touch down at Robins - Macon Telegraph | Pilots and supporting officers with the Blue Angels walk over to be greeted by dignitaries after landing at Robins Air Force Base on Thursday in preparation of this weekend's air show.

Thunderbirds Perform at Defenders of Liberty Air Show - KLAS-TV | The Thunderbirds performed this past weekend at the Defenders of Liberty Air Show at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The Thunderbirds F-16 Fighting Falcons performed aerial maneuvers high above the crowd gathered at the base.

Dakota Meyer co-pilots 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Harrier over Louisville ... - Marines.mil | From Medal of Honor recipient to Marine co-pilot, Sgt. Dakota L. Meyer flew back seat in a Marine Harrier over his home-state of Kentucky during the 2012 Thunder Over Louisville air show April 21, 2012. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point based ...

Planes of Fame Airshow to host special preview event - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | The 2012 County of San Bernardino Planes of Fame Airshow begins May 4 with a special preview event. The only way to be a part of this '2012 Airshow Preview' event is to visit Planes of Fame Air Museum from 10 am to 5 pm at 7000 Merrill Ave., #17, ...

Final Preparations For Bethpage Air Show Under Way - Long Island Exchange | (Bethpage, NY) With just four weeks remaining until the Bethpage Air Show, Long Islanders are gearing up for what has come to be known as “Long Island's Greatest Show.” The 9th Annual Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach, which each year draws in large ...

High Flying Acts Land At Robins Air Force Base - 13WMAZ | ... it's forward momentum, turn 180 degrees and go back in the opposite direction." The show kicks off Saturday at 11:15 and will continue through Sunday. For more information on the schedule go to this website http://www.robins.af.mil/airshow/index.asp.

Manassas Airshow Preparing for Takeoff - Patch.com | This year's lineup includes the US Golden Knights Parachute Team leaping out of airplanes performing stunts and world famous National Aerobatic Champion, Sean D. Tucker and his Oracle Challenger III high performance bi-plane. The event, also touted as ...

PNC Air Show 2012 facing countdown to cover costs - Peoria Journal Star | Organizers of the PNC Air Show 2012 are exploring options to keep the annual aviation extravaganza scheduled as planned, ...

Explosive ordnance Marines heat up for air show - Marines.mil | Cherry Point explosive ordnance disposal Marines plan to put on a big bang and ignite a 1000-foot wall of fire for the 150000 spectators expected at the 2012 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Air Show May 4 – 6. The Marines executed a down-sized ...

The Big Muddy Short Course from The Big Muddy Air Race by Sam Hoskins | The short course is a shorter version of the long course.  Imagine that. Aircraft with a forecast speed of 110 mph or less will have a 66 nm run. for the Big Muddy...

Mig-29 crashes during Bulgarian – US Air Force exercise: a dramatic photo sequence shows the mishap from David Cenciotti | On Apr. 26, 2012, a Bulgarian MiG-29UB (“11″ white), involved in the Thracian Star 2012 exercise with the U.S. Air Force F-16s from Aviano, crashed into a river between the southern villages of Tsarimir and Golyam Chardak near Plovdiv, in Bulgaria...

Vid Of The Day: Two F-35 Fighters Fly In Perfect Formation To Rock Music - Business Insider | Lockheed Martin emailed us this latest F-35 launch video, featuring two F-35C variants flying in formation over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. "We currently do not have a version of this video without the music. Enjoy!

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CHINO: Planes of Fame Air Show relives WWII - Press-Enterprise | BY FIELDING BUCK The Planes of Fame Air Museum will turn back the clock 70 years for its annual air show, May 5-6. Activities include panel discussions with veterans along with fly-overs, wing-walking and aerobatics. Attendees can also look in on 1972...

Amazing Aerobatic Pilots Practice Risky Maneuvers - CBS Local | Spectators will also be able to marvel at a number of other aerobatic acts, including the grace and magic of Rob Holland, 2011 Freestyle Aerobatic World Champion and Aerobatic Champion Mike Wiskus in the Lucas Oil Pitts. Both Holland and Wiskus took to ...

Fort Lauderdale Air Show, Taste of Mexico Festival Attract Thousands to Fort ... - PR Web | More than 10000 travelers are heading to the Inaugural Lauderdale Air Show and the Taste of Mexico Festival this weekend in Fort Lauderdale. Rather than compete for overpriced hotel rooms, many visitors are booking private vacation rentals through Fort ...

Red Arrows will return to Clacton Air Show this summer - Clacton and Frinton Gazette | THE world famous Red Arrows will be returning to Clacton this summer for the town's 21st air show. The display team will perform on the second day of the popular event on August 24. It was forced to pull out of the show last year following the death of ...

Flyover crowns day of celebrations - Ynetnews | Bases in the north enjoyed an aerobatic performance and in Jerusalem the air force saluted the 120 soldiers who received an award for excellence from President Shimon Peres. Hercules transport aircrafts contacted the president as they flew over his ...

Glacier Girl to Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Recovery at AirVenture from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | The Lockheed P-38 Glacier Girl, the fearsome twin-boom fighter that has become one of the world's most well-known warbirds since its rescue from the Greenland ice cap in 1992, will return to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture on the 20th anniversary of its first public appearance. The aircraft, which began flying in 2002 after a 10-year restoration, will be part of the weeklong activities at "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration," July 23-29 at Wittman Regional Airport.

Group Aircraft Arrival Schedule Set from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | One of the most popular precursors to EAA AirVenture is the mass arrival of aircraft groups to Oshkosh's Wittman Regional Airport. Arriving en masse allows kindred aircraft to set up group camping areas in the North 40, which would be logistically impossible if they arrived separately.

Pilot ends global ultralight trip - BigPond News | In collaboration with Penn State University in the United States, the plane maker was awarded NASA's Green Aviation prize in 2011 after flying a different, electric aircraft 200 miles (320km) in less than two hours using the equivalent in electricity...

Planning continues for new Airman Heritage Museum from Air Force Link Top Stories | Efforts are underway to expand the Air Force's enlisted heritage museum here. The Lackland Gateway Heritage Foundation plans to modernize the USAF Airman Heritage Museum with a new facility to be located on what is becoming Lackland AFB's Heritage Campus. The site location, at the North end of the parade ground, has been approved and the project programming has begun; it establishes September 2017 as the opening date for the new museum-learning center....

Going Vertical - airspacemag.com | When pilots Jim Harley (front seat) and Air & Space contributor Larry Lowe took up Betty Jane, a TP-51C Mustang last weekend, they decided to...

National Air Olympics (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV

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Meet C-17 pilot Capt. Lauren Ross, featured in "Rescue," during IMAX Theatre's Ladies in Leadership Day from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Capt. Lauren Ross, the U.S. Air Force C-17 pilot featured in the film, will be hosting special screenings of "Rescue" at the IMAX Theatre at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. She and other area female leaders will be on hand to speak about their careers, discuss how they got to where they are today, and answer questions. Ross will also hand out autographed pictures...

Did aviator's famed plane make historic landing in Carmarthenshire? - This is South Wales | Southern Cross was an early airliner flown by Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In it, he made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928, and was greeted on his arrival in Brisbane, Australia, by a crowd of 25000.

PCDU Episode 86: One Fine Day at Parafield from Plane Crazy Down Under | Thanks to OzRunways, Steve was able to get to Adelaide to cover the Parafield Airshow 2012...

Three Emmy Nominations for "The Restorers"

Three Emmy Nominations Nominations Galore for "The Restorers" Today the 2012 Emmy nominations were announced and The Restorers - They Were All Volunteers collected a total of three categories.  We would like to thank Western Reserve PBS for airing our film, supporting us and educating the public about aviation history.  Our pilot episode for our new series was nominated in the following categories: Best Writing  -  Technical Achievement  -  Best Documentary My sincere thanks to all who have helped us create our new series, and supported us throughout the years.  Now, there's only two tasks remaining.....Emmy wins in June and production of our full series.  All ahead full!! Hemlock Films Phone: 216-496-5013   /   Email: info@hemlockfilms.com Website: http://www.HemlockFilms.com