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Attendance up, reviews positive as Sun 'n Fun airshow concludes - 13News | Pilots and spectators got to enjoy one more day of flying excitement out at the Sun 'n Fun fly-in and airshow, which wrapped up Sunday in Lakeland. Was it as packed as in years past, even after last year’s tornado touchdown? Sun 'n Fun officials say yes – and in some cases record-breaking...

FlightTime Radio Show 219 from The FlightTime Radio Show | (Charlie) Milford was at Lakeland and Charlie was in the Key Auto Studio. Milford stopped by the Cessna Pavilion to do the FlightTime Radio Broadcast. Milford had several guests from Cessna join him for the show talking about the entire Cessna fleet and history...

Milwaukee Air & Water Show adds F-22 Raptor to its lineup - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Air show officials also announced that General Admission, Center Point Reserved, Flightline Club, and other ticket packages will be available online beginning Monday. Additional headliner performers include the Black Diamonds, America's premier ...

Air Force hires TK World Wide to promote air show - PRWeek | WASHINGTON: The Air Force District of Washington has hired TK World Wide Group to promote the Andrews Air Force Base Air Show, which will take place next month. The firm was the incumbent on the project. The contact is worth more than $112000, ...

Blue Angels Statue of Liberty - KMOV.com | Credit: AP Two US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron jets, better known as Blue Angels, seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ, execute a survey flight over the Statue of Liberty, Monday, April 2, 2012. The two F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Jets, ... 

Video: U.S Navy Blue Angels conduct low-level test flight over Hudson River ... - The Jersey Journal - NJ.com | As part of an aerial survey flight for the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron “Blue Angels”, two F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Jets conducted test runs over the Hudson River between the George Washington and Verrazano Bridges around 10:20 am this morning...

Gold Team kicks off the air show season with Tuscaloosa Alabama! - US Army GK | The Golden Knights have kicked off their 2012 air show season in Tuscaloosa Alabama! This beautiful town home of the Alabama University “Crimson Tide” invited the Gold Demonstration team to perform 4 free fall parachute jumps.  One year ago, the city of Tuscaloosa braved mass devastation due to the multiple tornado outbreaks.  The 70’000 energized spectators clearly proved the strength and pride of a Crimson Tide city; although they are still in the recovering phases of this disaster. The loyalty to their town proved successful with their ability to organize and host a completely free air show....

World War II fighter planes visit Ottawa County - WTOL.com | On Monday, a B-17 bomber and a B-25 bomber were featured at the Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport for pilot training. The planes are normally housed in Michigan, but came to Port Clinton for their first flight of the year. The vintage planes have been ...

Big Sky Honor Flight set to fly in June - KTVQ Billings News | BILLINGS - The next mission for about 90 Montana World War II veterans will be a visit to their memorial in Washington, DC in June. Organizers for Big Sky Honor Flight made the announcement Monday that the first group of Montana World War II veterans ... 

NOVA | Bombing Hitler’s Dams - travelforaircraft | Operation Chastise was the brilliantly planned and executed mission to bomb hydroelectric dams in the Ruhr River valley during WW II in order to deny the Nazi war machine power to produce arms and equipment. The mission was flown during a dark time for the Allies — Japan was moving at will across the Pacific Ocean, the Wermacht was rolling across the USSR and Great Britain struggled to remain relevant in the strategic planning efforts of the Allies....

AOPA kicks off national Keep 'em Flying Challenge - AOPA | While AOPA has numerous initiatives underway to grow the pilot population and support general aviation flying, the most visible over the next few months is the Keep ‘em Flying Challenge that provides a series of rich prizes to GA pilots who get out and fly this summer...

The Flying Cars Are Coming... to the New York Auto Show - Wired News | For the rest of the population there are plenty of ground-bound vehicles to look at this week in New York and lots of plenty of airplanes to see at shows like Airventure in Oshkosh. So the challenge will be to decide whether or not the $279000 ...

Flying Car Unveiled In Holland: Watch It Fly - Huffington Post | A Dutch company has unveiled a flying car, known as a personal air and land vehicle. The car/plane hybrid can fly for up to 315 miles -- a good chunk of highway for a long road trip. Watch it fly in the video above!...

Springville CAP Cadets Take to the Skies from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Experience replaced classroom theory for four Springville Composite Squadron 126 Cadets as they took to the blue skies on a cloudless on a recent Friday morning at Shelby County Airport in Calera, Alabama. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Central Alabama Senior Squadron AL 132 gave cadet orientation rides in a CAP Cessna 182 single-engine plane as part of the cadets Aerospace Education training flights. ...

Administrator Discusses NASA's Future from Aerospace-Defense News | On March 27 at the Washington Aeroclub, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator Charles Bolden discussed the agency's fiscal 2013 budget and how the agency is doing "more with less." Bolden described NASA's 2013 budget request as "healthy," noting that the Department of Defense's budget for space programs "dwarfs NASA's." ..