Howard Pardue Dies in Bearcat Crash - Flying Magazine | A former Marine Corps pilot and instructor, Pardue was a veteran Reno air racer, airshow performer and member of an historical tribute flying team, the Navy Legacy Flight team, which performs formation flights with front line Navy 
fighters of today...
Howard Pardue…Gone West from classicwarbirds.net by davebudd
On April 4, 2012 just after 2PM, Howard Pardue left us before his time had come. He was 77 years young. His XF8F-1 Bearcat NL14HP crashed shortly after takeoff from Breckenridge Texas. We send our sincerest condolences from the staff here at PhotoRecon to his family and friends and we shall remember him in our prayers....
BREAKING: NTSB to provide investigative update on Air Race crash - KRNV My News 4
WASHINGTON, DC – (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will provide an investigative update on the fatal crash of a modified Mustang P-51D airplane during the 2011 National Championship Air ...
Red Steel Jet Team to headline ShrinersFest - Evansville Courier & Press | Last year, ShrinersFest organizers scrambled to make up for the last minute loss of the Blue Angels, which canceled due to emergency training issues. The Blue Angels are scheduled to return to Evansville next year, said Brian Ball, Hadi spokesman...
2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show Scavenger Hunt ‘Discover’ the Heritage - DVIDS | Participate in the 2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show Scavenger Hunt “Discover” the Heritage, April 16-April 22, without leaving the comfort of your personal Facebook page.This scavenger hunt will be conducted utilizing various Facebook pages ran by units of MCAS Cherry Point, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Community Services Cherry Point, other official military pages and air show performer pages...
Air show fireworks training scheduled for Thursday - New Bern Sun Journal | CHERRY POINT – Residents near the air station can expect to see and hear fireworks about 8 pm Thursday as practice begins for the 2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show scheduled for May 4-6. Cherry Point's explosive ordinance disposal team will conduct night ...
LATEST NEWS: Red Arrows will return to Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | The distinctive aircraft of the RAF display team are scheduled to fly on both the Saturday and Sunday of airshow weekend. Sunderland City Council leader Paul Watson said: “The Red Arrows are the RAF's premier display team and they have a track record ...
Red Arrows return to resort's air show - This is Bristol | THE Red Arrows will return to Weston-super-Mare this summer at the resort's annual air show. The Royal Air Force aerobatic team, right, will perform on day one of the two-day show, which is being organised by the owners of the resort's Grand Pier and ...
Russian Knights to get new jets - The Voice of Russia | Russian aerobatic performance demonstration teams, the “Russian Knights” and “Swifts,” will get new jets in the upcoming years, an air forces official told journalists who today attended the Knights' anniversary show. He added the teams may switch to ...
Academy parachute team breaks own record from Air Force Times - News | AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — The Air Force Wings of Blue Parachute Demonstration Team has set another record, the Air Force Academy said.
WW2 flying museum comes to Grayson County - KXII-TV | The "Wings of Freedom" tour lets people see WW2 planes up close and inside. Today Jalah Gray talked with a few local veterans who came to see the planes they flew in many years ago. "Any of the WW2 planes that are restored it kind of hits ya right here ...
P-38 Lightning topic of Planes of Fame Museum program - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The Lightning flight demonstration will be at noon. Eight veterans of the 475th Fighter Group will present the group's history and their stories of courage and sacrifice, as well as their experience flying one of America's premier fighters...
Anniversary of the Lady Be Good’s demise and her heroic crew from Travel for Aircraft | The Consolidated B-24D Liberator known as “Lady Be Good” was lost in the night upon returning to base 
during a bombing mission over Naples Italy on this date in April 1943. The crew of nine bailed out of the aircraft and likely in good, short order since they landed near each other and eight were able to quickly rendezvous — one perished due to a failed parachute. The Lady Be Good flew on into the night gradually losing altitude until making an unpiloted crash landing in the remote Libyan desert terrain...
Doolittle Raid airman honored in Missoula - KAJ18 Kalispell Montana News | MISSOULA - Seventy years ago this month, 16 B-25 bombers made the first air raid on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the raiders is from Missoula and Wednesday afternoon he was honored at Fort Missoula. David Thatcher is one of the five ...
Podcast: Texas Tornado “Warbird Update” from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | WARBIRD RADIO – Charlie Wood joins Zane Adams tonight on the WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE with a full update on the tornadoes that struck Texas...
Air Racers 3D Movie Opens Today from AVweb Top News | A new 3D film currently scheduled for a handful of IMAX theaters offers unique visual perspectives of the Reno Air Races, good engine noise and a bit of aviation history. The filmloosely follows Steve Hinton, Jr.'s 2009 bid to succeed his father's record as the youngest pilot to win the Unlimited Gold championship at the races in the modified P-51, Strega. Filming was done at...
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Fancy your own helicopter gunship? from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | It may not be as technologically gee-whiz as a current-model Apache, but if you're so inclined (and moderately
well-heeled), you can own a Vietnam War-era 'Huey', a Bell UH-1E model helicopter gunship. It must be one of the more unusual auctions in eBay's recent experience!...Diary of a Spy - airspacemag.com | Events that made the U-2 the world's most famous player in the game of espionage....
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