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Blue Angels fly into Kingsville for “Wings Over Texas” air show - Corpus Christi Caller Times | The Blue Angels are like NASCAR on a Red Bull rush. The Angels, the United States Navy's acrobatic air team, headline the Wings Over South Texas air show that runs Saturday and Sunday at Kingsville Naval Air Station. Flying F-18 Hornets, ...

Blue Angels Arrive in South Texas - KIII TV3 | Rob Holland, Kent Peet, Leap Frogs parachute team, full of great aviation to come and watch," says Captain Greg McWherter Commanding Officer of the 2012. The Wings Over South Texas show is in Kingsville this Saturday and Sunday...

Cockpit footage - You Like Airplanes too? | More cockpit footage goodness. This time, ride along with the Patriot Jet Team over San Francisco!

Win tickets to Yeovilton Airshow - Exmouth Journal | To enter the competition, simply answer the following question: The airshow is celebrating which landmark event? Airshow Competition, Archant South West, Fair Oak Close, Exeter Airport Business Park, Clyst Honiton, EX5 2UL. Alternatively enter online...

Harvards join Princeton Air Show - Similkameen Spotlight | By Michaela Garstin - Similkameen Spotlight Another type of aircraft has been added to the lineup at the Princeton International Air Show this summer. The iconic North American Harvard, a Second World War air force trainer, returns to Princeton on July ...

Rockford AirFest Honoring Heroes program seeks nominees - Rockford Register Star | By Laura Roberts The Rockford AirFest Honoring Heroes program is seeking nominees who have contributed to the defense of the country or community improvement. Nominees can be members of the military or civilians and could include teachers, firefighters ...

Russian jet to penetrate Britain's defences two decades after collapse of the... - Daily Mail | But two decades after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, a weapon-laden Russian jet will finally penetrate our state-of-the-art air defences... for the Royal International Air Tattoo. Military aircraft from both countries will engage in a fierce battle ...

Marrakech Airshow 2012: The display team of the French Air Force was a great success from Aeronautique.ma | The display team of the French Air Force ( EVAA ) participates in the third edition of Marrakec ...

New Website - Misty Blues | We are excited to announce our preliminary 2012 schedule. We still have a few dates open but it is shaping up as a great season and we look forward to performing at some of our favorite shows! We...

100th Anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps from Aviation.ca News | The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was established April 13, 1912 and operated until April 1, 1918 when all of Britian’s air operations were amalgamated into the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Indio pilot still holds speed record but wishes he didn't - The Desert Sun | Inducted into the Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 1997 for air racing, Greenamyer is undoubtedly one of the most successful pilots of our time, nabbing championships in the 1960s, '70s and '90s. But success is relative. And oftentimes, the successful see ...

100 SC WWII Vets Take Honor Flight To Washington D.C. - WSAV-TV | One hundred South Carolina World War II veterans flew to Washington DC Wednesday for a 14-hour day that included some fascinating stops. The vets, six from the Lowcountry, toured the World War II Memorial, Vietnam and Korean War memorial, ...

News of Doolittle raid leaks slowly as Roosevelt keeps silence - Washington Times | In reality, most of the 80 Doolittle Raiders bailed out over China or crashed near the coast after taking off from the USS Hornet more than 600 miles from Japan. Other officials were quoted in the same Times story praising the raid, which confirmed the ...

Gathering of B-25s from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | 70yrs ago, a gallant group of young men volunteered for a mission they didn’t even know what they were volunteering for. Once on board the Hornet, they found out they would be launching in the B-25s they had been training in to bomb mainland Japan. The Doolittle raid...

Five survivors of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders recall daring sortie - Washington Times | By Ben Wolfgang Edward Saylor still vividly remembers the Chinese boy who helped save his life. In the days after his plane crashed into the waters just off China's coast, Mr. Saylor, now 92, and four other Doolittle Tokyo Raiders were desperate and ...

Doolittle Raiders recommend the first movie - Washington Times | By Ben Wolfgang Ben Affleck (center) in “Pearl Harbor” portrays one of two Army Air Corps officers who survive the Japanese sneak attack and join the Doolittle Raiders later in the 2001 movie. In reality, all of the Tokyo Raiders were elsewhere on Dec...

B-17 coming for July 4 - Ludington Daily News | The Ludington Area Jaycees Freedom Festival 2012 will include a part of World War II history when a restored B-17 bomber flies over the Grand Parade on July 4. “The B-17 is going to do three flyovers instead of one and it will be coming in low and slow ...

Helicopter pilot speaking at Embry-Riddle's Veterans Appreciation Day - news-journalonline.com | Vietnam veteran and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumnus Sanford "Sandy" N. Kaplan will be the guest speaker Tuesday for Veterans Appreciation Day at the university's Daytona Beach campus. Veterans Appreciation Day will be from 11 a.m. to noon on the west lawn of the campus. The ceremony in addition to Kaplan speaking includes formation by Embry-Riddle ROTC units, presentation of colors by the university's Joint Service Color Guard, a missing man ceremony by ROTC units and an address by Embry-Riddle President John Johnson. A performance will also be given by the Acafellas student group....

Elderly explorer hunts for Earhart remains - The Baylor Lariat | This image provided by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and displayed at a US State Department news conference on March 20 could soon help uncover the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart. Associated Press By Ramit ...

"Seedcorn" UCAP #280 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Guests: Jamie Beckett, Dan Johnson, Dave Shallbetter. Recorded on location from the Sun 'n Fun Radio Deck, at the 2012 Sun 'n Fun Fly-in in Lakeland Florida.

Aviation history goes on sale - Stuff.co.nz | "We thought an auction would be a great way to allow people the chance to have a piece of aviation history while raising money for a very worthy cause," he said. Funds raised will go towards South Auckland-based projects run by the Foundation for Youth ...

Senior pilot Caudell honored for half-century of safe flight - Gulf Breeze News | Gulf Breeze resident Earl Caudell Jr. knows aviation safety is no accident. With more than 5,000 hours – including nearly 600 in combat – he now has bragging rights to prove his point....

Teaching Aviation Citizenship from John and Martha King - Life is good when it's up in the air. by John and Martha | As instructors we have many responsibilities—creating pilots who are great risk managers and truly prepared to be pilot-in-command would be high on the list.  It would seem that teaching good aviation citizenship would come way down this list.  But in my view, teaching aviation citizenship should also be near the top....

Photo: “Check your six”. You’ve got a quadricopter drone behind you from David Cenciotti | That is a nice picture. It was taken on Jan. 12, 2012, at Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland, and shows a TV drone (not a quadricopter but a 8-rotor robocopter) flying beside Canada’s Erick Guay during the second practice of the men’s Alpine skiing World Cup downhill race....

The Space Craze that Gripped Russia Nearly 100 Years Ago - Wired News | The piece focused on two early pioneers of rocketry — the Romanian-German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert Goddard — and their ideas of spaceflight. This led Russians to rediscover their own homegrown rocket scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, ...