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About 65000 attend South Texas air show Saturday - Corpus Christi Caller Times | By Mike Baird KINGSVILLE — Robert Scott Gomez, 12, covered his face as light rain drizzled on more than 2500 spectators gathered at 10:30 am Saturday beneath canvas canopies for the Wings Over South Texas air show. "We have an action-packed lineup ...

Weather cuts DM air show crowds, day 2 today - Appleton Post Crescent | (WTW) — Bad weather kept crowds smaller than expected at the first day of the big yearly military airshow in Tucson. But Day 2 of the performances at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base are expected to draw big crowds. The Air Force is encouraging those...

Lauderdale Air Show Returns to Fort Lauderdale | The Lauderdale Air Show, April 28 – 29, 2012, will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds, US Navy F-18 Hornet Demo Team, Navy Seals elite parachute demonstration team, and other military aircraft demonstrations. Don Campion welcomes Michael Goulian to...

Photog Mark Von Raesfeld sure got a nice lens full of the Blue... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith

Tall ships, Blue Angels in store for New Orleans - The Advocate | New Orleans was chosen as the inaugural city for the celebration, which also will feature the Navy's famed Blue Angels in an air show over Lake Pontchartrain 1:30-4 pm Saturday and Sunday. The US Navy's amphibious warship USS Wasp will welcome the tall...

SUNDAY – Thousands Gathering For 70th Doolittle Raiders Reunion - WarbirdRadio.com | An estimated 10,000 people are enjoying the sights and sounds of B-2′s5 flying around Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio. Passenger and practice formation flights have filled the morning and afternoon skies ove...

They’re Heading for Dayton! from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | These are just four of the 20+ B-25s assembling at Grimes and then in Dayton for the week long celebration for...

Remembering Jimmy Doolittle -- a true hero by any measure - The Augusta Chronicle | On April 18, 1942, a small number of B-25 bombers struck Japan. One headline read: “TOKYO BOMBED: DOOLITTLE DOOD IT.” Who was Jimmy Doolittle? What was he like? How did he spend his life after the raid on Japan? One thing is for sure – Alec Baldwin was...

Largest gathering of B-25s since WWII - WDTN | URBANA, Ohio (WDTN) - Saturday's rain didn't put a damper on the largest gathering of WWII B-25 bombers in Urbana. "Barbie III" and dozens of other North American B-25 Mitchell bombers flew into Grimes Field in Urbana Saturday morning...

Historic B-25 Bomber stops in Montana - KAJ18 Kalispell Montana News | B-25 Bombers arrived by rail, and were assembled at Great Falls Army Air Base, now known as Malmstrom. The assembly of bombers was part of Roosevelt's Lend Lease program, where the United States shipped war supplies to our allies...

Goings On At Sonoma Valley Airport (Schellville) from Antique Airfield News | Brian Meuser sent some photos of the recent activity at Sonoma Valley Airport, aka Schellville:...

Knee Deep at Antique Airfield Video from Antique Airfield News | Want to know what it is about the AAA/APM Invitational Fly-in at Antique Airfield near Blakesburg, IA that attracts antique/classic aircraft owners, pilots and enthusiasts from around the country and the world??? Maybe it’s the members only venue, the emphasis on antique/classic aircraft...

SUN ‘n FUN 2012 – Day 6 from Other People's Airplanes | It’s day 6 of SUN ‘n FUN 2012, the final day of this year’s ‘Spring Break For Pilots’. I’m David Allen, and I’m about to take you into the cockpit … of Other People’s Airplanes. For today’s episode, we start at the newly built Fire Hub. A joint venture between the Recreational Aviation Foundation, AOPA, and SUN ‘n FUN, the Fire Hub gives pilots and aviation enthusiasts a place to congregate around the camp fire. It is surrounded by bricks, each of which can be bought and inscribed with a custom engraving...

Guntersville Airport Seaplane Friendly from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | GUNTERSVILLE ALABAMA- The Guntersville Municipal Airport - Joe Starnes Field, 8A1 - is located 3 miles northeast of the city on U.S. Highway 431 North. The Airport features a 3,360' x 96' newly paved asphalt runway and is home the EAA Chapter 684. The terminal features a meeting and waiting area for guests and visitors...

Volunteers sought for 2012 season at EAA's Pioneer Airport - The Oshkosh Northwestern | EAA photo A limited number of volunteer opportunities are available for the 2012 visitor season at EAA's Pioneer Airport, the unique historic aerodrome facility based at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh. The opportunities include ground handling...

Tornado Damages Kansas Aviation Museum - KAKE | As a tornado ripped across southeast Wichita Saturday night, causing heavy damage at the Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems plants, it also caused significant damage at the Kansas Aviation Museum. Several planes outside the museum, which sits near 31st...

B17 crash memorial unveiled - isleofman.com | Robert Vieille was flying the B17 bomber from Bedford to Ireland when it came down at Glen Chass. Both he and the ten passengers onboard were killed in the crash. The accident happened just three weeks before the end of the war...

Dolphin Unveiled At Hendon from Classic Aviation Worldwide | The RAF Museum at Hendon unveiled it's newly restored Sopwith Dolphin in the Graheme-White hanger. It is the world's only known 5F.1 fighter. The project has...

Spit Mk.I takes to the skies from Classic Aviation Worldwide | At the historic Biggin Hill airfield Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I X4650 took to the skies on March 9th with Mark Bonhomme at the controls. The fighter was reported to have performed perfectly during it's 35-minute test flight. The fighter uses many original parts and is considered a time-capsule by it's restorers. She will make a fine addition to this year's airshow circuit...

Formation flight Sunday. North American line up from Planeshots

B-70-Launched X-15 from The Unwanted Blog | The proposed X-15A-3 was a stretched, delta-winged version intended for extended duration flight at Mach 6+. As with the X-15 and X-15A-2 versions, the plan was to launch the X-15A-3 from a B-52 underwing pylong. However, North American Aviation proposed launching it from...

Galaxy Rising: With C-5M A 'Super' Culture, Capability Change Are Taking Place from Aero-News Network | The AF Says... "The Culture Of The Air Force C-5 Community Is Changing... And It's Changing In A 'Super' Way" As the Air Force transitions to the C-5M Super Galaxy, the upgraded airframe has quickly become an integral part of the airlift mission. It has set dozens of airlift world records and spanned the globe completing historic missions. In October 2011, the C-5M was...