The surviving five Doolittle Raiders - Springfield News Sun | David J. Thatcher,88, a member of the Doolittle Raiders attends a memorial service honoring the Doolittle Raiders at the Nation Museum of the Air Force, April 18 2010, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio...
Two World War II bombers make a surpise stop - WTHI | Two B-25 bombers had an over night stay in Terre Haute this weekend. The planes, "Old Glory" and "Maid in the Shade" are the same type of aircraft used to carry out the Doolittle bombing raid in Japan at the outset of World War II...
Historic B-25 Bomber stops in Great Falls - KXLH Helena News | During World War II, B-25 bombers arrived by rail, and were assembled at Great Falls Army Air Base, now known as Malmstrom Air Force Base. The assembly of bombers was part of President Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program, where the United States shipped war ...
Doolittle's Raiders' 70th anniversary reunion also will commemorate Chinese ... - Washington Post | CINCINNATI — The 70th anniversary reunion of the 1942 Doolittle Tokyo Raid this week also commemorates the role of the Chinese people who not only welcomed the American Raiders as heroes but helped save their lives — often at great peril...
Lauderdale Air Show Returns To Fort Lauderdale Beach from Aero-News Network | Banyan Pilot Shop An Official Sponsor After a five year hiatus, the Lauderdale Air Show returns to Fort Lauderdale on April 28 – 29, 2012. The Lauderdale Air Show will feature the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet Demo Team, Navy Seals elite parachute demonstration team, and other military aircraft demonstrations and flyovers from every branch of the military...
Good Neighbor Day Air Show – May 12 - Moms on the Move | When: May 12 2012 12-5pm | 
Where: 2000 Airport Road, Atlanta, GA 30341 | Free Admission – $5 parking | This year’s airshow sponsor, the Jim Ellis Automotive Group Atlanta, has gone over-the-top to provide you with what will truly be theBest Civilian Airshow in the country. Committals to this year’s airshow includes:Team AeroShell, world renowned Gary Wardin the MX2, U.S. Aerobatic Champion Skip Stewart in his super-charged biplane, superb formation flying by Team RV, Circus Maximus flying team, Neal Darnell in the Flash Fire Jet Truck, single-plane acts including Greg Koontz in the Super Decathlon, Greg Connell flying the Super Pits Special. This is an airshow you don’t want to miss. It will be our best airshow ever!..
One-Hundred Years Ago from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | One hundred years ago today Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airoplane across the English Channel. High winds thwarted her effort on Monday the 15th, but on Tuesday 16th April, 1912, the winds laid back...
Keep ‘em flying challenge kicks off from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has launched the Keep 'em Flying Challenge, a new time-bound, incentive-based contest that will, hopefully, inspire general aviation pilots to fly more in the coming months...
60 years of the B-52 from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The US Air Force today celebrated
the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber. The YB-52A prototype took to the air over Seattle, WA on April 15th, 1952...Dubuque Women in Aviation - Dubuque Telegraph Herald | The University of Dubuque Women in Aviation chapter's fire truck and airplane pull, benefitting Iowa Special Olympics, at the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday...
Eddie Andreini's new P-51 - Evan | Hi all my aviation friends! This is a little different because I want to share this video my dad did that I think is great. It's of Eddie Andreini's new P-51. Click the play arrow and then click it again to let it load for a minute before you start it because it's in HD
WW2 plane wreck may finally be raised - Toronto Sun | One March day in the last weeks of World War Two, more than 70 German children squeezed into a plane designed for 14 hoping to be flown to safety from the advancing Soviet tanks in north-eastern Nazi Germany. Minutes after takeoff the plane dived into an icy lake, killing everyone on board. Nearly 70 years later, former war foes Germany and Poland are joining forces to try to raise the wreck from Resko Przymorskie in western Poland...
1st Memorial flight Rally Hans Gutmann: A well-known and respected pilot to be ... - World Air Sports Federation | In remembrance of Hans Gutmann, his friends of the Austrian and Luxembourg Aero-Club Karl Brandstetter and Jean Birgen have taken up the organisation of the 1st Memorial flight Rally Hans Gutmann. Departing on 16 June 2012 from Gragnano Trebbiense, ...
Non-US F-35 takes to the skies: first UK’s Joint Strike Fighter inaugural flight (with some nice low-visibility markings) from David Cenciotti | Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility has been deafened by the first non-U.S customers F-35 taking to the skies for the first time. BK1, the UK’s first of three development aircraft which rolled off the production line during November 2011 and will fly with the RAF serial ZM135, made its inaugural test flight on Apr. 13 with Lockheed’s pilot Bill Gigliotti at the controls....
Today Is A Big Day For The 4th Fighter Wing from Aero-News Network | 4th FW Airmen To Launch Massive Flight of Aircraft To Honor WWII History Members of the 4th Fighter Wing will pay homage to World War II history at the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, NC, Monday, April 16th by launching 70 F-15E Strike Eagles in a training mission to...
Monday Mail: Blame air show for balloon buzz - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer | "It was after the air show and we were just out flying around, and the lake 'splash-and-dash,' as the balloon guys call it, was intentional. It was just for the benefit of the folks who were standing out ...
Who was Wyatt Fuller? - Travel for Aircraft | There is an empty slot at the Hickory Aviation Museum sized for a single seat sized aircraft. It is located under the left wing of the FedEx Fokker F27 Friendship and on the starboard side of the Marine Air Corps Northrop F-5 aggressor aircraft. In the excitement of seeing the numerous aircraft exhibited for up close and personal inspection it is easy to dismiss the empty slot — after all the aircraft could be on a flight or away to an airshow...
Ranks of former prisoners of war dwindling - Chattanooga Times Free Press | Erhardt Barnes was the radio operator and gunner in that B-17 Flying Fortress on Oct. 6, 1944. The waist and turret gunners both died, struck by German anti-aircraft bullets. Barnes and the remaining five crew members bailed out and quickly were ...
Lindbergh Ate Here - airspacemag.com | The young airmail pilot logged plenty of time at the local diner.
Veteran bush pilots to share first-hand tales of Alaska aviation - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Veteran pilots Al Wright and Holger Jorgensen will share stories about the early days of Alaska aviation Tuesday at the Pioneer Air Museum in Pioneer Park. The 7 pm gathering is free and open to the...
Former Yuma pilot an award-winning author from Kathryn's Report | One day Mike “Zack” Franzak was going through an old cardboard box packed with things from his deployment to Afghanistan when he found three military log books he had used to keep a journal.“There were some old ghosts in there,” Franzak, a retired lieutenant colonel with the Marine Corps, said about the box.That cardboard box also included his Distinguished Flying Medal. “I pulled out...
Space Shuttle Discovery Mounted Atop Jumbo Jet for Ride to Smithsonian from SPACE.com | Shuttle Discovery is riding piggyback atop a Boeing 747 for the last time.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911 Final Flight from AIRBOYD.TV
Spaceflight Leaders Flock to Colorado For Big Conference This Week from SPACE.com | The 28th National Space Symposium is being held from April 16 to 19 in Colorado Springs.
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