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Video: Grimes Gathering of B-25s from AOPA Live: Latest videos from AOPA Live | Grimes Gathering of B-25s thumbnail Many of the remaining aiworthy B-25s are gathered in Ohio to mark 70 years since the Doolittle Raid.

B-25 gathering honors Doolittle Tokyo Raiders - AOPA Pilot | Panchito will lead a mass B-25 formation flight over the National Museum of the US Air Force during a special ceremony on April 18. Jerry Gecowets, president of the Grimes Flying Lab Foundation, helps man the Beech 18 on display during the B-25 ...

Navy Week NOLA events - NOLA.com | Navy and Marine Corps' Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron scheduled to arrive in the area in advance of the weekend's air show, from 8:50 am to 9:50 am, at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse. Not a public event, ...

April Air Show to Feature Blue Angels - 13WMAZ | The Air Show lineup features performers including the US Navy Blue Angels, F-18 Hornets, the C-130 Hercules, and the Air Force F-22 Raptor. You can park at the Macon Airport, McConnell-Talbert Stadium and Anchor Glass and then catch bus transportation ...

Lauderdale Air Show Line Up Is “Bad to the BOne” - CBS Local | FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – In just two weeks, an Air Show returns to Fort Lauderdale Beach for the first time in 5 years and with it comes 300000 pounds that can break the speed of sound. It's the B-1 Bomber, known in the Air Force as the Bone...

Cherry Point Air Show preparing for take-off - Havelock News | The Raiders Flight Demonstration Team will be bringing six planes to the Cherry Point Air Show. “The last time we were at Cherry Point, we had nine aircraft,” Sheehan said. “We flew a bunch of Wounded Warriors but we didn't fly in the air show...

Thousands Show up to Watch Air Show - KIII TV3 | The attraction lured thousands of spectators to the Wings Over South Texas Air Show on Saturday. People watched on as the planes twist and turned so close to one another, the Angles have to be precise in every choreographed move...

(title unknown) by Rusdi Sembak | I was among the last aktiviti before boarding the boat back...

Cosford Air Show takes off with huge revamp - shropshirestar.com | The Cosford Air Show – one of UK's top aviation events – is set for a revamp, organisers revealed today. A new management team has taken over the organisation of the one-day event, which attracts thousands of visitors each summer...

WWII veteran shares his story - WLFI.com | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - More than 80 World War two veterans will be leaving for a trip of a lifetime Monday. The veterans will be flying to Washington DC on Lafayette's first Honor Flight. One of those veterans that will be going on the trip is ...

NTSB releases report on Pardue accident - Breckenridge American | At 2:10 pm April 4, a Grumman model F8F-1 airplane, N14HP, registered to Pardue, was substantially damaged when it collided with terrain during a low-altitude aerobatic maneuver performed shortly after takeoff from Stephens County Airport... 

Damage at McConnell Air Force Base & Wichita Air Museum - KWCH | by John Boyd Officials with McConnell Air Force Base say they fared well in Saturday's storm, considering. Most of the damage is on the west side of the base, where fences were damaged and a roof was peeled back from a building...

He Rained Fire On Hitler - Investor's Business Daily | View Enlarged Image The sky over Europe was streaked with clouds and danger when Ira Eaker climbed into the cockpit of a B-17 bomber in August 1942. Taking off from an English airfield, the middle-aged Texan led a dozen planes toward the western coast ...

Hooked on History: B-17 stuck in the mud at Harry Clever Field - New Philadelphia Times Reporter | By Jon Baker Army Air Force Lt. Glen “Sunny” Dye's short visit with his wife in New Philadelphia on April 23, 1943, lasted longer than he expected after his B-17 Flying Fortress got stuck in the mud at Harry Clever Field. Dye and his 11-member crew, ...

Amelia Earhart: The search continues - Washington Post | This year, the National Portrait Gallery will devote an exhibition to the aviatrix. Amelia Earhart, shown here at the controls of her plane, was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed that with a solo flight in 1932... 

Douglas XB-19 First Flight (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV 

Turkey Shoot from Seymour Johnson AFB Photos

USMC’s Harriers Could Fly Until 2030! from Defense Tech by John Reed | Yup, you read that correctly. With the help of spare parts scavenged from Britain’s old GR9 Harriers that the Marine Corps just bought from the UK, the Marines could keep their AV-8B Harrier jump jets flying until 2030. Yes, the Harriers could serve alongside, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers, and whatever [...]

FlightTime Radio Show 221 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Milford and Charlie were in the Key Auto Studio today with guest host Glenn Boyles and show guest Surfer John Rutherford. Actually, he is Sheriff John Rutherford, Sheriff of the largest city in the continental United States. If you include Alaska, Jacksonville is the 5th largest behind the sprawling metropolises of Stitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and Anchorage Alaska. Even though Jacksonville...

"A Dead Bee" UCAP #281 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

When is a Ventura not a Ventura? When it’s a Howard 500 ! from Shortfinals's Blog | The end of World War Two saw the perfect storm in corporate America. An economy swollen with profits from the war, executives and middle management used to moving swiftly from plant to plant, division to division across the country and lots of returning pilots, many anxious to continue flying - for a living, this time. There lacked but one thing, the fast passenger aircraft to act as a corporate transport. The demobilised C-47 (see blog entry) was too slow, the C-46 (see blog entry) was too large and not many were available. Companies turned to the ranks of the now redundant twin-engined medium bomber and attack aircraft...

Glenn Curtiss historic Florida estate restored from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | A 13-year restoration of the historic Florida estate of inventor, developer and "Father of Naval Aviation" Glenn H. Curtiss is now complete...

Concept Plane Eye Candy: Boeing’s F/A-XX - Defense Tech | While we’re on the topics of new Boeing jets, let’s take a look at the latest evolution of Boeing’s concept for a 6th-generation manned, carrier-launched strike fighter dubbed F/A-XX. We saw the first drawings of the concept jet in 2010 during the Navy League’s annual...

Astronaut alumni to keynote graduate school commencement - Purdue Exponent | David Wolf - medical doctor, awarding winner inventor and astronaut - will be speaking at the fourth out of five commencements, in Elliott Hall on Music. President France Córdova will give a short address at this commencement as well...

Astronauts Bid Farewell to Space Shuttle Discovery from SPACE.com | The space shuttle Discovery will be delivered to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Shuttle Enterprise to Fly Over New York City Metro Area April 23 from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Enterprise mounted atop will fly at a relatively low altitude over various parts of the New York City metropolitan area on Monday, April 23...