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B-25s Making History Again from AOPA Live: Latest videos

Raid's 70th anniversary is also tribute to Chinese - Review seeker | Doolittle's Raiders' 70th anniversary reunion also will commemorate Chinese villagers, saviors By The Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) ' The 70th anniversary reunion of the 1942 Doolittle Tokyo Raid this week also commemorates the role of the Chinese ...

Two Montanans among five remaining Doolittle Raiders - Great Falls Tribune | The other four surviving Doolittle's Raiders — Maj. Thomas Griffin, Lt. Col. Robert Hite, Lt. Col. Edward Saylor and Master Sgt. David Thatcher — will answer in unison: "To those who have gone." Wednesday's ceremony will come 70 years to the day ...

B-25 Bombers To Fly Over Ohio For Doolittle Event - NBC4i.com | The Air Force expects 21 B-25 planes to land outside its National Museum near Dayton on Tuesday morning. The planes will be on display to the public, and will participate in other events this week including a fly-over Wednesday for a memorial service...

2012 Indianapolis Air Show from Airplanes Channel | The 2012 Indianapolis Air Show will be a memorable event with many talented performers taking to the air to astound the crowds. Catch the following in action: USAF Thunderbirds...

Dayton Air Show 2012 from Airplanes Channel | The 2012 Dayton Air Show has a thrilling schedule planned. Featured performers at the event will include the US Navy Blue Angels...

PNC Air Show 2012 from Airplanes Channel | Spectators at the PNC Airshow 2012 can look forward to a number of fantastic performances and displays. Performers will include Red Star and The Dragon Jet, Clyde Zeller, Mike Vaknin, Bill Leff, John Klatt, Skip Stewart and the Air Combat Command Heritage Flight. Static displays...

AIRSHOW NEWS: RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day and RAF Waddington International Airshow welcome the Saudi Hawks in 2012 from Flightline UK | We are delighted to announce that The Royal Saudi Air Force’s Saudi Hawks’ Display Team will be making their debut display at Air Day 2012, their second ever in this country. Equipped with six BAE Hawk Mk65s, this highly exotic international display team will begin a short UK goodwill tour commencing at RNAS Yeovilton, performing here in company with the RAF Red Arrows....

Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford set to be best - This is Gloucestershire | On static display and making their first UK airshow appearances will be a Polish Navy Mi-14 helicopter, a rarely seen BAE-146-301 atmospheric research aircraft and a Colombian T-90 training aircraft. And organisers are hoping they'll shortly be...

Video: Aero Friedrichshafen 2012 preview from AOPA Live: Latest videos

'Legacy of Heroes' Helicopter To Visit Mumbai from Aero-News Network | On Static Display At Juhu Airport Until April 20 Sikorsky Aircraft’s S-92 “Legacy of Heroes” (LOH) demonstration helicopter will visit Mumbai this week, hosting customers and recognizing local heroes while the aircraft is at Juhu Airport until April 20. The aircraft recently began the India leg of its worldwide tour with activities over the last three weeks in Chennai, Bangaluru, Hyderabad and New Delhi...

Yeovilton air day: Historic moments - ITV News | The show features historic and modern aircraft - and while aerobatics are a popular attraction - whether wing-walking or the impressive displays of the Red Arrows - there is always a focus on planes and helicopters that have a main role in defending ...

ANNouncement: Now Accepting Applications For Oshkosh 2012 Stringers!!! from Aero-News Network | An Amazing Experience Awaits The Chosen Few... One of the more unique and enjoyable aspects of our coverage is that we've been smart enough to do away with the usual institutional arrogance we see at so many publications...

Another day, another military parade: Iran celebrates Armed Forces Day from David Cenciotti | Just a couple of days after North Korea displayed its military hardware in Pyongyang, during which North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered his first public televised speech since the failed rocket launch, a new military parade took place in one of world’s most hot places: Iran...

MAAG's Blog: April MAAG Meeting a Windy Experience from Antique Airfield News | This article is from MAAG's Blog Mid-America Antique Airplane Group, who has kindly granted permission to re-publish on AntiqueAirfield.com. The MAAG visited the Shields home/hangar in Stearman Estates at the Benton, Kansas airport today for its monthly gathering.  Many had stories...

World War II Veterans To Take Honor Flight From GSP Tuesday - News Channel 7 | On Tuesday, a group of 80 WWII veterans will travel to Washington, DC for the eighth Honor Flight from Upstate South Carolina. The group, accompanied by sixty guardians, doctors, nurses and support staff, will depart from the Greenville-Spartanburg ...

Welcome home ceremony planned for World War II veterans - Pekin Daily Times | ... Honor Flight to take 76 more World War II veterans and seven Korean War veterans to Washington, DC, Tuesday, April 17, to see the World War II Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Arlington Cemetery, the National Air & Space Museum and other memorials....

From Vietnam to OEF: Pilot flies last mission of career from Air Force Link Top Stories | Lt. Col. James Routt, a pilot deployed with the 71st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, flew the last combat air mission of his 33-year military career over the skies of Afghanistan, April 12. During his career, Routt has witnessed several operations -- from Vietnam to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan -- the history Routt has been part of could fill half of a high school student's history textbook....

Earhart search goes high-tech, with Woodinville man's help - The Seattle Times | He traveled to Tucson's Pima Air & Space Museum and found that his findings matched the dimensions of a rare vintage Electra housed there. TIGHAR has released the photo Glickman examined, but is delaying release of the computer-enhanced version until a ...

History for sale as Auckland Airport raises funds for local charity - MoodieReport | Auckland Airport is auctioning pieces of aviation history in a bid to raise money for the Foundation for Youth Development charity. The auction will see pieces of the Solari board, affectionately known as the 'old school flight information board', ...

And Then The Winds Came from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Here it is coming over the hill. Two free tetanus shots and a world of giving; that’s what we got out of it.  If you think there’s anything else to be had after such a disaster, you’re dreaming. Once the Weather Channel collects stories to sandwich between commercials and the government puts a pretty face on everything, they drive away and leave you with a mess....

C-17 to make final landing at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The U.S. Air Force's first C-17 (T-1) is scheduled to arrive at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 25. This C-17 Globemaster III (S/N 87-0025) was essentially hand-built for the sole purpose of developmental test and evaluation, with an estimated life span of approximately five years. The aircraft was periodically rebuilt and refurbished over the years and its lifespan grew from five to 21 years....

Hypersonic aircraft will become reality? from News ON AVIATION Aviation News (translated) | The A2 hypersonic passenger airplane will not be available to small windows because the friction of the fuselage with the air temperature will exceed 1000 ° C - Picture: Reaction Engines | It was post-Concorde | When the Concorde was retired in 2003, the supersonic air transport has become a thing of the past. But once work began on designing a passenger plane that can go further and faster than the Concorde itself....

Nose Art and Names: Personalizing Our Aircraft - Warbirds from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | Aircraft from the warbird era were often given a name or nose art, both as a personalization of the aircraft by the crew and as a shorthand way of identifying each aircraft out of the thousands like it during the massive World War II effort. Today, many surviving warbirds are...

Speed Air 40 - ModelFlying | All three are aerobatic, differing mainly in the undercarriage arrangement. The Travel Air is a tail-dragger with the main undercart fixed in the fuselage, whilst the Super Air (reviewed by yours truly in the June '05 issue of RCM&E) features a swept ...

Interesting Book from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | A book review from our friend Tom Lowe: Dr. William Lloyd Stearman, the son of famed aviation pioneer, Lloyd C. Stearman, has recently published a memoir which should garner the attention of anyone who has any interest whatever in early aviation, WWII in the Pacific as a Naval Officer, life in the diplomatic service in Europe during the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the workings of the White House National Security Council staff...

The Fabulous FlightMonkeys Podcast Goes Live from Flight Monkeys | After a year of pumping out podcasts as erratically and inefficiently as possibile, we decided recently to do something truly different. Thank goodness. Dave Shallbetter and the Sun ‘n Fun Radio crowd practically forced us into a position we’ve never been in before. Their method was devious, deceptive, and entirely dubious. It went like this – they asked us. And what did they ask us to do? They asked us to podcast – live – in person – from the deck of Sun ‘n Fun Radio headquarters at Sun ‘n Fun 2012...

Free airplane rides for youth on May 19 in Red Wing - River Falls Journal | Locally, EAA Chapter 1518 will be hosting a “Young Eagles Rally” in support of this world wide event. EAA Chapter 1518, located at the Red Wing Regional Airport, will be holding the “International Learn to Fly Day” sponsored by the Experimental ...

NASA gives all-clear for SpaceX launch April 30 - msnbc.com | [ Video: Space X's Quest For Rocketry's Holy Grail ] While the rocket and capsule have shown their mettle in space to an extent, the software designed to get Dragon within inches of the fast-moving station has not. So SpaceX is especially keen to see ...