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Tall Ships, Blue Angels Have City Surrounded to Commemorate War of 1812, Star ... - NOLA Defender | On Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 4 pm, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron—the Blue Angels—will be performing an airshow over Lake Pontchartrain. A complete Navy Week schedule can be found at nolanavyweek.com.

Aeroshell team returning to air show - Havelock News | Returning to the Cherry Point Air Show this year will be the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team flying four North American AT-6 Texans. Their performance can best be described as a slow motion version of the aerobatic performance of the Navy Blue Angels. The T-6 first appeared in 1938 and was originally designed as a basic trainer for the United States Army Air Corps. The T-6 was the basic platform that went into the design of later fighter aircraft like the P-51 Mustang and the F4U Corsair...

Air Show to send Lauderdale beach business soaring - Sun-Sentinel | By Doreen Hemlock, SunSentinel Fort Lauderdale beach expects to host at least 200000 people at its first ever Air Show next weekend, and area hotels and restaurants hope for a skyward boost to business. At the 650-room Marriott's Harbor Beach Resort ...

Air show set to soar high over Smyrna's skies - The Daily News Journal | The Great Tennessee Air Show has many teams coming to perform, and many static displays to drool over, but the anchor team with an enviable performance is the internationally known Blue Angels. This is the US Navy flight team that is the second oldest ...

AirSho firing up skies in May - Corsicana Daily Sun | Airplane rides will be offered before the show in a B-25, a World War II bomber; as well as in a PT19 and a PT17. The PT19 is the type of fighter trainer that was used at the Corsicana Airfield to train pilots prior to World War II. The Devil Dog B-25 ...

Aviation's first take off in Winchester remembered on 100th anniversary - Northern Virginia Daily | WINCHESTER -- The flight of Charles F. Walsh into Winchester aviation history was remembered Wednesday by airplane buffs who gathered at the regional airport to salute his feat on its 100th anniversary. Walsh was the first to fly an airplane over city...

Heritage Field to Host Fly-In of Historic Plane - Patch.com | The world of flight is inviting you to discover more in your own area, as EAA Chapter 1250, Inc of Pottstown - Limerick is hosting a Sport Aviation Home Building Fly-In at the Heritage Gathering of RV's (the RV is the most popular home built kit ...

Slovenian pilot completes world journey - AOPA Pilot | Matevž Lenarčič of Slovenia, after many adventures, has completed his around the world, GreenLight WorldFlight westward and is back in Slovenia. He was to appear at Aero Friedrichshafen, the German airshow, but due to bad weather he opted to...

Doolittle Raiders to return to Eglin for 71st reunion (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW) - The Northwest Florida Daily News | Seventy years later, the men and women who serve at the same base have drawn the five surviving Doolittle Raiders to return to Fort Walton Beach for their 71st reunion. “The Doolittle Raiders really, really enjoy letting the new airmen inherit their ...

Sky's the limit for anniversary of aviator's landmark flight to Wexford - Wexford People | A century after his ground-breaking flight, Enniscorthy is celebrating the aviator's achievement with a programme of events organised by the Corbett Wilson Centenary Commemmoration Committee in association with Enniscorthy Town Council, ...

Red Arrows to perform fly-pasts to mark opening ceremony of Olympic Games - This is Lincolnshire | The Red Arrows will welcome the world to the Olympic Games with a nine aircraft fly-past across Britain. The ace pilots, based at RAF Scampton, will fly in Big Battle formation over Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London as a stunning curtain raiser to ...

Red Arrows return for Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Air Show - This is Somerset | The world's only aerobatic formation wing walking team, the Breitling Wing Walkers, will also perform a breathtaking sequence of acrobatic manoeuvres and handstands while strapped to the top wings of their Boeing Stearman biplanes...

The Vintage Aviator Airshow Masterton 28 - hbecac

WWII vets' spirits soar on 'honor flights' to DC - Plain Dealer | World War II veteran Tom Edelen Sr., center, of North Carolina, talks with current naval officers at the National World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall on Wednesday...

Air Zoo Adds New Plane to its Collection - Air Zoo Newsletter | Heath Baby Bullet | A new plane-a 1928 Heath Baby Bullet-is now on display in the Air Zoo for visitors to enjoy.  The Baby Bullet is a homebuilt aircraft kit created by the Heath Airplane Co. It was used in various air races and air fairs throughout the U.S. and Canada during the Golden Age of Aviation. Hundreds of kits were sold. However, many were never built.  The Air Zoo's Baby Bullet is currently the only one that is registered under the Federal Aviation Administration. David C. Cleavinger, of Livonia, donated the plane to the Air Zoo in 2009. It was originally built in 1933 by aviation enthusiast and machinist Perry D. Hansen, of Lansing.

Callison: B-29 crash near Philip recalled - Sioux Falls Argus Leader | To watch Garth and Mike Wade's interview of Bill Clary, who survived a World War II plane crash near Philip on Sept. 28, 1944, visit here. Almost 68 years ago, a B-29 bomber fell from the sky near Philip...

Stuck Mic #22! from Toriaflies | Ooooooooweeeee, what a great show we’ve got lined up for you today! Carl and Len report on their exploits and tomfoolery from Sun N Fun 2012, Rick updates us on the...

Remembering The Apollo 16 Launch-Four Decades Ago from Aero-News Network | Looking At The End Of America’s Manned Lunar Program On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 16 launch, it is important to look at where we were as a space-faring nation at the time of that mission and perhaps consider where we are as a space-faring nation today. For the purposes of looking back we will gaze through the eyes of a rabid, spaceflight crazed eighth-grader in the year 1972… Wes Oleszewski...

VIDEO: ‘I flew the shuttle piggy-back’ from Planenews | One of the pilots who has flown the adapted shuttle-carrying 747 has spoken to the BBC about the challenge of flying with such an unusual load...

How do they remove the Space Shuttle Discovery from its carrier aircraft? - csmonitor.com  | ...The orbiter is currently perched atop a modified Boeing 747 jet that carried it from Florida to Virginia yesterday. The two aircraft flew from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to the Dulles International Airport early Tuesday (April 17) to deliver Discovery to the Smithsonian, where it will end its days as a museum exhibit....

Space Shuttle Discovery: 5 Surprising Facts About NASA's Oldest Orbiter from SPACE.com | Why Discovery is so dirty, and some other interesting information.

Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight To Air And Space Museum (5 Videos) from AirPigz | Yesterday (April 17, 2012) while I was at the 70th Reunion of the Doolittle Raiders at the Air Force Museum getting pictures of the 20 B-25's gathered there...