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Blue Angels Arrive For Weekend Air Show - NOLA.com | By Susan Poag,The Times-Picayune SUSAN POAG/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE New Orleans native US Marine Corps Captain John Hecker of the Blue Angels, talks with Retired US Marine Lt. Col. Jerry Sneed, Deputy Mayor of Public Safety for the City of New Orleans,as ...

Planes arrive for Thunder over Louisville - WDRB | At the Kentucky Air National Guard, aircraft are continuing to fly in. All the planes for Thunder have to arrive by 5 pm Friday, but many are coming in Thursday. It's going to be a jam-packed show with a lot of action in the air. This year's air show ...

Appearance at Thunder over Louisville air show 'a big deal' for Ind.-born F-16... - The Republic | NEW ALBANY, Ind. — About the time the National Anthem reaches the "Home of the Brave" lyric during Saturday's Thunder Over Louisville air show, Drew Hauber should be cruising overhead at about 350 mph. The New Albany native and US Air Force pilot will...

Details on Friday's 100th anniversary ceremony - Boston.com | At the conclusion of the anthem, the Air Force's Heritage Flight team will fly in a four-ship formation fly-over that will include two F-16s from Shaw Air Force Base and two World War II era P-51 Mustangs. Military personnel from Hanscom Air Force Base ...

Defenders of Liberty Air Show at Barksdale AFB - Elaine Etheridge | The largest air show in the South-Central region of the U.S., hosted by Barksdale Air Force Base is scheduled to kick off this Saturday and Sunday. It’s the Annual Defenders of Liberty Air Show, which had an attendance of more than 215,000 guests during its two days last year....

Brazilian air force returning at 2012 Dayton Air Show - Dayton Daily News | DAYTON — The Brazilian air force's “Smoke Squadron,” a precision flying team whose airplanes trail smoke during their aerial routines, will return to the Dayton Air Show in 2012, air show officials said Thursday. The Dayton Air Show is scheduled July ...

Rare Junkers JU 52 Coming to Oshkosh from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | A rare Junkers JU 52 tri-motor will be a main attraction along the AirVenture flightline as part of the airplane's North American tour. The airplane's visit is sponsored by the German-based company RIMOWA, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of high-quality luggage and a first-time partner with EAA at Oshkosh...

The Red Arrows making it look easy (as usual). Photo by Tom... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith

Red Arrows to tour UK capitals for Olympics - Defence Management | The announcement comes despite the deaths of two Red Arrows pilots last year, which had led the Ministry of Defence to announce that the team would be reduced to a seven-plane formation for complex aerobatic displays in 2012...

Best of British on display at this year’s Cosford Air Show - shropshirelive.com | Along with the Red Arrows and the RAF Falcons parachute display team there will be an opportunity for nostalgia in the Queen’s Jubilee year with a display from the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Other confirmed historic aircraft include the vintage pair of Meteor and Vampire...

Memory of Falklands War shapes air show - This is Somerset | FALKLANDS War veterans had a sneak preview this week of the air show which will commemorate their valiant fight of 30 years ago. Men who served in 845 Commando Naval Air Squadron gathered on the windy runway at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton to ...

Doolittle raid sparks nation during early days of WWII from Air Force Link Top Stories | It was 1942 and the world was at war for the second time that century. American morale was as low as it had ever been and Japanese forces began an all-out assault on United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. It was also the year when a pilot, Lt. Col. James Doolittle, would lead a famed raid designed to...

Surviving "Doolittle Raiders" recount wartime bombing of Japan - Reuters India | DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - Four of the last five survivors of a US World War Two bombing mission over Japan reunited on Wednesday, 70 years after the "Doolittle Tokyo raiders" shocked Japan and lifted flagging American war morale with ...

From the archives: 'Lost Squadron' Pilot Recalls Ill-Fated WWII Flight By ANN Correspondent Dave Ziegler | "We Really Believed We Would Get Off" | In July of 1942, six Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters and two Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers took off from the United States bound for Duxford, England as part of Operation Bolero, a mission to ferry aircraft across the Atlantic for deployment in the European Theater. Forced to turn around by bad weather, and with insufficient fuel to return home, the entire squadron was forced to land on a Greenland glacier....

WWII Spitfire pilot Sgt William Smith laid to rest - BBC News | The body of an Australian World War II Spitfire pilot whose remains were found in a French field last year has finally been buried in northern France. Sgt William Smith was buried with full military honours at a service near Cassel attended by his ...

WWII vet had 'close calls' on B-17 bombing runs - The Citizen.com | In World War II, Dennis Baker was a bombardier on a B-17, helping attack specific Axis targets in occupied Europe. But on Sunday Baker, 93, was cutting a rug with three young ladies posing as The Andrews Sisters who invited him to the stage during ...

Support Ninety-Nines Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | The Ninety-Nines and the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund are one of 20 aviation nonprofit finalists in the 2012 Lightspeed Aviation Foundation annual grant competition. The five aviation nonprofits receiving the most votes, will receive $10,000 grants.  Please support the 99s and aviation scholarships by voting for the 99s and the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund. It takes less than a minute to vote. ..

B-1 in the Snow from Randy Rothhaar Photography | B-1 Bone streaks across the snow covered mountains outside...

Phantoms Over The Baltics from Ares by Nicholas Fiorenza | The Luftwaffe has produced a nice video of its F-4F Phantoms scrambling at Siauliai air base in Lithuania. The fighters belonging to Jagdgeschwader (Fighter Squadron, abbreviated JG) 71 "Richthofen" have been the latest four-month rotation of NATO's Baltic air policing mission beginning January 4...

What Does The Future Hold For Young Airplane Geeks? from Flying With Fish | The other day my seven year old son, Max, asked me why I can’t take him on the Concorde. When I explained to him that Concorde had been retired in November 2003 I was met with the follow up question enquiring why there were supersonic jets when I was a kid, but none while he is a kid....

Test Pilots and Flight Test Classic: X-15 First Flight Anniversary Symposium Proceedings - multiplyleadership.com | Forget everything you ever thought you knew about the X-15, and dig into the web-based proceedings of the X-15 Thirtieth Anniversary Symposium here. You’ll learn about how they shot four-inch model airplanes out of a gun in the NASA Ames hypervelocity free flight facility, as pictured here...

NASA Astronaut To Help Open North Carolina Museum from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense  | NASA will join the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for the 24-hour grand opening celebration of the museum's new Nature Research Center here beginning at 5 p.m. April 20...

Intrepid planes coming to Glenville - Albany Times Union | In order to make room for NASA space shuttle Enterprise on the flight deck at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, three historic planes were lifted off by crane. A Supermarine Scimitar F.1 British Royal Navy fighter, a Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight and a ...

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Space Shuttle Discovery Gets Astronaut Sendoff at Smithsonian from SPACE.com | Shuttle Discovery's crewmembers gave it a heartfelt Smithsonian sendoff.

Shuttle Discovery rolls to place of honor at Smithsonian - msnbc.com | More space news from msnbc.com X Prize Foundation file Heavy-hitters back space resource venture Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The folks who brought you zero-gravity airplane flights and multimillion-dollar trips to the International Space Station ...

Shuttle Discovery Is Demated from SPACE.com | The space shuttle Discovery is suspended from a sling held by two cranes shortly after the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) was pushed back from underneath at Washington Dulles International Airport.