Navy Week NOLA air show may draw 100000 to Lakeshore Drive - NOLA.com | As part of Navy Week NOLA, the Blue Angels will perform an air show at the New Orleans lakefront over Lake Pontchartrain Saturday, April 21and Sunday, April 22,2012 from 1:00p.m.-4p.m. No parking is allowed on Lakeshore Drive...
Air Force Thunderbirds aerial team highlight at Barksdale Liberty Air Show
- Examiner.com | The Air Force Thunderbirds aerial team will be the
highlight of the Barksdale Air Force Base Defenders of Liberty Air Show
this weekend, April 21-22, 2012. They will perform at 3:00 pm on both
Saturday and Sunday. The Thunderbirds fly about 2 feet ...
Podcast: Thunder Over Louisville – Warbird Radio | Matt’s LIVE from Thunder Over Louisville with the Red Eagles aerobatic team!...
40 years! - CAF Tora Tora Tora | The Commemorative Air Force’s Tora Tora Tora is celebrating its 
40th year in the Air Show industry. Tora has been performing Air shows in the U.S., Canada and Mexico Since 1972. The first Tora performance was in Galveston Texas. Tora is a living history lesson remembering December 7th 1941 and dedicating their mission to veterans and all active military. Please visit www.toratoratora.com for more information.
Air show at McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst set for May 12-13 - The Trentonian | By Trentonian Staff Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will host a free open house and air show on May 12 and 13, according to a base news release. This year's event is the base's first open house and air show since it became a joint base in 2009...
Snowbirds, public show coming up - Canada.com | By Spencer Anderson, Comox Valley Echo April 20, 2012 The Snowbirds are returning to Comox next week to prepare for months of touring beginning in May. The team of Canadian Forces demonstration pilots will arrive at 19 Wing on Apr. 23 (Monday) and ...
Saudi Air Force Hawks on display at Waddington Airshow - The Lincolnite | The Royal Saudi Air Force will make its debut at Waddington International Airshow, held 3 miles south of Lincoln, by bringing in its six BAe Hawk jets. Painted in green and white, the national colours of Saudi Arabia, they were formed in 1998 to ...
NEW AIRCRAFT CONFIRMED FOR AIR TATTOO from Royal International Air Tattoo News | Having delighted crowds when making their UK flying display debut at last summer's Air Tattoo, the Royal Saudi Air Force's Saudi Hawks aerobatics display team have announced they will be making a welcome return in July.
Blades Aerobatics Display - British Forces News | They go up against staggering G-forces and definitely like nothing better than blue sky thinking.... She's a former British Olypmic gymnast and she's now preparing for a major challenge - not on the... Royal Logistic Corps units from across British ...
Robins Air Force Base Air Show- action packed, free, and fun for the entire family - The Fort Gordon Signal | The Robins air show line-up is packed full of top performers including the US Navy Blue Angels, F-18 Hornets, the C-130 Hercules, and the Air Force F-22 Raptor, Apr 28 and 29. Due to the full slate of performers, the show will start at 11:30 am and is ...
2012 air show 'Warriors Over the Wasatch' set for May 26-27 - StandardNet | By Mitch Shaw HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- A little more than a month away, Hill Air Force Base's 2012 air show promises to be the biggest yet. The free open house and air show will be held at the base May 26-27. This year's show, dubbed "Warriors Over the ...
Carolyn Livengood: Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show coming to Half Moon Bay - San Jose Mercury News | Vintage warbirds, classics from the 1940s to 1950s, homebuilt aircraft, tricked out trucks and motorcycles, Model T fire engines, antique engines and tractors, and helicopter and plane rides will draw the public's interest...
Gathering of Eagles selects 2012 honorees - Maxwell Gunter Dispatch | For 2012, the C-54 Flying Dutchmen Air Museum is part of the Gathering of Eagles Week display, as was the aircraft flown by 2012 Eagle Halvorsen during the Berlin Airlift. Gathering of Eagles is a yearlong, student-run research elective at the college, ...
P-38 Association Newsletter - Very few P-38s were put into service with two men on board. However, the...
Vulcan needs £115k to be ready for fly-past at Falklands memorial - This is Lincolnshire | Organisers of a Vulcan bomber fly-past at a new Falklands memorial need to raise £115000 to take off. The Vulcan to the Sky Trust aims to fly Vulcan XH558 over the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire on May 20 as the tribute is unveiled...
Ceremonial Stop - Jamestown Post Journal | On Thursday, simply the sight of a World War II B-25 bomber had some veterans holding back tears. At approximately 12:45 pm, a US Army Air Forces B-25J Mitchell medium bomber decorated as "Tondelayo," one of the 16 bombers that participated in the ...
B-17 soars over Southland - Contra Costa Times | By Sandy Mazza, Staff Writer Jim White of San Pedro was a B-17 pilot who flew 18 missions over Germany in WWll at the age of 20. He wore his vintage flight suit for his flight over Palos Verdes. (Brad Graverson / Staff Photographer) Jim
White's final ...CoolPix: Stearman Beauty In The Early Morning (OSH11) from AirPigz by Martt | Words aren't really needed here... it's just an opportunity to...
100 years since first flight to Ireland - ITV News | A milestone in aviation history was reached when Denys Corbett Wilson took off from Pembrokeshire, West Wales to County Wexford in Ireland. Mr Corbett Wilson began his journey from a field in Goodwick, Pembrokeshire at around six in the morning and ...
Sgt. Richard Nolan kept P-40s, P-47s in the air in WWII from War Tales by Don Moore | Richard Nolan of Deep Creek, Fla. enlisted in the Army a year before the United States entered World War II, never dreaming it would be a six-year, world-shattering event for him and the rest of the human race. He ended up as a sergeant and a fighter plane mechanic who fought in eight major campaigns...
WWII veteran pilot revisits his youth - Daily Breeze | By Sandy Mazza, Staff Writer Jim White of San Pedro was a B-17 pilot who flew 18 missions over Germany in WWll at the age of 20. He wore his vintage flight suit for his flight over Palos Verdes. (Brad Graverson / Staff Photographer) Jim White's final ...
Memories of the Baedeker air raid on York - The Press, York | According to Ian Reed, of the Yorkshire air Museum at Elvington, who has been researching the events of that night for an exhibition that will be held in St Sampson's Square from May 1 to 6, an estimated 9500 buildings were destroyed or damaged that ...
AAI RQ-2A Pioneer — first UAV to accept a military surrender by travelforaircraft | About as long as a car with a unit cost of $850,000 the Pioneer is a remarkable UAV design of the 1980s. Slower and more vulnerable by today's standards the Pioneer is built from a mix of modern and natural materials and the 26 hp (19.4kW) engine carried aloft a 100 pound (45.5kg) payload — either optical sensors or chemical sensors. The nose wheel does not caster so Pioneers were launched by expendable rocket from a rail, or catapult, with landing typically into a net or with the aid of an arrestor cable on a runway...
Air Force Week in Photos - af.mil | FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- This week's
photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force. View the slideshow.Glenville air museum to receive vintage planes from Intrepid - Schenectady Gazette | Ripples generated by the end of the US Space Shuttle program will soon reach Glenville in the form of new aircraft for the Empire State Aerosciences Museum. By Steven Cook (Contact) Ripples generated by the end of the US Space Shuttle program will soon ...
The Last Flight of Discovery - Vintage Wings of Canada | All of our stories here at Vintage News
relate to our goal to tell the history of aviation, specifically a Canadian take on the subject. Often they are stories of our heroes from the Second World War, their aircraft, their culture or their memories. More often than not we are looking back, way back. Sometimes though, while researching a story that reaches back in time, history is being made in the skies at the very moment our gaze is turned to distant decades. It is then that we should put down our research tools, and look up into the sky to see something with our living eyes that one day will be the source of research fever in the decades to come....Space shuttles Discovery and Enterprise on display in Smithsonian ceremony - The Seattle Times | Space shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. Space shuttle Discovery will take the place of ...
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