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Blue Angels Air Show info - WWL First News | A crowd of more than 100000 people is expected along the New Orleans lakefront to view the Navy Blue Angels perform at the Nola Air Show Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the legendary Blue Angels, the Air Show features dozens of fly-bys by many...

Blue Angels pilot relishes chance to wrap up Navy Week NOLA in high-flying fashion - NOLA.com | After three years with the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the daredevil goodwill ambassadors better known as the Blue Angels, Lt. CJ Simonsen says the thrill is far from gone...

Air Force cuts back on air show demonstrations to save money, preserve training - Washington Post | The only combat plane that will perform solo flights for crowds this year is a Virginia-based F-22 Raptor. The Air Force says eliminating the other performances will save more than $15 million and allow more than 900 training flights that otherwise ...

'Strangelove experience' available at air show - Shreveport Times | That's why a display at the 2012 Defenders of Liberty Open House and Air Show at Barksdale Air Force Base, the world's largest collection of B-52 bombers, may draw a fair amount of interest. It's an interactive B-52 cockpit simulator claimed to be the ...

Air show practice thunders over downtown Louisville - WDRB | Spectators on Friday had a sneak peak at Saturday's air show. Plenty of people were on the waterfront, eager to catch the last of the planes' practice. Planes began testing out the skies just before noon Friday. The rehearsal drew a big crowd ...

Last minute preparations underway for Thunder Over Louisville - WDRB | The airshow starts at 2:30 Saturday afternoon and crews are working hard to get everything ready. As planes flew over downtown Louisville and over the Second Street Bridge on Friday, the countdown was on. The Thunder Command Center is the nerve center ...

New air show ready for takeoff in Fort Lauderdale - Sun-Sentinel | Other military performers include the US Navy Leap Frogs parachute team, an Air Force B-1 bomber and a US Navy F-18 Hornet demonstration. Also on tap: the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, an Army parachute demonstration team; an Air Force F-15 ...

Air Show. The Patrouille de France fly over Lorient on June 16 - Ouest-France (translated) | This Friday at Lorient, a pilot from the Patrouille de France and his mechanic came to recognition before the air show scheduled for Saturday, June 16 above the base of submarines. Captain Ludovic Bud and his mechanic ...

An Evening with the Snowbirds anyone? - Canada.com | But if you look up, waay up, you can see the most dramatic sign of spring, the arrival of the Snowbirds, our Royal Canadian Air Force's (431) Air Demonstration Squadron. The team perfects their aeronautic maneuvers here in April/May before embarking ...

Tavares Reschedules Splash In Due To Weather from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Tavares, FL -April 20, 2012 -  The City of Tavares announces the cancellation of the Seaplane Fly-in originally scheduled for Saturday, April 21.  Weather reports for..

FRENCH VALLEY: WWII planes coming to airport - Press-Enterprise | WWII aircraft, including this B-17, will make a stop at the French Valley Airport from May 2-4. A trio of World War II airplanes will visit French Valley Airport next month as part of the Wings of Freedom Tour at the airport's Flight Center, ...

WWII bomber B-17 stopping in Southland for a week of demo flights and tours - 89.3 KPCC | Ask someone to picture a WWII bomber, and chances are the image they'll conjure the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The iconic model hasn't seen action since WWII but is touring the US this year, stopping off in Torrance's Zamperini Field and then heading ...

T-34 Becomes Part of NAS Whiting History from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | The mighty Turbo Mentor blazed its last trail at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Thursday, April 19 with the last training flight at the air station. Cmdr. John Hensel and 1st Lt. Sarah Horn completed the final training flight at noon with a celebration waiting for them. A new fleet of the T-6B Texan II is replacing the Navy's classic trainer at Whiting....

Slovenian adventurer ends eco-friendly trip around the world - Mother Nature Network | In collaboration with Penn State University in the United States, the plane maker was awarded NASA's Green Aviation prize in 2011 after flying a different, electric aircraft 200 miles in less than two hours using the equivalent in electricity of just ...

Harriet Quimby – Myth Obscured by Legend - Kuriositas | This is a few days late but perhaps that, after all, is not altogether inappropriate. The American lady pictured, Harriet Quimby became, one hundred years ago this week, the first woman to fly the English Channel.  However, her remarkable achievement was overlooked by a great deal of the media – they had other things on their mind that day....

The flying ace - New Zealand Herald | At the controls was Tim Wallace, owner of Warbirds Over Wanaka, paying his last respects to one of New Zealand's great fighter pilots. Spurdle - aka "Spud" or, to his family, Peter - was just 21 when he sailed for Britain in June 1940 to join the RAF...

WWII veteran, 91, re-acquaints himself with last of the C-46s - Charlotte Observer | Warriors and Warbirds, a nonprofit organization, used money from the annual air show in Monroe to buy Tinker Belle, a C-46 built in 1944. The plane is kept at the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport. On Saturday, the organization will sponsor a fund ...

Photo: U.S. Navy Carrier Variant F-35C’s first formation flight from David Cenciotti | On Apr. 18, two F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft launched together from Naval Air Station Patuxent River and conducted formation flying for more than one hour...

Stearman Plant Delivers 1000th Plane To Army (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV
P-38 “Power Plus” (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV

"It's Time to Buzz the Tower... Again" UCAP #282 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

Winners announced for national writing competition award from National Museum of the USAF | Bo Burnett, Michael Haemmerle and Conner Kempf were announced as the first, second and third place winners, respectively, of the Air Force Heritage and History Writing Competition, sponsored by the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio...

What Are Your Kids Doing This Summer? from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | The International Youth Exchange’s 2012 Airline Youth Exchange Program is now accepting applications. IYE matches youth ages 14 to 19 with a...

Can you tell which of these Orbiter Vehicles spent 365 days in... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith | Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose during the a transfer ceremony at the ...

Retired general receives lifetime space achievement award from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Force chief of staff presented a former vice chief of staff of the Air Force with the Gen. James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award at the 28th National Space Symposium here April 18. Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the award to Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., who is known as a "visionary" in the space community...