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Weekend Blue Angels air shows cancelled due to weather - NOLA.com | By The Times-Picayune Enlarge Susan Poag,The Times-Picayune SUSAN POAG/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Support staff for the Blue Angels, the US Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, exit from "Ernie" the C-130 cargo jet that is the back up for "Fat Albert" ...

WWL rides with the Blue Angels! - WWL First News | WWL's Chris Miller fulfilled a lifelong dream this week when he flew with the famous US Navy Blue Angels. Click the window below to view the video, cockpit footage of Chris working real hard to keep down breakfast as Lt. Mark Tedrow puts the aircraft ...

On the Fly: Special Edition Breaking News | MIDLAND, TEXAS (April 20, 2012) - Congressman Michael Turner, an Ohio Representative, is gunning to ground the only flyable Boeing B-29 Superfortress in the world, FIFI! The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and other leading organizations in the Warbird and General Aviation Community are joining voices...

Thunder Over Louisville | Preparation is the key - Louisville Courier-Journal | Sean Boyle, Thunder early bird #thunderlou: Sean Boyle talks about his early-bird status and his regular spot for Thunder over Louisville viewing. The Fields family arrived early for the Thunder Over Louisville event and claimed their spot before 7 am ...

Lady Taildraggers & Friends Fly-in from Pilots of America Message Board

International Gathering of Seaplanes Biscarosse 2012 from Passion for aviation (translated) | 14th International Gathering of Seaplanes Biscarrosse | From 17 to 20 May 2012: Canada is guest of honor to celebrate invented the first flying boat the 65th anniversary of the first flight of 631 Latécoère | After celebrating the centenary of the first seaplane flight in the previous edition, the town of Biscarrosse chose in 2012 to pay tribute to Canada, the adopted home of hydroplane. The program for this new edition: Canadian participation will result in the presence of a delegation and the animation of a "Village North", bringing together the heart of the camp "Runner of the Woods", Indian tepees, a sugar shack, a box songs with musical and dance show featuring a daily, tasting and sale of products and traditional items, two theme nights....

League of WWI Aviation Historians President J.R. Williams – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Monday from WarbirdRadio.com | MONDAY – League of WWI Aviation Historians – President J.R. Williams joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Tune in for a preview of next week’s League Week IV. Some of finest WWI aviation historians in the world will be on WRL to share their knowledge of the “great war”. This will be a week [...]

Air Force Two suffers bird strike from Aero Pacific Flightlines | Air Force Two, the plane carrying Vice President Joe Biden, suffered a bird strike in California on Thursday, a spokeswoman for his office said, but it landed without problem and all on board were safe at all times...

Aero 2012 Friedrichshafen from Aviation News | The AERO, the global show for general aviation, puts the broad spectrum of general aviation on display from April 18 to 21 at Friedrichshafen.

B-1 Bone from Randy Rothhaar Photography | B-1 Bone makes a pass at the 2012 Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona Airshow at Davis Monthan AFB.

Volocopter - Safety and Simplicity in Numbers - Aviation Week | A strange, 16-propeller vertical take-off and landing craft has been awarded the Lindberg Prize for Innovation at the Aero-Friedrichshafen 2012 airshow in Germany. It is an example of the unusual configurations made possible by distributed electric ...

Biggin Hill Spitfire hangar set to open next month - This is Local London | It is hoped the hangar, opening on May 2, will put the former RAF fighter station back on the aviation map following the demise of the popular Biggin Hill Air Fair. With further Spitfires scheduled to arrive over the coming months, for now there will ...

Listeners ever held rapt by WWII vets - Columbus Dispatch | Liberators weren't known for surviving damage as well as their older sister, the Boeing B-17, did. After being struck, a Liberator would often catch fire, creating an unimaginable inferno. Or one of its wings would fold and the plane would spin to the ...

Great Aviation Video - We Remember from Toriaflies

98 years ago today, the first news movie shot from the air is filmed by camerama... from The Flightline's Facebook Wall | 98 years ago today, the first news movie shot from the air is filmed by cameraman B.C. Hucks, Warwick Bioscope Chronicle Film, England. He flew to within 400 ft. of the royal yacht with King George aboard, crossing the English Channel from Dover, England to Calais, France...

Take a Ride in the P-51 Mustang Part 1/2, Take a Ride in the P-51 Mustang Part 2/2 from TAKEOFF TUBE

Plane Pull benefits Cancer Society - Pacific Daily News | 145000 pounds: Team ASC pull a United Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft along a 12-foot lane during the 7th annual Plane Pull event at the United Airlines Hangar in Tiyan, yesterday. / Ed Crisostomo/Pacific Sunday News/ercrisostomo@gua Thirty-five teams ...

Space Shuttle internal eye-candy (and some more from Udvar-Hazy) from The Original Rocket Dungeon | National Geographic has posted an unique look at Space Shuttle Discovery as it was being decommissioned: Space Shuttle in Extreme Detail: Exclusive New Pictures - Explore Discovery's flight deck with a new 360 panorama.  That panorama is a 2.74 gigapixel, zoomable image and there are four pre-set zooms with descriptions.  I never new there was a Russian provided panel on the Shuttles flight deck...