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Full lineup announced for Great Tennessee Air Show - The Daily News Journal | SMYRNA — The United States Navy Blue Angels precision flight demonstration team will soar into Middle Tennessee for the 2012 Great Tennessee Air Show on Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 13. Presented by the Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport Authority, ...

Bethpage Kicks off 9th Annual Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach - CUinsight.com (press release) | Bethpage, NY – April 23, 2012 – Fans of the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach can participate this year in two interactive and exciting Facebook contests designed to celebrate fans of flight, as well as our nation's deserving veterans...

Two Fan Contests Announced for Annual Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach - Patch.com | By Patch Staff Vintage WWII Bombers over the Atlantic Ocean at last year's Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach. Fans of the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach can participate this year in two interactive Facebook contests designed to celebrate fans of ...

Barksdale air show a great way to support military - Shreveport Times (blog) | Me with a couple Thunderbird crewmen I had lunch with at the Barksdale air show Sunday. / Special to The Times For two days every year, Barksdale Air Force Base opens its doors to give the public an inside look into military operations....

Patrol at Muret May 12 - Roll from Apache, the blog of the patrol by Breitling Grifil | The news is official and organizers are thrilled! The Breitling Jet Team will be the feast of the great airshow AIREXPO May 12 | Currently in training, the patrol will unveil its 2012 demo on the occasion, before leaving for Rome and Farnborough...

Aero 2012 Photo Gallery: Gyros from AVweb Top News | Before we pack up and head home from Aero 2012 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, here's one last photo gallery showcasing some of the gyros we took in during the show.

Vintage bombers on display in Yuma - aviationpros.com | April 23--The Wings of Freedom Tour lands in Yuma this week, bringing a World War II vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American P-51 Mustang to Yuma International Airport. The tour will be open to the public ...

Rare Junkers JU52 at this summer’s Oshkosh from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | A rare Junkers JU 52 tri-motor will be a main attraction along the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 flight line as part of the airplane’s North American tour...

Revisiting the Ely Curtiss Pusher - Pensacola News Journal | Without the paper-and-fabric little plane that landed on the deck of a warship for the first time in 1911, there would be no Blue Angels or giant aircraft carriers today. So the National Naval Aviation Museum will salute the Ely Curtiss Pusher on ...

Ohio Air News # 181 - Charles Johnson | Second issue on the Gathering of B-25/ Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Reunion.

Hornet II from Historic Flight by JohnS | One of our recent communications suggested that on May 5th, “Grumpy” will fly over the USS Hornet, from which the Doolittle Raiders launched on April 18, 1942. While the carrier docked at Alameda Point in San Francisco Bay is the USS Hornet, it is not the same one that played a crucial role in the Doolittle Raid. That USS Hornet, CV-8, was sunk by the Japanese on 26 October 1942. According to a well informed member, the surviving Hornet is CV-12 which was originally intended to be the USS Kearsarge, but was re-named “Hornet” prior to commissioning. The surviving Hornet has been converted to a floating museum and is used by the Doolittle Foundation to commemorate the Raid. I apologize for the error...

Many WWII pilots first saw liftoff at Sidney's airport - Oneonta Daily Star | While driving back from Binghamton to Oneonta late at night recently, I marveled at the sight of the Sidney Municipal Airport just north of I-88. Its multicolored runway was glittering in the clear, black night. Its revolving searchlight probing into ...

Hawker Hunter make-over 2012 'SGD' update 23-4-2012 - xe606 [w/video] | When you agree to do a 'project' on behalf of the Royal Air Force, you need to look at what you are getting into, and if help is required with the undertaking. I can tell you that, the minute I was contacted regarding this project, the first person in my mind was Mick Coombes of the NAM without question, and I was so pleased that he like me, gave up his free time to respond to this project. Today, Mick joined-in and made his mark, on the aircraft, by marking-out with an 'extra-large' ...

April News - Collings Foundation | A-1E Skyraider Joins the Collings Foundation's Flying Collection, Beginning of the end for Warbirds, B-24 Liberator Crew Training Camp, Collings Foundation's Me 262 "White 1" and more.

Photos: Intrepid planes in Albany - 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 ...

Another Raptor driver hits the 1000hr mark from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | A second F-22 Raptor pilot has logged 1000 hours in the stealthy air dominance fighter. This time it is Lockheed Martin's James "JB" Brown, the company's chief test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California, who passed that milestone on 6 April. He has been flying the Raptor since 2002...

"Russkiye Vityazi” (Russian Knights) from High Power Rocketry  | "The Sukhoi Su-27 (Russian: ????? ??-27) (NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a twin-engine supermanoeuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large ...

Death of DARPA's Superfast Hypersonic Glider Explained from SPACE.com | DARPA's hypersonic glider hit a max speed of 13,000 mph (Mach 20) before crashing into the sea.

Drive it, fly it: 'Flying car' brings GA to auto show - AOPA Pilot | based startup exhibited its Transition street-legal airplane at the auto show in lieu of attending the traditional general aviation haunt Sun 'n Fun hoping to reach a wider audience and test the market for the light sport aircraft among nonpilots—and ...