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Yes, Those Are the US Air Force Thunderbirds Flying Over Fort Lauderdale - Broward-Palm Beach New Times | If you are complaining about the noise as much as some of my colleagues are, you have no fun in your life and need desperately to go to the Fort Lauderdale Airshow this weekend. Because this is awesome. The show goes from noon until 4 on Saturday and ...

Lauderdale Air Show Opens With Parachute Landing of 101st Airborne at W Fort ... - MarketWatch | The four-hour lineup on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29 features: Black Diamond Jet Team, GEICO Skytypers, US Navy Seal Leapfrogs, 2011 Freestyle Aerobatic World Champion Rob Holland, a US Coastguard Search & Rescue demonstration and the ...

The Lauderdale Air Show is back with a roar - MiamiHerald.com | After a five-year hiatus, the Lauderdale Air Show returns this weekend. A pair of Air Force Thunderbirds planes criss-cross in the skies over Fort Lauderdale Beach during the last Air Show, in May 2007. BY ADAM H. BEASLEY When the Fort Lauderdale Air ...

WWII reunion in Bangor draws interest, adds air show - Bangor Daily News | The June 16 reunion banquet is being relocated to Bangor Auditorium to accommodate the public, and the four-day event will include a free air show by the Texas Flying Tigers. Reunions of the 5th Armored in Bangor in 1984 and 1995 went so well that ...

Warbirds enthrall crowd at Alva Regional Airport - Alva Review-Courier | Those warbirds represented nearly half of the remaining B-25s still in flying condition. In addition to the four Raiders, two World War II sailors from the USS Hornet attended the reunion. The sailors served on the aircraft carrier on April 18, 1942, ...

Zero on your six! - Bob Burns (submitted photo) | This is one of those serendipity moments.  While shooting the B-25's departing Grimes Field at sunrise for the flight down to the National Museum of the USAF at Dayton, Ohio I got this shot of Betty's Dream with the Nakajima A6M2 Model 21 Zero in a classic fighters pursuit curve.  If this had been a real WW II situation, the Zero was coming up on Betty's "six", and it would have been an easy target.  Oh yeah, I didn't even know I got the Zero in the picture.  I was concentrating on the B-25 takeoffs, and wasn't aware that the Zero had returned to the area after its takeoff.  Bob b

Eyes to the skies for Diamond Jubilee flypast - Get Surrey | By Jennifer Maxfield RESIDENTS of Surrey should cast their eyes to the skies next Wednesday (May 2) to witness the historic flypast of an RAF Tucano. For the first time the plane will show off its new colour scheme which has been designed to mark the ...

Captain Jim Baker from Rand Peck, A Life Aloft | I'm sorry to have to announce that Captain Jim Baker died just a couple of days ago, 25 April 2012. Jim was a Korean War, Marine veteran who was hired by Northeast Airlines in 1957. Jim was also the BOS Chief Pilot for Delta Airlines when he retired in 1993. Not ready to hang up his flight bag just yet, Jim became the Director of Flight Operations at Lawrence, MA based King Air Charters and later at the New Pan Am based in Portsmouth, NH....

Flying Through the Hurricane Eye from TAKEOFF TUBE

Me (avgeek toddler) Checking Out The May 1962 Flying Magazine (Circa 1963) from AirPigz by Martt | Finding my granddad's Private Pilot license issued on August 18, 1945 was really cool, but I also recently found this pic of me at about 2-1/2 years of age checking out the May 1962 issue of Flying magazine! Yep it's true, I...

Aviation Museum Educational Summer Camps Filling Up Fast - Cape May County Herald | By Press Release Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum and The Federal Aviation Administration will again partner to host an Aviation Career Education “ACE” Summer Academy. The full day ACE camp will run one week only, July 9-13, 2012, ...

Young Eagles Rally postponed - Albert Lea Tribune | The Young Eagles Flight Rally planned for Saturday at the Albert Lea Airport has been postponed to May 12 because of weather. On that day young people ages 8-17 will have a chance to take to the skies from 8 am to noon.

Virgin Galactic is looking for a few good pilots from AviationWeek.com Business Aviation Channel | Faced with tight budgets, Joint Strike Fighter partners are increasing pressure on the U.S. to share...

Space Station Trio Lands Safely In Kazakhstan from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | Three members of the Expedition 30 crew undocked from the International Space Station and safely returned to Earth on Friday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month mission in space.

“Full-scale mockup of Space Shuttle Orbiter Constitution... from x planes | More here.

Photos: Shuttle arrives in New York

Shuttle Enterprise puts on an air show in NYC - USA TODAY | From the Kennedy tower, air traffic controllers told the shuttle craft: "Welcome to New York, and thanks for the show." A little earlier, as the shuttle passed Manhattan, people gathered on rooftops to gawk. It was chased through the air by a NASA ...

NASA ready to move shuttle Enterprise to New York - CNN | New York (CNN) -- Space shuttle Enterprise will fly past the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks Friday as it heads to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. The shuttle will be mounted atop a NASA 747 for the flight ...

Space Shuttle Enterprise – The Orbiter that started it all from NASASpaceFlight.com by Chris Bergin | For 30 years, the Space Shuttle orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour wowed millions with their thunderous climbs to orbit, their graceful orbital dances with satellites, Hubble, MIR, and the International Space Station, and their tell-tale twin sonic booms that announced their landings back on Earth – landings that would not have been as smooth as they were if not for the help of their sister vehicle that very experienced space: OV-101 Enterprise...