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Flying Nun meets Blue Angel - New Bern Sun Journal | Sister Annunciata Wentz stuffed her ankle-length white habit into a flight suit, put a helmet over her black veil, walked onto the Marine base tarmac and up the ladder of a Blue Angels two-seat F/A-18B Hornet and moments later flew off into the ...

FOX 4 Rides Along for Flips and Spins in an Air Show Plane - fox4kc.com | This weekend is the Air National Guard's air show in St. Joseph, called the Sound of Speed Airshow For people on the ground watching, the show promises to make many wonder how do they do that? How would that feel? FOX 4′s Abby Eden now gets to tell ...

Cherry Point air show takes flight this weekend - WNCT | It starts at 10:30 am and goes until 4 pm The gates will open at 8 am To get your tickets, just use the Keywords: Air Show right here on our website. And don't forget to come by and say hello to us! 9 On Your Side crews will be there Saturday and ...

The Red Steel Jet Team's First Flight At Dyess Big Country Airfest This Past ... - PR Web | The Red Steel Jet Team's first air show performance at Dyess Big Country Airfest at Dyess AFB in Abeline TX, this past weekend was huge a success for the team. The Red Steel Jet Team's 3 L-39's this weekend were flown by pilots Douglas Gilliss, ...

Air show once again takes flight - StarPhoenix | By Creeson Agecoutay, The StarPhoenix May 3, 2012 11:00 PM One of Canada's largest tributes to veterans officially got its wings back after an announcement by Saskatoon's Royal Canadian Air Force Association that the air show is returning to Saskatoon...

Snowbird public show cancelled - Canada.com | By Spencer Anderson, Comox Valley Echo May 4, 2012 This year's Snowbirds Demonstration Team public show has been cancelled to allow for more training time for the pilots. According to 19 Wing spokesman Lt. Trevor Reid, poor weather has cost the team ...

Bob Jones: Welshpool Air Show renamed in his memory - walesairforum | An air show is to be renamed in memory of a pilot and airport owner who was killed in a plane crash last month. Bob Jones, 60, who founded Mid Wales Airport in Welshpool, died on nearby Long Mountain along with Steven Carr, 55, from Ruthin, Denbighshire. Welshpool Air Show is held annually at the airport, but is being renamed the Bob Jones Memorial Air Show in tribute....

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POLISH AIR FORCE MIG-29 CONFIRMED FOR AIR TATTOO from Royal International Air Tattoo News | One of the world's most potent Soviet-built jet fighters, will make a welcome appearance at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford this summer.

New-look RAF craft flies the flag ahead of Folkestone Airshow - This is Kent | The Tucano, due to feature in the Folkestone Jubilee Airshow on June 2, has been redecorated red, white and blue to mark Her Majesty's 60 years on the throne. Flight Lieutenant Jon Bond said: "I am so proud to be able to celebrate the Queen's Diamond ...

Chance For Flight in P-51! from Planes Of Fame News | Be sure to buy a 2012 Airshow Program, not only to have a chance to win a flight in a P-51, but to be fully informed about what you will be seeing at the Airshow.  Only $5 for this full-color program and keepsake.

Last Famous Flying Tiger on Mainland Dies at 92 - CRIENGLISH.com | The last remaining heroic pilot of the famed Flying Tigers who lived on mainland China died on April 29 at the age of 92, Qilu Evening News reported on Wednesday. Wang Yanzhou was the only former pilot on the Chinese mainland who ...

Fly spy – Punta Gorda man flew secret missions behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ from War Tales by Don Moore | “Ferrets flights” are what they were called. They were aptly named because the super-secret missions in modified B-29 bombers immediately after World War II were made to ferret out information about the Soviet Union’s most sensitive military sites. First Lt. Roger Smith of Punta Gorda, Fla. was the pilot of “Suella J,” one of the [...]

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Vietnam veteran makes day special for World War II vet - Napa Valley Register | The last two years, when the B-17 “Flying Fortress” has flown into the Napa airport to offer up rides (free to veterans), Bob has picked my dad up, taken him out to the airport, fed him lunch, and brought him home. Bob is a Vietnam vet, and my dad is a ...

WWII pilot remains return to America after Lincolnshire discovery - BBC News | ... buried 18ft (5.5m) deep. The remains of the pilot were later collected by the American authorities. The wreckage was transported to the LARG workshop at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, where it will go on display in future. Brake pedal.

Unveiling an Amphibious Skiplane - Aerospace Manufacturing and Design | LISA Airplanes will unveil for the first time in North America, the Akoya, the high-end amphibious skiplane at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 airshow. Following the European success of the AKOYA and in answer to the increasing interest from the North ...

Scouting for aviation history — serendipity and a fiancée-fiancé learning moment from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Scouting for aviation history — serendipity and a fiancée-fiancé learning moment 44º 18′ 14″ S / 171º 13′ 29″ E I am fortunate to be married to a lovely kiwi (a person from New Zealand). I was also fortunate to visit New Zealand in 2009 with her as tour guide while we were engaged to [...]

Wood for Wood - Vintage Wings of Canada | ...In what could easily be the finest and boldest example of death-defying and cheeky nose-thumbing during the Second World War or any conflict for that matter, bomber and intruder crews of the Royal Air Force and USAAF are reputed to have bombed the Luftwaffe's decoy airfields and dummy aircraft, not with high explosives or incendiaries, but with nothing more than dummy bombs made of wood, and painted with the smug remark “Wood for Wood”... all just to make a point....

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | 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.

Photographer Toni Frissell from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | ...Antoinette Frissell, known to all as “Toni,” was an established fashion photographer for the major American magazines of the day, when she volunteered for the Red Cross and was asked to go to Europe to cover World War II from the perspective of women and black pilots and their crews.   This is a shot of her in her Red Cross uniform holding a camera.  Her cameras were heavy, two-handed affairs, which makes her willingness to traipse all over Europe to take pictures during wartime even more impressive....

F-22 pilots speak out to '60 Minutes' - The Hill | By Jeremy Herb - 05/04/12 10:20 AM ET A pair of F-22 pilots are going on “60 Minutes” Sunday to speak out about why they won't fly the fighter plane. The two pilots say they are not the only ones who have chosen not to fly the F-22 Raptor, ... 

Play honors flying ace Jackie Cochran - The Desert Sun | Courtesy Photo Two months before the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, a Rancho Mirage company is helping to launch a play about how the aviatrix's final journey impacted desert icon Jackie Cochran. Titled “Jinxed,” the play will get ...

Wooddale Only TN Team To Qualify For National Rocketry Competition - WKNO FM | By Eleanor Boudreau The Wooddale High School rocketry team practices at the Mid-South Rocket Society launch pad at Shelby Farms Park, across from the bison. “We're going in five, four, three, two, one,” said Wooddale High School rocketry team president ...

Buzz Aldrin Gives TV Comedian Stephen Colbert Space Award from SPACE.com | The Apollo astronaut appeared on "The Colbert Report" to present its host with a special award.