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AirFest seeks nominations for Honoring Heroes - Rockford Register Star | By Anonymous The individuals will be recognized during the 2012 AirFest Honoring Heroes program at Chicago Rockford International Airport. The annual program is designed to recognize heroes, both military and civilian, from throughout the region who ...

Saskatoon airshow for veterans back on, in new venue - 650 CKOM News Talk Radio | The Canada Remembers Airshow is back on track, after being cancelled in February for financial reasons. "It's going to be a scaled down version from past years. This will be a strictly military show," said Cpt. Louis Montreuil, president of the Lynx ...

Photos: Sean D. Tucker flys stunt plane over Inland Empire - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | Tucker will preform at the Planes of Fame Air Show May 5-6 at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, Calif. Daily Bulletin reporter Andrew Edwards takes a media ride on board an Extra 300 stunt plane flown by aerobatic pilot Sean D. Tucker of Team ...

Acrobatic pilot will be part of air show - StandardNet | Kevin Ireland, director of the Top of Utah Military Affairs Committee, said that Kirby Chambliss, a four-time acrobatic champion, will be part of the lineup of pilots taking part in the Warriors Over the Wasatch air show. In addition to Chambliss, ...

Hometown Heros Could Fly with Thunderbirds this Summer - WABI | by Catherine Pegram - May 4th 2012 04:47pm - Read more Local News The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority is teaming up with the Air Force to give a chosen few a flight with the Thunderbirds. It'll be at the Great State of Maine Air Show, ...

CHINO: See the IE from a stunt pilot's POV - Press-Enterprise | BY FIELDING BUCK Press-Enterprise videographer Angel Ortiz found out this week when he went on a flight over the Inland area with aerobatics pilot Sean D. Tucker. Tucker, who is a favorite at Inland air shows, will perform Saturday and Sunday, May 5-6, ...

Cherry Point air show takes flight - WNCT | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NC - The doors are open for this year?s Heritage Air Show at Naval Air Station Cherry Point. (more) MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NC - Right now, some of our most talented military men and women are hard ...

Tricolour Arrows: resume with visits to the Air Force Base Looking - Information Courier (translated) | E 'here that shows the Tricolour Arrows, known throughout the world, are prepared with daily training in the skies of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The visits, organized by the TurismoFVG in collaboration with the Air...

New wingwalker takes to the skies - This is Gloucestershire | Originally from Liverpool, Freya has moved to Cirencester and will join the wingwalking team at all their airshows up until September when the season ends. Her first appearance will be today at an airshow in Abingdon, Oxfordshire...

Shaw Air Force Base's 'real thrill' - The State | The former detention officer from Easley has been a Thunderbird enthusiast for years, watching them over and over again on YouTube; but, he had never seen the world's premier aerobatic team live. So on Friday he drove his family – wife, Teresa,...

Wing off benefit for the Prairie Air Show canceled - Peoria Journal Star | By JUSTIN GLAWE A chicken wing cook-off to benefit the Prairie Air Show had about as much luck getting off the ground as the flightless fowl itself. The 10th annual PNC Air Show Wing-off was to be Friday night at Embassy Suites.

Westmoreland airshow tickets take off today - Chicago Tribune | The airport authority is anticipating a larger crowd than last year because the 2012 airshow will feature attractions such as the Navy's Blue Angels and the Army Parachute Team, known as the Golden Knights, Pickels said. The airshow has not had such a ...

Cirrus Aircraft CEO receives honor at German air show from Aviation eBrief | Dale Klapmeier, the CEO of Cirrus Aircraft, received an honor from German magazine Fliegermagazin...

USS Hornet Event Honors World War II Pilots - Patch.com | Today's day-long event will honor not only the pilots, known as the Doolittle Raiders, but the man who planned and led the attack and gave the group his name, Alameda native and University of California at Berkeley graduate Gen. Jimmy Doolittle...

Plane crash near Durban airport - Independent Online | By SAPA A light aircraft crashed on a beach near the Virginia airport in Durban on Friday afternoon, paramedics said. Crisis Medical spokesman Dean Macpherson said the pilot was not injured. “It is believed that the plane took off from Virginia airport ...

Howard Hughes, A Legacy That’s Bigger Than Life from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | Howard Hughes purchased land in Culver City, California to build the Hughes Aircraft Campus during World War II. It became the site on which he built the Spruce Goose, also known as the H-4 Hercules, although he and his team also built many other airplanes and helicopters at the Campus. Measuring five stories tall and the length of a football field, this flying boat was the largest plane built to that time and for many years after. The Hughes Aircraft Campus is rarely open to the public and no longer houses the Spruce Goose. The iconic aircraft was taken to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, just south of Portland, in February of 1993...

“USS Growler” Open House Weekend - City Guide Magazine | Description: The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will support the preservation of the former USS Growler, the only nuclear missile-carrying submarine open to the public in the United States, with a weekend of special guests, events and demonstrations...

There’s a place in London where RAF Typhoons will buzz your car during the Olympics from David Cenciotti | If you plan to visit London during the Olympic Games and you are an aviation geek, I suggest you to pay a visit to one of the best (temporary) spotting places ever. Judging by the image below, published on May 2 by the Daily Telegraph and taken during Exercise Olympic Guardian, the viewing area is located somewhere around RAF Northolt airport, in west London....

Two elephant walks - aviation version from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I wasn't aware that the term 'elephant walk' is used in military aviation - in my (African) experience, it's always involved pachyderms!  Nevertheless, I was entertained to read about two 'elephant walks' by US Air Force units in recent months.

Inside Pratt's new flying testbed from Things with Wings by Guy Norris | Pratt & Whitney’s latest geared turbofan engine – the PW1200G for the Japanese MRJ project – is now starting test flights on the company’s recently-inaugurated Boeing 747SP flying testbed. The high-altitude, long endurance and wide speed range capability of the SP make it ideal as a testbed particularly since the unusual-looking stub wing, which houses the test unit, can be...

Pratt and Whitney showing off their stuff from PHXspotters by Jason Bong | One, two, three or four.  These are the number of engines that most people would associate with an airplane.  A good number of people would even be familiar with six engines on the AN-225.  On Wednesday May 2, 2012 a good number of Pratt and Whitney employees, plane spotters and regular people who happened to look to the sky at the right time got to see an unusual sight.  These lucky people got to see a jet aircraft, Pratt & Whitney’s 747SP flying engine test bed, equipped with five jet engines....

Photo: C-17 creates a huge cyclonic twist during NASA test from David Cenciotti | There’s a certain interest in technologies capable to detect volcanic ash in flight since, in April 2010, the European airspace was almost paralyzed as a consequence of the eruption of the volcano Eyjafsallajokull, in Iceland....