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2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show a high-flying success - WNCT | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NC - The final tally from the Cherry Point "Celebrate The Heritage" airshow shows it was a success. Base officials tell us there were no serious accidents or injuries during the show. About 165-thousand people ...

Red Steel Jet Team's Inaugural Air Show Performance A Success - Aero-News Network | 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 judged to be a huge success for the team. The Red Steel Jet Team’s 3 L-39’s were flown by pilots Douglas Gilliss, Orestes Lorenzo and Zach ‘Z’ McNeill....

Rancho Murieta Airshow legend returns after 25-year hiatus - TSPN TV NEWS | The seemingly ancient rosters include the U-2, B-1, F-117, AV-8 Harrier, SR-71 Blackbird, and appearances by B-52s, B-25s and B-17s; with aircraft flown by Bob Hoover, Team America, Jimmy Franklin, Julie Clark, and Craig Hosking...

Mission flights, ground tours in historic WWII bomber available May 11-13, 2012 - Tri City Voice | The year-long tour will continue into the summer, with the airplane returning "home" to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for the full week of EAA's annual AirVenture Celebration from July 23 to July 29, 2012. Since EAA began the tours of the aircraft, ...

Behind the scenes: Air Show Audio from Featured by Clark Cook | ..for the Blue Angels narrator at the 2011 Lemoore Air Show. (Clark Cook)As the National Anthem is sung, all eyes are skyward as the jumper carries our nation’s colors towards the ground at airshow center. For the team at Air Show Audio, this is a critical moment in which they are prepared and ready to act in case of a malfunction in the sound system...

Chasing Reno Gold - Trailer for Upcoming DVD Release - YouTube | The Reno 2011 Air Races were unlike any other in the 48 year history of the races, and this video promises to be very unique in its own right. Due to the tragic crash at the 2011 event this video will focus on the individual stories about the winning unlimited gold pilots beginning with the first winner, Mira Slovak, in 1964. You'll experience first hand the drive, devotion and passion that each of these pilots and key crew members brings to the winning team. In addition you'll get air show performances and interviews with the Patriot Jet Team, Eddie Andreini, Ken Shockley and Shockwave, David Martin, Clay Lacy and much more. Delivering later this summing, pre-order yours today.

Flying Fortress makes annual stop in East Bay - San Jose Mercury News | By Eric Kurhi HAYWARD -- Before this week, the last time Art Kimber clambered out of a B-17 Flying Fortress, it was 1945 and he was a 20-year-old being ferried home to Fremont from the European Theater after VE Day. A B-25 pilot, Kimber and his crew ...

Ice Pilots' Arnie Schreder dies: Northern bush pilot died of small-cell lung cancer from Kathryn's Report | Arnie Schreder – one of the stars of Ice Pilots NWT– has died after a battle with cancer. Schreder was a chief pilot at Yellowknife-based Buffalo Airways, and was a star of the show for three seasons. The reality program — which airs on History Television — follows bush pilots with Buffalo Airways, while flies Second World War-vintage airplanes year-round in Canada's North...

WWII bombers, fighter coming to JWA - OCRegister | By DOUG IRVING / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Two World War II-era bombers and a fighter plane will thunder into John Wayne Airport this weekend, rare reminders of another age of air power that will be open for tours and, for a steeper price, flights.

Local Events Will Celebrate EAA's International Learn to Fly Day - EAA | On Saturday, May 19, dozens of local events will turn dreams of flight into reality during the third annual International Learn to Fly Day, an aviation community-wide effort helping people of all ages take that first step to discover the fun and freedom of flight...

Area World War II vets honored by DC trip - Rapid City Journal | Airport well-wishers greet Dawes County WWII veterans on an Honor Flight to Washington DC last week. For more photos from the send-off ceremony, see The Chadron Record's Facebook page. For additional photos from the trip to DC, see the May 9 print ...

Calif. relatives get dog tags of WWII aviator - Sacramento Bee | The dog tags of a World War II aviator whose remains were discovered on a South Pacific island have been presented to his relatives in Southern California. The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/Jd7qFv) says the tags of Marine 1st Lt. Laverne Lallathin ...

Chinese DM meets 'Flying Tigers' in US - China.org | Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie on Monday met with veterans of the "Flying Tigers" and their families, stressing that China will never forget those who have offered their help....

Hawker Hunter make-over 2012 update 8-5-2012 - xe606 | Our man 'Coombes' was at it today at Barkstone Heath, and to be honest, I don't know how he does it for the money LoL !! But he's been a busy lad out there today, which as you see involved doing the under-side roundels and some colour on the bars. By the way Mick, the 'chalked' instructions were for  me mate, not you, but many thanks for giving it some more 'impact-paint' before I got there. Just for the record, I can tell anyone...

Can We Talk… : - Moose Peterson's Website | A simple potted plant on your front porch could be a whole photographic essay lasting months. It's just right in front of you! The photograph I posted here I did so for a reason. This is a $10mil aircraft, P-38 Lighting “Glacier Girl...

'Flight For Control': Pilot says her scary airline novel is based on real life in the business from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | Flight for ControlKarlene Petitt wasn’t too surprised when a Jet Blue Airways pilot snapped and launched into an in-flight tirade a few weeks ago. The Delta Airlines pilot and veteran of nearly three decades flying passenger jets, has written a thrilling page turner novel that revolves around over stressed, crazed pilots doing far worse things....
http://blogs.star-telegram.com/sky_talk/2012/05/flight-for-control-pilot-says-her-scary-airline-novel-is-based-on-real-life-in-the-business.html

Episode 196 – A Military Fly Mom from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Guest Linda L. (Heid) Maloney had a 20 year military career as a naval flight officer flying the A-7, EA-6A, and the EA-6B Prowler. She was one of the first women to join a combat military flying squadron. Since then, she’s provided engineering and...

Jeff Bezos's "Blue Origin" Space Company Reveals Spacecraft Design - POPSCI | We've covered Blue Origin, the semi-mysterious space company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, in the past, but we never knew all that much about what they were working on. But they recently showed off their new space vehicle, which has completed wind tunnel testing and is named, in a fit of wild creativity, the "Space Vehicle," and a little bit of their plans for the future. Looks like the Google guys aren't the only web billionaires with extraterrestrial ambitions....

Astronaut Hall of Fame Welcomes Three New Members - PC Magazine | Late last month, the space agency wowed New Yorkers with the final flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise atop a NASA jet along the Hudson River to its final home, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Chang Diaz, Chilton, and Precourt join such Hall ...