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Air show organizers release attendance figures - New Bern Sun Journal | Cherry Point has released attendance figures for the 2012 air show estimating that about 165000 people attended the weekend event. “We are extremely proud to call the citizens of Eastern North Carolina our neighbors and friends, and we're delighted ...

Aviator Sean D. Tucker Talks Time-Keeping - Los Angeles Confidential | by roberta naas It's hard to imagine entrusting more than a select few with your life. It's one thing to put faith in a commercial pilot, but it's a whole other situation to take to the skies with aerobatic aviation legend Sean D. Tucker—a master of ...

Annual Fly In and Air Show now scheduled for October - Reno Gazette Journal | SILVER SPRINGS — TheSilver Springs Area Chamber of Commerce usually holds its annual Fly In and Air Show in May, but this year, the chamber is focusing on holding Founders Day this montg–and will move the Fly In to October. Ron Bell, chamber president ...

May Fly Air Show returns to its roots with two-day extravaganza - SCNow | Who knows, but the Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce is serving up those acts and many more at this year's May Fly Air Show, and organizers promise it will be a weekend full of good, family fun. “I think this year we've got the best air show we've ...

Navy bringing three ships to air festival - Bournemouth Echo | BOURNEMOUTH Air Festival fans can enjoy three Royal Navy ships moored off the seafront this year. It is the first time the Navy has brought three vessels to the festival, which organisers say promises another “unmissable” line-up for its fifth year....

Apachecrew from Apron 6 | I’m currently editing the pictures I took back in 2007 during the (unfortunately) last Helidays at Bierset. There were quite some interesting heli’s participating in the event. The mighty Mi-26 was rising above all...

Doolittle Raider Ed Saylor — No. 15 “TNT” would have been pushed over the side except for him from Travel for Aircraft | It is an open secret that NCOs are why the military works, as well as usually not getting the credit they deserve. One such NCO was on the Doolittle raid. His name is Ed Saylor and he managed to remove and repair his aircraft’s Number 2 engine while at sea, on the flight deck with crude equipment — and it had not been done outside a heavy maintenance facility before. The aircraft flew because of Ed Saylor’s outstanding work, otherwise it would have been committed to the Pacific Ocean so that the USS Hornet would be able to launch her aircraft for patrolling and air defense....

Monument to Lindbergh landing put in storage - The Telegram | This grassy spot on the shore of Bay Bulls Big Pond used to be the home of a battered and obscure monument to pioneer aviator Charles Lindburgh. Access to the area is now blocked and the refurbished monument will be relocated.

High-Flying Salute - Military Times | Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class Thomas Kinn, assigned to the US Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, salutes as he steps off the ramp of a C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to the 139th Airlift Wing of Missouri Air ...

The Unbelievable Twin Beaver Story - A Most Impressive Piece Of Work! from AirPigz by Martt | Some of you reading this will already know how unbelievable the story of the Twin Beaver is... and how so few of us knew anything about this incredible project before the amazing story surfaced over at VintageWings.ca early in April of this year. Wow, how could such a fascinating aircraft be so unknown to...

Boeing Gives US a Tour of Aviation History with New iPad App - PadGadget | This app showcases nine decades of aviation history and aviation with gorgeous high definition imagery and an interactive timeline. The app begins with the founding of the company in 1916 by Bill Boeing, and culminates in the first delivery of the 787 ...

Ivy Tech to offer several summer camps - Kokomo Perspective | ROCKETRY Participants will tour the Grissom Air Museum and learn about the history of aviation. They will participate in a rocketry information/safety orientation session, and then will assemble and launch a model rocket!

Farewell to Boeing's 720 from Things with Wings by Guy Norris | All being well, the very last flyable Boeing 720 is due to land for the final time today at CFB Trenton, a Canadian Forces base in Ontario, after a short flight from Saint-Hubert in Quebec. The aircraft will be inducted into the National Air Force Museum of Canada on indefinite loan from Pratt & Whitney Canada which has used it as a flying engine testbed since the 1980s....

BREAKING: Superjet 100 missing in Jakarta from Flightblogger by Stephen Trimble | Sukhoi confirms on spokeswoman Olga Kayukova's Facebook page that a Superjet 100 went missing 20min after take-off on second demonstration flight from Jakarta, Indonesia. More news coverage is available here. The first demonstration flight from Halim Perdamakusama Airport earlier today was completed successfully. A Russian photographer, Marina Lystseva, posted photos on her blog of Sukhoi pilot Sergei Alexander Yablontsev giving instructions to another photographer before the first or second flight. Lystseva flew on board the first demonstration flight, but it wasn't clear from her postings if she was on the second. "It was already a demo flight," she wrote, as translated from Cyrillic by Google. "I also fly."...

Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta during demo tour: Controlled Flight Into Terrain and Hijacking not ruled out from David Cenciotti | On May 9, at 15.30LT, a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 (97004), involved in a demo tour in southeast Asia, with 46 people on board has disappeared from radars, approximately 36 nautical miles to the south of Jakarta, during a planned 2,5 hr demonstrative flight from Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport to Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport (Indonesia)....

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