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Blue Angels Flying over South Baltimore in June - SouthBMore.com | The Star-Spangled Air Show will feature five high-precision aviation acts from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard over a two-and-a-half-hour period between 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. on June 16 and 17. The featured act will be the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. The air show will take place over the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River. Public viewing sites along the Middle Branch are limited, and recreational boating traffic will be restricted from cruising the water in the air show "box" while the show is in progress....

Kimberly Blair: Beach news on Blues, guardian and greenbacks - Pensacola News Journal | The Pensacola Beach Chamber of Commerce will get $4000 of the donation to sponsor Fat Albert, the Marine Corps C-130T Hercules that is used for logistics and carrying spare parts, equipment and support staff to the flight demonstration shows.

Hill Air Force Base Air Show - ABC 4 | The US Air Force Thunderbirds are returning to Utah for the Hill Air Force Base Air Show. Each day people will see several military and civilian aerial acts culminating with the Air Force Thunderbirds performance. In addition, several static aircraft, ...

Video: Stunt flier takes crazy flight over Arizona - OCRegister | Kirby Chambliss has twice won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. And the terrain – Arizona – is well worth exploring by air. Two time Red Bull Air Race World Champion Kirby Chambliss takes us on an epic flight over the beautiful landscapes of ...

Portsmouth Air Festival - AboutMyArea | In its inaugural year, the Portsmouth Air Festival aims to become one of the UK's biggest free flying events. Nearly seven hours of flying displays are planned for the Saturday 18th August with activities also going on out at sea, whilst numerous other ...

MEBA: Middle East's Bizav Show Moves To New Dubai Airport by Peter Shaw-Smith | The Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) show will be staged for the first time at Dubai's new Al Maktoum International Airport later this year (December 11-13). Organizers say the new location at what is also known as Dubai World Central will allow plenty of space for growth at a show that in 2010 attracted 338 exhibitors, 55 aircraft and 6,200 trade visitors. This year, MEBA will feature new enclaves highlighting helicopters, business airports and VIP aircraft interiors....

Aviation World Mourns Loss of Evelyn Bryan Johnson from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Evelyn Bryan Johnson, who had more flight hours logged than any living female pilot in the world, died Thursday, May 10, in Jefferson City, Tennessee. She was 102 years old.

Real Rosie the Riveters recall WWII's home front - New York Daily News | "We worked in a constant spray of turpentine and we stank," she says of her time in a Queens machine shop while her husband was fighting in World War II. "You wore your work clothes, which were kept in a locker, [but] when I got home, my sister always ...

Taking Flight - Morning Star | A newly built model B-25 bomber with an impressive 10-foot wing span will be making an appearance this year as well. Planes from other eras include jet-powered fighters from the Korean War, like the F100 Super Sabre and the F4 Phantom...

TV crew flies to Oshkosh to film segments for aviation program - Appleton Post Crescent | Airventure has not been moved up three months. Instead, the three-man team will fly its entire performance at dawn and dusk for "The Aviators," a magazine-style TV program airing on PBS. The show's production crew is based in Toronto, ...

Foam party! Hangar fire suppression system submerges F-15, F-16 and A-10 in foam at Eglin Air Force Base from David Cenciotti's weblog | According to "youmustvotenato", the user who posted it to Reddit, the following picture was taken after the fire suppression system base went off because of a spark from a welder set. Clearly visible in the image an F-15 belonging to the 85th TES (Test and Evaluation Squadron), an F-16 of the 40 FLTS (Flight Test Squadron), and an A-10...

'Naked' airplane plies West Virginia skies - AOPA Pilot | A photo on a calendar of designer Carl Unger flying the unusual airplane at the EAA Convention (now AirVenture) captured the imagination of former naval aviator and best-selling novelist Stephen Coonts, which led him on an adventure to have one for ...

Young Aviation Artist from Lexington Wins International Award - Patch.com | Lewis Hwang, a Fiske student, won the top prize for his age group in the Federation Aeronautique Internationale 2012 International Aviation Art Contest. Lewis was honored in March by MassDOT Aeronautics Division Administrator Christopher Willenborg, ...

Pilots encourage kids to get their heads in the clouds - Pierce County Herald | Hoping to introduce their passions to a younger generation, members of the national Experimental Aircraft Association developed a program called Young Eagles. Local EAA Chapter 1518, located at the Red Wing Regional Airport, is on board to hold a Young ...

HIFiRE hypersonic scramjet flight report from The Original Rocket Dungeon | ParabolicArc passes on a announcement from NASA Langley about the successful flight of the HIFiRE-2 (Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation Program) vehicle, which is a joint effort between NASA, the...

These are the best (air-to-air) pictures of the Discovery mounted atop NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following pictures were published today on the U.S. Air Force Westover Air Reserve Base Facebook page. They show the Space Shuttle Discovery mounted atop NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA (NASA 905) shortly aft...

Space History Photo: Wilber and Orville Wright with Flyer II at Huffman Prairie - Space.com | The launch challenges presented at Huffman Prairie brought the Wright brothers to invent a catapult to assist.

Space Shuttle Lifted From 747 In New York | Video - Space.com | The Enterprise was "demated" from atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 14, 2012 to prep it for travel aboard a barge. It's new permanent home will be Intrepid Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.