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Air show takes flight at March Air Reserve Base - Southwest Riverside News Network | By City News Service, on May 19, 2012, at 8:08 am Upward of 300000 spectators are expected today and tomorrow for March Air Reserve Base's biennial air show, in recognition of Armed Forces Day, featuring screaming fighter jets, classic warbirds and a ...

Nun finally gets her wish to fly with the Angels in an F-18 - Hilton Head Island Packet | In grade school she joined the Civil Air Patrol and got to fly in a Cessna. In high school she went to the space academy. "I wanted to be able to look down from way up there and see God's Earth and all that he created below my feet," said Wentz,...

Navy Blue Angels offer Key Influence Rides before 2012 JSOH and Air Show - Capital Flyer | A crew chief from the US Navy Blue Angels Demonstration Team prepares the Blue Angels #7 jet for a Key Influence ride May 16 on the Joint Base Andrews flightline. The Key Influence Ride program is a community outreach initiative that provides select ...

Thousands flock to air show - The West Australian | More than 40000 people have flocked to the Defence Force Air Show being held at Pearce Air Base in Bullsbrook. As expected the Super Hornet was impressive with its sheer power and noise. Another crowd favourite was the C-17 Globemaster cavorting around ...

When birds and Snowbirds don't mix - Regina Leader-Post | By Will Chabun, Leader-Post May 19, 2012 This is a story of birds and Snowbirds - which sometimes meet in the sky, with possibly dangerous results. This was illustrated by dramatic photographs taken Wednesday by photographer Zach Wilson, ...

Honored guests will receive a warm welcome to the Air Show - Columbia Daily Tribune | Rear Adm. John J. Mumaw, USN, Ret., graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1964 and received the naval aviator designation in 1965. He advanced to Rear Admiral in 1989 and earned his second star in 1994. He has earned the Legion of Merit five times, ...

Gimont. The Patrouille de France will - LaDépêche.fr | The Patrouille de France (it is now official), formation of the prestigious Air Force will participate in meetings VIIIes aerospace Gimont to be held on October 6 and 7. The 2012 calendar of the Patrouille de France ...
   
Auch. That planes for large schools - LaDépêche.fr | The glider pilots, before beginning their meeting, were greeted by an Alpha jet of the Patrouille de France who was demonstrating in Biscarosse, from Salon, one of the aircraft made ​​two passes over Auch.

The Queen's 60th diamond jubilee flypast from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney | I don't port a lot of material from other people, but every now and then an interesting picture, or in this case, video, pops up.  This is video of the UK defence force's flypast for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee... really, really cool!
   
Salute to Veterans Corporation Weekend Air Show - Columbia Daily Tribune | Air Show on May 26 and 27: 1) The Navy F/A-18E/F VFA-122 Super Hornet West Coast TACDEMO Team (pictured above), also known as “The Flying Eagles,” will perform a combination of high- and low-speed maneuvering, rapid rolls, and performance climbs and...

CSAF presents rescue pilots multiple medals in ceremony from Air Force Link Top Stories | Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented two Distinguished Flying Cross medals with valor, each, to Col. Christopher Barnett and Maj. John Creel during a ceremony at the Pentagon May 18....

Taking flight - Minot Daily News | Beginning today at noon and for the next three Saturdays, people can go to the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot to witness warbirds getting ready for flight and takeoff. Don Larson, museum board president, said each week a different warbird will be ...

AIN Blog: The Real First Scheduled Air Passenger Service - Aviation International News | And the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum agrees. There's even a plaque marking the event in St. Petersburg. Now that's all well and good, but as 19th-century American humorist Charles Farrar Brown put it, “It ain't so much the things we don't ...

Rats, Falcon 9 was scrubbed from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick Via  SpaceRef: Right up to t-minus 0.5 seconds it looked like there was going to be a launch. Unfortunately the Falcon 9 computer shutdown the rocket just as it was set to launch due to a high pressure reading on engine number 5, one of nine engines on the Falcon 9 first stage....