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Blue Angel makes special stop in the Tri-State to be commencement speaker - kypost.com | Dozens of people, including family and friends, gathered to watch Lt. John Hiltz of the Blue Angels land his F/A-18 jet at Lunken Airport Monday afternoon. The Blue Angels team consists of only 16 pilots who perform very complicated and dangerous air...

Blue Angel's air show acrobatics - Washington Post | By Sarah Kaufman At an airshow, no one can hear you scream. Because we are all quite deaf. Some of the vendors at Saturday's Joint Service Open House and Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base were selling earplugs alongside their T-shirts and model ...

Maryland air show just as thrilling for crew - Washington Times | By Meredith Somers A crowd watches as a member of the Army Golden Knights lands after parachuting out of a plane at the Joint Service Open House & Air Show on Sunday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. This year marked the 55th anniversary of the...

Joint Service Open House - 2012 from Military Photos by Jon91498 | Here are some pictures I took at yesterday's Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. Due to budget cuts the air show will now be every other year. As a...

Andrews clips wings on annual air show - Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online | After the weekend's Joint Service Open House and Air Show, the base will move from offering the show annually to every other year — in an effort to save money, base officials said. Eric Sharman, a base spokesman, said that although the cost of the air ...

Massive air show coming to Utah's Hill Air Force Base - Salt Lake Tribune | By Kristen Moulton Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected at Hill Air Force Base next weekend for Warriors Over the Wasatch, a massive air show and open house. It's the first time since 2009 that the northern Utah base has hosted the show,...

Soaring to give Douglas County tourism a lift - Northern Nevada Business Weekly | After more than a decade-long absence of the event, Minden-Tahoe Airport will host a national soaring competition this summer — and airport officials says they are aggressively pursuing more soaring competitions as a means to boost tourism to the Carson Valley. The 2012 U.S. Open Class Nationals will be held over a 12-day span beginning June 10. The event features 15 glider pilots and an international field taking advantage of the world-renowned winds rolling off the Sierra Nevada. More than 100 pilots, crew, race officials and fans are...

Navy Leap Frogs Parachute Into Rancho Bernardo High - Kbps | By Beth Ford Roth The San Diego-based Navy Leap Frogs parachute team made a special appearance this weekend at Rancho Bernardo High School. The Leap Frogs high-flying performance helped kick off RB High's inaugural 12-hour relay marathon Sunday to ...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Countdown to RAF Cosford Airshow from Flightline UK | With less than four weeks to go the Cosford Air Show (Sunday, June 17) is counting down the days to the biggest aviation event in the West Midlands. The flying display promises to be one of the most exciting yet with everything from fast jets to biplanes and from helicopter to gliders. The Great War Bird Team will be honouring the hundredth anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps and a line up of training aircraft in the air...

A new year and a new version of “Rise Above” - Hemlock Films | The award-winning “Rise Above” traveling exhibit has educated and thrilled kids and adults nationwide for the better part of a year.  Now the exhibit will get a slight, but necessary, update....

Spitfires and parade mark Queen's Diamond Jubilee - CNN | By the CNN Wire Staff London (CNN) -- Thousands of members of the British Armed Forces took part in a parade and flypast at Windsor Castle Saturday as part of celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne. World War II era Spitfires ...

Historic landing in Paris – 21 May 1927 from Roger-Wilco by steve | On 21 May 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St Louis near Paris completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours....

Earhart footage found 80 years on - U.TV | Rare footage has been uncovered of Amelia Earhart making one of the most famous flights in aviation history exactly 80 years ago. We're sorry. This video is unavailable from your location. She was the most famous woman in the world when she took off...

Museum wins grant from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) has received funding from the Wolf Aviation Fund for the conservation treatment of an Eric Sloane oil portrait of award winning balloonist Constance Wolf...

MAAG's Blog: May MAAG Event at Rucker Field from Antique Airfield News | ...The May meeting of the MAAG was hosted by Steve and Roxane Turner at Rucker Field today with lots of help from their friends.  After a little overnight rain, the skies were clear and cooled by a northerly wind.  Approximately 40 people attended the event.  Seven airplanes flew in. Chicken with many side dishes and deserts were enjoyed by all....

Spitfire adventure story at library - Derry Journal | Jonny told the 'Journal': “It will provide an excellent opportunity for anyone who has been interested in the story to hear first hand how I found the crash site and organised the recovery of the iconic WW2 fighter as part of the three-part 'Dig WW2' ...

Video: Skydivers intercept gliders midair. The low cost fighter jet solution for air forces in financial crisis? from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following video shows what (theoretically) could be achieved by future paratroopers equipped with proper wingsuits. Five wingsuit skydivers joined up with and maintained formation with two gliders over Austria, in the last Red Bull sponsored adventure....

T-6 supports Weapons Instructor Course at Nellis from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Hawker Beechcraft T-6 Texas II primary trainers from the 33rd Flying Training Squadron are providing adversary support to the US Air Force's elite Weapons School--joining a long list of other types that have done so previously. The USAF Weapons School is where the service takes its best instructor pilots and molds them into weapons and tactics officers in their respective airframes. Those few aviators who...

Manager quitting Wright-Patterson Aero Club, which faces closure - Dayton Daily News | By John Nolan, Staff Writer 5:47 PM Monday, May 21, 2012 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The manager of the Wright-Patterson Aero Club is quitting and its members are vowing to move with him to Greene County's airport, now that Wright-Patterson Air ...

Head in the clouds? Learn to Fly Day shows what it's about - The Town Talk | PINEVILLE -- The next time Lester Bullitt goes on vacation with his family, he won't be a passenger in a plane. The Hineston resident wants a private-pilot's license and decided to enroll in Flightline Air Service of Pineville with his son, 13-year-old Phillip Bullitt. Phillip, Lester Bullitt and his wife, Melissa Bullitt, gained knowledge of several types of aircraft at the International Learn to Fly Day hosted by Flightline Air Service at the Pineville Municipal Airport on Saturday....

At Arlington Municipal Airport, soaring like Young Eagles - Fort Worth Star Telegram | This is the gift that members of the Dalworth chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association gave about three dozen area youths Saturday during a Young Eagles Rally at Arlington Municipal Airport. Kids ages 8 to 17 could take a free introductory ...