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RFD welcomes Thunderbird #8 ahead of AirFest 2012 - WREX-TV | Thunderbird #8 arrived at the Chicago Rockford International Airport around 2:00 pm, and the airport is expecting many more planes over the next two days as it prepares for the year festival. Some expected arrivals include a C-40 Presidential Jet,...

Wings Over Gillespie takes off in El Cajon this weekend - U-T San Diego | Spectators watch the Wings Over Gillespie Air Show from under a World War II-era A-26 Invader. “The Pacific Princess,” a B-25 bomber, takes off at the Wings Over Gillespie Air Show at Gillespie Field. Howard Lipin • UT photos For the 17th annual Wings...

USO Patriotic Festival Virginia Beach Oceanfront Air Show - The Virginian-Pilot | Patriotic Festival Presents Virginia Beach Oceanfront Air Show Featuring US Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron (Air Show Center at 18th Street & Oceanfront, 11:30am- 4:00pm) Parachute teams, amphibious demonstrations, Geico Skytypers...

Wings over Waukesha to celebrate centennial of flight from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The Wings over Waukesha Air Show in Wisconsin will celebrate the centennial of flight in Waukesha County with an expanded airshow. The show is slated for Aug. 25-26 at Waukesha County Airport (UES)...

RAF Gets Ready For RIAT from AVIATION-NEWS by Marcel van Leeuwen | RAF display teams have launched the start of the Royal International Air Tattoo Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The Queen’s anniversary will be the main theme for this year’s event, the world’s largest military air show, from 6th to 8thJuly at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Flight Lieutenant Phil Bird was born in Fairford 32 years ago and now...

Fairford flies the flag for tattoo - This is Gloucestershire | Air Tattoo chief executive Tim Prince said: "We have an exceptional line-up of aircraft. "As well as a special mass fly-past of Hawks in an EIIR formation, the tattoo will feature seven aerobatic display teams including Al Fursan, a newly-formed team...

Air Force showcases skills in rehearsal - China Post | TAIPEI--The Air Force showcased its flight skills in a rehearsal Wednesday in Hsinchu, as a preview for an air show to be held Saturday in the northern city. Highlights of the rehearsal at the Hsinchu air base included a 30-minute performance by the...

Air shows at RMAF Subang base - New Straits Times | Royal Malaysian Air Force's Smokey Bandits team performing an aerial display with MiG-29 fighter jets at an airshow in Singapore in February. File pic The highlight will be an aerial display of the air force's fighters, comprising a Sukhoi Su-30MKM...

Crew Preparing Diamond Lil for Ferry Flight from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The Commemorative Air Force's B-24 Diamond Lil is being prepared for a ferry flight back to Addison, Texas, after a hydraulic malfunction last Saturday that caused the vintage World War II bomber's nose gear to collapse during a scheduled passenger flight at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. CAF reported no injuries to the 16 people (passengers and crew) on board and minimal damage to the aircraft.

WWII veteran reunites with B-17 bomber - Stars and Stripes | It's hard for John Campbell to talk about his history. When he relives different events now that bring back memories of the war, he changes the subject. "Every time I think about what is missing, I start choking up. We had lots of good times together and we had lots of bad times," the 88-year-old Odessan said Saturday. For three years during World War II, he served as a flight engineer and top gunner with the Air Force and flew in 35 missions over Europe on a B-17 bomber....

World War II vet talks to Hoffman Estates students - Chicago Daily Herald | But it also brought him some enjoyment, both socially and in the action of being the tail gunner of a B-17 during World War II in Europe. Hofmann, 86, of Palatine shared his experiences with about 45 AP US History classmates of his grandson,...

Former RAF man remembers coronation flypast of 1953 - Buckinghamshire Advertiser | There were thunderstorms all over the sky and the flypast had to be postponed several times. Eventually the weather improved at around 5pm and we took off. We flew along the Thames Estuary but there were no navigation aids in our planes so the leaders...

Bringing back 1981 from Photorecon | She once felt the wind rushing against her airframe as she was thrown with a controlled violence into the blues skies of the Pacific Ocean, off of the USS Midway CV-41. Number 1981 was a McDonald Douglas RF-4B Phantom II, and a member of VMFP-3, a U.S. Marine Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron that was assigned to...

Lindbergh’s goggles on display at San Diego museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The goggles worn by Charles Lindbergh during his historic flight across the Atlantic in 1927 are now on display at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in honor of the flight’s 85th anniversary...

June events at Grissom Air Museum - Kokomo Perspective | Wednesday, June 6th at 9:00 AM, the restoration team from Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan will be flying in with their C-47 for a tour. 5.) The Lafayette Family YMCA will be visiting us on June 13th at 10:30, and the Boys and Girls Club of...

ICON Aircraft Demonstrates Historic Safety Achievement from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | ICON AircraftLOS ANGELES -- ICON Aircraft announced earlier this year that it successfully completed spin-resistance testing of its A5 amphibious Light Sport Aircraft to the standard specified by the FAA for Part 23 certified aircraft.  This historic...

Fighter pilot for a day - Fox News | Who can resist the cool flight suit, the aviator sunglasses --and let's not forget the flying. Sky Combat Ace in Henderson, Nev. let's you pretend you're a fighter pilot high above desert --and you better buckle up because you're about to have the...

Allison Rupp: Farragut man receives flight award for 50 years of flying - Knox News | If it's nice outside, most people might go for a bike ride or take a drive with the windows down. But Chris Linn of Farragut boards his small plane with his wife Judy and takes flight instead. "We like to fly regularly, especially in the summer and fall," Linn said. "Sometimes it's three or four times a week. If it's a nice day, I say, 'Let's go flying.'"...

Former Scranton bishop still serving diocese, flying planes - The Times-Tribune | ...the 84-year-old bishop emeritus wants to continue his more than 50-year hobby of flying small planes, he will soon undergo surgery to correct a heart murmur that could ground him if he fails a physical required by the Federal Aviation Administration...

Program will help future pilots take off with aviation career - mydesert.com | A large and looming commercial pilot shortage inspired a group of Coachella Valley aviators to offer a free training program to students interested in careers in aviation. Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, projects an additional 460,000 pilots will be needed in the next 20 years to facilitate the worldwide movement of cargo and people...

Free flights, big smiles - Airdrie Echo | Gray Goode thanks pilot Lester Block after being taken on a free flight as part of the Airdrie Flying Club's COPA for Kids Junior Aviator Day on Saturday at the Airdrie Air Park. By Chris Simnett — Reporter Gray Goode's smile was as big as the sky...

Hypersonic Flight from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | The day is Thursday, February 24, 1949; the pens on the automatic plotting boards at South Station are busy tracking the altitude and course of a rocket, which just moments before had been launched from a site three miles away on the test range of the White Sands Proving Ground. The rocket is a V-2, one of many brought to the United States from Germany after World War II. By this time launching V-2s had become almost routine for the crews at White Sands, but on this day neither the launch nor the rocket are...

X-37B to land in June from RLV and Space Transport News | Vandenberg Air Force Base has released a statement stating that theX-37B vehicle, denoted as the Orbital Test Vehicle mission or OTV-2, will return to earth "during the early- to mid-June timeframe". The vehicle...