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Bethpage Air Show Draws Near 400000 - Credit Union Times | By Marc Rapport Nearly 400000 people attended the 9 th annual Bethpage Air Show on Long Island's Jones Beach this past Memorial Day weekend, its sponsors said. Highlights of the Saturday-Sunday event included the US Navy's Blue Angels, Royal Canadian...
New York-Jones Beach Air Show 2012 - phxspotters.com | While each day may have started out with clouds, fog, and even rain and some acts and displays showed up late it was a great weekend for an air show in New York.  All of Friday’s practice shows were cancelled due to fog and low ceilings, but the main shows on Saturday and Sunday went off without a hitch. The 2012 New York-Jones Beach Air Show was headlined by both the United States Navy Blue Angels and the Canadian Snowbirds.  The US Army Golden Knights parachute jump team, F/A-18 Super Hornet, C-130, and F-22 Raptor rounded out the military performers...

Rockford Airfest 2012 from Airplanes Channel | Chicago Rockford International Airport is the venue for the rock Airfest 2012 on June 2-3. Promoted as a “Celebration of Freedom” this family-fun event will be featuring the spectacular US Air Force Thunderbirds. Other highlights on the program include the US Army Golden Knights Black Team, Black Diamond Jet Team...

Annual Cavalcade of Planes Soars Into Bolingbrook This Weekend - Patch.com | “The ability to see the latest technology along with the history of aviation is just not possible unless you make the trip with several hundred thousand people to an event such as Airventure in Oshkosh.” He lauds the support of the many people who help...

Chuck Sweeny: 'Big, big airplanes' at Rockford AirFest this year - Rockford Register Star | From 2005, when air shows began anew after an 11-year absence, AirFest has quickly become one of America's premiere air — and ground — shows. In addition to its many famed flying acts, AirFest features something you can't see at most air shows...

WI stunt pilot Darrel Massman at Southern Wisconsin Airfest - Janesville Gazette | By GLEN LOYD Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 2:17 am I showed a little bit of Darrel Massman's spectacular stunt flying last week when I visited Southern Wisconsin Airfest. Then I learned that Darrel is from Wisconsin..Ogdensburg..and he barnstorms around the...

Snowbirds pilots land at TheMuseum Friday morning - Waterloo Record | KITCHENER — Two pilots with the Snowbirds military precision flying team will be at TheMuseum in Kitchener on Friday. The Royal Canadian Air Force air demonstration team is booked for an airshow Saturday and Sunday at the Waterloo Region International...

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations at our London Site from RAF Museum London News | To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne the Royal Air Force Museum has put together a programme of events that celebrate Her Majesty's reign whilst commemorating the best that Britain and the Museum's site in London has to offer. Activities include the Museum's participation in the Thames River Pageant on Sunday 3rd, book signings on Monday and Tuesday (4th & 5th), whilst on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday we will be giving members of the public the opportunity to try a new sport with the best of the Royal Air Force. On the evening of 4th, look up...

Tour, fly in restored B-17 bomber visiting Missouri on Salute to Veterans tour - Lakenewsonline.com | Tour or catch a ride in the B-17 when it stops in Jefferson City on its Salute to Veterans national tour. By Anonymous “Aluminum Overcast,” the Experimental Aircraft Association's restored B-17 bomber, will descend upon Jefferson City Memorial Airport...

'Wings Of Freedom' Tour Lands In Concord - Martinez News-Gazette | Those living around the Concord airport are accustomed to the sound of planes buzzing overhead, but likely few ever get the opportunity to catch a sight of such historic aircraft, which include those most typically associated with the era: the B-17...

June events: Bard to Warbirds - The Aucklander | The NZ Warbirds Association commemorates D-Day Landings on June 6 1944 with an open day at Ardmore Airport. Stunning practice flying displays include the Spitfire, Harvards plus demonstrations by pyrotechnics and parachutists...

Woman Wise Airmanship Adventure 2012 A Fly, Play, Learn From the Masters Event from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Christina Tindle, M.A., has created a  “One of a Kind,” fly-in symposium for women, in which she will reveal her Woman Wise Airmanship Model. The adventure shares stimulating yet practical information to encourage women to fly and revitalizes women pilots, all towards energizing today's wilting aviation industry. "How do we do that?" Tindle asks. "By making the wings fit."...

Unique Amelia Earhart Relic Found On Nikumaroro? - AVweb | Pieces of glass found a year ago on Nikumaroro Island in the southwest Pacific may add to circumstantial evidence that Amelia Earheart lived there as a castaway, but there are complications. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) have been on the otherwise uninhabited island searching for any evidence that Earhart crashed near the...

Shannon Recognized for Commitment to Naval Helicopter Community - Bay Net | More than 30 years ago, young naval aviator Lt. Bill Shannon piloted a helicopter for the first time. Excited about navigating the aircraft and even more so the Navy, young Lt. Shannon was unaware that he'd help shape the future of naval aviation...

The A-10 Is at War on Its 40th Anniversary - Defense Media Network | Before any A-10 reached a squadron, a very public tragedy struck: On June 3, 1977, an A-10 crashed at Le Bourget Field, France in the middle of the Paris Air Show, mortally injuring Fairchild chief test pilot Howard “Sam”...

Shaw captain named top AF fighter tactician - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base | Chennault was commander of the famed "Flying Tigers" in World War II, whose innovative tactics made him victor in the air and a legend among aviators. His job is to prepare the 20th Operations Group's 157 pilots with the tactics they need to succeed in...

Pilot's circumnavigation attempt is up in the air - Burton Mail | David Jones, 32, from Tutbury, is set to take on the test with his friend and fellow Derby Aero Club member Jonathan Mitchell next month. A date has yet to be set for the flight, which will cover the whole of the British coastline, as the pair will...

100-year-old takes to the skies for the first time - Cambridge Network | Although our Aero Club does not have any definitive records, we are quite certain that John is the oldest person ever to fly in one of our aeroplanes, and we believe it is unlikely that few people of his age, or older have flown in an aeroplane for the...

Gone West: Modeler And Legend, Bill Northrop from Aero-News Network | Champion Free Flight And Radio Control Modeler Was 89 One of the Academy of Model Aeronautics and aeromodeling legends has passed away. Bill Northrop, 89, was a champion free flight and radio control competitor, columnist, publisher and model builder in an aeromodeling career that began in 1936, the same year AMA was founded, when he was 14 years old...

Team Plans Transatlantic Electric Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A new company called Flight of the Century Inc. announced last week they intend to fly an electric-powered aircraft nonstop across the Atlantic, following Charles Lindbergh's famous route between New York and Paris. To solve the problem of limited battery life, the design team plans to use small drones that will meet up with the airplane en route and recharge the batteries in flight. "Our purpose in setting out on this very difficult path is to force innovation that drives electric flight technology forward in a significant and measurable way," said Chip Yates, CEO of the company...

Respect the Airplane, Or the Guppy Will Bite You! from photorecon.net | Michael Robinson is the newest Flight Engineer aboard NASA’s Super Guppy transport, the bulbous amalgam of 1940's aviation technology, 1960's entrepreneurial spirit, and Airbus Industries’ 1970's answer for moving large airplane parts around Europe.   NASA displayed the sole airworthy Super Guppy at the 2012 Joint Services Open House at Joint Base Andrews MD in May...

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft - Travel for Aircraft | Space Shuttles, orbiters, were able to land at several places on the planet but landed at only one of two facilities — the Kennedy Space Center and Edwards Air Force Base. Each orbiter was serviced, assembled and launched from the Kennedy Space Center so a way to transport a Shuttle to Cape Kennedy was devised by carrying it atop a modified Boeing B-747. Two aircraft were modified into Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, as termed by NASA. Obvious modifications are the additional vertical fins on the horizontal stabilizer as well as the three attachment points on the dorsal surface of the fuselage — these mated to the three attachment points on each orbiter used to join with the external fuel tank on each space flight launch....