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Red Arrows to fly at Folkestone Jubilee Airshow - Kent Online | The seafront and Leas promenade will be at the heart of the action from 10am on the day with a huge array of air-display teams, kicking off with the Red Arrows around 12.45pm. There will be an impressive line-up of including the Battle of Britain ...

THUMBS: Air show packs in 38000; way to go volunteers - SCNow | Thumbs up to the legion of volunteers, committee members, sponsors, etc., who made the 2012 May Fly Air Show a “huge” success, says Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce President Tom Marschel. An estimated two-day crowd of 38000 people attended the...

CBS4 Rides Along On A U.S. Air Force Thunderbird by cbs4lisa | FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) — The highly anticipated inaugural Lauderdale Air Show takes to the skies over South Florida this weekend. Thousands of people are expected to pack the sandy shores of Fort Lauderdale beach to watch the amazing aerial display take flight...

Father & Son by Henri Photography | Attended the air show this weekend and had a blast photographing the performers and the crowd.  This is a favorite...

Photos - donmonteaux.com | Blue Angels performing this weekend in Virginia Beach, June 1, 2012

Lauderdale Air Show, 2012 by Mike | The air show returned to Ft. Lauderdale this weekend, for the first time since 2007, only to be cut short by the weather. Acts that were...

City estimates air show will generate more than $5 million in economic impact - Mankato Free Press | By Dan Linehan Free Press Staff Writer MANKATO — The city of Mankato spent about eight years pursuing an air show, 18 months organizing it and $450000 to pull it off. The time and money was not spent in search of profit. Instead, the air show's goal...

Fly-in to feature new airport terminal - Coldwater Daily Reporter | By Roland Stoy One of the big annual traditions of Branch County comes this Sunday, June 3, with the Fly-In at the Branch County Memorial Airport. Aviation has changed a lot in the last 66 years, since the first Fly-In breakfast was held,...

Women take to the sky for 2400 mile air race - Royal Oak Daily Tribune | Rebecca Duggan will be piloting her Piper single-engine airplane when the Air Race Classic takes off June 19. She will be joined by co-pilot Janet Patton and flight coordinator Rosemary Sieracki, both of Canton. Their team, the ARCAngels,...

Airventure Cup Race Seeks Sponsorships from Aero-News Network | Race Route Will Be From Mitchell, SD To West Bend, WI The Airventure Cup Race announces sponsorship opportunities for the 2012 race, scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 22. Sponsorships are available to anyone wanting to support the race and provide companies excellent visibility within the aviation community.

Solar Impulse Waiting For Weather Window from Aero-News Network | Hopes To Continue From Madrid To Morocco Soon Solar Impulse is still sitting in Madrid, Spain, waiting for a decent weather window to continue its trip across the Straights of Gibraltar to Morocco. The French news service AFP reports that a program spokesman said that will not likely happen until Monday...

How Social Media Got Me On The MetLife Blimp from Aviation Queen | ...Our headquarters are directly across the street from Frederick Municipal Airport, where I happen to be taking my flight lessons.  Last Monday as I was coming into work, I saw the MetLife blimp parked at the...

Boise man with terminal illness takes ride in Curtiss P-40 thanks to Wish ... - Idaho Press-Tribune | Local pilot John-Curtiss Paul took Thomas up in his Curtiss P-40 based out of the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. by Mike Butts NAMPA — Airplanes have been part of Edgar Thomas's life for decades. Friday one of them became part of his dreams...

Marine Aviators at the Battle of Midway - American Thinker | The Marine aviators would carry the brunt of the early fighting. VMF-221 would attack the incoming Japanese aircraft, estimated at 108 planes, 36 level bombers, 36 dive bombers, and 36 fighters. VMSB-241 would attack the Japanese surface fleet...

Legends of valor - DVIDS | World War II pilot and Distinguished Service Cross recipient Jim Tapp watches as an F-22 Raptor perform a demo in the skies above him on the flightline at Langley Air Force Base, Va., as part of a base tour for the Legion of Valor, May 31, 2012...

Amelia Earhart Distress Call Details Emerge - Discovery News | Dozens of radio signals heard after her plane crashed add to evidence that the legendary aviator didn't just vanish. By Rossella Lorenzi Signals from Amelia Earhart 's plane suggest that dozens of previously dismissed radio signals are credible...

Museum, base historians receive top honors from Air Force Link Top Stories | Robins Air Force Base is being recognized for how it showcases history and for the top-notch team that records it. The Air Force History and Museums Program recently announced the Museum of Aviation's exhibit, "Tuskegee Airmen: A Proud Heritage," as the 2012 Air Force Heritage Award winner...

Turkish Stars II from Apron 6 | As promised another view on the Turkish C-160.

Profile 67: BEGINNING - "5?" as flown by Joe Foss from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | ...In the meantime, I'll set the stage for the Guadalcanal story - in 6 months between August of 1942 and February of 1943, over 35,000 soldiers would die, 50-some ships would sink and 1,300+ airplanes would never fly again. Guadalcanal was a bloody mess. And somewhere in there, an "old man" from South Dakota would use a hard-worn Wildcat to defeat a fierce enemy,  help turn the tables in the Pacific War and come home to the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Grumman Cats - airspacemag.com | Just under nine lives that created a company legend.

A pilot assigned to the 104th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith | A pilot assigned to the 104th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron prepares an A-10 Thunderbolt II for a mission...

New Human-Powered Aircraft Challenge from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The goal is to fly a human-powered aircraft over a 26-mile course that includes an oval and two figure-eight patterns in less than an hour; history says Larry McNay's team might do it and his aircraft could be ready in a few weeks. McNay was part of the Gossamer Albatross team that successfully flew a pedal-powered aircraft across the English Channel in June of 1979. He was 16 at the time. He is now a Lockheed Martin engineer with his sights set on winning the 26-mileKremer International Marathon Competition to be held this July in the United Kingdom. His team's design, the Wind Rose, has a 60-foot wingspan and is made almost exclusively of advanced composites. But the marathon competition isn't the team's only goal...

Astronauts – United States Project Mercury from AIRBOYD.TV by Airboyd

Video: Dream Chaser Gets Lift to Sky from Spaceports | The private Dream Chaser space plane took to the skies Tuesday...

New York's Favorite Spacecraft Is On the Move Again - New York Times | By PATRICK MCGEEHAN Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumThe shuttle Enterprise at John F. Kennedy Airport on Friday as it was readied to be placed on a barge to begin its trip by water to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan...