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Brazilian air force team backs out of 2012 Dayton Air Show - Middletown Journal | DAYTON — The Brazilian air force's precision flying team will not perform in the Vectren Dayton Air Show as scheduled, because of budget problems that forced cancellation of the appearance, air show officials said Thursday. “The Brazilian Embassy in ...

Blue Angels Prepare For Mankato Air Show - KEYC TV | Blue Angels pilots are preparing for flight. They will have a practice run of their weekend performance at 2:30 Friday. We met up with the captain of the Blue Angels who said since the rain has subsided the weather is perfect for flight...

Ocean City Air Show brings wild blue yonder to the beach June 8-10 - Tasley Eastern Shore News | The 2011 Freestyle Aerobatic World Champion Rob Holland and former Red Bull Air Racer Mike Goulian will also perform. The OC Air Show can be viewed free from the beach, and premium seating is available in the Drop Zone, Clubhouse Chalet and in the ...

June is a month of fun in air, on land and in water - Evansville Courier & Press | The 2012 edition of ShrinersFest, which features an air show at 1 pm Friday and Saturday, also includes food booths, carnival rides and games; the "Rolling on the River" Car & Bike Show; a bass fishing tournament at Angel Mounds; a barbecue contest; ...

Thunderbirds team member has 'the best job' - Delmarva Now | Sgt. Jake Richmond is one of the many servicemen and -women who help put together the annual awe-inspiring Thunderbirds presentation that highlights the annual OC Air Show. "We are bringing about 60 or so people who do various jobs on the road," ...

Blue Angels to Arrive in Middle River Next Week - Patch.com | By Ron Snyder The Blue Angels are welcomed at Martin State Airport to promote their show June 16-17 at Fort McHenry. Courtesy of Baltimore County Middle River will be in the forefront next week as the state continues to celebrate the 200 th anniversary ...

Blue Angels, Black Diamond Jet Team Highlight Air Show Performers - Patch.com | By Robert Cook Air show patrons go inside this Air Force C-5 Galaxy plane used to airlift massive amounts of supplies and troops. The 2012 Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show will be held on June 30 and July 1 at Portsmouth International ...

Duluth Air Show Tickets Now On Sale - KDAL | This year's show will be headlined by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds and will also feature a variety of planes including a Russian MiG 17 and a Czechoslovakian MiG 21, the US Army Golden Knights and a US Air Force Heritage Flight...

Spectacular Spitfire Proms come to Grantham next weekend - Grantham Journal | During the interval The Blades four Extra 300 lightweight aerobatic aircraft will take to the skies to perform an exhilarating close-formation display. This will be followed by a charity auction to win passenger flights with The Blades in aid of the ...

What's On (Jun 8-10): Cleethorpes Festival of Flight, The Drifters and more - This is Grimsby | The two-day event will see a Hawker Hurricane and Me109 Bouchon take part in an aerial duel as well as appearances from the Red Hawks glider display team, the Red Arrows, a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster Bomber Dambuster Display and much ...

Policing bill forces Clacton Air Show changes - Chelmsford Weekly News | CLACTON Air Show's entertainments area and coach park will make way for trade stands in a bid to pay for policing costs. Last year the show cost taxpayers less than £600 after income from sponsors and trade stands was taken into account, and generated ...

Vintage warbirds in D-Day tribute over Whatcom County - TheNewsTribune.com | The Heritage Flight Museum, located at the airport, sponsored the show and contributed its P-51 Mustang, a US fighter aircraft of the period. The other two planes were Supermarine Spitfires, vintage British fighters on loan from the Flying Heritage ...

Vintage aircraft to mark weekend airshow in Yuba County - Aviation Pros | The long history of Yuba County aviation will receive front-and-center treatment for the three-day Golden West Regional Fly-In & Airshow this weekend at the county airport in Olivehurst.  With a theme centered around the airfield's 70th anniversary, as well as special recognition of the 70th anniversary of Camp Beale and the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, vintage aircraft will be a key component, said airport manager Mary Hansen...

Balloons cancelled for weekend festival - Evesham Observer | Kevin Jones, of Evesham Hot Air Fest, said: “It was an extremely difficult decision, especially as we had received interest from a record number of hot air balloon crews for this year's event. "But the safety of the public and crews must come first and ...

EAA Sends Out Second Ford Tri-Motor This Weekend from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | This weekend, EAA's 1929 Ford Tri-Motor is visiting Ashville, North Carolina, June 7-10. Advance registration is over, but plenty of space is still available, so those interested are invited to visit. EAA has leased an additional Tri-Motor from the Kalamazoo Air Zoo for flights this weekend...

PHOTOS: Hail damage on historic B-17 - 9NEWS.com | Hail damage on historic B-17 due to Wednesday's severe weather in Colorado. (Photo Credit: Robert Greenlee) Hail damage on historic B-17 due to Wednesday's severe weather in Colorado. (Photo Credit: Robert Greenlee) Hail damage on historic B-17 due to ...

Photo of the Week: Back to the Future - 5280 The Denver Magazine | But you can step back into that era with Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum's B-17 Day. The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" (pictured, left) is a World War II bomber that ran missions in Europe. At the time, the planes were among the United ...

D-Day 2012 — Steele’s night and his day after by travelforaircraft | This day is the anniversary of the Normandy invasion during WW II — D-Day as most know it — when countless individual acts contributed to make for a large and historic operation. One of the opening acts involved nocturnal parachute drops of infantry and all did not go as planned as some drop zones were found and some were missed. Paratroopers are classic Army and accustomed to adapting and overcoming by use of initiative and outright guile whenever required...

Trinkle played role in Doolittle Raid - Paoli News-Republican Online | ... men prepared in the United States for flying 16 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers off of an aircraft carrier, Paoli's Harold Trinkle was part of a classified mission on the other side of the world to set up beacons to be used by the Doolittle Raiders.

Flying over "the hump," and landing in a ditch - U-T San Diego | He got his chance in the Army Air Corps, flying one of World War II's the most daunting routes: from India and over the Himalayas, to resupply the embattled "Flying Tigers." "This was the worst flying weather in the world," Goldsmith said, ...

Club Run to Malta - Vintage Wings of Canada | The "Club Run" was an informal name for aircraft supply operations to the besieged island of Malta during the Second World War. During the interminable ordeal that was the siege, the Royal Navy and the merchant navy put together almost non-stop convoys to resupply the island with food, materiel and weapons. This included most importantly the supply by aircraft carrier of combat aircraft such as Albacores, Fulmars, Swordfishes, Hurricanes and Spitfires. These aircraft were flown off when they were in range, escorted by experienced Malta hands. Starting with Operation Hurry in August of 1940, the Royal Navy (including USS Wasp) made 28 “Club Runs”, ending with Operation Train in October of 1942, attempting to deliver more than 750 aircraft, Not all aircraft were launched or made it to Malta if they were, but enough were delivered to make the difference in the Malta air war. Here is the story of on such “Club Run”, Operation Salient, told through the eyes of Flight Sergeant Calvin Taylor, a Canadian who was one of the 32 Spitfire pilots on HMS Eagle who made it to Malta on June 9th, 1942....

Henri Coanda’s enigma and the Coanda Effect by travelforaircraft | Today is the anniversary of Henri Coanda's birthday from 1886. I looked up the Wikipedia article on Henri Coanda to look into the story of his aviation ventures, especially with regard to jet engines and all just a few years after the Wright Brothers first powered flight. Why was a jet powered aircraft in 1910 not more well known? Well, in short, it's quite a lengthy story and one researched by premier aviation historians which reads like a Rockford file. The Romanian born inventor...

'Flying Tigers' patch approved for Moody AFB unit - The Warner Robins Patriot | Moody Air Force Base officials announced Tuesday that the Army Institute of Heraldry has approved the 23rd Wing's use of "Flying Tigers" on the unit's patch. A Moody AFB press release said the move signifies "the return to the Flying Tigers historical ...

Unique formation flight of five A400Ms from Flight Image of the Day by Stuart Clarke | This great image signifies the unique occasion where all five A400M test flight are together in Toulouse.

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum names TW Cable official sponsor - Radio & Television Business Report | Similarly, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's own education program reaches thousands of New York school children each year, including through its fully developed STEM program. Time Warner Cable will be included on the Intrepid's marketing and ...

Up in the Air: Altar servers enjoy flight - Escanaba Daily Press | Twelve altar servers from All Saints Catholic Church in Gladstone enjoyed a special EAA Young Eagles flight at the Delta County Airport Tuesday, thanks to Father Ronald Timock, the Civil Air Patrol, and three area pilots. Michelle Wall, 13, puts on her ...

Young Eagles gives students a taste of aviation - Porterville Recorder | They were able to participate thanks to the the Young Eagles Program at the Porterville Airport which was sponsored by Porterville Unified School Districts Pathways' Program, the Air Faire Board which is chaired by Dave Nenna, and the Experimental...