Saturday, June 9, 2012

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Flight Leader of Blue Angels Talks About This Weekend's Show - KEYC TV | The Minnesota Air Spectacular is this weekend featuring the Blue Angels. Commanding Officer and Flight Leader Greg McWherter says more than 130 Navy-Marine Corps. personnel are involved in the...

Airshow: Minnesota Air Spectacular launches Saturday and Sunday - Mankato Free Press | “It's been a huge undertaking,” said Mark Knoff, Mankato's director of public works who co-produced the air show alongside Burt Lyman, director of the Verizon Wireless Center. “We're looking forward to putting on a great show for everybody...

Airshow: Sean D. Tucker leads impressive list of side performers - Mankato Free Press | By Tanner Kent Free Press Features Editor Outside of the Navy Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds, Tucker might be the most recognized stunt pilot in the world. The National Aviation Hall of Famer is the only civilian ever allowed to fly in ...

Three-day airshow runs through Sunday at Yuba County Airport - Enterprise-Record | OLIVEHURST — The long history of Yuba County aviation will receive front-and-center treatment today through Sunday at the Golden West Regional Fly-In & Airshow at the county airport in Olivehurst. With a theme centered around the airfield's 70th ...

Traverse City National Cherry Festival Kicks-Off with Air Show - Traverse | Traverse City's 86th Annual Cherry Festival begins on July 8th with the poplar "Festival Air Show" over West Grand Traverse Bay. Traverse City's 86th Annual National Cherry Festival opens with the anticipated Festival Air Shows on Saturday, ...

The pilot will impress at The Bay - canoe | The public can see at work the Canadian pilot Pete McLeod, star of the Red Bull Air Race Circuit which will conduct a series of feats flying his Edge 540 V3. Patrick Gobeil, The Bay, will be at work on the CF-18 demonstration...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Flying participation announced for the 2012 Flying Legends Air Show from Flightline UK | With only three weeks to go to this year’s Flying Legends Air Show on Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July, The Fighter Collection and IWM Duxford are delighted to announce some of the stunning aircraft that will be flying in this year’s extravaganza event. Flying Legends sees the air show début of The Fighter Collection’s Republic P-47G Thunderbolt 42-25068 ‘Snafu’, one of only two Curtiss-built examples left in the world....

TRAIN AS A WING WALKER AT WICKENBY'S 70TH BIRTHDAY AIRSHOW - 3D Car Shows | Wickenby Airshow is offering the unique opportunity to train with Aerobatic Tactics' experienced air display team on their Boeing Stearman Biplane during this historic Airshow weekend. You could take to the skies just like the 1940s barnstormers around ...

Filling the sky with clamour and spectacle - This is Kent | The Red Arrows blazed across the sky in spectacular fashion, trails red white and blue in patriotic magnificence, followed by a programme of aerial displays worthy of the Queen herself. A spokesman for Folkestone Town Centre Management, which organised ...

John Mrazek - Alberta International Air Show | Veteran Airshow pilot and performer John Mrazek along with his Harvard Mark IV, “Pussycat II,” will dazzle audiences, spectators, or anyone watching with a spectacular aerial ballet. With lots of noise, smoke, and skill, John will bring the entire...

Video: Fantasy Of Flight's Gee Bee Z Recently Making Beautiful Music! from AirPigz by Martt | I've been hooked on the Gee Bee Z and the R-1/R-2 1930's era air racers since I was about 3 years old. Seriously. My dad was Gee Bee geek from way back and he had some static models of them, and one used to hang over my bed when I was about 3. Even at that young age I knew there was something very special about a Gee Bee!..

Flying Model Aircraft Event to be Hosted June 9-10 in Eureka - Patch.com | Enjoy some of the best radio-controlled aerobatic exhibits in the world. By Julie Brown Patton Pilot Jim Lanzendorf shows off his hovering skills at the 2011 Fly-In event in Eureka. Imagine maneuvering a $30000 jet-powered model aircraft and doing ...

Rare aircraft coming to Bowerman Airport - KXRO Newsradio | The Wings of Freedom Tour of the WWII Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American P-51 Mustang will be coming to Hoquiam's Bowerman Airport June 20 to June 22. The B-17 is one of only 10 in flying condition in ...

B-17 bomber arrives in Roseburg Monday - NRToday.com | The Sentimental Journey, a B-17 bomber en route from Marysville, Calif., to Arlington, Wash., is scheduled for a four-day stop starting Monday in Roseburg. Just seven World War II-era B-17 bombers are still able to fly off into that wild blue yonder.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly in a B-25 Mitchell bomber to ... - TheReporter.com | This year the annual Mustang Days that is held at the Nut Tree airport is offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance to have a flight in a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber. This is the same type of aircraft that departed from the USS Hornet on April 18,...

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Five must-sees for an aviation geek - CNN | HIDE CAPTION Fanatical aircraft destinations Vintage fighters Pima Air & Space Museum Packet and Stratotanker Museum of Flight, Seattle The first jet-powered Air Force One The last Concorde Edwards Air Force Base, California Faster than sound The right ...

Pilot served tours in Vietnam - Sarasota Herald-Tribune | By JOHN "JACK" KOACH Sarasota native Jack Koach graduated from Sarasota High School in 1943 with aspirations of becoming a Naval aviator. His dream materialized when he entered the Navy V-5 Aviation Cadet Program that June. He was later appointed to ...

Hercules: A day in the life from Air Force Link Top Stories | The C-130 Hercules continues to play an integral role transporting troops and cargo throughout Afghanistan. In addition to hauling cargo and passengers to forward operating locations throughout Afghanistan, the aircrews of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing here are often tasked to fly airdrops, delivering much needed supplies to remotely located posts, or to fly aeromedical evacuations, transporting injured coalition members from field hospitals to the joint theater hospital at Bagram....

F-22 Raptor damaged during training flight - Flightglobal | A Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor from Tyndall AFB, Florida, was damaged last Thursday evening during a training flight, the US Air Force confirms. While the pilot is safe, the aircraft suffered more than $2 million in damage-which classifies the incident...

Space History Photo: Deke Slayton Suits Up - Space.com | Donald "Deke" K. Slayton was a B-25 pilot with the 340th Bombardment Group in WWII. He flew 56 combat missions in Europe and later flew seven missions over Japan. Slayton was named as one of the Mercury astronauts in April 1959...


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