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Navy 'Leap Frogs' team helps traffic accident victim at Shore - Baltimore Sun | By Mary Gail Hare Baltimore Sun reporter Members of the US Navy Parachute Demonstration Team, the Leap Frogs, took a break between jumping assignments Saturday evening to help an accident victim on US 50 just outside of Ocean City, ... 

MN Air Spectacular Wraps Up - KEYC TV | The air show today also brought one local pilot closer to getting his wings. Local Man Closer To Getting Wings. David Franta from Lafayette is stationed in Mississippi and is training to become a United The air show today also brought one local pilot ...

Smaller crowd, fewer heat issues at Sunday's air show - Mankato Free Press | The Minnesota Air Spectacular in Mankato concluded Sunday with a smaller crowd than the day before but also with fewer heat-related issues. “The numbers were miniscule. We saw only a handful of people,” event medical services ...

A perfect day for wings and wheels - Owen Sound Sun Times | A Second World War B-25 Mitchell bomber from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum was also on site offering tours to the public. The plane couldn't make it to last year's event for mechanical reasons and the year before that the weather kept it away.

Aviation Museum Holds Annual Fly-In - WFMY News 2 | Asheboro, NC-- The North Carolina Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame held its annual fly-in Saturday. Visitors not only got to see planes decorate the skies, they also were treated to up close look at planes normally tucked away in the hangar.

Video: Red Arrows entertain the crowds at 2012 Cleethorpes Festival of Flight - This is Grimsby | THE Red Arrows performed a spectacular display on the second day of the 2012 Cleethorpes Festival of Flight. The jets, which are based at RAF Scampton, arrived in the skies above Cleethorpes at around 2.30pm this afternoon. The display was one of the ...

Base Borden air show soars high - The Barrie Examiner | Brandon Marsh, 7, and twin brother Noah take a seat in the cockpit of one of many jets made available to the public during CF Borden's annual air show Saturday afternoon. Zach Macpherson photo The Canadian Forces Day and Air Show took over the ground ...

Aerobatic performers from US, Canada and Brazil coming to Wisconsin - Virtual Press Office | The world's best civilian airshow performers, including Sean D. Tucker, AeroShell Aerobatic Team, Red Bull Air Force, and others, along with the famous Oshkosh night air show. This year's 60th annual EAA AirVenture event also highlights World War II's ...

2012 Andrews Air Show - PhotoRecon | PhotoRecon was on hand for this year's 2012 Andrews Air Show. Over 200000 turned out over the two day show, at one point filling to capacity and forcing the base to turn eager fans away. The show, per usual, boasted a ...

Weekend "Fly-In" Brings R/C Helicopters to the Skies - WNCT | Sunday wrapped up the North Carolina Space Cowboy's 3rd annual R/C helicopter "fly in" at Frankie Coburn Memorial Field in Greenville. The weekend event brought 40 helicopters out, both gas powered and electric to show off their flying skills...

Sioux Falls Airshow Announced - KDLT News | The 2012 Sioux Falls Airshow will feature numerous military aircraft to include the US Navy Blue Angels, the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team, the US Marines AV-8 Harrier, US Navy FA-18 Super Hornet, US Air Force Heritage Flight, and our state's very own ...

Last flying B-29 will roar into Western New York on Monday - Buffalo News | "Fifi," a sister plane to the "Enola Gay" and "Bock's Car" that dropped the nuclear bombs leading to the Japanese surrender in August 1945, is expected to arrive Monday after a similar display at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Conn...

Retired principal from Pembroke Pines, Miami Beach real estate agent soar for ... - Sun-Sentinel | Beside her in the plane's left-hand seat was Tamra Sheffman, and together the duo who call themselves Team Cloud Dancers were bound for the Air Race Classic 2012 in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. "I like challenging myself, and this is pushing my skills," ...

Francis Gary Powers Awarded Silver Star from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Francis Gary Powers will be posthumously awarded the Silver Star on June 15, 50 years after his U-2 spy plane went down in Russia on May 1, 1960, during the height of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Although Powers received service medals and top recognition from the CIA, this is the first time he has been cited for "gallantry in action." The Silver Star is the third-ranked in this class for actions not warranting the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross. The Silver Star will be presented by Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz to Powers' grandson and granddaughter at a Pentagon ceremony on Friday...

Sister clings to memories of brother killed in World War II - Dubuque Telegraph Herald | Then 80 brave men took off from the USS Hornet, a Navy carrier, in 16 B-25B bombers in a surprise attack on Japanese main islands and cities, according to the Doolittle raiders website. They were originally supposed to launch on April 19, ...

Niece of Imperial Japanese Navy fighter pilot gets up close to plane like her ... - Minot Daily News | A licensed pilot since 1998 who at one time had her own plane, Howell is the scholarship chair of the Washington Chapter of Women in Aviation International in Seattle. When Howell found out she could see the Zero in Minot, she was thrilled...

First aeroplane soared over Bangor like 'graceful white-winged bird' - Bangor Daily News | By Wayne E. Reilly, Special to the BDN Harry Atwood, the daredevil aviator, gazed down on Main Street in this postcard commemorating the Bangor Street Fair and Carnival of 1912. Atwood''s appearance at the event was intended to mark the Queen City''s ...

Explorers hunt for Amelia Earhart's missing aeroplane exactly 75 years after ... - Daily Mail | By Ian Garland A new search for missing aviator Amelia Earhart will resume next month, 75 years to the day after she disappeared over the Pacific. A research team will set off for the remote island of Nikumaroro to try and establish what happened to ...

Pilot Investigated As Part Of Crash Probe from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The FAA has opened another investigation concerning California pilot Dave Riggs as an offshoot of its probe of a fatal L-39 crash that happened in Nevada in May. Riggs lost his flight privileges for a year for a 2008 buzzing of the Santa Monica pier in an L-39 and he was in formation with Doug Gilliss in his L-39 when Gilliss's jet went down near Boulder City, killing Gilliss and his passenger Richard Winslow, of Palm Desert, Calif. The FAA is investigating whether Riggs, who also had a passenger in his L-39, violated the regulations restricting the selling of seats for this type of flight...

MiG 21 in jungle cammie - travelforaircraft | NATO normally uses "Fishbed" as the codename for a Mikoyan Gurevich MiG 21, except for this MiG type, which is an example of a MiG 21US. This model served as a two seat advanced training aircraft so another codename was assigned, "Mongol". Normally flown unarmed it could be equipped with a 23mm cannon mounted in a pod as well as a pair of air-to-air missiles, each mounted underwing...

FAA awards suborbital flight permit to SpaceShipTwo from Flightglobal Events | The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a suborbital launch permit to Scaled Composites for testing its SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle...

Vandenberg AFB readies for X-37B landing from Flightglobal Events | US Air Force Space Command is preparing to receive the Boeing X-37B when it descends from a year-long orbit as early as this weekend to land at Vandenberg...