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Air Force Thunderbirds arrive in Quonset for weekend airshow - WPRO | Members of the Air Force Thunderbirds have arrived at Quonset Point for the National Guard airshow that will take place this weekend. The Thunderbirds are a highlight of the annual airshow showcasing the expertise of the United States Air Force with a ...

Former Olympian flies with the Blue Angels - Pensacola Business Journal | 7 Blue Angels jet, presents three-time Olympic medalist and NBC commentator, Rowdy Gaines, right, with a couple of mementos after his flight with the famed flight demonstration team Tuesday morning. / Tony Giberson/tgiberson@pnj.com Olympic gold ...

Meet and Greet at RI Air Show Saturday June 16th - Goulian Aerosports | We hope that you’re planning to watch the RI Airshow at the Quonset State Airport this weekend. There will be a great line-up of performers (riairshow.org for information). Please stop by to say hello to our team after the show on Saturday. We will have our hospitality trailer/chalet on the...

Airshow flies this weekend - Grand River Sachem | To celebrate the milestone, the museum has assembled one of the largest collections of flying vintage aircrafts in Canada for the airshow on June 16 and 17. The pride of Canadian aviation will be the focal point of this year's airshow, with appearances ...

Neb. Airfest set for Norfolk - Omaha World-Herald | The US Army Golden Knights parachute team will conduct four performances, and there will be re-enactments of historic aerial battles. Airplanes, including a P-51 Mustang and a B-25 Mitchell bomber from World War II, will be on display...

Annual Peninsula Air Fair wings into Soldotna, Kenai - Kenai Peninsula Online | Flight enthusiasts were greeted with an eclectic mix of experimental aircraft, military planes and a helicopter parked Saturday during the 12th annual Kenai Peninsula Air Fair and Poker Run at the Kenai Municipal Airport. As Nemeth and Capt...

Annual Father's Day breakfast, demonstration to be held at James Clements ... - The Bay City Times - MLive.com | By Lauren Gibbons | lgibbon1@mlive.com View full sizeBay City Times file photoVintage airplanes such as the one pictured above will be available for viewing at the Valley Aero Club's Father's Day Dawn Patrol Breakfast this Sunday at the James Clements ...

Lucas Returns, Highlights Fly-In Theater Lineup from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Legendary filmmaker George Lucas will be back at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2012 and will highlight a diverse collection of presenters and feature films shown nightly at the popular EAA Fly-In Theater, which is presented by Ford Motor Company and supported by Hamilton Watches...

Dyess AFB Airshow - Cold War Museum | On April 28th the Mi-24 traveled out to Abilene, Texas and Dyess AFB for the Big Country AirFest 2012.  The Hind was on static display  for the day while the sky was filled with the likes of the US Army Golden Knights and the US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber. We would like to thank the men and women serving our nation at Dyess Air Force Base and Dave Stubbington for the photos...

Brantford air show cancelled for 2012 - BRANT NEWS | A lack of planning time has grounded the 2012 Rotary Brantford Charity Air Show for the second year in a row. “Upon the announcement by Brantford city council that the repairs to the airport apron would be completed this summer, the air show committee of the Brantford Rotary Club met to discuss several scenarios,” said Rotarian Sherry Kerr, who is in charge of this year’s show. “It was ...

Kennewick's Vista Field won't be start of air race - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald | Port commissioners were told Tuesday that next year's Air Race Classic will move to another airport. Last month, Tammy Fine, the port's finance director and auditor, told commissioners that she was concerned a request to make $25000 in airport ...

2 Purdue women take flight for cross-country air race - Journal and Courier | Chantel Steele and Amanda Keck are flying for the Purdue team in this year's Air Race Classic. The annual plane race for women starts next Tuesday in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. and ends 2330 nautical miles later in Batavia, Ohio on June 22...

Competition Taking LU's Female Flyers to New Heights - WSET | Four members of the Liberty Belles leave for Arizona Wednesday morning to compete against dozens of other pilots across the country in the Air Race Classic. The four-day race will take them all over the country, testing their flying skills, ...

Amelia Earhart mystery may be solved in Pacific - Yahoo!7 News | WASHINGTON (AFP) - Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific, a research team is setting off July 2 with high hopes of resolving the mystery surrounding the pioneering aviatrix. For the tenth time in 23 years, ...

Non-Profit Girls With Wings Soars North with Support from Alaska's Famous Female Flyers from Toriaflies | ...When Ariel Tweto first heard of Girls With Wings, she immediately knew the impact the Cleveland, Ohio, based non-profit group could have on young women in her home...

Tiger Flight Flyover Opens Welcome Home Parade - The Chattanoogan | The Tiger Flight Foundation and flight team are proudly associated with the original Flying Tigers and honored to be the only civilian flight team associated with this famed World War II squadron. In 2003 Tiger Flight was given permission to use the ...

Enjoying a flight to history - Cheboygan Daily Tribune | By Zac Britton James M. King remembers the B-17 as a key plane during World War II. “Just how good of an airplane it is,” said the Petoskey resident and WWI veteran of the US Army Air Corps. “This airplane helped win the European campaign...

WWII veteran Hattendorf recalls airborne adventures - Rockdale Citizen | After flying escort for the B-25 carrying Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge on a fact-finding tour of Palermo, Wilbur Hattendorf's P-38 fighter days were over. His brother, Rich, recovered from his wounds and returned to combat, scoring his first 109 confirmed ...

German Navy recovers a plane 'Stuka' World War II from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS (translated) | German Navy submariners have started recovering in the waters of the Baltic Sea by a Luftwaffe fighter-type 'Stuka' who participated in World War II. A military spokesman said on Sunday that the Navy submariners have managed to dig up from the bottom of the sea, opposite the coast of the island of Rügen, virtually the entire apparatus, which recovered the engine and turned out the cockpit...

Exhibition tells the history of the 1st pilot of the Americas across the Atlantic from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS (translated) | TAM Museum in St. Charles, remembers trip João Ribeiro de Barros. An exhibition at the Museum of TAM, in São Carlos (SP), is recalling the story of the pilot João Ribeiro de Barros, on board the aircraft Jahú, entered the aviation history by being the first in the Americas to cross the Atlantic Ocean in in 1927...

e-volo Wins Lindbergh Innovation Award from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | e-volo, the company that crafted the VC-1 16-blade ultralight helicopter last year, won the Lindbergh Prize for that accomplishment and for its ongoing development of the multi-rotor platform, with single, two-seat, and unmanned aerial vehicles in conceptual versions. Yolanka Wulff, CEO of the Lindbergh Foundation, shared their press release on this award, given April 20 at AERO-Friedrichshafen.  Erik Lindbergh presented the AERO 2012 Lindbergh Prize for Innovation to...

Pilots take flight to attend EAA Breakfast - WatertownDailyTimes.com | Proceeds from the breakfast will be used to repair and renovate the association's hangar at the airport to prevent flooding, as well as to fund the Young Eagles program, Mr. Parks said. The program piques youths' interest in flying by educating and ...

Sailing to the stars? from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The late Robert L. Forward was a well-known physicist and an interesting and quirky author.  Among many space-travel concepts he helped to develop was that of a solar- or beam-powered light sail to propel interstellar spacecraft....

Boeing's Phantom Eye makes first flight from Flightglobal Events | The Boeing Phantom Eye, a hydrogen-powered unmanned air vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator, has made its first flight at Edwards AFB, California. The...

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...