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Matt Younkin to Receive 2012 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | EAST TROY, WISCONSIN -- World Airshow News has announced that Matt Younkin is the 2012 recipient of the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship. The award will be presented during EAA AirVenture 2012 at EAA's Theater in the Woods on Tuesday, July 24th at 7pm. Matt joins a list of honorees that reads like an airshow hall of fame. He also becomes the first second-generation Barber Award winner. His father, Bobby Younkin, won the award in 2004.

Blue Angels Winging Their Way to Arkansas for September Air Show - KARK | Also included in the air show portion of the day are demonstrations by the Canadian Forces CF-18 team the U.S. Navy F/A Super Hornet demonstration team, ...

Gold Team Visits Norfolk Nebraska for the 2012 Airfest from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | The Gold Demonstration traveled to Omaha Nebraska on Wednesday for the opening ceremonies of the NCAA College Work Series.  The team landed and went to survey the Ameritrade Park where the jump was to happen and received a positive weather forecast for the following day.  Unfortunately out of nowhere a few hours before the jump, a severe thunderstorm with winds up to 65 miles per hour rolled in and forced the ceremonies and the jump to be canceled.  After the storm passed the next morning the team headed out to Norfolk Nebraska for the local Airfest...

Red Arrows to return for Hoylake Lifeboat Day - Wirral Globe | THE world-famous aerobatics team will be among the attractions during the event on Bank Holiday Monday, August 27.

AIRSHOW NEWS: Waddington confirm the illusive SAAB 340 AEW&C Argus from Flightline UK | This year’s RAF Waddington International Airshow is already looking to be the biggest for a number of years with over 20 nations participating and 76 foreign aircraft flying into the Lincolnshire airbase for the flying and static display. With just over 2 weeks to go the airshow team are happy to confirm the 77th aircraft in the form of the illusive SAAB 340 ERIEYE AEW&C, from the Swedish Air Force...

Wingwalkers will wow the crowds at Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | THESE wingwalkers are the latest addition to the line-up that will thrill the crowds at this year's Sunderland International Airshow.

Harbor homecoming for the B-17 and B-24 - Grays Harbor Daily World | Look to the skies Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and you'll see and hear vintage WWII aircraft courtesy of the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour...

Crowds wowed by assortment of planes at airshow in Mount Hope - Grand River Sachem | The contrasting fragrances of airplane exhaust, sunscreen, burgers and fries filled the air this past Father's Day weekend at the Hamilton Airshow as crowds in ...

'Warbirds' fly in: Featured fliers bring WWII 'living history' to Fargo - In-Forum | FARGO – At 22 years old, Alex Sahr was the nose gunner for an American B-24 bomber in World War II...

Vintage Warbirds at Fargo Air Museum - WDAY | Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - If you look up in the sky in the next few days, you may catch a glimpse of history above Fargo-Moorhead.

Air Race takes off from Havasu - Today's News-Herald | Bessie “Tookie” Hensley, from Mohave Valley, and Sherri Dwyer, of Lake Havasu City, were the first to take off in the Air Race Classic, a cross-country air race ...

Upper Iowa University professor is co-pilot in women's air race - Cedar Valley Daily Times | FAYETTE – A UIU faculty member is part of a team of female pilots competing in the 2012 Air Race Classic from Lake Havasu City, Az., to Batavia, Ohio.

Descending out of 10000 ft for Lake ... - The Flyin' HawaiIowans | Our 2012 Air Race Classic adventure will take us from eastern Iowa to Lake Havasu AZ and then to Batavia OH via New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We invite you to join us on this ...

Windsor goes after 2013 Red Bull race - Windsor Star | WINDSOR, Ont. -- The Red Bull Air Race, one of the most exciting, dangerous and biggest crowd-drawing.

Talking with Acro Camp IP Don Weaver - Airspeed Online | ...Don Weaver is one of the IPs who will be instructing at Acro Camp. In this episode, you get to hear his take on aerobatics and what you can expect if we pick you as a camper...

Stearman Square Tails at Sky Meadows from Antique Airfield News | Elin Pemberton took these beautiful photos of square tail Stearmans on the grass on Father's Day at Sky Meadows, near Spokane, WA. The ships are...

Famed 'Candy Bomber' honored at JB Charleston from Air Force Link Top Stories | Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen's legendary Air Force legacy is built on chocolate, bubble gum and hope.  Leaders here renamed the C-17 Aircrew Training Building after Halvorsen June 15 with a dedication ceremony in honor of the legendary "Berlin Candy Bomber." In 1948, World War II was over and its aftermath had left Berlin in ruins. Allied bombings had reduced the city's once historical buildings to demolished shells. The streets, once filled with busy urban life, were left littered with debris. Its people, many of whom were children, were scared, homeless and hungry...

90-year-old WWII vet describes flying B-29 bomber - KFVS | His senior year he was selected as captain of the Southern Illinois University aerobatic team. They went on to win the Collegiate Championship that year with ...

Gone West: Maureen Dunlop de Popp from Aero-News Network | WWII Female Spitfire Pilot Was Also A Cover Girl ANN has learned that Maureen Dunlo de Popp, who had flown Spitfires, Hurricanes, and Lancaster bombers during the Second World War, passed away recently at the age on 91 in Britain.

These Are the Good Old Days... from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Last night I attended a night of Aviation History.... And I was one of the guests. You know you're getting old when you're part of history....

From street gang to supersonic jet ride from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | It is pretty rare for a civilian to be taken for a ride in an Air Force supersonic T-38 Talon. But when Hualdo Mendoza volunteered his talents and time to assist the Air Force in rebuilding a highly prized replica World War I fighter, the Air Force offered him the ride of a lifetime as a gesture of appreciation for his contribution...