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Indianapolis Air Show features Thunderbirds, jet-powered outhouse - Indianapolis Star | ..."I think people of all ages just like the adventure and excitement," said Bob Duncan, chairman of the show. "There are so many things to do. You can be on the ground doing kids events and look up and there's all sorts of things going on in the sky," said Duncan, adding that he is looking forward to the Thunderbirds. The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron hasn't been in Indianapolis for the past six years...

Westmoreland County Air Show Takes Flight This Weekend - CBS Local | Many eyes will be on the sky over Latrobe this weekend for the Westmoreland County Air Show. Vintage airplanes and air acrobatics will delight the thousands ...

'Fly-In' scheduled for Friday - JD News | Richard Adams flew helicopters in the Army during Korea and Vietnam. His love of flight didn’t end when his military career ended. Adams has created several models for the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation, models that are on display at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center...

Fly-In at Cheraw airport is Saturday - Cheraw Chronicle | Fly-In at Cheraw airport is Saturday - The Open House Fly-In at Cheraw Municipal Airport Saturday June 23 means free airplane rides for children ages 8 to 14 ...

Washington County Airport Fly-In Produces Baby Ace Reunion from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | This year's Washington County Airport fly-in attracted a number of interesting aircraft and new visitors to this area.  Young Eagle flights were given in a variety of aircraft, such as a Socata TB 9, Ercoupe 415-C, Cessna 150F, and Taylorcraft BC-12D.  A major portion of the day was dedicated to the three Baby Aces that arrived mid morning, and one in particular,...

20th Anniversary American Waco Club Fly-In Held at Dauster Flying Field from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | The American Waco Club held its 20th Anniversary Fly-In at Dauster Flying Field (Creve Coeur Airport) in west St. Louis County recently.  It was great to see familiar faces, and some new ones, along with a variety of aircraft.  The annual event offers an opportunity for Waco owners and others to...

Newark Air Museum Cockpit-Fest 2012 - Scale Modeling Now | Newark Air Museum is a VAQAS accredited site that is located on the former World War Two airfield of Winthorpe in eastern Nottinghamshire. Its diverse collection of more than 74 aircraft and cockpit sections covers the history of aviation, the aircraft on display include 13 (thirteen) National Benchmark aircraft; 34 (thirty-four) Significant aircraft and 21 (twenty-one) Noteworthy aircraft as listed in the National Aviation Heritage Register...

Three new nations are set to touch down at Fairford air tattoo - Swindon Advertiser | ORGANISERS of Europe's largest airshow are preparing to serve up a triple helping of historic aircraft as three new nations prepare to touch down at RAF ...

Swedish Air Force lands debut at Waddington - The Lincolnite | RAF Waddington has announced that the 77th aircraft flying at the Waddington Air Show next week will be the Saab 340 Erieye, part of the Swedish Air Force...

Name That Balloon Fiesta from Aero-News Network | Annual Event Invites Fans To Vote Via Facebook The annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the world’s largest balloon festival and is an icon in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment. Each year, when the hundreds and hundreds of hot air balloons take to the skies, they do so with a marketing theme...

Classic cars head to nostalgia airshow - Oxford Mail | MOTORING enthusiasts are getting set to take part in a classic car gathering at airshow extravaganza Fly to the Past...

B-17 Sentimental Journey to offer Yakima flights, tours - Yakima Herald-Republic | YAKIMA, Wash. -- A World War II-era B-17 Bomber, Sentimental Journey, will arrive in Yakima about noon Monday at the McAllister Museum of Aviation at ...

World War II Aircraft Rides Now Offered on N. Oregon Coast - Oregon Coast Beach Connection | (Tillamook, Oregon) – It's up into the wild blue yonder for some visitors to the Oregon coast, as the Tillamook Air Museum now features airplane rides in a few ...

The 2012 Big Muddy Air Race is in the bag from The Big Muddy Air Race | ...Congratulations to every one who competed!

JU 52 Journey Begins - EAA AirVenture | The rare Junkers JU 52 tri-motor airplane scheduled to attend AirVenture this year has begun its trans-Atlantic journey to North America, and plane sponsor RIMOWA is tracking its progress online. The airplane's North ...

Solar plane to make second Morocco flight bid Thursday - Phys.Org | Pioneering Swiss aircraft Solar Impulse during a flying display at the Paris International Air Show at Le Bourget airport near Paris in June 2011. Solar Impulse ...

Chkalov's 1937 flight celebrated at Pearson Air Museum - The Columbian | Evan Petcoff and his family drove from their home in Walnut Grove to see a record-setting Russian airplane 75 years ago, and the 14-year-old boy was more ...

Group of Retired McDonnell Aircraft Employees Visits Museum from News | A group of about 60 retired McDonnell Aircraft/McDonnell Douglas employees visited the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Musuem last week following their monthly luncheon.  Many worked on the Mercury and Gemini space programs, while others worked on missiles and military aircraft made at McDonnell Aircraft and later...

Canadian 'hangar queens' June 2012 update from stickandrudderWTO | Some images of restorations during the stickandrudderwto and inreachfortheskies visit to Canada last week. Kicking off with the CWH Hamilton museums Bristol Blenheim, and it's progress, and also the CWH Avenger restoration on-going up at the musuem and...

“Tall Man 55″: B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber propaganda movie aimed at scaring the Soviets during the Cold War from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following is an interesting ’60s propaganda movie about the Convair B-58 Hustler whose purpose was to raise the awareness of the Americans about the U.S. Air Force operations (“jet noise is the sound of freedom” kind of message) and, above all, to scare the Soviets with footage...

Sightings: Cessna Citation Mustang "American Patriot" from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | The Cessna Citation Mustang "American Patriot" has made several appearances this year in the St. Louis area.  The aircraft is used in support of the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC), a nonprofit organization that provides...

Czechoslovakian Flying Bike – ET, Here We Come from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | The dream of flying a bicycle is older than the special effects magic of ET, harking back to the aviettes of turn-of-the-20th century France and the works of Jules Verne and Czech writer Jaroslav Foglar.  A Czech design team may soon make this fantasy more believable...

Video: ANA 767 Makes Hard Landing Today (That's Not Gonna Buff Out) from AirPigz by Martt | Watching this video captured earlier today of an All Nippon Airways Boeing 767 making a hard landing at Tokyo Narita Airport seems kinda funny at first... it looks a lot like of those wacky landing videos that you've probably seen before on youtube on some night when you couldn't sleep. But, while it appears no one was hurt in this incident, the airplane is damaged pretty severely in this landing...

"That Isn't Mute?" UCAP #291 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast