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Blue Angels Ready for Air Show - Patch.com | In addition to the Blue Angels, other performers include the U.S. Army Parachute Team Golden Knights, Black Diamond Jet Team, National Aviation Hall of Fame legend Sean D. Tucker, wing walker Jane Wicker and aerobatic superstar Michael Goulian...

Blue Angels pilot says jet is his 'office' - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — “It's my office,” Major Brent Stevens said Thursday while pointing to the shiny blue and yellow F/A-18 Hornet he plans on flying in this weekend's air show....

Hot air, inside and out - Battle Creek Enquirer | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Air show including U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, A-10 Warthog ... Air Force Thunderbirds will land at 3 p.m. today and some of the pilots will be ...

Gold Team Helps Celebrate 100 years of Army Maintenance from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | The Army arrived at Tobyhanna located in Pennsylvania in 1912 and a small Artillery Commander was given the assignment to find an appropriate east coast location for an artillery training camp. During that time, the Army’s only artillery training camp east of the Mississippi River was in Wisconsin enev though most of the Army units were in the north east. After inspecting several sites a location near the rail station in Tobyhanna was deemed suitable. The land was leased in August from Dr. George Rhoads, a prominent local resident, and directed the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery to train there. The unit remained in the Poconos until October. That initial camp proved so successful that the Army decided to return the next summer, and to also set up a camp of instruction for militia batteries and...

Prairie Air Show canceled - Bloomington Pantagraph | “For the past few months, air show officials and city officials from both Peoria and East Peoria had been working diligently to develop a plan that would be beneficial for all parties and the community,” according to the statement. “However, it was...

Legends News Day #4 from Classic Aviation Worldwide | After all the excitement of yesterday enthusiasts can be forgiven for thinking today would have been more of the same. With blazing sun and clear skies it is somewhat surprising that activity was somewhat diminished in comparison to the previous day. It started off in the best possible way with the focus being on The Fighter Collections P-47G Thunderbolt "Snafu/War Eagle" out on the grass for engine tests. Not long after she was taken up for a local flight and then, to the delight of photographers, put through her paces in a display over the airfield...

Bring on The Blades at balloon festival - This is Bristol | Instead of the Red Arrows, The Blades – a spectacular four-plane stunt team of some of the most experienced display pilots in the UK – will entertain with a 15-minute show including a sequence of more 30 daring manoeuvres. The only aerobatic display ...

Wetaskiwin Air Show still flying high - Camrose Canadian | The national acrobatic precision flying team the Snowbirds, parachute team the Skyhawks, or an F-18 fighter jet demonstration, will not fly over...

Alberta International Air Show 2012 from Airplanes Channel | With static displays, flight demonstrations and other activities, the Alberta International Air Show 2012 has a program chock-a-block full of excitement. Performances include Jim Hrymack guiding his Harvard aircraft through a series of maneuvres including cuban 8s, loops, win overs and barrel rolls. Well-known aerobatic ...

Fly day's | Who knows what surprise aircraft and folks will show up at the July "FlyDay" gathering but you can bet a full house of aviation enthusiast and friends enjoying music, dancing, dining and tasting great craft beers. Guests also...

Air Races gets boost in funding - KRNV My News 4 | Reno Air Racing Association President and CEO Mike Houghton tells News 4 that is much more than they have paid in the past and they are struggling to reach that figure. Houghton says this support is critical. The money will come from special events...

Classic Aero-TV: Aero-TV At Oshkosh 2011 -- Hanging Out At The Flightline from Aero-News Network: Sport Aviation | Flight Line Fun at Oshkosh 2011 -- Day Two Oshkosh, one week a year, is a microcosm of the world... a massive group of small unique associations and groups all dedicated to a common cause... and doing their own thing in the process. From the Warbird gang to the aerobatic folks to the ultralight types to the folks that keep the Flightline running, it is an eclectic and delightful exercise in human interaction. When we...

Norris To Receive EAA's Tony Bingelis Award from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association  | EAA announced today that Joe Norris, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is the 2012 recipient of EAA's Tony Bingelis Award, recognizing his involvement as an active volunteer technical counselor and aircraft builder. Norris has been involved in the aviation community since his first trip to EAA Fly-In Convention in 1970....

Ice Cream and the Snowbirds from Randy Rothhaar Photography | Ice cream and the Snowbirds at the 2012 Hamilton Airshow in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada...More from Randy here.

Jupiter Aerobatic Team arrives in Bangkok - Jakarta Post | Knights of the sky: Members of the Indonesian Air Force's (TNI-AU) Jupiter Aerobatic Team (in red overalls) pose with their counterparts from the ...

Warbirds reveal past - The Sunshine Coast Daily | IF THESE planes could talk, what a story they would tell.

B-17 Brings Back Memories for Tulsa Veterans - OzarksFirst.com | watch video. (Tulsa, OK)--An airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the temporary home to a piece of history. A fully restored B-17 Bomber from World War II flew in on Monday, much to the delight of veterans who were given the chance to relive some of their ...

Avenger to appear at radio- control fly-in - LaSalle News Tribune | The latest and most complete coverage of Local Print and Digital news in the North Central Illinois area.

Aviator Missing From WWII Identified from Aero-News Network: Military | Will Be Buried With Full Honors June 29 The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced Tuesday that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, were recently identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors...

Bomber Command hero 'climbed onto wing to put out fire' - BBC | A memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died taking the fight to Nazi Germany during World War II has been unveiled by the Queen. Their mission was to attack Germany's air bases, troops, shipping and industrial complexes connected to the war effort. Almost half of the 125,000 Bomber Command lost their lives - more than today's entire RAF personnel - yet their courage has never been officially marked...

A Story About World War II That China Would Like You to Hear - The Atlantic | On May 6, 1944, U.S. army pilot Glen Beneda of the Flying Tigers was shot at by Japanese fighters while flying a combat mission over China. His plane caught fire, he ejected, and minutes later he landed in a rice paddy, frightening a group of Chinese ...

Valley's aviation past dates back to long before WWII - The Desert Sun | Palm Springs first “airport” was behind the El Mirador Hotel between what is now Tachevah, Avenida Caballeros and Vista Chino drives.

Boeing's pre-Farnborough tour: San Antonio and Edwards AFB from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Continuing on Boeing's pre-Farnborough tour last week... From Hurburt Field, Florida, we flew to Kelly Field, near San Antonio, Texas, in a pair of Gulfstream 200 business jets....We also saw the X-48C blended-wing body subscale test bed aircraft. It's a lot smaller than I expected for a multi-million dollar research project. With this new version, Boeing and NASA are exploring technologies to reduce the aircraft's noise footprint. Eventually, they hope to build a larger-scale aircraft... Potentially with a pilot even--but that's in the future. Right now, they just want to fly this thing....

Fear of flying from Apron 6 | Another fantastic video from the same videographer as yesterdays Duxford video.   I seriously thing this is a must watch for everyone involved in aviation. It makes you think…

Suspended flights Sukhoi Su-27 fighters from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | The flights of fighter-aircraft Sukhoi Su-27 were suspended due to the crash of an airplane of this type which occurred on the morning of June 28 in Karelia, said the official representative of the Air Force, Colonel Vladimir Drik.

Alaina's Second Scholarship Essay from Life on the Road as a Pilot | The Girls With Wings Scholarship Program provides funds for flight training to selected individuals with a willingness to be superlative GWW role models. Winners show potential to continue her interaction with the GWW organization, via the website and events, so she can assist GWW in encouraging more young girls to have an interest in aviation. Part of the obligation for being awarded the scholarship is to submit at least one picture and an...

SpaceShipTwo glides again as Virgin plans a Farnborough announcement from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust | For the first time since late September, SpaceShipTwo performed a glide flight on Tuesday. Parabolic Arc, citing a report in the Antelope Valley Press (hidden behind a paywall), reported that SpaceShipTwo made a glide flight Tuesday above Mojave Air and Space Port. (The test flight has not, as of early Thursday morning, appeared on Scaled Composites’s flight logs for the vehicle.) The last glide flight for SpaceShipTwo was in late September, when it went into a stall shortly after release from WhiteKnightTwo. The resumption of glide flights was expected after a series of WK2 flights and a captive carry flight with SpaceShipTwo earlier this month...

Spaceport Names New Executive Director from Spaceports | The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority has named a new executive director to manage the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va.  The authority's board of directors announced Wednesday afternoon at a meeting at Wallops Island the selection of Dale K. Nash to the position beginning July 31, 2012. He will replace Dr. Billie Reed, who has served as executive director since the authority was established in 1995.