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The Blues Have Landed! - Londonderry News | Blue Angels 4, 5 & 6 showed up off the right side of the plane and were ready to refuel. Blue Angels 5 and 6 were on the right side of the plane right off our wingtip while Blue Angel 4 refueled. The 3 jets took turns refueling, Blue Angels 1, 2, & 3 ...

Angels fly high and low to put on a show - The Union Leader | The lineup also includes the Black Diamond Jet Team, the Golden Knights — the U.S. Army Parachute Team — air show legend Sean D. Tucker, aerobatics superstar Michael Goulian, wingwalker Jane Wicker and the New Hampshire National Guard KC-135 ...

South Shore Air Show to Honor the Fallen - PortageLife | Where Life and Portage Connect - Telling the positive stories of the people, businesses, and organizations of Portage, Indiana.

Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake to stage annual air show, fireworks display  by David Webb| The "Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake air show" returns on July 7 at 6 p.m. to provide its spectacular fireworks display that is visible to boaters and shore huggers all over the lake area. The event, which drew an estimated 40,000 people last year, provides free viewing from boats, the lake's shores, local parks and private residences. The air show featuring both civilian and military aircraft flying within 500 feet of the ground culminates with the fireworks show after dark....

Fair St. Louis Getting Ready To Bring The Heat - CBS Local | Another special appearance will include a Heritage Flight featuring a vintage North American P-51 (Mustang) from World War II and an A-10 Thunderbolt (Warthog). Other events include an inaugural Freedom 4 miler and a one-mile Family Fun Run, hosted ...

Podcast: Coming Up at AirVenture from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski, veteran of a quarter-century's worth of AirVenture extravaganzas, updates AVweb's Mary Grady with a look at what to expect from the 2012 edition, just a few weeks away.

Helicopter Air Show in Los Angeles This Saturday - LAFD News & Information | The American Heroes Air Show arrives in Los Angeles this Saturday, June 30, 2012. The free public event that focuses on helicopters, will be held from 10AM to 4PM at the Hansen Dam Recreation Area in Lake View Terrace.

Spitfire and Red Arrows to wow crowds as forces heroes celebrated - This is Scunthorpe | The Red Arrows and a Spitfire will wow crowds at this year's National Armed Forces Day event in North Lincolnshire.The show will come to Messingham Showground on Saturday, June 30, with everything...

Jubilee marked at Air Tattoo launch - Lancashire Evening Post | There was a distinct Diamond Jubilee feel at the launch of this summer.

The Tricolour Arrows fly in Puglia - free News | The aerobatic team arrives in Salento with the performance of the Tricolour Arrows. The "2 ° Salento Tricolore Air Show", scheduled ...

Video: 1970 Super 8 Home Movie: Blue Angels In F-4J Phantom II's (Mesmerizing) from AirPigz | With this video you get flicker, lint, and projector noise. But the cool part is that I think all of that is truly genuine. That's what makes this 3-1/2 minutes of vintage 1970 home movie (Super 8mm) so mesmerizing to me... it's just awesome. It's the most unusual little portal into a part of Blue Angels history in the early part of the 5+ years that they flew the McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II. Filmed at Suffolk County AFB in Long Island New York in 1970, this film reminds me so much of the many airshows I attended when I was...

Lifestyles: Big Sky Air Race - Beartooth NBC | The second annual Big Sky Air Race will showcase the talents of pilots from all across the country. The Big Sky Air Race is an annual event that attracts aviation fans and families looking for a good time. Kevin Danz, race coordinator, says the ...

'Bombs away' over insuring B-17 - AOPA Pilot | A spat over insurance disrupted a stop in Seattle, Wash., for two World War II bombers scheduled to give sightseeing rides from King County International Airport-Boeing Field during the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour.

Memphis Belle's Co-Pilot from Connecticut - Patch.com | The co-pilot of the most famous B-17 of World War II hails from Woodbridge.

B-17 Bomber To Fly Over Columbus, Offer Public Flights - 10TV | A World War II bomber is on display this weekend and will offer public flights

What Happens To Old Airplanes from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | As big/fast airplanes become obsolete, they are typically just parked somewhere. The lucky ones get a second life like the last DC-7 produced which is being turned into a restaurant in Florida. It was built in 1956 and retired in 2006 after flying 33,000 hours. After 50 years of service, it has earned the rest(aurant), I guess. One of the best-known “boneyards” of retired aircraft is at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Ariz....

Amelia Earhart's Navigator: The Life and Loss of Fred Noonan - History | Earhart may get all the glory for being a pioneering aviator, but Noonan was no slouch in that respect. Widely credited with opening the Pacific to air transportation, Noonan worked for Pan American World Airways beginning in the mid-1920s and was ...

The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski | There are some books about aviation that are so spot-on, so gritty, that you are compelled to hide them from the aviation squeamish. “The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska” is one of these books. The book was written by Colleen Mondor, who drew upon her four years of running dispatch operations for a Fairbanks-based airline. The names have been changed, but the experiences, such as knowingly flying over-loaded aircraft and intentional scud-running, are pulled from real life....

‘Plane Talk’ to broadcast live from 99s conference from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | IMC Radio’s “Plane Talk,” a live-streaming aviation internet radio talk show sponsored by the IMC Club International, will be broadcasting four two-hour shows live from its remote studio at the 2012 International 99s Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, starting July 11 and continuing through July 14.

Here’s another cool B-52 cockpit video! from David Cenciotti's weblog |  With all the fleet having surpassed 50 years of active service, the B-52 heavy bomber remains one of the most interesting (and powerful) weapon system in the U.S. inventory....

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories |This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force. View the slideshow.

Skydive Debuts Google Glass Project from Aero-News Network  |  Seeing The Freefall From The Skydivers Point Of View Google co-founder Sergey Brin came up with a pretty novel way to introduce Google Glass, which is a pair of glasses designed to deliver much of the same information as you might get from your smart phone, but in a wearable HUD. The glasses allow the user to interact with the Internet through voice commands, getting the display literally right before his or her eyes....

CAP cadets get taste of pararescue career field from Air Force Link Top Stories | The 306th Rescue Squadron hosted more than 20 Civil Air Patrol cadets during the advanced pararescue orientation course here June 13-23.  The course is a 10-day challenge that tests CAP cadets both mentally and physically as they are constantly evaluated on the stringent requirements of the pararescue, combat rescue officer, and survival, evasion, resistance, escape career fields...

Flying car completes Phase 1 flight testing from General Aviation News by Janice Wood |  The production prototype of the Terrafugia Transition — a flying car — has completed the first phase of its flight test program. Phase 1 flight testing, conducted at Plattsburgh International Airport in Plattsburgh, N.Y, allowed Terrafugia to check off many critical early testing objectives for the Transition program, said Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich, who added, "It's a real airplane; we're flying it whenever we want, for as long...

Kennedy Space Center's Celebrates 50th Anniversary from Aero-News Network  |  Equal Parts Nod To The Past And Look To The Future Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, July 1 with a program that includes NASA officials discussing the historic spaceport and the dynamic transformation underway to support the next generation of space exploration....

SpaceShipTwo Fires Rocket from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Virgin Galactic's passenger-carrying suborbital space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo successfully passed aerodynamic and powerplant tests on June 26, near Mojave, California. The vehicle performed its first successful glide since integration of its rocket motor systems. WhiteKnightTwo carried it to 51,000 feet over where it was released under the control of Scaled pilots Pete Siebold and Mike Alsbury. A chase plane...

Taikonauts Land in Inner Mongolia from Spaceports |  China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday (10 PM EST, Thursday, June 28, 2012), ending a 13-day mission that put the country's first woman in space and completed a human manual docking test with the Tiangong space lab critical to its goal of building a larger space station by 2020.