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Thunderbirds in Gary to honor Hobart mayor at show - ABC7Chicago.com Video | The South Shore Air Show begins on Friday in Gary, Indiana, and one of the highlights will be the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

Fair St. Louis Offers Three Days of Activities - The Missourian |  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). The Fair will also feature some of the most popular civilian performers. Musical ...

Minot air show featuring Canada's Snowbirds team - The Republic | MINOT, N.D. - Canada's premier military flying team is highlighting a Fourth of July air show at Minot's airport.

Airshow is cut to just one day - Oxford Mail | KIDLINGTON: Airshow Fly to the Past has gone from being a two-day event to ne-day because of a lack of sales.

Space travel and WWII battle at Farnborough Airshow - gethampshire.co.uk | A SHOW-STOPPING line-up of exciting attractions is promising to provide a great day out for visitors at this year's Farnborough International Airshow.

Warbird heaven at the Flying Legends Air Show from Gold Hotel Whiskey | The 2012 Flying Legends Air Show was held at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire, UK last weekend and an article in the Daily Mail has number of fantastic pictures of “warbirds” for aviation buffs. What makes the air show so special is that the display features only propeller-engined warplanes from both world wars as well as [...]

July 3, 2012 The Great Northwest part 2 from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Mike: Picking up where we left off last week, the post breakfast-with-my-brother flight from Boulder City, Nevada brought us to Twin Falls, Idaho for fuel. Linda appreciates the natural beauty of Twin Falls in early summer weather. She wouldn’t like it so much in the winter. But on this trip the serenity of bountiful farms slid along under our wings, though it was getting hot enough for an airplane’s climb performance to be a concern. Airplanes don’t perform equally in all conditions. When the field elevation and temperatures rise significantly, performance drops and climbing higher is noticeably affected. That’s why flying in deserts and mountainous areas requires adjustments in consideration of these factors...

Parachute show at Liberation Carnival today from The Kathryn Report | The 68th Guam Liberation Executive Committee announced that retired Army Officer- Major Tim Ohno, a member of the Northwest Special Operations Parachute Team known as the Warriors, will conduct a parachute demonstration at 6:00PM at the Tiyan Carnival Grounds...

Hartford Airport, Community Roll Out Red Carpet ... - EAA AirVenture - EAA AirVenture
The 75th anniversary of the Piper Cub is being celebrated at Oshkosh this year, but there's a lot going on beforehand at Hartford Municipal Airport (HFX), less than an hour to the southwest as the Cub flies, and the final staging ...

Theater in the Woods Schedules a Full Week of ... - EAA AirVenture | With seating for 3500 people (and can accommodate thousands more along the outskirts), Theater in the Woods is the largest public gathering structure on AirVenture convention grounds and its seats will once again be filled ...

Dinner Planned for Dyke Delta's 50th - EAA AirVenture | In honor of the Dyke Delta JD-52's 50th anniversary celebration this year, the family of aircraft designer John Dyke has arranged a celebratory dinner at Roxy's Supper Club in downtown Oshkosh on Wednesday, July 25...

Snowbirds booked by Port Stanley BIA - London Free Press | Canada's famed aerial acrobatics team will dive, dip and twist over Port Stanley this fall.

Solar Impulse Grounded By High Winds In Morocco from Aero-News Network: General Aviation | Flight Back To Europe Delayed Indefinitely The Solar Impulse team has indefinitely delayed the aircraft's return flight over the Strait of Gibraltar due to unexpected strong high and middle altitude winds.

Michigan Aerobatic Open 2012 – Day -3 from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | A down day to get some work done for clients, do laundry, and snag a little sleep, and it’s back to it. On Sunday, I left the Battle Creek airshow shortly after finishing my narration gig for the Tuskegee Airmen glider demo team. I picked up Don Weaver in Jackson and drove him to Ray [...]

Champion pilots take to Katherine skies - Katherine Times | THE Katherine Model Aero Club held its first ever national IMAC competition over the weekend and the feeling at the completion of one day of practice followed by two days of full-on competition in our first ever KMAC Cracker IMAC competition was one of ...

Happy July 4th!!! – WWII Pilot Roy Reid's Amazing Story – Warbird Radio | WEDNESDAY – Celebrate the 4th of July by listening to one of our favorite shows! Roy Reid was shot down on a B-17 at Pearl Harbor…and lived to tell ...

Veterans and Guests Ride B-17 - CBS Local | Veterans and their families take a ride in a rare World War II bomber.

Inspirational Women Pilots - Forbes - Toriaflies

Today in History: 'Amelia Earhart Believed Down at Sea' - Leader-Telegram | Aviator” is a rare job description these days. Sure, we have airline pilots, military pilots and private pilots, but air travel is so routine that it is usually unremarkable. (Or only remarkable when an accident happens or because of the many ...

Two Erie Pilots Join Famous Aviator Honorees - ErieTVNews | Friends and family gather at the Erie International Airport as two Erie pilots are recognized as Famous Erie Aviators.

French airmen event at Yorkshire Air Museum may win top tourist prize - The Press, York | The Yorkshire Air Museum is in line for a major award for its work in honouring the French airmen based in Elvington during the Second World War.

HAI President’s message: Let’s Talk People from HeliHub.com News | As many of you know, I am passionate about safety and unreasonable regulatory and political initiatives, but I thought it might be nice to discuss my other passion — the people that make up this great industry of ours. Besides, if I think about regulations, legislation, politics, and life inside the Beltway too much, my [...]

ANG announces C-130 crash victims - www.af.mil | Four Airmen died and two others were seriously injured when a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 Hercules crashed July 1 while fighting a woodland fire...

Two British airmen missing as jets crash in North Sea from Defense News by DefenceTalk.com | The search for two British airmen missing after two Tornado jets crashed in the North Sea was called off on Tuesday due to bad weather, but will resume early Wednesday, the defence ministry said. Two...

Flip it over from Apron 6 | Jerome sure knows how to fly the Yak behind the skyvan! Part IV in the yak-texan serie.

Blacktown plane pullers will defend their title - Blacktown Sun | There were 16 teams competing in the 2011 Plane Pull. Other winners were: Kings Cross LAC (Fastest NSW Police Team ); RAAF Richmond (Fastest Open Team); Firearms and Organised Crime Squad (Fastest State Crime Command Team); and Kings...

Northrop N1M - airandspace.si.edu | Today in 1940: John K. "Jack" Northrop's dream of a flying wing becomes a reality when his N-1M (Northrop Model 1 Mockup) makes its first flight. While its flying characteristics were marginal, the N-1M led to other designs, including the Northrop XB-35 and YB-49 strategic bombers and ultimately the B-2 stealth bomber.

World's First Manned Civil War Balloon Replica Begins Public Flights On July 4 from Aero-News Network: General Aviation | Intrepid Cleared To Launch At Genesee Country Village & Museum he Intrepid -- the world's first replica of a manned Civil War balloon -- has been cleared for public flights beginning Wednesday, July 4 at Genesee Country Village & Museum. Weather permitting, the balloon will take guests approximately 300 feet (32 stories) into the sky, simulating what the world's first military pilots experienced 150 years ago.

Wingsuit Racing from Latest Vlog | I've been following Devin Graham for a while now and today he launched an aviation type clip in the form of wingsuit racers.

Episode 204 – Flying Skycatchers from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Guests Edward Honey and Benjamin Alimena are two of the Discover Flying Interns for Cessna in a program to take the 162 Skycatcher to various aviation fly-ins and events, ending with AirVenture in OshKosh. Cessna is handing the keys of these brand-new light sport aircraft to...

Space Shuttle Enterprise to Open at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, 7/19 - Broadway World | The Space Shuttle Enterprise, the original NASA orbiter that paved the way for America's successful space shuttle program, is scheduled to open to the public at its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 (46th Street and ...

NASA Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson Leaves Agency from Space Shuttle and International Space Station News | NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has left the space agency.