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Navy ships, Blue Angels arrive in Seattle for Seafair - KING5.com | SEATTLE -- ...The Navy's Blue Angels jets also are arriving in Seattle. They'll practice Thursday and Friday and perform Saturday and Sunday over the hydroplane race course on Lake Washington....

Celebrated Snowbird commander to fly vintage jet - CBC.ca | Dan Dempsey, a former commander of the Snowbirds air demonstration squadron, returns to Saskatchewan to fly a restored F-86 Sabre jet in the colours of legendary air demonstration team, the Golden Hawks. Dempsey, a retired military pilot, will fly the ...

Air Show, Health Fair, Runs highlight 'Eagles' weekend - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle | The air show will begin at 10 a.m. with opening ceremonies, posting of the colors and a welcome from the Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell, Ky. Maj. Gen. James C. McConville; followed by the National ...

AirVenture Photos from TVR Photography.com's Facebook Wall 
Tora! Tora! Tora!  from The Flightline's Facebook Wall | We had the opportunity to work with the Pyro team for Tora Tora Tora Airshows at EAA AirVenture 2012 and this was the view from our GoPro. Enjoy the ending :)

AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 – Day 5 from Other People's Airplanes by David | n today’s episode, we head over to Pioneer Airfield. We talk with Dave Readout about what it is like to crew for and fly the Goodyear blimp. Then we head over to the Sennheiser tent for Podapalooza. The annual event...

Little Rock AFB Air Show Sept. 8-9 - Hot Springs Village Voice | Team Little Rock will open its gates to the people of Arkansas and surrounding states Sept. 8 and 9 for the 2012 Heritage and Heroes Open House and Air Show. The open house will showcase the base's mission as the world's largest C-130 base and dazzle ...

B-17 appearance turns into a major headache - Rantoul Press | Lee Brown of Houston, left, stands inside a B-17 bomber Texas Raiders that flew into Rantoul Sunday afternoon. He is speaking with Mike Ziegler of Mahomet Monday afternoon. Ziegler was scheduled to be the flight engineer of the 3 p.m. public flight of ...

Historic B-25 Aircraft on display in Bozeman - KXLF Butte News | A little piece of American history is sitting outside a hangar near Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport this week. A flight crew from Arizona landed a B-25 Mitchell at the airport on Monday. This aircraft saw action during World War II, but its ...

CHINO: Air museum demonstrates WWII bomber on Aug. 4 - Press-Enterprise | The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino will showcase “Bombers of the 8th Army Air Force” on Saturday, Aug. 4. The program will include a demonstration flight of a B-25 Mitchell, described by Boeing on its website as “perhaps the most versatile aircraft ...

Lefty Gardner’s #13 White Lightnin’ from Planeshots 

Human remains recovered from legendary WW2 airman Jack Zimmerman's last ... - Montreal Gazette | Jack Zimmerman, a pioneering American aviator who was so well known at the time that a biography detailing his exploits was published just months before the November 1942 tragedy off the Quebec coast. Zimmerman, 37, was one of five U.S. servicemen ...

Earhart Searchers Return, Will Examine Data from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A team from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery has returned to Hawaii after searching a reef on a remote Pacific atoll in search of evidence to support their theory that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ditched their Lockheed Electra there. The team spent about a week exploring the site with a research ship, using submersible vehicles, but reported no definitive signs of the airplane. However, the team collected "volumes of new sonar data, thousands of photographs and hours upon hours of high-definition video," Kate Aconfora, a spokesperson for the Discovery Channel, told AVweb. The TIGHAR team will now be "reviewing and analyzing" all of that material, she said.

Visit to Falcon Field/Phoenix from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Escaping the Arizona summer heat by lobbing into an aviation museum seemed like a good idea and the stop off at the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum...

God Save the Vulcan!- airspacemag.com |The Royal Air Force Vulcan, immense cold war bomber and aerodynamic marvel, has been sentenced to permanent museum exhibition.

A centenary, an aircraft and a landscape, set to music from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The Royal Norwegian Air Force celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. As part of the commemoration, it's released this short video clip of one of its F-16AM aircraft maneuvering over several scenic parts of Norway. I particularly like it because the F-16AM is...

IN FOCUS: F-22 pilots and engineers not convinced USAF has found root cause ... - Flightglobal | A number of pilots and engineers are not convinced that the US Air Force has found the root cause of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor's oxygen woes despite the service officially naming the Combat Edge upper pressure garment and its associated systems ...

Seaplane Pilots Association announces scholarships - AOPA Pilot | SPA Director Steve McCaughey said he hopes to offer a minimum of 12 scholarships a year at events scattered around the country, including AirVenture, Sun 'n Fun, and seaplane-specific events. McCaughey's vision for the scholarship program is to grab ...

Gabby's Final Scholarship Essay from Life on the Road as a Pilot | The time has arrived - when we read the final essays of the Girls With Wings Spring Scholarship Winners and anxiously await the announcement of the Summer Scholarship Winners (August 1st).  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 associated journal entry once a month for three months to the Girls With Wings blog to share with others her training, as well as email a final essay summarizing how the scholarship helped her, what she learned and her intent to continue her work as a role model and volunteer for the Girls With Wings, Inc., organization....

Heathrow's Myrtle Avenue: A plane spotter's paradise - BBC | As tens of thousands of Olympics spectators arrive in the UK via Heathrow Airport, few of them would think that they have spectators of their own. But they do....