Friday, August 3, 2012

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‘Backstage look at Blue Angels’ from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | SEATTLE, Wash. -- The Museum of Flight's Need for Speed Festival, "gives our visitors the opportunity to get an up-close and personal look at some amazingly fast aircraft, cars and even a hydroplane," said Doug King, Museum of Flight president and CEO. "We are excited to partner more closely with Seafair this year to offer a unique, backstage look at the Blue Angels air show, while giving our guests and members a weekend packed full of family-friendly activities for everyone."...

The Blue Angels are coming (and you can meet one) - Seattle Central District News | It's that time of year again: The Blue Angels will start practicing their deafening, crowd-pleasing (and pet frightening) fighter jet dancing over Lake Washington today (Thursday) and will fly every day until Monday. They should start no earlier than ...

Weekend Preview: Hydroplanes and Air Show, King County Fair - The Seattle Times | Weekend Preview: Hydroplanes and Air Show, King County Fair. A lineup of entertainment options for the weekend of Aug. 3-5, 2012, including Seafair Hydroplane Races and Air Show, and the King County Fair. Films opening Friday include the remake of ...

Fighter jets converge on Hillsboro for 25th annual air show - KATU | Holmes, one of six pilots from the Air Force's demonstration team known as The Thunderbirds that will participate in this weekend's 25th annual Oregon International Air Show in Hillsboro, was eight years old when he first got in a plane. The Denver, Colo.

Yankee Air Museum ready for Thunder Over Michigan air show - Hometownlife.com | The roar of airplane engines will fill the sky over Willow Run Airport this weekend as the Yankee Air Museum presents its 2012 Thunder Over Michigan air show. The air show, a fund-raiser for the Yankee Air Museum in Van Buren Township, runs Saturday ...

Falconara: Deputy Mayor Rossi receives the patrol of the 'Tricolor Arrows' - living Ancona | Receipts from the image Deputy Mayor Rossi "Tricolor Arrows". Thursday morning around 12 has landed at the airport Raffaello Sanzio the aerobatic ...

Southport Air Show: get special preview and show tickets - Telegraph.co.uk | Attending two special days at the Southport Air Show is just one of the summer's Open Doors experiences, brought to you by The new Ford B-MAX. It was one of the most captivating moments of this year's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. As the Queen and ...

Army soldiers dazzle crowd at open house - DVIDS | Opening the day with a free-fall demonstration presented by the U.S. Army's premier parachute team, the Golden Knights, jumpers clad in black and gold leapt from a C-23 Sherpa aircraft at an altitude of more than 12000 feet to perform amazing stunts ...

US Army Golden Knights take training to never-ending heights - sandhills.news14.com | The U.S. Army Golden Knights started in 1959, since then they have become a nationally recognized elite team. Now, there is a competition team, tandem team, and several other sections that make up the Golden Knights. News 14 Carolina Reporter Amanda Weber took a leap with the team.

Ohio Air News #203 - Charles Johnson | A boat trip across Lake Michigan - pictures from AirVenture and the New Aviation Museum in Port Clinton, OH.

Cross-country air race draws 40 aircraft - AOPA Pilot | Weather challenges changed the course but did not dampen enthusiasm as 40 aircraft participated in the 2012 Airventure Cup air race, flown July 22 between Mitchell, S.D., and Waupaca, Wis. Billed as “the world's largest cross-country air race,” the ...

Victoria eyes Red Bull Air Race over Albert Park - Herald Sun | Talks are under way to hold a Red Bull Air Race - dubbed the "Formula One of the skies" - in 2014. The global series sees pilots race against the clock through slalom-style inflatable air gates and pylons. The Herald Sun understands the State ...

Commemorative Bricks are still available for the Walk of Fame. - AMA | For a $100 donation to the Academy of Model Aeronautics, a brick in the Walk of Fame will be engraved in black with the AMA Wings and two lines reserved for your name, that of a friend, or your club.

Visit Albuquerque or Quebec for mass displays of ballooning enthusiasm - CNN | Quebec, Canada. International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (August 11-19): Every August, more than 125 balloonists descend on Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, midway between Montreal and Vermont, for the largest hot-air festival in Canada.

1909 Wright Military Flyer - airandspace.si.edu | The National Air and Space Museum famously has in its collection the original 1903 Wright Flyer, but the Museum also possesses the 1909 Wright Military Flyer, the world’s first military airplane.

We've Got You Covered - Vintage Wings of Canada |Here in the United Kingdom, it has been raining for months now, after a long, dry winter. It is almost as if tears are falling in remembrance.  And then, there is one glorious day of brilliant and warm sunshine in London, on the 28th of June. It is likely the only summer we will have. But it’s perfect timing. Which is a good, because the establishment of an international memorial to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of the people involved in the bombing campaign of the Second World War is long overdue. Organized by the Department of Veterans Affairs and...

Memphis Belle, B-17 Flying Fortress 6 - Timesonline.com | Memphis Belle, B-17 Flying Fortress 6. A short presentation of a few areas of the aircraft and a little history. youtube jQ7srwSe2uE. Memphis Belle, B-17 Flying Fortress 6 read more. A short presentation of a few areas of the aircraft and a little ...

Iconic WW2 bomber to visit Cranbrook - Cranbrook Daily Townsman | The B-17 bomber is considered by many to be the most popular and recognized aircraft of World War 2. It helped win the war in Europe by dropping over 640000 tones of bombs. Around 200 of the planes were built, and only 13 remain air-worthy today.

Winlock Veteran Returns to B-17 Bomber for a Day - Centralia Chronicle | Jerry Brewer, 90, Winlock, sits next to a World War II-era B-17 bomber on Wednesday at the Chehalis-Centralia Airport. Brewer flew in 50 missions as a tailgunner in a B-17 during World War II and Wednesday was the first time since the war that he had ...

How to Ship a B-17 Bomber: Shrinkwrap! - Jaunted | They are shrink-wrapping a B-17 airplane so it can survive a 1000 mile trip to its new home in the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. And, if any airplane can survive that trip, it's My Gal Sal, an aircraft which survived on the polar ice cap for...

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[HD Video] Hang onto the wing of a C-130 Hercules as it flies at tree top height in the valleys during Red Flag Alaska from David Cenciotti's weblog | As already explained, even in the hi-tech age of stealth bombers, low-level flying is still one of the most important parts of combat pilot training.

1944 - Founder of the Little Prince, Saint-Exupery disappeared while flying over the French coast from AVIATION AVIATION NEWS | Remains of French author of the aircraft would be found only in 2004 ..., a pastor of Aix-la-Chapelle, a former intelligence officer of the Luftwaffe claimed to have seen on July 31, 1944 a model P-38 Lightning was shot down in the Mediterranean by a German Focke-Wulf. In 1972, there posthumous testimony of a young German officer, Robert Heichele, which would have thrown against the Lightning, around noon, on the French Mediterranean coast. In the 1990s, there is another witness later ...

Red Bull Stratos: The Cinematic Trailer from Aerial Sports Feed | Whet your appetite for the forthcoming cosmic expedition that is Red Bull Stratos by watching this short teaser.

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