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Great New England Air Show wraps up - WWLP 22News | CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - The last plane has landed and the show is over at Westover Air Reserve Base, but what a fun and successful weekend it was attracting more than 200000 visitors during this weekend. The fifth heat wave of the summer still ...

Thunder Over Michigan Airshow draws thousands - The Detroit News | Ypsilanti — Flying low over the crowd, the powerful Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a plane that struck fear in the heart of enemies in World War II, received applause as it turned barrel rolls and rumbled through the clouds. Thousands of people turned out ...

Chicago Air and Water Show 2012: Insiders Guide to Best Views and Information. - ChicagoNow | Planes take off and land at the Gary International Airport in Gary, Indiana...where you will not see the air show but will still be able to view the planes flying in formation. GETTING THERE. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. As always for Chicago's big events ...

Air show to honor veterans and wow the crowd - The West Milford Messenger | The aircraft, most notably a vintage B-25 Mitchell medium bomber named "Miss Hap," will be on display for both days of the air show. This aircraft was once owned by Howard Hughes and was the personal transport of General "Hap" Arnold. Also on hand will ...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Red Arrows and Vulcan confirmed for Duxford Airshow from Flightline UK |We’ve confirmed a stunning line-up for The Duxford Air Show on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September. New for Saturday 8 September only is Avro Vulcan XH558, which previously flew at IWM Duxford in September 2008. Vulcan XH558 performs a majestic flying display in the 60th anniversary year of the Vulcan’s maiden flight and the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, in which the Vulcan played a vital role. XH558 was the first Vulcan B Mark 2 to be delivered to the RAF and the last Vulcan to leave RAF service after a sterling 33 years. It is now the oldest complete Vulcan in the world...

Cooler Temperatures for Black Team from US Army Golden Knights by dcook | Last weekend, the Black Demonstration Team traveled all the way to Anchorage, Alaska for the 2012 Arctic Thunder Airshow. On rare occassions the Golden Knights travel via commercial aircraft. That was the case for this weekend’s demonstration, giving the demonstrators a different perspective about traveling. First, we had to limit the amount of equipment we took with us, due to weight and baggage limitations on commercial airlines. Each jumper was assigned a specific portion of equipment inventory, as their personal resonsibility during...

Return from Rogers City (as an Airshow Pilot!) from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | Long story short, I took things to a new level this weekend. On Friday, I climbed into a TG-7A motorglider, flew to Rogers City, Michigan (KPZQ) in a two-ship formation, flew in my very first airshow as a performer, and came back in a three-ship formation. I first started covering airshows from the fence along the crowd line seven years ago. Over time, I’ve...

A Few Pictures from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 from Disabled American Veterans Airshow Outreach B-25 Flight Team | TeamWe hope you'll enjoy these pictures taken this year at EAA AirVenture Oshosh 2012! It was a great event for the DAV Flight Team. Please look for more pictures in the coming days that include photos from the Salute to Veterans Parade, the Phil Vassar Concert and the "First and Last Flight" which included the B-25 "Panchito" and the B-29, "FiFI".

CAF Red Tail Squadron – Event Update EAA AirVenture 2012 – July 23-29, 2012 - CAF Red Tail Squadron | AirVenture Oshkosh is known as an international gathering place for aviation enthusiasts and one of the most influential aviation events in the world. Each year an estimated 10,000 aircraft fly in and over 500,000 people attend the event.  Though the CAF Red Tail Squadron’s Mustang has been at the prestigious event for many years, the RISE ABOVE...

TeenFlight Airventure recap - TeenFlight |EAA OshKosh Airventure 2012 was an experience of a lifetime for a few lucky TeenFlight students. Here are a few of the highlights of the trip: TeenFlight Airventure 2012 in pictures...

Last Enola Gay member remembers the bomb - CNN | "Dutch" Van Kirk, the last surviving crew member of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima reminisces.

Mass ascent starts Bristol International Balloon Fiesta - BBC News | ... their wings. Balloons over the dockland development with ss Great Britain in the foreground On Sunday, there will be another aerobatic display, this one featuring four-plane stunt team The Blades, all of whom are former RAF fast-jet and Red Arrows ...

Ithaca's Tommy plane earned reputation in World War I - Ithaca Journal | The Army realized that the little plane could meet an urgent new need for an aerobatic advanced trainer that no other company could provide. They asked for a modified ... Jim Rundle is a board member of the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation. For more ...

Shuttleworth collection UK 5-8-2012 from stickandrudderWTO by G-GARY other links | After visiting Duxford in the morning, around lunch, I arrived at Old Warden in sunshine, instead of the rain, I left back at Duxford. Now the weather on 5-8-2012 was going to be hit and miss. At around 4pm in the afternoon, the show was cancelled, due to incoming rain, at the point of the show, where the 'fabric' aeroplanes were taken out of the hangar, but due to concerns, to be returned minutes later.It was a shame, but the day went well up to that point. And not before seeing some wonderful flying from many 'skilled' pilots. I saw friends there in the form of...

Aviationphotography.be Update from Apron 6 | I just updated aviationphotography.be with the Mig 29 A2A album.

Barron receives award for plane restoration - Hannibal.net | Dillon Barron, the 17-year-old son of Hannibal Regional Airport manager Mike Barron, recently received the Reserve Grand Champion Trophy for his restoration of a 1954 Cessna 170-B duirng the EAA Airventure show in Oshkosh, Wis. To view a sequence of ...

Preparations for space shuttle Endeavour's trip to California near end - Florida Today | NASA has already delivered Discovery to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., and Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. Atlantis could be moved to the KSC Visitor Complex ...

Red Bull Stratos: Testing The Skies from Aerial Sports Feed | Red Bull Stratos is far from being a project for an inflated ego with a death wish attached. Everyday that goes by in Roswell, New Mexico, new things are being learned about manoeuvering at a height...

Curiosity's Descent Snapped By Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera from Spaceports | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured imagery of the rover as it deployed its parachute. The Mars Science Laboratory safely touched down on the Martian surface on August 6th, 2012 EDT.

NASA Curiosity Rover Successfully Lands on Mars from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | NASA's most advanced, 1-ton rover, Curiosity, touched down on Mars on Sunday at 10:32 p.m. PDT, concluding a 36-week flight and kicking off a two-year investigation of the planet's conditions for microbial life.