Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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Navy fighter jets to highlight air show - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | High-performance military fighter jets will be center stage this weekend at the annual Wings Over Wine Country air show, which is commemorating the 100th anniversary of Marine Corps aviation.

Wings Over Camarillo Air Show to take off Aug. 18-19 - VC Star | ...The Wings Over Camarillo Air Show takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Camarillo Airport, off the Las Posas Road exit south of the 101. Instead of rubbernecking, pull off and check out the high-flying jinks from the safety of something nonmoving; i.e., the ground.  The air show, hosted by the Camarillo Wings Association, features aerobatic routines by nearly 90 aircraft, including vintage and experimental planes, and World War II fighters, bombers and transports....

Elite Frogs Returning To Lake Wawasee - Stacey Page Online (blog) | Most team members have had at least five years experience on the Navy Parachute Team, the “Leap Frogs.” Several members have logged over 6000 parachute jumps. During their skydiving careers, each team member has mastered the art of Freefall and ...

Pride, Passion, Planes – A Day With the Patriots from Featured by Sagar Pathak | (Sagar Pathak)If you hear a plane overhead, and you look up to see what kind it is, then it’s safe to assume you love aviation. And most of us can trace back to the moment when that love first started. For me, like millions of others of children, it was at an airshow. Back in May I got to spend the day with 20 of these folks who live and breathe aviation at the March Field Airfest. They are an all-volunteer team who maintain and fly the six sleek, all-black L-39s that make up The Patriots Jet Demonstration Team.

Awesome Vulcan XH558 Beachy Head Flypast, Eastbourne Airshow. WOW! from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon

“The Pilot Who Could’ve Saved Goose” Steve Tupper - www.warbirdradio.com | This is THE shortest story post ever on Warbird Radio.com. Steve Tupper is on tomorrow. What more can we say??

August 14, 2012 The race to Osh from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: Forty airplanes sat on the ramp in Mitchell, South Dakota, their pilots awaiting a decision from AirVenture Cup race officials on the status of this “race to Oshkosh.” Oshkosh, Wisconsin is the site of the annual aircraft lovers’ gathering. Sixty years ago Paul Poberezny created what would become the world’s largest convention of any kind, a week-long fly-in that would include forums, vendors, daily air shows, and plenty of places to pitch a tent under the wing...

Why, How and When the Sport of Air Racing Was Born from Featured by Alan Smith | Ever since the industrial revolution we have found ways to race every machine of motion that we have built. We raced steam locomotives on the main line, and steamboats on the nation’s rivers. We raced bicycles, scooters, ice skates and roller skates. We race anything that can move. It wouldn’t be surprising if we raced elevators in new office towers....

Chasing Reno Gold from Wasabi Air Racing by Elliot "Stinky" Seguin

B-17 Leaving Ohio For New Orleans from Aero-News Network | With Blue Ash Airport Likely To Close, My Gal Sal Will Head For A Louisiana Museum A vintage WWII bomber which spent more than 50 years buried in a Greenland glacier is being shrink-wrapped and prepped for a move from Blue Ash airport near Cincinnati to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans...

Virgil Moyer - Sioux City Journal | In the winters, Virgil enjoyed Arizona where he volunteered for the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. While he was in Arizona, Virgil flew the B17 Sentimental Journey, the B52 Maid in the Shade, The C-45 Expeditor, the L-16 Grasshopper, the ...

Will the Solway Air Museum ever be able to reach for the skies? - News & Star | Will the Solway Air Museum ever be able to reach for the skies? It occupies just under three acres at Carlisle Airport yet Solway Aviation Museum is packed with history. For the past 50 years, a team of ...

Flyby tests show atmosphere - Labmate Online | Visitors to the UK's Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in July saw a new visitor to the show as the FAAM BAe-146 Atmospheric Research Lab made its first-ever appearance at an air show. Researchers last year flew into the most disruptive ...

The Waverider Set for Mach 6+ Test Flight from Spaceports | ...The Waverider, which resembles a missile with a flat nose, will be dropped off the wing of a B-52 bomber off the California coast at an altitude of about 15,000 meters (50,000 feet), according to the US Air Force. The latest test of the experimental vehicle is tentatively scheduled for 10 am local time (1700 GMT) at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, spokesman Kenji Thuloweit told AFP...

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