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Opening ceremonies kick off Air Force Week activities from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Force kicked off one of its biggest outreach programs in America's largest city Aug. 19 with a combination of opening day remarks, flyovers, interactive displays and performances by Air Force bands.  The opening ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum...

Offutt Air Show this weekend - KMAland | (Bellevue) -- A special event is upcoming at Offutt Air Force Base. On Saturday and Sunday, the base is hosting the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show. Gates open at 9:00 am and the flight show begins around 12:00pm. Aircraft with the Army, ...

Air show brought out the best in everyone - Shore News Today | For someone like me, the airplanes are just part of the story at the air show in A.C. My daughter and I were local tourists a few years back. I was awed by the peaceful crowds and the orderly fashion of it all back then. Usually, I just got to hear the ...

Biggest Little Airshow draws 11,000+ from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | More than 11,000 visitors attended — for free — the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor’s 5th “Biggest Little Airshow” on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18-19...

Wings Over Halls enthrall: World War II-era planes and stunts captivate crowd ... - Jackson Sun | Many in attendance said there could have been no better day for the Wings Over Halls air show. Sunday marked day two of the show, which kicked off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the retired air base, now home to a museum dedicated to the years the ...

Aircraft visitation on Saturday evening - Chicago Journal (blog) | I was wrong about the Golden Knights using a C-130, though. I looked up my story in the Trib archive. I was in a C-7A. And today, the Golden Knights use a C-31A. But someone said it could very well be a C-130 that was being used for some other act in ...

Hometown Hero to fly in F-16 - WCSH-TV | "I just can't believe it," said Knobil who volunteers with the Young Eagles and ACE Camp programs. The Young Eagles program attempts to get high schoolers excited about math and science through aviation. ACE Camp stands for Aviation Career Education....

Catalina Air Show Coming Sept. 29-30 - The Log Newspaper | AVALON -- Celebrating 100 years of aviation history on Catalina Island, the inaugural Catalina Air Show will be a weekend filled with flyovers, festivals and fun. Using Avalon Bay as a natural amphitheater, the air show in the sky will take place Sept.

Photoflying days: Monday from Apron 6 | I thought the photoflying days were over, but they weren’t.
Today the last plane left…  Rest of Photoflying days HERE.

Whoooooosh - Red Arrows go blurry from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Fresh from user vipmig on our AirSpace site is this lovely image of one of the Red Arrows...

Warbird – Veteran Navy aviator still flies his 'retired' aircraft - Marconews | The T-28 in question belongs to Mick Thorstenson of Marco Island. The airplane is retired from decades of service to the United States Navy, and so is the pilot. Thorstenson, 63, served 23 years in the Navy, retiring as a Commander, the equivalent rank ...

World War II veterans fly in restored B-17 Flying Fortress - MyFoxDC | LEESBURG, Va. -  It was a chance to relive a bit of history on Sunday as dozens of folks got a chance to ride on board a World War II era bomber....

Poem prompts tour of B-17 World War II bomber in N.J. - newjerseynewsroom.com | It started with a poem and ended with a tour of a B-17 – a World War II bomber also known as a “Flying Fortress.” Last Tuesday's newspaper included a story about the plane, then spending two days at the Trenton-Mercer Airport. Interested veterans ...

Legendary Navy aviator dies - WCF Courier | A U.S. Navy rear admiral from Waterloo and a key figure in the history of American naval aviation has died.James D. "Jig Dog" Ramage...During WWII, Ramage became commander of the carrier USS Enterprise's dive bomber squadron. He participated in 11 combat operations in the Pacific. He directed air attacks in the 1944 invasion of Saipan and was personally credited with crippling a Japanese carrier "and leaving it in a sinking condition." He also participated in the raid on Truk lagoon...

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's 30th Anniversary Exhibits - City Guide Magazine | Description: New exhibitions will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. "Thirty Years of Collecting: Treasures from Intrepid's Collections" will showcase objects related to the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid, Growler ...

Crew Compartment Trainer loaded onto NASA's Super Guppy aircraft from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT-1) was loaded onto NASA's Super Guppy aircraft on Aug. 20, 2012, in preparation for its flight to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. CCT-1 is scheduled to arrive at the museum on Aug. 22, 2012. A time-lapse video of the loading of the CCT-1 onto the Super Guppy is...

Bell P-39 Airacobra Live Fire Practice (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV

Tiger Moth XL-716 - Model Aviation | It’s no exaggeration to say that building Scale model aircraft is an art form. In fact, one could say that building any type of scale model is an art form. But with model aircraft there is that other dimension -flying it. At this point the art form morphs into a white-knuckle, heart pumping, high testosterone adventure.... 

Sightings: Rare PZL M28 Skytruck Special Operations Aircraft Makes Stop in St. Louis Area from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A rare PZL Mielec (now Sikorsky) M28-05 Skytruck, one of nine operated by the USAF Special Operations Command 318th Special Operations Squadron at Cannon AFB, Clovis, NM made a stop at St. Louis Downtown Airport recently for a series of weekend training missions. The aircraft, manufactured at the...

Tanker exit could heat up fire season from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Mike Collins  | It’s been a brutal wildfire season in the western United States. And fewer large air assets are available for firefighting since Aero Union’s Lockheed P-3 Orion tankers were grounded last year.  10 Tanker Air Carrier (see the May 2012 AOPA Pilot article here or view the accompanying video on AOPA Live here), has modified the Douglas DC-10 for use as an airborne firefighter. Both of its former airliners have seen some service during this year’s fires. (Evergreen Aviation has modified a Boeing 747 for use as a tanker but said it has not been activated for service by the Forest Service.) 10 Tanker has...

"Gray Days at Lookout Point" UCAP #302 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

X-47B electromagnetic interference testing from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | The Naval Air Systems Command has released a new video explaining how the Naval Electromagnetic Radiation Facility (NERF) is testing the Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft System-Demonstrator for potential frequency interference....

NASA Shuttles Touch & Go - WFMY News 2 | ... and United Space Alliance teams delivered Discovery to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Va., and the prototype Enterprise to New York, where it recently opened for display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space ...

Next NASA Mars Mission Landing in 2016 from Spaceports | Launching in March 2016, InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission will study the Red Planet's deep interior with hopes to better understand the evolution of terrestrial planets, NASA announced today....