Friday, August 31, 2012

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Inaugural Paulding air show gaining momentum, sponsors - NeighborNewspapers.com | Co-director Dave Carmichael said the idea behind the air show was to give families in the area an exciting activity to participate in, while still remembering the country's heritage. “Air shows are tremendous community events,” he said. “It gives us...

Jet rally takes flight next weekend Show at local airport is first of its kind ... - Foster's Daily Democrat | The Horizon Hobby 2012 Air Meet and Air Show Extravaganza is being promoted as the largest RC event of its kind and is the first such event to be held in the U.S., according to organizer Ray Labonte, owner of Ray and Robin's Hobby Center in Falmouth.

Sixteenth annual AirFest in Lower Township attracts hundreds of aviation lovers - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | The boy and his father, Robert DeDemenico, of Westfield, were among hundreds of visitors who made their way to the airport for the 16th annual AirFest, a three-day event that serves as both a fundraiser and a history lesson. Joe Salvatore, director of ...

Look up! Fort Wayne Air Show this Labor Day weekend - WANE | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Leading up to the Air Show this Labor Day weekend, planes took to the sky to advertise. If you looked up around 11:30 on Thursday, you probably saw "Air Show" being written in the clouds. The Fort Wayne Air Show presented by ...

Stearman Fly-In ready to land in Galesburg - Galesburg Register-Mail | Hundreds of Stearman bi-planes like this Navy Model 75 will converge on Galesburg beginning this weekend for the week-long National Stearman Fly-In that officially kicks off Monday. The Navy typically painted the fuselage and wings of its planes yellow.

Great Barrington: Fly-In event to benefit Rotary Scholarship Fund - Berkshire Eagle | The Great Barrington Airport and Great Barrington Rotary will present their second annual Fly-In from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Great Barrington Airport, 70 Egremont Plain Road. New and old airplanes will be touching down and ...

Gold Team Headlines in Bellevue from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | This is the second time the Gold Demonstration Team has visited Bellevue for a show and both times the team has encountered adverse weather. Upon arriving the team was briefed on what their schedule was for the Defenders of Freedom Open House Air Show held on Offutt Air Force Base and along with the schedule came a warning of possible changes to the planned schedule due to the weather forecast. As always the Gold Team stands ready to adjust to any situation that might arise and did so effortlessly. On Friday the team...

Fiorito: CNE air show? Incoming, take cover - Toronto Star | The best letters are written by those who know how to think, to reason and to spell. The worst are from those who can't tell spin from Spinoza. Here, from the mailbag, are some things to think about while you're huddling in your bunker during the air ...

Vulcan marks 60 years since maiden flight - Telegraph.co.uk | Sixty years later, the last flying example of that plane, which was later named the Vulcan, will celebrate its Diamond anniversary with air displays at the Bournemouth Air Festival and Shoreham Airshow this weekend. Now a famous example of British ...

Red Arrows in emotional tribute to fallen pilots - Bournemouth Echo | The Red Arrows made an emotional return to Bournemouth on Thursday afternoon with their first display in the town since the deaths of pilots Jon Egging and Sean Cunningham last year. The seven plane team opened the 2012 Bournemouth Air Festival with ...

First day of Bournemouth Air Festival looks set to be record breaker - Bournemouth Echo | THE first day of Bournemouth's Air Festival was looking like the busiest Thursday in the event's short history. That was the view of Bournemouth Tourism director Mark Smith, a year on from the deluge which threatened to sink last year's event on day one.

Displays in the air and on the ground at Shoreham Airshow - Shoreham Herald | With more than 60 display aircraft, the event, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the RAF Central Flying School, should have something for everyone. For some of the highlights, aviation photographs, interviews with organisers and more on the work of ... 

Royal Air Force pays tribute to the “queen of the skies” VC-10 with a three-ship flypast across the UK from David Cenciotti's weblog | In 1960, the RAF issued Specification 239 for a strategic transport, which during September 1961 resulted in an order for five VC-10’s from Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. The VC-10 was an airliner designed for high subsonic speed at high altitude whilst operating from hot and high airfields found in African countries of the old British Empire. The design that came out of these requirements was quite simply the stuff of legends: the performance was...

Video: RAF Waddington 2012 DVD intro from stickandrudderWTO

The Patrouille de France, guest of honor of the 68th anniversary of the Liberation ... - Lyon first | As a prelude to ceremonies commemorating the liberation of Lyon, the Patrouille de France fly over Lyon twice, Monday, September 3, 2012 from 11:30 am paying tribute to those who liberated France and Lyon. After a first ...

The Patrouille de France fly over Lyon Monday - mLyon | The Patrouille de France fly over Lyon on Monday. The prestigious formation fly over the city on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of its liberation. From 11am on 9 Alpha Jets lights will make a first pass from west to east over the place ...

Italy paints the sky in Slovakia: the Frecce Tricolori Air Fest Sliac - Hello Slovakia | The Frecce Tricolori, officially "313 ° Acrobatic Training Group", also known as National Aerobatic Team, from their base at Addressed in Friuli Venezia Giulia will be visiting the skies of central Slovakia in the end ...

Warbirds: Models that 'come alive' - Muncie Star Press | MUNCIE — To be amazed by the efforts that warbird modelers put into their prized machines, you need only study the rivets that Sam Parfitt painstakingly etched into the surface of his shiny P-47 Thunderbolt. How many thousand are there? “Several, I ... 
 
Taking flight: What it's like to fly in the Flying Fortress - Suburban Life Publications | World War II veteran Lt. Charlie Mueller, of Plainfield, looks out the window of the "Aluminum Overcast" B-17 Bomber during a flight on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. To honor World War II veterans, the Warbirds of America Squadron 4 is offering rides on the ... 

Timeless Voices - Leo Thorsness from eaavideo.org | Medal of Honor recipient Leo Thorsness was a USAF F-105 fighter pilot with the 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War. He was shot down on April 30, 1967 and spent six years as a POW in North Vietnam.

Historic bomber on display at Missoula airport - KPAX-TV | MISSOULA- The engines of a B-25 bomber roared as it taxied to the Museum of Mountain Flying at the Missoula International Airport on Monday. This type of plane was made famous after the raid on Tokyo, on April 18, 1942, the first bombing of the city ...

Canadian air museum finds home at Toronto airport - CTV News | Canadian air museum finds home at Toronto airport. The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, left, looks up at the full-scale replica of the legendary Avro Arrow before speaking at the New Canadian Air & Space Museum "Takes Flight" ...

Young Eagles Flight Rally: Kids can take off - KeepMEcurrent.com | SANFORD – The Young Eagles Flight Rally, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, at Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport, is sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapters 225 and 1210. The free program, for children ages 8-17, started as a way to ...

Wapakoneta memorial honors favorite son Neil Armstrong - Canton Repository | Hundreds attended the twilight service for the fallen astronaut Wednesday night in his Wapakoneta hometown, the site of the Armstrong Air & Space Museum.

Discovery, Science to air Neil Armstrong special by Kevin Ritchie | Discovery Channel and sister network Science will host the U.S. premiere of One Giant Leap: A Neil Armstrong Tribute, a special commemorating the passing of the famous astronaut. ... The news comes after U.S. net History devoted an entire day of programming to late astronaut Armstrong yesterday (August 28).  As commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. He died on August 24 following complications from heart-bypass surgery that he had undergone earlier this month. He was 82.

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