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Thousands of Arkansans will head to the Little Rock Air Force Base for the Air ... - Today's THV | There will be performances from the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, USAF's Heritage Flight, Otto the Helicopter, USASOC Black Daggers, Canadian Forces Skyhawks, Air National Guard's Flashfire Jet Truck and much more. The Air Show will take place Saturday, ...

Sikorsky Aircraft is presenting sponsor of Stuart Air Show - TCPalm | STUART — The Stuart Air Show is proud to announce that Sikorsky Aircraft will, for the second consecutive year, be the presenting sponsor of the 2012 Stuart Air Show. The event will be held on Nov. 10 and 11. Sikorsky is a world leader in design, ...

Sea & Sky air show hopes to land Jacksonville Beach approval for October event - Florida Times-Union | The Sea & Sky Spectacular Air Show's future waits for Jacksonville Beach City Council approval Tuesday night. The council is considering the contract for the Sea & Sky Spectacular that will take flight over the coastal community Oct. 19, 20 and 21. The ...

Annual Stearman Fly-In attracts pilots near and far - Galesburg Register-Mail | Spectators of the 41st National Stearman Fly-In, take note: This event is for the pilots as much as it is for the viewing public. The six-day event allows locals and tourists to view — and even fly in — some of the finest World War II-era Stearman ...

Cajun Lunch Fly-in is Saturday at Carroll County Airport - Carroll County News | BERRYVILLE -- Hungry for a bowl of crawfish etouffee? Craving a bite of some boudin on a stick? Well then, direct your feet, wheels or wings to the Carroll County Airport this weekend. Leave the suitcases at the door, though, because New Orleans is ...

Nearly 300 airplanes make trip to annual Blakesburg fly-in - Journal Express | “Considering the weather and the presidentail TFRs in the state, our turnout was pretty good,” Brent Taylor, executive director of the AAA and chairman of the fly-in, said of the approximately 290 airplanes that showed up at the fly-in. The weekend is ...

Winston-Salem Airshow 2012 from US Army Golden Knights by dcook | Close to home shows always give the Golden Knights an opportunity to make a huge impact on the local community. This weekend, Black Team traveled the very short trip to Winston-Salem, NC. This year’s airshow expected to bring over 45,000 airshow fans from the surrounding area to the Smith-Reynolds Airport. We performed one media jump into the airfield on Friday, giving the jumpers a sneak peak at the landing area....

Golden Knights Win Gold! - armygk.armylive.dodlive.mil | The Golden Knights Female 4-Way strike Gold! This past week, the team traveled to Prostejov, Czech Republic for the 2012 World Parachuting Cup in Formation Skydiving. GKF4 arrived the Friday prior to the opening ceremonies in order to conduct training jumps. These jumps were important for a varie...

Rimini gives wings with the Frecce Tricolori - Il Resto del Carlino | Rimini, September 4, 2012 - will take place on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September, the largest event dedicated to the world of flight after 17 years marks the return of the Frecce Tricolori the skies of Rimini in Rimini, the most magnificent and exciting air show that ...

GREAT SUCCESS FOR ARROWS TRICOLORI IN SLOVAKIA AGI - Agenzia Journalism Italy | Last month, the Arrows tricolor had participated in the celebrations of the centenary of the Russian Air Force in Zhukovksy, just outside Moscow, performing their most 'famous aerobatic maneuvers: the looping input, until the final step with ...

Slovak International Air Fest 2012 from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Portfolio of photos from the show by Janoby and Jaroslaw Weksej...

Southport Air Show set to attract thousands to resort - Southport Visiter | They are seen live by more than six million spectators each year in the UK and perform a breathtaking sequence of acrobatic manoeuvres and handstands while strapped to the top wings of the team's Boeing Stearman biplanes. The Trig Aerobatic Team will ...

Eurofighter's Air Show Season Continues Across Europe - defpro | Hallbergmoos | Eurofighter Typhoon continues its summer of air shows in September as it attends a number of international exhibitions across Europe. The Eurofighter team will be at MSPO in Poland from the 3rd until the 6th...

Planes part of travelling air museum - TheChronicleHerald.ca | STANLEY — George King's summer has been an experience of a lifetime. “It's awesome, a joy, a privilege,” said the Yarmouth resident. King was taking part in the 41st annual Stanley Sport Aviation Fly-in this weekend in Hants County, flying a Fairchild ... 
 
B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle Makes A Stop In Winston- Salem,NC - WFMY News 2 | Winston-Salem, NC - The restored World War 2 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" flew into Winston-Salem Smith-Reynolds Airport Tuesday morning on its first national tour. This is not the original historic "Memphis Belle" that was the first B ...

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon "Attu Warrior" Makes Stop in St. Louis from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon, "Attu Warrior," recently made a fuel stop at St. Louis Downtown Airport. After making an appearance at Oshkosh last month, the aircraft has attended other fly-ins, and was heading home to Utah. The current manifestation of the aircraft took flight May 23, 2009 after a three-year...

Video: Kermit’s Helmet Cam is AWESOME! from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | We can’t be positive, but we’re pretty sure you have never flown a Curtiss Pusher. We sure haven’t. In fact, we’re pretty sure that we’re too chicken to even consider getting airborne in something that includes bamboo as a building material, and was designed before electricity was common in American homes. But that’s us. We scare easily....

Museum Participates in St. Louis Veterans Festival at Forest Park from News | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum joined with the St. Louis community in paying tribute to veterans of the armed services at the Veterans Festival held in nearby Forest Park in St. Louis. The museum brought in its BD-5 painted to represent the 126th Air Refueling Wing, based at Scott AFB in Mascoutah, IL. Hundreds of...

Learn about lighter-than-air flight during Family Day from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Learn the basics about lighter-than-air flight with free educational activities during Family Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 22.  Long before humans learned to build airplanes, they had taken to the skies in aircraft that were lifted by heated air and other gases. The museum will look at this great achievement with a variety of aerospace demonstration stations throughout the day....

North Carolina aviation museum enhances visitor experience - Attractions Management | North Carolina aviation museum enhances visitor experience. BY Pete Hayman. Carolinas Air Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, has been relaunched with a new exhibit dedicated to the "Miracle on the Hudson" and an enhanced visitor experience...

Beech G18S AW-01 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | The recent post on Tongan based Beech 18 N500MK prompted Tony H to send in these nice shots of...

September 4, 2012 Amelia Rose Earhart from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | ...Maybe soon the 75-year old mystery will be solved. But that’s not so much where we’re going with this “Where are they now” question. That would be tacky. What we want to do is take a look at the heritage they left us, and the people who are carrying on.  In 1977 Amelia’s great-niece and namesake took up flying, saying, "On my first landing I couldn't help but think, 'This was how she felt.' I know how she felt when she first took the controls.” And now...

Low level Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet video from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Check out this awesome video of a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet doing some low level work over northern California. One can presume this Rhino is from Naval Air Station Lemoore, which is the master jet base on the west coast...

A bad day at the office: U-2-style from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | Every once in a while, a copy of the US Air Combat Command's "Combat Edge" flight safety magazine lands on my desk; today was that day this quarter. Following on after items about F-4 ops in Vietnam, helicopter maintainers and bird-scarers, the "awards of distinction" section caught my attention with an entry about US Air Force U-2 Dragon Lady pilot Capt Scott Thomson's startlingly bad day at the office in July 2012....

NASA’s WB-57 Battlefield Area Communication Node gets new sensors, paint scheme for more clandestine missions
from David Cenciotti's weblog |...Few months ago, I discovered that WB-57 had been deployed to Afghanistan after conducting test flights at Nellis Air Force Base.  Indeed, the aircraft is currently on a BACN deployment at Kandahar Airfield until Dec. 5, 2012. It will be back in Houston for maintenance until Feb. 2013, and then leave agian on Feb. 28, 2013, on another deployment outside the U.S. (most probably in Afghanistan) until Sept. 30, 2013....

Video: Red Bull Stratos: Felix vs Joe from Aerial Sports Feed |In 1960 Colonel Joe Kittinger set a record for the highest freefall in history. Right now BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner is doing everything in his command to break this record – with the help of Joe.

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