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'Hometown Hero' flies with Thunderbirds in advance of this weekend's air show - Sacramento Bee | What is an extra day's wait when you have a chance to pull 6.9 g turn in an F16 jet fighter? After having a scheduled flight with the Thunderbirds flying team scrubbed Thursday, Christina Preston took an action-packed one-hour ride in one of the red ...

Little Rock Airshow Takes Place This Weekend - KUAR | The Little Rock Air Force Base is hosting its annual Airshow this weekend, where the Blue Angels are to perform. Lieutenant Colonel John Klatt is one of the aerobatic pilots performing in the show and says he's a proud air guardsman and is very excited ...

Taking a ride in the Blue Angels' C-130, "Fat Albert" - FOX16.com | She's the largest but least famous member of the Blue Angels. The C-130 cargo plane known as "Fat Albert" is used to transport spare parts for the world-famous jets but. at 120-thousand pounds, "Fat Albert" isn't afraid to throw its weight around. "We ...

'Wings Over Waukegan' Air Show Slated For Saturday - Patch.com | The Canadian Snowbirds aircraft will be on display during the “Wings Over Waukegan” core air show hours (Gates open at 9:30 a.m., air show from noon to 4 p.m.) on Saturday, Sept. 8 at Waukegan Regional Airport, 3580 N. McAree Rd., Waukegan.

NRV Skyfest Airshow brings excitement, talent from across the country - WSLS | “We have an amazing show, we're bringing a lot of people to southwest Virginia that have never been here before” said Debbie Seagle, the airshow director. “Our signature move is the bomb burst where we come in as a group and three of the airplanes go ...

Black Team Attends the Cleveland National Air Show from US Army Golden Knights by dcook | The 2012 Cleveland National Air Show hosted a wide variety of world class performances. Black Team was proud to participate over Labor Day weekend. The show is unique, in that it offers 3 entire days of air show performances. Black Team was slated for two performances each day, providing several unique opportunities. To start off the weekend, Black Team demonstrated...

Air Racing: Competition Continues to Improve Design from Featured by Alan Smith | The Lancair “Legacy” races at Reno in the Sport Class. (Jan Peters)Any kind of motorsport provides a form of on-site engineering test and function improvement, and air racing has definitely contributed to the development of high performance aircraft. During the...

America's Greatest Generation and Their Finest Hour - The Morning Sun | The featured plane had to be the “Yankee Lady”, the B-17 Flying Fortress owned by the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run airport near Belleville, MI. This particular B-17 was built in 1945 but never flew in combat. The “Yankee Lady” which was purchased by ...

"Jetman" Shares the Skies with Iconic Spitfire. - The Herald | HeraldOnline.com | He is also well known for successfully flying the Breitling colors in the Red Bull Air Race World Championships and most recently flew the stunning P-52 Mustang in Breitling's latest advert 'Too late baby'. www.nigellamb.com. SOURCE Breitling ...

Remembering Dale G. Kuhns: July 1936 – Aug. 2012 from Featured by Herb Foreman |Dale Kuhns is the only person to taxi an aircraft from Crissy Field in San Francisco down Van Ness Avenue to the Civic Auditorium. (Courtesy of Herb Foreman)Born on a farm in Iowa and raised near an airport, Dale Kuhns took an early interest in aviation, constructing model airplanes and robbing his piggy bank to buy rides at the airport...

15th anniversary of F-22 Raptor's first flight from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Today is the 15th anniversary of the first flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. It was exactly 15th years ago on September 7th, 1997, when Lockheed test pilot Paul Metz first took to the air in the stealthy fifth-generation jet. At the time, it was expected that the USAF would buy 339 or so jets with a total stated requirement for at least 381 planes...

F-35 to start operational utility evaluation on Monday from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter--aka the "Lightning II"--will be starting its Operational Utility Evaluation (OUE) on Monday. It's basically an evaluation of the early block F-35s and the training pipeline to make certain that the jets are safe and robust enough to operate during routine training operations...

Second human-powered helo crash video posted from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | University of Maryland officials said the structural break during the last Gamera II flight occurred at the same point as a repaired break from an earlier crash. The statement issued today said U. of Md. students will press on to the final goal of...

Red Bull Stratos | Parachute and Cypres from Aerial Sports Feed | No parachute system has ever been used for the kind of controlled supersonic freefall that Felix intends to execute from...