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Recent Blue Angels Visit to Boeing St. Louis Facility Brings Hornets Back to Their Home from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The U.S. Navy Blue
Angels aerial demonstration team visited the Boeing St. Louis production facility last month, bringing their F/A-18C Hornets back to their birthplace. The team members toured the former McDonnell Douglas facility where the legacy Hornets were manufactured, and where the current...

READER SUBMITTED: Simsbury Fly-In And Car Show - Hartford Courant | The largest event of its kind in New England will be held on Sunday, Sept. 23 at Simsbury Airport. Huge display of airplanes and cars of virtually every type and vintage, available for viewing up close. Added features include Igor Sikorsky, Jr., RE/MAX ...

“Fly In” to East Georgia Regional Airport! - Forest Blade | Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 4:55 pm | Updated: 4:57 pm, Tue Sep 18, 2012. “Fly In” to East Georgia Regional Airport! 0 comments. East Georgia Regional Airport in Swainsboro will hold a Fly In on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m ...

A unique family event is launching at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport this ... - kzim-am | You may a future aviator in your home! A free family event at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport this Saturday may inspire that calling! Manager Bruce Loy says they really hope to showcase the airport, so they are inviting the public to come check out ...

Video: The Last Flying B-24 Bomber (Collings Foundation) from AVwebFlash Current Issue  | The B-24 was the most widely produced bomber in world history. This video shows the sole surviving flying example: the only flying B-24 Liberator bomber -- there is one cargo B-24 flying -- left anywhere in the world of the roughly 18,000 built. This is the Collings Foundation's B-24, Witchcraft.

Harleston's Raymond Nygaard taking flight with FiFi vintage plane - Mississippi Press (blog) | Harleston native Raymond Nygaard, left, said he meets many people at air shows when he travels with the B-29 Superfortress FiFi. Here, in Lexington, Ky., in May, he met the Rev. Bob Brown, who had come by the air show Sunday morning before going to ...

Tuskegee Airmen Return To Home Field from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Last weekend, four of the original Tuskegee Airmen returned for the first time to the field in Alabama where they trained more than 60 years ago. The four were welcomed back to the historic site by officials from the National Park Service and Tuskegee University. The airmen, Homer Hogues, Robert McDaniel, Claude Platte, and Calvin Spann, and their families were granted a private tour of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. They also were given an advance look at Hangar 2, a new addition to the museum that will be revealed next year. Tuskegee University President Gilbert Rochon said he plans to expand the school's aviation programs.

Jefferson Barracks to Hold Several Memorial Ceremonies in September from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | WWI Memorial

Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among the Marines killed in the Taliban attack from David Cenciotti's weblog | The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten AV-8B+ Harrier jets deployed in Afghanistan.  According to UTSanDiego.com, Marine and family sources have confirmed that Lt. Col. Chris “Otis” Raible, commanding officer of the Yuma squadron is among the killed in action of the unprecedented attack that resulted in the destruction of six jump jets and significant damage (possibly beyond repair) to two more Harriers belonging to the VMA-211, the unit he commanded....

Jeppesen… from Roger-Wilco by steve | Elrey B. Jeppesen is probably one of the best known names in aviation. True, some of us tend to associate his name with charts or the famous flight bag, but it was Elrey...

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Lt. Col. Ron Dudley of Venice flew C-130 transport on 3 tours during Vietnam War from War Tales by Don Moore | Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Ron Dudley of Waterford subdivision in Venice, Fla. flew a “Hercules,” C-130A, four-engine transport plane full of troops or supplies on hazards missions to the front lines during three Vietnam War tours. Much of the time, from 1966 to ’69, he served with the 41st Tactical Airlift Squadron, 345th Air [...]

Local aviator Paul Moore, flew planes for 70 years - Timesonline.com | BEAVER FALLS — Pilot Paul Moore preferred not to have his feet on the ground because long ago he knew he wanted to fly airplanes around the world. Lucky him. For more than 70 years, the Beaver County aviation pioneer did what he loved most. He flew. Moore piloted all kinds of airplanes to all sorts of places...

READER SUBMITTED: Air Museum Welcomes New Board Members - Hartford Courant | "The New England Air Museum plays a vital role in sharing not only the aircraft, but the stories of local people who contributed to aviation and aerospace technology. I'm proud to be affiliated with such an organization," said McGurk, who remains ...

Documentary Traces Jet Development from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Arguably the most important invention of the 20th century celebrates a milestone on Oct. 2 and the date will be marked by the U.S. release of a documentary that traces the origins of the jet engine. It's been 70 years since the first jet-powered aircraft flew in the U.S. In 1930, Frank Whittle, a 30-year-old RAF officer, patented the first...

And the Oscar Goes to... the Airplane!  - airspacemag.com | Some of the airplanes that loom largest in our collective memory have flown only in the movies.

Video: Red Bull Tartary 2012 - Sakhalin | Photostory from Aerial Sports Feed | Russian B.A.S.E. jumper Valery Rozov flew 4,000m above the Tartar Strait in one of his most daring wingsuit flights to date. Check out the best images from Red Bull Tartary 2012...

Shuttle Endeavour prepped for valedictory tour - CBS News | The long-awaited move is the last time a space shuttle will take to the air, following similar museum runs for the prototype shuttle Enterprise, now on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, and the veteran shuttle Discovery, ...