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Angels old, new set for air show - Grand Junction Sentinel | Photos by Gretel Daugherty—A Blue Angels banks left as it prepares to land at Grand Junction Regional Airport, one of six F/A-18 Hornets to fly in Wednesday. The Blue Angels will perform during the West Star Aviation Grand Junction Air Show on Friday ...

Air show's 'Super Saturday' to offer day, night flying - Midland Reporter-Telegram | Gates will open at 8:30 a.m. both days of the air show. A non-denominational worship service will be held in the CAF chapel at 10 a.m. Oct. 14. Flying will begin noon Sunday and conclude at 5 p.m.. Advance tickets are now on sale at area Domino's, 7 ...

AIRSHO to provide weekend of entertainment - Odessa American | Julie Clark's T-34 Mentor will fly in the night show, as will the Indy Boys' Jet School Bus that travels more than 300 miles per hour. “So we're excited about, really, the best family entertainment you can get for AIRSHO,” Brown said. Some 60-plus ...

Reno Air Races 2012: Gallery of Pictures from Julie in the SkyJulie in the Sky

Precious Metal: Take-off at RENO from Julie in the Sky by Eric James Swearingen | Precious Metal P-51 on take off at the Reno Air Races during the “Gold” trophy competition in the unlimited class on September 16th 2012. The missing starboard clam shell landing gear door can be clearly seen and is still attached to the airframe at this point. Video is presented at 20% of normal speed (Slow [...]

CoolPix: Reno 2012 - Precious Metal Evening Engine Run... Wow! from AirPigz by Martt | I had several really great opportunities to take my photography up a few notches at the Reno Air Races this
year, and one of the best of them was when Thom Richard moved his Rolls Royce Griffon powered P-51 Precious Metal out onto the Reno/Stead Airport ramp for an engine run up after the sun had set. Thom adds a lot of fun to the Reno pilot list with a very outgoing, open and accessible style... and when you add in that beautiful counter-rotating prop P-51, you get a really colorful addition to the Reno Air Races scene!...

Aviation day landing at Brooklands - Elmbridge Guardian | Visitors will also have the opportunity to speak to the RAF and other experts from the Air League, Women in Aviation and British Airways about careers not only in piloting or navigating, but in engineering, design or for cabin and ground crew positions.

Aerospace, Defence Airshow Takes Off - AllAfrica.com | Pretoria — More than 28 countries will showcase their different aircraft's capabilities at the 7th Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) airshow, which kicked-off at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria. Defence and Military Veterans Minister ...

St. Louis Area F-101F Voodoo Fighter Jet Display Getting Face Lift from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A fighter jet on display in north St. Louis County is getting a face lift from local volunteers. The aircraft, a McDonnell F101F Voodoo interceptor trainer retired from the Texas ANG, was moved to the James Eagan Civic Center at Florissant Valley Park in 2004 and put on display at the crest of a hill some distance away from the main buildings. Recently, the aircraft was vandalized, leaving fire...

Rocky from Vintage Wings of Canada by DavePhoto by Melissa Kamphuis | Vintage Wings of Canada dedicates all of its aircraft to famous and no-so-famous Canadian airmen whose lives are inextricably connected to the aircraft types which bear their dedication panels. One particular aircraft, our North American Mustang IV (P-51D), is in fact dedicated to two men – one famous and one of equal courage, but lesser known. The Robillard Brothers, Larry and Rocky, were born and raised in Ottawa only a few kilometers from the Vintage Wings of Canada hangar facility in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. Much of their immediate neighbourhood, called Lebreton Flats, was considered a blight to snooty federal district planners and was bulldozed in the early 1960s to make way for future urban development. However, the part of ...

Video: Super Legend Flight Trial from AVwebFlash Current Issue | American Legend gained success with its popular Legend Cub, and now it's followed up with a new Lycoming-powered version of the airplane. If you like the Super Cub, you'll like the Super Legend, too, because its performance is quite similar. AVweb ventured to Legend's Sulphur Spring, Texas homebase to fly the airplane, and here's a video report on the flight.

A World War II-vintage C-47 versus a modern anti-aircraft missile from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The South African Air Force Forum (a private forum not related to the SAAF itself) has published a very interesting thread about a SAAF C-47 transport of World War II vintage that was struck by a Soviet-made SA-7 missile in 1986. Here's an after-action picture of the damage...

Ode to the Bubble By Mark Huber Air & Space magazine | The Bell 47, famous as the star of “Whirlybirds,” was the DC-3 of helicopters. Could it make a comeback?