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USAF's elite air demonstration squadron readies for this weekend's air show - The Salinas Californian | Next to the military jet teams, the Patriots have some of the best pilots in the air show world, observers say. Comedy relief stunt pilot Kent Pietsch will fly his rare Interstate Cadet in what promises to be a hilarious routine where he tosses his FAA ...

Lake of the Ozarks Air Show  | ...2012 Lake of the Ozarks Air Show which will be held on Saturday, September 22, 2012. The air show will see a salute to our military and the return of the B-25 Bomber, Team Vortex Air Show, the Ping Pong Ball Drop as well as new acts KC Flight Formation Team, Dave Dacy Air Show & Wing Walker, and Jet Truck racing. More details about the Lake of the Ozarks Air Show will be posted soon...

Duluth Airshow Preview: Inside the Cockpit of A Stunt Plane - WDIO-TV | Mathieson tells us we pull 3Gs during our ride, meaning the human body feels 3 times heavier. During air shows, he says he'll pull more than 12Gs. "It's a little painful. You've gotta flex everything you can. The hardest thing is holding your head up ...

What it Takes to Make the Duluth Air Show Happen - Northland's NewsCenter | Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - In 2010, the air show brought in 35,000 visitors to see the weekend–long spectacle, and that's just paid admission. According to the air show board of directors, another 15,000 viewers crowded around the fence that...

Unique Ospreys drop in on Brevard for air show - Florida Today | Two U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Ospreys arrived at Patrick Air Force Base on Friday afternoon for this weekend's Cocoa Beach Air Show. They arrived just before the afternoon thunderstorms.

Great Bend Air Festival kicks off this weekend - KSN-TV | GREAT BEND, Kansas -- Warbirds from across the country arrived in Kansas early Friday for the Great Bend Air Festival. "We're here to educate and to entertain as well." The air festival and its pilots are educating the public on planes that fought in ...

39th Annual International Seaplane Fly-In 2012 from Photorecon by Ken Kula | Greenville Maine might take a note from the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about Paul Revere…” one if by land, two if by sea”. The town is fortunate to have a pair of community airports; the Greenville Municipal Airport located on a hilltop just north of the town center and Greenville Seaplane Base, on a cove that the downtown embraces...

Fly-In High - Polson Lake County Leader | The occasion marked the 14th annual Polson Fly-In, and the yearly spectacle brought recreational pilots and curious members of the general public together for an impassioned ode to aviation. Mauri Morin, manager of the Ronan Airport and president of ...

The Patrouille de France will decorate the sky today Touquettois its ribbons ...  - La Voix du Nord | The Patrouille de France was training for the air show, which will be presented today with numbers and aerobatic panachages lights that accompany them. Before boarding their aircraft, pilots are briefed adjusted to the millimeter...

Malta Interntaional Airshow 2012 - Aviation news portal | The 20th Edition of the Malta International Air Show, will be held from 29-30th September 2012. This years Air Show coincides with the 70th Anniversary of the award of the George Cross to Malta, by King George V. The Malta International...

21 Awesome Moments From The Berlin Air Show - Business Insider by Alex Davies - Business
Insider | The ILA Berlin Air Show, which wrapped up yesterday, featured 1,243 exhibitors from 46 countries. On display was the newest aviation technology, from high-speed helicopters and huge passenger jets to the unmanned ...

Arion Lightning LSA Well Represented at Midwest LSA Expo from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Arion Aircraft LS-1 Lightning was well represented at the recent Midwest LSA Expo, with three aircraft on hand for display and demo flights. The Lightning, which began as a new kit aircraft designed and first produced between 2004 and 2006, was transformed into an LSA by 2009. In about 500...

Air show organizers prepping for takeoff - Parkersburg News | WILLIAMSTOWN - With less than a month to go, the 2012 Air Expo organizers are working to get things ready. "We are rolling into the final stages," said co-chair of the event Donna Rusche. "We're still taking sponsors and are looking for more volunteers ...

WWII Era Planes Stop in Blacksburg Before Flyover - WSET | The team will wear camouflage helmets and jerseys, and there will be a fly over by two very special planes: A B-25 Mitchell bomber and a P-51 Mustang tank buster. The B-25 is the same type of plane that was launched from the deck of an aircraft carrier...

Local B-17 Bombardier Recalls 'Wing and a Prayer' Mission on the All American - The B-Town Blog (blog) | Ralph Burbridge of Des Moines, a B-17 bombardier in World War II, holds the encased flag that the 414th Squadron, which he flew with, raised in his honor earlier this year above their base in Turkey. He is also holding a note of appreciation from the ...

Bobcat taking off - Pratt Tribune | The plane belongs to the Commemorative Air Force, Jayhawk Wing out of Wichita, and was being used to deliver a World War II parachute to the B-29 Museum committee. While here, Roth took several three passengers on a flight around Pratt and the ...

World War II "warbirds" on display before Virginia Tech flyover - WSLS | The B-25 Mitchell bomber called the ”Axis Nightmare” came in first, then hours later, the “Cincinnati Miss,” a P-51D fighter. Both are scheduled to perform flyovers at Lane Stadium when the Hokies take on Bowling Green. Any time we can show these ...

World War II veterans share memories during conference from Air Force Link Top Stories | The first snow of the winter blanketed the German landscape below his P-51 Mustang, and as the young World War II pilot flew alongside others in formation, he noticed an important detail.  "There were two silver aircraft and two painted with the green camouflage flying alongside me," said retired Col. Clarence Anderson of that winter day in 1944 when he made a realization about his own green aircraft...

Photoflying days: Thursday (part III) from Apron 6 | ...But on Thursday it just happened. I joined the Spitfire-Hurricane photoflight and got everything I could wish for...

Love of flight keeps club aloft 80 years - Reading Eagle | For almost all of its 80-year existence, the Reading Aero Club has had a down-to-earth history that's primarily about a human desire to be up in the air. And while Robert M. Keith, 79, of Wyomissing can't speak firsthand about that paradox for all of ...

Brave Maria, 51, takes to skies for wing walk - Lancashire Evening Post | A blind woman has taken to the skies in a dare-devil challenge. Thrill-seeker Maria Pikulski, of Fox Lane, Leyland, did a wing walk at Breighton Aerodrome, Selby, North Yorkshire. The aim of the crazy challenge was a way to say 'thank you' to a number ...

Women find space worth the risk from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...Nevertheless, the history of Russian female cosmonauts in space goes back half a century. In 1962, out of thousands of candidates, five were selected: engineer Irina Solovyova, mathematician and programmer Valentina Ponomareva, weaver Valentina Tereshkova, teacher Zhanna Yerkina, and secretary and stenographer Tatiana Kuznetsova. No holds were barred during training....

Coverage of Endeavor's Farewell Tour:  articles, video, photos, Airboyd.tv, Danny Buonsanto, FenceCheck

Endeavour ends her flying days after stunning farewell tour from NASASpaceFlight.com by Chris Bergin | Space Shuttle Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles on Friday, following a stunning cross country tour that honored her service and left untold thousands in awe of the orbiter’s magnificence. The baby of the fleet completed her final leg, taking in some of California’s most famous landmarks, prior to touching down for the final time at LAX...

6 Videos: Shuttle Endeavour Treks West On Its Last Flights (+ CoolPix) from AirPigz by Martt | In the midst of winding down from an excellent five days at the Reno Air Races I've barely caught the details about the Shuttle Endeavour's westward journey from the Kennedy Space Center out to Los Angels for its eventual display at the California Science Center. So I did a little searching around just now and found some videos that show parts of that journey for you to check out in case you've been under-informed too. I've put a short description below each video so you can see what it offers, and I've also included a CoolPix image of Endeavour's wing while in space that I thought looked very cool with both the U.S. flag and the Endeavour name so clearly displayed...