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Blue Angels fly over Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head area - Hawaii News Now | The Navy's Blue Angels flew over Pearl Harbor, Waikiki Beach and the Diamond Head area after lunch today. The Angel's then landed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe around 2 p.m. The Angel's are on Oahu for the 2012 Kaneohe Bay Airshow on ...

McConnell Air Show & Open House is this weekend - KFDI | This year's show will feature demonstrations from the Thunderbirds, the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron and the US Army Golden Knights parachute team. Other events include Strongman Mike Kirsch pulling at KC-135 Stratotanker across...

Kirby Chambliss from Latest Vlog | To kick off this short week and more importantly to raise some light on the Western Provence Aerobatic champs that's taking place this weekend in Mossel Bay I thought it...

B-17 Sentimental Journey In Lubbock to Benefit South Plains Honor Flight - News/Talk 790 KFYO | The B-17 Bomber “Sentimental Journey” is at the Silent Wings Museum at the Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, and is helping to benefit area veterans. Hour-long flights on the plane are being offered for $425, and proceeds go to benefit the ...

Go on a "Sentimental Journey" with FOX 34 - MYfoxLUBBOCK.COM | The Commemorative Air Force is offering a unique experience for veterans and history buffs this week. The World War II B-17 bomber "Sentimental Journey" is will spend a few days in Lubbock. The Flying Fortress is one of only a handful still flying in ...

Video: Replica 'Memphis Belle' takes B-17 veterans back in time - The Courier-Journal | World War II veteran Joseph Gagliardi holds onto fellow veteran Wayne Tabor after the two walk away from a B-17 bomber they took a quick flight on at Clark County Airport. Gagliardi flew several missions on the same type of bomber; Tabor flew in B-24...

B-17 flights are a tribute to military aircraft and those who flew them - WDRB | Current B-17 pilot Ray Fowler says, "It's incredible to see those guys still come out, with the youngest one really being in their late eighties, early nineties, to come out and see the airplane that was such a huge part of their life and what they did ...

One more mission - Concord Monitor |  Captain Derby flew 24 missions on the B-17 Organized Confusion in World War II. He was able to take a ride on the B-17 in the Wings of Freedom Tour as a member of the University of Massachusetts Lowell Veterans Alumni Hall of Fame. World War II planes ...

Upper Peninsula Michigan woman recalls being among the first female Air Force pilots from You Fly, Girl by Cathy GaleFrom Detroit Free Press: Upper Peninsula Michigan woman recalls being among the first female Air Force pilots - The flight suits didn't fit. Colleagues' wives were jealous. An eighth of an inch almost cost her a spot in the program.  But Mary Livingston of Manistique went on to become a member of the first coed graduating class of Air Force pilots. Those 10 women flew into U.S. history 35 years ago this month.  Then, she was a 25-year-old engineer, who was first taught to fly by a fellow Yooper when she was 16. Today, she's a 60-year-old retired lieutenant colonel, married to a fellow former Air Force engineer and pilot and the mother of a 22-year-old daughter....

Technically speaking… from General Aviation News by Ben Visser | The quest to find some answers at Oshkosh In my last post, I had the gall to be less than positive about things at the Oshkosh airshow. I was surprised at the positive feedback about similar experiences. However, our publisher, Ben Sclair commented that to see Oshkosh through the eyes of a new aviation enthusiast is like a kid on Christmas morning — it is one of the greatest experiences ever...

Pearson Air Museum from Airplanes Channel: Aircraft, Pilots, Heritage, Photos, Video, Events, News by Editor | As one of the oldest continually operating airfields in the United States, Pearson Field is the perfect venue for a museum dedicated to the history and development of aviation. The Pearson Air Museum pays tribute to the milestones in aviation history that took place at Pearson Field and provides interesting information on aviation in the Pacific Northwest, along with displays of vintage aircraft, including the world’s first bomber, an interactive science center, aviation movies and a flight simulator lab...

SCAMP from The Unwanted Blog | The design for what became the F-16XL began in 1977 as the Supersonic Cruise and Maneuver Prototype at General Dynamics-Fort Worth. The idea was to incorporate lessons learned in SST design into military aircraft. The SCAMP was to be a highly modified F-16 with a 56-inch fuselage stretch, an all-new cranked-delta wing, and an all-new vertical tail, along with many smaller changes. The use of computers – already new with the baseline F-16 – would allow the aircraft to be flown…