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Thunderbirds Flying Over Wichita This Weekend. Here's The Info! - KFDI (blog) | It took a little digging to get a time for exactly when the Thunderbirds would be taking to the sky. Found out it will be at 3pm both Saturday and Sunday. Then I also found on the 22nd ARW Facebook Events page the times for all of the flights and exhibits...

Kansas City man goes from baker to Thunderbird pilot - KSN-TV | Only a handful of men fly with the Thunderbirds at any one time, as he will do this weekend at the Wings Over McConnell Airshow at McConnell Air Force base. It is a long way from a bakery in Kansas City to being a pilot on that level and while his was ...

Airshow sure to provide excitement - Rome News Tribune | John Klatt of the Air National Guard, who is here for the Wings Over North Georgia Air Show from Minnesota, introduced himself, and immediately I was strapped to a parachute and led to my seat in the plane where I was shown all the proper measures if I ...

Showtime at Courtland from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News  | COURTLAND AL - Top aerobatic performers from across the United States will take to the sky September 29 when the Courtland Air Show returns to the Old Courtland Air Base. Along with thrilling aerial demonstrations from some of the country's top performers, the day-long event features static displays, food concessions, fireworks, and other family-friendly activities...

Wings Over Houston presents lifetime achievement award - Your Houston News | During the span of a dozen years he placed as one of top three aerobatic pilots in the world five times and won 20 medals in World Aerobatics Championships competition. He twice has won the United States National Aerobatics Championship and has won ...

Food Truck Festival, vintage aircraft show this weekend at Tulsa Air and Space ... - Tulsa World | Other World War II era aircraft from the Commemorative Air Force that will be joining FIFI throughout the weekend include a North American P-51 Mustang and a Beech C-45 Expediter. Guests can buy tickets for flights on the three planes during the three ...

Preparing for full skies, how ATC preps for air show - DVIDS | “At the air show, we are three times as busy as our usual busiest days,” said Staff Sgt. Matthew Head, the ATC tower chief with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron and a Sacramento, Calif., native. “There are no conversations going on except for ...

Reno National Air Races 2012 - Photos by Victor Archer

Arrows' thanks after a challenging 12 months - This is Lincolnshire | The Red Arrows team has thanked the public for their support during a difficult year. Between June 2 and the season finale in Malta on September 29 and 30, the RAF aces will have performed 85 flypasts and displays. The team has flown in seven formation ...

PICTURE: Re-engined An-2 takes flight at Gelendzhik air show - Flightglobal | The Chaplygin Siberian Aeronautical Research Institute's re-engined Antonov An-2 made its public debut last month at the Gelendzhik air show on Russia's Black Sea coast. The Novosibirsk-based institute has replaced the single-engined aircraft's ASh-62 ...

Russian Aerobatics Team 'The Swifts' Coming Apart - RIA Novosti | Two reserve pilots from the Russian aerobatic team The Swifts stepped down following a recent scandal that cost their commander's job, a source in the group told RIA Novosti on Thursday. One of the pilots resigned in protest of the commander's ...

'Come fly with me' - Jackson County Floridan | The Chipola Radio Control Aviators will host a fly-in on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10-4 p.m. at their air strip on the grounds of the Marianna Municipal Airport, located at 3689 Industrial Park Drive. Admission is free, and drawings will be held to give ...

Wings over North Georgia shots of B-17 - SportsPageMagazine.com | The B-17 named Aluminum Overcast, one of only 14 airworthy Flying Fortresses left in the world at the Wings Over North Georgia Air Show. Rome, Georgia. September 25th 2012. IMG_2622.jpg. The B-17 named Aluminum Overcast,...

World War II bomber lands in Tulsa; tours and flights offered - KRMG | In addition, World War II era aircraft from the Commemorative Air Force will be joining FIFI throughout the weekend including a North American P-51 Mustang and a Beech C-45 Expediter. Flights on these three aircraft may be booked during the three days ...

Norway celebrates 100 years of air power from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | A few days ago on September 1-2, Norway celebrated 100-years of air power. The event was held in central Oslo central Oslo in the harbor in front of city hall. It gathered well over 150,000 people, according to Norwegian defense spokesman Endre Lunde. "This is amazing - we have never had an event like it before."...

Paid helicopter rides offered during Veterans Muster in October - Newnan Times-Herald | The helicopters are being made available by the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation ( http://www.armyav.org/ ). From 2-2:30 p.m. there will be a Service of Remembrance ceremony honoring those from Coweta County killed in action, immediately followed by ...

60-Year Homebuilt Project Ready To Fly from AVwebFlash Current Issue | An 84-year-old former Boeing manufacturing engineering instructor says he hopes to finish a 60-year-old project this year with a flight in a replica of one of the most unusual homebuilt aircraft designs ever conceived. Ed Kusmirek built a replica of a 1924 Dormoy Bathtub aircraft at his home in Renton, Wash. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times (rerun from the Seattle Times) the project began in the 1950s when Kusmirek found an...

Cessna engineer builds aviation 'time capsule' - AOPA Pilot | On the cutting edge of general aviation by day, Cessna Project Engineer Neal Willford spent much of his free time over the past decade working on a piece of aviation history. With his wife, Robin, and children pitching in (including a then-four-year ...

Visit your favorite aviation museum — for free from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Don't forget that a number of aviation museums across the nation will participate in Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day this Saturday, Sept. 29, including the Museum of Flight in Seattle, the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland, International Women’s Air & Space Museum in Cleveland, and the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. Admission is free with a...

Fundraising continues for new museum hangar - Avionics Intelligence | The new $48.7 million hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air ...

[Photo gallery] All the most interesting aircraft of the “Resurgent” Russian Air Force on display
from David Cenciotti's weblog | On Aug. 11 and 12, the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary with an airshow at Zhukovsky, Moscow.  During the three-day air show, President Vladimir Putin said the Russian Air Force will be re-equipped with more than 600 new combat planes and 1,000 helicopters by 2020, since the modernization of the service is among the key priority for the government....

FEVER 11 wins Tunner award from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories | The aircrew of FEVER 11 received the William H. Tunner Award at the Annual Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition award ceremony here, Sept. 17.  FEVER 11 received the award, which is presented to the most outstanding airlift crew in the U.S. Air Force for a rescue alert, for a casualty evacuation mission to Farah Airfield, Afghanistan, where they picked up two wounded U.S. Army soldiers....

UK report slams Nimrod cancellation from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | The UK has made do without a dedicated maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) capability for 18 months now, with its Royal Air Force's final Nimrod MR2s having been retired in late March 2010. Already having accepted what some in the Ministry of Defence refer to as a "capability holiday" before the long-delayed introduction of replacement equipment, the situation got worse when, just six months later, BAE Systems' Nimrod MRA4 programme was axed...