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Fleet Week - more than Blue Angels - San Francisco Chronicle | More than a million people will look to the sky this weekend to watch the Blue Angels perform as part of San Francisco's 31st Fleet Week, yet many won't realize the event's full mission. As well as honoring the men and women of our uniformed services ...

Kaneohe Air Show at Marine Corps Base Hawaii: Slideshow - Bizjournals.com | The 2012 Kaneohe Air Show at Marine Corps Base Hawaii drew some 100,000 people to the base over the weekend to see the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, perform aerial maneuvers over Kaneohe Bay in their F/A-18 Hornet ...

Jacksonville Journal: Sea & Sky planning set for Oct. 19-21 - Florida Times-Union | A public forum to discuss preparations for the Sea & Sky Spectacular Air Show on Oct. 19-21 in Jacksonville Beach will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the council chambers at City Hall at 11 Third Street N. The air show features flight demonstrations by ...

Flying ace with Air Force  - Le Nouvel Observateur  | For more than a year, the team members of the Patrouille de France have agreed to be monitored by television cameras. This allows the business to discover the stunning flying acrobats, who are among the best in the army of ...

Airshow 'better attended' than 2011 - Times of Malta | Despite the absence of the Red Arrows, more people turned up at this year's edition of the Malta International Airshow than last year, according to organiser Joe Ciliberti. Although he did not as yet have the numbers in hand, he said indications were ...

U.S. Sport Aviation Expo Adds Twilight Air Shows, Online Ticket Sales from Aero-News Network  | Team RV To Perform On Friday And Saturday The 9th annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo will kick off on January 17 at the Sebring Regional Airport with several changes offering an enhanced experience for both exhibitors and visitors, including twilight air shows by Team RV on Friday and Saturday evening.

SteadFast Unlimited Air Racing from Photorecon by Matt Shinavar | Will Whiteside is a familiar face and name around the Reno pits. Whether it’s the varieties of planes he’s raced over the last couple years or his warm personality and seemingly permanent smile on his sunglasses-clad face. Once the Voodoo race team disbanded after the 2011 races, along with the overall uncertainty in the future of air racing at Reno,...

Gone West: Former SAC Commander Gen. Bennie L. Davis from Aero-News Network | Had Been A Command Pilot With Over 9,000 Hours In His Logbook Retired Gen. Bennie L. Davis, former commander in chief of Strategic Air Command and director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, with headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, NE, died Sept. 23 in Georgetown, Texas. He was 84 years-old.

Warbirds Over Apple Valley from TAKEOFF TUBE | This video was produced during the 2011 Apple Valley Air Show held at the Apple Valley Airport. The warbirds you see in this video are from the Planes of Fame Air Museum located at the Chino Airport in Chino, CA. We were able to get...

Poll: Should Goodyear Still Call Their New Zeppelin NT Airships 'Blimps'? from AirPigz by Martt | The reviving of the relationship between the Goodyear company and the Zeppelin company is truly remarkable, as is the thoroughly modernized Zeppelin NT, or 'New 'Technology' airship, first flown in 1997. It's even more interesting that Goodyear will be replacing all of their iconic blimps with Zeppelin NT's in the coming years. The first assembly work begins in January 2013 in Akron Ohio and it appears that they expect the first of the new airships to be operating in early 2014...

Aero-Scam: 'Air Combat' Industry Fighting Fraud (Part 1)  - Aero News Network | Yet Another 'Crook' Makes Aviation Look Bad.... | ANN has been poring through some troubling info gathered over a number of days.... info that has taken on voluminous and dangerous proportions. Based on a tip from "Aviation Criminal's" Kristy Graham, ANN has uncovered dozens of online offers on various "Daily Deal" websites purporting to offer exciting simulated 'Air Combat' experiences of the kind pioneered by a number of highly regarded companies that have been doing so safely and responsibly for quite a few years....

Aviation Universe WebStore from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Has Arrived!  | To get to Aviation Universe you once had to Fly into O'Hare, and travel to the west side of the airport, about 10 minutes away. Now you can shop from your home and still get the personal touch...

Skydiver Aims to Break Sound Barrier in Free Fall from news | LL | http://www.theledger.com | His blood could boil. His lungs could overinflate. The vessels in his brain could burst. His eyes could hemorrhage. And, yes, he could break his neck while jumping from a mind-boggling altitude of 23 miles...

Author to speak on Space Shuttle Challenger disaster - Daily Press | The main author, Allan McDonald, was one of those engineers at Morton-Thiokol Inc. and director of the company's space shuttle solid rocket motor project. McDonald will speak on the Challenger debacle at NASA's Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton at ...