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Speed and more speed: Reporter gets F-16 thrill ride - Daytona Beach News-Journal | In short, he loves everything having to do with being a pilot for the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Fisher took this reporter for a thrilling ride aboard his F-16 on Thursday to showcase some of the maneuvers the Thunderbirds will wow the crowds with on ...

Miramar Air Show Soaring October 12th - 14th - San Diego 6 | The world-famous MCAS Miramar Air Show returns to San Diego with the theme “Marines in Flight: Celebrating 50 Years of Space Exploration,” honoring Marines who have served with NASA. Blue Angels are returning this year to showcase their impressive ...

Airfest this weekend - Culpeper Star Exponent | ... the 4,000 visitors from last year. Other performers on Saturday include Nixon in his R-22 helicopter, Joe Edwards in his T-28, Javier Carrasco in his Yak-55, Dan McCue in his Corsair and the Bealeton Flying Circus performing their famous wing ...

Aircraft show to offer visitors close-up tour - The Japan Times | During the airshow the airport will host flight demonstrations that will include newly developed aircraft from the Japan Coast Guard, Nagoya's fire department, the Ground Self-Defense Force and the Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics corps....

Two-day air show with the Free-flight to Sainte-Maxime  - Var-Matin  | This year the event, which is also carried out in close collaboration with the State and Air Force (indeed occur there including the Rafale and the Patrouille de France (PAF), but also aerobatic team ...

Student places first in precision aerobatics competition at airport - Fort Scott Tribune | Jarrett Lyon's enjoyment of competing against adults in precision aerobatic pattern contests has yielded a first-place certificate for the Fort Scott Middle School student. His win came at a Bourbon County RC Flyers radio control model airplane club ...

Tuskegee Airmen story on view at Purdue - Journal and Courier | This is the motto of the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron and its “Rise Above” exhibit. The traveling exhibit is at the Purdue University Airport and is open for public viewing from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. The exhibit ...

Static displays at Minot AFB, Minot air museum - Minot Daily News | Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot has on its grounds a T-33 trainer, the first jet assigned to the base in the late 1950s, an A-7 Corsair II and a C-47 "Gooney Bird." There's also on the museum grounds a tail memorial of a B-17 that crashed Dec. 12 ...

When Will We See The First Female Red Bull Air Race Pilot? from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...2012 has marked many notable achievements in the world of aviation for women, for example Nigeria and Afghanistan both decorated their first female air force pilots. Both these stories grabbed headlines around the world, but for this reason, it shows there still is a gender divide in flying. Today in the United States there are currently 627,588 pilots registered with the FAA, only 42,218 are women (6.73%). The progression of women in...