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Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show to feature Big & Rich - Pensacola News Journal | The Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show has added a star-studded music lineup to an already fun-packed weekend. Country music's Big & Rich will join the weekend's festivities, along with Cowboy Troy, Bradley Gaskin and the New Orleans Navy Band.

Boshear's Skyfest, fundraiser walks planned for weekend - The Augusta Chronicle | Augusta will be flying high and pounding the pavement at several outdoor events this weekend. The 20th annual Boshear's Skyfest at Daniel Field will likely draw more than 10,000 today and Sunday. Attractions include performances by aerobatic pilots and ...

The wings Italian aviation history in Calusco d'Adda - Bergamonews | Among the initiatives aimed at spreading the culture of the 97th Air Force Club Frecce Tricolori, October 20 to 28 in Calusco d'Adda is an exhibition "Emotions in the sky - The wings Italian" one hundred years of aviation history through .. .

Snowbirds soar over 15 Wing - Moose Jaw Times-Herald | The Canadian Forces 431 Squadron, better known as the Snowbirds, wrapped up their 2012 season with a final demonstration for friends and family at their home base, Moose Jaw 15 Wing, on Friday. “Typically, this show has always been for family and ...

Georgetown AirFest on November 3 - City of Georgetown Texas | Take a once-in-a-lifetime ride in a World War II-era aircraft. Get up close to dozens of classic planes and helicopters. It's all happening at the third annual Georgetown Airfest at the Georgetown Municipal Airport on Saturday, November 3. The hours ...

The Air Boss from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | If you enjoy air shows, you know the drill: As the clock inches toward show time, folks find a good spot to sit and settle down well before the airplanes start flying. Cameras are readied, sunglasses and hats put firmly in place, and heads prepare to swivel. The announcer revs folks up with his pre-show patter and then the airplanes start flying – one after another with minimal time between acts. At every air show the...

Tim Weber flying to his own Music Air Expo 2012 JBLM - Warren Buffet News | Tim Weber Flies the GEICO Extra 300S Tim Weber discovered aviation at the age of 13. Having moved to within bicycling distance of Turf Soaring School in Phoenix, Arizona, it wasn’t long before Tim was a regular visitor to the airport. By the time Tim was 14 years old he had gone from being the kid looking through the fence to becoming a line-boy, trading work for flying lessons. Tim’s aptitude for flying was ...

“Soaring with the Warbirds” at the Tillamook Air Museum - Tillamook Headlight Herald | The Tillamook Air Museum is had recently started offering a membership program to it's patrons. Membership comes with an extraordinary incentive: individuals, depending upon their level of membership, are being offered plane rides on some of the rarest ...

Bombers over Hickory - Hickory Daily Record | The B-24 Liberator landed at Hickory Regional Airport for the Wings of Freedom Tour that features Witchcraft, a B-17 Flying Fortress (Nine O Nine), and Betty Jane, a P-51 Mustang. Ray Bolon is on the brink of turning 89. He was still excited at seeing ...

WWII Plane Replica Painted for Marion Native Turned into Camp Dodge Exhibit - Patch.com | new_asset_attachment_attributes. The plane that came to represent the "Flying Tigers" attack on Japanese forces in China during World War II is now part of the collection at the Iowa Gold Star Museum at Camp Dodge near Johnston. On Wednesday a replica ...

Spitfire WWII Fighter Planes In Myanmar Excavation Could Flood Vintage Plane Market from You Fly, Girl by Cathy GaleYANGON, Myanmar — As many as 140 World War II Spitfire fighter planes – three to four times the number of airworthy models known to exist – are believed to be buried in near-pristine condition in Myanmar. A British-Myanmar partnership says it will begin digging them up by the end of the month. The go-ahead for excavation came earlier this week when the Myanmar government signed an agreement with British aviation enthusiast David J. Cundall and his local partner. Cundall, a farmer and businessman, earlier this year announced he had located 20 of the planes, best known for helping the Royal Air Force win mastery of the skies during the Battle of Britain...

RAF picture special - beauty and the beast from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | ...First up is beautiful Hawker Hurricane IIC LF363 from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF), captured close-up seconds before passing above Buckingham Palace during Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations earlier this year....

Faux MiG in Blue and Grey — a Marine Aggressor from the Snipers from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Like the famous US Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (also known as Top Gun) the US Marine Corps also trains its pilots using adversary aircraft flown as potential threat air forces would — as [...]

Second British F-35B delivered to Eglin--flown by a British pilot from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | The UK Royal Air Force's second Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter was delivered to Eglin AFB, Florida, on 19 October. The short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft,

Flying a smaller, safer blimp at Hindenburg site from The Kathryn Report | LAKEHURST, N.J. (AP) — At 178 feet long and 56 feet high, the massive airship dwarfed members of the ground crew Thursday as they strained to hold on to tethering lines like so many Lilliputians trying to control Gulliver.Inside the gondola of the Navy's MZ-3A, pilots Mark Kynett and Larry Chambers made the final checks, and then — with two powerful engines roaring at their back — aimed the blimp...

The Light Aircraft Company creates new aerobatic biplane - PilotWeb | Image courtesy of The Light Aircraft Company. The Light Aircraft Company (TLAC) has created what it says is the first British series production manufactured biplane with aerobatic capabilities since the de Havilland Tiger Moth. The company has ...

Branson Leverages Baumgartner's Record Jump from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The ever adventurous and publicity-savvy Sir Richard Branson Thursday recognized Felix Baumgartner's Red Bull-sponsored record freefall by also telling the world his company once considered a jump from 400,000 feet -- and might consider it, again. In a blog post at Virgin.com Branson says his people were approached in 2005 by an individual who wanted to use SpaceShipOne for...

Secretive X-37B launch may be delayed by glitch - NBCNews.com | 18 at the Air Force Association's 2012 Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition at National Harbor, Md. "On the 16th of June, we completed the second orbital test vehicle or OTV mission with the X-37B. OTV-2 spent 469 days on orbit," Shelton ...

Felix Baumgartner's first TV interview since Red Bull Stratos jump from Aerial Sports Feed | The Red Bull Stratos media tour began in New York City on Friday with a stop at 'CBS This Morning,' where Felix spoke about the fear he felt 24.5 miles above the Earth.