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Blue Angels Welcome New Commander from US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron - The Blue Angels  | The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, held the squadron's change of command ceremony at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola Nov. 4...

Photos: Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show At NAS Pensacola - NorthEscambia.com | November 4, 2012. Tens of thousands attend the Blue Angels annual homecoming show Friday and Saturday at NAS Pensacola's Sherman Field....

Black Team’s Air Show Season Comes to an End from US Army Golden Knights by wfallin | On Thursday, the 1st of November, Black Team departed for their final air show loop, for the 2012 season. Although there are still more events, this was our final “air show.” This is a relatively unique opportunity for the Golden Knights, as well. Homestead is the winter home of the U.S. Army Parachute Team’s Demonstration and Tandem sections. Homestead ARB opens their doors and hospitality to us at the start of each season, so we were delighted to return and close out the final air show at their doorsteps...

Scenic flights at fly in - Gloucester Advocate | More than 50 aircraft flew into the tiny Gloucester airstrip for the fly in and was so well received it was decided to make it an annual event. Since the first fly in the format has altered slightly, with the community embracing the day and a ...

Air show's future in jeopardy - Waterloo Record | WATERLOO REGION — The future of the Waterloo Air Show is in jeopardy as organizers struggle with a $350,000 debt. Air show co-producers David White and Richard Cooper appeared before regional councillors Tuesday to appeal for more than $91,000 ...

Video: Let Skip Stewart Turn Your Election Day Upside Down! (Must See) from AirPigz by Martt | This video was just uploaded on Skip Stewart's youtube channel today, election day (November 6, 2012) and it's awesome to say the very least! And since this election is sure to make some people feel very upside-down tomorrow, I figure this video can help us all feel that way right now... you know, so we can all be in this together : ) You might be familiar with Skip Stewart flying his highly modified Pitts he calls Prometheus very low to the...

Vulcan To The Sky - Suspension of Winter Service - www.vulcantothesky.org | We write today with some fear for the future, for although our funding appeal has been receiving some magnificent support, it has yet to reach a level at which we can be confident of getting to the £400,000 funding target we require by the New Year...

Hall of fame honorees will be inducted at AF museum for post-military service - Dayton Daily News | He was chief executive officer of the Dayton National Cemetery Memorial Committee and had a district office in the Disabled American Veterans organization. Richard P. Hartmann, of Kettering, a U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve veteran. The former mayor of ...

Chickasaw Nation Celebrates National Aviation Month from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | This month, Americans honor the trailblazers of flight as part of National Aviation Month. Among the early courageous pilots was a Chickasaw woman named Pearl Carter Scott. She earned her pilot's license at the age of 13 in 1928. By age 14, she was flying her father to business appointments and performing aerobatic maneuvers at air shows all over Oklahoma. The film Pearl" produced by The Chickasaw Nation, chronicles those early years in her life. It has garnered...

CAF to host 'Evening with an Astronaut' - Midland Reporter-Telegram | The series, sponsored by the Odessa Council for Arts and Humanities, will host the event at the Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum. The event will feature an exhibit of astronaut and NASA-related items and will be held in the O'Brien Hall at the ...

Airman recollects wartime - Houston Chronicle | The men don't meet anymore, though. Only a few remain alive. Gibson, an 87-year-old Cypress resident, doesn't talk much about his service as a waist gunner with the group or the time his B-17 was shot down over Germany. But he'll share those memories ...

First African-American Academy grad passes away from Air Force Link Top Stories | The first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy passed away today at his home in Lolo, Mont. Charles Vernon Bush, Class of 1963, entered the Academy with his two African-American classmates, reporting as a cadet in June 1959...

New Alabama Vehicle Tag to Honor Tuskegee Airmen from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News  | TUSKEGEE ALABAMA - The state's motor vehicles division this month began offering a license plate honoring the Tuskegee Airman and Airwomen, according to a news release from The Friends of Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Inc...

Timmins pilot honoured among 'Outstanding women in aviation' - Timmins Press | Mary Ellen Pauli, a helicopter bush pilot and Timmins resident, was among a group of four female pilots recently honoured by the Northern Lights Foundation in Toronto for their contributions to aviation. She is seen here at her Timmins home last year ...

An Earhart Award for Capt. Martin - Scranton Times-Tribune | The award honors the late aviatrix, advocate and pioneer who set many records for women in aviation's infancy, and who was lost while attempting to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. It marks the second milestone of the CAP Cadet Program.

Old adversaries fly together from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | It's not often you see a US-built F-16 flying in formation with a Soviet-built MiG-21 fighter, but in August there were plenty to be found in the skies over Romania. Lockheed Martin's Code One magazine...

General aviation is awesome from General Aviation News by Jamie Beckett | Hurricane Sandy made a mess of the northeast last week. More than 20 states were lambasted by wind and rain, while snow piled up in West Virginia. From Georgia to Maine, weather that nobody was happy to see came their way anyhow. There will be more to come, too. There always is. It comes year after year. Somebody finds themselves in the crosshairs. It's just a matter of time before some meteorological mayhem finds you. Rest assured, your turn will come. In the aftermath of these storms, floods, mudslides, wildfires, earthquakes, or any other natural calamity that might befall some corner of the world, my television screen becomes rich with aerial photography showing us just how bad the damage really is...

Kindergarten Airplane Class~ from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | My friend, Simon, sent me a link to a great article. With compliments, I am posting it here.
What a great idea! ...

Planes donated to the School of Aviation - Liberty Champion | Once the SOA and Freedom Aviation have restored the aircraft to flying condition, there is interest in entering it as a participant in the annual Air Race Classic ladies' annual race across the country. Travel Air was actually the winning aircraft in ...