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Congratulations to GKF4 for an amazing performance at the World Meet. They will... from US Army Golden Knights's Facebook Wall | Congratulations to GKF4 for an amazing performance at the World Meet. They will be coming home with The Silver Medal. We are all proud of you. GK 8-Way still holds their lead with the final round tomorrow!!

Toys for Tots and Blue Angels Mission to Save Christmas for Children Affected ... - PR Newswire | The Blue Angels turned their C-130 aircraft, affectionately nicknamed "Fat Albert," into a modern day Santa's Sleigh with a mission to help the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation save Christmas for many children still living with ...

AirFest returns to MacDill in April with Blue Angels - Tbo.com | AirFest will be returning to MacDill Air Force Base next year. The aviation celebration will take place April 6 and 7, according to the 6th Air Mobility Wing, the base's host unit. The feature performers will be the Navy Blue Angels. So far, the wing...

Have You Tried: Aviators share Warbird breakfast with motorists - Florida Today | The monthly fly-in breakfast is a unique way to combine an interesting museum with a meal. “We started the fly-in breakfasts about a year ago to further draw in folks to our museum,” said retired Col. Terry Yon, the volunteer public relations officer ...

Air Shows in the Pulps - The Golden Gazette News | From the start, the Reims Air Show was a hit that was quickly emulated worldwide (the first air show in Britain occurred the same year). Today, with so many barriers surmounted, air shows generally feature acrobatics and showing off of airplanes from...

International Air Show Air Show in August 2013 in Radom - Gazeta Wyborcza | The Air Force has already received confirmation of participation in demonstrations strategic bomber B-52 from the U.S., the Red Arrows from the UK and the team Patrouille de France in France. International Air Show Air Show is the biggest event ...

VMM-263 puts on an air show for Naval Academy - Marines.mil | Marines from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 flew an MV-22B Osprey from Marine Corps Air Station New River to the Annapolis Naval Academy, Nov. 29. The Marines then put on an air show and static display for the Naval Academy graduating class...

167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard eyes air show - The Herald-Mail | All possibilities are being explored to determine whether the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard will host another air show next year, the unit's commander said Wednesday. “We are definitely looking at the possibility of holding...

RAFA Shoreham Airshow anniversary DVD reissued - Shoreham Herald | The RAFA Shoreham Airshow celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2009 and now, the special celebration DVD has been re-issued through Amazon to reach a national and internationl market. Read the Shoreham Herald (December 6 edition) for a full DVD...

CoolPix Triple Play: 2012 Reno National Champion - Strega! from AirPigz by Martt | ...and that got me all hot and bothered about Unlimited air racers. So, I dug out a couple unusual pix of Strega from Reno 2012 for a CoolPix triple play... the one above that brings you in really close with the Merlin Power sticker on the right wingtip, and the one below that shows the cockpit area of the airplane, with the canopy open, as it was sitting in their spot in the pit. I like the details in this cockpit pic along with the Reno National Champion history behind the canopy....

Timeless Voices - Firman Balza from eaavideo.org | Firman Balza was a Gunner's Mate, 1st Class aboard the battleship USS Maryland when it was struck by dive bombers during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941...

66 percent of Pacific air force assets destroyed in hours from AF.mil Photos  | A burned U.S. B -17C after the Empire of Japan attacked Wheeler Air Field Dec. 7, 1941. The attack well known for crippling the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet also left approximately 700 U.S Airmen killed or wounded and 66 percent of the Air Force strength in Hawaii decimated. The...

Wheeler, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941 from AF.mil Photos

Burlington County WWII Flying Tiger veteran will tell of his exploits - Philadelphia Inquirer | But at the end of World War II, after flying 15 combat missions with the famed Flying Tigers in China and news of the atomic bomb's use, Breingan was ordered to simply observe the Japanese withdrawal near Guangzhou, then known as Canton. Breingan...

Robert L. Hemphill - The Durango Herald | He had just completed training to be a B-25 pilot when World War II ended. On Jan. 1, 1947, he married Jane L. Schaffenacker in Mt. Pulaski, Ill. The next year, Mr. Hemphill graduated from Western Illinois University with a bachelor's degree in education...

Wow! Air-to-air with a Spitfire Mk. Vb.... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith

A Real Bull Stearman from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...Several years ago while on an overnight in Philly, I rented a car and drove to see an extremely rare bird which was being rebuilt; an M-2 Stearman. The Posey Brothers’ operation was not too far away and I wasn’t about to pass up the chance to visit. The beast, nicknamed the Bull Stearman by early mechanics, was almost finished and MikePosey had offered to give me a look....

The Aero Experience Recognizes The Value of Teamwork At Mount Vernon Outland Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The management and staff of Mount Vernon Outland Airport, IL were recognized Tuesday for demonstrating outstanding teamwork in 2012. Chris Collins, Airport Manager, was given a framed print of "Teamwork," a photo depicting the pilot and crew chief atop their P-38 Lightning fighter preparing for an early morning flight, on behalf of The Aero Experience. The image captures the dedication of one crewman to another in support of a larger objective, and thus reflects the relationship between Mount Vernon Outland...

2012-12-06 - 2013 Photo Calendar Finalists from Articles | Early in 2012 we invited Code One readers and contributors to send us their best photos. We asked for recent, striking photographs of current Lockheed Martin aircraft to develop a “Best of Code One” theme for the 2013 edition of the calendar.

Meet Pioneer Female Aviation Entrepreneur, Sibongile Sambo from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | When Women in Aviation member Sibongile Sambo decided to make a career in the South African aviation industry, she encountered a stumbling block - she could not meet the minimum height requirement for air hostesses. Today, Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS (Sibongile Rejoice Sambo) Aviation – the first black female owned aviation company in South Africa.

Astronaut Guides Women to Reach for the Stars | Young children tend to have many big aspirations. When asked, “what do you want to be when you grow up,” responses such as a doctor, firefighter, and actor often come up. The most popular childhood dream is often becoming an astronaut!...

McKeon, McCarthy Seek to Rename Dryden for Neil Armstrong - SCVNEWS.com | Mojave Air and Space Port Chief Executive Officer Stuart Witt – “Mojave Air & Space Port strongly supports a Resolution in favor of the proposed name change of the current NASA Dryden Flight Research Center to the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research...

Golden Spike Company to make announcment from Spaceports | On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last human exploration of the Moon, Former Apollo Flight Director and NASA Johnson Space Center Director, Gerry Griffin, and planetary scientist and former NASA science chief, Dr. Alan Stern, will unveil "The Golden Spike Company" – the first company planning to offer routine exploration expeditions to the surface of the Moon by the end of the decade. The executives will describe its team of leading aerospace engineers and world-class scientists, the mission architecture, and the business model at a media conference at the National Press Club, Bloomberg Room, from 2-3pm on December 6, 2012....