Saturday, December 15, 2012

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Rochester Airshow to return in 2013 - News 10NBC | They were the featured performers for the Rochester Airshow in both 2005 and 2008. This is the third time in the last eight years that Rochester has been selected to host the Thunderbirds. The last airshow was held in 2011 and featured the U.S. Navy's ...

Atlantic City Airshow moving to a Wednesday in June - Press of Atlantic City | The Atlantic City Airshow is slated for June 26, a move that would break one tradition, return to another and ultimately might make better business sense. If event partners object or performer availability changes, the event could move to a different date.

9 Mar 2013: Familyi Day at the IWASM! from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | On Saturday March 9th, 2013 IWASM will be hosting our 8th Annual Family Day! This year we will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Valentina Tereshkova becoming the first woman in space and the 30th Anniversary of Sally Ride becoming the first American woman in space. Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of these remarkable women with crafts, games, live performances, and more! More details to follow keep posted to www.iwasm.org for more information.

Dorothy J. 'Dottie' Anderson, 1926-2012: Pilot instructed 'generations' in ... - Toledo Blade | Her last air competition was the 2011 Air Race Classic, an annual cross-country jaunt. She and her co-pilot, Mrs. Sloan, almost always were top finishers, most recently in 2010. “I like speed races. They're fun,” Ms. Anderson told The Blade in 2004...

WWII veterans have left their stamp, now and always - Dayton Daily News | But I didn't doubt the accuracy of his vivid memories of more than 30 missions as a B-17 pilot. Kilroy was here. What was once an inescapable part of our popular culture seemed like hieroglyphics to my daughter, even though her grandfather is a World ...

WWII airman receives gift - DeSoto Times Today | As a bombardier aboard a B-17, Roberts saw much of the war from a distance. "I'm as interested as anyone to go back and see it," Roberts said during a brief ceremony in his honor at DeSoto Central Middle School. His wish was granted through funds ...

One of the constant issues to haunt the participants of the... from x planes | ...the Second World War in the air was that of non-combat accidents. One heartbreaking example that has always stood out for me are the deaths of Free French Air Force pilot Pierrot Degail and Acting Flight Lieutenant Douglas Walker of the Royal Air Force, seventy years ago on December 14th 1942....

Corsair at sunset from Apron 6 | I really enjoyed taking this picture. It had been a very hot and tiring day. I was sitting in the trunk of a car looking at the Warbird photoflight passing over the airfield while calling my mother. Then the warbirds came back one by one. With one hand I held up my phone so my [...]

AT-6: Iconic Texan in town and showing off at Alaska Aviation Museum - Alaska Dispatch | The Alaska Air Museum has one of these airworthy planes, and they hope to start selling rides on it next summer, along with their other AT-6 Texan that is currently in a hangar at Merrill Field. For now, you can check out the AT-6 at the Alaska ...

Visitors soaring at airport museum - Charlotte Observer | Is it difficult to find items for an air museum? Not at all, says director Shawn Dorsch. For example, when the Air and Missile Museum in Florence, S.C., shut down in the late 1990s, the museum inherited artifacts including a retired Convair F-102 Delta ...

Why I Fly! Video by Aspen Avionics from The Kathryn Report | By Aspen Avionics | AOPA Summit attendees Anthony Lowenstein (Private Pilot), Jeff Turcotte (ATP Pilot and Instructor), and Nancy Auvil (Student Pilot), and Chris Peterson (Commercial Pilot and Instructor) talk to Aspen about their inspiration for flying and their experience with glass panel technology...

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