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Air Force Thunderbirds Team Planning to Return for 2013 Sun 'n Fun Show - The Ledger | "Sun 'n Fun is honored and excited that the world's most recognized military jet team — the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds — has included our event on their 2013 schedule," John Leenhouts, Sun 'n Fun president and convention chairman, said in a news release...

Through Airman's Eyes: Airman shows skills as F-22 demo pilot from Air Force Link Top Stories | (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.) The serenity of a sleepy, morning sky broke as a dark form rose from the ground and blotted out the sun. An F-22 Raptor maneuvered through the dawn, banking and rolling, rising and falling at impossible angles. Through the cockpit window, a faceless visor disguised the pilot's exertion...

Meet Kirby Chambliss, who will perform aerobatics during the game ... - Libero (blog) | The bi-World champion Red Bull Air Race in 2004 and 2006 grew at motocross tracks but always knew he would become an airline pilot. He began flying at age 13 and at age 24 became the youngest commercial pilot ...

Organisers reveal more details about Durham Tees Valley Airport show - The Northern Echo | The Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport hope to stage an air show at the venue for the first since 1989, with displays from the Red Arrows, Tornado and Falcons Parachute demonstration teams. The group, formed by 50 flying enthusiasts, are working ...

Volunteers needed for Wings & Wheels at Robertson Field Airport (4B8), Plainville, Connecticut from The Kathryn Report | The Wings & Wheels organizers are seeking volunteers to help with the planning for the 2nd Annual Car Show & Fly-In at Robertson Airport to be held on Sunday, June 2. (Rain date will be June 9.)  Anyone interested in helping are invited to attend the next meeting of Wings & Wheels on Thursday, Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. in the Plainville Library Auditorium.Help is needed in various areas including...

Head-Down and Editing - Acro Camp | The holidays are over. The tax year is over. The December deal-rush at the office is over. Time to go head-down again on the film!  Sequences are beginning to come together. And I’m reviewing some of the older sequences and realizing that I’m going to need to cut rather savagely to keep the pacing. During principal photography...

The Reno Air Race 2012 Video Montage - AirShowVid.com | Video shot buy our sister website Photorecon.net during their stay at the 2012 Reno Air Races. Still photographer Dave Budd turned into at videographer for a day and...

Showreel Yannick Barthe 2012 from Apron 6

Skyhawks III from Apron 6 | Signing session with the Canadian Skyhawks Team. You can see the long line of people. It was actually twice as long then the what you can see on this picture.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: Sikorsky Raider X2 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation By Fred Harl  | Sikorsky brought their S-97 Raider mockup, a follow-on to the X2 technology demonstrator, to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. The demonstrator, recently retired after flying over 250 knots and winning the Collier Trophy for aeronautic excellence, will be succeeded by the S-97 Raider Armed Aerial Scout contender. ...

Top Ten in 2012 from Vintage Wings of Canada By Dave O'Malley | From the bizarre appearance in the Egyptian desert in April of a Kittyhawk that looks an awful lot like ours, to Chris Hadfield's end-of-year rocket ride the the International Space Station (ISS), 2012 turned out to be the busiest and best year for Vintage Wings to date. We honoured more veterans, started more outreach programs and signed up more volunteers than ever before. It seemed as though every weekend brought us new...

Glade Jorgensen - Daily Herald | He was stationed in Albuquerque as an instructor for the B-17 and B-24. In 1945, Glade was hired as a TWA commercial pilot, and flew for 32 years from San Francisco International. Alice and Glade have enjoyed 70 years of marriage. They raised four ...

Ed Jaworek flew bombers and transports in WW II, Berlin Airlift, Korea and Cuban Missile Crisis from War Tales by Don Moore | Ed Jaworek was a co-pilot who flew a Mitchell B-25 twin-engine attack bomber on low-level combat missions for the 8th Air Force in Europe during World War II. He took part in the Berlin Air Lift, in 1949 and piloted a C-46 twin-engine “Commando” transport in and out of Berlin. When the Korean war rolled [...]

Why A German Pilot Escorted An American Bomber To Safety During World War II - Jalopnik | Stigler kept his distance, always staying out of the line of fire of the two guns still in service, but managed to fly within 20 feet of the bullet riddled B-17. He tried to contact Brown with hand signals. His message was simple: Land your plane in ...

Oakland Aviation Museum welcomes Thorp T-3B home from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Oakland Aviation Museum recently took delivery of a Thorp/Paulic T3B-1 aircraft. This one-of-a-kind plane was donated by the Hiller Aviation Museum of San Carlos, Calif.  The T-3B was designed by John Thorp, an instructor at the Boeing School of Aeronautics at Oakland Airport, and built by Rudy and Louis Paulic in 1933....

Fargo Air Museum adds homebuilt airplane - Seattle Post Intelligencer | FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Fargo Air Museum has added a homebuilt airplane to its permanent collection. Executive director Fran Brummond tells The Forum (http://bit.ly/TZFM9G ) that homebuilt aircraft had not been represented at the museum and the ...

Afternoon walkaround with a Westland Lysander from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Afternoon walkaround with a Westland Lysander Named for the famed ancient age Spartan general Lysander this aircraft excelled well beyond the original liaison role for which it was designed. Westland’s Lysander had excellent short field performance lent by lightweight construction, advanced wing features and powerful Bristol Mercury 870 hp (649kW) radial engine. Fabric covered most [...]

Georgia Cub Flyers January 2013 Newsletter from Antique Airfield News

Rearwin "SkiRanger" from Antique Airfield News  | Mike Lucas sent us these photos of a Rearwin Skyranger on skis: We finally got a good snow to stay down in SW Ohio, so Andy Heins decided to put the Rearwin on skis. After 2 days of work, we had a good time flying around the patch yesterday....

Wichita pilot finally sees success with first plane renovation - Kansas.com | “That was so much fun,” he said. With the restoration behind him, VanKampen is considering taking on a second project. In September, he bought a Pitts Special model S1S, a single-seat light aerobatic biplane, after seeing an ad in Barnstormer magazine.

Cockpit camera view from inside a Russian Air Force +20-ship formation from David Cenciotti's weblog | Filmed by cameras installed in the cockpit of Su-27SM3, Su-25SM and MiG-29 SMT this interesting video will let you join one of the mass flybys, with which the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary at Zhukovsky, Moscow, on Aug. 11 and 12...

The Stanley B-58 Escape Pod from The Lexicans by wlb50