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Blue Angels Return To Alliance Air Show in October - CBS Local | FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – If you saw a Blue Angel jet in the skies above Fort Worth this afternoon don' t expect a show just yet. But it's coming. Tom Harris is the President at Alliance Airport. Every October they host the premier air show in the area.

'Blue Angels' land in Jackson - WJTV | The 'Blue Angels' landed in the Jackson metro area Thursday for a preview of their upcoming 50th anniversary airshow. The 'Blue Angels' is the United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron. They have six pilots and do 120 flights before they fly...

EAA Skiplane Fly-In Set for January 19 from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Plans are in full swing for the annual EAA Skiplane Fly-In, coming up in just two weeks, on Saturday, January 19, at EAA's Pioneer Airport in Oshkosh.

Very cool news from AirRace21 | New team member!

69 years ago today, legendary WWII ace makes final flight - Marines.mil | Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, World War II ace and leader of Marine Fighter Squadron 214, the infamous “Black Sheep,” downed three Japanese aircraft during his final combat mission of WWII. This feat brought his total number of downed enemy planes to 26,...

Reichman writes a book on finding MIA remain - Joliet Herald News | More searches through the years led to additional discoveries: seven more Japanese Val bombers, a Japanese cargo ship, a U.S. P-38 named Regina Coeli and a U.S. B-17 named Texas #6. Now on fire for his hobby, Reichman followed more leads...

FARMERS' FLYING TRIBUTE TO BOMBER HERO BROTHER - Express.co.uk | ... plane had a starring role in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special, with Alexander Armstrong as the pilot. Fred, of East Kirkby, Lincs, and his brother Harold, 78, use it to give rides along the runway to visitors at their Lincolnshire Aviation...

Air Zoo president to retire from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Bob Ellis, Air Zoo president and CEO, will retire after 35 years of service to the museum. The Air Zoo Board of Directors has named Troy A. Thrash as the museum’s new president and CEO, effective at the end of January.  Ellis began his career with the Air Zoo in 1977. He became the general manager of the museum and was later named executive director, a position he held until 2010, when he was named president and CEO....

The Road Not Taken from Hiller Aviation Museum | The Quest for the Supersonic Transport | For some three quarters of a century, the development of powered flight was characterized by the relentless pursuit of speed. Wilbur and Orville Wright had to meet a speed goal to sell their Flyer to the United States Army in 1908. Glenn Curtiss became the toast of Europe by besting the legendary Louis Bleriot in a speed race on French soil at the world’s first air meet in 1909. In the First World War airplanes that we today would call fighters were instead known as “pursuit” planes to emphasize their ability to overtake slower aircraft in flight....

Art galleries and museums - Ventura County Star | World War II Aviation Museum: Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force has hangars devoted to World War II aircraft. Flight demonstrations and cockpit viewings at 11 a.m. Saturdays. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, Camarillo...

Perfect Paper Airplane Poll: James May -vs- Me! (Top Gear vs AirPigz) from AirPigz by Martt | Please vote now in the paper airplane poll at the bottom of the post!  | I'm happy to see that one of the Top Gearheads (the long hair James May) is getting both himself and paper airplanes some fresh exposure on the internets, but at the same time I admit I'm a little frustrated by it all. Is that paper airplane pictured above a big enough deal for all this attention? Sorry, but I think not. Seems a whole lot more like some sort of publicity stunt to me. Click on James May's ultimate paper plane to go to the post at RadioTimes.com to learn more about it and see the instruction video....

Right wing nearly complete, back to skinning the left from The EAA Zenith Project by ChadJensen | The holiday’s are now past us and we are going full steam ahead on the Zenith 750. The plan to work in one session over the holidays was thwarted by a snow event that wasn’t in the forecast and kept us out of the hangar, so we did lose one work day. However, coming back strong after the new year last night, we worked on the root skins and the wingtip supports on the right wing.