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Warbirds thrill fly-in followers - Northern Star | A Pitt Special Aeroplane at The Great Eastern Fly In, Evans Head. Photo Patrick Gorbunovs / The Northern Star Patrick Gorbunovs. KIM ROLPH-SMITH operates adventure flights and aerial shows, from Brisbane and has been flying vintage aircraft for 20...

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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: P-3C Orion from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Part of the large U.S. Navy presence at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 was this relatively unmarked P-3C Orion b/n 158918 from NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Located in the Phillips 66 Plaza along with other...

wanariefimran: RNZAF Red Checkers in formation a day before... from Planeshots

Louisville veteran to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery - WDRB | "Where he initially flew combat missions on B-25 bombers as a gunner, then he became a mechanic and for a brief period he actually served with the OSS, which is the forerunner of our CIA," says Shawn Tabor. He would later go on to serve in the Korean ...

Gloria Pall dies at 85; Voluptua character deemed too sexy for TV - Los Angeles Times | She said later that she was working at the organization's office on the 56th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945, when an Army B-25 bomber crashed into the building. "It threw me across the room, and I landed against the wall," Pall ...

The Airplane Book: Daughter preserves father's collection of WWII photos, history - Times-Georgian | On board the B-17 bomber planes he flew as part of the 97th Bombardment Group, Sain took photos of bombs descending toward their targets — a Daimler-Benz car plant that made tanks during the war and an exploding train carrying German ammunition ...

War Memories Are Made of These - The Moderate Voice | One such veteran, World War II B-17 bombardier John Tschirhart, is now using his war notes and memories to try to make a movie about his World War II combat and romantic experiences. Even our American Prisoners of War (POWs) who languished in Nazi ...

Group has high-flying hopes for Corsair, and the ancient hangar it will call home - Ct Post | Project manager Mark Corvino, left, of Stratford, and museum board member Gene Madara of Easton look over the Corsair restoration project at the Connecticut Air & Space Center in Stratford on Thursday, December 13, 2012. Photo: Brian A. Pounds ...

There's a Mosquito Buzzing Around from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Through the years, Jerry Yagen has built himself one heck of an impressive collection of aircraft. So impressive in fact, that anyone in aviation who hasn't heard of The Fighter Factory hasn't been paying attention. If you ever find yourself in the Virginia Beach area, you have to visit. Myself I've been to the Military Aviation Museum and it was incredible....

CoolPix: NASA X-15 And B-52... Pioneers To Space! (With Desktop Sizes) from AirPigz by Martt | I've had a really awesome X-15 and B-52 cover pic on the AirPigz facebook page for the last month or so that's actually a crop-down from one of the two X-15 images in this post: To The Edge Of Space And Beyond! X-15 CoolPix 2Fer... and tonight I thought I'd offer up another really cool NASA image from back in the 60's that just seems to be dripping with a very high cool factor. The only version of this image that I found on the net is actually a little on the rough side with not the best resolution and lots of spots etc. So I cleaned it up some in photoshop and decided it looked good enough to be both a CoolPix image and a desktop image in four of the most common sizes (see below)....

Royal Oak to be site for World War II memorial - Hometownlife.com | Elson Spangler, 88, was 18 years old when he joined the war in 1943 as bombardier on a B-17. He took 24 missions in eight months, was shot down twice and lost five crew members before being discharged in 1945. He was at the dedication for the National ...

Pacific Aviation Museum director pays visit to Monroe - Monroe News Star | Claire Lee Chennault, who worked as an aviation trainer and adviser in China after his retirement in 1937 and commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II, both the volunteer group and the uniformed units that replaced it in 1942. The purpose of ...

Service Credit Union Air Museum Receives $3000 Donation - Patch.com | Service Credit Union and the Daniel Webster Council Boy Scouts of America officials presented a $3,000 contribution recently to America's Credit Union Museum Executive Director Peggy Powell. The donation was part of the proceeds from the 2012 Service ...

CAP Reorganizes Leadership from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The Civil Air Patrol has completed a reorganization of its command structure and its top officer says that means CAP will be even better equipped to complete its increasingly diverse missions. In a podcast interview, Brig. Gen. Rich Anderson, chairman of the board of governors, said the more streamlined structure in which areas of responsibility are more clearly defined and responsive to the needs of staff and volunteers will help CAP meet...

The NexGen of #Avgeeks: Meet Thomson Meeks of Team X-Plane from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | According to the FAA, the average age of all licensed pilots was 44.4 years old in 2011. But when you look around any airport coffee shop, or walk the flight line at EAA Airventure Oshkosh, no matter which way you look, it seems the predominant color of hair on the people in attendance that still have hair is...gray....