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Southend Air Show scrapped and pier shut in budget cutbacks - Echo | SOUTHEND Air Show will be cancelled and the pier will close two days a week as Southend Council struggles to balance its books. Council tax will rise by 1.75 per cent – 38p per week for Band D properties – and there will be £6.5million of cuts to...

Schedule is announced for Sixth annual Al Khor Fly-In - AME Info | Under the patronage of Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA), the Organizing Committee of the Al Khor Fly-In last has announced the schedule for its annual crowd-pulling attraction, which takes place later this month at Al Khor Airport on the Friday ...

Tribute to an Aviation Journalist - Air & Space magazine | If you read airplane magazines, you've seen Howard Levy's photographs.

Local activist, airman to receive award - Rome Sentinel | He returned to Tuskegee and began Advanced Flight Training and earned B-25 (Twin-engine) Pilot's Wings in October 1945, at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Ala. He remained at Tuskegee and left service in August 1946. Thorpe returned to Brooklyn, attended ...

Tuskegee Airman Fitzroy "Buck" Newsum, 94, persevered to be a pilot - Denver Post | In 2012, 83 years after first laying eyes on an airplane, Newsum reiterated his dream when, at a tribute to the distinguished service of the Tuskegee Airmen hosted by Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, he stepped to the microphone and declared:...

World War II veteran finally awarded Purple Heart, survived B-17 bomber crash ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune | A World War II gunner who survived when his B-17 bomber was shot down over Germany in 1943 has been officially awarded a Purple Heart medal in St. Cloud. Ninety-two-year-old Lawrence Huschle was held as a prisoner of war for nearly two years after...

WWII crash site located after 70 years - The Macomb Daily  | The Duck's last flight, with Pritchard at the controls and Bottoms serving as radioman, was an attempt to rescue seven members of a U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Air Transport Command crew that had crashed during a search mission on Nov. 9, 1942. On Nov.

Tanker firefighters tell 'war stories' in Reno from RGJ.com | The Associated Aerial Firefighters annual meeting began this weekend at the Eldorado in Reno and continues today with discussions on new technology and preparedness in the face of what members are calling a depleted air tanker fleet.

Ol’ Yeller Bird Dog — FAC Veteran & NC Forest Service Veteran Cessna Bird Dog by travelforaircraft | This bright yellow Cessna Bird Dog (I am unsure whether it was produced as an O-1 or as an L-19) is on display on the ground of the Veterans Memorial Air Park in Fort Worth TX. It certainly makes a statement in the yellow livery of the North Carolina Forest Service where the Bird Dog's long loitering time and slow airspeed were characteristics likely exploited with the same zeal as FAC pilots in the Vietnam War....

Enterprise exhibit: NYC's Intrepid museum showcasing space shuttle's legacy - collectSPACE.com | Temporary scaffolding is seen being raised around Enterprise on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. (Intrepid). Scaffolding has now been raised around Enterprise and a protective cover will be placed over the orbiter this week.

This wingsuit flying trailer deserves an Oscar from Aerial Sports Feed | Jokke Sommer, a 26-year-old wingsuit flyer, released the trailer for his upcoming 'Dream Lines IV' video, and it's two minutes of bliss.

Warbird U 2013 from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | Are you, like me, stuck in a dead end job? Has being third fry-cook at Marcel and Hughette's P'tit Patate Casse-croûte lost its original "job-appeal”? Does it say "Acting Second Assistant Filing Manager, Dormant Records and Forms" on your business card? Does your wife look at you over breakfast and just shake her head or roll her eyes? Was crashing the gate at the Ottawa Valley Beanie Baby Collectors Meet the last really exciting thing you did? Or perhaps you have, over the past months, slept fitfully night after night wishing you could get answers to such questions as: “Was that a twin choke SU carburettor at the base of the supercharger on that Merlin?” “How do I get my Sabre to stop on a 7,000 foot rain-soaked runway?”...

Cadet-turned-congressman honors Ill. teens from Headline News - Civil Air Patrol |ILLINOIS – U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger was back in his old stomping grounds Sunday night in Bloomington. Kinzinger was the keynote speaker for the McLean County Civil Air Patrol’s annual banquet. Seventeen young members were honored with an award and promotion from the CAP and Bloomington VFW. The visit was a homecoming of sorts for the new congressman, who returned to his roots where he served for six years as a CAP cadet. He was elected to represent Illinois’ 16th District, which includes McLean County, in the fall and took office on Jan. 3 of this year....

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