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Planes of Fame to host flying event Saturday - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | CHINO - The Planes of Fame Air Museum will host its monthly Living History Flying Day on Saturday. The topic is "Jets of the Korean War," featuring the North American F-86 Sabre. The featured speaker is retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, an F9F Panther...

Planes of Fame - Jets of the Korean War

Planes to howl at Cromwell - Southland Times | Southern Lakes Learn to Fly owner and operator Ivan Krippner, twice our national aerobatic champion and six-time national title holder, said the day would be a chance to talk with pilots, see them in action and those wanting to test their stomachs ...

Aviation Day 2013 from Airplanes Channel: Aircraft, Pilots, Heritage, Photos, Video, Events, News by Editor | Chapter 99 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, based in Vero Beach, Florida, invites aviation enthusiasts to join them on Saturday March 2, 2013, for a bit of ‘Airplane Time’. This family-oriented community event will...

Valkaria Air Fest 2013 from Airplanes Channel: Aircraft, Pilots, Heritage, Photos, Video, Events, News by Editor | With general admission starting at 8am the Valkaria Air Fest has a program jam-packed with action on April 20, 2013. In addition to viewing two air shows, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy rides on a variety of aircraft...

Tour, ride Wings of Freedom WWII planes at Boca airport - Sun-Sentinel | The planes are a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, a North American P-51 Mustang and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Stovroff, a bombardier captured by the Nazis and held as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft for 13 months, expects at least another 25 fliers to ...

Events Bring Aviation History To Life from AVwebFlash Current Issue | It's a busy time of year for aviation enthusiasts -- coming up in the next few weeks are the debut of a new 3-D version of the 1986 film Top Gun in Imax theaters around the country, a tour of classic Confederate Air Force warbirds in the Southwest, a symposium at Fantasy of Flight in Florida featuring five of the original Tuskegee Airmen, and a...

'Senior Wish' sends veteran to WW II Museum - Sun-Sentinel | Shamis grins when asked about his deployment, especially his experiences flying the B-17. As he clenches his National WW II Museum Charter Member dog tags, Shamis talks with excitement about the museum, which is located in New Orleans; just a few...

Kenyon W. Park - SalemNews.net | A U.S. Air Force veteran, Mr. Park was stationed in Mississippi and Texas Air Bases where he served during World War II as an engineer on a B-29 Bomber and the Korean War as a captain and pilot of B-17 and B-24's and retired from the Air Force Reserve.

Joseph 'Oly Joe' Yakawich, 88 - Montana Standard | In 1942, he became a U.S. Marine, serving with distinction throughout most of the war as a gunner and radioman on B-25 Mitchell bombers in the Pacific Theater. Joseph met and married his wonderful wife, Jeanne, in Butte in 1947, where they would spend ...

Memphis Belle Gets a Facelift - Flying Magazine | A new look has been bestowed upon the Memphis Belle (The Movie), the B-17 Flying Fortress used as the platform for the 1990 movie Memphis Belle, a fictionalized depiction of the airplane's final mission. The B-17 is still in service and is operated by...

Afternoon walkaround with the other Pogo — Lockheed’s XFV-1 from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Lockheed’s attempt at VTOL flight with an interceptor or fighter aircraft was the XFV-1, a contemporary of the Convair Pogo. Unlike the Pogo the XFV-1 did not land or take off vertically though transitions from level flight to hover were accomplished. Flying [...]

Dream of making World War II era plane fly in Oklahoma unites aviation fans - NewsOK.com | The World War II era A-26 was acquired by the Sierra Hotel Group of the Commemorative Air Force in Arkansas in 1999. It was brought to Wiley Post for a few years before being moved to the Guthrie airport. The vintage aircraft has become a magnet of ...

Is the Mysterious B-25 Still in the Monongahela River? - Patch.com | In the 57 years since a B-25 Mitchell bomber ditched in the Monongahela River near Homestead, its fate has been a tale filled with mystery, suspicion and intrigue.

TV crews heading to film French airman programme at Yorkshire Air Museum - The Press, York | TV CREWS will be at the Yorkshire Air Museum near York this week to film the north of England version of a programme looking at the life of French airman Rene Mouchotte. Former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming will join the museum's director Ian Reed for ...

Dream Chaser seeks to become reality from Spaceports | Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser is one of three programs seeded by NASA for commercial crew transport to Space Station. Now in early testing...

Museum to pay tribute to Columbia's Husband - Amarillo.com | The Texas Air & Space Museum in Amarillo on Friday will commemorate the life of space shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband, who died alongside his astronaut crew Feb. 1, 2003. The museum at 10001 America Drive will highlight a shuttle training ...