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United States Air Force Thunderbirds to Headline Wings Over North Georgia Air ... - SYS-CON Media | In addition to the Thunderbirds and Silver Wings performances, the weekend's activities will also include the Smoke-n-Thunder Auto Show, the Aerostars Aerobatic Flight team, the U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight Team, and many other family-friendly ...

Tickets now available for Thunder in the Valley Airshow from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | COLUMBUS, Ga. — Advanced tickets to the March 16 and 17 Thunder in the Valley Air Show are now available for sale. “In 2012, we partnered with AttendStar to offer the 24/7 accessibility of online ticket sales and received positive feedback from out-of-town attendees and Facebook fans,” said Phaedra Childers, Event Coordinator. “We’re happy to offer that again and to add several new retail locations for the convenience of local residents.”....

Memorial Day Salute to Veterans Corporation Announces Air Show Performers from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

Diaz Festival – Mossel Bay from Airstrike Aviation Photography by Justin de Reuck | The Mossel Bay Diaz Festival was held over the weekend of 1-3 February 2013. The Mossel Bay Aero Club put together a great airshow over the weekend. Performers from Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg made their way to this small seaside town to...

This ain’t your grandfather’s SUN ’n FUN from General Aviation News by Jamie Beckett | Two months from now we’ll all be talking about the SUN ’n FUN International Fly In and Expo in the past tense. It will be behind us, and if history repeats itself, SUN ’n FUN 2013 will be as successful as it has been in the past. This year will be different, however, because this year it will begin to become apparent that SUN ’n FUN and the Fly In are not a single event....

Ohio Air News 222 - Charles Johnson | Lots of great photos!

Mosquito season is over........ from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | The De Havilland Mosquito ZK-MOS which has thrilled endless numbers of New Zealanders and overseas visitors since first returning to the skies late September last year has well and truly concluded its time flying in the Southern Hemisphere and today the craftsmen of Avspecs detached the fuselage from the wing section and placed it on a harness to be wheeled into a 40ft container with the engines already inside a second 40ft container and a larger, modified 60ft container has been readied for the wings...

World War II storyteller finds good on both sides of the war - Fox 31 KDVR.com | In 1943, over the skies of Germany flying his Messerschmitt 109, Stigler spotted a badly damaged but still flying B-17 flying fortress piloted by American Charlie Brown. The crippled plane was an easy target. The German ace was duty-bound to destroy ...

Missions That Changed the War: Doolittle Raid - DVD Talk | On April 18, 1942, 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers embarked on what was to be the first attack on the Japanese mainland by US forces during World War II; although the attack didn't result in a major strategic victory, the boost to US morale and the ensuing ...

Hobbico E-FEST Was An Awesome Electriflying RC Display! (21 Pix) from AirPigz by Martt | Hobbico, headquartered in Champaign Illinois, is the largest distributor of hobby products in the
world, so it's not hard to understand why they are the host for the E-FEST electric indoor RC event at the University of Illinois Armory building in Champaign Illinois! The big E-FEST event took place over this last weekend (Feb 9-10, 2013) and I made the 4-hour drive (each way) over there on Saturday with my 11 year old nephew Jaxon to check it all out. I figured any huge electric RC event would...

N2EK — flashback to an Anderson EA-1 Kingfisher by travelforaircraft | I discovered these slides recently, analog images taken in the early 1980s, of a seaplane made from a kit. The design appears to be derivative of Igor Sikorsky's early amphibious seaplanes with the shoulder mounted wing, engine atop a pylon and conventional landing...

A Delta Dagger with seating for two — Convair TF-102 Delta Dagger walkaround by travelforaircraft | Unlike many U.S. designed jet fighter trainers, Convair designed the Delta Dagger trainer with side-by-side seating though widening the fuselage entailed major engine air inlet work. Naturally, the increase of the induced drag slowed the interceptor to less than supersonic speeds in level flight though the TF-102 otherwise remained fully combat capable able to launch the F-102 armament or missiles and rockets under radar fir control...

Bronco Arrival – The People from Apron 6 | I always like to photograph the people involved in aviation. Thats why I like the All Access badge at Sanicole airshow or why I like the Photoflying Days, which is also about (meeting) people. When I photographed the arrival of the second Bronco in May ’12 I enjoyed the fact that I could get up [...]

Mojave Flight Test 1977 from Wasabi Air Racing by Elliot "Stinky" Seguin | I found this article waiting for me on my desk this morning. Just another awesome flight test program that happened in Mojave, this time in the late 70's....

In-Cockpit Video Of Helicopter Crash from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A non-fatal helicopter crash that took place while filming an episode of Top Gear South Korea was caught by multiple cameras. Onboard camera footage and...

Guest Columnist: Paul Voorhees, President of EAA Chapter 64 and St. Louis Aerospace Institute Faculty Member from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | My name is Paul Voorhees. In 1986, I started my career as a Fantom Fixer in the last active duty squadron of RF-4B Phantom II jets in the Marine Corps, VMFP-3. Since then, I earned my A&P and Private Pilot Certificates. I have lived in eight different states, from coast to coast, but have put my roots here in St. Louis. I was recently given the honor of being elected President of EAA Chapter 64 based at St. Louis Downtown Airport...