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Brownsville launches weekend Air Fiesta - Brownsville Herald | But Patti and Rich Sandusky and Roger Mary Ann Barthel were all in agreement about one thing, getting a good seat for the afternoon air show. “They come in with the bombs and there is just noise and smoke,” Mary Ann Barthel said, and Roger Barthel ...

50 years of Air Fiesta remembered - Valley morning Star | Patti Sandusky is a member of the Minnesota Chapter 99s, an international group of women pilots with more than 5,000 members in 35 countries. She has flown in a trans-continental air race. The group was founded in 1929 by the legendary Amelia Earhart, ...

MAPS hosting Fly-In Saturday - Daily Home Online | PELL CITY – Military Assistance Personal Support is hosting a Fly-In at the St. Clair County Airport March 16 to honor all aviator veterans. “We want to honor any veteran that had any dealings with aviation during their service time, whether it was the ...

Wings Over Flagler air show grounded - Daytona Beach News-Journal | "We came to a preliminary understanding that we would do an air show within the festival, if all the promotion of it was taken away," Mills said. "I think I can handle my part of arranging for the pilots and airplanes without affecting our other ...

B-25 Flies Over Green Township to Honor WWII Hero - WKRC TV Cincinnati | B-25 Flies Over Green Township to Honor WWII Hero...

Thousands pay homage to WWII hero - Cincinnati.com | Tom Griffin, one of the last five remaining Doolittle Raiders who bombed Tokyo during World War II, is held at the Green Township Veterans Park on Saturday, Mar. 9, 2013.

Quadnickel racing to attend from Mojave Experimental Fly-In

Betty 'Tack' Blake: Only surving member of 1st WASP class from Air Force Link Top Stories | Last year, a young female pilot recently showed her 91-year-old guest the F-16 Fighting Falcon she flies at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. She thanked Betty "Tack" Blake several times as she talked about her job, so Blake finally asked the young captain why she was thanking her. "Because you started it," the captain said. "If you hadn't been successful, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing today."...

SPIRIT OF THE WASP from WASP & WINGS by Nancy Parrish | Spirit of the WASP by Nancy Parrish A tribute to the WASP -- in honor of Women's History Month and the THIRD ANNIVERSARY of the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII. Early in October, 2012, a World War II air-to-air B-26 tow-target pilot cut a symbolic ribbon at Wings Over the Rockies Aviation and Space Museum in...

March is High-Flying for Women in Aviation - WCTV | The community came out to celebrate Women in Aviation week for the First Ever Fly it Forward festival. "What we found is their is a tremendous growing interest in women entering these fields that were predominately male oriented and we feel that it is ...

Women & Astronauts Fly it Forward from Toriaflies | ...I just had to share my favorite photo of the day. Future astronaut? Her mom drove her 5 hours from New Jersey to be at our first presentation...

German fighter jet replica set for debut at aviation museum - Tyler Morning Telegraph | The B-17 & B-24 were the backbone of the American effort during the war from 1942 to 1945 and were famous for their ability to sustain damage and still accomplish the mission, the Foundation said. Despite the risks of anti-aircraft fire, attacking ...

Stunning MiG-21 Highway Operations in the Polish equivalent of Top Gun from David Cenciotti's weblog | Regarding the last post about the Korean MiG-21s’ highway operations here’s another interesting thing.  It is a fragment of a Polish movie Na Niebie i Na Ziemii (In the Sky & On the Ground) which is an excellent example of Cold War propaganda. The given fragment of the 90-minute movie shot in 1973 shows a group of MiGs landing on the highway strip somewhere in Poland....

Tiger Four from Apron 6 | As said in the previous blogpost I’ll cheat a little. This isn’t a tiger paint but it has a nice pair of afterburners. And afterburners are as cool as a tiger paint so it sure is worth to be posted. Thanks for the likes on the tiger posts so far. I’m very happy that you [...]

PICTURE: Phantom Eye completes second flight from Flightglobal Events | Boeing's Phantom Eye, a hydrogen-powered testbed, has made its second flight ...

The Day the Airport Came Alive from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Each spring, a special day arrives at Lee Bottom. Never acknowledged as an official event, and rarely anticipated, is a moment so unpredictable it often surprises even us. It’s the day the airport comes alive....