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Blue Angels finalizing preparations for Saturday's air show at Naval Air ... - Imperial Valley Press | Through the years he's followed that interest through training and deployment, and now the U.S. Marine Corps captain is set to come full circle, performing in his first air show Saturday in the Blue Angels C-130 cargo aircraft, Fat Albert. “It's kind ...

Justin Lewis to Fly BD-5FLS Microjet at AirVenture - EAA | Not since the late 1990s has a BD-5 microjet appeared and flown at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, but there's one coming to the show this year, and it's definitely not your father's BD-5....

AIRSHOW NEWS: RAF Cosford Airshow strengthens line-up with RAF Fast Jet training aircraft from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | RAF Cosford’s 75th Anniversary Air Show is pleased to announce the confirmed attendance of the RAF Tucano and Typhoon display teams to the event on Sunday 9th June...

AIRSHOW NEWS: New plans revealed for RAFA Shoreham Airshow from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The organisers of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) Shoreham Airshow 2013 which is being held on the 31st August and 1st of September have announced some exciting changes for this years event.

B-29 and other WWII warbirds on display in Palm Springs this weekend - KESQ | The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, best known as the aircraft from which the first atomic bomb was dropped, landed at Palm Springs International Airport today four a four day visit to the Palm Springs Air Museum.

Is the Vulcan XH558 going into partnership with sleaze rock band Knock Out ... - Bournemouth Echo | ...A post on Vulcan XH558's Facebook page with this logo and the slogan “Don't let me die, I wanna fly...all will be revealed on 21.03.2013” has got supporters talking....

Video: Can You Say Aerodynamic Braking? (Vulcan Bomber Farnborough 2012) from AirPigz by Martt | I'm constantly amazed at how easy it is to miss really cool avgeek stuff on the internet, like this fabulous Vulcan Bomber landing video from Farnborough 2012 that now has over 1,300,000 views. I had missed it til this morning... but maybe you've already seen it. Even if you have tho, it's definitely worth seeing again. This is some serious aerodynamic braking on display!...

Village airshow under threat - Comet 24 | ...Mr Barton, whose connections with the aviation industry have brought in helicopters, Spitfires and Hurricanes in the past, had already booked this year’s display line-up before learning it was under threat...

Friday Flyers... from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Today is the day I was planning to draw the winners from our Women Fly event, for the inspiring book Fly Girl. But due to the fact I am at the Women in Aviation Conference... and time is flying by, I will post the names on Monday... the same day we will thank our pilots for sharing their time and planes for our incredible event....

Young girl's love of flying leads to history-making missions in space from Air Force Link Top Stories | As a young child, Eileen Collins loved to sit with her dad in the family car and watch airplanes take off and land. The roar of the powerful engines and the grace of the aircraft as they seemed to float in the air always held excitement and enchantment for the young daughter of Irish immigrants....

Wrights Likely To Retain Title Of "First" In Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Other pioneers may have preceded the Wright brothers in briefly achieving controlled flight in a powered airplane but, if so, a lack of clear convincing evidence and successive development has likely stunted their notoriety; and now-famous Gustav Whitehead may share that fate. On March 8, 2013, aviation authority Janes.com cited evidence of Whitehead's achievements promoted by Australian aviation historian John Brown. In...

Tuskegee Airmen Nat'l Historic Site: Part 2 - The Prep from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | Black cadets for the new segregated military flight training program didn't just show up at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama one day. The runup to "opening day" involved a lot of work by others before the first class of 13 could get off the ground in the summer of 1941....

World War II veteran recalls encounter with German warplane - Tyler Morning Telegraph | The B-17 and 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, according to the news release. Despite the risks of anti-aircraft fire ...

Funds Sought To Address Huey’s Storm Damage from The Kathryn Report | OCEAN CITY -- The Vietnam-era Huey helicopter erected in 2011 as part of a permanent memorial and display at the Ocean City Municipal Airport in West Ocean City was damaged during last week’s severe storm and now needs a little help from the community for repair.The decades-old Huey helicopter was mounted at the airport in 2011 after the Ocean City Aviation Association (OCAA) was able to...

Julian Mitchell: It's plane to see that Stoke-on-Trent's Spitfire needs some TLC... from The Kathryn Report | So you think you know about the Spitfire? Well, I thought I did too, until I spent 10 minutes with Mark Harris from Supermarine Engineering in Burslem. I say '10 minutes' because that's how long it seemed, but then I glanced at my watch as I left the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery – in a somewhat giddy state brought on by Mark's strong dose of facts and figures combined with my own...

Counting Them Home: Newark Air Museum - BBC News | Counting Them Home: Newark Air Museum. Newark Air Museum, Newark. Run by: Newark Air Museum. Hands-on aviation display Counting Them Home to be displayed during half-term. When launched it was described as "..exactly what we need to impart ...

Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak The Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak took off under its own power, a turbojet engine, to investigate the high subsonic and transonic flight regime. It is an aircraft that had simple lines but complicated wing and fuselage construction. The fuselage was clad in magnesium sheeting and resulting in only the most careful of ground [...]

Tiger Nine from Apron 6 | I hope you’re still not bored with the tigers cause here’s number 9. Not a tiger paint, nor a jet. To keep things interesting I’d like to introduce to you the first heli in the series: the mighty Hind. One of the most badass looking heli’s flying around today. I wish I could capture the [...]

Pacific Aviation Museum Invites Youth To 'Discover Your Future in Aviation' from Aero-News Network | Fourth Annual Pearl Harbor Event Features Flight Lab, Hands-On Workshops, Interactive Science Exhibits And More Young people interested in aviation as a career or hobby, schools, Scouts, and families will want to attend Discover Your Future in Aviation at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

VIDEO: RNZAF 757s support Antarctic airlift from The DEW Line by Greg Waldron | The Royal New Zealand Air Force has posted a cool video about airlift operations to Antarctica from Christchurch....