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Geico Skytypers make mark on Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In - Tampabay.com | Through Sunday they'll be among the squadrons and pilots displaying their aerial skills and specialty planes, including vintage aircraft, at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo in Lakeland. The air show segment, which features the Skytypers...

At Sun 'n Fun, rides in vintage Vietnam-era helicopters - MyFox Tampa Bay | The pilots are members of the Heritage Army Heritage Aviation Foundation. They travel around the country to air shows to exhibit the vintage Vietnam choppers, and educate people about the war. But perhaps the most thrilling thing they offer is for...

Today's Events at Air Festival Devoted to Women Pilots of WWII - The Ledger | Today's Events at Air Festival Devoted to Women Pilots of WWII. Several WASPs have appeared at Sun 'n Fun Fly-Ins in the past. This year, they will have a luncheon and other festivities in their honor....

Aircraft displays show history, promote more aerospace jobs - Arkansas Online | Matt Conrad, a commercial pilot from St. Louis, was one of the pilots of Show Me!, the B-25 bomber on display Saturday during Aerospace Day at Hot Springs Memorial Field Airport. Two World War II airplanes were at the airport event from the Missouri...

Miramar Air Show to go on without Blue Angels - fox5sandiego.com | MIRAMAR, Calif. — The Navy Tuesday canceled all remaining 2013 performances of its popular Blue Angels squadron, including those slated for the annual Miramar Air Show, due to budget constraints. blueangels “Recognizing budget realities, current...

Budget cuts ground Blue Angels, but Bethpage Air Show will go on - 7Online.com | WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels says the rest of its season is canceled because of federal budget cuts, but the Bethpage Air Show is expected to go on as planned. The aerobatic team's lead pilot and team commander Tom Frosch made the...

Ventura County air show canceled amid military budget cuts - Los Angeles Times | The announcement came a day after the Blue Angels announced that the famed squadron was canceling all of its remaining shows this year, including the Ventura County show, the three-day air show at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, and...

Pax River air show canceled - So Md News | Patuxent River Naval Air Station has canceled its air show, which was scheduled for Aug. 31-Sept. 1, due to budget cuts associated with sequestration and other cutbacks in defense spending. Air Expo has been a long-standing tradition in St. Mary's...

South Africa's Silver Falcons To Be Grounded from Aero-News Network | Aerial Demonstration Team Being Pulled From Airshows The U.S. air show organizers and promoters that are feeling the sting of the loss of the Blue Angels and The Air Force Thuderbirds this season due to cuts in the federal budget are not alone. In South Africa, the bite of the defence force budget bug seems to have claimed another victim. This time it’s the South African Air Force’s Silver Falcons elite aerobatic team. The cockpit ambassadors of the SAAF have been grounded....

Historic B17 Flying Fortress finds home at Ford Island - KITV Honolulu | "They got a lot of fire coming at them, and our B17 got a round through one of the wing tanks, and it started draining (fuel)," explains Burl Burlingame, the museum's curator. Pilot Fredrick Eaton decided on a belly landing, and ended up in the...

Friends of Long Beach Airport welcome Clay Lacy to April meeting from Aero Pacific Flightlines by Michael Carter | Tonights meeting of the Friends of Long Beach Airport welcomed guest speaker Clay Lacy. I learned some great history about Mr. Lacy who is retired from United Airlines. He was with the carrier for 41 years after being hired at the age of 19, he number one in senority when he retired...

Bronco Fan Day IV from Apron 6 | It’s time for another picture in the Bronco Fan Day album. This one could and should have been the first one I posted instead of the first. Showing both the Bronco itself and the ‘Home of the Bronco’ sign. A missed opportunity but hey, it’s still cool also as the fourth pictures. I played around [...]

The National Air And Space Museum Udvar-Hazy center is an awesome place - Boing Boing | I love both Air & Space locations but the last time I was at Udvar-Hazy I was unpleasantly struck by how much it seems to glorify the military and its weapons of war. The main Air & Space is much more an epic history of aviation; this one is chock full...

How to Make a Really Great Airplane Better: Meet the DC-3/C-47, Version 2.0 from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | This week, as the Sun ’n Fun International Fly-In & Expo was opening at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, this year’s AOPA Best Aircraft Showdown was winding down online. In this March Madness-like bracket contest, members voted for their favorite airplanes, and when the dust settled, the Douglas DC-3 beat out the F4U Corsair by a vote of 1,255 to 919 to win it all....

Colorado's Aerospace Industry At The Center Of Space Exploration from Aero-News Network | Colorado Springs Hosting 29th National Space Symposium Aerospace leaders from across the nation and around the world are in Colorado Springs this week at the 29th National Space Symposium to discuss the future of space. This collaboration is most apparent in Colorado, which claims "first in the nation" status for its concentration of private aerospace employees and which has seen a remarkable 19.3 percent increase in its aerospace economy over the last decade.