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Thunderbirds announce 2014 officer selections | U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds - afthunderbirds.com | April 12, 2013 – NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — The commander of Air Combat Command, Gen. Gilmary M. Hostage III, has officially selected the officers who will be joining the United States Air Force Thunderbirds for the 2014 demonstration season.

Soaring high at the Sun 'N Fun Fly In - ABC Action News | LAKELAND, Fla. - It's a busy day at the Lakeland Regional Airport where the Sun 'N Fly In is taking off! Sean Daly is flying high with Team Aerodynamix. He's also finding out what's going on over there this weekend and what you need to know before you go!

B-25 Panchito's 2013 Sun N Fun Flight - www.youtube.com | Larry Kelley and the DAV Flight Team takes B-25 Panchito up for a flight at the 2013 Sun N Fun airshow in Lakeland, Fl.

Splash In 2013 from Photorecon by Mark Hrutkay | For the last 6 years, as a part of Sun n Fun, Kermit Weeks has hosted an event as unique as his Fantasy of Flight attraction. You see when Kermit was looking for a place for Fantasy of Flights, he was looking for a nearby lake too. So he bought lakefront property on Lake Agnes in Polk City Florida. Not...

"Pieball" UCAP Daily #323-echo from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Jack joins Dave Allen & Howie Marling on their Sun n Fun Radio show Morning Runup to admire the annual mass balloon launch at the 2013 Sun 'n Fun Fly-in.

Seafair lands jet team to replace Blue Angels - The Seattle Times | Seafair lands jet team to replace Blue Angels. With the Blue Angels' 2013 schedule falling victim to federal budget woes, Seafair fans of precision flying teams will rely on the California-based Patriots Jet Team, a nonprofit group with largely...

KC Air Show canceled - KCTV Kansas City | The governmental sequestration resulted in the cancellation of all military support for the entire air show industry. This includes appearances by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, U.S. Army Golden Knights and military static aircraft. All of those flying ...

Jon Egging Trust is flying high - Bournemouth Echo | Flight Lieutenant Egging, inset, died when his jet crashed after a Red Arrows display at the 2011 Bournemouth Air Festival Dawn said the fact that Daily Echo readers chose the trust for the donation made the donation “special”. Each week Yellow Buses...

World War II pilot gets flight of a lifetime - MyFox Houston | The lovingly restored plane belongs to the Commemorative Air Force's Gulf Coast Wing. The members wanted to take Marvin for a ride to thank him for his service. Marvin was a wartime pilot himself, with 1680 hours in his log book. He didn't see combat ...

Leonard Earl Zink - The Durango Herald | He was a tailgunner on a B-25. “I loaded the bombs and delivered the bombs,” he once said. “After an extensive tour of the South Pacific, I finished the war in the Philippines.” After returning from the war, he married Bette Means in 1945. The Zinks...

Draken International from Photorecon by Mark Hrutkay | Draken International is a company on the rise. They provide contract air services for military use and are based at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland Florida. In simple terms, they can perform any mission that military aircraft are designed to do. As you walk in the front door, between an A-4 Skyhawk and a MIG-21, you pass through...

Golden Hill from Photorecon by Mark Hrutkay | People love to look inside things, inside a locked closet. In the attic. Inside a locked safe. For fliers and aviation historians for some reason closed hangars are more interesting than open ones. I was fortunate growing up, I had a father who liked to do the same thing. He’d pull the hangar door open a crack and I’d shine...

Selfridge Military Air Museum opens for 2013 season with new aircraft on display - Oakland Press | See the history of military aviation come alive as the Selfridge Air Museum is now open to the public for 2013. The museum, inside the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, was established in 1979 to recover the history of Selfridge ...

Video: F-35B Attempts To Burn A Hole In The Earth At Night! from AirPigz by Martt | It's old news now but the F-35B (the Marine variant that includes Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing [STOVL] capabilities) made its first nighttime vertical landing back on April 2, 2013. But, like me, you might have missed seeing the video... so here it is for you to enjoy....

This is as close to flying a MiG-29 as you can get without actually flying it! from David Cenciotti's weblog | Here are two videos showing a transfer and operations of Polish MiG-29′s during the Baltic Air Policing mission which is a NATO initiative of conducting air monitoring of the Baltic region....

SpaceX Dragon capsule returns successfully to Earth from Flightglobal Events | The SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned successfully from its third flight to the International Space Station, splashing down into the Pacific Ocean. The...

Russia to boost space spending to $51.8 billion over the next six years to 2020 from Spaceports | Marking the 52nd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin making the first manned space flight, Russian President Vladimir Putin toured the construction site of the Vostochny launch pad in the Far East and said the government would earmark some 1.6 trillion rubles ($51.8 billion) for the space industry through 2020 to make up for the years of under-investment, according to the Itar-TASS news agency....

Russia Looking to the Moon from Spaceports | Russia's celebrating Cosmonautics Day, marking the first manned flight into orbit, by Yuri Gagarin in 1961. And, 52 years later, the...

Europe teaming with United States for human deep space missions in next decade from Spaceports | NASA and the European Space Agency are teaming up on an American project to go farther into space than ever before....

Scripps ship named after Sally Ride - U-T San Diego | ... talked about the majesty of Earth's oceans from space, and this fitting tribute will give inspiration to those exploring the inner space of our ocean depths as well as outer space," said Francis French, education director at the San Diego Air ...