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'Thunderbirds' announce 2014 officer selections - Air Force Link - Air Force Link | Matthew Bradley, 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron director of operations from Tyndall AFB, Fla., will become Thunderbird No. 1, the squadron's commander and lead pilot. As the twofold duty title implies, his responsibilities will include commanding a...

KDF: Thunder Over Louisville will go on as scheduled  - WDRB | LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- The Kentucky Derby Festival says Thunder Over Louisville will go on as scheduled, but with "heightened awareness."  It also says it is revisiting its emergency plan, taking a closer look at it following the explosions at the Boston Marathon. KDF says its plan is already "comprehensive," and always evolving. And people attending events are urged, "If you see something, say something."...

Another Amazing, Thoughtful Factoid From The Int'l Council of Airshows - AeroNews Network | ...The two U.S. military formation teams are two of the three oldest teams in the world. The U.S. Navy Blue Angels have been performing since 1946 and are the oldest military team in the world....

AirVenture Cup Race returns for 16th year from General Aviation News | The EAA AirVenture Cup Race will continue racing in 2013 with the full support and involvement of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Race volunteers and EAA Chairman Jack Pelton met earlier this year to coordinate details of the race and establish guidelines for the EAA event. Race officials are still determining the course for this year’s event, but plan to hold the race on Sunday, July 28, in advance of EAA AirVenture as they have done for the past 15 years....

OU Pilots Prepare to Compete in the Air Race Classic - OU Nightly | Two women pilots will represent the University of Oklahoma’s aviation department this summer as they compete against 55 other teams in a cross country race that spans 2,400 miles...

Air Race Classic 2013 - University of North Dakota | ...Second, our race route has changed!! They have taken out out the stops in Sarasota, WY and North Platte, NE and replaced them with Rawlings, WY and Holdrege, NE....

Breathless to Attend from Mojave Experimental Fly-In by Mojave FlyIn

Sequestration Cuts Won't Stop Paulding Airshow - Patch.com | Through the measures brought about through sequestration, the air show industry has taken significant losses. The industry depends heavily on military demonstrations as headliners both in the air and on the ramp to draw folks to the show. With the cuts ...

SUN ‘n FUN 2013 – Day 1 from Other People's Airplanes by David

Dassault celebrates 50th anniversary with presentation of restored Mystere 20 ... - eTurboNews | The restored Mystère 20 s/n 1 was unveiled last week at the third annual Air & Space Museum Airshow, held at Le Bourget Airport, near Paris. It will next be shown at this year's Paris Air Show, scheduled for June 17-23, before returning to its ...

Sky Combat Ace - USA Today | Fly a fighter jet with Sky Combat Ace. The 40-minute fighter-pilot experience enables you as a passenger, under the guidance of a trained pilot, to experience the adrenaline rush of a dogfight. The planes employ an optical targeting system to give you the sensation of hitting another plane without doing damage. Get the gut-wrenching thrills of low-flying passes toward earth as well as hurtle through the air as the plane executes tail slides, spins and other air show routines. With...

Warbird Adventures, Inc. Exciting from the Ground Up! from Featured by Webmaster | ...The original plan was to barnstorm around the country, but they ended up in Kissimmee by accident and set up shop out of the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum instead. The rest is history....

33rd Fighter Wing to dedicate F-35 hangar to Doolittle Raider - The Northwest Florida Daily News | Edward Saylor (far right) was part of the Doolittle Raiders Crew No. 15 that took off from the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942. The 33rd Fighter Wing will dedicate an F-35 hangar in his name on Wednesday as part of the Raiders' 71st and final reunion ...

EDITORIAL: 'Thirty Seconds' over FWB - The Northwest Florida Daily News | The chamber has given the name “Thirty Seconds Over the Emerald Coast” to a planned flyover of five vintage B-25 bombers on Friday, April 19, to mark a reunion of the surviving Doolittle raiders. The raiders — all volunteers — trained secretly on ...

Red Tails Project to keep Tuskegee Airmen legacy alive - WTXL ABC 27 | The event is run by the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron, a non-profit based in Indiana. They will bring several Mustang aircraft, including an antique P-51C that will be available for tours. They will also bring a traveling movie exhibit ...

World War One - Part III from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Plenty of photos...

Spitfires at the Bunker - Coffs Coast Advocate | A fascination with 'warbirds', vintage wartime aircraft, began after a chance meeting with the legendary aviator Col Pay. Col had purchased and rebuilt a Spitfire Mk VIII and allowed Terry to sit in the pilot's seat where the instrument panels could be ...

MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting Set for April 18 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

Bill Allen's Ryan STM-2 Flying Again from Antique Airfield News | Bill Allen at the Allen Airways Flying Museum, Gillespie Field in San Diego wrote us that his Ryan is back in the air after restoration:...
Gary Baglien's J-2 Cub from Antique Airfield News

New CAP facility to bear name of WWII vet, local supporter from Headline News - Civil Air Patrol  | NORTH CAROLINA -- Civil Air Patrol recently honored a pilot who earned his wings a long time ago. CAP members from the North Carolina Wing’s Asheville Composite Squadron renamed their flight operations center at Asheville Regional Airport for Lt. Col. Robert Augur, who flew three different types of bombers during World War II, and is a big supporter of the local CAP squadron...

SR-71 “Blackbird” Skybound At Museum of Aviation In Georgia! - Warbird Radio | The Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia recently elevated their SR-71 “Blackbird” into a nose-up “take off’ position in their Century of Flight Hangar. A combined...

New Ohio license plates showcase aviation heritage from General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — As Ohio rolls out its latest license plate design, the National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA) is urging motorists to show their pride in Ohio’s aerospace industry and support aviation heritage by ordering specialty “Leader in Flight” license plates....

Navy To Honor Sally Ride from Aero-News Network | Academic Research Ship To Be Named For America's First Woman In Space The United States Navy has revealed that its next ocean-class auxiliary general oceanographic research (AGOR) vessel will be named after the first American woman to fly in space. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in a statement Friday that the ship will be christened the R/V Sally Ride.

SpaceShipTwo Achieves Milestone First 'Cold Flow' Test Flight from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Private space tourism inched closer last week as test teams from Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic announced an important milestone in the development of SpaceShipTwo on Friday, April 12, at the Mojave Air and Space Port.