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Blue Angels impress young crowd at St. Martin High - WLOX | Automatic budget cuts, known as sequestration, grounded the Blue Angels this year. With no air shows to put on, the elite pilots and their crews are focusing on another part of their mission -- community outreach and recruiting. On Friday, several Blue ...

Airport plans to return flying legends to skies - This is Kent | Biggin Hill airport this week told the Chronicle they were looking at ways to resurrect the popular annual air fair. They hope a new-look spectacular will be off the ground within the next "couple of years", but admit they have been wrestling with the ...

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'Dawn Patrol' new VW Hot Air Fest event - Van Wert independent | ...The spectacular new feature will include six balloons first performing a “glow” about an hour prior to daylight and then taking off from the fairgrounds before the sun comes up. By the time the balloons are ready to land, it will be light enough for them to do so....

WWII planes stop by Palm Springs in Wings of Freedom Tour - The Desert Sun | Witchcraft, and two other rare flying warbirds including a P-51C Mustang and B-17 Flying Fortress, are on display for tours and rides until noon on Wednesday. The trio are part of an annual national tour of warbirds put together by The Collings Foundation.

B-17 returns to Torrance airport for public flights - Los Angeles Daily News | It's a steep cost, but officials stress it costs roughly $4,000 an hour to operate this B-17, which has been restored to its original glory. Passengers can walk throughout the entire plane, visiting the cockpit and just about every nook and cranny ...

F-104 Starfighter arrives at Nampa's Warhawk Air Museum - KTVB | NAMPA -- The newest addition to the Warhawk Air Museum slowly floated through the air Friday morning during a unique delivery process described as "slinging." Suspended 30 feet above the ground by a crane, a well-preserved F-104A Starfighter was ...

Electric Flight Pioneers Explore Battery Options from AVwebFlash Current Issue | To realize the potential of electric flight, batteries are key -- they must be safe, powerful, affordable, and long-lasting -- and several of the speakers at this week's CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium are working to address these issues....

Podcast: In-Flight Recharging for an Electric Airplane from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Chip Yates of Flight of the Century, who set an unofficial speed record last year in an electric-powered Long-EZ, is now working on a mid-air recharging system for the aircraft, which he plans to test prior to appearing at EAA AirVenture later this summer. He spoke with AVweb's Mary Grady about his plans at the CAFE Electric Airplane Symposium in Santa Rosa, California on Friday.