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53rd Wing pilot to become lead Thunderbird - The Northwest Florida Daily News | His first stop on his track to take over the Thunderbirds will be learning to fly the jet at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. Then he and his family will relocate to Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas where he will undergo intensive training to learn ...

Frecce Tricolori: thousands for the show of the Rose Garden Air Show VIDEO  - CityRumors.it  | A huge crowd has invaded Roseto to see the Frecce Tricolori. Despite the wind and a few drops of rain, several thousand people attended the exhibition of the aerobatic team (Pan) was founded in 1961 following the ...

Hundreds of Pilots Head to Valdez for 10th Annual Fly In - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska | VALDEZ - Hundreds of pilots spent the weekend in Valdez for the 10th Annual Fly In. The festival started as a way to bring in money during the off season, and now attracts people from all over the world. "We've had close to 300 planes. I think the ...

Steam Plant Fly-In takes off June 22 from General Aviation News | EAA Chapter 1343 and GTO Aviation are hosting the second annual Steam Plant Fly-In and Expo Saturday June 22 at Sumner County Regional Airport (M33) in Tennessee.

RC air show takes off from Stephenville next weekend - Western Star | RC air show takes off from Stephenville next weekend. Tom O'Brien's Snowbirds Tudor Jet takes off from the Model Flying Field on the Kip Kaus photos. Tom O'Brien's Snowbirds Tudor Jet takes off from the Model Flying Field on the east ramp in Stephenville.

Historic B-17 draws Felts Field crowd - KREM.com | Generations of people packed Felts Field on Saturday to see an historic B-17 "Memphis Belle." Pilots offered flights around the area in the B-17 Flying Fortress. People like Vietnam Veteran Gary Barnes lined up for their chance to ride in the historic ...

Band of two: Diz Kronenberg meets WWII B-17 gunner buddy he's not seen in 69 ... - Leader-Telegram | World War II veterans Joe Collector of Norfolk, Va., left, and Harold "Diz" Kronenberg of Eau Claire meet May 3 at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia. The former B-17 Flying Fortress gunners in World War II hadn't seen each other since they ...

Former Air Force Two DC-9 Auction from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A DC-9-32 owned by the U.S. Department of State is up for auction May 15, with a starting bid of $50,000 and, according to the seller, the aircraft was "part of Air Force Two" and "may have acted as Air Force One." According to auction documents provided by the government, "In the thirty years this aircraft was assigned to the 89th Airlift Wing (Feb 1975-Sep 2005) it flew Presidential missions." The document (PDF) does not specifically name individuals flown, but does list the positions those individuals held.

Museum Plans Constellation Flight Re-enactment from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The countdown has begun for the ambitious re-enactment of a record-setting flight that helped usher in the modern age of air travel. The National Airline History Museum hopes to re-create the inaugural coast-to-coast flight of a Lockheed Constellation flown by Howard Hughes and Jack Frye in its own Connie. Right after the first Constellation was rolled out on April 17, 1944, Hughes and Frye jumped in the cockpit and flew across the country in less than seven hours....

Phantom Pharewell from Photorecon | The German Air Force bought 175 F-4F and 10 F-4E in 1971. The first aircraft had its maiden flight on 18th May 1973.The difference to the common F-4E were the the omission of the seventh fuselage tank, the AN-APQ-120 radar in a simpler version and the omission of the capability of air refueling and the use of the AIM-7 Sparrow.

Skymaster Walkaround in Ft. Worth’s Best Kept Secret by travelforaircraft | Ft. Worth's best kept secret is the Veterans Memorial Air Park which is actually a museum 3-fer (use the search window to find the posts describing the museums and the aircraft on exhibit). Many Forward Air Control (FAC) aircraft are present and this is the museum for FACs... 

F-35B performs first vertical take-off from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar  | Sources say that test pilots at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, performed the first Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) vertical take-off on 10 May.

Winners of Build A Plane contest named from General Aviation News | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and Build A Plane have named teams from Canby High School in Canby, Minnesota, and Saline High School in Saline, Michigan, as the winners of its nationwide Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) aviation design challenge competition.

Week One of "Blogging in Formation" was a GREAT Collaborative Effort from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | Last week, I participated in an awesome new aviation blog series called "Blogging in Formation," six bloggers, one topic, all week. The project was initiated by Brent Owens of iFlyblog.com, and while simple in design, the formation blogging concept was nothing short of brilliant....

EAA Chapter 640 donates funds for new scholarship from General Aviation News | EAA Chapter 640 in Wausau, Wis., has donated $10,000 to the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame to establish a new scholarship fund for aviation/aerospace students from Wisconsin. The largest gift WAHF has received by an individual or organization, the fund will be established at the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, Wausau, to endow a named scholarship. Successful applicants for the...

International Space Station Command Passed from Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield from Spaceports | The official command of the International Space Station was successfully passed from Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency to Russian Cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, Commander of Expedition 36, during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on Sunday, May 12, 2013.... 

Video: Astronaut Mom Prepares for Space Stay from Spaceports | Astronaut Mom Karen Nyberg talks with Parenting Magazine about being a parent and her upcoming launch to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan on May 28, 2013.