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Warbirds Over Addison 2013 | Warbirds Over Addison will be featuring two of the best warbird pilots in the industry, Warren Pietch flying the Texas Flying Legends Zero and Greg Shelton flying his FM2 Wildcat...

Air show makes spectacular return - Press-Enterprise | Following a two year absence, the Redlands air show returned Saturday, May 18, with a multitude of death defying acts. Hangar 24, a popular Redlands craft brewery, resurrected the show, combining it with its fifth anniversary celebration. All proceeds...

With Offutt Air Show Grounded, Helicopter Day Takes Off - WOWT | It'll be a disappointing summer for air show lovers since the Offutt Air Show was canceled because of the sequestration, but the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland helped fill that void a little Saturday with Helicopter Day. It's a sight many...

Thunder Over Michigan | Added to an already great lineup! The de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito is the only airworthy Mosquito in the world! Watch as this wooden machine buzzes through Michigan's sky in a very rare performance!

Plenty To Do On Father's Day Weekend in VenturaCountyWest - Ventura County Star | For dads who love airplanes and history, the Commemorative Air Force Museum at the Camarillo Airport features vintage aircraft and an extensive collection of World War II memorabilia--from guns and ammo to military uniforms. The museum offers flights...

Who Else Wants To Fly Upside Down? - All Things Aviation | ...Some pilots are born to fly upside down, and among those elite pilots is one Sean D. Tucker....

B-17 in Bend on Tuesday - Bend Bulletin | The Bend chapter of the Experimental Aviation Association is hosting a visit from a B-17 bomber Tuesday. The restored B-17G Flying Fortress is one of only 13 of its kind still flying, according to the EAA. B-17s were widely used as bombers in Europe...

Flight to the past: B-17 bomber visits Eugene - The Register-Guard | Nearly seven decades after he bailed out of a B-17 bomber over Europe during World War II, Alton Andrews sits in the nose of a restored Flying Fortress on a brief flight Friday afternoon over Eugene. The 91-year-old veteran of 11 missions was a...

Vulcan XH558 | We have a successful take-off for the first flight of the year. Well done to the engineering team and thanks to everyone who volunteered and donated to make it possible. The aircrew...

Seen from the inside: stunning Lancaster’s on-board video shows aerial gunner’s view of Derwent Dam flypast from David Cenciotti's weblog | On May 16-17, UK’s Royal Air Force celebrates the 70th anniversary of one its most famous raid in RAF history: the Dams raid conducted by 617 Squadron. The “Dambusters”, half of those never returned from the raids, were honoured with a dramatic tribute...

Smithsonian Air and Space Giving Away Part of its Collection By WarbirdsUpdate | Lest there be an uproar, we’ll state it upfront: The popular items the public loves to visit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, in Washington D.C. are not being given away. So there’s no SR-71 Blackbird or Space Shuttle in the offing, but there are a number of items that the museum considers surplus to the museum’s objectives or goals and they are getting rid of them in a process called “deaccessioning” in the museum field which the Smithsonian engages in periodically...

Goodyear's Drake becomes a MAPS Air Museum exhibit - Canton Repository | Now the last surviving Goodyear Drake teaches, too, as a new permanent exhibit at MAPS Air Museum at Akron-Canton Airport. The recently restored plane — repainted in its original yellow and blue Goodyear colors — will be dedicated at 1 p.m. today...

The Aero Experience Road Trip: TWA Is Focus of Two Museums in Kansas City from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | It's the start of Road Trip season, and The Aero Experience set out today to make some new friends at two museums in Kansas City, MO that focus on the history of TWA - the former Trans World Airlines.... 
The Plane With No Name - Air and Space Smithsonian | IT BEGINS WITH THE PUSH, USUALLY AT, say, 20,000 feet and maybe 50 miles from the target. The pilot runs through a checklist with the right-seater, then throws a switch on the left side of his flight control panel, engaging the terrain-following radar....

British Astronaut Assigned 2015 ISS Stay from Spaceports  | Britain's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake, 41, has been selected to fly on a five-month mission on the International Space Station in 2015, it is believed. The go-ahead for the flight will be seen as a major boost for the UK's space industry. Peake graduated as a...