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Positively Las Vegas Thunderbirds help donate toys to children - KTNV Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- The Thunderbirds may be spending more time on the ground than they'd like because of budget cuts, but they're still putting smiles on the faces of children. Members of the Air Force Flight Demonstration Team are spending the ...

Ocean City Air Show is on - without Blue Angels - WTOP | The Ocean City Air Show takes place June 8 and June 9 with an all-civilian lineup that includes the Geico Skytypers, a P-51 Mustang and a Sea Harrier that looks like a plane but can take off and land vertically like a helicopter. Show-goers will see...

The Patrouille de France in La Ferte-Alais  - Citizenside  | The Patrouille de France was present on 18 and 19 May 2013 at the 41st edition of the airshow La Ferte-Alais, in the Essonne, with another demonstration, just validated. The Patrouille de France will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary Sunday, May 26...

Pancake Breakfast and Fly-In set for June 1 at Mid-Way - Waxahachie Daily Light | This year's Mid-Way Regional Airport Pancake Breakfast and Fly-In will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, June 1. The pancake breakfast will served in the main terminal building at the airport. Breakfast tickets are $7 for adults and children 8 years and...

A flight of remembrance - Canton Daily Ledger | This year was a special one for the Fly-in Drive-in as a B25 Mitchell Bomber performed its first show of Canton. The B-25 Bomber, the type of plane that had dropped bombs on Japan during WWII, was part of the Commemorative Air Force - Missouri Wing.

Helo Crew Missing From Vietnam War Accounted For, Interred At Arlington from Aero-News Network  | Four Buried As A Group May 2 A Navy Pilot, missing from the Vietnam War, has been accounted-for and was buried with full military honors along with his crew. According to the Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), Navy Lt. Dennis W. Peterson, 28, of Huntington Park, CA, was the pilot of a SH-3A helicopter that crashed in Ha Nam Province, North Vietnam.

A Day of Records - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) | A pair of aircraft and a team of five USAF aircrew flew these missions which originated out of Edwards Air Force Base, California. The YF-12A was the interceptor variant of the vaunted Lockheed A-12 Mach 3+ aircraft. Armed with a quartet of ... Over...

Thrill Ride: Senior citizens fly in WWII aircraft - Elko Daily Free Press | ...Hirsch and three other residents of Highland Village had the opportunity Monday to fly with Darryl Fisher. Fisher is president and founder of Ageless Aviation Dreams, a foundation based in Carson City whose mission is to recognize veterans and senior citizens in long-term care communities....

F-111 finds new home at Queensland Air Museum in Caloundra - The Sunshine Coast Daily | QUEENSLAND Air Museum was abuzz today as a dream for aviation buffs was realised with the arrival of an F-111 fighter jet. The plane's presence served as a glorious conclusion to the museum's seven year quest to claim one of the six prized F-111's ...

Today in 1927: Charles Lindbergh completed the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight in... - by National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian

Video: Jetpack By Troy Hartman - The Real Rocketeer? (Hmm, Maybe Not) from AirPigz by Martt | So you probably know about the Martin Jetpack, and also about Yves Rossy - aka Jetman (who will be making his first public flights in the US at Oshkosh 2013!) but do you know about stuntman Troy Hartman and his Jetpack? If you do, you're a step head of me... I just learned of this sorta Rocketeer project this morning. The video above is actually from last August....