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Airshow celebrates milestone - Boone County Journal | The Memorial Day Weekend Salute to Veterans Corporation invites the public to come celebrate a major milestone at their 25th Annual Two-Day Salute to Veterans Airshow over the Memorial Day Weekend at Columbia Regional Airport on May 25-26, 2013...

Air Force Academy graduates and Friends of USAFA rally to support Class of ... - DVIDS | The museum is home station to the B-25 Mitchell bomber which will support the Air Force Academy graduation events, and also support airshows around the country. The museum's tarmac will get a little more crowded this weekend, when the Texas Flying...

Snowbird shares preview of 2014 air show - Fort McMurray Today | The air show — set for the May 30, 2014 weekend — will coincide with the opening of the Fort McMurray Airport's brand new terminal building. While the terminal is scheduled to open June 9, residents who attend the air show will have an opportunity to ...

TRIG Aerobatic Team Oostwold Airshow 2013 from TAKEOFF TUBE | The team fly two Pitts Special S-1D Biplanes, Trig Aerobatic Team the Pitts Special is one of the most legendary light aerobatic aircraft ever built. Although originally designed by Curtiss Pitts back in 1944 the design proved so successful that the Pitts has been...

Wildcat and Swordfish Lead Air Day’s All-Star Flypasts from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | Innovation and heritage will come together like never before when the Royal Navy’s cutting-edge Wildcat maritime attack helicopter flies alongside the historic Swordfish torpedo bomber at this year’s RNAS Yeovilton Air Day on 13 July. The pairing makes up just one of the spectacular and memorable flypasts being staged within Air Day’s all-action flying display....

Time Aviation SAAF Museum Airshow 2013 from Airstrike Aviation Photography by Justin de Reuck

Red Arrows to perform in Folkestone despite cancellation of the airshow - Kent Online | Spokesperson Chris Yates said: “We have worked with the RAF for many years and are working closely with them for the line up at the South East Airshow at Manston Airport in July, so were very happy to assist on behalf of the council to ensure there was...

Dubai Airshow Gearing Up For Move to Dubai World Central site - Aviation International News | Dubai Airshow organizing firm F&E Aerospace (Booth 827) said that the show's new venue is on schedule for completion, with just 90 days until Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects officially hands over the keys for the show site. The biennial event will ...

World War II bomber, 1912 biplane to visit Nut Tree Airport - Fairfield Daily Republic | VACAVILLE — Aviation lovers will get the chance to fly in a World War II-era bomber and see one of the first aircraft to ever take to the skies over Solano County at the Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum's Flying History Days at the Nut Tree Airport ...

Solar Impulse Airplane ready for 2nd stage of crossing the U.S. from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | The aircraft Solar Impulse, the first and only solar-powered aircraft, starts on Wednesday the second stage of the crossing of the United States, from Phoenix, Arizona (southwest), bound for Dallas, Texas (south), announced a charge of the project. The experimental aircraft, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, began the first leg of the trip on May 3, the Moffett Air Force Base, near San Francisco, California (west).

Timeless Voices - Glenn Black from eaavideo.org | Glenn Black served as B-25 pilot with the 381st Bomb Squadron of the 310th Bomb Group during WWII. He flew combat missions in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in Italy and was severely wounded on his 56th mission while bombing German barges.

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to include XB-70 and other R&D aircraft in new fourth building from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's planned fourth building will now include aircraft from the Research and Development (R&D) Gallery, along with a new Presidential Gallery, an expanded Space Gallery and select global reach planes.  The addition of many of the R&D aircraft will allow visitors to see the popular XB-70, X-1B and the "flying saucer-like" Avrocar, among others....

Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Receives "Sun-Run" RF-101C Voodoo Print Collection from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum received a collection of limited edition prints depicting the McDonnell Aircraft RF-101C Voodoo flown by then U.S. Air Force Captain Ray Schrecengost on "Operation Sun-Run," a successful bid to establish three transcontinental speed records. The prints were presented Tuesday to the museum by Mr. Ed and Cynthia (Schrecengost) Miller and were immediately placed on display in the Jet and Space Age Gallery. Captain (later Colonel) Schrecengost was the...

Panthers At Sea - Air & Space magazine | The U.S. Navy was late to the revolution. The Army Air Forces put in an order for its first jet, the Bell XP-59, before the U.S. entered World War II. The Royal Air Force used the jet-powered Gloster Meteor against buzz bombs in July 1944, and the Luftwaffe was well under way; in July of that year, its Me 262 was already shooting down Allied fighters. But air forces have long runways on which to land fast, unproved airplanes. For the Navy, with its peculiar habit of landing aircraft on ships, the transition to jet aircraft was more hazardous and therefore slower. The service wouldn’t field its first operational jet, the McDonnell FH-1 Phantom, until 1947....

We took part to an Air-to-Air Refueling mission on board a Boeing KC-767 during Ex. Star Vega
from David Cenciotti's weblog | Star-Vega 2013 is the name of the largest Italian exercise scheduled in 2013.  Taking place between May 13 and 24, the Star-Vega is a joint ex. that sees the participation of all the Italian Air Force assets as well as units of the Navy, Army and a NATO E-3 AWACS from Geilenkirchen...

Pilatus Introduces The PC-24 'Super Versatile Jet' - Yeeeeha! (Seriously) from AirPigz by Martt | Swiss aircraft maker Pilatus aims to put the fun back in biz jets. Oh wait, fun in a biz jet? When did we ever have a biz jet any real measure of fun built into it? I guess I can't really say for sure since I don't have very much direct experience with the world of biz jets, but I can say that I haven't felt a fun vibe from any of them. Until now. Meet the Pilatus PC-24: Yeeeeha!...