Skytypers to feature in VB air show - Fox 43 TV | When the Blue Angels were grounded in April, Oceana Naval Air Station announced that it was canceling its annual air show. Across the country, the budget cuts have impacted a little more than two-thirds of the air shows held each year in the United States...
An aerobatic outing with the Air National Guard Airshow Team - Daily Press | I arrived at Norfolk International Airport on Thursday morning — along with Daily Press photographers Adrin Snider and Ryan Kelly — and volunteered to let Klatt show me what he could do with a lightweight, two-seat aerobatics machine called an Extra...
Fairhope Festival of Flight Canceled from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | FAIRHOPE AL- The Airport Authority has canceled the return of the Festival of Flight due to the sequester-fueled grounding of military aircraft. Past events, military and vintage planes flew in to participate, drawing an estimated 15,000 people to city's H.L. "Sonny" Callahan Airport. After a 3-year run the festival was canceled in 2009 due to uncertain sponsorship during the recession according to news reports...
Airshow Organizers and Performers Hold Out Hope - Rochester YNN | It should have been an exciting weekend at the Rochester International Airshow, but thanks to government spending cuts, it's just another day at the airport. There is one professional pilot in town with his plane. "Airshow pilot! Or used to be," said...
Organizers say shortened Atlantic City Airshow will still be a draw - Press of Atlantic City | Not for lack of trying by organizers, the airshow will run about three and a half hours rather than the marathon six-hour shows of years past. Federal budget cuts earlier this year left the Greater Atlantic City Chamber and airshow boss David Schultz ...
NEW VIDEO: Snowbirds wow the crowd over Niagara Falls – Check out the action - Bullet News Niagara | The breathtaking non-aerobatic performance took place with picture perfect weather conditions against the backdrop of one of the seven wonders of the world. Bullet News was there to take in the event and get some audience feedback in this video.
Meet Hurricane pilot and watch Red Arrows at Capel-le-Ferne - Kent News | On hand to sign specially-designed postcards will be real life Hurricane pilot and Battle of Britain veteran, Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC – and as the Red Arrows have now announced that they will, after all, be flying over Folkestone that afternoon ...
US Pavilion Still the Largest International Pavilion at Paris Air Show - Wall Street Journal | WALDWICK, N.J., May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite sequestration and the ongoing uncertainty of U.S. military budgets, the official U.S. Pavilion remains the largest international pavilion at the International Paris Air Show, and continues to grow...
The ‘new’ SUN ’n FUN from General Aviation News by Drew Steketee | This woman is lit! She’s electric. Lori Bradner, selected late last year — in lieu of a new Florida Air Museum director — is now SUN ’n FUN’s executive director of education. That’s right: SUN ’n FUN now highlights youth education and year-round engagement, not just an annual celebration of aviation’s glory. The entire team is involved, but Bradner is the focal point for educational programs making SUN ’n FUN relevant — everyday — to aviation’s future....
Preserving a lost art: Formation flying goes mainstream - AOPA Pilot | “Wiggle your toes, number two,” Mike “Kahuna” Stewart, a Formation Flying Inc. (FFI) check pilot and leader of Team AeroDynamix, tells me over the radio. Kahuna is evaluating us from his RV-8 about 100 feet in trail. “Relax. You'll fly better if you...
Historic B-17 airplane makes stop in Ogden - fox13now.com | OGDEN, Utah – An aluminum B-17 airplane known as The Flying Fortress landed at the Ogden-Hinckley Airport on Thursday. During World War II, the B-17 was one of the most modern planes in the air. A B-17, nicknamed Aluminum Overcast, is touring the...
Public to have opportunity to ride on restored B-17 - El Dorado Times | During World War II, Jacob Thigpen, Jr. was a crew member on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.
Bomber Camp in Stockton - Stockton Record | Bomber Camp at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport on May 29. Technical Sgt. Tim Murphy instructs the recruits on the operation of the .50 cal. machine gun.
Pieter Stroobach Visits Wales from Photorecon by Pieter Stroobach | Remember the time that spotting was a hobby which needed patience? You just went to any airfield in the hope to see something. You know, before the web………. hello, anybody? For those of you who miss that time or want to experience it I have a suggestion. It is still possible to relive those days. Although with some extra effort.
Gathering of Eagles 2013 Coming to Maxwell AFB from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | MAXWELL AFB ALABAMA- Gathering of Eagles is an annual aviation event that traces its origin back to 1980, when retired Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets was invited to visit Air Command and Staff College to share some of his experiences with the students. This visit became the genesis for the Gathering of Eagles program. The first official Gathering of Eagles (then known as "Great Moments in Aviation History") was hosted by comedic legend Bob Hope in 1982...
Shelby Co Chapter Celebrates EAA's International Young Eagles Day on June 8 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Thousands of young people will take to the sky on Saturday, June 8, as EAA volunteers continue an outstanding aviation tradition - International Young Eagles Day. The 20th annual event brings together kids and pilots as part of the EAA Young Eagles program, the largest, most successful youth aviation education program ever created across the nation...
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