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Wings Over Water in Ocean City - Delmarva Now | Award-winning aerobatic pilots Mike Goulian, in his Goodyear Extra 330SC custom-built aerobatic aircraft, top, and Rob Holland, in his Veteran Home Loans MXS/RH Aerobatic Aircraft, fly over Ocean City during a media fly-along Thursday. They can be seen...

Airshow to let crowd 'Feel the Rush' - News-Press Now | While some air shows appeal to a sense of nostalgia, the Cameron Airshow will aim this weekend for another feeling: an adrenaline rush. Event organizer Lee Crouch described the show he has planned as “an aerial rock concert,” with a host of acts ready ...

South Plains Airshow scheduled at Slaton Airport - LubbockOnline.com | Jimmy Doolittle launched from the USS Hornet for a first strike against Tokyo, will roar across the skies above Slaton Airport on Saturday, June 8, during the biennial South Plains Airshow. The B-25 will play a part, along with replica Japanese fighter...

Dusty, star of Disney’s Planes to appear in Dayton Dayton, Ohio – The summer release of Disney’s Planes, the animated comedy adventure from above the world of the popular 2006 film Cars, has the entire aviation community buzzing. Disney’s Planes captures all of the thrill and excitement that flying has to offer—plus a lot of heart and humor.

Aerobatic Freestyle Challenge - Formula 1 with wings will once again fly over Prague - EuroZpravy.CZ | Last year, the Aerobatic Freestyle Challenge came to look around 10,000 people a year are expected to have higher attendance. Not surprisingly, it will be because the most competitive aerobatic show in Europe! Airmen with its top aerobatic planes pass...

Photos: Płock Air Picnic 2013, Wings Over Gillespie 2013 Airshow

Vertical Power Sponsoring the 2013 EAA AirVenture Cup The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | Cross country air racing has a long history in the U.S., starting in the early 1920s, and has been credited with many advances in aviation technology, speed and reliability of engines. The organization's goal is to combine aviation history with ...

Solar Impulse Lands In St. Louis from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A month after its departure from San Francisco, Solar Impulse on Tuesday landed in St. Louis, marking the fourth stop on its six-stop flight across the U.S. The unique solar-powered airplane previously landed in Phoenix and Dallas, and plans to stop next in Washington, D.C., and New York. The latest leg of the trip, with Bertrand Piccard at the controls, lasted 21 hours and 21 minutes and covered 562 nautical miles. The advance crew for the first time used an inflatable hangar that was designed for the project's planned 2015 round-the-world flight, after the planned hangar space in St. Louis was damaged by storms over the weekend...

WWII 'warbirds' create excitement in Chadron - Rapid City Journal | Seeing a vintage WWII airplane in flight is a rare event in the 21st Century, more than 60 years after the end of the conflict. That made seeing eight planes from the era flying in formation over Chadron last week particularly intriguing for residents...

New Orleans FBO hosts B-17 from General Aviation News | NEW ORLEANS – Hawthorne Global Aviation Services, an FBO at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, recently host the Texas Raiders, an authentically restored World War II B-17 Bomber owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force. Thanks to Jay Taffett, general manager, for sending these photos along:...

Warplanes come back to Felts Field - The Spokesman Review | The B-25, based at Paine Field in Everett, will be on display to the public throughout the week, and paid flights can be arranged through Historic Flight, the company that owns the plane through its foundation. “It's probably the nicest B-25 in ...

Fantasy of Flight aims to take you higher. - Freeline Media | Despite the change in schedule, Fantasy of Flight will continue to offer attractions like , including the Wing Walk Air Ropes Course & Zip Line, the Art Deco-themed Compass Rose diner — which aims to recreate a 1940s-style roadside diner — its gift...

A Visit from A Legend from Vintage Wings of Canada By Dave O'Malley, photos by Peter Handley and the Allnutt Bros | This past weekend, June 1st, 2013, the great Canadian fighter ace, Wing Commander James Francis Edwards, paid a visit to the Vintage Wings of Canada hangar in Gatineau. Stocky and his wife Toni were in town for the week to receive the greatest honour a Canadian aviator can be given – induction into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame. The Thursday night event was a...

70th Anniversary at Duxford — Remembering the Mighty Eighth from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | | The famous Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire UK has been a nexus of aviation since 1918 and is now home to the Imperial War Museum Collection, The Fighter Collection, The Old Flying Machine Company, The Aircraft Restoration Company, Historic Aircraft Collection, B-17 Preservation Society as well as more […]

Radio chatter clip of WWII Lancaster bomber engaged by German plane during a attack mission
from David Cenciotti's weblog | Since radios were not so advanced, audio clips from World War Two are quite rare. This make the following radio chatter clip of a Lancaster bomber being attacked by a German fighter during a war mission over Germany particularly interesting....

The Patrouille de France like you never have seen - Paris Match | François-Olivier Robin, the producer of the film, we tried to film the Patrouille de France as it had never been shown, do something completely cinematic and dramatic, with a bias very aesthetic...

Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi - Million Dollar WWII Airplane ... - Forbes | Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Plane Collection. Allen's generally stiff demeanor dissolves when he describes the inner workings of each plane, like the Royal Canadian Air Force B-25 bomber sitting in the center of Hangar...

Personal Finance: Youthful entrepreneur makes good on high-flying vision - Sacramento Bee | He hasn't yet graduated from high school, but Sean Burris is already airborne with his first business venture: Classic Jet Tours. Fueled by his passion for vintage jet airliners from the 1950s and '60s, the 18-year-old has organized...

NASA Talk Shows How Most Aircraft Had Model Beginnings - Space Ref | That same evening at 7:30, Chambers will present a similar program for the general public at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton. This Sigma Series event is free and no reservations are required. Beginning in the biplane era of the ...

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