Monday, June 10, 2013

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'Perfect day' for Ocean City Air Show - Delmarva Daily Times | A fast-moving rainstorm had delayed the starting time of the sixth-annual Ocean City Air Show for more than an hour on Saturday, and the skies remained threatening throughout the day. But Sunday was a different story with partly cloudy weather and a ...

Airshow Changes Cut Crowds - WGBA-TV | MANITOWOC- Big changes for Thunder on the Lakeshore, the airshow in Manitowoc is taking a huge hit after military spending cuts. Leaders are having to make up for losing performances and aircraft, but the funding is coming out of their pockets.

Fun in the Skies at the Cameron Air Show - stjoechannel.com | Fun in the Skies at the Cameron Air Show. Planes nosediving through the skies of Cameron on Saturday afternoon was all part of the plan at the Cameron Airshow.

Editorials Slam FAA for Assessing ATC Fees at Oshkosh  - EAA |Demand called 'misguided', 'out-of-line', and 'unlawful'  | June 10, 2013 - The Oshkosh Northwestern editorial board and U.S. Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) each spoke in strong opposition over the weekend to the Federal Aviation Administration's demand for additional fees for air traffic services at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, as part of published editorials in the newspaper's Sunday edition.

Riding shotgun with the Snowbirds - Canadian Skies | Flying with the Snowbirds puts a whole new spin on the phrase “bird's eye view.” Three hundred metres up in the air and zooming along at close to 600 kilometres per hour, this particular flock of nine Canadair CT-114 Tutors travels in a cozy group ...

Snowbirds visit One Kids Place - NorthBayNipissing.com | North Bay, ON — Following their aerial performance over the North Bay Waterfront for Armed Forces Day on June 5, seven members of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds visited One Kids Place Children's Treatment Centre. They were treated to a tour and then ...

Catching Up by Tracy | Around the Pattern | I have a relatively quiet afternoon today, so I’ll see if I can get a couple of articles published to catch up on things. I was going to fly down to Marysville, CA this weekend for the Golden West Fly-in until I saw the weather forecast. It was supposed to be 100+ here in Reno, so the Northern California valley temps could easily have topped 105, not factoring in the temperatures on an airport ramp. I decided to stay home and catch up on things instead. The morning flight over wouldn’t have been bad – probably really enjoyable. But leaving after the airshow, so 3:30-4:30 would have been the hottest part of the day. Not fun for the pilot of the airplane...

Harry takes to skies for air show - Belfast Telegraph | The Cosford Air Show attracts thousands of people annually with aerial demonstrations including this year the Red Arrows, RAF Chinook transport helicopters, and the RAF Falcons parachute display team. Harry was among crew selected given his ...

Photos: Cosford Air Show 2013 - Shropshire Today

Apache to deliver explosive performance at South East Airshow - Kent News | Able to operate in all weathers, day or night and detect, classify and prioritise up to 256 potential targets in a matter of seconds, it could assess the whole South East Airshow audience in just 2 minutes! The associated pyrotechnic display is being ...

Ohio Air News - Charles Johnson | Photo's from Marysville, OH, Waterloo and Florida

Local Pilots Prepare for Air Race Classic - NewsChannel5.com | MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A pair of local pilots are leaving the state to take part in a women's-only air race that will send them across the country. Alexis Hutchinson and Alison Taylor are part of a flying group called the 99's -- a team of all woman ...

B-17 bomber to land at Springfield airport - The State Journal-Register | A piece of World War II history will land at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield next week. “Sentimental Journey,” a B-17 bomber from the era, is scheduled to be at the airport on Monday, June 17 as part of an annual summer tour of the country...

Aviators reunite with legendary B-24 - General Aviation News Staff  | By BILL WALKER  | Decorated U.S. Army Air Corps fliers Joseph Reus and Sam Mastrogiacomo took center stage at the last American Aero Services open house. On the ramp outside the hangar entrance where the two airmen signed copies of their memoirs, an airworthy B-24 Liberator provided a vivid reminder of their service in World War II....

Les Cockrell: Library to offer hero events - Denton Record Chronicle | Airbase Arizona of the Commemorative Air Force is flying its World War II bomber B-25J “Maid in the Shade” into Denton Enterprise Airport today, and area residents are invited to take a look at the historic aircraft. The plane is scheduled to arrive at ...

Classic plane a unique ride - Owen Sound Sun Times | The 1946-model aircraft was visiting Owen Sound from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton along with a Second World War B-25 bomber. Shaw, who managed the Owen Sound airport at one time, said he had never been in an aircraft as...

Warbird Gathering Offers Free Flights For WWII Vets  - AvWeb | About 90 vintage military aircraft have registered to take part in the Gathering of Warbirds and Legends in Topeka, Kan. from Aug. 2-4 and in keeping with the cooperative and community service nature of the event, Second World War vets are being offered free rides on rare aircraft from the era. "We have owners lined up who are donating their airplanes and their gas to fly these vets," said organizer Dan Gryder in an interview with AVweb. He said vets and the family...

The Big Birds return to American Aero Services - GA News | The surest sign of winter in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., is the appearance of some unusually big birds migrating south. These birds, the Collings Foundation B-17G and B-24J, fly in every year for their annual maintenance appointment...

Whatcom pilots to fly secret route used to send warplanes to Soviets during ... - Bellingham Herald | Alan Anders, left, Jeff Geer and Mark Kandianis pose with a North American AT-6 WWII era plane at the Heritage Flight Museum on Thursday June 6, 2013 in Bellingham. The three will be flying to Fairbanks, first flight phase of a documentary they are...

Homestead's Phantom returned - Travel for Aircraft | Through the 1980s the F-4 Phantom II, based at what was then Homestead Air Force Base,  was the front line aircraft for the U.S. Air Force tasked with countering Soviet or Cuban Air Force aircraft threats originating from Cuban air space — which is...

Thunderjet Sunday - Planeshots

RAF Pilots Fly Spitfire War Beer Runs! - All Things Aviation | Anyone who knows the British know that they love their beer (warm by the way), and this desire for their favorite brew led to an interesting modification to the famous Spitfire known as...

Young Eagles take to the air during fly-in breakfast - kxlo-klcm | A group of Young Eagles took to the air during the annual Fly-In Breakfast at the Lewistown Airport on Saturday. stockAirport Central Montana Hangar representative Pete Smith spoke with KXLO's Fred Lark about the program that aims to interest kids in...


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