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Crowds miss Blues but enjoy air show - Pensacola News Journal | Civilian pilots flying supercharged aircraft pushed the boundaries of aerodynamics during the Pensacola Beach Air Show on Friday.They coaxed their planes into mind-boggling somersaults and flips, twists and hammerhead stalls, evoking gasps from the crowd....

Pensacola Beach Air Show wraps up under cloudy skies (photos) - The Birmingham News - al.com - The Pensacola Beach Air Show wrapped up after a brief weather delay about 3:45 Saturday in front of Casino Beach. Skies were cloudy as potentially severe storms rumbled in the west, but the rain and thunderstorms held off long enough to complete the all-civilian air show for the several thousand attendees on and around Santa Rosa Island....

Geneseo Airshow showcases historic planes - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | The rows of people sitting at Geneseo Airport Saturday afternoon tipped their heads back, pointed skyward and scanned the sky with their eyes.Then the tiny glider plane came into focus, looping and circling through the sky before swooping toward the ground as the crowd clapped....

Black Diamond Jet Team To Fly At Lehigh Valley Air Show  - Aero-News Network | Private Jets To Sub For U.S. Military Demonstration Teams | There will be military jets flying at the Lehigh Valley Air Show August 24-25, but they won't belong to the U.S. government. The Lehigh Valley Air Show has confirmed that the Black Diamond jet team will perform at the show flying Aero L-39 Albatros jets ... and the show will be getting the act free of charge....

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Annual "fly-in" brings dozens of planes to Detroit Lakes - WDAY | Detroit Lakes, MN (WDAY TV)-- Meantime, dozens of planes were swooping over head during the carnival today. It's part of the annual "fly-in." More than 40 airplanes were showcased at the airport. Members of the experimental aircrafts association say they're stressing that the hobby isn't just for people with money. But for those of all ages....

Into the wild blue yonder - The Independent | LEXINGTON — For aviation enthusiasts, the chance to fly in a red-tailed P-51 Mustang, a Douglas SBD Dauntless or a Mitchell B-25 “Doolittle” bomber is the stuff dreams are made of. Each of the three historic American-military aircraft, maintained and flown by members of the Commemorative Air Force, are now sitting near the runway at Bluegrass Airport in Lexington with passenger seats available for those who want to live the dream....

EAA AirVenture 2013 flying in soon - WLUK Fox 11 | EAA's AirVenture is just about two weeks away. And although many things, like the air shows, will be a fixture, others will be missing. Organizers say it's been a challenging time planning this year's event. That's because of an ongoing legal battle over who pays for federal air traffic controllers to be in the Wittman Airport tower....

Tarkio Air Show Brings a Circus to the Sky - stjoechannel.com | (TARKIO, Mo.) Aviation enthusiasts gathered in Tarkio, Mo., Saturday for Wing Nuts Flying Circus Airshow. "I like airshows, I've been a pilot for years and years, and my buddies and I decided to come down," said Gary Worthy, Pilot and airshow enthusiast. Gary Worthy and his crew traveled nearly seven hours to attend the fly-in. Worthy was a helicopter pilot in the Army and has spent years flying as an agriculture pilot. "My grandpa, he's been a crop duster for a long time and I really like planes," said Koby Smith, airshow enthusiast. This is the 10th airshow at Gould Peterson Memorial Airport in Atchison County, Mo. It's an event that happens every two years....

Bombs away at annual fly-in - Lompoc Record | Lonnie Autry, 69, carefully lined up his yellow airplane with the target, adjusted for the slight cross wind and descended to 200 feet above the ground. He eased back on the throttle as he approached the aim point and yelled “throw” to his bombardier. With that command, his 4-year-old grandson Daxton Gregory tossed a sack of flour out of the plane....

Backus Lions Fly-In Breakfast fundraiser is July 28; Also Medivac helicopter visit, ‘Jaws of Life’ - The Pilot Independent | The 18th annual Backus Lions Fly-In Breakfast will be held July 28 from 7:30 a.m. to noon at the Backus Airport, west of Highway 371. The breakfast is a benefit for the Backus Fire Department and First Responders...

Over 65 antique planes fly in West Coast Piper Club Fly-In - KSBY San Luis Obispo News | It was the 29th Annual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In at the Lompoc Airport Saturday. Piper cubs are small airplanes made of metal tubing and cloth. Thousands were built back in the 1930's and 1940's, but only several hundred are still around....

Airshow returns to National Museum of Flight - Edinburgh Evening News | All eyes will be on the skies when Scotland’s Airshow returns to the National Museum of Flight for the 16th 
year. Crowds of over 11,000 are expected to attend the popular family event on July 27, where one of the star attractions will be a talk from real life Phileas Fogg, Brian Jones, who completed the first uninterrupted circumnavigation of the earth by balloon in 1999....

Final preparations for Flying Legends Air Show at Duxford Imperial War Museum ... - Saffron Walden Reporter | The Bremont Horsemen Flight Team - Steve Hinton, Dan Friedkin and Ed Shipley - present the worldwide debut of their thrilling new display in a trio of Supermarine Spitfires. Tickets can be purchased on the gate on Saturday or Sunday. For further ...

Wales National Air Show takes place in Swansea - BBC | Swansea is hosting one of its busiest weekends of the year as tens of thousands of people are expected to watch the city's air show. The Wales National Air Show is staging displays by the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and an RAF Typhoon fighter jet....

Meeting of Prouvy: The Patrouille de France flies the Nord - Pas-de-Calais on Saturday - Translated | ...The Patrouille de France is here this Saturday and fly to the meeting to 14:20, a little earlier than usual. It will pass to 5:20 p.m. above Lille and Marcq-en-Baroeul, before going across the sky Boulogne. If you miss it, you can see it on TV Sunday morning, since it will pass over the Champs-Elysées to 10:30, and then over the Mont Ventoux and the Tour de France peloton at 11:20....

Eurofighter Typhoon takes the stage at the Zeltweg airshow among several interesting participants · Dario Leone | On Jun. 28 and 29 Zeltweg airbase hosted Air Power 2013, Austria’s main air show. Even if several planes took part in the airshow, the Eurofighter Typhoon emerged as the highlight of this year’s Air Power....

Durban Airshow wows crowds - eNCA | Some of South Africa's top pilots have been winging their way around KwaZulu-Natal. They're competing in the province's Winter Air Tour. eNCA. DURBAN - Some of South Africa's...

Hartzell joins forces with RV8tors | · General Aviation News Staff | UK-based aerobatic team, The RV8tors, are collaborating to display Hartzell Propellers’ Advanced Structural Composite (ASC-II) propeller in airshows across the UK and Europe over the next year. Alister Kay and Andy Hill, The RV8tors, have been flying their Van’s RV8 aircraft as an aerobatic duo since 2010. They expect to perform for more than three million spectators across the UK and Europe this year....

Houghton: Reno Air Races fans won't be 'displeased' with new Unlimited Warbird Class - RGJ.com | While the original Unlimited Class announced its disbandment from the Reno Air Racing Association earlier this summer, it was quickly replaced with a new Unlimited Warbird Class, one that Mike Houghton, association president and CEO, believes will help the Reno Air Races grow in a new direction.“There’s no reason for fans to be displeased,” Houghton said. “Nothing has changed, except for the name of the racing class.”...

Historic WWII aircraft restored, preserved by CAF-San Marcos - Herald Zeitung | The sound heard overhead at the end of New Braunfels’ Old Time Fourth of July Patriotic Parade last week was not one of conventional aircraft, but men and their magnificant flying machines of years gone by. Four pilots with the Commemorative Air Force flew over the Main Plaza in the Missing Man Formation in their World War II aircraft that these men have dedicated themselves to preserving the planes and history of that era....

Volunteers uplifted by restoration of Ithaca Tommy plane - Press & Sun-Bulletin | DRYDEN — In an anonymous, commercial-grade building just outside the Village of Dryden, history is being remade.Since 2010, a group of volunteer aviation enthusiasts have been busy restoring a Thomas-Morse S4 Scout, more affectionately known as a...

Nadezhda Popova, celebrated Soviet 'Night Witch' aviator of World War II, dies ... - Washington Post | Ms. Popova was among the first female pilots to volunteer for service in the Soviet military during World War II and became a squadron commander in her swashbuckling all-female regiment. She flew 852 combat missions — including 18 during one night — and was honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the nation’s highest decorations...

Drone to be on display at Pensacola NAS - Pensacola News Journal A drone that made history this week by landing on a U.S. aircraft carrier is slated to eventually become an exhibit at Pensacola’s National Naval Aviation Museum.“I think it will be something really different for people to see here,” said Hill Goodspeed, the museum’s historian. He said that the use of unmanned aircraft as military weaponry is “very much in the public consciousness. And it does represent another step in aviation technology.”...

RAF Museum Cosford Exhibits Models of Cancelled Concept Aircraft · Warbirds News | The collection brings together ten original pieces of aircraft design, including one by Barnes Wallis, creator of the Vickers Wellington Bomber and the famous Upkeep bouncing bomb used during the Dambusters Raid...

Mexican aviator's mission may be completed, 86 years later - phillyBurbs.com | ...Carranza, a close friend of celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh, was attempting to fly from New York to Mexico City the night of July 12, 1928, when his propeller plane Excelsior was caught in a violent thunderstorm over the Pinelands. Members of American Legion Mount Holly Post 11 assisted in the recovery of Carranza’s body, and the post conducts the annual service at the Carranza memorial....

F-15E Mission Training in UK ·Photorecon.net | “Ratch 2, you’re cleared for take-off”. The dark grey Strike Eagle thunders down the runway only seconds after we got the take-off clearance from the tower in RAF Lakenheath. The acceleration is amazing after my pilot Chris “Skull” Bridges ignited the afterburner and released the brakes. Despite the nearly 10 tons of fuel on board and an empty weight of 14,3 tons, only a few hundred meter of rolling distance are enough to put the aircraft to the sky....