Monday, July 1, 2013

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Crowds at air show bigger than expected By Keith Lewis and Samantha Rinehart ~ Southeast Missourian | The line of people waiting to see the 2013 Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival on Friday already was a long one before the gates opened at 5 p.m. Some of the people who came to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport traveled from outside the area to witness the spectacle...

Video: American Heroes Air Show Gives Up-Close View Of Helicopters - KTLA

Field of Flight Air Show & Balloon Festival to launch July 3 in Battle Creek - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com | BATTLE CREEK, MI -- The Field of Flight Air Show & Balloon Festival will feature so much more than just airborne entertainment this year, event organizers said. While no military aircrafts will be on site, the first ever Michigan Mile, magic shows, musical guests including Matt Giraud, the Great Lakes Timber Show and the Funland Amusement Park and carnival will all make an appearance at W.K. Kellogg Airport for the Battle Creek festival....

Watch Lewis Hamilton fly with the RAF Red Arrows - BBC News

The Gathering of Warbirds and Legends – Dan Gryder Interview - Airspeed | The Gathering of Warbirds and Legends will take place in Topeka, Kansas 2-4 August. Dan Gryder (whom many will recognize as my DC-3 IP from 2008 and several other contacts since then) is one of the primary movers and shakers and took some time out of his Sunday morning to join us to talk about the event.

Old WWII aircraft will fly in for Pan-O-Prog festival in Lakeville - Star Tribune | When pilots fly in for the first-annual fly-in breakfast during Lakeville’s Pan-O-Prog celebration, they’ll receive a free breakfast. Or, well, not exactly. “It’s $100 worth of fuel to fly 75 miles to get an $8 breakfast for free,” said Gary Stinar, who worked to get the breakfast, a benefit for the Lakeville Lions Club, off the ground this year. It will be held next Sunday, the fourth day of Pan-O-Prog...

Jet fighter the star of air museum’s show - Gympie Times | AIRCRAFT enthusiasts flocked to the Queensland Air Museum yesterday for the first day of its annual open cockpit weekend. The recent arrival of a retired F-111 ensured there was plenty of interest in the event, particularly as visitors were able to sit in the cockpit of the mighty plane....

VIDEO. 30,000 spectators for the Patrouille de France AEROTOP lounge

Radio controlled aircraft take to the sky during a RC fly-in - Mankato Free Press | Alex Schauer didn’t have the best day of flying his radio-controlled airplane. Windy conditions not withstanding, something bad happened as he made his approach to land at Forsberg Field, the North Mankato Electric Flyers’ airport, and he lost control of his plane and crashed. He took the accident in stride, knowing what all RC aircraft pilots know: If you fly them, you will crash them at some point....

'Doolittle Raiders' deserve recognition, and you can help - Mansfield News Journal | In April 2013 there was a lot of press coverage about the 71st and final reunion of the “Doolittle Raiders.” I vividly recall that April day in 1942. I was 14 when the Tokyo raid took place, but most readers probably do not remember the raid. Here is what happened....

Phantom Pharewell · apron6 | I’m back from two days of Phantoms at Wittmund. The first day made me realize again why I don’t like big events with lots of people. You can’t seem to make the touch with what’s going on. The planes just stand there, nothing happens… To add to that there were allot of frustrated people yelling at each other for no good reason and it rained the whole day… The second day turned out to be different. Grey at first and the same static shots as the first day, but then the...

Sons of two world champs to fly in B.C. balloon festival - Battle Creek Enquirer | A.J. Nels remembers as a toddler he cried until his father agreed he could go to Battle Creek for a hot air balloon competition.Trevor Blount used to sleep in the back of his dad’s Volkswagen van before a morning flight and throw water balloons at other kids on the launch field....

Alaska aviation centennial gets special gift from 91-year-old bush pilot - Alaska Dispatch | Alaska’s Centennial of Flight celebration now includes a particularly special aircraft, a BT13B World War II training plane that was formally donated to the Commemorative Air Force Thursday by longtime Anchorage resident Howard "Mike" Hunt. The BT13B flew earlier this month in Kenai as part of aviation celebrations underway across Alaska all summer, culminating in Fairbanks on July 4...

Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43 Lands at Fantasy of Flight - Warbird News | Kermit Weeks and his team from Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida, spent about a week in Texas earlier this month disassembling the 1937 Sikorsky S-43 that Howard Hughes commissioned for a record-breaking around the world flight attempt. Although Hughes ended up using a different plane for the record attempt, and in fact crashed this one, he had it rebuilt and luxuriously-refitted and used this machine for many years as his personal aircraft, shuttling business associates and Hollywood Starlets alike in it’s leather and mohair lined confines....

Scottish National Museum of Flight is Planning an Upgrade to its Facilities - Warbird News | While still in the planning stages, the Scottish National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Scotland is preparing an application for a facilities upgrade for funding through the United Kingdom’s Heritage Lottery fund. Housed at former RAF East Fortune, a former Royal Air Force station, the museum already boasts an impressive collection of aircraft, including rare warbirds like the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bristol Bolingbroke and notable civil aviation craft like the Vickers Viscount and Concorde....

A-10 pilot saves smoking aircraft, earns safety award - 355th Fighter Wing Public Affairs | 6/29/2013 - DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- A pilot's response to a smoking engine on his A-10 Thunderbolt II earned him the Pilot Safety Award of Distinction from the 355th Fighter WIng and 12th Air Force May 25....

Astronauts get down to earth - NBCNews.com (blog) The planetary introspection is taking place in Seattle during this year's congress of the Association of Space Explorers, which brings together astronauts and cosmonauts from the United States, Russia and other nations. There's only one membership requirement: You have to travel through outer space for at least one orbit around Earth...

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