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Patriots Jet team takes to the skies over Mercer Island | Seafair 2013 photos - Mercer Island Reporter | Though it was a quieter Seafair Friday than in years past, thanks to the wet and cloudy weather, that didn't stop curious onlookers from checking out this year's Boeing Air Show practice on Friday, Aug. 2 on Mercer Island.This year the Patriots Jet team practiced over Lake Washington on Friday afternoon, and will perform shows on Saturday and Sunday afternoons....

Biggest little airshow coming - Victoria News | With a roar, the twin turbo jet engines on Jack Price’s A10 Warthog rev up and propel the replica military airplane onto the short grass field where modelers regularly gather to take to the skies. Fuelled by kerosene, the engines look — and sound — like the real thing. Price and fellow Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society (VRCMS) members Al Tamosiunas, Jack Lowe and Mike Scholefield are getting their scale-model aircraft ready for the club’s 12th annual airshow, dubbed Victoria’s Largest Little Airshow.

Thousands fly to enjoy the airshow's thrills and spills - East Lothian News| More than 11,000 visitors flocked to the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune for Scotland's Airshow on Saturday.

Photographers take their best shot at Abbotsford Airshow - New Westminster News Leader| In the past month, hundreds of photographers have submitted their works into the 2013 Amateur Photographer of the Year Contest. Now the finalists have a chance to shine at this year's airshow | The contest, sponsored by London Drugs, Black Press and the Abbotsford International Airshow received almost 2,000 individual entries from around the province. A judging panel has narrowed the field down to finalists from Vernon to Vancouver....

Gathering of Warbirds and Legends – Day 1 – Briefing Airspeed Online | The Gathering of Warbirds and Legends is underway here in Topeka. I sat in on the briefing this morning. Lots and lots going on and Dan and others covered everything from parachute deployments to warbird formation sequences.

Airspeed GWL RapidCast – Darrell Linenberger’s L-16B Airspeed Online | We talked to CW4 (Ret) Darrell Linenberger about his Aeronca 7CCM (L-16B). It turns out that the aircraft wasn’t even a slotted participant, but the marshals sent him to the display line and he parket it there gladly.This aircraft never flew in military service but, when the time came to repaint it, Darrell painted it in military livery.

Airspeed GWL RapidCast – MSgt (Ret) Robert Yarberry Airspeed Online | MSgt (Ret) Robert Yarberry is a commemorative paratrooper with the Airborne Heritage Platoon based here in Kansas. He took a few moments to talk to us about why a guy who could be taking it easy is instead out there doing PLFs under round canopies.

Typhoon is back at Air Festival for good - Bournemouth Echo | IT’S fast, noisy and one of the big favourites at Bournemouth Air Festival. And the good news is that it is here to stay – and that’s from the horse’s mouth. Patrons of the festival were enthralled by a talk from the RAF’s Typhoon display pilot, Flt Lt Jamie Norris, at the Cottonwood Hotel...

Watch: What it takes to be an air race pilot - BC | Globalnews.ca | A pilot who dazzled spectators in 2011 is back and better than ever for this year’s Celebration of Light. Wednesday night is Canada’s turn to dazzle the audiences. But air race pilot Pete McLeod will be there to warm up the crowds with his flying skills. McLeod was born to fly. His first flight was in a family plane when he was just six weeks old.,,

Emerald Coast pays tribute to Air Force legend Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- Nearly 1,000 service members, veterans and citizens from across the nation paid their respects to the life and legacy of a retired Air Force colonel during a funeral service at the Emerald Coast Convention Center on Okaloosa Island, Fla., Aug. 1. Col. George "Bud" Day, a Medal of Honor recipient and combat pilot with service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, passed away July 27 at the age of 88....

Hawley Bowlus and the W 02 — his flying body by travelforaircraft | Hawley Bowlus was an interesting man who led a varied and rich life. He started the Airstream Travel Trailer Company which produces those iconic polished, round-cornered aluminum skinned trailers. He also designed gliders as well as teaching many to fly them — in fact he taught Anne Morrow Lindbergh to be a glider pilot and she went on to become the first woman to get a glider pilot license in the United States. We all know she went on to grander aviation adventures with her husband Charles. He also taught Charles Lindbergh and supervised the construction of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, as well....

Changing the game: Groups work to encourage more women in aviation - The Oshkosh Northwestern | When Samara Hull wrote a paper for school about her goal of becoming a pilot, the two guys in her class who also want to be pilots were not expecting to hear that she already had experience in the air. The fresh faced 18-year-old from Colby, Wis., is working on her recreational pilot license, and the guys were jealous.Young women like Hull are increasingly looking to aviation as a career, although their numbers remain only a small part of the aviation community....

Women in Aviation Chapters Are Making Waves - WAI Connect Blog | Louisiana Tech University Chapter and San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

10 Electric Planes to Watch - IEEE Spectrum | Aviation is a slow-moving industry, but the daring designers of electric aircraft have made a lot of progress recently. During the past two years, as a number of key technologies—batteries, controllers, motors, and materials—have neared maturity and...

SALINE: Students honored at national aircraft show - Heritage Newspapers | SALINE -- It’s not every day that kids from Washtenaw County take part in press conferences and photoshoots and are treated like celebrities. That’s what a group of students experienced this past week during what many are calling the trip of a lifetime. Saline students Lee Luckhardt and Julia Garner as well as Lincoln Consolidated Schools student Kyle LaBombarbe are part of a winning team of CAD/CAM students from the Washtenaw Consortium who won the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and Build A Plane Science, Technology, Engineering and Math aviation design challenge competition....