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Oshkosh 2013 - Friday Airshow Highlights - LiveAirShowTV | Highlights from Friday's Airshow at EAA's AirVenture in Oshkosh!

Oshkosh AirVenture 2013 Night Air Show - airailimages

Teresa Stokes' Wing Walking Beginnings  - Aero-News Network | Gene Soucy's Partner Didn't Always Think of Wing Walking By Maria Morrison | In Huston, TX, 25 years ago, Teresa Stokes saw someone wing walking for the first time. Although it was never part of the young pilot's plan, she found herself filling in for Gene Soucy's cancelled wing walker just two weeks before an air show. Wearing a suit, helmet, goggles, gloves, and special thin-soled sneakers, Teresa got up on the wing of Gene's Showcat. She trained herself, trying out new moves, first on the ground, then in the air.

'Disney's Planes' Previews At AirVenture  - Aero-News Network | Special Preview Screening Held At Fly-In Theater On Friday, August 2 | Everyone knows that Oshkosh becomes the busiest airport in the world the week of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (July 29-August 4), and that airplanes take off all the time … however this year “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’ takes off with Dayton’s help - Dayton Daily News | ...Duford is the curator at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Kaplan, formerly the director of the Aviation Hall of Fame, is founder and director of the Reel Stuff Aviation Film Festivals. When the new Disney film, “Planes” hits theaters on Friday, you’ll see both the Air Force Museum and Kaplan listed in the credits...

Jet Truck becoming fan favorite at AirVenture - The Oshkosh Northwestern | There is a performance during the afternoon and night air shows at AirVenture 2013 that is garnering plenty of buzz. But it's not in the air. No, on the contrary, it stays grounded the entire time. That act is that of the Shockwave Jet Truck, driven by ...

AirVenture Remembers the Veterans - WBAY | From recognizing them to thanking them, it's all about veterans Friday at AirVenture in Oshkosh. It started with a breakfast. The Warbirds were in the air in the afternoon. And in-between, a parade down the flightline led the veterans to a special ...

Local pilot gets to fly in major airshow - Vincennes Sun Commercial | A Knox County man with an eye for the skies got to take part in the world’s largest air show this week. John Snider, a 21-year veteran pilot of United Airlines and a Vincennes native, was asked to participate in the 2013 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh’s main show held Tuesday in OshKosh, Wis., flying a Mosquito XET turbine helicopter...

Warbirds And Legends Land In Topeka - WIBW | TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - More than 70 vintage aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s landed in Topeka for the weekend. The Warbirds and Legends event kicked off Friday at Topeka Regional Airport at Forbes Field. Attendees are able to touch, feel and view different aircraft, plus see some of them take to the skies in air shows. Pilots, military veterans and collectors are also on hand to give tours of their planes and demonstrate them....

Snowbirds wow big crowd at city waterfront - Canada.com | The Canadian Forces' Snowbirds Demonstration Team were in fine form Wednesday afternoon, twirling and diving high above the heads of hundreds of spectators who jammed into Maffeo Sutton Park. Yesterday's show marks the first time the squadron has visited the Harbour City since 2009. Team members landed in Nanaimo on Tuesday for a meetand-greet session with kids and parents....

WWII Bomber B-25J to visit La Crosse - La Crosse Tribune | The B-25J Mitchell is considered one of the most versatile planes from World War II. It was used for bombing, strafing, photo reconnaissance, submarine patrol and attacks. The plane became famous in 1942 when 16 B-25Js bombed Tokyo four months after Pearl Harbor. The aircraft grew into the most heavily armed airplane in the world...

Taxiway incident temporarily grounds B-17 enroute to Evansville | GALLERY - Evansville Courier & Press | KANKAKEE, Ill. — Despite its reputation as one of the sturdiest and most resilient aircraft of World War II, a “Flying Fortress” was no match Friday for a parked aircraft at the Greater Kankakee Airport. The 103-feet-wide B-17 bomber was taxiing when its wing struck the propeller of another plane, impaling the wing. Members of the Collings Foundation, which owns the B-17, grounded the aircraft out of concern for passengers’ safety....

McDonald Racer No. 37 and a new sponsorship - UVU Review | For race enthusiasts, air racing has been labeled the world's fastest motor sport. The Reno race was held Sept. 15-19. The past two years, the Racer and its pilot placed third and fifth, respectively. According to Zayac they have a really great crew ...

Reno Air Races 1984 - The Lexicans | You guys have got me going back into yet more slides – I didn’t realize that I had so many – cranking up the old Nikon slide scanner (takes about a minute or so for it to scan a slide and convert to to a .jpg – anyway I thought you’d get a kick out of some of these old pics from the Reno Air Races – 1984. For over 20 years I would go up there every year. Lately I haven’t but I think I will go this year. Rather than show some more of the magnificent WW2 Unlimiteds I think I will should you some scenes from the past that aren’t coming back…

Women in Aviation honored by National Aviation Hall of Fame - AOPA Pilot | “We’re pleased to honor such a great organization,” said Ron Kaplan, National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinement Director. “Congratulations to all of you because it is a group award.” The award will be bestowed in Orlando, Fla., during the group’s annual convention and twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in March 2014...

Museum guests celebrate Amelia Earhart's 116 birthday - Hookelenews | Pacific Aviation Museum | More than 700 people brought their families and celebrated the famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart’s 116th birthday July 24 at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor. Families with at least one person in costume were invited to visit the museum free, view the museum’s “Amelia Earhart in Hawaii” photo exhibit, celebrate the festivities with cake and refreshments, and meet “Amelia” and members of the Aloha Chapter of the Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, of which Earhart was the first president.

Long Island, New York’s Cradle of Aviation Museum Celebrates the Rich Heritage of the Region - Warbirds News | When one mentions Long Island, New York (or Lawnguylind, NooYawk in the local dialect), guaranteed the first thing that springs to mind will not be aviation, but the reality is that the island is steeped in aviation history, so much so that the airfields of Long Island in general and the Hempstead Plains in particular were already being widely referred to as the “Cradle of Aviation” all the way back in the 1920s.

Truth, Fiction or Just Strange: Could This be the Mother of All Hangar Flying Stories? Airplanista Aviation Blog | ... No sooner than my feet hit the ground, a young man wearing the uniform of a firefighter came running up, and speaking fast, he was clearly in emergency mode. "You're the pilot they call Av8rdan, right" he asked, a bit breathless. When I answered in the affirmative, he grabbed my flight bag with one arm, and motioned for me to follow as he sped off across the ramp towards a Gulfstream G650 that was spooled up and ready to depart. When I asked what was going on, he just said "they" will explain everything on the plane....