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Air show brings thrills - Amarillo.com [Video] | Looking up in the sky, a plane was seen wobbling through the air – laughter from fellow pilots erupted. “That’s the Flying Farmer/Drunken Pilot,” said Mike Patterson of the Texas Air Museum in Slaton. Stunt pilot Kyle Franklin continued displaying various aerobatics from his comedy air show routine in his plane, “Dracula.”...

Pilots enjoy offering air show to eastern Montana audience - Sidney Herald Leader | Pilots of the Wings of Freedom III air show this weekend are enthusiastic about performing in Sidney. Mark Frederick and Beth Jenkins are pilots flying the historic World War II B25 Devil-Dog, which was built in 1944 before the war ended.At some air shows, Jenkins said veterans come to the show and ride with them. “It’s very touching,” she said. “Normally they have tears in their eyes.”...

Plane crashes during Louisa air show; no one hurt - The Daily Progress | A small plane crashed while landing Saturday morning during the Louisa County Air Fair, state police said. No one was injured. The crash occurred shortly after 11 a.m. at the Louisa County/Freeman Field Airport. State police responded to the scene after the pilot of a 1929 Fleet fixed-wing, single-engine plane was attempting to land when a malfunction with the brakes occurred. The plane ran off the runway to the left and struck an embankment before overturning and coming to rest on the cockpit, police said....

North Mississippi Aviation Expo attracts crowd - WTVA | TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) -- The sky is the limit! That's one way to describe the popular North Mississippi Aviation expo. The event is well underway at the Tupelo Regional Airport. The public is encouraged to tour hangars where aircraft are on display. Various other aircraft are are also on display including vintage plants and helicopters used during the Vietnam war to present day....

More than 40,000 spectators enjoyed the final Leuchars Airshow ... | The RAF Leuchars Airshow 2013 was the 65th "Battle of Britain at Home Day" to be held at the airfield, which will become an army base by 2015. Although the review into the future of the airshow is still taking place, the RAF said they need 1100 staff to put on the event and 600 of them will be gone by September 2014...

Another Great Aviator and Builder Gone - Nordo News | Waking up from my own bed for a change, things were going well. Then I opened my email. Jim Moss had died (September 1st, 2013). Jim’s aviation history is long and storied but most of today’s generations know him for his replicas, the Super Solution and Gee Bee QED. What I remember most though is how he and Ginger hit it off at one airshow years ago. Jim’s shadow was long and that’s where most people naturally fell. Ginger though, with some good natured Indiana style ribbing, made him wonder who was standing in whose shadow and before long he’d put her in the Super Solution to check it out and get her picture taken...

It Flies, It Floats, It's Metal - Nordo News | It's my understanding the Hamilton Metalplane has made its first flight on floats. Although the photographer appears to have forgotten to take a photo of it in flight, I am told it flew. Here are some photos for you to enjoy. The location is Kenmore Air Harbour. The floats are 6400's....

RAAF-Restored F-111C Arrives at Pacific Aviation Museum in Hawaii By Warbirds News | The Royal Australian Air Force-restored General Dynamics F-111C that has been gifted to the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, arrived at Hickam Air Field at Joint Base Pearl Harbor a couple of nights ago, carried from RAAF-Amberley by an RAAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster. The arrival of the fuselage, was the final piece of the delivery of the plane with the wings and tail shipped separately. The plane was then pulled over to the museum’s Ford Island location over public roads in the middle of the night, so as to avoid snarling traffic.

Fighter jets at work and at play - Bayou Renaissance Man | Courtesy of an e-mail from reader J. B., here's a fascinating video of fighter jets old and new in the skies. The...

A conversation with the next generation of pilots · General Aviation News Staff | The Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education (KIAE) is a one-of-a-kind endeavor, currently working with 14 high schools in the state to provide students direct experiences in aeronautical engineering, flight, aircraft maintenance, and space systems. When I asked Tim Smith, director of Frankfort High School’s Aviation program and CIO for KIAE, why this was important, he said...

Citizen Astronauts Complete Suborbital Scientist Course - Aero-News Network | Citizens in Space announced that four astronaut candidates have completed Suborbital Scientist training at the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center, a premier aviation and space training, research, and education facility aimed at optimizing human performance in extreme environments. Maureen Adams, Lt. Col. Steve Heck (USAF-ret.), Michael Johnson, and Edward Wright have been selected by Citizens in Space to fly as payload operators on the XCOR Lynx spacecraft....