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Opening Day Flyover is Picture Perfect - Dallas Morning News | Thanks to the good folks at Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, we were able to provide Dallas Morning News viewers a unique perspective of the Opening Day pageantry at Globe Life Field in Arlington before the Rangers-Phillies game....

Plenty of seating options open for Thunder Over Louisville - WAVE | LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Thunder Over Louisville is just days away. This is the 25th year for the event and organizers are promising an amazing show. This year's theme is Throwback Thunder, and will give those who attend a musical taste of the past 24 years...

DM to host 'Thunder and Lightning over AZ' open house - Tucson News Now | Everyone is invited to attend Davis-Monthan's open house happening April 12 and 13. D-M is opening its doors for this free event to showcase its military air power and express appreciation for the local community's continuous support of its missions....

Lamborghini VS Sukhoi 29 at Warbirds Over Wanaka · Warbirds News | Warbirds News has covered in a couple of occasion the fascinating challenge between the airplane and cars, click HERE. The upcoming Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow will propose another challenge.World aerobatic champion Jurgis Kairys has decided to give four-time Bathurst V8 Supercar winner, Greg Murphy, a chance in a head-to-head clash at Easter’s Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow.Murph will be behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Supercar when he takes on Jurgis flying a Sukhoi 29 aircraft, in a dash along the runway at Wanaka Airport at lunchtime on both Airshow days.The Highlands Motorsport Park Lamborghini Superleggera is capable of going from ?0 to 100kph in 3.4 seconds and has a top speed of 325kph while the Sukhoi has a similar maximum speed....

VIDEO: Biplane fun promotes airshow - Illawarra Mercury | One hundred and fifty metres above the Illawarra coastline and a world away from the stale cabins of everyday aircraft, limitless fresh air feeds into the open cockpit of the retro red Lilly Warra. Like the blonde bombshell mascot painted on her side, the biplane is carefree and all style....

X-29 S/N 2 plans to attend * Mojave Experimental Fly-in | Visit their site, even more attendees announced!

Bournemouth Air Festival set to grow in 2014 as spectacular line-up is revealed - Bournemouth Echo | THIS year’s Bournemouth Air Festival is set to be bigger and better than ever before. That was the message from organisers at the 2014 Bournemouth Air Festival launch as they revealed what’s lined up for this year’s four-day spectacle....

Lubao hot-air balloon festival filling up hotels in Bataan - Business Mirror | CLARK FREE- PORT—The more than 150 hotels in Balanga City and others in Bataan are almost all booked next week in time for the staging of the  Philippine International Balloon Festival in Prado Siongco, Lubao town, Pampanga. Gov. Albert S. Garcia of Bataan, who was recently interviewed, said the celebration of Bataan Day on April 9 prompted those who want to attend the hot-air ballon festival to book early in the hotels and inns in the area....

Aviator Jeremiah Denton was tortured in Vietnam - The Globe and Mail | Jeremiah Denton, a former U.S. senator from Alabama and a celebrated U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam and tortured in his years as a prisoner of war, at one point signalling Americans of the abuse by blinking in Morse code during a televised interview, died Friday in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 89....

Former Denver resident Hugh Andrew receives French Legion of Honor medal for WWII service - Denver Post | It took a long time, but Lt. Col. Hugh Andrew finally has his Legion of Honor medal. Andrew, 92, a former Denver resident and Denver Post carrier, on March 26 in Washington, D.C, received the French Legion of Honor medal for his World War II service. He was one of 14 to receive the award that day....

Historic Aviator Harriet Quimby * airplanes.com | Born in Arcadia, Michigan, on May 11, 1875, Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a pilot’s license in 1911. On April 16, 1912, she became the first woman to successfully pilot an airplane across the English Channel – an event which earned her the moniker of “America’s First Lady of the Air”. As a journalist, Quimby described her experience in detail and it was printed in the New York-based magazine she wrote for – Leslie’s Weekly....

Dakotair Takes Delivery of Their First Douglas Dakota · Warbirds News | The RAF Transport Command Memorial is dedicated to keeping the history of RAF Transport Command alive and relevant. As such, the team  formed Dakotair Ltd. to acquire a Douglas Dakota and certify it for carrying paying passengers. This is not at all an easy thing to do anywhere in Europe due to post-9/11 regulations, so it will be quite a feat when Dakotair achieves their aims. They eventually intend to operate three Dakotas around the UK on passenger flights, and at air shows and flyover events...

Jerome Technicians Restore WWII Planes - Twin Falls Times-News | JEROME, Idaho • Fewer than 40 of the 12,571 Corsair warplanes churned out in the U.S. during World War II and the Korean War are airworthy today. One sits in a hangar at Jerome County Airport, its nose up against a roll-up metal door, waiting for its chance to fly again...