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Your Guide to This Weekend's Sun 'n Fun Fly-In Events - The Ledger | Over the last 40 years, Sun 'n Fun has left generations of aviation enthusiasts staring at the sky in awe. Each year, Sun 'n Fun continues to add elements and you never know what will fly in. "It's definitely not your same old
fly-in, said Sandy Bridges, director of communications and public relations for Sun 'n Fun. The 40th annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In and Expo is under way at...

Photos: SUN 'n FUN Fly-In Wednesday * The Ledger

Patty Wagstaff Promotes New Aerobatic School at Sun 'n' Fun - Aviation International News | Aerobatic airshow ace Patty Wagstaff, who’s performing on Thursday and Saturday here at Sun ’n’ Fun 2014 in Lakeland, and Extra aircraft distributor Southeast Aero have teamed up to create the Patty Wagstaff Aerobatic School in St. Augustine, Fla. (KSGJ), where both Wagstaff and the company are based. With an aerobatic box adjacent the airport’s primary runway, St. Augustine has long been a magnet for sport aviation and top aerobatic performers...

Lakeland Aero Club Constructs Super Cub Plane, Shows It Off at Sun 'n Fun * The Ledger | The plane, a Turkish military trainer, arrived in a box from Turkey, via Texas, and students in the Lakeland Aero Club constructed it from pieces this year. "You should have seen it. It was just a bunch of plywood boxes with a bunch of parts. We had to ...

"FAA Version" UCAP #353-charlie * Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Jack and Dave are joined by good friend Jim Goldman to talk about the day two at Sun 'n Fun 2014. The FAA's announced plans for changes to the 3rd Class Medical, and Jim's new aircraft purchase. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded April 2, 2014.

Tri-Motor offers vintage flying experience - AOPA Pilot | A flight over the Sun 'n Fun grounds at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Fla., can broaden passengers’ understanding of what Sun 'n Fun has to offer while taking them back in time. Passing over the airport three times on a short flight, the Tri-Motor showed the offerings of Sun 'n Fun's extensive grounds: campgrounds, ultralights, warbirds, gyrocopters, and a DC-3 in addition to the tents, hangars, and exhibits at the center of the show. But the special treat of the Tri-Motor is in the rumble of the engines and the vintage experience....

Riverside airport hosts 22nd air show - The Desert Sun | RIVERSIDE – Parachute jumps, wing-walking stunts and aerobatics displays will be featured Saturday in the Riverside Municipal Airport’s 22nd annual Air Show. More than 90,000 people are expected to turn out for the event, which gets underway at 9:30 a.m. and goes into late afternoon...

RIVERSIDE: D Day paratrooper plane to welcome airshow visitors - Press-Enterprise (blog) | As the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion looms, an airplane that dropped paratroopers into that epic World War II battle will greet visitors at this week’s Riverside Air Show....

Red Bull Air Race in Croatia * Translated | The Red Bull Air Race moves to Europe for the second date of the World Championship in 2014 with the first ever race in the skies of Rovinj, Croatia. The Briton Paul Bonhomme has a slight advantage in the standings to the Australian Hannes Arch and Canadian Pete McLoad won by winning his last breath in the opening round at...

Vulcan confirmed for RAF Waddington airshow flypast - Doncaster Today | The organisers of the RAF Waddington International Air Show have announced that the iconic Vulcan Bomber will return to Waddington to perform its magnificent display in front of more than hundred thousand visitors over the Air Show weekend of July 5-6...

F-22 returning to Reno Air Races in fall - KTVN | RENO, Nev. (AP) - The F-22 Raptor is returning this fall to the Reno National Championship Air Races. The most advanced stealth fighter in jet history has a state-of-the-art thrust system that allows it to hover sideways in midair and pivot 360-degrees at nearly any speed....

Mustang event moves up to August - The Reporter | The Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum Foundation announced that its 6th annual Mustangs and More event will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Nut Tree Airport. Traditionally held in October, the date had to be moved up several months as not to conflict with a local air show....

Rusk County to consider airport fly-in, show - Longview News-Journal | Rusk County commissioners are scheduled today to consider an airport fly-in and show at the county airport. Commissioners are slated to meet at 10 a.m. at the Rusk County Courthouse in Henderson. The agenda also calls for them to solicit sponsors for the event, enlist air show performers and set an entry fee to the air show....

Redlands Airport Advisory Board recommends approval of Airfest - Redlands Daily Facts | REDLANDS >> The Airport Advisory Board has recommended the City Council approve the 2014 Airfest, after holding several meetings with the air show organizers and airport tenants....

Catbird to attempt the first ever C1-c 5000km closed course record * Mojave Experimental Fly-in | Hey Guys, I just got confirmation from Hep Porter that he plans to bring "The Whisper" to the event.  This airplane was designed...

Planes that helped win WW II touch down in Marana show - Arizona Daily Star | If B-17, B-24 and P-51 sound like bingo numbers to you, it’s time you brushed up on your World War II history. The opportunity to do just that comes this weekend, when three of the most effective and heavily utilized aircraft that helped win the war will fly into Marana...

Rick Perry heading to Pacific to aid in search for remains of missing WWII servicemen - Austin American-Statesman | Gov. Rick Perry is heading Saturday to the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau on a nearly two-week trip to help the BentProp Project search for the remains of U.S. servicemen who went missing in action during World War II. Thousands of Americans were wounded or killed in action in 1944 and 1945 by occupying Japanese forces on the islands of Peleliu and Anguar in what is now Palau, and Perry will join in the search for downed American aircraft....

Timeless Voices - Ken Jernstedt · eaavideo.org | Ken Jernstedt (1917-2013) enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1939. In 1941 he volunteered to join the American Volunteer Group flying P-40s in Burma and China. As an AVG "Flying Tiger," Ken became an ace with 10.5 aerial victories. Recorded in 2002.

National Air & Space Museum getting facelift after $30 million Boeing donation - TheCelebrityCafe.com | The Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum in Washington will be getting a facelift thanks to a $30 million donation from Boeing. Part of the funds will go to renovating the main hall, the “Milestones of Flight” exhibit. The museum said that the new “Milestones of Flight” will be finished by 2016, when the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary. That also coincides with boeing’s 100th anniversary. It will trace the evolution of flight and how each development from around the world is linked, stretching from one entrance of the museum to the other....

Museum to host fundraiser - Kitsap Sun | URBANA — The Champaign Aviation Museum will be hosting its gala on April 26. Wright Brothers' descendant Amanda Wright Lane will be the guest speaker at the event. Lane is the great-great-niece of Orville and Wilbur Wright. She is the spokesperson for the family....

XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration – March 2014 Update * Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews has received the latest update from Tom Reilly on the XP-82 Twin Mustang under restoration in his workshop in Douglas, Georgia. We thought you’d like to see what they’ve been up too! Click the jump to find out more…

Help Save RAF Phantom XV582 ‘Black Mike’ from Scrapping * Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews believes strongly in championing the preservation of vintage aircraft whenever possible, and has learned of a historic RAF McDonnell Douglas Phantom II nicknamed “Black Mike” which needs our support. There is an organization in the UK called The British Phantom Aviation Group which is trying to secure its survival, and one of it’s members, Sam Thompson, has sent us a terrific article about the aircraft and what his group is attempting to achieve regarding its preservation. We hope you will enjoy reading more…

Tayside pilot to fly around world in 80 days * BBC News | Mr McElroy, who is chairman of the Scottish Aero Club, will visit five continents and cross the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans as well as the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas on his flight. He hopes to raise £150,000 for Scotland's Charity Air...

Young aviator shares his journey - Latrobe Valley Express | ...Those were among the key sentiments expressed by world record-breaking pilot, 19 year-old Ryan Campbell, who was a special guest at a business breakfast in Morwell last week. The youngest solo pilot to circumnavigate the globe, a feat he achieved last year, Mr Campbell was also named as the Australian Geographic Society's Young Adventurer of the Year for 2013...

Earthrise: My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut * Travel for Aircraft | Book Review

Secret Space Shuttles * Air & Space Magazine | The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle Atlantis closed in on it from below. Commander Hoot Gibson and pilot Guy Gardner flew the approach, while mission specialist Mike Mullane, at the other end of the flight deck, readied the shuttle’s robot arm for a capture. Downstairs in the airlock, mission specialists Jerry Ross and Bill Shepherd waited in their spacesuits for Gibson’s order to go outside and attempt a rescue....