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50th season presentation of Red Arrows * Translated | To celebrate its 50th season presentation, Acrobatic Team Royal Air Force, the famous "Red Arrows" have chosen to display a new decoration on the tail of the nine Hawk T1 composing. This change is the most significant change in the livery of the aircraft "Red Arrows" since 1979, years when the patrol staffing should receive. The new design on the tail representing the "Union Jack" best reflects the British spirit and emphasizes the role of "Red Arrows" as ambassadors of the United Kingdom and as a public face of the Royal Air Force....

WWII Aircraft Fly-In scheduled April 12-13 - Chron.com | The Houston Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will have an Open House and WWII Aircraft Fly-In and Display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 12-13...

Blue Angels scheduled for Evansville air show * WISHTV.com | EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Planners of an Evansville air show are anticipating the return of the Navy’s Blue Angels after last year’s trip by the precision flying team was canceled. Hadi Shriners spokesman Dale Thomas says the club is set to have the daredevil fliers at the 2015 Evansville ShrinersFest. The Blue Angels website lists the team’s trip to Evansville for June 27-28 next year. The team was scheduled to appear at the Evansville festival last summer before automatic federal budget cuts led military officials to cancel air show trips....

Mahoning County shows support for air show - WFMJ | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Mahoning County is doing it's part to bring an air show back to the valley. County Commissioners passed a resolution on Thursday supporting a $5,000 grant from the Vistor's Bureau to the Youngstown Air Reserve Base Community Council....

Registration Open for AirVenture's Women Soar You Soar * AirVenture.org | April 4, 2014 - Registration is now open for EAA's annual Women Soar You Soar, a program that allows 100 high school-age girls to discover more about aviation and all its possibilities from aviators, engineers, and leaders during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to play EAA AirVenture - Fox11online.com | OSHKOSH – Swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is joining the entertainment lineup at EAA AirVenture. The band is scheduled to play Aug. 1, as the grand finale of a daylong salute to veterans at the fly-in convention. The evening performance is hosted by EAA Warbirds of American and Disabled American Veterans...

ARC 2014! * Flight To Success | ..."Women’s air racing started in 1929 with the First Women’s Air Derby. Twenty pilots raced from Santa Monica, CA to Cleveland, OH, site of the National Air Races. Racing continued through the ‘30’s and was renewed again after WWII when the All Women’s Transcontinental Air Race. AWTAR.... better known as the Powder Puff Derby, came into being...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Jumping Into the Fun in a Parachute - Misty Blues and Liberty Parachute Team * The Aero Experience | Flying to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 would have been exciting enough, with the long line of planes on approach and the aircraft carrier-type landing required to hit the correct colored dot on the runways.  We can only imagine how it felt to skydive into the grounds with nearly a million eyes watching every turn and smoke trail.  The two teams...

Anyone Can Fly This Stunt Plane, for a Price - Wall Street Journal | AS WE FLY southeast over the desert, I take the controls. I'm strapped into the cockpit of an Extra 330LC, a two-passenger propeller plane built for performing aerobatic tricks. I glance at the placard on the flight deck that reads "Use of headset is required. Use of parachute is recommended." My instructor, Steve "Hollywood" Helinski, tells me to pull back on the stick until we've climbed to 8,000 feet....

Win a chance to fly on a WWII bomber - seattlepi.com | We're almost to the 72nd anniversary of the first U.S. air raid on Japan in response to the Pearl Harbor attack and you may get to mark the occasion aboard a World War II airplane of the type that carried out the raid. On 18 April 1942, Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle led 16 U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25B Mitchell bombers over Tokyo....

As the 70th Anniversary of D-Day Approaches, a Grateful Ally Remembers * Huffington Post | ...But nowhere is this special relationship more evident than in the appreciation, honor and respect the French people steadfastly demonstrate for the American soldiers, sailors and airmen who helped liberate their country in World War II....

Romanian TV crew interviews former Fayetteville judge about POW memories in World War II - Fayetteville Observer | The scars still haunt Maurice Braswell. He figures they always will. But for the sake of history, and a camera crew that traveled all the way from Romania, the 91-year-old Fayetteville resident was willing to dig deeply into the sights, the smells and screams buried 70 years in the past...

Boeing Will Donate $30 Million to National Air and Space Museum · Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews has just learned about a massive financial donation by the Boeing Corporation to the National Air & Space Museum. The aerospace manufacturer has just gifted the museum US$30 million, and some of these funds will go towards a significant renovation of the main “Milestones of Flight” hall at NASM’s downtown Washington DC headquarters. The newly updated hall is scheduled to open in 2016, which coincides with the building’s fortieth anniversary of operation, as well as Boeing’s centenary. Go to the jump to learn more…

Aviation museum to host Bomber Buffing party - Colorado Springs Gazette | YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — An aviation museum working to help save Rosie the Riveter's old Michigan plant is hosting a Bomber Buffing party nearby. The free event is being held by the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport west of Detroit. Volunteers are asked to come out Saturday and polish to a high gloss the aluminum skin of the B-17 "Yankee Lady" and B-25 "Yankee Warrior."...

Tulsa Air & Space Museum finishing MD-80 jet exhibit - Tulsa World | The Tulsa Air & Space Museum will unveil the full-sized American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 airliner on Monday, with doors opening to the public at the end of the month. The plane is hard to miss, parked in front of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum with its wing hanging over the front fence....

1st Air Cav pilot lives childhood dream: aviator - DVIDS | FORT HOOD, Texas – For Capt. April Santos, the road to fulfilling her childhood dream hasn’t always been smooth. However, she fought to become the one thing she felt destined to be since the first time she ever saw an aircraft – an Army pilot...

Perth pilot will surpass his boyhood dreams in attempt to fly around globe - The Courier | The pilot behind the first aerial circumnavigation attempt to launch from Perth is sure the journey will surpass his boyhood dreams. As a child, Dave McElroy dreamed of flying across the Atlantic but next month he really will take to the skies in an epic 80-day journey around the world....

Reserve aviators host local students visit - DVIDS | FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Armed with the memories of her “poppa’s” flying days, fifth-grader Alisha Williamson jumped off the bus with 23 other students here, April 1, eager to learn more about her grandfather’s helicopter experiences. The New Century International Elementary School students traveled to Simmons Army Airfield to enjoy time with Army Reserve aviators from...

The Calaveras Air Fair, Fly-in and Open House April 26 - Pine Tree | San Andreas, CA ...The Calaveras Air Fair, Fly-in and Open House is April 26at the Calaveras County Airport, four miles south of the town of San Andreas on Route 49. It’s an eclectic day of fancy planes, entertainment and a chance to take the family for a plane ride for just a few dollars....

A skydiver meets a meteorite in mid-air * Bayou Renaissance Man | An amazing story comes out of Norway, where a skydiver making an otherwise routine jump filmed a meteorite that narrowly missed him in mid-air.  A Norwegian report...