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Hero Show offers air show with personal connection - Tucson News Now | TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -Before Davis-Monthan Air Force Base opens its gates to an estimated crowd of 200,000 people for this weekend's air show, a smaller group of several hundred enjoyed a more personal event Friday afternoon - their Hero Show....

25th Thunder attracts estimated 650000 to waterfront - WAVE | Picture-perfect weather lured a crowd of more than 650,000 to the waterfront for the 25th Thunder Over Louisville show. Spectators lined both sides of the Ohio River as far as the eye could see. Thanks to the generous support of the event's six presenting sponsors, Horseshoe Southern Indiana, KentuckyOne Health, LG&E, Meijer, UPS and Valero, as well as community McDonald's Thunder Funders - this year's show featured a spectacular lineup of aircraft, as well as the traditional pyrotechnic spectacle...

Ride with Blue Angels leaves reporter dazed and confused - WAVE | LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The return of the Blue Angels has had all of Louisville looking up over the past two days. The aerobatic flight team is in such high demand they are booked solid this year at events all over the country. During the Thunder Over Louisville air show, the crowd will see why...

Some of my favorite stories about Thunder Over Louisville - WLKY Louisville | I have attended every Thunder Over Louisville except for two years. It has grown from a fireworks show at the old Cardinal Stadium at the Fairgrounds in 1990 to the extravaganza that it is now with 600,000 to 750,000 in attendance when the weather is nice...

Video: F-22 wows Thunder air show fans - WAVE | Another of the Places of Thunder that entertained the crowd at the air show was the F-22 Raptor...

RED BULL AIR RACE: Duel continues: Arch beats Bonhomme in Rovinj * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | ROVINJ (Croatia) – Austria’s Hannes Arch came from behind to beat defending champion Paul Bonhomme in a riveting final in the second stop of the eight-leg Red Bull Air Race World Championship on Sunday in Rovinj, Croatia. Arch was trailing Bonhomme at the midway point of the final round by 0.23 seconds but opened the throttle with a blistering second lap on the obstacle course set up on the Adriatic Sea to get his eighth career victory. Japan’s Yoshihide Muroya got the first podium of his career, taking third place on a challenging course in the bay off Rovinj that was made even more difficult when the winds coming from the south shifted to from the west....

Air Force: Frecce Tricolori at the start of the season. Calendar 2014 Video * Translated | The Air Force has officially announced the program for the season of the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic 2014: 21 appointments, including performances and overflights, some Italian places and cities abroad, between April and October. The first...

No fly zone? Scott's popular air show is casualty of Air Force cuts * BND.com | The era of regularly scheduled air shows -- once an annual staple of metro-east summer and fall calendars -- could be over for good at Scott, the result of deep cuts in Air Force "outreach" budgets and stricter criteria for hosting air shows...

2014 Sun n Fun - Jetmobile - LiveAirShowTV | 747 Capt. Paul Holmes has taken a sketch on a bar napkin to the extreme with his Jetmobile built from a 747 engine! It won't get off the ground, but it's got 1st class seats, spiral staircase, smoke and sound effects! You've got to see this to believe it!

Behind the scenes at SUN ’n FUN * General Aviation News | SUN ‘n FUN was fantastic this year. If you didn’t make it to Lakeland, Florida, at the start of the month, be sure to put it on your 2015 calendar: April 21-26, 2015. We produce SUN ‘n FUN Today, the daily newspaper for the fly-in, so my view of SUN ’n FUN is slightly different....

Air show emphasizes old warbirds, new jobs - Arkansas Online | HOT SPRINGS — For airplane lovers, Aerospace Day at Hot Springs Memorial Field is a chance to take a close look at and even touch a variety of airplanes on the ground, and to take a short flight on a World War II bomber. For others coming to the airport event on Saturday, there will be opportunities for talking about careers in the aerospace industry. Representatives of companies involved in flight and two schools that offer training in building, maintaining and flying aircraft will be there to meet with perspective students...

GALLERY | Aviators flock to Esperance Aero Club fly-in * esperanceexpress.com.au | Visiting and local aircraft flock to the 2014 Myrup Fly-In on Saturday, April 12. Photos: Lauren Vardy.

Guard to announce plans for Fort Wayne air show - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | FORT WAYNE – The Air National Guard 122nd Fighter Wing will have a news conference Monday to announce developments for its next large-scale air show. Guard officials will provide a time frame for the show, identify performers they hope to secure and tell how community organizations can take part...

“Welcome Home” – Vietnam Veterans Tell Their Stories In Their Own Words · Warbirds News | Sleeping Dog Productions, Inc., a Wisconsin-based HD TV production house plans to launch a new television series about the Viet Nam War called “Welcome Home” for the spring 2015 season.  Creators Jon Tennyson and Scott Guyette hope to release the series near the 40th Anniversary of the fall of Saigon. The city fell to the North Vietnamese on April 30th, 1975, and that date effectively marked the end of South Viet Nam. The last US personnel evacuated the city at that time in a painful, mad scramble of helicopters tracing back and forth from the US Embassy in Saigon to awaiting aircraft carriers...

Lt. Col. Cole and America mark a high-flying, hopeful anniversary - Shreveport Times | Even after 72 years, the flight has never really ended. This Friday — April 18 — marks nearly three-quarters of a century since the bombing raid in 1942 by a group who came to be called Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Not quite five months after the Japanese surprise attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, 80 young Americans in 16 B-25 medium bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, attacked Tokyo and other targets and proved to America, to Japan and to the rest of the world that the Japanese mainland was within reach of American firepower....

Lockheed Super Constellation walkaround — elegance in red stripes (Part I) by travelforaircraft | Is there is an aircraft more elegant than Lockheed's Constitution? It is difficult to think of one other than the "Connie", if there is one. The long slender fuselage paired with a high performance wing (scaled up from the Lockheed P-38 Lightning) and characteristic triple tail is certainly a hard combination to beat. What better than the Connie — well, the "Super Connie" of course. The Super Constellation was a bit longer, carried much more fuel and had more powerful engines...

PHOTO GALLERY: MAPS Air Museum's P51-B - Canton Repository | MAPS Air Museum installs the P51-B aircraft on top of the new sign at International Parkway and Wales Road (Massillon Road)for all to see and enjoy...

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NAHA Launches Wright Factory Fundraising Study · Warbirds News | Amazing as this might sound, the buildings from America’s very first purpose-built aircraft factory still stand, and a group in Dayton, Ohio is seeking to preserve them. The two structures pictured above date from roughly 1910/1911, and were an integral part of the nascent Wright Company, established by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1909. According to a recent press release, “the National Park Service has identified the buildings as the first in America built for the purpose of producing airplanes. Adding the factory to the national park’s other five units would complete the story of the Wright brothers’ lives and their invention, development and commercialization of the airplane in Dayton...