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News Briefs: Blue Angels return to Spirit of St. Louis Airport May 3-4 * Newsmagazine Network | ...This year, the air show will see the wheels of the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornets touching down once more onto Spirit’s tarmac. Additionally, the Sky Soldiers – the show’s only helicopters – and pilots Skip Stewart and Patty Wagstaff  will take to the skies during the event, alongside other flight demonstrations....

Thunder over Louisville: The Blue Angels Soar Over Louisville Waterfront * The Aero Experience | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight demonstration Squadron continued to roar through the spring schedule with a performance last weekend at Thunder Over Louisville.  The airshow box over the Ohio River is unique in that it crosses the river at an angle, not just Contained parallel to the river banks.  This unique  arrangement allows for...

Scorpion Eyed For RIAT, Farnborough Debut - Aviation Week | Textron is hoping to send its Scorpion prototype light attack, reconnaissance aircraft to an international coming-out at the U.K.’s Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Air Show in July. RIAT is set for July 11-13. Farnborough is the following week....

GALLERY: Sabre fighter set to soar By BREE FULLER | ...Media were treated to a chest-rumbling fly-by on Tuesday as the Vietnam War-era fighter jet arrived at the Illawarra Regional Airport ahead of the event. ‘‘It’s beautiful to fly, you just sit there and you hardly touch it, it’s very effortless,’’ explained Mr Trappett, a former RAAF and Qantas international pilot....

For first time, Lake Guntersville's antique boat show will feature seaplane fly-in - The Huntsville Times - al.com | GUNTERSVILLE, Alabama – The Antique and Classic Boat Show and Seaplane Fly-In will be Saturday, May 17 at Lake Guntersville. The free boat show, hosted by the Yacht Club and Dixieland Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society, will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to seeing restored antique boats in the water, attendees can see unique air and sea craft up close, said Tommy Gray, past commodore of the Yacht Club....

Happy Birthday To The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress * Warbirds News | ...Sixty-two years ago today, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress took flight for the first time.  The B-52 began life as a proposed replacement for Strategic Air Command’s B-36s and B-50s.  Originally designed to be powered by turboprops, Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engines were selected as the powerplant of choice.  At the roll-out ceremony, Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining said: “The long rifle was...

Video: WWII B-17 veterans take special flight in Oshkosh - Fox11online.com | OSHKOSH – For some area World War II veterans, Monday meant a flight back in time. It was a journey they had made before, but this journey above Oshkosh was different. Just like he did as a pilot some 70 years ago, Robert Abresch climbed up the ladder of a B-17 bomber....

The raid that stopped Japan: Doolittle’s Co-Pilot’s Experience of the Doolittle Raid - DVIDS | FORT HOOD, Texas – ‘Battle stations’, ‘battle stations’, reverberated off the bulkheads and through portholes of the ship. A young 2nd lieutenant jumped out of his bunk and ran down a corridor toward the upper deck alongside other aviators, bombardiers and navigators. They all believed this was another drill. Then, as they reached the upper deck they heard the concussion of a destroyer’s 5-inch guns as it fired into the distance....

$54,000 helps ensure liftoff of 9th Honor Flight; Korean War vets will go next - Billings Gazette | With donations totaling more than $54,000, the ninth and final tour of Big Sky Honor Flight will take off in May, bound for the nation’s capital. The infusion of cash Monday put Big Sky Honor Flight over the $155,000 it needs to send the last group of World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., at no cost to them, to see the National World War II Memorial....

Photos: Volunteers honored for service at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force * National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The National Museum of the United States Air Force Volunteer Program celebrated its 32nd anniversary by honoring more than 500 volunteers during a Volunteer Appreciation Banquet on April 11. The event is held during Volunteer Appreciation Week...

Fleet Air Museum to host aircraft piloting seminar at Society of Friends evening - Western Gazette | An aircraft pilot will be giving a talk on pilot training at the Fleet Arm Air Museum at Yeovilton this month. Captain Phil Nelson will make his presentation as part of the Society of Friends’ monthly talks series in the museum’s AgustaWestland Conference room on Thursday, April 24....

Tom Wilson's GP-5 Photos * Mojave Experimental Fly-in

B-25 Sandbar Mitchell – April Restoration Update · Warbirds News | The Sandbar Mitchell project made major progress in March.  They have completely stripped down the center section left side to just its front and rear spars. They have de-rivetted the webbing from the rear spar and cleaned the spar caps. They then clecoed the inboard webbing  back into place, but need to replace the outboard webbing due to corrosion issues....

Collings Foundation TF-51D Mustang – Restoration Status · Warbirds News | The Collings Foundation has a formidable collection of airworthy warbirds, almost all of which actively participate at air shows, or tour the length and breadth of the country. They also have several rare birds currently under restoration, including a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, FM-2 Wildcat and Focke-Wulf Fw-190F-8. However, lost amongst the more exotic types under the knife, is a North American P-51D Mustang....

Connecticut house built by aviator Gustave Whitehead could be demolished - New Haven Register | FAIRFIELD, Conn. >> A Connecticut house built by an aviator credited by the legislature for being the first to fly could fall under the wrecking ball. Tom Conley, Fairfield’s chief building official, told Hearst Connecticut Media that a Stratford developer was issued a demolition permit for the bungalow-style house built by Gustave Whitehead...

Blackbird * Apron 6 | One of my all time favourite planes...

Review: 'Air & Space Trivia' book asks whether you know the right stuff about aviation * Star Tribune | ...Only those with out-of-this-world interests could possibly score well in answering the questions posed in "The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia." And such buffs would probably chafe at the suggestion that this informative little book, edited by Amy Pastan, is filled with unimportant details....

Missouri governor declares April General Aviation Appreciation Month * General Aviation News | Missouri Governor Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon has declared April “General Aviation Appreciation Month.” In Missouri, general aviation accounts for $857 million in annual economic activity, and supports more than 7,000 jobs statewide...

Hemlock, Saginaw students to see Tuskegee Airmen traveling exhibit - The Ann Arbor News | SAGINAW COUNTY, MI — Students in Hemlock and Saginaw will learn about the determination of World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen thanks to a traveling exhibit. The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron is visiting students of Hemlock Public Schools and Saginaw School District in late April and early May...

Russians Look To Colonize The Moon * Aero-News Network | Says It Will Have A Permanent Base 'Up And Running' By 2040 | As Russia was celebrating the anniversary of the first spaceflight of Yuri Gagarin on Saturday, Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin made a bold statement: "We are coming to the moon forever."...