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Video: Watch as the US Navy’s Blue Angels fly unbelievably close to each other | ...The following video comes from D. Hartney, a Blue Angels Maintenance Officer, and it features four Blue Angels flying just inches away from each other...

Trojan Phylers at Air Power Expo · General Aviation News | Based south of Fort Worth, Texas, the Trojan Phlyers Demonstration Team is gearing up for its performance in the first airshow NAS JRB Ft Worth has had in several years. The Trojan Phlyers will perform at the joint reserve base April 26-27....

PDK plans air show for May 17 * reporternewspapers.net | DeKalb-Peachtree Airport has scheduled its annual public open house and display of aerobatic flying for May 17. PDK, in 2014, marks 55 years as a general aviation airport. The former Naval Air Station was turned over to DeKalb County in 1959....

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Coming from America: F-35s to visit UK * The DEW Line | So, it’s official: the F-35 will be making its debut international show appearances in the UK this summer. We had been hearing rumours about this for quite a while from industry, but I wasn’t sure that it would actually happen, due to the tough schedule with getting the short take-off and vertical landing “B” up and ready to achieve initial operating capability with the US Marine Corps during 2015....

Pilot Spotlight: Doug Rozendaal, CAF Red Tail Squadron Coordinator * CAF Red Tail Squadron | Some future pilots are inspired by a parent’s love of aviation. Some may visit an airshow and discover their passion by the sights and sounds of aircraft in action. Others simply look up. And so it was for a young Doug Rozendaal, now the CAF Red Tail Squadron coordinator and P-51C Mustang Tuskegee Airmen pilot...

Area 51 revealed in April 26 lectures at Museum of Flight · General Aviation News | SEATTLE — The realities of the Area 51 secret Air Force flight facility at Groom Lake, Nev., will be discussed during a day of lectures and book signings at the Museum of Flight April 26. Presenters include Area 51 authors Peter Merlin and T.D. Barnes...

World War One Film Series Curated by Sir Peter Jackson * RAF Museum London Events | In anticipation of the museums new exhibition ‘The First World War in the Air’ which opens later this year, we will be putting on a short season of First World War films which have been specially selected for the event by Sir Peter Jackson. This one off event will be...

The Fighter Collection’s Fiat CR.42 Falco – Restoration Update · Warbirds News | The Fiat CR42 Falco was one of the most charismatic and capable biplane fighters at the start of World War Two. At a time when most aircraft designers were creating sleek, monoplane fighters, Celestino Rosatelli – who was behind some of Italy’s successful Schneider Trophy racers – was still convinced that the bi-plane fighter could be a champion given the right engine and aerodynamics. Rosatelli’s vision...

Mystery of the underwater time capsule is solved: Perfectly preserved Nazi plane is identified as troop carrier on its way to hell of the Eastern Front * Daily Mail | ...The Luftwaffe plane was found at the bottom of the Black Sea by a team of divers nearly 70 years after it vanished mid-flight. The fate of the aircraft and its nine crew members had remained a mystery since it was reported missing in 1942....

Former Ed Russell Hawker Hurricane Mk XII Arrives in Australia · Warbirds News | Australia has a flyable Hawker Hurricane on its shores for probably the first time since the 1940s. The aircraft, a Canadian-built Hurricane XII, recently arrived in Scone, New South Wales after making the journey from Canada by sea....

The crazy story of the Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules’s flight to Cambridge in 2011 * The Aviationist | On Apr. 16, Nigerian Air Force C-130H-30, registration NAF918, conducted a test flight from Cambridge airport. The air test came slightly less than three years after the aircraft had arrived on Aug. 28, 2011, from Lagos, Nigeria, where it had been dumped, out of use, for a period of 7-10 years...

An Enduring Relationship A History of Friendship between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman * RAF Museum London Events | 16th July 2014 - 14th July 2015 | Great Britain and Oman have enjoyed an enduring relationship for over 200 years that stretches back to a Treaty of Friendship in 1798. This broader relationship has been replicated in the close professional co-operation that has developed between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman. It is a relationship that continues to develop into the 21st Century with the Royal Air Force of Oman’s purchase of the Eurofighter Typhoon from BAE Systems...

Airport open house, Young Eagles day is Saturday * Richmond Register | In addition to an airplane display and barbeque lunch served from noon to 2 p.m., young people between from age 8 to 17 will have the opportunity to view the county from above thanks to the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program.