Go catch the air show! - Thank you Fencecheck for the great calendar:
| 4/25/14 | | Wings Over Flagler 2014 |
| 4/26/14 | | Mariposa Air Fair & Family Adventur.. |
| 4/26/14 | | World War II Heritage Days 2014 |
| 4/26/14 | | Boshears Skyfest 2014 |
| 4/26/14 | | NAS JRB Fort Worth Air Power Expo 2.. |
| 4/26/14 | | Defenders of Liberty Air Show 2014 |
| 4/26/14 | | American Heroes Air Show 2014 |
| 4/26/14 | | Bluebonnet Airsho 2014 |
| 4/26/14 | | Den Ve Vzduchu Plasy 2014 |
| 4/27/14 | | Old Buck Wings and Wheels 2014 |
| 4/27/14 | | Wings Wheels & Wine 2014 |
| 4/27/14 | | Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2014 |
USAF Thunderbirds will be at Barksdale AFB, La.
USN Blue Angels will be at Fort Worth Air Power Expo
Defenders of Liberty Air Show returns - KTAL | ...On April 26 & 27, 2014, the public enjoy aerial entertainment for free. Even with a year off, organizers say hard work has been put into this year’s show...
Bluebonnet Air Show offers sights, sounds and stunts - The River Cities Sunday Tribune | ...On April 26, you can get a heavy taste of these warbirds as well as some incredible modern aircraft that can push the envelope of aerobatics during the 2014 Commemorative Air Force Bluebonnet Air Show at Kate Craddock Field. The facility is located on the south edge of Burnet on U.S. 281. Just look for the signs...
Here come the Blue Angels By Candace Moore * The Newsweekly | ...Crowds will be dazzled. So will approximately 35,000 to 45,000 aviation fans expected on Mother’s Day weekend (May 10-11). The Vero Beach Air Show promises to be a dazzling event. It will be held at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport, 3400 Cherokee Drive, in Vero Beach. Gates open at 8 a.m. both days and flying starts at noon...
Photos: Demonstration Teams Acceptance Show15 new photos · US Army Golden Knights
Great War Flying Museum to bring aircraft to Oshkosh · General Aviation News | EAA AVIATION
CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — Four replica aircraft from the Great War Flying Museum of Caledon, Ontario, Canada, will participate in EAA’s World War I aviation centennial activities at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 fly-in, which will be held July 28-Aug. 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh...Video: Marrakech Airshow 2014 * Morocco World News
Hundreds of planes expected to 'fly-in' at San Marcos airport April 26 - San Marcos Mercury | San Marcos Municipal Airport will play host this weekend to the first in a series of regional fly-ins organized by the national Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. More than 580 private aircraft from Texas and seven surrounding states are expected to land at the airport on Saturday, April 26. Organizers say they expect as many as 1,800 people to attend the event....
Annual fly-in to be held at Wetumpka Municipal Airport - Wetumpka Herald | Youth from 8 to 17 years old will have the chance to slip the bonds of earth April 26 during the spring fly-in hosted by Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 822 at the Wetumpka Municipal Airport. Each year, members of the group offer free airplane rides for children as part of the national Young Eagles program...
2014 Chino Air Show - Photorecon.net · Dave Budd | Mooney International Corporation is proud to present Planes of Fame Air Show 2014, May 3 & 4: “A Salute to the Mighty Eighth”. This year’s airshow will feature over 40 historic aircraft, performing for your enjoyment as well as a salute to the 8th Air Force in WWII. We invite you to Airshow 2014 to celebrate the history and contributions of the men, women, and aircraft of the 8th Air Force...
Hangar 24 Craft Brewery's AirFest, two-day anniversary celebration - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | It seems like Hangar 24 Craft Brewery’s anniversary celebrations have grown exponentially each year. Last year, the celebration morphed into an air show and took over the adjacent Redlands Municipal Airport. This year, the event will span two days....
Air boss hired for Sept. 20 Flights of Our Fathers Fly-In - Terrell Tribune | Ground activities and the air space around Terrell Municipal Airport will be controlled during the 2014 No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum’s Flights of Our Fathers Fly-In. The fly-in, set for Sept. 20, will be controlled by Austin-based Plane Brains LLC. City officials have signed a contract that will pay Plane Brains $7,500...
LiveLeak.com - U2 Spy Plane - Cockpit View at 70,000 Feet * www.liveleak.com | Spectacular footage filmed by the pilot of a U2 spy plane
Doug Keeney’s ‘Lost In The Pacific’ – A Conversation With the Author · Warbirds News | L.
Douglas Keeney is the well-known author of over a dozen books on US history, and has just completed a book on WWII air-sea rescue missions. However, it isn’t the book he originally intended to produce. While conducting research, he expected to focus on the technical aspects; the various types of seaplanes, radio signal triangulation systems used to find pilots, etc. But, at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, he was surprised to find a far more compelling tale. He discovered pages and pages of records, untouched for seventy years, featuring the first-person survival and rescue accounts from the Pacific Theater....Fundraising, 1946-style: B-17 bomber sold to raise money for high school band uniforms * Redwood Falls Gazette | It’s not unusual for organizations to sell cookies or crafts as fundraisers. But a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress bomber? It all started in 1945, when the Redwood Falls Junior Chamber of Commerce (“Jaycees” for short) put on a really great show for the Fourth of July. How could they top it in 1946? At the May 8, 1946 meeting of the Jaycees, the idea of buying the bomber was approved by the group. But buying a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber? One of those four-engined monsters that flew a thousand plane raids over Europe? A B-17? Really? As it happened, it was a much more practical idea than it now appears. The U.S. government had thousands of surplus airplanes just sitting around after the war, and nothing to do with them. Then someone had the bright idea to sell the bombers to schools, cheap, to use for fundraising efforts...
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