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Fair St. Louis cancels annual air show - STLtoday.com | ST. LOUIS • Fair St. Louis is moving to Forest Park from downtown in July, but its air show isn’t tagging along. Fair organizers plan to announce today that the annual air show will be canceled, Julie Hauser, a spokeswoman for Fair St. Louis, confirmed late on Tuesday. The fair will be held in Forest Park from July 3 to 5 while the Gateway Arch grounds are in the midst of a multimillion-dollar makeover...

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles event | The Plant City Chamber of Commerce is hosting their fourth annual Planes, Trains & Automobiles event at the Plant City Airport on Saturday, May 17th, 2014 between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM.  This admission-free ($5 parking) and family-friendly event includes static display aircraft and helicopters, RC plane demos, a limited number of free plane rides for kids ages 8-17 (thanks to the EAA Young Eagle Program), full scale and model trains, classic cars, Police and Fire/Rescue demonstrations, an opportunity for Boy Scouts to earn their Aviation and Traffic Safety merit badges, a kid’s zone, Lowe’s Kid’s Clinic, food & beverage vendors, and numerous exhibitors.  There is a media day planned for Thursday, 15 May and I have attached a 1-page flyer and a 1-page press release.  For more information call the Plant City Chamber at 813-754-3707 or go to www.plantcity.org .

Air show returns to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport - Atlanta Journal Constitution | The annual Good Neighbor Day air show returns May 17 to the skies over DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Chamblee. This year’s show marks the 55th anniversary of PDK being a civilian airport after construction as a Naval Air Station...

Air show contract finalized with Fair Oaks Farms - Newsbug.info | NEWTON COUNTY — The contract to bring the South Shore Air Show to Newton County at Fair Oaks Farms was finalized on April 17, with South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority (CVA), Fair Oaks Farms and Newton County officials signing for the big three-day event to be held July 11-13...

Westmoreland air show tickets go on sale May 1 - Tribune-Review | Tickets for the 2014 Westmoreland County Air Show at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport go on sale May 1. All area Shop ‘n Save stores will carry tickets for the event on June 7 and 8 at the Unity airport, according to a news release...

Blackbird Airpark Open House 2014 Photos * Roadrunners Internationale | So those are the photos. Here's a press release about the event from last week.

Fly It Forward Challenge introduces women to general aviation · General Aviation News | During Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week 2014, March 3-9, entrants in the Fly It Forward Challenge organized activities that drew more than 26,000 attendees in 96 locations on four continents. Pilots flew approximately 1,000 hours to introduce 5,703 girls and women to flight in a small aircraft...

Photographer Takes a Ride in an F16 with the Thunderbirds as a Little 'Thank You' - PetaPixel | Very few people ever have the honor of flying along with the Thunderbirds. However, Blair Bunting, a fairly new Nikon Ambassador, managed to do just that at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona after shooting one of the Thunderbirds’ newly-painted F-16 beauties...

The People’s Mosquito is cutting wood! | We are very pleased to announce that the first wood is being cut for the fabrication of a complete set of wing ribs for The People’s Mosquito, RL249. Corin McCrae of Aerowood Ltd,  will be cutting the ribs for RL249 at his workshops in Auckland, New Zealand in the coming weeks. There are various types of rib that make up the Mosquito’s wing, and these are fabricated from a variety of woods, both solids, such as Canadian Spruce, and plies. The Canadian Spruce that Aerowood will be cutting for RL249 is selected for aviation fabrication, and sourced and shipped to New Zealand from the same area on the west coast of Canada as that used by de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd during WW2. Before being cut, it has undergone a number of tests to conform with air safety regulations....

Yankee Air Museum: Purchase agreement in the works for bomber plant - The Ann Arbor News | Yankee Air Museum officials state a purchase agreement is being drafted for the former Willow Run Bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township. Dennis Norton, founder of the Yankee Air Museum and the president of the Michigan Aerospace Foundation, said Tuesday that the museum's massive fund-raising campaign has raised enough to make the approximately 150,000-square-foot space a functional building and to save it from demolition...

SA-10 walkaround — the other Catalina in Blue and Gold (Part II) by travelforaircraft | This is the second post of a walkaround photo essay with the first post published just two days prior, on Monday, along with a bit of information. This Consolidated Catalina served in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and was designated as an SA-10 (PBY-5A in the U.S. Navy). It is located in the...

Space Fest features multitude of activities, adds third astronaut appearance by Sarah Swan National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 4/29/2014 - DAYTON, Ohio -- You never know what you may come across in the galleries at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force! Out-of-this-world activities - and perhaps even some "extra-terrestrials" - await visitors to the museum during Space Fest on May 16-17 when the museum and more than 20 other participating organizations offer a multitude of space-related activities for visitors of all ages. All activities are free, unless otherwise noted...