Courtesy of Fencecheck - There are plenty of shows to choose from this weekend!
| 5/02/14 | | Central Texas Airshow 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | North Texas Fly-In and Camp Out 201.. |
| 5/03/14 | | Grossflugtage Chemnitz - Jahnsdorf .. |
| 5/03/14 | | Bronco Fan Day UK 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Bonjour Bodmin 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Shuttleworth Aeromodelling Mayfly W.. |
| 5/03/14 | | Planes of Fame - Chino Air Show 201.. |
| 5/03/14 | | Travis AFB Open House 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Manassas Airport Regional Open Hous.. |
| 5/03/14 | | Aéreo de León 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Wings and Wheels Fly-In 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Biggest Little Air Show 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Atomic Vintage Festival 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Spirit of St Louis Air Show 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | Morelia Mexico Air Show 2014 |
| 5/03/14 | | P-51 Mustang Day at New Garden Flyi.. |
| 5/04/14 | | Abingdon Air & Country Show 2014 |
| 5/04/14 | | Jornada de Puertas Abiertas de Alca.. |
| 5/04/14 | | Wings Over Illawarra 2014 |
| 5/05/14 | | Cancelled - Friendship Day Air Show.. |
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Steve Weagle to ride with Blue Angels for Vero Beach Air Show - TCPalm | VERO BEACH — The Vero Beach Air Show is proud to announce that WPTV Channel 5 meteorologist Steve Weagle is the choice of the United State Navy to be the show’s media rider. As the individual selected for this honor, Weagle will ride with Blue Angel No. 7 Lieutenant Ryan Chamberlain in his F/A-18 jet. Chamberlain also serves as the narrator of the Blue Angels show. Weagle is WPTV NewsChannel 5’s chief meteorologist....
City Council Hears Details On June's Air Show, Tall Ships In August - The Dispatch | OCEAN CITY – Details were released this week about two upcoming summer special events — the OC Air Show in June and the two tall ships planned to be on display in the resort for the month of August...
Popular flying team will return for Air Races - KRNV My News 4 | RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- The wildly-popular L-39 Patriots Jet Team will return for the 2014 National Championship Air Races in September, the Reno Air Racing Association announced on Wednesday. It is the latest in a number of highly-acclaimed acts to be confirmed for the 2014 event. The team joins the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team and groundbreaking aerobatic pilot Melissa Pemberton as the aviation entertainment headliners....
Planners still need $40K for air show - Youngstown Vindicator | The Youngstown Air Reserve Base Community Council has raised about $225,000 in cash and in-kind services to pay the community’s share of the cost of the Thunder Over the Valley Air Show here May 17-18. The fundraising campaign still is about $40,000 short, however, a council representative said....
Restored World War II aircraft offer rides at Hillsboro Airport (video, photos) - The Oregonian | During World War II, B-17 bomber flight crews had to endure attacks from enemy fighters, anti-aircraft flak fired from the ground, and the freezing temperatures that come with high altitudes in an unpressurized airplane. They had to...
Yankee Air Museum meets deadline to save historic Bomber Plant * Ypsilanti Courier | YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP — The deadline is up for the Yankee Air Museum’s Save the Bomber Plant campaign and it looks like a celebration is in order: a purchase agreement is in the works....
Happy Birthday To The Douglas SBD Dauntless · Warbirds News | By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC -The Douglas SBD Dauntless flew for the first time seventy-four years ago today. A two-seat carrier-based scout and dive bomber, the SBD Dauntless hammered the Japanese at Coral Sea, Midway and in the Solomon Islands while supporting Navy and Marine Corps actions until 1944. No aircraft did more to...
Video: World War II pilot reunites with B-25 bomber - KING5.com | EVERETT, Wash. -- A 93-year-old World War II veteran was surprised with a wish come true. Dexter Baker told team members at the Aegis Living Center in Redmond that he would really like to fly in a World War II bomber one more time. They secretly contacted the Historic Flight Foundation in Everett and set it up....
Paula Wagner, An Ann, Naomi Foner Team Up For Flying Tigers WW2 Epic - Hollywood Reporter | Leading Chinese producer An Ann will team up with Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise’s production partner, and screenwriter Naomi Foner to make a movie based on the WW2 ‘Flying Tigers’ airmen. An, who is president of Desen International Media, said the budget for Moon Flower of Flying Tigers would be between $40 million and $50 million, with A-list Chinese and Hollywood stars, and it would be directed by a famous Hollywood director...
The Gentle Aviator * Vintage Wings of Canada | This week’s story is not about the tragic end of a
Bomber Command crew in the Second World War, nor hellfire aircraft carrier operations off Okinawa in the Pacific war. It is not about Merlin engines, big aerial battles, aces, pioneer aviators, grass roots flying, or night fighters of the Soviet Union at the Battle of Stalingrad... but it is an aviation story just the same. Perhaps it is not the sort of story you might expect coming from Vintage News, but for us at Vintage Wings of Canada, it is as important as honouring a great hero of the Second World War or flying our F-86 Sabre across Canada. This is a story about one of our own. This is the story of the loss of an aviator....Video: Seriously Awesome RC XC-142 VTOL (Must See!) - AirPigz * If you're short on time and just need an under-a-minute avgeek experience, you'll wanna go here instead of watching the video above... but if you like awesome, cool, and truly amazing examples of modern tech being used to make extremely difficult aircraft designs fly great in model form, then please take 15 minutes to watch this...
New Drone Plane Aids Aerial Photography 1955 (via the Lexicans) | Title reads: "Army Has Tiny Drone Plane To Scout Enemy". American voiceovered newsreel material...
Don't call it a blimp! - High Performance Composites | Airships have been an important part of modern aviation since Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin envisioned the first such craft in 1874. Zeppelin’s design, which involved a rigid framework that supported the outer envelope or skin, meant that an airship could be made much larger and support more load than a simple gas-filled blimp...
Young Eagle, cadet selected for flight training scholarship | NEBRASKA -- Matthew Callahan, 18-year-old EAA Young Eagle and Civil Air Patrol cadet from Bellevue is getting the opportunity of a lifetime this June when he’ll travel to Shreveport’s Downtown Airport in Louisiana and learn to fly at Tubreaux Aviation. Callahan, a CAP cadet second lieutenant in Nebraska Wing’s Gen. Curtis Lemay Offutt Composite Squadron, was announced last week as recipient of a complete private pilot training experience offered by Tubreaux Aviation to a previous EAA Young Eagle between the ages of 18 and 21. The scholarship includes lodging and transportation to and from Shreveport.
Aero Camp takes off for second consecutive year - Edwards Air Force Base | With the success of last year's Aero Camp, the Edwards Aero Club hosted its second annual Aero Camp from April 21 to 25, to prepare and introduce students to the world of aviation. During the week-long camp, students ages 14 to 19, are trained by certified flight instructors and start flight and ground school training with additional training features along the way...
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