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Honouring the Airborne Forces past and present at the D-Day Anniversary Air Show * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | The D-Day Anniversary Air Show at IWM Duxford (Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May) honours the Airborne Forces past and present. It offers visitors a unique opportunity to meet with serving soldiers from today’s airborne forces alongside living history groups who will bring D-Day airborne history to life...

Tuskegee Airmen traveling exhibit returns to Liberty Aviation Museum * Beacon | The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Tail Squadron and the Rise Above Traveling Exhibit are coming to the Liberty Aviation Museum (LAM) at the Erie-Ottawa International Airport in Port Clinton May 13-17. The Rise Above exhibit tells the story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen to young people all across American in an experiential way. “We are truly pleased to be hosting this fine event for the third year, and for the first time during an active school year,” said LAM President and CEO Edward Patrick....

SUN ‘n FUN 2014: F-22 Raptor by Damon Favor | Turning jet fuel into noise, we bring you the F-22 Raptor demo at SUN ‘n FUN 2014.

Memories flow as 3 veterans fly in WWII aerial relic - Stars and Stripes | STOCKTON, Calif. — When Pat Patteson sat down in the front right seat of Taigh Ramey's PV-2D Harpoon World War II aircraft on Friday morning, it was the first time he'd been in that position in nearly 70 years. "I brought one back home when peace was declared with Japan," said Patteson, 92. "That was in 1945."...

Air Atlantique’s DC-3 Dakotas · Warbirds News | Many people outside of the UK may be unaware of Air Atlantique, which has operated a significant fleet of Douglas DC-3s in various roles for several decades now. Based at Coventry Airport in England, the fleet has splintered into several different directions in recent years, dwindling from nearly a dozen aircraft to just two active examples: C-47Bs G-ANAF and G-AMPY. This article features updates on these two aircraft...

Late 302 "Mouneyrès" in the harbor of Brest in May 1938 * Translated | My friend Michel Quillien sent the original of a seaplane taking off Brest in 1938 along with the pictures against destroyer "Le Terrible" me. With the help of historians Aéroforums (Morareau Lucien Henry Marty and BS pelican), we are come to the conclusion that this is the Laté 302 "Mouneyrès" (No. 1023) while based in Lanvéoc-Poulmic on the peninsula of Crozon. This one...

Kemble * Apron 6 | I had an enjoyable weekend to say the least. With the Photocrew we headed to Kemble (Cotswold Airport) to do a photoflight with the only flying Canberra PR9....

F-16 at 40 – Pt.8 – Going to War: A Pilot’s Story by Paul Dunn | In 1990, Edward Smith was an RAF pilot serving on a dream exchange posting, flying the F-16 with the 4th TFS at Hill AFB, UT. In August of that year Iraq invaded Kuwait, setting into motion a sequence of events which would see him flying missions during Operation Desert Storm alongside his USAF colleagues. Ed has kindly supplied us with the following gripping account of flying his first combat mission, along with some background to how he came to be in that position....

Former military police officer continues 'To Protect and Serve' as Apache aviator - DVIDS | FORT DRUM, N.Y. - ”To Protect and Serve” is a motto those in law enforcement live by as they strive to keep others safe. Having lived that credo for two and a half years as a U.S. Army military police officer, Capt. Megan S. Reading continues to serve and protect, but now she does it from above, as an AH-64 Apache helicopter pilot with 10th Combat Aviation Brigade....

Former Pan Am Employees To Gather In New York This Year * Aero-News Network | Family Reunion Expected To Draw Large Numbers Of 'Pan Am'ers' From Around The World | On August 3, 2014, employees, family and friends of one of America's most iconic airlines ... Pan American World Airways (1927-1991) ... will gather from all over the world on historic Long Island NY & NYC for Pan Am's Worldwide Family Reunion celebrating the memory of the pioneering airline and the people that built it. From the first historic Pan American "Flying Boats" that...

Airplanista's Oshbash 2014: Announcing the GA Power Collective * Airplanista Aviation Blog | This is the time of the year when I get really giddy as I announce what fun we #Avgeeks will have at this blog's annual social media meet-up event known as #Oshbash. The weather is again becoming flyable, reservations are being made for lodging in Oshkosh, and soon, we'll all be headed to the shores of Lake Winnebago for the aviation world's monster family reunion...