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Blue Angels making their presence known in Vero Beach * TC Palm | Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers and #TCPalmSocial are asking for your help in reporting "Angel" sightings in Vero Beach. Not the heavenly type — the "Top Gun" type. The iconic Blue Angels pilots and their support team arrived in Vero Beach Thursday morning to begin rehearsing for this weekend’s Vero Beach Air Show....

Plans for air show being finalized - WKBN.com | VIENNA, Ohio (WKBN) –  The “Thunder Over the Valley” air show is just 10 days away and organizers said Wednesday that plans are nearly complete for the May 17 and 18 event. The air show itself is free. However, it will cost $5 to park this year....

Airexpo 2014 28th edition Muret-Lherm May 31, 2014 10:00 19h00 * Translated | Held 100% of first year students of both Toulouse aeronautical engineering schools, ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile) and ISAE (Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space) for more 28 years. Airexpo is a nonprofit organization that aims to produced an airshow...

ONLINE Air News #3 * Charles Johnson | Just Some Aviation News; Ken Mist—Sunn Fun; Craig Matthai Sun’n Fun; Boeing 797; Germany, Chuck Johnson; England, Gary Watson.

AirFest launches Honoring Heroes program, nominations due May 23 - The Rock River Times | The Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) will recognize the dedication and sacrifices made by Vietnam veterans who have served our country during “AirFest 2014: Let the Thunder Roll” as part of the “Honoring Heroes” appreciation program...

Redlands City Council votes for Hangar 24 Charities to pay half of Airfest fees - Redlands Daily Facts | REDLANDS>> The City Council Tuesday voted to approve a request from Hangar 24 Charities for a partial fee waiver for the AirFest, but for half of the costs rather than the one-third proposed to the council. City officials brought a proposal before the City Council for the non-profit to pay one third of the hard costs associated with providing city services to the AirFest on May 16 and 17 at the Redlands Municipal Airport....

Patriots Jet Team returns to Reno · General Aviation News | The Patriots Jet Team will join the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team and  aerobatic pilot Melissa Pemberton as the aviation entertainment headliners for this year’s revamped event, which will include concerts and a more festival-like atmosphere...

Legendary World War II bomber the Texas Raiders on show - Chron.com | Aircraft fans will get the chance to check out and even fly in a legendary B-17 bomber Saturday as the plane goes on display to honor Texas veterans. The aircraft is just one just of nine B-17s remaining out of more than 12,000 built to take part in World War II...

“Union Jack Dack” On Her Way to Normandy for D-Day 70th Anniversary * Warbirds News | News comes from our friends at DaksOverNormandy.com that one of the participating Douglas C-47s has just departed for her transatlantic journey from Connecticut on her way to participate in the D-Day 70th Anniversary celebrations taking place in and over Normandy on June 6th. The aircraft, known affectionately by her crew as “Union Jack Dak”, left...

Two Lancasters to fly together at airshow - West Sussex Gazette | THE only two Lancaster bombers left flying in the world will come together at Shoreham Airshow for a display that will never be repeated in the town. Organisers said they were honoured to confirm the rare display for the airshow’s 25th anniversary, on Saturday, August 30, and Sunday, August 31....

World War II-era planes fly in for display at Santa Ana's Lyon Air Museum * Orange County Register | Four WWII-era planes pulled into the Lyon Air Museum adjacent to John Wayne Airport on Wednesday, where they will remain until noon Monday for visitors to explore....

X-15 rocket plane pilot Bill Dana dies at 83 - Charlotte Observer | LOS ANGELES Famed research test pilot Bill Dana, who flew the X-15 rocket plane and other pioneering aircraft during the birth of the space age, has died at age 83. Dana died Tuesday at an assisted living facility in suburban Phoenix, according to an announcement Wednesday by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California...

Profile 86: "523" as flown by Leo Istas, VMF-313 · JSM | ...Now, a loaded Corsair would weigh about six tons.  Already a fast airplane (400+ in level flight), the bent-winged machine could also bend the airspeed needle at 550 miles per hour (or more) in a dive.  If you were on the deck of that ship watching this affair, there wouldn't be much time to ponder what would happen next....

1929: Famed aviatrix Ruth Elder visits Sperryville By Don Audette | Ruth Elder was a famed aviatrix, though little remembered today. In the fall of 1927, five months after Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, Elder, a pretty 23-year-old from Florida with only two years of flying experience, set off to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic...

World War II's first heavy bomber Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' * Economic Times | ... War II to successfully complete 25 missions - dropping bombs over Germany, France and Belgium - while bringing all of her crew members back safely. In pic: A Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' bomber sits parked Monday, May 5, 2014, in Renton near Seattle...

Yankee Air Museum, RACER to ink deal to buy bomber plant - Hometownlife.com | Living up to its slogan of “We Can Do It Again,” the Yankee Air Museum announced that it will enter into an agreement with the RACER (Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response) Trust to purchase 175,000 square feet of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant....

WM-21 Solyom * Let Let Let - Warplanes | A very recent release in the Warplane series from the Dutch publisher Lanasta is on a very rare and unknown aircraft type: the Hungarian Weiss WM-21 Solyom. The WM-21 was designed and built to...

New England Air Museum To Participate In Blue Star Museums · Warbirds News | Today New England Air Museum announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2014. Leadership support has...

Evening Skydive Scrambles Emergency Responders In TN * Aero-News Network | A group of skydivers who jumped with pyrotechnic devices attached to their flight suits Monday evening near John C. Thune Airport in Nashville were mistaken for an airplane in distress, and that sent emergency crews scrambling...

Civil Air Patrol’s Pontchartrain Composite Squadron assists at Daughters of the American Revolution Banquet * Civil Air Patrol | New Orleans – Civil Air Patrol’s Pontchartrain Composite Squadron assisted at Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Banquet at the Airport Hilton on May 5, 2104. First Lieutenant Franchesca Giroir received the DAR Community Service Award for over 4,000 hours of service to Civil Air Patrol (CAP), Chapelle High School, and Animal Rescue, Elder Care Assistance, and Our Lady of Divine Providence.