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Flying with the Guard * Turnto10.com | Video - media ride with John Klatt

Blue Angels pilots to visit Hasbro Children's Hospital - Turn to 10 | PROVIDENCE -Before their performance this weekend at the Rhode Island Air Show, Blue Angels pilots will meets patients at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence.  They'll make the rounds at the hospital in full flight gear, and answer questions about their high-flying jobs...

F-35B among those performing at Cherry Point Air Show - Jacksonville Daily News | It’s no secret. The F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is the future of Marine Corps aviation. That future will be revealed for the first time to the public at this weekend’s Cherry Point Air Show. The fifth-generation fighter jet is scheduled for its first public flight on the East Coast during the Saturday and Sunday shows at Cherry Point...

'Inspiration to Innovation' to take flight at Cherry Point - Carolinacoastonline | The skies above Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point will be filled with jets and more during the 2014 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show “Inspiration to Innovation,” Friday, May 16, to Sunday, May 18, aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. The show Friday, May 16, will feature nighttime performances, while shows Saturday, May 17, and Sunday, May 18, will feature many daytime performances...

Holloman Air Force Base Puts On First Airshow In More Than Two Years - KRWG | Last Saturday Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo opened it’s gates, showcased it’s mission operations and put it's fighter planes in the air for the general public . It is the first time the base has put on major public airshow since major military spending cuts. War planes, bombers and jets soared, ducked and maneuvered above crowds of thousands at the Holloman Air Force Base open house on Saturday....

Truckee Tahoe AirShow awards $500 to T-shirt contest winner - Tahoe Daily Tribune | TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — The 2014 Truckee Tahoe AirShow & Family Festival T-shirt will feature a “vintage-esque” aviation design created by 14-year-old Riley Matosian from Truckee. Matosian is an eighth-grader at Alder Creek Middle School who is now, also, the recipient of $500 for being chosen as the winner of the 2014 AirShow T-Shirt Art Contest...

Cape May Airport (WWD) to Host Annual Aerobatic Contest - “AcroBlast” to Take Off the Weekend of May 30 - June 1, 2014 - Cape Gazette | (Erma, New Jersey)  Today, Cape May Airport (WWD) officials announced that the Airport will once again host “AcroBlast,” an aerobatic contest sponsored by Chapter 58 of the International Aerobatics Club (IAC).  The event will take place beginning Friday, May 30 and conclude on Sunday, June 1, 2014...

Aviation Network’s inaugural fly-in slated for September · General Aviation News | VANCOUVER, B.C. — The Aviation Network, comprised of 700 members of the Young President’s Organization, is holding its inaugural 2014 Fly-In at the Alpine Airport in Wyoming Sept. 5-7. This exclusive private event can only accommodate 30 planes and their passengers, according to organizers...

Hot Weather To Be A Major Challenge In 2014 Putrajaya Red Bull Air Race - Bernama | PUTRAJAYA, May 15 (Bernama) -- The abnormal hot weather currently will pose an extra challenge to all participants at the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2014 on Saturday. The nation's sole flyer in the race, Datuk Halim Othman said the extreme hot situation which rarely took place would also disturb the concentration of all the pilots especially those not familiar with the weather conditions in the country...

Here's what it's like to fly search and rescue with the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans * NOLA | Flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet over New Orleans East in a Cessna-172 single-engine plane, the first thing that comes to mind is confirmation of what New Orleanians already know too well: We are surrounded by water...

St. Louis Aerospace Community Welcomes Legendary NASA Apollo Program Flight Director Gene Kranz By Carmelo Turdo | Members of the St. Louis aerospace community welcomed legendary NASA Apollo Program Flight Director Gene Kranz at a dinner reception this evening at the Moonrise Hotel in the Delmar Loop.  The dinner was held in honor of Gene Kranz and his wife Marta, and included guests Lowell and Bobette Grissom and representatives from the St. Louis Rocketry Association, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis University parks College, St. Louis Space Frontier, St. Louis Challenger Learning Center, Missouri Space Grant Consortium, Missouri Coalition for Math and Science, Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum and the Bonne Terre Space Museum.  Gene Kranze will make appearances at several events to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, culminating with a public event this Saturday at the St. Louis Science Center...

B-52 unhinged — Arc Light Memorial in transition by travelforaircraft | Arc Light was historic, occurring during the Vietnam War, when D model B-52s were modified in 1964 to deliver conventional munitions in ground support combat roles. The mission name was reused in 1972 to conventionally bomb North Vietnam with these same B-52D Stratofortresses. The Air Force Magazine has this article on Arc Light, for further reading....

Video: 20 Foot Span RC B-25 With 2 Moki 400's! (First Flight) * AirPigz | Really big RC models are intriguing because they can look so real in their getting-close-to-life-size dimensions. You also know that they have taken an enormous amount of work and dedication to reach completion. But for me, the biggest payoff comes with how real they look in the air. Small models are just too twitchy to look real...

"Insane Clown Posse" UCAP #357 *  Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Feet-dry U-2 messes up ATC... Going home, not... Spitfire vs P-51... MH370 craziness... Google Glass in the cockpit... Low price airplanes... Airplane Personality Quiz... Shoutouts: Cheezy Poofs & Skunkworks Robotics... All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded May 9, 2014.

U.S. students among top winners in international aviation art contest · General Aviation News | The NASAO Center for Aviation Research & Education reports that two U.S. students are among the nine winners of the 2014 International Art Contest for young people, sanctioned by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and managed by the NASAO Center. The art contest is designed to motivate and encourage young people to become familiar with and participate in aeronautics, engineering, and science. The winning entries were selected during FAI’s April meeting in Switzerland...