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USAF Thunderbirds are Coming to AirVenture * WBAY | Sequestration kept the Thunderbirds from Oshkosh last year, but the Air Force put AirVenture on its calendar again this year. And all EAA officials need to do now, to ensure the high flying death defying team's performance, is tie up some loose...

Blue Angels to take practice flights this week - WKBT La Crosse | You may have heard some buzzing over La Crosse this afternoon. The Blue Angels are helping bring back Airfest in the area. It's the first time the Angels will be back here in about 7 years...

11th Annual Jones Beach Airshow - Golden Knights | The Black Demonstration Team led by SFC Kevin Presgraves made their third air show appearance of the season at the 11th Annual Jones Beach Airshow in New York. It was an honor to be back in the skies again performing alongside so many prestigious acts including the US Navy Blue Angels and legendary aviation pilot Sean D. Tucker of Team Oracle...

Video: This Guy Put a Jet Engine on a 1929 Airplane and Now Does Insane Stunts for a Living - Mashable | ...Boerboon, who was the 2010 U.S. Unlimited Aerobatics champion, flies with John Klatt Airshows, a traveling circus of planes and pilots currently making the rounds across the U.S. He started stunt flying more than 20 years ago while studying aviation at the University of North Dakota. His excitement for flying — and particularly for flying the Screamin’ Sasquatch — is obvious from the moment you meet him....

Making 'the impossible possible' at the Berlin Air Show - Environment & Energy Publishing | BERLIN -- When a Panavia Tornado blasted into the clouds above the Berlin Air Show before swooping back down toward the Earth, the grounds below shook from the roar of the fighter bomber's twin engines. When the next aircraft took to the sky, the air show went eerily quiet. The fully electric E-Fan aircraft, engineered by Airbus Group, made one of its first public demonstrations here last week following it's first-ever flight in France on March 11....

Countdown to Midwest Airport Fun Days: Warbirds Arrive at Museum | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum has begun its “Countdown to Midwest Airport Fun Days” with the arrival of several warbirds that will be on static display during the June 7-8 event.  The St. Louis Downtown Airport community recently welcomed a Douglas DC-3 cargo aircraft and the rare Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon...

Interstates and Movie Stars for 2014 Fly-In * Antique Airfield News | We're building a list of movie and TV star airplanes for the 2014 Fly-in, Stars of the Sky and Screen - first registrations below. Also this year's fly-in features Interstate Aircraft....

Pine Hill Airport marking 50th anniversary of fly-in breakfast - The Daily News Online | ALBION — Pine Hill Airport will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its annual pancake breakfast on June 1...

Amelia Project Flight Set for June 23 Launch * Aviation International News | Planning for the project started a year-and-a-half ago, the Denver TV newscaster said, and it was officially announced at EAA AirVenture last year. The east-to-west journey will begin June 23, weather permitting, and make 17 stops along the 24,000-mile...

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WACO museum offering bi-plane rides - Dayton Daily News | The WACO Air Museum this summer will offer four opportunities to take a ride in a WACO bi-plane....

Airmen's story inspires - Suffolk News-Herald | A traveling Tuskegee Airmen exhibit that visited the city on Tuesday awed sixth-graders from Suffolk’s public schools with the story of the black combat pilots. The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron, in town for the Festival of Flight this weekend, features a documentary film screened inside a mobile theater....

Meeting Real Life Heroes - Roll Call | I had the privilege of photographing some World War II vets this week. One 98-year-old gentleman was a co-pilot in the initial bombing runs over Japan. He was retired Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, a member of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, who is originally from Ohio. The Raiders were B-25 bomber pilots who volunteered for the first offense action against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor....

The Fighter Collection’s Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat Flying Again * Warbirds News | As reported on Global Aviation Resource, The Fighter Collection’s Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat flew for the first time again in roughly five years on May 23rd. TFC’s Chief Pilot, Pete Kynsey, had the honors of taking her aloft again after a protracted period of maintenance by the collection’s maintenance crew and volunteers. The Hellcat has been with the Fighter Collection at the hallowed Duxford airfield, near Cambridge, England  for several decades, so it was a delight to see her flying once more. She wears the...

Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess — only 100 hours of flight time but what a 100! by travelforaircraft | Only three of these double bubble pressurized fuselage flying boats left the factory and only one ever flew, G-ALUN , but it flew into history as one of the last large flying boats as well as the only large flying boat which was pressurized. Ten engines powered the...

DC-7 run up * Crosswind Images's | International Air Response made another effort to fly their DC-7 but unfortunately, gremlins got them again. In lieu of flying, please enjoy this short video featuring all four engines roaring to life. Hoping to get that elusive ferry flight when it finally happens!

German Researchers Build A Plane Controlled By Your Brain * Tech Crunch | ...Called Brainflight, the EU-funded project aims to prove that brain-controlled flight is possible and has already demonstrated that even pilots with little or no experience can easily fly using a direct brain interface. Obviously these novice pilots were “going up” in simulators, but the idea is the same....