Tricolor arrows for June 2 on the Forum. - MondialiBrasile.com (translated) | At the military parade which will take place on the feast of the Republic of June 2 will fly over the skies even the tricolor arrows. The Italian Air Force aerobatic team will be all'Alzabandiera to lay wreaths at the Altar of the Fatherland with the President of the Republic and the end of the event. The parade will take place at the Imperial Forum....
EAA commemorates D-Day 70th anniversary with activities - The Oshkosh Northwestern | The 70th anniversary of the massive D-Day invasion of World War II will be commemorated at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh on June 6-7, including programs with veterans of the Allied offensive that began on June 6, 1944. Friday, June 6, marks 70 years after 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. According to the....
P-51 Mustang flights on Peninsula to mark D-Day's 70th anniversary on Friday * Peninsula Daily News | Four P-51 Mustangs will fly over Port Townsend, Port Hadlock, Sequim and Port Angeles to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day on Friday. The flight of the World War II vintage fighter planes will kick off a celebration at the Historic Flight Foundation in Mukilteo, said Jessica Leftwich of the foundation...
Spitfire take to the skies for Yorkshire Air Museum's Thunder Day - The Press, York | The Second 
World War Spitfire takes to the skies to thrill the crowds at Yorkshire Air Museum’s Thunder Day. Pictures: David Harrison | Last of the few. The only Spitfire still airworthy to have fought in the Battle of Britain thrilled the crowds at the Yorkshire Aim Museum’s Thunder Day. Yesterday’s fly-past was by a Spitfire MK11a which is the pride of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. As well as the only Spitfire to be still flying from The Finest Hour, number P7350 is also the oldest Spitfire in the world which can still take to the skies...
Boeing’s P-8A Poseidon to debut at Waddington by Katerina Greenlaw | Designed to replace many of the world’s ageing maritime patrol aircraft, Boeing’s P-8A Poseidon is based on the popular Boeing 737-800 airliner. A Multi Mission Aircraft (MMA), the aircraft has been developed to conduct Anti-Submarine and Anti-Surface Warfare; Maritime Surveillance; as well as Search and Rescue, as seen recently in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370....
B17 aircraft lands in Sioux City June 27-29 - Sioux City Journal SIOUX CITY | A WWII B17 aircraft will be on display June 27-29 at the Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation. The Oshkosh Aluminum Overcast airplane will be at the museum...
Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson to Fly in World War I Air Show | ...Yes, Bruce Dickinson will be piloting an airplane for a full-on air show. Along with nine other members of the metal legend’s pilot group, the Great War Display Team, Dickinson will fly for an event recognizing the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. Even more fascinating, the voice of Iron Maiden will pilot a replica of the Red Baron’s famous fighter plane....
F-35B Will Fly, Hover, Not Land Vertically At RIAT, Farnborough - Breaking Defense | WASHINGTON: Will the F-35B land vertically at the Royal International Air Tattoo or the Farnborough Air Show? No. Will it hover? Yes. One of my colleagues had raised the issue that the F-35B will not perform a vertical landing this July, inferring this might be because it would damage the plane or the runway. F-35 program spokesman Joe DellaVedova told me that the...
Flying into the Past on a B-25’s Wings * Visit by Tondelayo Evokes Memories for Joe Connell | General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and his staff wrestled with many vital decisions in planning the June 6, 1944, invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe. Not the least of these was timing the landing of 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces along a 50-mile stretch of Normandy, France. The success of Operation Overlord, as the assault was called, pivoted on one uncontrollable element: the weather....
Capt. Glen Berree started out a Navy pilot and ended up a destroyer skipper · Don Moore, War Tales | Glen Berree spent the first two decades of his life as a Navy brat. His father was a fighter ace in World War II with nine kills to his credit. The next quarter century Berree carved out a career as a pilot, like his dad, almost became a SEAL and completed his Naval career as skipper of a guided missile destroyer following the Vietnam War when he wasn’t serving in positions at Annapolis and working in the Pentagon with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Colin Powell....
D-Day also b-day for ace aviator - USA TODAY | Bob Milliken knew when he was 5 that he wanted
The Armband * Voices From The DC-3 | From its perch in the sterile glass case, the armband draws you in. Printed with bright red bars and a blue field to outline the Stars and Stripes of the American flag, the broad armband was manufactured in great numbers for use by the U.S. forces in all manner of operations for World War II, the most famous of which was Operation Overlord. We have...
Two former Vietnam War Fighter Pilots Together Again · Warbirds News | ...Nguyen Hong My is credited with shooting Stiles’ RF-4C Phantom jet down on January 20, 1972. Yet, the two men have learned how to reconcile their dramatic moments and turn it into a surprising friendship.“Old Guys and Their Airplanes,” a popular online show featuring the interviews and artwork of historian/ artist John Mollison, flew Stiles to Hanoi, Vietnam, this past March to re-unite with Hong My on what was once “enemy soil.” The result is an episode that is at once informative and inspiring....
Betsy — a lady with a certain reputation in Kowloon by travelforaircraft | I travelled to Asia to rendezvous with my wife, first landing in Hong Kong. Asia — where the colors black and red have different meanings than in the West, chopsticks not forks, soya sauce and fish sauce instead of salsa and mustard. So many other exotic differences to the eyes as well as the other senses. Before I continued on I first had to see another lady — one I was compelled to see — as were so many men before me — so I made my way through the crush of people on the sidewalks to her house in Kowloon...
Non-Test Pilot Flight in Terrafugia's Transition®: "I used my blinker to exit the active..." * Airplanista Aviation Blog | Recently, the test flight phase of bringing Terrafugia's Transition® roadable airplane to market reached another milestone, when the company let non-test pilots fly it for the first time from the left seat. One of those lucky few pilots was Vanessa Blakeley, Terrafugia's Corporate Communications Lead, and she agreed to virtually "sit down" with Airplanista to tell us about those few minutes at the controls of this craft....
Young Eagles Spring Rally at the Nashua Airport · Steve Russo | Young Eagles flights will be taking off from Boire Field at the Nashua Airport on Saturday June 7th. If you are between the ages of 8 and 17 and interested in flying – or just seeing Nashua from the air – drop by the Nashua Airport to get a free ride...
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