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US Navy's Blue Angels to fly over Pittsburgh - WFMJ | PITTSBURGH (AP) - The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flying aerobatic squadron plans to fly over Pittsburgh at low altitudes for a photo shoot. Blue Angels press officer Eric Rowley says that on Wednesday six F/A-18 Hornet jets plan to make at least three passes over downtown Pittsburgh between 2:45 and 3:15 p.m. The formation is expected to fly between 500 and 1500 feet above the ground, near Point State Park....

Packers' Hawk has sick experience with Blue Angels - FOXSports.com | GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A.J. Hawk has been trying for years to join the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels for a flight. When the Green Bay Packers linebacker finally got up in the air with them, it might have been a bit more exhilarating than Hawk anticipated....

Win a chance to fly with the Breitling Jet Team · General Aviation News | Breitling has launched an online video contest with a grand prize of a ride of a lifetime: A trip to Europe to fly with the Breitling Jet Team in a Breitling L-39C Albatros. The winner will fly with the Jet Team in their home base of Dijon, France, and take a private tour of the Breitling Chronométrie in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland....

Breitling speed demon shares insights on the world of air races - The Star Online | For a man who spends most of his time in the skies, British aerobatic pilot Nigel Lamb is surprisingly down-to-earth. The 57-year-old was in Malaysia recently for the Red Bull Air Race Putrajaya 2014, where he competed for the Breitling Jet Team in the Masters category. The Red Bull Air Race is a series of aerobatic air races where pilots manoeuvre through an obstacle course of inflatable pylons about 20m high, challenging not only the aircraft’s speed, but also the precision and skill of its pilot....

History Comes Alive at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 "Warbirds in Review" - aviationpros.com | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — (June 2, 2014) — A rare opportunity to listen to combat pilots tell their stories and view wartime aircraft will be at this year’s Warbirds in Review at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the 62nd annual fly-in convention for the Experimental Aircraft Association, is July 28-Aug. 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh....

Touring Motor Glider Association selects Cottonwood Airport as national fly-in site * Verde Independent | ...Cottonwood was selected because of its spectacular location in Red Rock country and the uniqueness of a "small town airport" that rolls out the red carpet for aviators. The group will be staying in a local hotel and eating locally....but also flying out to area airports and enjoying the outstanding soaring conditions of the Cottonwood/Sedona area....

Hayward Air Rally prepares for takeoff · General Aviation News | Organizers note it’s less than 60 days from the start of the Hayward Air Rally from Hayward, Calif., to Oshkosh. More than 30 aircraft have entered to date, but organizers say they hope to have 50 to celebrate the rally’s 50th year. Wonder what it’s like to fly in the air rally? Following is an account by Gil Takemori, who flew in the rally for the first time in 2013:...

Watching the Oldest Air Race with a Classic - Busbyway The Abingdon Co. is proudly sponsoring the oldest, annual, all-female cross country air race in the United States and is the official watch of the Air Race Classic (ARC). The ARC is launching its ten-stop race from June 16th – 19th, 2014, starting from Concord, CA and ending in New Cumberland, PA...

Air Race Classic Gets Inspected by Women - Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release) | The Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance (AWAM) is honored to have been chosen as the Maintenance Team in charge of all aircraft inspections for the Air Race Classic (ARC). From start to finish, AWAM is committed and ready to offer their support and expertise. Ladies with wrenches supporting ladies with yokes!...

Blast from the past: Flying through memories from WWII in a B-17 Flying Fortress - Aurora Sentinel
BROOMFIELD | It wasn’t just an old war plane, my ride on a B-17 Flying Fortress was a giant time-travel portal back to World War II. My guide when I got to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield was Frank LaBlotier, former staff sergeant with the 91st Bombardment Group of the 8th U.S. Air Force during World War II. At 92, he buried me in his enthusiasm and vigor. He was brimming with snapshot memories and anecdotes of war....

Historic B-17 roars over Front Range - Sidney Sun Telegraph | Frank LaBlotier remembers his first mission as a B-17 waist gunner. He was five miles over the submarine pens at St. Nazarre on the French coast, huffing oxygen from a bottle, wrapped badly against temperatures in the 50 degree range-below zero-watching German fighters line up to attack his bomber....

Flight with Fifi on Saturday while she was staying in... · TVR Photography.com Had a fun, but very brief flight with Fifi on Saturday while she was staying in Salinas. The plan was to head to Big Sur and get some beautiful images of her over the Pacific...

Relive the Golden Age of Air Travel in Pan Am: An Aviation Legend · Airplanista Aviation Blog | ...Let's start with the subject matter...Pan Am, or more correctly, Pan American World Airways. In my world, there is no airline that was more important to the development of commercial aviation around this globe than Pan Am. From 1927 when the Harvard-educated Juan Trippe "set out to build a global empire in the sky" as Conrad III writes, the growth around the world of this proud line is documented well in this book. In the introduction, Conrad III sets the stage well for what is to come:...

Air museum would get renovated home - Rantoul Press | RANTOUL — The village of Rantoul has applied for a $12.1 million state grant to renovate Grissom Hall on the former Chanute Air Force Base. Built in the early World War II era, the building, originally called P12, was the last of the hangars built on the former Air Force base. It was later named after astronaut Gus Grissom. It houses Chanute Air Museum, the Rantoul Historical Society Museum, classes for Lincoln’s Challenge Academy, the Rantoul Community Bicycle Recycle Program and Rantoul Theatre Group....

Supersonic Civilian Planes? * Flight To Success | ...Today, join me at: The House of Rapp where Ron has written an incredible post on supersonic planes in the corporate world....

The Ten Craziest Airplane Stunts Ever Caught On Video · Máté Petrány | Being in a metal tube sky high at incredibly speeds should be exciting enough as it is, but as always, there are some people who push the envelope further. Here are the ten best pilots caught on video...

Young Eagles to take to Nashua's skies on Saturday - Nashua Telegraph | NASHUA – Local Experimental Aircraft Association pilots will host a Young Eagles Flight Rally on Saturday at Nashua’s Boire Field, volunteering their time to take children and youths ages 8-17 into the skies. The event, for which the rain date is Sunday, is one of several activities organized by the Young Eagles program to get young people interested in aviation. ...

Yankton Young Eagles Rally Saturday - Yankton Daily Press | A Young Eagles event will be held at the Chan Gurney Airport terminal building on Saturday, June 7, running from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. The Yankton Chapter 1029 of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) are holding the 21st annual event....

Watch SpaceX's Big Reveal of Dragon V2 Spaceship · Alan Boyle | LOS ANGELES — SpaceX is literally pulling the curtain away on Thursday from its Dragon V2 spaceship, an upgraded version of its workhorse capsule that could soon start carrying astronauts into orbit — and you can watch the curtain drop online....

SpaceX Unveils Dragon V2 Spaceship for Astronaut Trips · Alan Boyle Today | HAWTHORNE, Calif. — SpaceX unveiled the spaceship it expects to use to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, known as the Dragon V2, at its headquarters on Thursday amid surroundings as glitzy as an auto show. Maybe that shouldn't be surprising, considering that the company's billionaire founder, CEO and chief designer, Elon Musk, also runs the Tesla electric-car company. His SpaceX venture has even loftier ambitions than Tesla — nothing less than sending colonists to Mars....