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Great Tennessee Air Show attracts future pilots * The Daily News Journal | The Great Tennessee Air Show will be Saturday and Sunday at the Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport. This year's show includes performances by Sean D. Tucker, Julie Clark, Skip Stewart, Michael Goulian, the Shockwave Jet Truck, Rob Holland, the Jet ...

5th annual 'Warbirds Over the Roanoke' set for Saturday - Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald | Win this ... Win this P-47 Thunderbolt complete with radio transmitter to be raffled off at the 95th Squadron Model Aircraft Club’s 5th Annual Warbirds Over the Roanoke Fly-in on Saturday...

John Klatt Airshows partners with Butler Watch Co. · General Aviation News | John Klatt Airshows has selected Butler Watch Co. as The Official Timepiece of John Klatt Airshows. Team Klatt’s airshow performance pilots, technical professionals, and management staff will wear various models of Butler watches as an integral component of their flight and crew uniforms throughout the air show season....
2014 Clarinda Air Show & Flight Breakfast this weekend - KMAland | (Clarinda) -- The 2014 Clarinda Air Show and Flight Breakfast takes place this Sunday, June 15th, at the Schenck Field Airport. EAA Wind Riders President Matt Ridge tells KMA News that this weekend's festivities are part of a busy weekend for the community of Clarinda....

Five minute feature: Meet the men who fly in The Red Arrows - Gloucestershire Echo | The Red Arrows, one of the world’s best acrobatic flight teams, will return to their spiritual home this year as they celebrate their 50th flying season. Reporter Michael Yong caught up with the Arrows at RAF Fairford, where the Reds will form the highlight of this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo from July 11 to 13....

Red Arrows set the record straight over 'selfie' - Lincolnshire Echo | The Red Arrows has set the record straight over a so-called ‘selfie’ photograph of the crack display team performing high octane manoeuvres. The pictures, captured by photographer Katsuhiko Tokunaga during Operation Springhawk training over Cyprus, have been doing the rounds on social media....

From Hamilton Airshow to Romania for RCAF pilot - Toronto Sun | He was at the Hamilton Airshow when something rocketed by that changed his life. “It was amazing,” recalls Tim Woods. “I was eight years old.” Needless to say, whatever it was, he was hooked. Looking closer it turned out to be a CF-101B fighter jet known as a Voodoo...

[Photos & Video] Two U.S. B-2 Stealth Bombers arrive at RAF Fairford, UK David Cenciotti  * The Aviationist | As already reported, on Jun. 8 two B-2 Spirit bombers with the 509th Bomb Wing have deployed to the UK, where they have joined three B-52s, for a “short-term deployment.”...

Air fair celebrates 25 years since WNC Air Museum took off - BlueRidgeNow.com | Back in the late 1980s, three aviators were working on a 1940s-era Stearman biplane when one of the trio, Ken Stubbs, had an idea: what if they created a museum for single-prop aircraft like the one they were restoring? After setting up a corporation and securing tax-exempt status, the three men – Stubbs, Dennis Dunlap and Bill Schreier – started a membership drive and soon gained 100 members. They rented Hanger 61 at the Hendersonville Airport to store a few planes for public viewing, and the WNC Air Museum was born....

Brooks: A different view of Golden Knights * Fayetteville Observer | After landing, Hackett served as narrator for the other 10 jumpers. For video of the Golden Knights in action, go to fayobserver.com. Staff Sgt. Chris Clark, top, and Sgt. David Echeverry, members of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, jump into J.P. Riddle...

B-17 Aluminum Overcast - kwbe | Book your complimentary seats now! EAA, The Experimental Aircraft Association, is bringing our B-17 Aluminum Overcast to Lincoln, NE! The B-17 Flying Fortress is a World War II bomber used primarily in Europe. Because of their long-range capability, they were known for flying into battle with no fighter escort relying on their own defensive capabilities to ensure a successful mission. After the war...

B-24 Liberator flying into Buffalo on Monday for a three-day stay * Buffalo News | “Commemorative Air Force is unique. We aren't like other museums,” said President and CEO Stephan Brown. “We start our engines, we fly our airplanes, and we get loud, taking history to the public, not waiting for them to come to us. Diamond Lil ...

Two Purdue students to compete in women's air race - WISH-TV | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Two Purdue University students are preparing for a four-day cross-country air race that’s only for women. Seniors Rachel Borsa of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Haley Myers of North Branford, Connecticut, were scheduled to set out Monday morning from the Purdue University Airport in the women-only Air Race Classic....

WWII pilots, Medal of Honor winner among Eagles honored * Montgomery Advertiser | ... will fall down, pick yourself up and dust yourself off; just don't give up." Haydu was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame in 2012.
Discovering the Wreck of Avro Anson L7056 on Vancouver Island · WarbirdsNews | WarbirdsNews has been following the discovery of an Avro Anson Mk.I in the dense woodland of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The aircraft disappeared without trace in October, 1942, taking the lives of her four man crew: RCAF Sgt. William Baird and RAF Pilot Officer Charles Fox, Pilot Officer Anthony Lawrence, and Sgt. Robert Luckock....

Reaching for the skies in their magnificant flying machines * Morpeth Herald | The success of aviators such a Louis Blériot created huge interest and 'Aero Clubs' sprang up all over the country, one of the first being the Gosforth-based Northumberland Aero Club in 1909/1910. From the start, the club organised 'flying trials' in ...

Bristol Boxkites — 100 years after the start of the Royal Australian Air Force (1 of the 700) by travelforaircraft | It is an elegant book about a beautiful event. It is about the fruit of Project 2104 which is a flying replica of the Australian military's first aircraft and to fly that replica on the centennial of Australian military aviation in March 2014....

EAA Young Eagles Chairman Sean D. Tucker Encourages Pilots to Inspire Next ... * Busbyway | To kick off the hundreds of Young Eagles rallies this coming weekend, the program's chairman and legendary aerobatic pilot Sean D. Tucker will introduce local teen Kory Cooke to a first flight on Thursday, June 12 as Tucker prepares for The Great ...