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AirFest 2014 Attendance Released * WIFR | ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Airfest attendance is estimated to be around 135,000 people. Two years ago there were about 100,000 people at the air show. We wont know how much money the event bought in for a couple weeks...

MILLER: Great Tennessee Air Show to consume land and sky * The Daily News Journal | When Smyrna is lucky and the stars line up just right, we are privileged to host the Great Tennessee Air Show. Saturday and Sunday, we will again be able to hear the roar of the engines as skilled pilots push the limits of their aircrafts. With the...

Plane-a-palooza: We think we're ready (maybe) to get this thing started * Pueblo Chieftain | There will be some planes from the Commemorative Air Force on display — wonderful World War II vintage machines that have been lovingly restored. There is also some sort of noisy flight-dogfight cockpit exercise, a winch-released glider demonstration ...

Warbird Fly-in on tap for Saturday * Henderson Daily Dispatch | The 95th Squadron Radio Control Model Aircraft Club will hold its fifth annual Warbird Fly-in event this Saturday at the club's flying field in Gaston. Radio control pilots from North Carolina and Virginia will demonstrate their flying skills ...

The Rockford AirFest was a tremendous success · The International Council of Air Shows | The Rockford AirFest was a tremendous success - check out some of the airport's snapshots.

Miho Airforce Base Airshow by Fred Boureau | 60th anniversary of the Japan Air Self Defense Force and 56th anniversary of the establishment Miho AB

Wisconsin pilot unhurt when vintage plane crashes during Minnesota fly-in * Minneapolis Star Tribune | RUSH CITY, Minn. — A Wisconsin pilot is OK after a vintage plane crashed during the Rush City Fly-in in east-central Minnesota over the weekend. The Chisago County sheriff's office says the 1936 Tailor J2 airplane was trying to land Sunday morning ...

Fly-in hosts vintage aircraft * Fort Morgan Times | The fly-in breakfast was started by the Fort Morgan Lions Club before the Glenn Miller SwingFest began, organizer Vernon Tryon said. Then the events were merged, said Tryon, who has been helping promote the fly-in since its beginning. The fly-in has ...

Canadian Xpress June Fly-In - Summer Solstice by Nels_Anderson | ...This month we celebrate the peak of 24 hour sunlight in the north with a trip to Ketchikan Alaska on the Summer Solstice. Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots to join us on Saturday, June 21st, 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our June 2014 fly-in where we have two points of departure, one for those looking to fly something heavy Anchorage (PANC) and one for those wanting to fly a lighter prop Juneau (PAJN) and enjoy the local scenery.This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to attend this Canadian Xpress® sponsored event that will be flown on the VATSIM network....

Daks Over Normandy – Event Report · WarbirdsNews  | Organized by the Round Canopy Parachuting Team (RCPT), the plan to bring a large number of Douglas Dakota transport aircraft to Normandy on June 6th, 2014 for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, has been a huge success. Ten DC-3/C-47 variants – known as the Dakota in the RAF and Skytrain with US Forces – gathered for the largest assembly of the type seen over Normandy since 1944. Most of the Dakotas initially gathered at Lee-on-Solent airfield, near Portsmouth, England. On Thursday June 5th they flew across the English Channel to France and landed at Cherbourg’s Maupertus airport....

Daks over Normandy Aviation Headlines - Airplane-Pictures.net | A fleet of 9 Dakota's/Skytrains and 1 Lisunov that gathered in Normandy to commemorate and repeat the paradroppings of D-Day, June 6, 1944....

WWII warbird 'Maid in the Shade' celebrates the big 7-0 in Utah * Deseret News | Adrienne Pahnke, 8, cover her ears as the B-25 Maid in the Shade prepares to take off at the Heber City Airport, Monday, June 9, 2014. The historic plane was restored by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. It was commissioned into the Army ...

Restored Memphis Belle B-17 coming to Wichita * Kansas.com | The Memphis Belle, a restored B-17 Flying Fortress, will be available for public flights and viewings June 21 and 22 at the Colonel James Jabara Airport. And for those who can't visit the World War II bomber, they probably will be able to hear it. “It ...

Andrews, Harris to be honoured with B-17 Flying Fortress flypast * Eurosport.com ASIA | Simon Andrews and Karl 'Bomber' Harris will be honoured at this weekend's Snetterton MCE British Superbike with a flypast of a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Tornado GR4 from RAF Marham. Simon, who lost his life at the North West 200, traditionally ran the...

13 photos: B-17 Aluminum Overcast flies over Des Moines * DesMoinesRegister.com | 13 photos: B-17 Aluminum Overcast flies over Des Moines. View of the side of the B-17 Aluminum Overcast Monday, June 9, 2014, being flown from the Ankeny Regional Airport. The B-17 Flying Fortress is a World War II bomber used primarily in Europe....

Buchanan Field Airport Start of the Oldest Air Race * Virtual-Strategy Magazine | Buchanan Field Airport in Concord, California will be the start of this year's Air Race Classic (ARC) which spans over 2,338 nautical miles. The 2014 Air Race Classic will be held June 16–19. Racers will zoom through ten intermediate stops in four days ...

Local Female Pilot, Joyce Wilson Competes in the Oldest Air Race * Virtual-Strategy Magazine | The Racing Aces have partnered with Cirrus Aircraft™ to show their commitment to the education of women in aviation. All of the team's proceeds gained during the 2014 Air Race Classic will be put towards a scholarship for one deserving future female...

Waco: TSTC Pilots Compete In Air Race Classic * KWTX | Two Texas State Technical Institute Aircraft Pilot Training students and an instructor head out Tuesday to compete in the annual Air Race Classic. The cros...

WMU pilots 'Go West' to compete in decades-old women's air race * WMU News | A pair of Western Michigan University women aviation students headed west June 8 to compete in the 2014 Air Race Classic, a cross-country flight competition that dates back to the days of Amelia Earhart. Elizabeth Howerton of McHenry, Illinios, and ...

SU Student Aviator to Fly Across United States * Newswise | In June, Emily Lewis, a junior geography major from Mickleton, NJ, will fly from California to Pennsylvania as part of the Air Race Classic, an annual competition for female aviators. The event, founded in 1977, recalls similar contests that began as...

Tilden native to join Lincoln woman in air race across country * Norfolk Daily News | Now, the Tilden native — who returned to flight as a celebration for her 75th birthday — is gearing up to soar more than 2,300 nautical miles across the country in the 2014 Air Race Classic. “(I'm) definitely excited, and perhaps somewhat anxious...

Amelia Earhart: 1932 * Shorpy | June 1932. Washington, D.C. "Aviator Amelia Earhart Putnam being greeted by Drs. Gilbert Grosvenor, right, and John Oliver la Gorce of the National Geographic Society." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

Cafferata: Amelia Earhart's landings in Nevada * Reno Gazette Journal | After she left Salt Lake City at 8:30 a.m., she touched down in Wendover and reached Elko at noon, where a large crowd greeted the aviatrix. Then, she took off for Reno at 2 p.m., landed at Battle Mountain and then flew toward Reno, but she zoomed into...

New Paint For Italian F-104 Gate Guardian · WarbirdsNews | By Daniele Mattiuzzo.  F-104S-ASA MM6804, ended its career at Istrana on June 1998, flying as “51-07″ with the 22°Gruppo CI.Later, was unveiled mounted on a support as a monument, on the November 3, 1999, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the...

Motivation, inspiration, and big ol’ dreams * General Aviation News · Jamie Beckett | ...Among Ben’s great contributions to the world is the love of flight a handful of middle-aged men share. They were young, barefoot, Florida kids when Ben met them. Friends of his own kids, mostly. Some were just locals who happened to catch Ben’s eye. But in each case he found a way to put those kids into the SuperCub on floats he kept tied up in his back yard. They’d motor out into the lake, take to the skies, and let dreams become reality for an hour or so. At least one of those kids is now a captain flying a widebody airliner for one of the majors. All of them benefitted from the experience, whether they went on to earn a living as a pilot or not....

Students awarded in memory of Red Arrows pilot * ITV News | Students in Lincoln will be presented with awards today to recognise their completion of an RAF programme set up in memory of a Red Arrows pilot from Warwickshire who died during a display three years ago. The Blue Skies Programme charity was set up ...

Young Eagles event provides free flights for kids at Greenville airport * Greenville Daily News | GREENVILLE — Now in its eighth year at the Greenville Municipal Airport, the Young Eagles I Can Fly event puts children in the seat of a private aircraft to show them exactly what it's like to fly. Put on by the Greenville Area Aviation Association...