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2014 Blue Angels - #3 Nate Barton by LiveAirShowTV | LCDR Nate Barton, Blue Anglel #3 - Left Wing talks about flying with the world famous jet demonstration team! Also, find out about...

Crowd gathers for Great Tennessee Air Show * dnj.com | Sam Ridley Parkway resembled a parking lot Saturday afternoon and Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport was at near capacity for the first day of the Great Tennessee Air Show, event coordinators said. The show takes to the skies again today, beginning at 11:30 a.m....
Across the sky, across the country; A 60-year-old Stillwater woman will race ... - Stillwater Gazette | At first, Stillwater resident Tracy Lovness pursued aviation because she simply wanted to travel and learn, but now she’s about to embark on her second Air Race Classic. This race for female pilots of small aircraft starts in Concord, Calif., on June 16. Lovness and the other racers will fly across the country over four days to the final stop in New Cumberland, Pa...

Mickleton woman takes off for Air Race Classic - The Star-Ledger | Imagine being 10,000 feet in the air in a small, twin-engine aircraft with nothing but approximately 2,400 miles between you and the finish line...

Tora Tora Tora to perform at the "Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake air show" on July 7 at 7 p.m. a spectacular display of the Tora aircraft visible to boaters and shore huggers all over the lake area. The proceeds of the air show benefit the Cedar Creek Veterans Foundation which is a nonprofit organization established to raise money for the physical and emotional recovery and rehabilitation of injured and disabled military personnel and veterans in the North Texas area. Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake is the principal fundraising activity.


Top pilots in Minden for soaring competition * via Minden-Tahoe Airport
Who's the Boss at the Tahoe-Truckee Air Show? * Evan and Wilma Peers

Greek F-4 Phantoms Returns to Airshows · WarbirdsNews  | Technically the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II is not a Warbird just yet, because it’s still operational within a handful of air arms across the globe. However, it’s such an iconic aircraft that every news item featuring its current flying exploits these days is worthy of mention...

Online Air News #7 * Charles Johnson | RAF Cosford Air Show, MAAM WWII Weekend

Air Show Open House * KXNews | Flying model airplanes is a hobby that many people don't consider - so today, the Minot Aircraft Modelers Flying Club hosted their annual air show to do more than just entertain. The event was open to the public today - and folks had the opportunity to watch the experts fly their planes, or learn themselves on one of the introductory planes....

Wings of Women slates Oct. 11 event · General Aviation News | The International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) will host the Cleveland chapter of WOW — Wings of Women — Saturday, Oct. 11, at Burke Lakefront Airport (KBKL). This event is geared toward young women in middle school and high school who are interested in pursuing STEM related careers.

Australian Heritage Flightgear Displays · WarbirdsNews, Story and pictures by Phil Buckley | Displaying warbirds at air shows all across the world is a common event, but most warbird enthusiasts and many of the general public may not be fully aware of what aircrew wore to survive flying their aircraft in times of war and peace. Over the last few decades, mainly in the USA and UK, the flying gear displays alongside warbirds at air shows have expanded to become a key feature at the actual events. Some shows...

Fiat G.91, “a Frecce Tricolori” by travelforaircraft | The Italian G.91 by Fiat is graceful, dartlike, agile and long-lived. Italy's national aerial demonstration team, Pattuglia Aérobatica Nazionale (PAN), flew this G.91 from 1963–1986 as an example. The team is better known as "Frecce Tricolori" (Three Colored Arrows) is in World Class and are, in the Italian language, possessed with eleganza....

Awesome GoPro video gives flight deck inspector’s view of F/A-18 final check and cat launch · The Aviationist  | Here’s a cool GoPro video showing the final check of an F/A-18C Hornet right before catapult launch.  An interesting footage, shot by a “white shirt” on the flight deck of USS George H. W. Bush, shows the final checks on a VFA-87 F/A-18C Hornet before cat launch.

Can We Learn Something From The Defunct A-7F ‘Strikefighter?’ * The Lexicans | ...The A-7 was designed in the early 1960s as an attack-focused offshoot of the Navy’s legendary F-8 Crusader. One could easily venture to say that America could learn something from the meager SLUF, and especially its proposed last iteration, some two decades after it’s retirement from US inventories. The original A-7 was a purpose-built bomb truck, which leveraged a large fuel load, highly efficient turbofan engine, simple airframe design and affordability across the board....

Island Inventor and aviator shows true grit - isleofman.com | Island businessman and inventor Dr John Taylor has embarked on what's set to be the greatest challenge of his eventful life. Dr Taylor who lives in Santon has begun an epic solo flight from the mid-west of America to the Isle of Man. The 77-year old who has held a private pilot's licence for 60 years, is flying his brand new Husky plane from its factory in the US across north America, Greenland and the Atlantic, almost four and a half thousand miles....