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Overflow MTSU Crowd Hears How Pilot Overcame Obstacles to Join Blue Angels * WMOT | Cordill, a Hemet, California, native, stood before them Friday, June 13, in the MTSU Business and Aerospace Building's State Farm Lecture Hall as a pilot with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team. The Blue Angels will fly in the annual...

OC Air Show observers marvel at Thunderbirds * Delmarva Daily Times | U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly in formation during Saturday's performance in the OC Air Show. The show includes acrobatics and formations by civilian and military aircraft, including the GEICO Skytypers and a U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier demo. The...

Grace, precision, power -- Canadian Snowbirds PHOTOS * Tillsonburg News | The Canadian Snowbirds entertained -- and inspired -- crowds at the Tillsonburg Regional Airport Saturday and Sunday, hosted by the Ontario South Coast Airshow. Transportation to both shows went smoothly with a fleet of shuttle buses from Tillsonburg...

Historic restored WW2 Corsair fighter debuts at the Olympic Air Show * The Olympian | At the 2014 Olympic Flight Museum's Air Show June 14th pilots Bud Granley (left) and Brian Reynolds compare aerial notes after returning from their demonstration flight featuring the museum's new acquisition, a World War 2-era FG-1D Corsair fighter...

Wings Over Gaylord Air Show * MI News 26 | This past weekend nearly 10,000 people turned their attention to the skies for the annual Father's day weekend “Wings Over Gaylord Airshow.” Events began on Friday at the Gaylord Regional Airport and concluded Sunday afternoon. A wide variety of...

Red Arrows team launch 'Red Arrows 3D' film * Lincolnshire Echo | Members of the Red Arrows are launching a 3D film about the display team today. The team is launching 'Red Arrows 3D' at the Science Museum in London. The film allows people to discover the thrill of flying with the RAF Red Arrows during one of its...

VIDEO: Red Arrows flypast the "icing on the cake" as record numbers turn out ... * Bournemouth Echo | Burton Parish Council chairman Judy Jamieson thanked all involved and said: “It was a record crowd on the village green and the highlight was the Red Arrows flying over. That was fantastic, the icing on the cake.” Parish councillor Claire Wade added...

IN PICTURES: Biggin Hill Airport's Festival of Flight wows thousands of spectators * News Shopper | Supporting displays included the daring crews of the Breitling wingwalkers with their Stearman biplanes and the Blades aerobatic team directed by former Red Arrows pilot Andy Offer - flying four Extra EA-300 aircraft. News Shopper: The Blades aerobatic...

USAF invite community to 4th of July family fun at Feltwell * Bury Free Press | Highlights include fireworks, an RAF Falcons parachute display and the Red Arrows, plus a heritage flight, a car and motorcycle show, children's play area, carnival rides, family contests and live music. Refreshments will be on sale. Parking will be...

Barnstorming biplanes take to sky * Forbes Advocate | Next Friday afternoon Southern Biplane Adventures will be flying a World War 2 Boeing Stearman down from Wollongong into Forbes and offering to take locals on an aerobatic joy flight of a lifetime. The trip to Forbes is part of a greater five week tour...

LiveAirShowTV to provide live coverage of Star-Spangled Spectacular · General Aviation News | This September, LiveAirShowTV will be right in the middle of the action as America celebrates the Bicentennial of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”  It was 200 years ago that Francis Scott Key stood on the deck of the H.M.S. Tonnant in Baltimore harbor when “by the dawns early light” he saw the flag’s “broad stripes and bright stars” flying over Fort McHenry....

Navy SEALS drop into Naval Academy * Eye On Annapolis | The Leap Frogs, the US Navy's elite SEAL parachute team, were performing at the Ocean City Air Show this weekend and were able to drop in (literally) at the Academy last night about 715pm and talk to the seminar attendees and a handful of observers...

'Air Race Classic' flies through Klamath Falls * Chinook Observer | "Today is the 2014 women's air race classic." Explains Kristin Garcia of Prescott, Arizona. "From Concord, California over to New Cumberland, Pennsylvania." 45 teams are taking part in this year's competition, which celebrates women's role in aviation...

Vermilion County a stop on Air Race * Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette | Suzi Harmon, office manager at Vermilion Regional Airport, and Dale Salonen, a Danville pilot, stand on Friday, June 13, 2014, next to Salonen's Cessna 182 Skylane, the type of plane that teams will be flying next week in the Air Race Classic,...

Air Race Classic to visit Scottsbluff during June 16-19 race · Cathy Gale | Aviation enthusiasts can get a glimpse into one of the oldest air races as the annual Air Race Classic visits Scottsbluff next week. For more information visit www.info@airraceclassic.org A total of 52 planes will fly this year as...

Tucson pilot withdraws from air race * Arizona Daily Star | Sedivy Cowing, 76, and her pilot, Diane Bartels, began their journey last Tuesday from Lincoln, Nebraska, where Bartels lives, to the starting point of the 2014 Air Race Classic in Concord, California. The arrival deadline for the race was noon on June ...

10th Annual Jets Over Kentucky roars into Lebanon · General Aviation News | LEBANON, Ky. — Rolling, looping, spinning, racing — expect to see plenty of action in the air above the Lebanon-Springfield Airport when the 10th Annual Jets Over Kentucky Week gets underway July 6 to 13. About 200 pilots from around the world will be in attendance for the remote control jet show...

See us FREE in Detroit and meet the Tuskegee Airmen in person! * Red Tail Squadron | Calling all families and aviation enthusiasts in the Detroit area! Join us Wednesday June 25 through Friday June 27 at Focus: HOPE to see our RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit. The FREE event is open 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day at the Focus: HOPE campus, located at 1355 Oakman Boulevard in Detroit....

WWII veteran honored with CAP flyover at funeral * Headline News - Civil Air Patrol  | SOUTH CAROLINA -- For only the second time at Cooper Veterans Cemetery in Anderson County, a World War II Air Force pilot received a flyover from Civil Air Patrol. The honor was for Reeves Byrd, who flew B-29 bombers in the Pacific. After the war, he joined Civil Air Patrol and the family's friends at CAP organized the flyover to honor him. Photojournalist Mike Birchfield filed this video report for Fox Carolina (WHNS-TV in Greenville).

Central Oregon takes to the skies * Bend Bulletin | The wind kicked up by the B-25 bomber's twin propellers nearly knocked Joey Pavlich off his feet. But the 5-year-old Bend resident quickly recovered, and watched the World War II-era plane taxi down the runway at Bend Municipal Airport on Sunday...

Step aboard B-25 bomber in Cut Bank next week * Great Falls Tribune | Climb aboard one of the Army Air Corps' most famous aircraft of the 1920s and '30s at the Cut Bank International Airport as the “Maid in the Shade” B-25 bomber touches down next week. The famed World War II bomber, officially named the TB-25N Mitchell,...

World's only Flying B-29 Superfortress coming home * Edmonds Beacon| FIFI, the Commemorative Air Force's iconic Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, will return to her home Monday, June 16, for a 3-day stay. The aircraft, built at Boeing Field 70 years ago, is the only remaining B-29 Superfortress in the world still flying...

Slideshow: On-board a B-17 Flying Fortress in Wichita * Wichita Business Journal | A B-17 Flying Fortress operated by the Liberty Foundation was in Wichita on Monday, offering some media flights in advance of its slate of publicly available flights this weekend....

Sentimental journey * Zanesville Times Recorder | Although the war ended before Sentimental Journey could engage in combat, the plane was used to stage at-sea rescues, fight fires and even film two Hollywood Blockbusters before it was retired and donated to the Commemorative Air Force Museum in...

Take Flight In The 'Memphis Belle,' A B-17 Bomber * KMUW | Credit Jordan Kirtley. A bit of history will be flying over Wichita this coming weekend. An organization called the Liberty Foundation will be offering flights at Jabara Airport aboard its remodeled B-17 bomber, one that was used in the 1990 film ...

The Aviators shines spotlight on ‘The Good Guys’ · General Aviation News | The docuseries “The Aviators,” in its fifth season, is putting the spotlight on the “good guys” in an upcoming episode, slated for airing on stations around the world this October. Each year, altruistic pilots around the world donate their time, skills and aircraft to benefit countless people — and animals — in need. Season 5, episode 4 of The Aviators will feature a segment on three such organizations whose charitable actions fulfill an enormous humanitarian need, while fulfilling their own passion of flying....

Soaring Through the Air * Gloversville Leader-Herald | Most of the kids Doug Sterling has flown with through the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program can't wait to get up in the air, he said. But there's always a few that are "reluctant," he said. At a Young Eagles event in Glens Falls...

"Young Eagles" take flight in Cynthiana * WKYT | CYNTHIANA, Ky. (WKYT) - More than 200 children got free airplane rides at Cynthiana-Harrison County Airport Saturday. Young Eagles Day is put on by the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Each child gets to ride in an airplane for ...

Can aviation get its mojo back? · Jamie Beckett, General Aviation News | There was a time not so long ago when aviation was cool. It was hip. It was a celebrity in its own right. Being photographed next to an airplane was a dream come true. Being one of the lucky few who got to actually fly from here to there, faster than any train or car could transport you, was treat that would be told and retold at water-coolers and cocktail parties and pretty much anywhere else people gathered. If you actually knew how to fly you were a virtual demi-god, celebrated by friends and neighbors. You were feted by family. Aviation was king....