Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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Interview With Air Show Announcer Rob Reider  * The Pixie Pilot |The whole crew is here with a special guest, discussing the wonders of air shows

USAF Thunderbirds land in Liberal * Leader and Times | Major Caroline Jensen is the right wing pilot for the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, flying the No. 3 jet. During high school, she participated in swimming and track, serving as captain for both teams. She entered the Air Force in 1998 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Before joining the...

Flying the Blue Angels' Fat Albert is more than just a show * The Daily News Journal | I got a taste of this when the call came out for media to meet the Blue Angels' pilots and get a ride on their “work horse” show opener, Fat Albert, a Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules flown by an all-Marine crew of three pilots and five enlisted aircrew ...

Catch a glimpse: Navy's Blue Angels to fly over Milwaukee Wednesday * fox6now.com | The Blue Angels will fly the squadron's six-jet F/A-18 Hornet Delta Formation over Lake Michigan on the eastern side of Milwaukee at approximately 250 knots. A seventh jet will be flying abreast of the formation to photograph the Delta with the city in ...

Air Race Classic pilots converge on Scottsbluff (VIDEO) * Scottsbluff Star Herald | A total of 52 female pilots are taking part in the Air Race Classic this year with one of the major stops on the four-day competition at Western Nebraska Regional Airport in Scottsbluff on Tuesday. The ARC will continue across the United States tour...

Local women take on challenge of 2014 Air Race Classic * The Times Herald | LIMERICK — Three local pilots will be competing against the weather, time and unforseen circumstances as they race across the country in the 2014 Air Race Classic starting Monday. Alison Chalker, Barbara Ziegler and Linda Evans, all members of the...

Flight Experience With the Aeroshell Team Is Highlight of Cameron, MO Airshow | I went to http://aeroexperience.blogspot.com/2014/06/flight-experience-with-aeroshell-team.htmlCameron, MO to cover their airshow just to see some great flying. Friday morning that all changed. Last year I entered the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team photo contest - not expecting to win but to share with them some of the images I had captured so they could use them to promote themselves. I thought it would be a great way to give back, as I have loved watching them fly over the years....

Warbirds to rumble over Springs for August air show  | In two months time, the skies over Colorado Springs will be filled with military planes from a bygone era. The Pikes Peak Regional Air Show at the Colorado Springs Airport, Aug. 9-10, will feature more than 40 historic aircraft, including many from World War II. Proceeds from the event will go to fund the Colorado Springs-based National Museum of World War II Aviation and the Peterson Air and Space Museum....

New acts added to air show lineup * WDTN | New acts are lining up to join the Vectern Dayton Air Show which is less than two weeks away. Two warbirds will take to the sky June 28 and 29. One is a fighter plane that helped win World War II. The other is a rare version of a carrier-based fighter...

Warbird Expo visits Fishers * Current in Fishers | “My interest in aviation probably comes from my http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEWsFa4GCMAQyAojPoginvNkt-mOQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=iD2gU5ehD4jtgAe2pYHICQ&url=http://currentinfishers.com/warbird-expo-visits-fishers/dad,” said the younger Bennett, a Noblesville resident and member of the Indiana Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), the organization responsible for the Warbird Expo. John Bennett's plane is a...

Berlin Airshow * Blackpool Gazette | Video from the event

Pease AirFest event canceled * Seacoastonline.com | News of the Pease AirFest cancellation comes after hopes of holding a Boston-Portsmouth Air Show this year at the Pease International Airport were already lost. The BIANH announced in May that it would instead hold the scaled-down Airfest event that...

Weston Air Festival 2014: The Red Arrows, Avro Vulcan bomber and The ... * Cheddar Valley Gazette | The De-Havilland Sea Vixen, the only flying example of this magnificent naval fighter bomber, will wow the crowds, as well as the world-renowned Royal Air Force aerobatic team – The Red Arrows – who will perform a thrilling precision flying display...

Priming for the Mkuze Airshow - KZN Winter Air Tour | Airshow's have become some of the largest public participation events in South Africa, and Mkuze should be no different. The prevalent KZN Winter Air Tour is gearing up to reach the northernmost district of KwaZulu-Natal,...

WWII Bomber at Twin Falls Airport this Week * Twin Falls Times-News | Monday afternoon though, the 93-year-old Filer resident at least got to fly in one, courtesy of the Commemorative Air Force, an organization that restores and preserves historic military aircraft. “It was just fantastic,” said a happy Haney after his...

Salute To A Fallen Airmen – Walter Ray · Dave Budd , Photorecon | Photorecon along with Strategic-Beer-Command took a trip today to pay respect to a fallen airman Walter L. Ray. Walter Ray was selected as a program pilot for the CIA flying it’s then classified Lockheed...

Buckhead Bomber Girls Calendar · WarbirdsNews | Harriet Adams has come up with a marvelous http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/wwii-events/buckhead-bomber-girls-calendar.htmland unique idea for a calendar paying tribute to aircrew from the Greatest Generation. The Atlanta, Georgia resident is pairing the daughters and granddaughters of those brave airmen with the bomber jackets their forebears wore into combat. Each month highlights a “Bomber Girl”, her relative and more importantly, “their” story. The connection these men made with their succeeding generations, and how those associations are passed down through the family, often center around that bomber jacket....

Aviation Spotlight Episode II – Tom Nightingale · Airshowvid, Photorecon.net | Episode II of Aviation Spotlight focuses on warbird ownership with pilot Tom Nightingale. Tom has been highly involved in the warbird community in Southern California of over 20 years. Our host Daniel Wotring sat...

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Guest Feature: Discovery Flight Renews Dream of Learning to Fly for Local Aviation Enthusiast | Midwest Airport Fun Days gave me a new experience and renewed passion for aviation on June 7. I have been obsessed with planes since birth. My grandparents took me to Lambert St. Louis Intl. Airport religiously and my mother followed the tradition up until the viewing area closed following 9/11/2001. Even then, I would find myself asking her just to...

Amazing close-up photos capture war planes and birds' majesty in motion * Sploid | I've seen many photos of airplanes and nature in my life, but very few photographers get close to Tom Dean's ability to capture any kind of flying bird. The...

Pilot Makes First Skydive ... Out Of Damaged Plane * Aero-News Network | Another Skydiver Hit The 182s Elevator While Exiting The Aircraft A pilot for a skydiving company became one of the jumpers recently when the Cessna 182 he was flying was damaged by one of the skydivers exiting the airplane....

Window World surpasses $1 million to Veterans Airlift Command · General Aviation News | NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Window World, a replacement window and home remodeling company, has surpassed $1 million in donations and in-kind contributions to the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC), bringing free, private air transportation to wounded veterans and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes....

#Avgeeks, Let's Make it "1,000,000 Pilots Tuesday" at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh · Dan Pimentel | By now, most readers of this blog- and my loyal flock of followers on Twitter - know all about the 2014 Oshbash event this blog is hosting called the GA Power Collective, coming to the Press Tent at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday, July 29th 5:30PM - 7:30PM. If you are just tuning in, stop by the official Oshbash website and bring yourself up to speed. As I have developed this event, it has been very cool to watch the active #avgeek community on Twitter get behind the idea of discussing how the major aviation groups can work together with a common goal of growing the pilot ranks to 1,000,000 certificated pilots....

AirVenture tempts teachers with freebies · General Aviation News * You don’t have to be a pilot or an aircraft mechanic to enjoy the largest general aviation gathering in North America. To prove that point, Build A Plane, in partnership with AirVenture, is offering teachers a very special perk for attending the festivities on Tuesday, July 28, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For the fifth year, they are sponsoring Teacher’s Day to share information on how aviation can be used in the classroom to enhance STEM curriculum and engage students....

Pegasus Elite Aviation donates engine to school · General Aviation News | VAN NUYS, Calif. — Students at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s North Valley Occupational Center – Aviation (NVOC – Aviation) have a new tool to gain insight into the functioning of turbine engines, thanks to a donation of a Rolls-Royce Spey Engine – valued at $120,000 – by Pegasus Elite Aviation....

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