Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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Up in the air: FOX6′s Ted Perry gets chance to fly with Navy's Blue Angels - fox6now.com | MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels are in town gearing up for this weekend’s Milwaukee Air and Water Show on the lakefront. But before everything moves forward, some members of the media (including FOX6′s Ted Perry) got the opportunity to fly with this precision team....

Capital City Airport to host annual air race * Carlisle Sentinel | The 2014 Air Race Classic started Monday and will continue through Thursday. Racers will move through 10 intermediate stops in four days en route from Buchanan Field Airport in Concord, California. This year's race will have 52 teams with more than 100...

Tora Tora Tora to perform at the "Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake air show" on July 5 at 7 p.m. [corrected date] A http://tocclairshow.com/lineup.htmlspectacular 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.

Noblesville Airport Fly-In Breakfast * Hamilton County Reporter - News | The little known Noblesville Airport was host to more than 70 aircraft Saturday morning. Co-owners Larry Jacobi and Don Roberts held their annual fly-in pancake breakfast for pilots and aircraft enthusiast alike. The small grass strip located at 14782 Promise Rd. was jam packed with everything from modern Cessna’s to WWII era warbirds...

Farnborough Air Show countdown: A look back at 1998 ... · David Stubbings | Photos looking back at the last Farnborough Air Show of the 20th century.

Air show coming in 2015 - Andalusia Star-News | Aircraft enthusiasts who enjoyed South Alabama Regional Airport’s 2010 air show should circle Sat., Nov. 14, 2015 on their calendars. Planning is underway for a second air show at SARA, and airport co-administrator Jed Blackwell said the next one, tentatively set for that date in 2015, should be even better....

World War II aircraft on view at Akron airport * Akron Beacon Journal | The World War II bomber, although it did not fly bombing missions during that war, will be featured in the KAKR- Summit Air FBO Classic Car Cruise-In Friday to benefit the Commemorative Air Force and Saturday for Kids Day at the airport...

Its with great sadness that we report tonight that our long time volunteer and o... · American Airpower Museum | Its with great sadness that we report tonight that our long time volunteer and our lead docent for so many great years Guenter Bier passed away today. Guenter had been a young boy in Germany during WWII having survived repeated B-17 and B-24 bombing raids on his town. He always had admiration for the American crews and their planes even in light of their mission at the time and that carried on till his passing. He moved to the United states after the war seeking the freedoms he did not have in Germany as a boy....

Sopwith Camel Moved Into Place · WarbirdsNews  | Yesterday, staff at the RAF Museum London http://www.warbirdsnews.com/aviation-museum-news/sopwith-camel-moved-place.htmlrolled the First World War Sopwith Camel into the exhibition space dedicated to telling the story of the ‘First World War In The Air.’The Sopwith Camel is perhaps the most famous and iconic aircraft to take to the skies during the First World War. It was...

Delta Flight Museum grand opening (SLIDESHOW) - Atlanta Business Chronicle Byron E. Small | Delta Air Lines Inc. on Tuesday opened the new, 68,000 square-foot Delta Flight Museum at its world headquarters in Atlanta. The museum is housed in the airline’s two original maintenance hangars dating from the 1940s. The museum traces Delta’s (NYSE: DAL) history and the development of commercial aviation. The grand opening event marked Delta’s 85th anniversary of passenger service, dating back to its first passenger flight from Dallas to Jackson, Miss., on June 17, 1929....

Airlift Uplift · Julie Boatman Filucci, Voices From The DC-3 | This is the way it should feel. This is the way it *did* feel. And it was good to get that feeling back. I had plans to go to Wichita last weekend to take care of lingering business in town, and to see some of the warm and wonderful friends that I’ve made there. I also knew that the Citation Special Olympics Airlift (CSOA) would launch that Saturday....

Chopper pilot recalls adventures - Southland Times (blog) | Chopper pilot recalls adventures Flying high with Jacques Cousteau | ...Rod Hall-Jones sailed, flew and ate his way through 23 countries as a crew member of the Cousteau team. Among the regions of the world he visited were Asia, Polynesia, Australia and Europe. It was a mystery phone call - he believed was a joke from friends - that landed the Southlander on the deck of the Calypso and began a life aquatic from the air. Hall-Jones' job was to fly the ship's helicopter for aerial filming....

Wednesday, This Pig's Gonna Ride A Thirsty Globemaster !!! (Check Out This C-17 Video) · AirPigz | Wednesday morning June 18, 2014 I'm scheduled to be onboard a C-17 departing from Wright-Patterson AFB on a training mission that will include inflight refueling with a KC-135 from the 434th Air Refueling Wing based at Grissom ARB in northern Indiana. This trip is operating out of WPAFB because the 434th has temporarily relocated there while the runway at Grissom is getting some repairs...

Minden Air Tanker 46 First Drops Via Minden-Tahoe Airport | Minden Air, our Fire bomber company at Minden-Tahoe Airport, test their new jet BAE 146. Three separate videos in the link from today’s testing on our airport. The test grid has 3,150 stakes with cups to collect the retardant.

The Girls With Wings Blog: Updates from Scholarship winners

Harrison Ford Scholarship Recipient Earns Sport Pilot Certificate  * Aero-News Network | Former Young Eagle Brendan Robinson, who received a Harrison Ford Flight Training Scholarship just last year, is now a sport pilot after passing his checkride on May 29. Robinson, EAA 1047746, graduated from Chilton High School, Wisconsin, only a week earlier and took his checkride in a Piper J-3 Cub: “My favorite airplane,” he wrote....

Elkhart air buffs hope to inspire Young Eagles with free flights * The Elkhart Truth | The semiannual event, called Young Eagles, is orchestrated by the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 132. Busch noted the planes used in these rides, despite the group's name, are not experimental and have been certified as aviation worthy by...

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