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Blue Angels to fly over Cincinnati Thurs. * WKRC TV Cincinnati | The Blue Angels will fly the squadron's six-jet F/A-18 Hornet Delta Formation over the city with smoke on at approximately 9:30 a.m. while in route to the Vectren Dayton Air Show. The Vectren Dayton Air Show runs from June 28-29 at the Dayton...

Would you climb in this plane for a ride? * WDTN | Centerville sophomore Alberta Dempsey got to ride along with Sean D. Tucker, one of the air show's major attractions. Alberta won an essay contest for the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program. The group's goal is to connect young...

Iowa City air show returns after more than a decade * The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines | Airplanes will set the skies of Iowa City abuzz this weekend as a statewide air show returns to town for the first time in over a decade. Acrobatic acts, children's activities and optional rides in historic aircraft are all part of The Fly Iowa Airshow...

Soggy June forces Fair Oaks air show cancellation * nwitimes.com | The show would have featured the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team and other acrobatic air events. Although Wednesday's announcement was made under sunny skies, the National Weather Service has recorded 2...

Video: 2014 EAA Warbirds in Review · WarbirdsNews | For the past 12 years, one of the most interesting and talked about programs presented at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has been Warbirds in Review. Monday through Saturday of AirVenture week, at 10:00am and 1:00pm, veterans who actually flew in harm’s way are re-united with living, flying examples of the aircraft they flew and the owners/restorers/pilots who have “Kept’em Flying.”The result is a...

Biggest Little Air Show in Hawaii  · WarbirdsNews | The Pacific Aviation Museum in historic Pearl Harbor, Honolulu is hosting the Biggest Little Airshow in Hawaii over the weekend of August 16th/17th from 10am to 4pm each day. The popular remote-control aircraft show will be the biggest it’s ever been. Guests will be able to drive on to Ford Island for this event, or take the free shuttle from the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. There will be...

Radio Control Club holds Fun-Fly air show * bcrnews.com | PERU — The Illinois Valley Radio Control Club will hold its annual Fun-Fly air show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 28 at Flaherty Field airport in Peru. Many airplane models with wing spans ranging from 18 inches to more than 10 feet will be on display.

Vero Beach Air Show raises $100K for local veterans and abused children * TCPalm | The 2014 Vero Beach Air Show was the biggest and best event ever on the Treasure Coast, thanks to generous sponsors, hundreds of volunteers, and the thousands of people who attended. The next show is already being planned for 2016. According to...

Video: Fascinating Historical Account Of The 1965 Reno Air Races (Progress In The Air) * AirPigz | This recently uploaded gem of a video is an old-school professionally produced film that chronicled the wide variety of aviation related activities taking place during the 1965 Reno Air Races. It's 21 minutes long but very well worth your time if you have any interest in the era that defined so much of what modern aviation is all about today....

WWII vet reminisces during B-17 flight tour of Kansas City * Sedalia Democrat | For the first time since World War II, a local veteran flew in the same type of plane he navigated over the hostile skies of Europe in 1944 as he boarded the famous Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress on display in Kansas City. The plane, which is...

Stickman Enjoys His B-17 Ride * The Spokesman Review (blog) | Stickman: It took off around 5:15 and headed towards Post Falls. It's the pilot's discretion where to fly, mostly because there was a very big dark cloud over us that looked like a thunderstorm. Someone mentioned he might go north towards Rathdrum and...

Amelia Earhart to fly around the world, 77 years after namesake * The Denver Post | People invariably asked her if she had plans to become a pilot like the legendary aviatrix for whom she was named. Teachers in school spent extra time discussing the original Amelia Earhart. It only got worse when her family moved to Oberlin Park, Kan...

Air museum presentation sheds light on Earhart disappearance * Hartford Courant | Ric Gillespie talked about the research and theories regarding Earhart at two recent presentations, entitled "The Search for Amelia Earhart," held on June 15, at the New England Air Museum. The presentations were made in front of the museum's Lockheed...

Video clip shows A-7K Corsair jet’s strafing passes on Michigan Range 24 years ago * The Aviationist

South Carolina 23rd state to include aviation in recreation law · General Aviation News | COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s legislature voted June 6 to amend the State Recreational Use Statue (RUS) to include aviation activities. Governor Nikki Haley signed the law that will now provide South Carolina landowners a level of liability protection when allowing pilots to fly onto their property....

Nine governors recognize general aviation in June · General Aviation News | Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard, Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Wyoming Governor Matt Mead all issued proclamations during the month of June, recognizing the value of general aviation in their states....

SWAG Alert: Wear Your '1,000,000 Pilots' Shirt at #Oshbash to be Eligible for Door Prizes  * Airplanista Aviation Blog | ...On the years that I host an Airplanista #Oshbash event (this year it's Tuesday, July 29th, 5:30PM - 7:30PM in the Press Tent), June is the month that everything begins to come together. One of those tasks that has now been completed is to find some great aviation companies willing to support what I do by donating some awesome SWAG for door prizes....

Young Eagle takes flight * Piqua Daily Call | One area teen got to find out, courtesy of the Vectren Dayton Air Show and Sean D. Tucker, national chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles Program. Tucker, an enshrinee in the National Aviation Hall of Fame, is in Dayton as...

Effort under way to return long-retired unmanned spacecraft to Earth * Bangor Daily News | Ultimately the hope is to place it in the National Air & Space Museum. The problems are monumental. NASA abandoned the project so long ago the original command manuals have been lost, the project command post scrapped, and scientists involved...