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F-16s to carry out daring maneuvers during weekend air show - fox13now.com | HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Air Force Thunderbirds will return to Utah skies this weekend for the first time in two years. It’s an opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the fastest jets in the military. It’s called the Warriors over the Wasatch open house and air show, and it’s a chance to see F-16s reach unthinkable speeds while doing what appear to be some pretty dangerous tricks....

A star spangled weekend to remember * Springfield News Sun | The final component of the four-day festivities is the 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger and held at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia. This year's celebration welcomes back the Navy Blue Angels demonstration team. The Blues...

Stunt Pilot Sean D. Tucker Takes Reporter Wale Aliyu 3500 Feet In The Air - WKEF ABC 22 | ..."When we pull away from the Earth, all the blood is going to be leaving your head. The harder I pull, the faster it'll leave your head. We'll start out at 4 Gs," said Tucker, explaining the force of gravity. "If you like this stuff we'll give you 6 Gs. If you really like it, we'll give you 8."...

RAF Tucano arrives as build up begins for Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | THIS year’s Sunderland International Airshow got off to a flying start as one of the main attractions arrived in style. The Royal Air Force Tucano Display team landed at Newcastle Airport yesterday for a special preview of next month’s Wearside spectacular...

Sunderland International Airshow launches with special memorial plane - ChronicleLive | This year’s Sunderland International Airshow was launched with a special aircraft paint-job to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Tucano display team got a makeover featuring a cloud of poppies around the plane’s nose and the words ‘lest we forget’....

NASA WB-57F Confirms Oshkosh Appearance * EAA | EAA this week confirmed that NASA will bring a Martin/General Dynamics WB-57F high-altitude aircraft to Oshkosh this year. Based at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, the WB-57F operates in NASA’s High Altitude Research Program. The aircraft provides unique, high-altitude (up to 70,000 feet MSL) airborne platforms to United States government agencies and other customers for scientific research, advanced technology development, and testing around the world. This will be the first appearance by a WB-57F at AirVenture...

Swiss F/A-18C Hornet Full Throttle Airshow 2014 * TakeOffTube.com

OK Warbirds set for takeoff - Duncan Banner | DUNCAN — The first Oklahoma Warbirds radio control air show will welcome over 100 pilots from seven states today and Saturday. The event will occur at Wolfe Field, a private airfield with a 40-acre campus located four miles south of Bray from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. This is the first radio control air show to be held at this site and in this part of Oklahoma, said Bill Holland, event director and Associate Vice President for Academy of Model Aeronautics...

Historic bomber in Medicine Hat today - Medicine Hat News  | Hatters will have an opportunity to view a piece of aviation history beginning today.  The Commemorative Air Force Airbase Arizona will be flying its B-25J “Maid in the Shade” bomber from the Second World War into the Medicine Hat airport at noon today, where it will be on display and available for flights until June 30....

Sgt. John Spatharos’ bomber called ‘Steak & Eggs’ crashed in Coral Sea in WW II · Don Moore, War Tales | ...When Sgt. John Spatharos of Tangerine Woods, Englewood, Fla. climbed aboard an A-20, twin-engine attack bomber dubbed “Steak and Eggs” at Kila Airstrip on the island of New Guinea during World War II he had no idea what fate had in store for him....

GALLAGHER: WWII co-pilot from Hawarden returns to sky in B-17 - Sioux City Journal  | SERGEANT BLUFF | Thirty seconds after a B-17 bomber lifts from Sioux Gateway Airport on Thursday afternoon, one of its passengers lifts from his seat and steps into the cockpit.  "I might have jumped the gun a bit," the passenger says with a smile, admitting he maybe hadn't yet gotten the all-clear from the flight director....

F-84F at the American Airpower Museum | This week the American Airpower museum also took delivery of the legendary F-84F to its collection. Acquired from the neighboring Cradle of aviation museum The F-84F rounds out one of the most complete collections of Republic Fighter Aircraft outside the USAF Museum. The F-84F, joins the P-47D, F-84E, RF-84F, F-105D, and A-10 in the American Airpower Museum collection.

Amelia Earhart Namesake Takes Off on Aviatrix's Route (Video) - Newsmax.com | A 31-year-old pilot named Amelia Earhart from Denver, Colorado, took off Thursday on an 18-day, 28,000-mile trip around the world following the same route that her namesake attempted in back in 1937. Earhart hopes to succeed where the original aviatrix didn't, and become the youngest woman to fly around the world in a single-engine aircraft,...Those interested in tracking her flight minute-by-minute can visit AmeliaEarhartProject.com or FlightAware.com.

Brendan O'Mara · Flight To Success Friday's Fabulous Flyer | ...Just as twilight approached it was clear there actually was someone on the airfield – no idea what their official capacity was but they had no interest in our excuse that it was dark soon or the weather approaching from the north, we were told clearly, and I quote... “I don’t care what you do with your plane – but you two….. both of you are going to be over THAT FENCE by Midnight”....

Fly-In to fun - Moose Lake Star-Gazette | Ten-year-old Evin Davis has his sights set on a future of flying. It's not often that a 10-year-old boy has a clear vision of what he would like to do when he grows up. However, Evin Davis, son of Barnum residents Randy and Lacy Davis, is exactly that focused...

The tragic tale of Dusty the dog revealed as Red Arrows prepare for Royal ... - Gloucestershire Echo | ...Flying at Red 7 in the original line up Squadron Leader Henry Prince, An experienced aerobatic display pilot, he arrived in January 1965 for formation training. With him was his trusted golden Labrador; Dusty. Dusty had been the team mascot for the Yellowjacks and soon became Red Arrows official mascot. He could often be found at his master’s feet during briefings, although he did occasionally venture into the cockpit....

Red Arrows dog mascot Dusty's grave transformed for anniversary * BBC News | The long-forgotten grave of the Red Arrows' first mascot, a dog called Dusty, has been transformed to mark the team's 50th display season. Dusty was killed by an aircraft on the eve of the Red Arrows' first display at RAF Fairford, in 1965. He was...