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Greg Koontz to receive 2014 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship · General Aviation News | Greg Koontz has been named the 2014 recipient of the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship. Koontz is known throughout North America and parts of Latin America as a foremost authority on American Champion Super Decathlon aircraft, according to officials with World Airshow News, which bestows the award...

Amelia Rose Earhart | Everyone has oceans to cross... Today, Amelia and I cross one together. Thank you to everyone who has joined us as we flew around this big, beautiful world. I felt like we all shared a bit of Amelia's passion for adventure in the process....

Weekend Calendar * Fencecheck | All your weekend shows are listed by our friends at the link.

History major embraces Blue Angels traditions * Pensacola News Journal | Blue Angels pilot Mark Tedrow is a quintessential aviator at Pensacola Naval Air Station: a Naval Academy graduate who loves his job with the elite flight team and especially enjoys buzzing the crowd at the annual Pensacola Beach Air Show. Lt Mark...

Saturday fly-in/air show: It will be loud * Valley Courier | “It's a lot of noise,” said Del Norte and former Army pilot Vern McCallister, who will fly his World War-II era T-6 in this Saturday's SLV Pilot's Association Fly In and Air Show based out of the SLV Regional Airport in Alamosa. “It's what the people...

Video: Jets Over Kentucky offers small-scale airshow in Lebanon * WDRB | An annual event - held in Lebanon, Kentucky - gives new meaning to the term "forever young."...

Latest Newsletter! * Planes Of Fame News | Read our newly released Newsletter, Vol.38, No. 2

Video: Yankee Lady take off at Waterloo Air Show * International Council of Air Shows

New BBC Two documentary follows RAF's Red Arrows * seenit.co.uk | The Red Arrows, the RAF's world famous display team, are being showcased in a new BBC Two documentary which airs later this month. One of the nation's true icons, the team celebrates 50 seasons of world-famous displays this year and acts as the public...

The Patrouille de France will eventually happen that late Monday morning ...  * La Voix du Nord (translated) | Big disappointment this morning for all lovers of airplanes. Considering the awful weather which prevails in the Valenciennes region, the Patrouille de France (PAF) is not arrived at Valenciennes as expected. The eight drivers will stand on the tarmac late Monday that...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Farnborough Airshow selects Midair Squadron XH134 for Flying Display * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire: The world’s only airworthy Canberra PR9 (XH134) will form part of the flying display at this year’s Farnborough Airshow on 19th – 20th July 2014. Having successfully passed the display validation for the public event on Monday, XH134 will be in prestigious company, joining the flight programme featuring the RAF Red Arrows and Avro Vulcan XH558. She will continue to remain on static display for the duration of the public event as well....

Sponsor of Earhart search wants suit to continue * Seattle PI | ...The group is concentrating now on analyzing a piece of aircraft aluminum, about the size of a dinner tray, discovered on the island in the 1990s, Gillespie said. While the rivet pattern on the piece didn't match the Lockheed Electra, he said they're now focusing on whether it could be conclusively identified as a patch that was placed on Earhart's plane before it disappeared. "It's always so ironic to be working on this stuff, and then at the same time fighting a lawsuit that says, 'Ah, you found the thing years ago,' " Gillespie said....

Only flying B-29 in the world flies into Boise * KTVB | BOISE -- It was a once-in-a-lifetime sight for many at the Boise Airport Thursday as three World War II aircraft were flown in by the Commemorative Air Force. "The Commemorative Air Force is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to keeping...

B-17 wreckage a haunting hike * Colorado Springs Gazette | On June 13, 1944, an Army Air Corps B-17 flying a training mission out of Rapid City, S.D., went off course and slammed into a snow-covered mountainside a quarter mile from the Flowers Trail, killing four of 10 on board. Seventy years later, the...

Reliving historic mail run into our fair city * Wangaratta Chronicle | Historic and unique planes, including some belonging to members of Wangaratta Aero Club, will take part in a re-enactment of the first air mail run in 1914. Frenchman Maurice Guillaux flew a Bleriot XI aircraft from Melbourne to Sydney from July 16-18...

New exhibit for kids opens at Hampton's Virginia Air and Space Center * Daily Press | Put on a spacesuit, build a pillow rocket, drive a lunar craft, inspect moon dust or sleep strapped to the wall in the new permanent exhibit for preschoolers at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton. The "Space Racers" exhibit celebrates its grand...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: David Martin and Kirby Chambliss * The Aero Experience | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is well known for attracting top-tier aerial entertainment, and we continue our photo essay series featuring David Martin in the Breitling CAP 232 and Kirby Chambliss in the Red Bull Edge 540. Martin is a third generation pilot with both military and civilian flying experience. Chambliss began flying at an early age, becoming the youngest Southwest Airlines pilot at age 24 and their youngest captain at age 28. He later became 5-time U.S. Aerobatic Champion and 2-time Red Bull Racing Champion. We present both here with highlights from their airshow routines...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Cropdusters! * The Aero Experience | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 featured two prominent agricultural aircraft: the Air Tractor AT-502B with P&W Canada PT6A-34AG engine and a Thrush S2R-H80 with GE H80-100 engine (also on display in front of the GE exhibit). The Air Tractor was similar to the AT-301 model used to represent "Dusty" from the movie Planes, and at times they were both static display together. The Thrush flew in the airshows, including a full hopper drop. Here are some views of both aircraft...