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92-year-old crosses off bucket list with Blue Angels * FOX10 News - Mobile | Helen-Johnson-92. At 92 years old, Helen Johnson is crossing off her bucket list. She joined thousands on the crowded Pensacola Beach Friday, June 11 to watch the Blue Angels soar in the sky.

National Warbird Operator Conference Announces 2015 Host City & Dates | WARBIRD RADIO – The National Warbird Operator Conference has announced it’s 2015 location and dates. According to a recent news release the NWOC is pleased to announce that the 2015 conference will be held in New Orleans, Lousisana. As in previous years, the conference will focus on maintenance, operation, and regulatory aspects of warbird ownership...

Paul Poberezny Memorial Set For Sunday Before AirVenture * Aero-News Network | EAA Founder Passed Away Last August At The Age Of 91 The night before AirVenture’s gates open on Monday morning, July 28, before throngs of aviation enthusiasts immerse themselves in the World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration, a brief, solemn ceremony will be held to honor the man who made it all possible.

Kenny Loggins Prepares To Rock EAA AirVenture * Aero-News Network | First Performance In Front Of An Air Show Crowd For 'Danger Zone' Artist Kenny Loggins has been on the international music scene for more than four decades, breaking through in the 1970s with partner Jim Messina, then breaking out on his own in the 1980s and producing six certified platinum and eight gold records in the process. In all those years Loggins never performed in front of an air show crowd, but that will change in a big way later this month.

Flying Legends Duxford: Thousands enjoy spectacle of nostalgia and poignant ... * Wisbech Standard | Paul Maupin, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress pilot for the Commemorative Air Force, gave walk-around tours of the B-29 Superfortress in the American Air Museum and regaled visitors with tales of his experiences flying this iconic aircraft. IMG_3729...

Aerobatics and Comedy in the Skies * Coverage of the Truckee Tahoe Air Show and Family Festival

AIRSHOW NEWS: Sell out Air Tattoo for Reds 50th Season  * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | A SELL-OUT crowd of 140,000 turned up at RAF Fairford over three days to join celebrations marking the Red Arrows’ 50th display season at the Royal International Air Tattoo. They were rewarded with breath-taking aerobatic displays from fast jets, transport aircraft, helicopters and classic warbirds. The aviation fans’ favourite was the rare appearance of two classic Cold War ground-attack strike aircraft, the Sukhoi Su-22s from Poland, while the visitors were also treated to the last UK appearance of the A-7 Corsair from the Hellenic Air Force....

Five Jet Teams, One Photo * And some Video too!

Queen fears Red Arrows axe as it reaches its 50th anniversary * Express.co.uk | The RAF's daredevil aerobatic team faces being disbanded unless a commitment is made to save it within 12 months. Last night the Queen's first cousin Margaret Rhodes said Her Majesty would have a “tear in her eye” if the Arrows were ditched when the ...

Red Arrows help man's proposal at Waddington Air Show * Lincolnshire Echo | As the Red Arrows filled the sky with trails of red, white and blue over RAF Waddington, Katie Archer enjoyed the air show just as she had every year. Squinting at the colourful plumes of smoke framing the team's daring manoeuvres, she was blissfully...

Children learn about teamwork from Red Arrows * The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald | Mr Dewar said: “The students that took part this year were amazed by some additional support and encouragement by the Royal Air Force display team, the Red Arrows, who sent along some encouraging words and resources to help towards their research...

Irvine · U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" On Monday July 7, 2014, a former British Sailor tandem-jumped with SFC Jon Ewald and the Army Parachute Team, “Golden Knights,” as part of his and his teams visit to Fort Bragg, N.C. This former sailor is the boisterous Robert Irvine of the Food Networks Restaurant: Impossible.

Volunteers Help The B-25 Panchito Prepare For AirVenture 2014  | WARBIRD RADIO – Volunteers at the Delaware Aviation Museum Foundation have been hard at work getting the B-25 Panchito ready for center stage at EAA’s AirVenture 2014. Panchito’s pilot Larry Kelley dropped us a few pictures and this note: Thanks to Steve, Brendan, Guy, John Vance, Al, Ben, Erin, Phil, Steve Nuwer, Harry, Colin, and...

Smithsonian’s Spirit of Tuskegee Final Journey – Flying Highlights * WarbirdRadio.com | WARBIRD RADIO – Tag along as USAF Captain Matthew Quy and Smithsonian Curator Dik Daso fly one of the only surviving Tuskegee Airmen PT-13D Stearmans from Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama to the National Air and Space Museum. For more information search key work: Tuskegee on Warbird Radio and listen to Episode 326′s podcast. Enjoy!...

Norwegian CF-104D Starfighter Almost ready To Take Off · WarbirdsNews | A fascinating restoration project is coming together in Norway at the moment, which should see a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter take to the skies later this year. This two seat Starfighter is actually a Canadair-built CF-104D that served in the Canadian Armed Forces since its delivery in May 1962. It flew with the test squadron from Cold Lake, Alberta for many years, but she passed on to the Norwegian Air Force on May 23rd, 1973 when the...

Two Steps from Glory, a World War II Liaison Pilot and His L-4H · WarbirdsNews What happens when a young African American pilot trains to defend his country from the air then discovers that the U.S. Army really doesn’t want him, and worse, won’t let him fight? Former U.S. Army Field Artillery liaison pilot Welton I. Taylor answered that question and more with the release of his long-awaited memoir, Two Steps from Glory, a richly detailed, eye-opening account of one young pilot’s confrontations with the enemy and the segregated U.S. Army during World War II. Few...

Red Flag Alaska – Training, Tactics, Testing  * Photorecon.net | The expansive airspace over south central Alaska offers an unsurpassed classroom during Red Flag Alaska (RF-A) training exercises. A pair of Air Force Bases (Eielson AFB is east of Fairbanks and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson...

Jeff Skiles To Leave EAA  * Aero-News Network | Will Explore Other Opportunities, May Resume Airline Career In a letter to EAA staff that was forwarded to ANN, EAA Chairman Jack Pelton said that Jeff Skiles will be leaving the organization shortly after AirVenture.

YF-12A 60-6936   * Photorecon.net  | In the aviation world there are those that prefer to do artwork. Doing side views like this is called a ‘profile’. This is my first attempt at doing such artwork. Every one knows I...

Canada's first female commercial pilot honoured with commemorative stamp ... * Edmonton Journal | Married 37 years to a fellow commercial airline pilot, Bjornson was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame in 1997, and currently serves as its secretary-treasurer and executive director. She was also inducted into the Women in Aviation ...