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Knicely Done: Blue Angels Ride Of A Lifetime * WOWT | There were a lot of pre-flight instructions but one in particular really stood out: "The airsickness bags are right there by your arm." It's something this reporter thought about a lot in anticipation of a once in a lifetime opportunity to fly with the famed Blue Angels in advance of their performance at the Offutt Air Show on Saturday and Sunday....

Wes Welker flies with Thunderbirds *9NEWS KUSA | Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker participated in an F-16 ride along with the Air Force Thunderbirds Sunday afternoon at Cheyenne Regional Airport. The All-Pro NFL player participated in a three hour pre-flight training before taking to the skies for roughly sixty minutes of barrel rolls, and sharp turns, moving as fast as 9g's...

Photo Gallery: Aerial demonstrations cap Farnborough Airshow * Stars and Stripes | FARNBOROUGH, England — Five days of aviation exhibits at the Farnborough Airshow came to an end this weekend with a series of flight demonstrations. The show's schedule on Sunday featured more than 20 aerial displays with performances from the...

Video: Farnborough International Airshow Highlights * Belfast Telegraph | The amazing flying displays showcase the most advanced aircraft in both commercial and military design.

The best of the Farnborough Airshow 2014 - Telegraph | Multiple videos from the Telegraph staff

Video: Air Show scales new heights as 85,000 people turn out * Independent | THE air was dark with Vampires, Ravens and Black Knights – and 85,000 turned out to watch the free air show over the weekend. Jets, choppers and retro crafts were amongst the aircraft that took to the skies in ideal conditions at this year’s Bray Air Display....

Local pilot takes part in airshow * KETV 7 | A few months ago, Capt. Tommy Reynolds learned his base would be coming to the Offutt Air Force Base for the air show.  But his name wasn’t on the list. However, he was able to pull some strings and lead his formation in for the weekend...

“The Greatest Show on Turf” – 2014 Geneseo Airshow Report * Warbirds News | In the finger lakes region of New York there is a village called Geneseo. In this village, down a gravel road, there is an airfield with a grass runway. On this grass airfield, for one weekend every July, one of the greatest gatherings of warbirds in the country takes place. It is called “The Greatest Show on Turf”. The Geneseo-based National Warplane Museum hosted warbirds this year from both the US and Canada, including many rare aircraft. Warbirds headlining the show included the Military Aviation Museum’s de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito, Fagen Fighters’ Lockheed P-38J Lightning “Rough Stuff” and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Westland Lysander Mk3A....

18th Gathering of Eagles Air Show soars high in Willoughby (with video) * news-hearld | Dan Compton of Painesville and his family couldn’t wait to check out the planes at the 18th annual Gathering of Eagles Air Show on July 20 at Lost Nation Airport in Willoughby. He said he has always loved airplanes, and now his two sons, Jake and Troy, share that love, too...

Heading to Oshkosh? Add WomenVenture to your MUST DO list * WAI Connect Blog | Details here!

Airshow Troyes in unpredictable weather (Afternoon) · Translated-Passion for Aviation | despite a very unstable weather, the meeting organized by the Grand Troyes Skyline Events this June 29, 2014 gave us a good show and 10,000 spectators were highly rewarded by stunning presentations in flight...

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Video: At 94, Betty Strohfus boards another B-17 - FOX 9 News | EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (KMSP) -The AirExpo at Flying Cloud Airport is truly for aviation enthusiasts of all ages, but possibly one of the oldest veterans at the show has earned her stripes in more ways than one.... Soon after that the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Betty enlisted in 1943 and out of 25,000 applicants.. She was one of just 1,800 picked to be a Woman Airforce Service Pilot or “WASP.” Eager to share her stories whenever she can, Strohfus co-piloted 8 different aircraft during WWII....

Inauguration of the Checkertails of Lesina Monument · WarbirdsNews | May 13 – 16, 2014, four days that none of us will never forget. Through his recollections of his war years in Lesina, Italy, my father Primiano gave the spark that eventually became my mission to create a memorial  honoring the US Army Air Force’s 325th Fighter Group for their efforts during WWII to free his town from Nazi tirrany. That day became a...

USAF Weapons School students get first look at upgraded B-1s * Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories | For the first time students from the US Air Force Weapons School got to fly with the newly upgraded Sustainment Block-16 B-1B Lancer during the student's Integration Phase (IT) at Nellis AFB, Nev. Dyess Airmen from the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron brought the B-1s to Nellis for the weapons school students to get hands-on with the new technology. The three-week exercise at Nellis is the final phase of the weapons school curriculum and allows students to put all their learned skills to practice in a training environment that is as close to actual combat as possible...

Red Bull Air Race returns to Styria * Translated | The final of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2014 takes place on 25-26. Of October at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The last race of the comprehensive eight stations Championships are held on the Formula 1 racetrack in Styria. Eleven years ago, the series launched the first race ever in Zeltweg, Austria. As a replacement for the unrealizable race in China, the Red Bull Air Race is returning to its origin...

Rogue Eagles Radio Control Airplane Club shows off warbirds * NBC5 | Eagle Point, Ore. -- The Rogue Eagles Radio Control Airplane Club took to the skies Saturday. Plane enthusiasts showed off their remote control warbirds from WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Current military aircraft was also displayed....

Veteran R/C flyers work with students on ERAU runway * The Daily Courier | It was all eyes on the skies Friday morning, when a group of teenagers met with members of the local Casa de Aero R/C Flying Club for a quick course in radio-controlled flying. One by one, the teens took control of hand-held transmitters, putting a fleet of model airplanes through elaborate turns and dives in the sky above the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) campus...

‘One Giant Leap …’ San Diego Air & Space Museum Marks 45th Anniversary of Moon Landing * Times of San Diego | Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and San Diego’s Air & Space Museum has an Apollo spaceship and moon rocks on display. ...The Apollo 11 lunar module landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon at 1:18 p.m. San Diego time on Sunday, July 20, 1969. Armstrong stepped onto the moon about six hours later and proclaimed, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” a statement broadcast live worldwide....