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GEICO Skytypers to Perform at Atlantic City Airshow Equipped with NuShield ... * PR Newswire | GEICO Skytypers to Perform at Atlantic City Airshow Equipped with NuShield DayVue Films. Share with LinkedIn. Skytyper GPS with NuShield DayVu (PRNewsFoto/NuShield, Inc.) The GEICO Skytypers are set to perform at the Atlantic City Air Show on Aug....

Military 'Re-Treat': Airshow returns with military acts * Press of Atlantic City | Three factors seem to have contributed to the drop in attendance at last year's Thunder Over the Boardwalk Atlantic City Airshow. One was the change in schedule from the usual month of August to June — when many kids weren't quite out of school yet...

Mike Wiskus will be among the best shredding the sky over NE Iowa * Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | Wiskus, 55, lives in Minnesota but is a native of Iowa. He was born in Iowa City, attended Linn-Mar schools in Marion and graduated from high school in Mason City. He purchased his first aerobatic airplane about 25 years ago from Marion "Pro" Prohaska...

Snowbirds lift spirits with performance * Peace Arch News | As the City of White Rock prepares to welcome a return of the Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team, a local man is sharing his story about living with Crohn's disease. Wednesday's performance over Semiahmoo Bay is aimed at increasing awareness of the...

Interview with Karen Morrison about her Army Career. * US Army Golden Knights | Interview with Karen Morrison about her Army Career and how she overcame a learning disability. She talks about skydiving and landing on the back of a bass boat...

Port Huron's Shelby Bixler soars with Army's Golden Knights * Port Huron Times Herald | U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shelby Bixler is excited to perform with the Golden Knights Parachute Team in front of her family this weekend at in Ypsilanti. “This is the first time my family will be able to able to see me perform. I was accepted to in the ...

Time-travelling at 2014 Islay Airshow * For Argyll | All eyes up – a vintage aircraft used to train generations of Cold War fighter pilots for the RAF is one of the star attractions at the 2014 Islay Airport Open Day and Airshow. The Percival Jet Provost entered service in the early 1950s as a military...

Quad City Air Show Aug. 9-10 * Quad-Cities Online | The awarding winning and nationally recognized Quad City Air Show, besides being featured on the History Channel in the Modern Marvels program titled "Air Shows" being featured in the first ever book written by aviation author Erik Hildebrandt about ...

Montgomery Aviation slates Open House and Fly-In this Saturday at KTYQ · General Aviation News | ZIONSVILLE, Ind. – Montgomery Aviation, the FBO at Indianapolis Executive Airport (KTYQ) will host the eighth annual open house, fly-an, and air race on Saturday, Aug. 9. In addition to many family friendly activities, the event will combine with the Sport Air Racing League’s Indy Air Race, sponsored by Aerodine Composites. This is the fourth year that the Indy Air Race has been held at Indy Exec airport featuring aircraft of all types competing in a timed cross country trek around Central Indiana....

AirFest to encourage Scouts to consider STEM careers * The Herald-News | AirFest coordinator Ken McCafferty said the event is a culmination of two years of working with Lewis University, the Joliet Regional Port District and the National Weather Service to establish what he called the largest gathering of Scouts in the area...

Wings, Wheels, Rotors & Expo · The Kathryn Report | Event Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014 - 9:00am - 4:00pm This year’s Wings, Wheels & Rotors Event will be held on Sunday, Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Joint Forces Training Base at 11200 Lexington Drive in Los Alamitos. WWRE is an annual open exhibition and family event hosted by the California National Guard, Joint Forces Training Base (JFTB) and the Los Alamitos Area Chamber of...

A family airshow for all ages * Tillsonburg News | Promising superb aerial acts with both power and speed in the air, the 2014 Ontario South Coast Airshow lineup, August 23rd at the Tillsonburg Regional Airport, will also have a touch of comedy to keep everyone entertained and on the edge of their...

Annual Chetek Fly-in, Boat Rally this Sunday * Chetekalert | Those who enjoy vintage boats and aircraft should be sure to attend the annual Chetek Fly-in and Boat Rally Sunday, Aug. 10, from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. at the Chetek Municipal Airport. The event will feature an array of wooden, Chetek- and...

Award winning planes at fly-in * Mille Lacs County Times | Fresh off his second consecutive year of winning at one of the largest airplane events in the country last weekend, Dave Smith will bring out his two award-winning planes this Sunday for the annual Milaca Airport Fly-in Breakfast. Joining Smith's...

Public invited to fly-in breakfast * Wallowa County Cheiftain | The fourth annual Wallowa County Fly-in Breakfast, hosted by the Wallowa County Pilots Association and the Chief Joseph Flying Club, begins at 7 a.m. and also features free airplane rides to the first 25 people who sign up on-site. The event lasts ...

Palavas famous 60-year history of the Patrouille de France * Translated | ...Since then, the Patrol is the symbol of excellence and professionalism of the Air Force and the ambassador of the French aeronautics. Every summer for several years, Palavas-les-Flots is proud to welcome the iconic acrobatic training during the summer. Airshow August 8, from 13 h 25.

"East Wind" UCAP #361-india · Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | In this final UCAP Daily from OSH14, Jack and Jeb spend a few final minutes out on the grass beside Jeb's plane, recalling the events of this (mostly) great year at AirVenture 2014. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded August 4, 2014.

OSH14: Saturday August 2 - Cessna 195 Heading Home (CoolPix) · AirPigz | I spent some time out by 18/36 on Saturday morning watching a long string of wonderful aircraft taxi http://airpigz.com/blog/2014/8/7/osh14-saturday-august-2-cessna-195-heading-home-coolpix.htmlout and then takeoff on their way home. It was obvious that attendance at OSH14 was up dramatically in both people and airplanes, and that included a lot more aircraft still on the grounds Friday. But Saturday morning saw a lot of departures as people left the dream-like world of OSH to return to the real world...

A story that exemplifies the spirit of #osh14

RIAT 2014 · Let Let Let - Warplanes This year’s Royal International Air Tattoo – Fairford celebrated the 50th Display Season of the Royal Air Force – Red Arrows as well as the 40th anniversary of the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the Hawk jet trainer.The Lockheed Martin F35B Lightning ll Joint Strike Fighter was due to make its first...

CAF Warbird Ride Program, More Than Just a Flight · WarbirdsNews | When the CAF Dixie Wing travels to air shows, rides events and celebrations, our dedicated group of volunteers – mechanics, ground crew, pilots, ride sales and more – are lucky to hear some of the greatest stories of “why” someone wants to fly in our P-51 Mustang, SBD Dauntless or LT-6. Sometimes it’s a “bucket list” item after a long career of flying airliners, a log book entry for future bragging rights, a childhood dream or someone who last sat in one of these historic aircraft in their youth while serving their country 70 years previously. It’s the reason we volunteer. We...

B-24 nose gunner William Deary reunited with rare, airworthy Liberator heavy ... * The Kalamazoo Gazette | The B-24A that Deary toured is owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, a non-profit organization committed to preserving and displaying historic aircraft throughout the United States. The CAF, based in Texas, sends certain aircraft in their...

“I was sitting on top of a flying A-6” The story of a lucky Intruder crew member who survived a partial ejection from a KA-6D · The Aviationist | ...On that day, Lt. Mark Baden and Lt. Keith Gallagher, who were the pilot and the bombardier and navigator (BN) of the Intruder “Lizard 515”, experienced a very unusual incident: a partial ejection from the aircraft. Both the crew members released their accounts of the mishap to Approach Magazine in November 1991 and the full story is today reported on www.gallagher.com....

The story of the pilot who flew the North American X-15 experimental rocket aircraft at the edge of outer space · The Aviationist | ...The U.S. Air Force pilots who flew the X-15 to altitudes above 50 miles all received Astronaut Wings, but NASA decided not to give the same award to the civilian pilots who made the same achievement, a decision that caused controversy within the aerospace community as explained by John Anderson and Richard Passman in their book X-15 The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots who Ushered in the Space Age....

Happy Birthday To The Grumman TBF Avenger · WarbirdsNews By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC The Grumman TBF Avenger flew for the first time seventy-three years ago today. Grumman’s Avenger (built by General Motors / Eastern Aircraft as the TBM) was the most important American torpedo bomber of World War II. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor prompted Grumman officials to name their new aircraft the “Avenger” and it first saw combat during the Battle of Midway. Despite a...

Air Boss Debut Reaches Number One on iTunes Reality TV Charts * AviationPros.com | Los Angeles, CA – August 6, 2014 — FourPoints Television announced that its latest hit reality docuseries Air Boss reached number one on the iTunes Reality TV charts on Saturday, just hours after its online debut. Air Boss is a spinoff of FourPoints...

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