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Preview clip of National Aviation Heritage Invitational * NAHI / LiveAirShowTV | Here is our annual preview of the planes participating in the National Aviation Heritage Invitational during the Reno Air Races.  To date we have 30 planes entered.  (list will be mailed shortly)…..some are returning participants, and former winners. Two planes do stand out in the field. The first is the 1933 Lockheed Vega DL-1 Special.  It is the last Metal Vega of the ten that Lockheed Built.  The second is the Moss QED, Gee Bee Replica.  You probably saw this plane in Oshkosh.  It will be in Reno, and only eligible for the People's Choice Award, since it is replica, and not a restoration. Winners in each class, as well as the overall winner, receiving the Neil A. Armstrong Aviation Heritage Trophy will be handed out on Sunday morning, Sept. 14th.

Wisian to be airshow marshal at Heart of Texas Airshow · General Aviation News | WACO, Texas — The Heart Of Texas Airshow will take to the skies Saturday, Sept. 27, at Texas State Technical College airport. Serving as air show marshal will be Major General Kenneth Wisian, the Deputy Adjutant General-Air for Texas and Commander of the Texas Air National Guard....

Warbirds Over Tulsa set for takeoff this weekend - Tulsa World | The monumental tapestry triptych by Marc Chagall, hanging in the State Hall of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, hints at some of the artist's own memories, including from his childhood in Vitebsk, Russia. But these float among images of Jewish history: of Moses with his tablets, of David with his harp. Images of wandering and vulnerability: a village burned, a dead body surrounded by six candles, standing in for 6 million. Images of return and security: pioneers, soldiers and a new flag among the nations.

20 aerobatic shots from the 2014 Air Show in Toronto * blogTO (blog) | toronto air show The 65th running of the Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) on Toronto's waterfront featured a selection of military and civilian aircraft taking to the skies to perform for the crowds at the Canadian National Exhibition, but, as...

Plenty of planning goes into Selfridge's Open House and Air Show - The Macomb Daily | Any military operation takes tim to plan but an open house and air show can take years. Just ask Maj. Todd Wasilewski. He’s the air operations director for the Open House and Air Show at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Sept. 6 and 7. Wasilewski works in the standardization and evaluation office, where his primary duty is that of a KC-135 Stratotanker instructor pilot. He’s been at Selfridge for 13 years, five of them flying the KC-130...

Women in Aviation: Misty Blues to set the stage for air show - The Macomb Daily | Misty Blues, an eight-member, all female skydiving team has the honor of opening the 2014 Open House and Air Show at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Sept. 6-7....

Barack Obama 'to land at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Air Force One ... - Gloucestershire Echo | ...Rumours abound that the President of the United States will enter the UK at RAF Fairford, flying in on the presidential Jumbo Jet Air Force One. Already several aircraft from an elite US marines unit, which are used to support presidential movement have been deployed to the Gloucestershire air base from their home base in Quantico, Virginia. And they have created much excitement in south Wales by flying what are understood to be familiarisation missions from Fairford to Cardiff and Newport and back again....

A rare stop - Lakeland Times | For Morgan Shepard, Aug. 25, 2014 will be a date he won’t soon forget. That was the day the young man from Rhinelander went for his first ride of any sort in any type of aircraft. On this day, it would be no ordinary aircraft. “Oh wow, that was fantastic!” the 22-year-old Morgan said after that ride....

FAA 'Hangar Rule' Would Hurt Historic Warbird Preservation - Jalopnik | The Federal Aviation Administration is currently seeking comments on a proposed "hangar rule" which seeks to restrict the use of hangars on airport property for the storage and maintenance of flyable aircraft. However, the nation's largest keeper of vintage planes would be put in jeopardy by the proposal....

US Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane passes 600 days in orbit - Fox News | The U.S. Air Force's mysterious unmanned space plane has winged beyond 600 days in orbit on a classified military mission that seems to have no end. The X-37B space plane is carrying out the Orbital Test Vehicle-3 (OTV-3) mission, a long-duration cruise that marks the third flight for the unpiloted Air Force spaceflight program....

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