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Flying high on the way to Selfridge Open House and Air Show - Detroit Free Press | John Klatt Airshows will be performing at the Selfridge Open House and Air Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. Lt. Col. John Klatt will fly the Air National Guard MXS aircraft both days, providing entertainment through precision performance aerobatics....

Video: Detroit's DeKeyser flies with the Blue Angels - NBCSports.com | Detroit Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser jumped on a unique opportunity on Tuesday, as he flew in a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet jet at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in southeast Michigan. He raved about the experience to MLive.com … and not just because he didn’t need to use one of the barf bags he brought with him. “It was awesome,” DeKeyser told MLive.com moments after flying with the Blue Angels. “I’m still feeling a little woozy right now. I’ve never experienced anything like that.”...

Thunder Over Santa Maria * U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Last weekend our team traveled to the west coast and arrived in Santa Maria, CA for the 26th Annual Thunder Over the Valley Air Show. The Santa Maria community spent the past nine years requesting the presence of the US Army Golden Knights for their air show lineup....

Atlantic City, NJ Thunder over the Boardwalk Air Show 2014 · Daniel O. Myers, Photorecon.net | This year’s show kicked off with its fourth annual Monday evening boardwalk parade and salute to America’s Veterans. A Charlie Daniels beach concert and laser-light show followed the parade. The Wednesday air show opened with the traditional fly-by of banner-towing planes. For regular shore goers, these planes are a familiar sight as they regularly fly up and down the beach advertising local businesses. Unfortunately, early clouds prevented the U.S. Army Golden Knights from picking up their ground target forcing them to cancel their show-opening jump to the National Anthem. However, the skies did clear later in the afternoon for their mass exit....

Reno-bound racing plane damaged in Vinton runway mishap By Dean Close | A biplane racer who won a major event at last year's Nationals in Reno, Nevada, saw his hopes for victory again this year dashed after a runway mishap at the Vinton airport Wednesday. Brett Schuck of Elkhart, Ind., made a fuel stop in Vinton as he attempted to complete the 1,766.33 mile flight from his home town to the race site...

Two WWII P-38 Pilots to Speak at Planes of Fame Air Musuem · WarbirdsNews | The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California will be presenting its monthly Living History Event on September 6th. The event is open to the public of course. This month’s feature is titled the ‘Fork-Tailed Devil’, referencing the German nickname for the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Distinguished aviation experts, historians and actual P-38 Lightning veterans will make presentations to the audience, followed by a question & answer period and then the museum’s P-38 will make an aerial demonstration (weather and maintenance permitting). The two highly distinguished combat veteran speakers for the day will be Don Oldis and Lynn Shubert. At...

F1 Team Helping Build World's Fastest Electric Airplane | Flying Magazine | Electroflight showed off a mockup of its electric race plane recently at the Red Bull Air Races in Ascot, England. Williams Advanced Engineering will serve as technical lead for the airplane's electric motor and high-power structural battery system....

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