Thursday, September 11, 2014

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2014 Reno Air Races - Wednesday Report * LiveAirShowTV | It's the final day of qualification for all classes at the 51st Reno National Championship Air Show! See what happened today, and what's planned for the weekend! Live coverage begins Friday morning at 8:00am PDT! #RaceOn

Warbirds over the Rockies 2014: Sept. 12-14 - 9NEWS.com | Warbirds Over The Rockies air show is coming to Arvada, from Sept. 12 - 14.  It will be held at the Arvada Associated Modelers field on Highway 93, just north of Golden. It features a 750 foot runway with 100 foot over runs on each end and 250 acres of fly over space.  The banquet will be held at the Wings Over The Rockies Air and Space Museum, a Colorado tourist attraction that features various aircraft such as F-84, F-86, F-100, F4, B1 and B-52 parked outside. The event officially begins Friday morning....

Jennifer Franciotti takes flight with Blue Angels * WBAL | "Wow" doesn't even begin to describe http://www.wbaltv.com/news/jennifer-franciotti-takes-flight-with-blue-angels/27990492#ixzz3D0P7e1lqwhat it's like to fly with the Blue Angels.

Star-Spangled Spectacular Air Show  | The Star-Spangled Air Show features high-precision aviation acts from the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and others over a two hour period between 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. on September 13 and 14....

World War II vets fly for free at this year's Ruidoso Mountain High Fly In - Ruidoso News | The sixth annual Ruidoso Mountain High Fly In and Pine Top Car Show will fire up its engines for the public on Saturday with a line up of exciting exhibitions, events and static displays that will usher visitors on a sentimental journey through time....

Strategic Air & Space Museum's remembrance service, art exhibit will honor ... - Omaha World-Herald | The Strategic Air & Space Museum will hold a special remembrance service and art exhibit Saturday to honor those who died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as our nation’s veterans. The program is called “Remembrance” and will feature a talk by Alfred Buckles, who was director of operations and logistics at the U.S. Strategic Command — which is based at Offutt Air Force Base — on the day of the attacks....

New Century AirCenter to host WWII Warbirds and Veterans * GardnerEDGE | JOHNSON COUNTY, KAN. – (Sept. 10, 2014) This weekend the New Century AirCenter will serve as the site for a welcome back celebration for a unique World War II Bomber. The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Heart of America Wing will host Air Expo...

Mayor Ed Lee Announces Return of The Blue Angels To Fleet Week 2014 - CBS Local | SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – During his daily announcements on Wednesday, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) confirmed the return of the Blue Angels to 2014’s Fleet Week celebrations in early October.....

Plymouth Aero Club getting ready to host air show * Wicked Local | Hosted by the Plymouth Aero Club, the air show will feature Mike Goulian, who will perform in his Extra 330SC, an aerobatic monoplane. The show also will include rides in helicopters, airplanes and the RE/MAX hot-air balloon. Many aircraft will be on...

VIDEO: Red Arrows wow Stratford at the royal Invictus Games - London24 | The Red Arrows kicked off the sporting event which celebrates the achievements of servicemen and women who have been injured in the line of duty - and gone on to become sporting heroes as well as war heroes....

Bombing run, making memories - Richfield Reaper | ...However, his chance to fly in a WWII bomber came Monday when he rode seated behind the pilot of the Maid in the Shade, a B-25. The B-25 is perhaps best known for its role in the Tokyo Raid following the attack on Pearl Harbor...

B-25 bomber production started 75 years ago - seattlepi.com (blog) | North American started producing what became one of the most successful bombers of World War II 75 years ago, on Sept. 10, 1939. The B-25 Mitchell twin-engine, medium-attack bomber "was perhaps the most versatile aircraft of the war," according to a writeup from Boeing, which later subsumed North American. "It became the most heavily armed airplane in the world, was used for high- and low-level bombing, strafing, photoreconnaissance, submarine patrol and even as a fighter."... 

29-year Army aviator lives for 'being in game' - The Fort Hood Sentinel | ...For the 29-year Army veteran, advising in Afghanistan comes naturally, since he wrote the book on it. During his last deployment, which ended only about four months before his current one, McClellan wrote the aviation procedure guide for Afghanistan while assigned to International Security Assistance Force Joint Command....

National Park Service continues historic preservation at Pearson Air Museum - The Reflector | As part of its historic preservation mission, the National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site has announced the initiation of two major painting projects at the national park’s Pearson Air Museum & Jack Murdock Aviation Center. Through these projects the exterior of the national park’s main Pearson Air Museum hangar facility will be repainted, along with the west façade of the air museum’s Historic Hangar....

Gathering of Eagles Raises More Than $2 Million in Support of EAA Youth ... * AviationPros.com | The Gathering of Eagles was held at the EAA AirVenture Museum in conjunction with the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in. In previous years, the event has drawn such personalities as actors Harrison Ford, John Travolta and Morgan Freeman, sports...

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