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Blue Angels talk to students about their experiences * Baltimore Sun | Students from Dundalk and Sollers Point high schools had dozens of predictable questions for Blue Angels pilot Lt. Mark Tedrow, who is in town for the Star-Spangled Spectacular, a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the writing of the national anthem.

Video: Thunderbirds to headline Altus AFB open house * KSWO | ALTUS, Okla._ The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will headline the Wings of Freedom Open House on Saturday. There will be seven different aerial shows and more than 20 aircraft on display. The Thunderbirds will likely steal the show, although Altus Air Force Base officials are not releasing the exact time they'll perform...

Snowbirds visit Timmins PHOTOS * Timmins Times | The popular Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds, aerobatics demonstration team dropped in at the Timmins Victor M. Power Airport for a couple of hours Friday. The reason was simple enough; they needed fuel. The 'Birds, which performed just two days ago...

EAA - Our friends at iFlytheAirShow are offering live air-to-ground streaming from the Reno Air Race Association's National Championship Air Races! We saw a couple of demos of this technology at Oshkosh - it looks pretty cool!

Leap Frogs hop over to Clifton Park students * WBAL Baltimore | On Friday, U.S. Navy sailors from the USS Constitution and the USS Maryland visited with students in Clifton Park and the Leap Frogs made a special appearance. A C-130 circled the Clifton Park Campus as hundreds of students waited for the arrival of...

World War II B-17 visiting Capital City Airport * The Patriot-News | The Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 122 is hosting the EAA's restored B-17G Flying Fortress "Aluminum Overcast" at Capital City Airport in Fairview Township, York County. The B-17 is available for walk-through tours and flights from 9 a.m.-5...

Gaining Altitude: The Mosquito Reborn · WarbirdsNews | WarbirdsNews likes to support worthy projects when we find them, and we’ve come across one such effort by a team of film makers who’ve spent the past five years documenting the rebirth of an original deHavilland Mosquito in a small hangar in Victoria, British Columbia. We’ve all seen the fruits borne from the love and care Victoria Air Maintenance lavished upon this aircraft; Mosquito B.35 serial VR796. However, the company was unable to share much of what they were doing with the public due to agreements with the aircraft’s owner, Bob Jens. Such secrecy is a part of the modern warbird restoration world, and as frustrating as that can sometimes be to the rest of us hungry for information, it’s completely understandable at the same time. Now that VR796 has flown, and taken part in her first appearance this summer at the Abbotsford International Air Show, more of the story of her restoration can come out...

Air show: NY Guard sending C-17 to South Africa * AirForceTimes.com | NEWBURGH, N.Y. A C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane operated by the New York Air National Guard is heading to South Africa to participate in an air show. The Air National Guard announced the trip Thursday. The plane will carry 13 members of the U.S....

Voices of Valor - Leo Kuehl | An interview with World War II Veteran, Leo Kuehl of Clarkfield, Minnesota, at Fagen Fighters WWII Museum during the 70th Anniversary of D-Day event on June 6, 2014.

"Replicant" UCAP #364 * Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Welcoming back Dave Higdon who missed Oshkosh... A sorta-replica Wright Flyer is being built... One last look back at OSH14... An OFLOTW on a narrow street... FAA Shenanigans... A mysterious F-15 crash... All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast.

The First Arctic Flight—in 1914 * Air & Space Magazine | A little-known Polish aviator got there more than a decade before Byrd and Amundsen. By Tony Reichhardt. airspacemag.com 21 minutes ago. Aviation's first decade coincided with another great adventure—a race, almost a frenzy, to reach the poles of the...

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