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Oceana Air Show bigger and better than ever * WVEC.com | If you're planning to go, be aware that London Bridge Road will be closed between Central Drive and International Parkway for the NAS Oceana Air Show from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm on Thursday, September 18, 2014, and 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm daily on Friday,...

Annual air show takes to Sonoma County skies * Santa Rosa Press Democrat | It takes off vertically like a helicopter, then tilts its rotor blades to fly like a plane. Pilots do get equal billing ... Aaron is the only civilian-licensed pilot to fly an aerobatic routine in a helicopter, including back flips and 360-degree...

Oregon International Air Show 2014: Canadian Forces Snowbirds to perform for ... * The Oregonian - OregonLive.com | And for the first time since 1993, they'll perform at the Oregon International Air Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Hillsboro Airport. The performance will be one of only five in the U.S. this year, as most of the Snowbirds' 30-plus shows a year are...

World War II training aircraft scheduled to be on display for fly-in * Terrell Tribune | It was March 10, 2013, when No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum Board President Don Thurman announced the museum would be getting an AT-6 Texan — albeit in pieces. Eighteen months later, the museum's AT-6 is nearing completion. It may not...

Fly-in touches down at local airport * Maryville Daily Forum | Aircraft enthusiasts from across the region winged their way to the Northwest Missouri Regional Airport west of Maryville Sunday for the second annual fly-in hosted by the Hawk Road Fliers, a local aviation club. While most of planes cruising out of...

The Patrouille de France attracts the crowd at the rally Somme 14-18 * Translated | Yes, Saturday, Sept. 13, peak caps, the ring road, adjacent to highways, to Amiens station, was the result of the delivery of the Patrouille de France to 16 hours. The PAF is not Sunday, September 14 but the meeting will certainly air with pilots who pamper their horses for hours to a few minutes of acrobatics....

“Best Little Air Show in the World” Returns in October * MyArkLaMiss | This year's Air Show will benefit the Warrior Bonfire Project, which was founded in 2013 by Daniel K. Fordice III. The Warrior Bonfire Project “provides opportunities that improve the lives of combat wounded veterans on their lifelong journey of...

Golden Age Air Museum hosts Barnstormers Day and open house * Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers | Not only were the attendees treated to presentations, fly-bys, aerial competitions, World War II aircraft flight, radio controlled aircrafts, antique autos, live music, comedy and action, but also the chance to go up into the sky in Golden Age Air...

Report: Wing parts fell before Reno Air Race crash * MyNews4 | ...Preliminary findings released by the National Transportation Safety Board say portions of the right wing separated from the Backovich GP-5 before it crashed in a more than half-mile long debris path in a remote part of the Stead Airport race course....

Jumping into Football Games at Belle Vernon High School and the University of Pennsylvania · U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Gold Team spent the weekend in the great state of Pennsylvania where they were able to perform for Bell Vernon High School and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The team worked with local recruiters, as well as the schools academic professionals, to carry out two great shows. Before the game began on Friday, a few members of the Gold Demonstration Team linked up with the....

You can fly on a combat-scarred Vietnam icon * CNN International | The flight crew on this March Saturday are from the nonprofit Army Aviation Heritage Foundation in Hampton, Georgia. They volunteer countless hours to restore and maintain Army helicopters from the Vietnam era and then take them to air shows across the...

How an Israeli F-15 Eagle managed to land with one wing · The Aviationist | The legendary Eagle is also a very robust aircraft, that can survive some serious damages. As shown by a very well-known incident which occurred in 1983, in the skies over Nahal Tzin in the Negev desert, in Israel, during a mock aerial combat between two Israeli Air Force F-15Ds and four A-4Ns, when one of the Eagles, the F-15D #957 nicknamed ‘Markia Shchakim’, 5 killmarks, used for conversion of a new pilot named Zivi Nedivi, collided mid-air with one of the Skyhawks. As explained in No Wing F-15, an interesting piece written by...

Coast Guard Announces WWII Coast Guard Grumman Duck crash Site Located After 70 years · Warbirds News | The Defense Department’s Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command recently announced that they have determined the location, beyond reasonable doubt, for one of their missing aircraft from WWII. The US Coast Guard Grumman J2F-4 Duck disappeared with its three man crew over Greenland on November 9th, 1942. The exhaustive search by an expedition team of...

World War II history: B-17 Memphis Belle visiting NC * Durham Herald Sun | Oscar Smith, 95, of Burlington tours The Movie "Memphis Belle, " a B-17 bomber, at the Raleigh Executive Jetport at Sanford-Lee County on Monday, September 15, 2014 in Sanford. The restored WWII B-17 "flying fortress" bomber was used in the 1990 film,...

Yankee Air Museum to host Behind the Scenes tour Sept. 27 * Heritage Newspapers | Before the tour concludes, guests will have the option to see flyable aircraft including the B-17 Yankee Lady and the B-25 Yankee Warrior. The B--17, a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft, secured itself as an effective weapons system by dropping more...

B-17 takes flight in Tri-Cities * WCYB | That's why the Commemorative Air Force has brought the old bird to our region. "The theme of the Commemorative Air Force is "keep them flying." In other words keep the heritage, keep the history going and show people what these airplanes did during...

Yankee Air Museum to host Behind the Scenes tour Sept. 27 * Heritage Newspapers | Yankee Air Museum to host Behind the Scenes tour Sept. 27. Published: Monday, September 15, 2014. The Yankee Air Museum is hosting a Behind The Scenes day Sept. 27. The free event will give 120 people the chance to tour the museum, workshops and...

Video of DC-10 Supertanker’s fire retardant drop on a mountain · The Aviationist