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Crowd-pleasing freestyle wraps up U.S. Aerobatics * Herald Democrat | Throughout the week, pilots from across the nation flew into Denison’s North Texas Regional Airport — Perrin Field to compete in the 2014 U.S. National Aerobatic Championships. Competition concluded on Friday with the events highlight attraction as seven of the top pilots competed in the four-minute freestyle contest...

The Blue Angels dazzle during air show demos - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | If spontaneous involuntary reaction is any measure of success, the Blue Angels flight demonstration at the Wings Over the Pacific air show on Saturday was a squeal-certified hit...

Warbirds grab spotlight at Salinas air show * The acrobats were in the sky at Saturday's California International Airshow, but the warriors were on the tarmac at Salinas Municipal Airport, where throngs of people lined the barriers to gawk at the planes that helped keep the civilized world free during World War II and the Korean War...

Sometimes..... TVR Photography | From the SalinasAirshow Ca-International this weekend

Photo gallery: Air Show 2014 * Record-Searchlight | The Canadian Snowbirds fly overhead at Air Show 2014 on Saturday at the Redding Municipal Airport. Hung T. Vu/Special to the Record Searchlight. Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,...

Public gets inside look at planes during Jefferson Fly-In - Marshall News Messenger | Everyone said the weather was perfect on Saturday for planes to have a proverbial “fashion” show at the 9th annual Jefferson Fly-In. Planes from every year, every style and every color were on display at the yearly event that gives pilots the chance to land at the Cypress River Airport and interact with their peers and locals...

[SLIDESHOW] Red Arrows display air supremacy - MaltaToday | The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, commonly known as the ‘Red Arrows’, are the public face of the Royal Air Force and one of the world’s premier aerobatic teams, supporting British interests overseas by contributing to defence diplomacy efforts...

Video: Airshow continues to thrill - Times of Malta | Air Malta’s formation flypast with the RAF Red Arrows was today’s highlight for the thousands who again visited the Malta International Airshow...

The 500-mph History of America’s Highest-Flying Sport By Jan Tegler | On September 15, spectators at the 51st National Championship Air Race in Reno, Nevada witnessed a gut-wrenching photo finish. But their thrills were outclassed by the tension Steve Hinton Jr. endured in the cockpit as he went head to head with Bill “Tiger” Destefani, his former mentor. Thousands came to their feet and roared as two of air racing’s fastest, most highly-modified P-51 Mustangs screamed past the home pylon at 500 mph in the closest race at Reno in more than two decades. As the pilots pulled their racers skyward, up and off the race course, neither was sure who had won. Below, the thousands in the stands continued their howled excitement...

In memoriam: Werner Franz of the Hindenburg * Bayou Renaissance Man | I note in the Telegraph's obituary column that Werner Franz, the last survivor of the crew of the Hindenburg airship, died recently....

Adventures in Oshkosh * Beloit Daily News | A replica of the 1903 Wright “Flyer” is on site, as is a 1912 Curtiss A-1 Pusher, 1928 Waco 10 'Taperwing' and 1931 Laird “Super Solution” air racing plane, among many others. Inside the Eagle Hangar, a North American B-25 Mitchell, designed in 1939,...

Take a ride in a 1929 Ford Tri-motor * Theadanews | ... by EAA staff, volunteers, and with assistance from Ford Tri-Motor operators nationwide, the old Tri-Motor once again took to the air. Its official re-debut was at the 1985 EAA Fly-In Convention in Oshkosh. It was displayed in the AirVenture Museum...

FIGHTER TOWN USA, TOP GUN at NAS Miramar · Peter Boschert, Photorecon.net | Top Gun was founded on 03rd March 1969 to train pilots air tactics to encounter the bad results of the fighter pilots in the Vietnam war. For the first time, the so called dissimilar air combat training (DACT) was introduced, in which the American pilots didn’t fight against the similar plane they were flying themselves but against different, often smaller aircraft like they were used by the Soviet Union. The course lasted in the beginning four weeks, later it was extended to five weeks. The crews of the F-4 Phantom II fought at Top Gun against the A-4 Skyhawk (simulating subsonic aircraft) and the F-4E Tiger II, which was simulating supersonic aircraft. The first commander of Top Gun was Ron “Mug” McKeown. The courses were manned mostly by pilots of the “front-line-squadrons”, who should give their knowledge of the course afterwards to their squadrons...

Pilot, boy die as 2 small planes from Young Eagles rally collide * Buffalo News | The Experimental Aircraft Association says both planes were flying as part of a Young Eagles rally out of the Buffalo Lancaster airport today. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the pilot and passenger involved in the mishap,” the...

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