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Video: Fleet Week Returns To Bay Area With Blue Angels, Ship Parade Following Year Of Budget Cuts * CBS SF Bay Area | SAN FRANCISCO  (CBS SF) — The San Francisco tradition celebrating military service that draws in tens of thousands of people to the waterfront returns to the Bay Area after missing a year due to federal budget cuts....

Melbourne Air & Space Show attracts about 250,000 * Click Orlando | MELBOURNE, Fla. - Organizers estimated the attendance for the Melbourne Air & Space Show to reach nearly 250,000 people, Local 6 news partner Florida Today reports. Organizer Bryan Lilley estimated Saturday's attendance at and near Melbourne International Airport at 100,000 people. He pegged Sunday's total in the neighborhood of 150,000 spectators, describing it as "a sea of people."...

Warbirds fly into Tehachapi By JACK BARNWELL Tehachapi News | Hundreds came out on a brisk Sept. 27 morning to watch WWII-era planes fly in to Tehachapi Airport. Weather delayed most of the expected planes coming in from other parts of California, but two classics managed to make their way from Van Nuys and Camarillo....

Great Georgia Airshow Line-up Set, Ready To Fly · WarbirdsNews | It’s going to be a weekend filled with breathtaking aerial stunts, roaring jet trucks, fireworks and activities for fun seekers of all ages. The Great Georgia Airshow (GGAS) will return to Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field, Peachtree City, GA, October 11-12, 2014 with a new line-up that promises to dazzle, entertain and inspire aviation enthusiasts and future aviators, engineers and scientists. The weekend will kick-off Saturday, Oct. 11th at 9am when the gates open to begin the day airshow. At 5pm on Saturday, the fun continues when the gates reopen for the second annual night show that includes a jet truck and fireworks...

Watsonville Fly-In & Airshow - SantaCruz.com | The 50th anniversary of the Watsonville Fly-In & Airshow is on October 10-12 at the Watsonville Municipal Airport. The festivities start on Friday when spectators can watch the weekend’s star players, the aircraft, “fly-in” to the airport all day until 4:30pm. On Friday evening, the airshow hosts a traditional Spaghetti dinner followed by a special screening of the Disney movie Planes starting at 7pm...

GATHERING OF EAGLES EVENT SET FOR OCTOBER 18 | EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Flight Test Historical Foundation will be hosting the Gathering of Eagles event, to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the USAF Test Pilot School (TPS). The event will take place on October 18th at the Pioneer Event Center in Lancaster, CA. Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m., followed by a panel discussion.  Community members are invited to attend this event, and to show their support and appreciation to our Nation’s aviators. Information for purchasing tickets is on the Air Force Flight Test Museum’s website http://EdwardsMuseum.org.  Complete info HERE.

AirSho leaves Midland, TX after 51st Annual show - EagleFordTexas.com | The AirSho moves from Midland, TX to its new home in Dallas, TX and it’s causing a slight upset. The executive director of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), Stephan Brown, has decided that after the AirSho on Saturday, October 12, it is time to move from Midland International to a new home in Dallas, TX.  High Sky Wing leader and AirSho chairwoman, Gena Linebarger, called the two-day celebration of warbirds “living history.”..

Crowd for air show down - messenger-inquirer | Chilly temperatures and brisk winds cut attendance at the third annual Owensboro Air Show by roughly one-third Saturday, Tim Ross, the city's director of public events, estimated Monday....

Lee Bottom Fly-In Review Part 4 - And Uncomfortably Honest Discussion * NORDO News | ... One thing we’ve long attempted to convey to those who come to the Lee Bottom Fly-In is that it isn’t being done for us.  The fly-in has always been about having an event for the “other people”.  They aren’t warbirds but they may love warbirds, they aren’t antiquers but they may love antiques.  They aren’t formation, light-sport, fat-tire, alphabet group, or general aviation either.  They are aviators.  Flying is their passion and the other titles are merely a reflection of that.  Not the other way around....

The Royal International Air Tattoo 2014 – A volunteer's perspective · Sarah Thornhill | THE RAF Fairford base, Gloucestershire, was founded in WW2 as an airbase for British and US forces to transport troops into occupied Normandy for D-Day. The US then continued to use Fairford throughout The Cold War, extending the runway to make it one of the largest in the world. Being just under two miles long it is one of the only places internationally where the NASA space shuttle could perform an emergency landing. Fairford was also chosen as the British test location for the Concorde. RAF use of the airfield is dwindling, the US made the B-2 spirit a regular visitor as well as U-2 bombers. However, most of the time the airfield is more or less unused as a working military airfield but there are exceptions: the world famous annual Air Tattoo...

Video: B-17 Bomber on Display * A piece of World War II history's been soaring above the mountains this weekend, and it's hard to miss the Memphis Belle. This is a restored model of the famous B-17, the original Belle piloted by local hero, Colonel Robert Morgan....

A brighter Yellow Rose - mySanAntonio.com | With flicks of a brush, Fernando Cortez breathed life into iconic art he created 33 years ago. Recently, he restored the luster to a blond beauty, adorning the nose of a B-25 Mitchell bomber named Yellow Rose, which was used as a trainer during World War II and still flies today...

In her father's flight path: Boom operator discovered air refueling at 15 * You Fly, Girl | In January 2005, the Repp family boarded a Hawaii-bound KC-135 Stratotanker to escape a bitter-cold winter at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington. Aboard that space-available flight, Danielle, the second of three Repp children, climbed up front, put on a headset and watched an air refueling mission for the first time. She was 15...

When Airliners Vanish * airspacemag | In the murky world of international aircraft deals, old airliners can end up on the dark side | Smithsonian Air & Space has published a followup on the theft of a B727 in Angola.   This new article explores how and why large airliners are able to vanish without drawing headlines.
   
Yale Aviation traces back to World War I * AOPA Pilot | “We have social gatherings, educational events, Young Eagles and Eagles flights, and a connection with the local high school's aviation club,” said Begemann. “We also do wash-and-wax gatherings twice a year, offer a private pilot support group, and an...

Home on the plane * ABC | ...My grandfather flew bombers over South East Asia during World War Two. On one mission, he landed a B25 Mitchell that had a bomb jammed in the release bay, the high-explosive dangling just inches above the runway as the aircraft ground to a halt....

Young Eagles Flight Rally scheduled for Oct. 18 * Tehachapi News | Area young people ages 8 through 17 will have a chance to take to the skies on Oct. 18, as Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 1000, in conjunction with the Tehachapi Socitey of pilots hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at the Tehachapi...

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