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Video: Thousands gather to watch Blue Angels in SF * ABC | It was another gorgeous day for the second Fleet Week air show, featuring the Blue Angels. Thousands of families poured into San Francisco to watch the aerial acrobatics and admire the heart stopping twists and turns on Sunday...

Flying on the Blue Angels' 'Fat Albert Airlines' at SF's Fleet Week * cnet | It's Fleet Week in San Francisco, and though the ships and sailors enliven the town, the star of the show is always the Blue Angels. If you've ever watched these daredevil fliers, you know they put on quite a show, flying their F/A-18s within feet of each other as they roar over the city...

Wings and Waves air show wraps up in Volusia County * News 13 | Vintage airplanes and thundering jets are pumping big bucks into the Daytona Beach area. Jaques Chester brought took his two daughters to Daytona Beach for surf and sand, but what flew over them during the day was a surprise he kept from them on the drive to the coast...

Daytona air show draws crowd * news-journal | John Johnson could look out the window and see the planes twirling and tumbling above the Atlantic Ocean. The president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University had a glass of lemonade on the table in front of him and Sunday afternoon his conversations were often interrupted by a tap on the shoulder from people passing by who wanted to say “Thank you” or “Hello.”...

Video: Watsonville fly-in and airshow closes the weekend * KSBW | In it's 50th anniversary, the Watsonville Fly-in and Airshow wowed crowds with aerobatics and WWII era planes.

Join the U.S. Army “Golden Knights” parachute team on a night skydive * The Aviationist | Nicknamed and commonly known as the Golden Knights, the United States Army Parachute Team, is a demonstration and competition parachute team which conduct parachute demos across the U.S. and, occasionally, abroad...

15th annual Culpeper County AirFest held at airport on Beverly Ford Rd. * Star Exponent | Spirits and hopes ran high at the annual Culpeper County AirFest Saturday morning as clouds and an intermittent drizzling rain hung over the event for the second consecutive year...

Special Guests Come to Rockford for Air Camp * My stateline | Boy scouts had a chance to check out planes and learn all about aviation. The Blackhawk Area Council hosted the third Air Camp at the Chicago-Rockford International Airport. They were especially excited to host the Tuskegee Airmen...

YOUR PHOTOS: Potomac Flight soars to honor veterans * Inside Nova

WWII Planes Fly Over National Cemetery, Pentagon * NBC | Twenty four World War II vintage aircraft flew over the DC area Sunday in tribute of Disabled American Veterans. The flight originated from the Culpeper Air Fest and traveled over the Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon. The planes were T-6 Texan aircraft, used to train pilots during World War II...

Chambliss lives a lifestyle full of adrenaline * Las Vegas Review Journal | Kirby Chambliss stands 11th in points among the 12 adrenaline junkies who will race airplanes through pylons at speeds approaching 230 mph today in Round 7 of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. So it hasn’t been the greatest of years for one of the world’s foremost air racers. He did, however, recently go off into the wild blue yonder with Amelia Earhart as his co-pilot...

Zhuhai Air Show to exhibit 120 aircraft from around the world * Want China Times | ...As is customary, the J-10 fighters of the August 1st aerobatic team will perform during the air show, however, this is the first time a female pilot of the People's Liberation Army Air Force will fly with the team during the air show. The Black Eagles aerobatic team of the South Korean air force was invited to join the show with its T-50 trainers as well, according to the paper. The T-50 Golden Eagle is a trainer produced by the Korea Aerospace Industries based in Sacheon...

Fly-in at Meriden Markham Airport on Saturday * By Lauren Sievert Record-Journal staff  | Meriden- Markham Airport will host its first fly-in Saturday, featuring planes and helicopters. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Constance Castillo, airport manger, said it is the first of its kind for the Meriden airport and differs from the air shows of the past...

Red Arrows 'should replace their ageing British-made Hawk jets with second hand American planes' * Daily Mail | The Red Arrows should replace their ageing British made jets with second hand American built planes, a senior RAF officer has suggested. The aerobatic display team currently fly the Hawk T1 jet, which is due to go out of service in 2020...

March Field Air Museum flying high with upgrades * Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | There have been quite a few changes to March Field Air Museum in Riverside since I first went there a decade and a half ago, including a few since my last visit a couple of years ago...

Search for Warbirds in India by WarbirdsNews |  Accordingly to several news reports coming from India, a group of researchers has identified sites in Loktak lake, near Manipur, India where two Japanese Ki-43 fighter aircraft and a British Wellington bomber came to rest following a dogfight on June 17th, 1944. After getting official records from the Burma Campaign Society based in London...

Avro Lancaster 1941 onwards All marks by travelforaircraft | Cotter's authorship of this beloved aircraft lives up to the Lancaster's reputation. Another of the Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual series this book includes what has become expected from this excellent series. History and design of the Avro Lancaster is addressed and quite well. The heart of the book is operating a Lancaster (the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight or BBMF) as well as the maintenance and costs — all are quite enlightening...

Farman F40 F-AHMF * Passion for aviation (translated) | The aircraft in the foreground is the Farman F.40 (F-AHMF) aircraft designed as an observation aircraft by Maurice and Henry Farman at the request of the Air Force in 1915 and served very often after war make "First flight"...

1st flight to Reunion by Marcel Goulette * Passion for aviation (translated) | From 17 to 27 Oc t ober 1929, Maurice Goulette, R ené Marchesseau and Jean Michel Bourgeois established a record on its lia i Paris (Le Bourget) -Madagascar (Antananarivo) aboard Farman 192 No. 3 (F-AJBB) by browsing 12400km in 1 0 days 8 hours and 4 min 0...

NASA technology helps remote Alaskan pilots * General Aviation News | WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA has formally delivered to Alaskan officials a new technology that could help pilots flying over the vast wilderness expanses of the northern-most state. The technology is designed to help pilots make better flight decisions, especially when disconnected from the Internet, telephone, flight services and other data sources normally used by pilots...

Young Eagles Take To The Sky * Payson Roundup | On Saturday, Oct. 4, a group of dedicated Payson pilots hosted a Young Eagles flight day at the Payson Airport...

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