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Blue Angels return to headline weekend air show * WJXT Jacksonville | The Navy's daredevil fighter jet pilots, the Blue Angels, are back in town for this weekend's air show in Jacksonville. After canceling most of its shows last year due to federal budget cuts, the Blue Angels return to NAS Jacksonville, where the...
   
3 tough guys test mettle in pre-airshow Blue Angel flights in Jacksonville * Florida Times-Union | The polished blue and gold paint of Blue Angel number 7 glistened in the Florida sunlight Wednesday on the runway at Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Three men, a 58-year-old philanthropist and ex-firefighter from North Carolina, a teacher and football...

Flying with the Thunderbirds was a thrill a minute * Fort Worth Star Telegram | As part of a preview for this weekend's Fort Worth Alliance Air Show, I was chosen to fly in the back seat of an F-16 Fighting Falcon with the Air Force Thunderbirds. I grew up with airplanes. My dad is a commercial airline pilot and owned a much...

Bonham hosts festival of flight air show * KXII-TV | The Blue Skies Parachute team will be dropping in for the opening ceremony, and aerobatic and military planes will put on a show for the crowd. Staci Murden, another organizer said she hope the event will spark the public's interest in flying. "When...

Copiah County Airport Celebrates New Runway With Nov. 1 Fly-In * Aero-News Network | First New Runway Constructed In Mississippi In More Than A Decade The first new runway constructed in more than a decade in the state of Mississippi will be unveiled at a celebratory ribbon cutting and aircraft fly-in at the Copiah County Airport (M11) on Saturday, November 1 at 10 a.m...

Blue Skies and Blue Angels Smile Upon Memphis Airshow * The Aero Experience | Last Friday, October 17, The Aero Experience was in Millington, TN for the 2014 Memphis Air Show rehearsal, (announcer, Danny Clisham corrected me when I referred to it as a practice show).  Photographers were allowed on the show grounds at 10 a.m., and that was the only down side of the day as I made the trip from Bonne Terre at 4 a.m. and arrived at 8 a.m. and had to wait. Once allowed onto the field, there was only an hour to photograph all the great acts participating in this year's show while they were on the ground. The weather was...

World War II airmen fly again in storied B-29 * Monterey County Herald | A B-29 bomber, passes over the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain as it flies from Baton Rouge, La., en route to New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. The bomber will spend the weekend at the WWII AirPower Expo put on by the Commemorative Air Force and...

Antique Airplane Association Fly-In Part of Northern Midwest Road Trip * The Aero Experience | Fellow The Aero Experience Contributor Fred Harl and I made a Labor Day road trip to Iowa to visit the Mt. Pleasant Thresher Reunion (fascinating but no aircraft!) and the Antique Airplane Association Fly-In at the Airpower Museum near Blakesburg, Iowa.  We spent Friday at the AAA Fly In and later realized we were there for what turned out to be the best day of the weekend.  Weather through lower Iowa was quite wet that week with Thursday seeing over 3" of rain falling on the airfield, not a good thing considering the use of grass runways.  Friday morning provided clear skies and great weather until later in the afternoon when the skies darkened off to the southwest and clouds started crowding into the area...

Timeless Voices - Flora Belle Reece · eaavideo.org | After graduating from high school in May 1942, Flora Belle Reece took flying lessons so she could get the 35 hours necessary to join the WASPs - Women Airforce Service Pilots. She did join the WASPs, graduating with Class 44-W-4.

Museum hosts special programs and events honoring aviation * Kansas.com | Twelve of Beech's air racing trophies will also be on display. The museum hours are are 11 a.m. through 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and, 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Cost is $5 for adults; and $2 for children ages 12 and under. The museum is...

Evolution of Area 51 UNLV Forum by Author T.D. Barnes · tdbarnes | Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Area 51 veteran and author T.D. Barnes presented the Evolution of Area 51 in the UNLV Barrick Museum Auditorium as part of the Fall 2014 Lecture Series sponsored by the UNLV College of Liberal Arts. Barnes’ presentation was well received by a standing room only crowd attending to hear Barnes, Former Executive Director, Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame and long-time president of Roadrunners Internationale, provide a declassified insider’s account of the genesis of the facility within Area 51, it accomplishments and how it became a...

Stunning Hornet Awesomeness! by Tyson Rininger | Hornet Ball 2014 is here! Special thanks to the creativity of Wingnuts! Now sit back and enjoy!

Youngsters fly with the Eagles | News | The Press & Stdnard * Collection Today | Lowcountry Regional Airport Operations Manager Roger Medlin coordinated and hosted the 477 Young Eagles program in which 11 children, ages 8-17, were escorted by six local pilots on a Young Eagles flight on Oct. 11. “The program is about raising...

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