Airshow community honors its own - General Aviation News | The International Council of Air Shows (ICAS) and the ICAS Foundation recently honored several members of the airshow community for their contributions....
US Army Golden Knights - new photos 
Ilopango Air Show 2014 Opens in Capital of El Salvador - english.cri.cn | U.S. pilot Greg Shelton performs a stunt called Wing Walker, with Ashley Battle...
Airshow one of the best yet - SunLive | Threatening weather has failed to put a damper on the Classics of the Sky Tauranga City Airshow with organisers calling the weekend’s event one of the best yet...
Bahamas Habitat slates 14th fly-in - General Aviation News | Bahamas Habitat has slated its 14th Fly-In to Serve Others Feb. 20-23. “This is a great adventure,” says John Fielding of Virginia, a participant of four fly-ins. “That’s what first attracted me to it. It’s always fun, rewarding and challenging. It’s what you expect but in an unexpected way.”...
Hamilton Air Show featured on Ice Pilots episode - Hamilton Spectator | For fans of the Hamilton Air Show and History Channel's hit reality TV series Ice Pilots, the long awaited segment filmed over Father's Day weekend last June is finally here. Highlights of the episode that...
Airbus to fly A350 XWB at Singapore Air Show - ATWOnline | Airbus has confirmed it will take the A350 XWB to February’s Singapore Air Show, giving the new aircraft its first full display at an international air show. The flight test aircraft MSN3 will be at the show for the first two days, Feb. 11 and 13, when it will take part in the flying display on both days as well as be in the static display...
Wichita Aero Club gala brought some quotable moments - Kansas.com | Wichita Aero Club gala brought some quotable moments. Saturday's Wichita Aero Club gala drew a packed house as it honored Cessna Aircraft chairman emeritus Russ Meyer for Meyer's contributions to aviation. It also had a number of quotable moments.
Missing Man Flyover Arlington National Cemetery as seen from an F-15E Strike Eagle - The Aviationist | Four F-15E Strike Eagle attack planes from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base conducted a missing man formation flyover during a funeral in honor of retired pilot...
Mechanic helped keep Pacific war effort aloft - The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines | History’s spotlight usually misses the mechanics. Sure, there are reels of footage and stacks of photos of B-29 Superfortresses rumbling in formation across the Pacific sky, bombs dropping, fire and smoke rising in their wake. Books have been written and movies made about the heroic men who flew them into battle, who took the war to Japan.
Wyo. woman recovers class ring lost in WWII B-17 crash in South Pacific - Standard-Examiner | LANDER, Wyo. -- Betty McAleenan held her high school class ring last week for the first time in 71 years. It was returned to her in a small ceremony held at the American Legion Hall in Lander. Betty, "94 and a half" years old, last saw the ring when she gave it to her first husband, Army Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Greibel, before he deployed to the South Pacific in 1943...
Happy Birthday To The Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Warbirds News | By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | The Lockheed P-38 Lightning flew for the first time seventy-five years ago today. The twin-boomed P-38 was fast, heavily armed and extremely versatile. The P-38 was the first American fighter capable of flying faster than 400 miles per hour. Turbo-supercharged engines with boom-mounted radiators gave the Lightning superb high-altitude performance and the tricycle landing gear made engine maintenance easier for maintainers and helped to reduce accidents during take-off and landing. P-38 pilots...
Museum's restored shark-nosed fighter plane salutes exploits of Flying Tigers ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune | Adding to the P-40's scarcity is that after the war, enthusiasts snapped up surplus high-performance aircraft for air racing and private piloting. But the P-40 found little demand. Gutierrez estimated fewer than three dozen remain. The museum's P-40 ...
The Rathmines PBY 5A Catalina “Our Girl” – From Ebay to Australia · Warbirds News | So your wanting a PBY Catalina for a memorial display, do you just pop down to the local airport and hopefully find one on sale? No. You try Ebay and find one over 16,000km away to buy….. This is how the Australian based Rathmines Catalina Memorial Park Assoc Inc ended up with a static PBY-5A Catalina in early 2013 for its future museum where it intends to honor and recognize the heroism of the RAAF Catalina crews in WW2....
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Doc Restoration Nearing Completion - Aero-News Network | Its been a long time coming... but volunteers report that they have made significant progress restoring the Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Doc since work resumed on the project in 2013...
U-2 spyplane pilot wannabe? Be prepared to drive sport cars at top speeds - The Aviationist | The TU-2S is the two-seater version of the legendary U-2 Dragon Lady used to train pilots destined to fly the legendary spyplane. The U.S. Air Force operates five such planes, based at Beale Air Force Base, California, home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing...
Inspiring Children... - Flight To Success | Friday I spent the day at Nelson Middle School...
Monday, January 27, 2014
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Gilbert Buekenberghs receives ICAS award - airhows.org.uk | During the annual Convention of the International Council of Air Shows (www.airshows.aero), which was held in Las Vegas, Gilbert Buekenberghs received the ‘special achievement award’ from ICAS ‘ President Judy Wily. This prize is awarded to exceptional personalities from the airshow world for their special contribution. Gilbert Buekenberghs receives this award because of his commitment in turning the small International Sanicole Airshow into one of the main annual European Airshows and for bringing together participants, organisers and governmental bodies from...
Whitianga Warbirds and Wheels airshow - Waikato Times | The Whitianga airfield was buzzing with excitement - and the sound of numerous aircraft engines - on Saturday for the Warbirds and Wheels 
air show. Thousands descended on the venue where about 25 vintage military aircraft were on display...
Video: Open Hangar Day
The acrobatics of the Frecce sponsored by Fastweb - Translated | TRIESTE. In times of crisis even national pride should be sponsored. The fatal hour of private funding is taken yesterday for the Arrows tricolor, which will appear in the next month in a series of commercials as spokesperson for Fastweb. The telecom operator will be the first private sponsor in the history of the aerobatic team....
The Red Arrows: Meet the team behind the team - Lincolnshire Echo | The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, are world famous but little is known about the 100 strong team behind the 11 pilots. Rachael Cousins was invited to find out more. Squadron Leader Ruth Shackleton, 37, has been the team manager for the Red Arrows since September 2012. Ruth was the first female cadet in the College Combined Cadet Force....
Wings Over North Georgia Air Show Release Info - Coosa Valley News | JLC AirShow Management makes it official, the GEICO Skytypers and Smoke-n-Thunder Jet Car teams are returning in 2014 to perform at the Wings Over North Georgia air show on October 18-19, 2014 along with the USAF Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Squadron. The GEICO Skytypers are a squadron of six vintage World War II airplanes performing a low-level precision flight demonstration at air shows across the United States. The Smoke-n-Thunder Jet Car team celebrates their 30th year in the air show industry performing nationwide as the fastest jet dragster act accelerating from 0-400 MPH in 8.5 seconds...
What Future For The Evergreen Aviation Museum? · Warbirds News | The world-class air museum developed by Evergreen International Aviation founder Del Smith may be in for some painful losses in the wake of the apparent collapse of Smith’s network of for-profit operation.The McMinnville, Oregon, museum housing Howard Hughes’ mammoth H-4 Hercules (better known as the “Spruce Goose”) is facing financial scrutiny, and the ownership of the historic airplane is in question.First envisioned by Capt. Michael King Smith, son of Evergreen International Aviation founder Delford Smith, the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum is the realization of his dream. The museum began...
Christina Olds featured Jan 11 - Pacific Aviation Museum
Mercy Flight Southeast to raffle off flight in a P-51 · General Aviation News Staff | Stallion 51 is partnering with Mercy Flight Southeast to raffle off a chance to fly in the P-51 Mustang “Crazy Horse.” Mercy Flight Southeast’s network of 650 volunteer pilots provides free air transportation to life-saving medical appointments for people who otherwise could not get there. While pilots donate their airplanes, fuel and flight hours to complete more than 3,000 flights each year, the non-profit organization relies on donations and fundraising to pay for support services and to keep passengers and pilots in the air...
XP-82 Restoration December Update · Warbirds News | Another step closer towards the completion of the XP-82 TWIN MUSTANG #44-83887.Since January 2013 Tom and Weezie have been installing systems in the center section and both fuselages at a rapid pace. They started...
Drone from beneath the sea — reality beyond even Jules Verne’s imagination by travelforaircraft | The U.S. Navy, through the Naval Research Lab (NRL) has developed a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which can be launched from a submerged submarine. The Naval Research Lab (NRL) uses unfamiliar acronyms such as XFC UAS (eXperimental Fuel Cell Unmanned Aerial System) to describe the drone proper and Sea Robin for the launch system. It would be more convenient if the UAV was named Sea Robin but that is not the Navy way...
Watch this: amazing Post-Cold War low pass compilation - The Aviationist | The following video shows several low passes performed by aircraft in service with the Polish Air Force. Footage was shot at Biała Podlaska airbase (in eastern Poland, near the boundary with Belarus) and the datespan is 1990-1996...
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to base at Kennedy - Spaceports | A spy plane used by the U.S. Air Force is about to get a new home: a garage at Kennedy Space Center that once housed NASA orbiters during the space shuttle era. The move was announced Friday by Boeing, the Chicago-based company that built the X-37B spy plane and is in charge of repairing the spacecraft whenever it returns to Earth, writes Mark K. Matthews, at the Orlando Sentinel...
Saturday, December 7, 2013
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Rare Pearl Harbor warplane returning to U.S. - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | It was a workhorse for 
American and Allied air forces early in the war, and it was the same plane flown by the famed Flying Tigers, the name given to the American squadron that fought for China against Japan before American entered the war. The only ...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Pearl Harbor Attack Commemorated by Tora! Tora! Tora! Team - The Aero Experience | December 7, known in the United States as Pearl Harbor Day, presents another opportunity to pause and remember those who perished in the attack on U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other south Pacific military installations by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The importance of this event cannot be understated, as it brought the United States into World War II through direct attack on her territory and changed the course of history....
Some of the most interesting images of Pearl Harbor Attack · David Cenciotti | On Sunday Dec. 7, 1941, 72 years ago today, Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaii, causing the death of 2,402 Americans, wounding 1,282 others, sinking four warships and damaging many others....
Pearl Harbor Memorial 2013 - Vintage Wings of Canada
US Air Force Thunderbirds Release 2014 Schedule - Milcom Monitoring Post | The Thunderbirds have the privilege and responsibility to perform for people all around the world, displaying the pride, precision and professionalism of American Airmen. In every hour-long demonstration, the team combines years of training and experience with an attitude of excellence to showcase what the Air Force is all about....
Thunderbirds will soar over 2014 AFA graduation - Colorado Springs Gazette | The Thunderbirds will return to the skies over the Air Force Academy this spring for the class of 2014's graduation ceremony, officials announced Friday. The May 28 appearance will be the demonstration team's only one in Colorado. The team of F-16s was...
Cherry Point Air Show canceled amid budget pinch - Jacksonville Daily News | The Cherry Point Air Show will not get off the ground next year, according to the air station’s commander. Col. Chris Pappas III, commanding officer at Cherry Point, announced late Friday the cancellation of the biennial event, citing reductions in the base budget...
In pictures: Red Arrows tour of Middle East - BBC News | In pictures: Red Arrows tour of Middle East. Red Arrows flying over the Sheraton hotel in Doha The Red Arrows have completed a tour of the Middle East, which included displays in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar. Red Arrows performing in Kuwait...
'SKY FIESTA' 2013 - The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka | CAC's objectives are to celebrate the 101st year of Sri Lankan aviation industry, celebrate the World Civil Aviation day, gather all the aviation lovers in to a one place and enhance the Aviation subject and also their Ceylon Aviation Club etc. A large ...
Tusker Air Show Festival set to take flight December 14 - Capital FM Kenya | ... Flying School. The two day event, which is also part of the Kenya @ 50 celebrations is sponsored by Kenya Breweries 
Limited's (KBL) flagship brand Tusker Lager and hosted by the Aero Club of East Africa through its sports wing Aerosports Limited ...
In the reference Thunderbirds - Apache Roll (Translated) | Jacques and Luke went to Las Vegas to attend the International Council of Airshow (ICAS). This convention is held each year all the participants of airshows, they are organizers, drivers and commentators, but it is also an opportunity to meet patrols such as the Blue Angels, the Snowbirds including Thunderbirds, of again allowed to fly and our pilots were able to admire from training....
Unlimited air racer 'Furias' qual with crash landing, Reno 2012 - YouTube | This video is from 2012 when team Furias finished their several year resto/rebuild work and arrived on the ramp at Reno with this beautiful, freshly painted beast of an airplane. This was one of the most heavily modified super Sea Fury's to ever grace the ramp at Reno, she sported a...
Antique Airplane Association Celebrates Diamond Jubilee at Blakesburg Fly-In, Part Three - The Aero Experience By Fred Harl | The Antique Aircraft Association celebrated its Silver Jubilee at this year's Blakesburg Fly-In August 28-September 2. The Antique Aircraft Association, founded in 1953, now has over twenty chapters and maintains affiliations with many type clubs representing aircraft like those featured here. The Airpower Museum gas also been established to preserve the heritage of the Golden Age of Aviation for current and future generations to appreciate...
Stallion 51's Lee Lauderback inducted into EAA Warbird Hall of Fame · General Aviation News Staff | Lee Lauderback of Stallion 51 at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) in Florida, was recently inducted into the EAA Warbird Hall of Fame earlier this month. Lauderback, who has been flying since 1966, is president, CEO and founder of Stallion 51 Corp., regarded as a leader in Mustang flights and training. Lauderback has been the...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Bellanca Transitions Into the Modern Age - The Aero Experience | Visitors to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh may encounter nearly any major U.S. and many foreign-made civilian aircraft types, and the 2013 event fulfilled this expectation well. One unexpected find, a rare Bellanca T250 Aries (Model 51, number 3 of 4 produced), owned by Jim Rhoades of Livermore, California, was photographed by contributor Fred Harl as it taxied in the grass early in the week. However, that is just the beginning of our story....
Video Of The Reggiane Re.2000 “Falco” Recovery · Warbirds News | After just three days of planning in the afternoon of Wednesday, December 4, 2013 , the Company Micoperi proceeded to recover the wreckage of the fighter of the Regia Aeronautica Reggiane Re.2000 sank off Porto Venere (La Spezia – Italy) April 16, 1943.The aircraft , supported by a special frame was then placed on a barge , made ??available by the Italian Navy , for subsequent transfer to the base of Air Force logistic center Cadimare , where technicians of the Italian Air Force museum will immediately work ??the first steps of desalination. Here is the video of the recovery and interviews with the nephew of the pilot Luigi Guerrieri...
Flying through the glass ceiling: Saluting Britain's intrepid female aviators - The Independent | It's 
not just about tackling the physical challenges, or for the love of vintage aircraft – she's also celebrating and highlighting a pioneering female aviator. For Curtis-Taylor is not the first woman to make this journey; in 1928, Lady Mary Heath completed the task in the same kind of plane. She was the first pilot – male or female – to fly solo from Cape Town to Britain, a feat which attracted media interest around the world, much of it fascinated by the fact that it was a pair of delicate lady-hands on the controls....
Plane becomes canvas at Pima Air & Space Museum - Tuscon News Now | TUCSON (Tucson News Now) - It might not fly anymore, but an old plane is soaring with imagination. The Pima Air & Space Museum is unveiling of a Lockheed Jetstar used as a canvas by contemporary artist KennyScharf, entitled "Back To Supersonica." "Back to Supersonica" joins two other"Round Trip: Art from the Bone Yard Project" painted planes...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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Daredevils in the sky: Al Ain Aerobatic Show - Sport360° | The Al Ain Aerobatic Show winds up at 
the Al Ain International Airport today with one of the highlights of the three-day event. All eyes will be on the skies on National Day at 16:15 as an Etihad Airways A346 performs a fly past for visitors at the event...
Backseat Ride With Thunderbird 4 · Airboyd | Video by Staff Sgt. Jarid Watson USAF Air Demonstration Squadron “Thunderbirds” Backseat view from Thunderbird 4.
Warbird Radio LIVE! – Thunder Over Michigan Update & The Mystery Pilot Revealed – Ep527 | We’re on location for day one of the International Council of Air Shows annual convention at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kevin Walsh from Thunder of Michigan stopped by to share some news about their upcoming show in 2014. Kevin says the big event will be a tribute to WWII but “mums the word” […]
Airshow Performer John Mohr Quietly Retires from Airshow Circuit - The Aero Experience | Stearman pilot extraordinaire John Mohr, veteran of Midwest Airshows, is reportedly retiring from the airshow circuit. Mohr, winner of the Bill Barber and ICAS Art Scholl Memorial Showmanship Awards, has devoted 25 years to thrilling audiences and spreading the joy of aviation. His ability to...
ICAS 2013 Opening Reception· Steve Tupper, Airspeed Online | The 2013 International Council of Air Shows (“ICAS”) Convention kicks off ... The highlight of the reception was John Klatt’s 
unveiling of the Screamin’ Sasquatch, a 1929 Taperwing Waco. It has a Pratt & Whitney 985 radial engine on the nose, but the real kicker is the CJ610 (J-85) jet engine mounted on the underside. Jimmy Franklin first flew a jet Waco in 1999. The unveiling here at ICAS featured the Jack Links Sasquatch himself posing for pictures....
Old Saint Nick to perform fly-in - Morganton News Herald | Foothills Regional Airport of Morganton-Lenoir invites families and friends throughout the area to participate in the annual Santa Fly-In event on Dec. 7, in which children will have an opportunity to meet Santa Claus and enjoy an educational experience...
EAA Founder Paul Poberezny - Airplanes Channel | As the founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Wisconsinite Paul Poberezny spent 70 years encouraging thousands of amateur pilots to design, build and fly their own aircraft, having fought for federal approval allowing them to do so. When Poberezny started the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) at his home in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, in 1953, he likely had no idea how successful it would be. Today the EAA has around 170,000 members, located in more than 100 countries, while the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh convention, exhibition and fly-in attracts more than 500,000 visitors each year...
Love of flying kept Loveland pilot aloft - ReporterHerald.com | He had taken the two-seater as far west as San Francisco and as far east as Kitty Hawk, N.C., for the Experimental Aviation Association's AirVenture Cup Race to Oshkosh, Wis. Lyne said she never really liked riding in the plane she helped build because ...
Only WWII Civil Air Patrol casualty commemorated on 70th anniversary - Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | OHIO -- A ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of Lt. Margaret Bartholomew’s final mission was recently conducted at the Spring Grove Cemetery at her gravesite. In attendance were eight Civil Air Patrol volunteers and three of Lt. Margaret Bartholomew’s living family members. There was a certificate of appreciation along with a squadron patch awarded to Bartholomew and her nephew Charles Rudy Heath II. CAP Capt. Michael Purvis, commander of Cincinnati's Lunken Cadet Squadron, presented the certificates and patches.
Another Legendary Flying Machine Returns to the Air · Rich Davidson NORDO News - Aviation Unedited | There’s one kind of phone call I always love to receive. On the other end of the line is a good friend with great news. And although they almost always try to conceal it, the excitement in their voice can never be fully constrained. Those are truly special moments. Two days ago was the latest...
Nakajima G8N Renzan (?? Mountain Range / Allied reporting name "Rita") — WW II Japan's heavy bomber - Travel for Aircraft | When thinking of heavy bombers of World War II one naturally thinks of Allied aircraft powered with four engines — especially Great Britain and the United States. The Imperial Japanese Navy attempted to get into this class of weaponry with the Nakajima design G8N Renzan (?? Mountain Range / Allied reporting name "Rita"). The Renzan was an impressive aircraft and entered service a short time after design-start. First flying in January 1945 it was...
The Air Force Museum Foundation funds world’s largest military aviation museum building addition - National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force announced today that it is set to expand its legacy with a new 224,000 square foot building to be constructed by Turner Construction Co. of Washington, D.C. for the amount of $35.426 million, which is being privately financed by the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization chartered to assist in the development and expansion of the museum's facilities...
FlightTime Radio Show 306 | It’s Saturday and Milford and Charlie taxied into the Renegade Light Sport.com studio and had a great time. We talked with Chuck Vaughn about the CAP, its missions and history as well as two teenage cadets!...
Gorgeous Gripen - Flight Image of the Day | Saab has chosen this image taken by Mirco Knecht as the winner of its latest Gripen photo competition. The picture...
Is this the Glasgow helicopter crash pilot stunt-flying in airshow Chinook? - Daily Mail | It is believed this footage uploaded on YouTube of the RAFA Shoreham airshow in 2007 shows Mr Traill performing an impressive Chinook display. Display: Footage has emerged which is believed to be of flight lieutenant David Traill, 51, piloting a...
Paper plane world record attempt falls short - Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | ILLINOIS — A Civil Air Patrol unit from Chicago’s western suburbs didn't manage to set a new world record for the highest paper airplane flight. The Fox Valley Composite Squadron’s attempted record fell short Sunday when the paper airplane attached to a large helium weather balloon climbed to only 51,000 feet. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported that was about 30,000 feet short of the world record that had been set in Spain in 2010. The group had hoped their balloon would climb to more than 100,000 feet. It eventually landed near Monticello, Ind.
Cascade Warbirds kick off scholarship program · General Aviation News Staff | Cascade Warbirds, a 20-year-old not-for-profit entity involved with historic military aircraft and those who crewed them, is kicking off its 2014 scholarship program. For several years, the Washington-state based organization has spent a portion of its budget on scholarships for youth between the ages of 16 and 21...
Smaug on a Plane: 'The Hobbit' Dragon Graces Air New Zealand Aircraft - Mashable [Video] | Snakes on a plane was so 2006. What's in now? Smaug on a plane...
Monday, December 2, 2013
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Video: 60 Years of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds - DoDLive | For 60 years the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds, an elite air demonstration squadron, dazzled and amazed the American public at air shows across the country. This year, despite spending cuts reducing their flight time, the Thunderbirds return to the skies...
Warbird Radio On The Way To Las Vegas For ICAS Convention | Vegas SunsetWARBIRD RADIO – Our bags are packed and we’ll soon be in route to Las Vegas, Nevada for the 2013 International Council of Air Shows annual convention. The International Council of Air Shows held its first convention in 1967. Since then, the air show community has...
John Mohr Retirement - Fence Check Forums | The story of John Morh's retirement has been floating around Facebook for a few days now, but with no source listed. After a conversation with Lynn Mohr this morning, I can now confirm the story. They decided last year to make it the last one, but did not announce it because they did not want any fanfare at the shows they would be performing at. Lynn said...
Younkin Airshows Beech 18 - Promo
Al Ain Aerobatic Show sees world record jump - gulfnews.com | Al Ain: South African Amy Shaw of the Goodyear Eagles aerobatic team set a world record at the 10th Al Ain Aerobatic Show for the first-ever female para-jumper to deploy a dual inverted para-drop. Shaw’s stunt was performed as the Goodyear Eagles’ aircraft, flying at speeds of 380-400 km/h, took her to 2,500 feet and then flew straight down while inverting at around 100km/h. Shaw dived out and opened her parachute within five seconds, landing in front of the royal chalet near the grandstand....
Daredevil stunts by pilots at Al Ain Air Aerobatic Show - The National | AL AIN// All eyes were on the skies as daredevil pilots performed hair-raising stunts at the tenth annual Al Ain Aerobatic Show. Deafening roars from overhead aircraft matched the roaring cheers of approval on the ground as four elite military teams, seven aerobatic teams, wing walkers, parachutists and two solo fighter-jet displays took to the skies...
Al Ain Air Show: Displays continue to enthral - gulfnews.com | Al Ain: Aerobatics teams and individuals performed dozens of exciting displays on Sunday, UAE fighter jets such as F-16 and Eurofighter were just some of the attractions on the second day of Al Ain Air Show...
Heritage with a roar and a bang - Western Advocate | The busy Lithgow Living History group were a highlight of the day at the biennial Warbirds Downunder air show 2013, held at Temora. This is the only major air show of its type in Australia. Lithgow Living History is a new group in the re-enactment area, coming up to its first birthday. Their activities, always in appropriate period costume, branch into local history as well as military campaigns...
Shearwater International Air Show – Hey… I Remember That * Posted by Ken Kula on November 30th, 2013 - Photorecon | Every few weeks or so, you’ll see a new report here about an air show or event that contains some recollections and images from a bygone era. Some reports will...
Pilot recreates Lady Mary Heath’s 1928 journey · General Aviation News Staff | Pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor is in the midst of a 7,000-mile solo journey, in a reconditioned Boeing Stearman open-cockpit biplane, to retrace Lady Mary Heath’s historic 1928 flight between South Africa and the United Kingdom. Heath was the first pilot, male or female, to make such a journey...
Eulogy For A Fighter Pilot - The Lexicans
Mustangs For the US NAVY (Almost) · Warbirds News By Gaëtan Marie of Bravo Bravo Aviation | With a surface of 69 millions square miles, the Pacific Ocean covers nearly a third of the Earth’s 
surface. During World War II, military operations in the Pacific were confronted with the problem of range. This was particularly true of aerial operations. Mainland Japan was bombed on 18 April 1942 by Doolittle and his raiders, but that was a one-time effort of mostly psychological value. All of the...
The U.S. Coast Guard in Vietnam And The Albatross Flight At The Palm Springs Air Museum · Warbirds News | On Saturday November 30, 2013 at 1 pm the Palm Springs Air Museum will present THE US COAST GUARD IN VIETNAM by Dr. Douglas Kroll .Vietnam is usually remembered as a war fought in jungles and rice paddies. But there was another conflict as well, a sailor’s war, much of it fought from the decks of United States Coast Guard Cutters. The Coast Guard played a significant role in securing Vietnam’s 1,200-mile coastline. Coast Guardsmen destroyed enemy supply ships...
Video: Watch This Kid Shoot Down An F-35 With His F-18 - AirPigz | I honestly don't know the detailed politics of the F-35 vs F-18 debate, but I'm pretty sure if I did I'd be desperately looking for the government's OFF switch... however, I do know this video is very well done and it really did make me LOL!...
Stunning image of Russia’s new stealth plane clearly shows new shark camouflage · David Cenciotti | As already explained, Russia’s 5th generation stealth fighter plane T-50 (PAK FA – Perspektivny Aviatsionny Kompleks Frontovoy Aviatsii—Future Tactical Air System), has receintly received a new camouflage...
Video: India's interplanetary spacecraft departs Earth orb - Spaceports
Thursday, January 24, 2013
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Blue Angels featured at Wings over Wayne Air Show from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. — The Wings Over Wayne Air Show at Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, N.C., takes off May 18-19. The airshow will salute our service men and women around the globe, past and present. Colonel Jeannie Leavitt, Base Commander and first female fighter pilot in the U.S., plans to pay tribute to Operation Homecoming 1973, during its 40th anniversary, when North Vietnam released American POWs from captivity.
Video: Kirby Chambliss' plane airlifted out of crash site.
South Shore CVA takes first for Air Show Poster - nwitimes.com | The ICAS Marketing Awards recognize outstanding achievement in event, product and service promotion by air shows, air show performers and air show support service providers. The South Shore Air Show's 2013 dates are July 12 through 14, again on the ...
Sebring LSA Expo wraps up successful weekend from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SEBRING, Florida —The ninth annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo wrapped up a successful weekend of activities supporting general aviation and the Light-Sport Aircraft industry Sunday, Jan. 20. Expo officials estimate the weekend’s attendance will exceed last year’s record attendance of 16,000....
60 Years of EAA: Leading in a New Era (1998-2012) from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA approached its 50th anniversary and the 21st century still firmly connected to its original mission of personal sport aviation, but the organization saw its role expanding as well. The needs of EAA members and the aviation community brought more demands on the organization, which had grown to include more than 160,000 members by 1998.
Great cockpit/show footage of the Trojan Phlyers at the Bluebonnet Airshow 2012 from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith
Wings of Freedom event brings memories to life - Bradenton Herald | "The purpose is to organize and support a living history event that enables Americans to learn about our heritage and history through a direct experience," said Hunter Chaney, director of marketing for the foundation. "Aviation has been one of the most ...
Classic warbirds on display in Sarasota - WWSB ABC 7 | Two World War II bombers -- a B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-24 Liberator -- and the most dominant fighter plane of the second world war, the P-51 Mustang are all on display. Organizers of the tour say these planes are not just cool to look at, they also ...
World War II bomber brings back memories for veterans - Sarasota Herald-Tribune | As he climbed aboard the B-17, Matney was thinking about June 11, 1944, when his B-24 Liberator bomber caught fire and he frantically fought to escape the flames “by exiting the plane through an opening in the wheel well. One of my crewmates also tried ...
Airmen savor a history come full circle - Philadelphia Inquirer | A trainer of B-25 bomber pilots, the 89-year-old former New York City employee received a written reprimand and three officers faced courts-martial. Transposing that day with the inauguration of the nation's first African American president, Lawrence ...
Flying Tigers Fighter Pilots TV Series In The Works - Cinema Blend | Former HBO Films President Colin Callender is looking to bring the story of America's team of ace fighter pilots, The Flying Tigers, to television. His production company, Playground Entertainment, has announced plans for a ten-part miniseries that ...
Great News - Rare Airplanes Grounded from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...Today, while reading an article in the latest Vintage Magazine about a Buhl Airsedan, I found something that is getting to be all too familiar; the celebration of the permanent grounding of vintage aircraft....
All clear for takeoff: Rantoul air museum renaissance makes it worth another visit - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette | Claude Crenshaw, is "the belle of the ball" at the newly revived Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul, said curator Mark Hanson. The elegant and deadly 1945 model's restoration will be finished soon after years of work. Some minor paint work will have to wait ...
Photos: Sweden arrives for RED FLAG 13-2 from Air Combat Command - ACC Headlines
Chinook once again takes to Canadian Skies from Aviation.ca News by Lieutenant-Colonel Duart Townsend and Colonel (retired) Lorne Rodenbush | It has been 21 years since the distinctive ‘wokka-wokka’ sound of Canadian Chinooks was last heard in Canadian skies.
EAA Staff Zenith 750 Build Project: Video Update #3 from eaavideo.org | In our third video update of the EAA staff Zenith 750 project, Homebuilders Community Manager Chad Jensen takes a walk around the workbench to talk with EAA Online Community Manager Hal Bryan about his first build experience...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
ICAS Regions Finalize Plans for 2013 Winter Regional Conferences
