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Aerobatic display marks the conclusion of Aero India 2013 - Daily News & Analysis | Aerobatic display by metal birds enthralled tens of thousands of aviation enthusiasts at Yelahanka airbase here today as the curtains came down on the five-day Aero India 2013, Asia's premier airshow. 'Sarang', the helicopter display team of Indian Air ...

Crowds brave hot sun to catch magic in the sky - Deccan Herald | ...While the crowd was enthralled by the air display by mean machines, the static display area too attracted many. On the first public day of the air show on Saturday, the Rafale on static display drew in many who posed for pictures with the aircraft while Israeli, Russian and French pavilions drew aviation enthusiasts...

Sarang Display Mesmerizes Spectators - Press Information Bureau | “For just 12 minutes of aerobatic display, our preparations and practice start almost four hours before because safety of aircraft and men is of utmost important for us”, said Wg Cdr Vinod Negi, deputy team leader of Sarang. Sarang begins with entry in ...

Wright-Patt officials to discuss possible cuts today - Dayton Daily News | Brenda Kerfoot, Dayton Air Show general manager, said the Air Force hasn't given any indication to her the Thunderbirds might not take flight at the air show in June. “If the Thunderbirds are cut, it's a drastic cut and I think that would be a shock ...

Team Tuskegee Ramps Up Training from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | Team Tuskegee has begun to ramp up its training. Element takeoffs and landings yesterday deep in the Bravo. Echelon. Tail chase. Overhead break back at Detroit City (KDET). It’s still less than a year since I first flew a TG-7A. Last march, it was all about giggles and having fun. It’s still a lot of [...]

Daughter of Tuskegee Airmen carries on father's legacy - WREX-TV | "My dad was in a B-17, part the group they had flown and defended, and I might not be here today if it wasn't for some of these gentlemen," says Scott Haugh, who attended the presentation. James bass recently retired after more than 3 decades in the ...

Colorized Photos of Women Building War Planes in the 1940s by ORPO1 | ...The photos from this archive feature plenty of 1940′s women putting a little elbow grease into their vocational work. Instead of our expected vision of the vintage mother and wife primping, nursing, and cleaning, we’re given a taste of some hard laboring technicians that were vital in building aircraft during World War II. By exhibiting a polychromatic set of photos, the images are no longer just recorded pieces of history that we feel a disconnect from. They appear to be a more life-like, relatable series of photos....

Omaha man recalls life as WWII radar pioneer - Ct Post | They flew to a base in Ohio to outfit their B17 and meet their flight crew. "We had one of the last enlisted crews to come from the courts who had given them the choice of the Air Force or jail," he wrote. "One of this flight crew's adventures was ...

Oregon WWII Memorial Honor Day at the Capitol - Tillamook Headlight Herald | Scheduled guest speakers at the ceremony include Gov. John Kitzhaber and three World War II veterans: Medal of Honor recipient Bob Maxwell of Bend, Lt. Col. (ret.) Leonard DeWitt from McMinnville, and former state legislator and World War II B-17 pilot...

Bronco #2 from Apron 6 | Let’s start a new album today. It’s quite an old album from the arrival of the second Bronco of the Bronco Demoteam. In may 2012 the Bronco arrived at...

DVD Review: British Airshows 2012 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | For their ‘British Airshows’ productions, Planes TV proudly boast ‘If You buy one Airshow DVD this year, buy this one!’ The British Airshows DVDs have always been superb retrospectives on the airshow season covering a number of major events and pretty well all of the different acts you encounter during a season. Though the...

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Air Force outlines sequester cuts - Dayton Daily News | Ohio Air National Guard F-16 Falcon from the Springfield Air National Guard Base arrives at the Dayton Air Show. View Larger · AirForceCuts photo. The Air Force has asked Congress to lift the across-the-board cuts and allow it to choose where the ...

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Air show in late March will honor Cabanas - KeysNews.com | The Navy released the lineup for the air show next month at Boca Chica Field, and military commanders promised a special tribute to Key West's own late aviator Freddy Cabanas. The crowd-pleasing Blue Angels acrobatic squadron is roaring back to the ...

F-22 Demonstration and Heritage Flight Team  - Air Combat Command | The Air Combat Command F-22 Demonstration Team at Langley Air Force Base performs precision aerial maneuvers to demonstrate the unique capabilities of the world's only operational fifth-generation fighter aircraft. The team also... [Schedule ]

Asia's biggest air show off to flying start in Bangalore - Deccan Herald | The ninth edition of the biennial air show and aviation exhibition,organised by the Defence Ministry along with Indian Air Force, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Department of Space and Civil Aviation Ministry, aims at showcasing the ...

'JUPITER' ENTERS AIR TATTOO ORBIT from Royal International Air Tattoo News | By Jove! Organisers of the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds have just been told how the Colombian Air Force intends to trump its historic and colourful participation at last summer's airshow.

167th forced to withdraw from air show - Martinsburg Journal | MARTINSBURG - The 167th Airlift Wing has had to withdraw from the Thunder Over the Blue Ridge air show and open house because of U.S. Department of Defense budget cuts and fiscal uncertainty, according to a statement released Tuesday.

F-86 Sabre & MiG-15 Event Planes of Fame Air Museum  - airshowvid.com | PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM | Each month the Planes of Fame Air Museum holds a Living History event highlighting the history on one of the museum’s aircraft. The February 2013 event focused on the North American F-86 Sabre and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. This...

Gathering of Warbirds and Legends Takes Off - Flying Magazine | Airplane lovers looking for a new event to attend this summer can now mark their calendars for “The Gathering of Warbirds and Legends.” This inaugural event, scheduled to take place August 1-4 in Topeka, Kansas, is expected to become an annual ...

Wings Over the Rockies lends planes to Colorado garden show - Denver Post | Planes — mostly antiques and borrowed from The Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum — will soar over the massive show, which opens Saturday. "We've had underwater sea creatures. We've had dinosaurs. We've had balloons. It's just something ...

Warbird Pinup Girls TV Show Promo | Introducing the Warbird Pinup Girls reality tv show concept.
After 3 years of success with our Warbird Pinup Girls retro calendars we are embarking to produce an exciting reality tv show alongside our yearly production. Featured in...

Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The Boeing 307 Stratoliner (Plus CoolPix) from AirPigz by Martt | The Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first pressurized commercial transport, would have been a much bigger success if World War II hadn't begun at pretty much the same time as the aircraft was introduced. The Stratoliner was at...

Goldstein flies high for 96th birthday - Carolinacoastonline | They were nothing new to the veteran, who learned to fly as a teenager through the Civilian Pilot Training Program and went on to fly the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber with the Army Air Corps during World War II. From April through September of 1944 he ...

Ken Jernstedt, off on his last flight from Dan Ford's blog by Daniel Ford | ...Ken was one of several Marine Corps pilots to join the American Volunteer Group in the summer of 1941. Assigned to the 3rd Squadron “Hell’s Angels,” he was sent down to Rangoon in December to help defend Burma against Japanese invasion, which put him in the thick of the Christmas battles over the capital. During his months with the AVG he was credited with 10.5 Japanese planes destroyed...

Beilue: Military uniforms tell long history - Amarillo.com | Morgan, who attended Amarillo College and then-West Texas Teachers College, was on a mission in a B-17 while over Germany in World War II. The pilot was mortally wounded, and Morgan took over the controls, flew the crippled B-17 to its target and...

Afternoon walkaround of a thoroughbred Hawker Tempest Mk II by travelforaircraft | This Tempest II is displayed at the Florida Air Museum and was photographed during a beautiful November afternoon day when it had been luckily been pulled out of the hangar for an event. The Tempest II was an evolutionary airplane...

Red Flag...where pilots prove what they're made of from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories | More than 100 aircraft from 17 different units with more than 2700 people have come here to participate in Red Flag 13-2.  Aircraft depart the...

Meet retired astronaut Jack Lousma at the Yankee Air Museum's 'Launchpad Party' - AnnArbor.com | If you think the Yankee Air Museum focuses only on vehicles that fly in the stratosphere, you are wrong. It's like you don't even know them. So you'll want to take some time to visit them on Saturday when they will unveil NASA Fly Me to the Moon at a ...

NASA's Super-Tiger Balloon Breaks Records While Collecting Data from Aero-News Network | Spent More Than 55 Days Aloft At 127,000 Feet A large NASA science balloon has broken two flight duration records while flying over Antarctica carrying an instrument that detected 50 million cosmic rays. The Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (Super-TIGER) balloon launched at 1545 EST, Dec. 8 from the Long Duration Balloon site near McMurdo Station....

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Aero India 2013: Big business and a celebration of aviation, past and present - NDTV | Making their debut at Aero India will be the world famous Rafale display team and the Russian Knights aerobatic squadron which features the Sukhoi-27 jet. Other star attractions include the giant US-C-17 heavy transport which enters service with the...

Fighter plane Rafale set to dazzle at Bangalore airshow - Deccan Herald | Even though most of the fighter planes have decided to give the 2013 Bangalore air show a go by following India's shortlisting of Rafale as the preferred choice for 126 new fighters, the French-origin jets will leave no stone unturned to impress ...

David and Goliath to Fly in Bangalore - Wall Street Journal (India) (blog) | A World War II aircraft will take to the skies above Bangalore alongside one of the biggest aircraft in the world at India's biennial aerospace, defense and civil aviation exhibitions, which begins Wednesday. It will be the first time a vintage Tiger ...

F-22 Raptor to perform at Stuart Air Show - TCPalm | STUART — The world's only operational fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 Raptor, is scheduled to perform at the 23rd annual Stuart Air Show. The F-22 Raptor is the most advanced operational fighter aircraft in the world. It is incredibly maneuverable ...

Tickets to go on sale for Raiders reunion (VIDEO) - The Northwest Florida Daily News | The Doolittle Raiders will not open the historic bottle of cognac given to them by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle when they meet in Fort Walton Beach this April for their final official reunion. However, according to Raiders business manager Tom Casey, the four ...

Military spending cuts could cancel some Blue Angels' air shows - Pensacola News Journal | The elite flight demonstration team's air shows scheduled between April and September, including the annual July performance over Pensacola Beach, would be canceled if the proposed military spending cuts known as sequestration become reality, ...

AIRSHOW NEWS: At RAF Tornado Role Demo in 2013 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | Taken from the RAF Tornado Role Demo Facebook Page: In response to mounting speculation, the team regrets to inform you that a decision has been made to cancel the Tornado Role Demonstration participation in the 2013 airshow circuit season. We...

Classic Aero-TV: Bob Hoover At Airventure -- Getting a Little Help Along the Way from Aero-News Network | Aviation's Greatest Living Legend Talks About His Life In Aviation (Part 3) ANN is pleased to offer you yet another snippet from the public conversations that took place with Bob Hoover at AirVenture 2011... where he was honored for a lifetime of aviation excellence. In this program, Bob continues his...

Airshow Performer Duane Cole - IFLYblog | When I was growing up, one of the best known aerobatic pilots was Duane Cole. It wasn’t because Duane flew a fire-breathing monoplane or did countless snap-rolls on his down lines; Duane was popular because he was an entertainer. He campaigned a modified Taylorcraft for most of his career, which spanned over 50 years....

Schedule for Everett Film Festival Feb. 8-9 - Snohomish County Tribune | Feature documentary of Florence “Pancho” Barnes, a tough and fearless aviatrix, competitor of Amelia Earhart, and Hollywood's first female stunt pilot. Her story is largely unknown …

W.Va. air show won't include open house at Air Guard facility - The Herald-Mail | The open house planned as part of the Thunder Over the Blue Blue Ridge Air Show in May will not be held due to Defense Department budget cuts and "fiscal uncertainty," organizers announced Tuesday. With the change, the 167th Airlift Wing of the West ...

FedEx Express donates 727 to SUN ’n FUN from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SUN ’n FUN CAMPUS, LAKELAND, FL. – FedEx Express has donated a Boeing 727 to SUN ’n FUN to use as an interactive aviation classroom. SUN ‘n FUN CEO and President John R. “Lites” Leenhouts commented that, “It is truly an honor for SUN ’n FUN to be recognized by the aviation industry giant FedEx as a credible air and space education center promoting the growth of aviation careers around the world....

WACO kicks off Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The WACO Aircraft Company has launched a Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest.  “With the Great Lakes 2T-1A-1 project coming along quickly, we are looking for a great new paint scheme to use on our first airplane,” officials said in a prepared release....

WWII Veteran One of Last Area Members of 8th Air Force - MyHighPlains | I was a tailgunner, B-17, I flew a tour there, and stayed in the air force and went back to Europe and was involved with the Berlin Airlift, and then I went to Greece when the, the communists were about to take that country," Rude said. Now, he's ...

MY VIEW: WASPs honored with museum - YourWestValley.com | Love, who created the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), the pre-cursor to the WASP, was part of the first female team to fly a B-17 Flying Fortress and the first woman certified to fly the P-51 Mustang. Cornelia Fort, Hazel Ying Lee, Marie ...

WWII radio pioneer gives new life to planes at SAC museum - Lincoln Journal Star | They needed equipment. They stopped at the secret Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard to pick up their new -- and unreliable -- receivers. They flew to a base in Ohio to outfit their B17 and meet their flight crew. "We had one of the last enlisted ...

Warbird nose artist at museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | On Feb. 17, as part of its February Open Cockpit event, the New England Air Museum welcomes Connecticut native Gary Velasco, who has developed a reputation as one of the finest “nose artists” in the business.  “Nose art” refers to the caricatures painted on wartime aircraft, an art form popularized during World War II. Velasco recreated the nose art on the museum’s B-29 Superfortress “Jack’s Hack.”...

U.S. Air Force Academy professor to speak at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories |Col. John Plating, an associate professor of history at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, will present "Air Transport and the Politics of War" on Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force....

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Pearson Air Museum exhibits moving into Pearson Field hangar - The Columbian | The National Park Service has terminated an agreement with the city of Vancouver, putting Pearson Air Museum under management of the park service's Fort Vancouver National Historic Site...

The post-war bubble from General Aviation News by Dennis Parks | On May 17, 1945, with the war in Europe ending and military production being cut back, the War Production Board announced the end of the prohibition on the production of civilian aircraft, providing such manufacturing didn’t interfere with war output...

Henri Wenisch, former staff ace mechanic Edmond Marin la Meslée has left us from Passion for aviation by Xavier Cotton | It is a figure of the Air Force, the latest of the "big old" the defunct air base 112 of Reims who has just died: Henri Wenisch, eighty-five years old Fighter Group I / 5 of Reims, who during the war was the mechanic staff Meslée the commander Marin, one of the most glorious ace of World War II...

Poster Air Show at Rouen-Le Madrillet from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | Here is a beautiful display (155 x 117 cm) designed by B. Delcourt journalist designer at Paris-Normandie interfaced recently announcing a day on the airfield of air Rouen Rouvray "Le Madrillet" (closed in 1968). This event organized by the Aeroclub of Normandy under the patronage of Paris and Normandy Sprint took place on June 6, but you can ask what year?...

Sightings: Blackhawks Descend on Farmington Regional Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A recent visit to Farmington Regional Airport became part of an aviation photographer's perfect storm: eight Blackhawks descended on the airport in southeast Missouri for a brief rest and fuel stop. The airport...

New Israeli astronaut could venture to space - Cleveland Jewish News | ... the world were in attendance at The 8th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference, held this Tuesday through Thursday in Herzliya, organized by the ISA, the Ministry of Science and Technology and The Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies.