Thunder Over Michigan air show dazzles audience over Ypsilanti - The Detroit News | The Thunder Over Michigan air show rumbled the heavens over Willow Run Airport during its final day Sunday. Preliminary estimates indicate up to 40,000 people attended the two-day event that kicked off Saturday - serving up excitement and American aviation history, which was not always airborne. Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson knows intimately the inside of the P-51 - the World War II era single-pilot fighter plane flown by both the British Royal and U.S. air forces - which was on display at the Tuskegee Airmen area. He flew one as a member of the first and only all-black aviation 332nd Fighter Group during World War II called the Tuskegee Airmen....
Historic and unique airplanes part of Thunder Over Michigan air show - AnnArbor.com | The sight of a small plane diving and twirling to the ground is unnerving to the uninformed but an exciting stunt for visitors to Thunder Over Michigan, the two-day air show at Willow Run Airport that runs Saturday and Sunday. Watching the WWII aircraft rumble by overhead felt like a visit to the past. "I love the WWII part of the air show," said Bob Galysh, who came from Cleveland. "There's nothing like the music of a round engine." "We're lifers here," said his wife Nanette Galysh. They're members of the Yankee Air Museum, which is sponsoring the weekend event....
Brothers rebuild aerobatics biplane to enjoy 'real flying' - Grand Forks Herald | VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Jarrod and Paul Lindemann have sewn, painted and tuned up a tie to their family’s past that they hope will take them into an extreme flying future. The brothers, owners of North Valley Aircraft, spent last winter rebuilding a Pitts Special S-2B stunt flying plane from the nose of the propeller cap to the back of the rudder. Pitts Specials are small, tough, biplanes that are a favorite of airshow pilots for their ability to climb, dip, dart, corkscrew and otherwise dance around the sky....
Olympic Air Show goes old school on new date to wow crowd - Bellingham Herald | Thousands of people turned out Saturday to watch vintage aircraft take flight at the 15th annual Olympic Air Show. “I love aviation,” said Jimmy Walker, who watched the planes and helicopters with 5-year-old daughter Janae while sitting in lawnchairs near the Olympia Regional Airport tarmac. He said he was especially interested in the show’s vintage planes. “There’s just something amazing about how reliable they were,” Walker said....
Canadian Forces Snowbirds want Rupertites to be in awe - Prince Rupert Northern View | You will want to look to sky this Wednesday afternoon as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds put on their acrobatic flying skills on display. The show, which gets underway at four p.m. over the harbour on Aug. 14, will include music, play-by-play that can be heard at Rotary Waterfront Park or on CFNR at 98.1 and a variety of different formations. The best place to watch the show is either at Waterfront Park, Mariner's Park or the Rupert Square parking lot....
Warbirds on Parade - Star Community Newspapers | Lancaster, TX -- There are numerous war movies, history books and stories handed down from servicemen and -women about how warplanes played a significant role in our fight for freedom over the years. Now is your opportunity to walk among some of those planes and experience up close the beauty and silent strength that earned them our respect and gratitude. "Warbirds on Parade" will be held at the Lancaster Airport, Beltline Road at Ferris Road, Between I-45 and I-35 on Saturday, Aug.31, 2013, from 10 am to 4 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 a carload or $5 per person, so bring the family, a friend or a whole carload. This year’s event is bigger and better than ever before!...
Chennault airshow set for September - Sacramento Bee | LAKE CHARLES, La. -- The Chennault International Airshow is planned for Sept. 28-29 in Lake Charles, spotlighting aerobatic stunts, precision maneuvers and dozens of rarely seen aircraft. The Beauregard Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/16xOhMM ) attractions will include the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team; a Canadian CF-18 fighter jet demonstration; stunt flights by a MiG-17 Cold War-era Soviet jet; "Fifi," believed to be the only Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber still flying; a North American P-51 fighter of World War II vintage and a traveling exhibit on the Red Tail Squadron and the Tuskegee Airmen....
Blackpool Air Show: Thousands line promenade for 2013 show - BBC News | Thousands of people are in Blackpool for the resort's annual air show which has been extended to two days. Spectators have lined the promenade to watch the 2013 show which mark the return of the RAF's aerobatic team the Red Arrows. A Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster bomber opened the show with a Battle of Britain memorial flight. The world's last flying Vulcan will also take to the skies as well as the Breitling Wing Walkers....
Famed Aerobatic Team to Put on Show in Xinjiang - CRIENGLISH.com | A technician of Breitling
Jet Team, a famous European aerobatic team, checks the aircraft at the Yinchuan Hedong International Airport in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 11, 2013. The team will give performances at Karamay City in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, during its tour in China...
Photos: RIAT 2013 - Let Let Let - Warplanes | RIAT 2013 took place on 20-21 July 2013.
OMAS air show features the realistic and the surreal in radio-controlled aircraft - OregonLive.com | There are two schools of thought in the world of radio controlled aircraft modeling. You can go for reality -- constructing a plane that’s a near perfect scale replica of the actual aircraft it’s modeled after. And you can perform the same kinds of maneuvers the real thing would be able to do. Or you can embrace the improbable -- hovering planes at a 90-degree angle, sending a “lawnmower” soaring into the air, vertically bouncing an inverted helicopter to clip the glass below it. It’s the latter that drew father and son Matt and Nathan Mallory of Tigard to Forest Grove on Saturday, for the two-day Oregon Miniature Aircraft Squadron’s 32nd annual air show....
B-17 makes at stop at the Purdue University Airport - WISH | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - What normally would just be the sound of a plane engine starting, was the sound of an opportunity of a lifetime to flyers at the Purdue University Airport Saturday. "I've read about them since I was a kid," Mark Thom said. "I've seen this airplane fly over forever. I decided I just had to do it." One of the six working B-17 Aluminum Overcasts made a stop at the airport. It was not only on display, but some people even got to fly in it....
B-25 makes pit stop in Plainview - Plainview Daily Herald | If you were sitting at home Friday evening and thought you heard the low rumble of a World War II-era bomber flying over Plainview, you were not mistaken. Gerald Dean Holt and her husband Dan were outside their house when they heard the plane coming in to land at the Plainview/Hale County Airport. “We were painting the house and heard it come over. So we drove to the airport,” said Gerald Dean Holt. “You don’t often get a chance to see something like this.”...
CAF High Sky Wing Prepares for National Organization’s Departure From Midland, TX - Warbirds News | The relocation of the
Commemorative Air Force’s national headquarters under the auspisises of the CAF’s “Airbase” reorganization plan that was announced earlier this year, recently narrowed down to eight locations, has the
High Sky Wing of Midland, Texas preparing for the departure of the national organization. While undoubtably the loss of the national headquarters to a higher-profile metropolitan area stings the pride of Midlanders a bit, the move represents a tremendous opportunity for the the wing, who will be taking over the facilities that were under the control of the CAF and will be in charge of what will become “Airbase West Texas.”...
Groundbreaking held for new Fargo Air Museum wing - Charlotte Observer | FARGO, N.D. A new hangar at the Fargo Air Museum honors two area aviation pioneers who died in crashes. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Saturday for the Beck-Odegaard wing. It is named for Gerry Beck and Bob Odegaard, the two men who helped establish the museum. Beck died at an air show is Oshkosh, Wis., in 2007, and Odegaard was killed in 2012 while practicing for an air show in Valley City...
New Book Traces "The Lindbergh Line" Coast-to-Coast Air Travel Route | The Aero Experience would like to promote a new book that traces the route of "The Lindbergh Line," the primary cross-country flight path used by Transcontinental Air Transport, later TWA, a staple of Midwest Aviation for many decades. We will let the author, Mr. Robert Kirk, describe the book in his own words...
Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Shares the Dream of Flight With Young Eagles, Scouts | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum hosted two group tours today, with approximately 35 Young Eagles earning their logbooks, and a group of Boy Scouts touring the museum. The two groups were treated to appearances by the MO CAF B-25, “Show Me,” and a T-6 Texan based at St. Louis Downtown Airport where the museum is located...
Video: The Slick View Of OSH13 - Must See! - AirPigz | We didn't get a video from 'Slick' for
OSH12
with his involvement in the U.S. Navy, but this year he was able to get
behind the camera at OSH13 and capture more awesome avgeek beauty from
the world's greatest aviation event!
Best AirVenture ever? - General Aviation News | Was 2013 the best EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh ever? In one way obvious to every attendee, this year’s event was superlative: Wisconsin’s weather was nearly perfect. Each day of the event was blessed with mild temperatures, mostly clear skies, and a comforting breeze. EAA officials surely thanked their lucky stars, having endured last year’s blistering heat and prior years of rain or airplane-tossing wind. I hasten to add this year’s event was also one of the safest, for which all are thankful....
Dr. Seeley at AirVenture 2013 by Dean Sigler | Imagine being able to walk one morning from your front door to a nearby small airport, step into an electrically-powered small airplane, point to a destination on an illuminated map on the airplane’s display screen, and be whisked to your destination so quietly that your passage overhead will not wake your neighbors. This is part of the dream that Dr. Brien Seeley, founder and President of the CAFE Foundation, presented to an appreciable and appreciative crowd on Friday, August 2 at the Rotax Pavilion during the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2013.
British astronaut Michael Foale retires to build electric aircraft - Wired.co.uk | Michael Foale, Britain's most experienced space traveller, has retired from Nasa with plans to help develop an electric aircraft. The dual UK-US citizen, astrophysicist and general all-round badasstronaut has spent more than a year in total in orbit ...
