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Snowbirds take to the skies as they prepare for airshow - Waterloo Record | The Canadian Forces' precision aerobatic team lifted off twice from Region of Waterloo International Airport Friday afternoon as they prepared for the ...

News 3 Rides Along With Blue Angels Crew - WSIL TV | The Navy Blue Angels are headlining the Cape Girardeau air festival. News 3 boarded the Blue Angels' support plane to experience some of the moves the ...

Navy's Blue Angels visit Cape Girardeau hospital – KFVS | By Heartland News CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The Navy's Blue Angels in town for the Cape Air Festival, took a break from the skies to pay a special visit ...

Airmen take to the skies - San Mateo Daily Journal | The 11th annual Hiller Aviation Vertical Challenge, the nation's largest all-helicopter air show, held this Saturday will provide the opportunity to see the ...

Volunteers ready for Great Minnesota Air Show - St. Cloud Times | Organizers are hoping to draw 50000 people each day to see the US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron and other aerobatic acts. ...

Denton air show to coincide with Father's Day - Lewisville Leader | Ever since then, the event has maintained a steady attendance of between 9000 and 10000 spectators, said air show spokeswoman Amanda Addington. ...

Air Expo celebrates flying women - Ada Evening News | Julie Clark and her Chevron Mentor T-34 will be headlining this year's event. Clark will perform a twilight show Friday night that includes pyrotechnics. ...

Female flyers taking off - Wink News | Now, there are 113 women in 54 small planes flying in the all-woman Air Race Classic. Two of the teams are from Southwest Florida. ...

Vintage aircraft relive glory at Warbirds Fly-in - Arizona Republic ... plans when they see the vintage World War II Lockheed outside the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Valle, said Connie Freson, a spokeswoman for the museum. ...

High Country Warbirds Fly-in at Valle, Arizona - Arizona Republic | The museum is holding its annual High Country Warbirds Fly-in, which will feature planes in its collection as well as craft flown in for the occasion. ...

Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford is launched (From Wilts ... - STRICTLY Come Dancing star Ricky Whittle and forces sweetheart Nell McAndrew launched this year's Royal International Air tattoo at Fairford.

Barnstormers bring high-flying tour to North Iowa - MASON CITY — They all walk — or rather, fly — different paths, but they all have one abiding passion: The sky. "I always wanted to fly a biplane coast to coast," recalled Richard "Speed" Hornbeck, one of several vintage airplane pilots who are part of the American Barnstormers Tour. Within a week of restoring his 1929 Waco Texaco bi-plane, "my buddy and I jumped in, took off for California. It took about a week to get there. "Got there; we had a burger on the beach, turned around and flew right back, which took about another week," he said with chuckle. "It was great." Hornbeck is one of about 20 pilots on the 7-city 2010 tour with their vintage planes. Almost all are from the "golden age" of flight, from 1918 to 1940. The show continues today and Saturday at the Mason City Municipal Airport…

Netherlands - Luchtmachtdagen 2010 - Gilze-Rijen - 06/18/10 from FenceCheck Forums - some from yesterday:

Disabled American Veterans B-25 Mitchell Bomber - Southeast Missourian ... river straight ahead was taken through the nose window of a B-25J Mitchell Bomber operated by the Disabled American Veterans Airshow Outreach Program. ...

Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Showcases Area Aviation History from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo - The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum is one of those hidden gems of the St. Louis area.  The museum, housed in historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at St. Louis Downtown Airport (Cahokia, IL), showcases aviation artifacts with ties to this great aviation region.  Staffed mostly by volunteers, the museum is committed to the preservation and display of historic air and space vehicles and artifacts as well as providing educational programs to foster the spirit of flight in today's youth and in future generations.  We highly encourage our readers to visit and give generously to this worthy endeavor.  Here is a taste of what you will experience.  For more information, go to http://www.airandspacemuseum.org/index.html.

New images from the ItAF Museum from David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog by David Cenciotti - On Jun. 18, 2009, the Skema was opened again after 2 years of works. I visited the pavilion, that is now fully air conditioned to provide the most suitable temperature for the preserved aircraft, on May 23, 2010. The Skema has now a 1000 sq.m. structure where the G.91PAN, the G.91R, the G.91T and the G.91Y are exhibited. A nice addition within the Skema is also a Nike Hercules that was added to the collection on Oct. 29, 2009.

Robert "Hoot" Gibson to be in Muncie next weekend - Muncie Star Press | A modeler for less than three years, he specializes in warbirds and plans to bring his Douglas Dauntless SBD dive-bomber, his P-40 Curtiss Warhawk and his ...

Russian flying fortress from Military Photos by Extobulite | in 1930s Russian army was … by the idea of creating huge planes. At that times they were proposed to have as much propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented at those times yet. Not much photos were saved since that times, because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time passed already. Still on the photo below you can see one of such planes - a heavy bomber K-7. Now modern history lovers in Russia try to reconstruct according the plans left in once to be top-secret Russian army archives their look in full color. This is one example based on ideas of Russian aviation engineers of that times.

Futuristic rocket-powered plane built in Sebastian to make appearance this summer – TCPalm | The start-up sports organization unveiled the Mark III X-Racer in late April during the QuikTrip Air and Rocket Racing Show in Tulsa, Okla. ...