Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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Grounded CF-18 Hornet will fly in Ontario air show WINDSOR, Ont. — A plane that the military grounded after a fiery crash in Alberta last month will fly in a Windsor, Ont., air show this weekend. The CF-18 Hornet will be a part of the Windsor International Air Show. Keith Baxter, the director of operations for the air show, says the air force has decided to keep its commitment with Windsor…

Itinerary For The Week from Windsor International Air Show by Sounds of Freedom II | The field is laid out and the aircraft are coming. The Brazilians are in Puerto Rico and will head for Tampa Bay tomorrow and then Wednesday afternoon they will land in Windsor. The Snowbirds, Hurricane, and a Harvard will round out the day. Check out the itinerary at, www.wiasvendors.blogspot.com It's a blog from last year, I know, but it gives me a chance to change it quickly. I don't think it will change much other than the length of time each plane is in the air or the order they will be in. Keep an eye open over the skies of Windsor. Just remember, you'll hear them first. Sounds of Freedom II it's finally here....

Up to 200,00 expected at Airshow | wenpub2.com - WESTFIELD | The 104th Fighter Wing Open House in conjunction with the Westfield International Airshow, featuring the United States Air Force (USAF...

Wind Shift Sends Commercial Jets Through Air Show - NBC Chicago | While lakefront crowds thrilled to the likes of the Blue Angels, there was another show going on in the skies above the so-called ...

Temperature records toppled - Abbotsford News | An airshow spectator finds shade under the wing of a huge transport aircraft, as temperatures hit 34 degrees on the weekend. By Grant Granger - Abbotsford ...

Ocean City, brought to you by... - Delmarva Daily Times | The OC Air Show brings sponsorship from GEICO, Coca Cola, and Best Buy. An annual car show gets sponsors Ford Motor Company, XBox, and Pepsi. ...

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Parachute Saves Argentine Airshow Pilot from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A 22-year-old Argentine aerobatic pilot is out of business for the moment but living to blog about it thanks to the BRS ballistic parachute he installed in his RANS S-9. Dino Moline's only injury was a slightly burned foot after a wing snapped off during a negative G maneuver. The published negative G limit is -4. Moline was performing at Show Aereo 2010 at El Trebol, Argentina when, as he pulled up while inverted, the left wing departed…

WWII Aircraft Recovery Effort Continues - KGTV San Diego | He's the director of the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Fla. "There are only three or four SB2C Helldivers in existence anywhere and this is one of them," ...

World War II Helldiver to be raised at dawn Wednesday - Lower Otay Lake - It has sat submerged in more than 85 feet of water at the bottom of Lower Otay Lake, but on Wednesday morning plans call for the Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver that crashed there in 1945 to be salvaged and taken to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. Barring any problems, the plane is expected to be brought to the surface shortly after dawn on Wednesday, then moved to the shoreline by 10 a.m…

Historic planes swoop in on GB - Great Bend Tribune | It will all be part of the Great Bend Municipal Airport Air Festival and Fly-In, set for Sept. 17 through 19, just west of Great Bend. ...

Your Chance To Fly In A World War II B-17 Flying Fortress - FOX2now.com | St. Louisans will have the chance to get a close up look at one of only 14 still being flown today. St. Louis, MO (KTVI-FOX2Now.com) - The 'Liberty Belle' ...

Celebrating the B-17's 75th from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski | The 75th anniversary of the B-17 brought out many veterans to this year's AirVenture in Oshkosh, including several who posed with World War II re-enactors in front of the airplanes on Aeroshell Square…

B-36 Peacemaker - Fort Worth Forum - If the group planning the Aviation Heritage museum has over a million in the bank, why didn't they step forward to contribute that money toward a shelter for the plane when the museum goal became unattainable? ...

MeierMotors from Another Time by Dan Linn | Visiting the WIX Hangar is on my daily to do list.  Some days it takes me a few minutes to catch up on some of the Warbird news.  Other days I have to take the time to read some of the great posts from all over the world!  Matthias Dorst is the webmaster for MeierMotors in Germany.  He has posted a series of pictures from the MeierMotors hangar…

100 years Aeronavale - Hyères-Le Palyvestre Airshow 2010 from Defence Talk Forum by r.e.hendriks | Hi all, Finally found some time to sort out all my Hyères shots. Here's a small selection, almost 200 shots of this awesome show can be found at my website: Fly-by* Military Aviation Photography

My Name is Dan and this is my Aha Moment from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | Since beginning World of Flying in December of 2005, I have written many times about the responsibility each of us aviators have to reach out to the public and tell them about this incredibly cool thing we enjoy called flying. We all need to be spokespeople for general aviation, and we need to keep a lookout for opportunities to blab our story to the masses…

Rockets on display - Mojave Plane Crazy, Aug.21 from RLV and Space Transport News | Every third Saturday of the month, Mojave Air & Space Port hosts the free Plane Crazy Saturday event. For this month (Aug. 21st, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm), the theme is Rockets 'R' Us and will include exhibits from several local rocket companies. See this flyer (pdf) for more info.

The Very Brief Career of the B-57 with the VNAF from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In April 1964 the 8th Bomb Squadron and the 13th Bomb Squadron arrived at Clark AB in the Philippines as tensions in Indochina began to escalate. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was still four months away when the Martin B-57 Canberra jet bombers of the two squadrons took up residence at Clark…

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