Sunday, August 29, 2010

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Blue Angels in air show in NH - Boston Herald
By AP PORTSMOUTH, NH — Planes will fly in formation, backward, tail first and straight down when the Boston-Portsmouth Air Show hits the skies this weekend ...

Big Bird Air Show takes to Austin skies - News 8 Austin
The Austin Radio Control Association's annual Big Bird Air Show is in town this weekend. The high-flying action is at Lester Field. ...

A toast to the skies - Corvallis Gazette Times
The final few balloons finish preparations for liftoff at Timber-Linn Memorial Park Friday morning at the 2010 ATI Wah Chang Northwest Art & Air Festival. ...

Balsa plane-flying contest for kids at Stearman Fly-In - Galesburg Register-Mail
By Anonymous Area youngsters can win airplane rides and other prizes in a balsa plane-flying contest during the 39th National Stearman Fly-In. Competition ...

B-25 bomber scheduled to fly Saturday into Granite Falls; free tours available - Worthington Daily Globe
GRANITE FALLS — A World War II B-25 bomber is slated to arrive Saturday morning at Granite Falls Municipal Airport and will be available for tours. ...

Shooting B-Roll With Don from AcroCamp 
Don Weaver and I headed out yesterday so that I could fly a few instrument approaches for currency in a C-172 and so that he could head over to Ray Community Airport to do some dual in the Acro Camp Pitts S-2B. I took along a GoPro HD Hero and stuck it in the airplane to get B-roll footage of Don flying the Pitts. Pretty day out there and we got some good shots.  ...

Stone Mountain residents were major players at World War II's end - Atlanta Journal Constitution
He then trained as a navigator and found himself flying B-17 missions out of England, often as the lead plane, responsible for getting his group there and, ...

Video: RCAF Vulcan Aerodrome Salute to Flight Instructors from Diamond Pilots 
August 20, 2010 RCAF Vulcan Aerodrome Salute to the Flight Instructors. The Vulcan Aerodrome is 18km southwest of the Town of Vulcan, Alberta. It was home to the No. 2 Flight Instructor School and the No. 19 Service Flying Training School during the Second World War. Built in the ...

Shannon celebrates a century of aviation - The Clare People
One hundred years of Irish aviation will be marked at the Atlantic AirVenture Park in Shannon this weekend. The venue will showcase the history of Irish ...

Royal Air Force Museum Hendon, London (UK) - via Translator
...The rooms have been remodeled and expanded to offer broader aircraft on display. The exhibits are enhanced with very special pieces. The rooms are bright except for the memorial of the Battle of Britain, but then I discovered that what is desired for the projections are performed in several times of the day and include some kind of interaction with the air show. ...

New Orleans in a party mood (except for the thing about the oysters) - Austin American-Statesman
This museum is about to more than double in size with yet another expansion that will house major artifacts like a B-17 plane. We found good food inside ...

Woman to Become Alabama ANG’s First Female Fighter Pilot. from Planenews Aviation News 
(by Jenn Rowell): Woman to become Alabama Air National Guard's first female fighter pilot. Sara Ferrero is flying al­most every day and is nearing her destination, becoming the Alabama Air National Guard's first female fighter pilot.

August 28 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

Fire Bombers (fixed wing) from FenceCheck Forums
North American (later Rockwell) Sabreliner testing a new... from Planeshots

2010 Space Generation Congress Draws Near from Spaceports 
Two of the 20 member US delegation to the 2010 Space Generation Congress will come from the Central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, with newcomer David Brundage and veteran Starla Jo Kiser joining the event with global organizers in Prague late next month. ...


Special Olympics Indiana Plane Pull - Indianapolis Star
The FedEx Boeing 727 aircraft that weighs more than 70 tons is going to be pulled as a part of the ninth annual FedEx Plane Pull Challenge Saturday, ...

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