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Only a trail remains: At least 70000 attend air show over two days; crowds pleased - Foster's Daily Democrat | "A beautiful weekend, great weather and the Blue Angels were a great combination." For most of those estimated 70000 people, bathrooms, shade and mapping ...

Mexico, MO Salute to Veterans Air Show from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo:

Winds trim Offutt air show - Omaha World-Herald | One of the show's highlights was the Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, which performs aerial stunts in tight formation. The Thunderbirds have been ...

Flypast offers a new view of show - The Northern Echo | A FLYPAST by a Second World War Dakota aircraft proved to be the star attraction at an agricultural show in the heart of the North Pennines. ...

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Nation loses another hero - Sun-Sentinel | He was a B17 navigator in World War ll. He was truly part of the Greatest Generation. Try to imagine climbing into your B17 aircraft knowing you will be ...

Review: A2A Simulations' B-17G Flying Fortress - FlightSim.com | The Boeing B-17 could be called the greatest aircraft in history. It was produced and shot down in vast quantities, housed a crew of around ...

Scrapbook: Legend of the skies. 25th Aug 1943 - RantRave | Published Opinion.| Didn't he win the Kings Cup Air Race in 1938? And now he is more than ever a legend for all the ants on the ground, who never cease to be astonished when ...

Aviation Celebration Honors Alabama's First Lady of Flight Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- On National Aviation Day the Birmingham Aero Club hosted an evening event honoring Alabama's First Lady of Flight- Nancy Batson Crews (1920-2001) with a new exhibit at the Southern Museum of Flight. Award winning author and featured speaker, Sarah Byrn Rickman, highlighted Nancy's story from her recent biography as told to her by her late friend and mentor. Aero Club President, Holly Roe opened the program with Dr. Ed Stevenson from the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame introducing Sara Rickman. Dr. Jim Griffin, Director of the Southern Museum of Flight presented the new Crews exhibit…

The DC-3, A Real Man's Airplane from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7 | Every now and then you run across an article you just have to read, and so it was with an article in Flying by Martha Lunken titled "DC-3, A Real Man's Airplane." Without a doubt this is one of the best articles written about this wonderful 75 year old airplane, and which brought back memories [...]

Happy 40th Birthday To The DC-10 from Flying With Fish by flyingfish | If you're a regular reader of Flying With Fish you may have noticed I am a 'three-holer' fan.  While my favorite three-holer, the Lockheed L-1011, is all but gone from the skies, the long serving three-holer workhorse of the skies is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its very first flight…

Video: Sumptuous 747 Landing In 120fps Slow Mo - Wow! by Martt | I'm a freak for great video, and for great airplanes... guess you could say that makes me a 'super freak' for great video of great airplanes! That's exactly what youtuber GatwickSpotting has here. Shot from over 4 miles away, this slow mo 747 landing is a real treat to watch…

A Fine Day's Cataloging from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Another fine day of editing here at Airspeed Studios. I got most of Day 2 (15 May) cataloged and ready to link up with alternate camera angles and the cockpit audio. And I found several of the Easter eggs that the cast left for me. Like this shot of Jim Rodriguez and Don Weaver giving the thumbs up, er, down, er up. The tech frame evolved when Roger Bishop gave in to the ham that's in all of us and gave the camera a wave. Being a guy with a true sense of lighting and composition, I'm sure that he couldn't resist stepping out into the near-perfect lighting of one of the early flights of that day…

John And Martha King Held At Police Gunpoint (Really) from AVwebFlash Current Issue - Aviation's most prominent husband and wife team is calling on government agencies to keep their databases up to date and warning pilots and aircraft owners they could be next to be surrounded by heavily armed police, handcuffed and detained because of a bit of miscommunication. John and Martha King say there's a lesson to be learned after they spent about 30 scary minutes in the custody of Santa Barbara, Calif., police at the Santa Barbara Airport Saturday…

Guns, Handcuffs and John and Martha King from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Think it can't happen to you? John and Martha King (of King Schools) beg to differ. Aviation's best-known couple were the subject of a bizarre case of mistaken identity on Aug. 28 that resulted in them having guns drawn on them, being handcuffed and held for about 30 minutes. As always, there are lessons to be learned from Martha King as she goes through the bizarre event at the Santa Barbara Airport in this unedited and, at 15 minutes, longer-than-usual AVweb podcast.This podcast is brought to you by Bose Corporation…

Strange But True Aviation News from Things with Wings by fail…

How Did An IPhone Take This Picture? - Gizmodo Australia - Unless the blades of this aeroplane propellor can defy gravity and float, the iPhone's camera totally distorted ...

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