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Super Bowl stars fly with the Blues - WALA-TV FOX10 | Both are words that describe the Blue Angels openening star, Fat Albert. One word that might not come to mind for the 110000 pound plane? Fast. Friday, FOX10 News reporter Russell Colburn boarded the beast, but he was far from alone. ...

Air show plans ready for flight – StarPhoenix | Air show performers also include wing-walkers Gene Soucy and Theresa Stokes; Pete McLeod Aerosports; aerial comedian and precision pilot Kent Pietsch; aerobatics by Super Dave; "Miss Mitchell," a B-25 and P-51 Mustang WWII aircraft as well as military ...

Pilot Pushes Local Youth to Reach for the Sky - KQ2 | StJoeChannel - The Mid-City Excellence program invited aerobatic pilot Greg Poe to the East Hills library to preview the upcoming airshow in Tarkio this weekend. Poe also shared his story, telling the kids how he overcame adversity to land a job he loves. ...

PHOTOS: Arlington Fly-In and Airshow - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Bottom right, an airplane performs during the airshow. Bottom left, the Museum of Flight's DC-2. (Photos by Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com) Light, moment, expression, composition, irony, truth. Those are the elements Joshua Trujil…

Rare Bear Eats the Skies  from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography » The history of this aircraft just amazes and fascinates me! Rare Bear is a F8F Bearcat WWII fighter, discovered as a severely damaged wreck in 1969 by Lyle Shelton. It had been abandoned next to a runway in an Indiana cornfield after a crash in 1962. The airplane had been stripped by parts hunters, so Shelton found a fuselage, wing center section, landing gear and a right wing panel, but little else. Wow!...

American and Vietnamese pilots bring message of reconciliation to Connecticut ... - The Republic | After working with the local VFW and the Air Force, Cherry was able to have the plane dismantled and brought back to Aviation Heritage Park, in his hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, for restoration. The park pays tribute to the history of aircraft ...

Celebrate Navy Week in Rochester - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | The US Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels. will perform as part of the ESL International Air Show July 16 and 17. Democrat and Chronicle file photo/Carlos Ortiz Navy Week in Rochester, a city nearly 600 miles from the nearest Fleet ...

Rare WWII-era bombers coming to Bellingham's Heritage Flight Museum - TheNewsTribune.com | The B-17 nicknamed "Sentimental Journey" is one of only eight of its kind remaining in the world. The strategic bomber and the twin-engine B-25 "Maid in the Shade" will be available for 30-minute flights costing from $425 to $600. ...

Bin Laden Killers Want to Maximize Brand Awareness  from Wired: Danger Room by Spencer Ackerman | What better way to attract youngsters for the rigors of elite warriorhood than by offering them a free t-shirt?  There’s nothing like killing Osama bin Laden in an operation destined for the spec-ops pantheon to re-establish yourself as the baddest of the bad-ass. So it’s only natural that the Navy Special Warfare Command wants new swag to “increase brand awareness of the Navy SEALs.” But, uh, water bottles, coins and packpacks?...

WWII veterans to greet B-29 Superfortress in Olathe - Kansas City Star | The plane will fly into the New Century AirCenter, which will host the Commemorative Air Force/Heart of America Wing Annual Air Expo on July 16 and 17. The wing is holding a lunch for the former crewmen, who will see a plane that will evoke memories of ...

Flight in World War II bomber brings back memories for veteran - Greeley Tribune | B-24 pilots Derick Ward, right, and Jayson Owen fly over Loveland in the vintage World War II bomber Friday. A B-24, B-17 and P-51C Mustang airplanes will be at the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport until Sunday as part of the ...

The Benefits of an Aviation Museum  from Pilots of America Message Board by Jay Honeck | The Iowa Children's Museum opened an aviation exhibit last year. This project was the idea of a group of us who put together an on-airport airshow/car show for the museum back in 2006 that provided the seed money for the exhibit.  It was a tough sell to the museum folks, at first. They simply didn't see the potential of an aviation exhibit for kids. It took the better part of a year, but we eventually won them over to our side. Once this was achieved, it really took off, with grant money from NASA, Rockwell Collins and others…

On the hunt: Aviation archaeology holds fascination for history detective - The Commercial Dispatch | Trojan is an aviation archaeologist, dedicated to the pursuit of finding, documenting, recovering and preserving sites important in aviation history. And if his avocation makes a life-affirming difference in a few families' lives along the way, ...

July 9 – This Day In Aviation History  from Aviation Earth | In 1910… Walter Brookins attains an altitude of 6,175 feet in a Wright biplane, becoming the first to fly a mile high and wins a prize of $5,000 for his feat. (AYY) In 1924… The first recorded flight of a live bull takes place when champion breeder Nico V is flown from Rotterdam, Holland to [...]

In flight  from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e by pawangkul: 

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