Sunday, August 14, 2011

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Weather cooperates to bring big crowd to Fargo Airsho - In-Forum | The Blue Angels break away out of formation as they near the end of their performance Saturday at the Fargo AirSho. Dave Wallis / The Forum FARGO - In addition to being military veterans, Ed Boch and Bob Saumur are air show veterans, having attended ...

US “Thunder” Flies in NH Air Show - New Hampshire Magazine (Photo) National Aviation Halol of Famer Sean D. Tucker in thrilling the crowd in his Oracle customer built 400 horsepower Challenger byplane. (Photo) Alton, NH's Golden Kinghts member Staff Sargent Howard Sanborn kicking off the 2011 Boston-Portsmouth ...

Miami: Air Force Nixes Miami Air Show In 2012 For Homestead ...  by Bob Arnold | In a blow to the Miami Beacon Council, the City of Homestead, and even the sister organization of the Paris Air Show, Miami will not be home to an Air Show in 2012 similar to those that take place in Europe, Asia, ...

Air show's improvments make for smooth first day - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — The first day of the 2011 Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show drew an estimated 30000 attendees, while new improvements made for a smooth day, organizers say. The number of food vendors doubled this year ...

Atlantic City Air Show Set for Wednesday, August 17th - TheAlternativePress.com | Air Force Thunderbirds and the US. Army Golden Knights, the largest mid-week airshow in the country, will feature parachute teams, fly-bys, formations and much more. "Each year we work with Airboss David Schultz to make sure the Atlantic City Airshow ...

Local leap: Alton native among army parachute team - Foster's Daily Democrat | PORTSMOUTH -- It's hard to imagine someone from a small town like Alton would be jumping with the army's most elite parachute team, the US Army's Golden Knights, but that's exactly what Howie Sanborn, 29, is doing. ...

Trip to World War II airshow in Rhode Island is vintage - Waterbury Republican American ... aircrafts including Last Samurai, one of only two Japanese Zeros still flying in the world; the FG-1D Corsair Whistling Death; the P-40K Aleutian Tiger; two P-51D Mustangs Dakota Kid II and Little Horse; and the Mitchell B-25 Bomber Betty's Dream. ...

6 World War II planes on display - Kennebec Journal | The Texas Flying Legends, who maintain and fly one of the largest collections of World War II aircraft are holding a show at the Wiscasset airport over the weekend. Casey Cooke traveled down to the show from Belgrade to see a P-40 ...

Museum: Bomber belongs back in Midlands - The State | A B-25 Mitchell bomber was raised from Lake Greenwood in 1983 and stored in Columbia since 1992. It is stored in a hangar at Hamilton-Owens Field. in The South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation owns the bomber and is raising funds to renovate it. ...

Remote Control Air Show begins Thursday - Fond du Lac Reporter | The fifth annual Warbirds & Classics Remote Control Air Show in Fond du Lac is expected to feature more than 100 pilots and over 200 flying aircraft. The Fond du Lac Aeromodelers Club hosts the event from Thursday, Aug. 18, through Sunday, Aug. ...

QuickPic: Restored Rutan Boomerang At Oshkosh 2011 (+ Video)  by Martt | Burt Rutan designed and built the Boomerang in the mid 1990's as a way to make a twin engine tractor aircraft fly almost as easily on one engine as it does on two. The very asymmetrical airframe actually helps the airplane fly nearly as if the engines were both mounted on the centerline. While Burt considers this airplane to be one of his greatest accomplishments, the airplane sat for many years after Burt lost his medical certificate. But the Boomerang was recently resurrected by a team of volunteers headed up by Tres Clements (who works at Scaled Composites) and the airplane was a huge hit at Oshkosh 2011…

Cold, rain, snow and the military visitors  from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | The forecasts for today and the next 2-3 days are looking very good, in a weird kinda way. We are forecast to have snow, almost to sea level, for the first time in possibly several decades. It should be an exciting time for the next few days! Already, I've experienced a little snow at home this evening, and I'm hoping that it will start to settle on the ground on the next few days…

VRW Team4Speed at work  from Bonjour BlueSky:

Aviation Museum keeping history of flight alive - KNDO/KNDU | The McAllister Museum of Aviation in Yakima is working hard to keep local aviation history alive. It opened in 1998, at the wish of long-time Yakima resident Charlie McAllister. When he died, the non-profit museum was run by volunteers. ...

Today in Aviation History – August 14  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

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