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Salinas Airshow performers to fill skies - The Salinas Californian | Kirby Chambliss, former Red Bull Air Race World Champion. The Airshow is not just about aircraft, of course. On Friday night, The Wall of Fire and a choreographed frenzy of fireworks will light the night. Rockets and streamers galore will set ablaze ...

Salinas airshow to honor victims of Reno crash - The Salinas Californian | Amador Agabo works to build the President's Club Tent on Tuesday for this weekend's California International Airshow at the Salinas Municipal Airport. Conner Jay/The Salinas Californian Amador Agabo works to build the President's Club Tent on Tuesday ...

USAF Thunderbirds and Texas Natives Discuss 2011 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show - www.youtube.com | USAF Thunderbird #1 Lt. Col. Case Cunningham and #7 Lt. Col. Jason Koltes discuss their excitement to be coming home to perform in their hometown air show at the 2011 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show October 22 & 23 at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport. ...

Pilot's legacy lives on during Gunfighter Skies - Mountain Home News | Photo by Brian S. Orban For more than 10 years, pilot Greg Poe dedicated his life to helping children turn their lives around and to help them reach their goals and dreams. It was the one way he coped with the pain he endured after son died from years ...

A dizzying look at the US Navy Blue Angels as they perform the... from You like airplanes, too? | A dizzying look at the US Navy Blue Angels as they perform the Loop Break Cross maneuver. Smoke on!

Ga. Air Show Organizer Talks Event Safety - MyFox Atlanta | The director of the Great Georgia Air Show says she's been fielding a lot of questions about spectator safety in light of the recent tragedy in Reno. The state's largest air show is scheduled in just a couple of weeks. Director Angie Faulise said it's ...

Friend of Reno Pilot Looks at Air Show Crash Clues - The Ledger | LAKELAND | Retired pilot Howie Keefe has taken a close look at what might have led to the deaths of fellow racing pilot and friend Jimmy Leeward and spectators at a Reno airshow; it's what risk-takers tend to do in the aftermath of ...

Jerome Resident Remembers Pilot Killed During Air Races - Twin Falls Times-News | Lane participated in the Reno air races as the crew chief for three planes from the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. Crew members at the Reno air races are like a close-knit family, Lane said, and most everyone knows each other. ...

Rare PB4Y-2 ‘Privateer’ to fly at Copperstate from General Aviation News | At 75 feet long, 30 feet high, and 110 feet wide from wingtip-to-wingtip, the Consolidated PB4Y-2 "Privateer" based at the Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) in Arizona is tough to miss. For locals and pilots, it’s a familiar sight — but also unfamiliar, even for the most seasoned aviation enthusiast. That’s because it’s the only Privateer still flying. ...

Page Field slates Aviation Day from General Aviation News | Aviation Day 2011 will be held Saturday, Nov. 5, at Florida's Page Field (FMY) and the Lee County Port Authority is looking for exhibitors who would like to display and/or sell aviation-related memorabilia or show their aircraft at the event. Exhibit space is free. ...
   
Air show may come to Rome next year - Rome News Tribune | An air show may take place at the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport next year, according to Airport Manager Mike Mathews. JLC Airshow Management of Kennesaw told members of the Airport Commission on Tuesday night that they ...

Oscar-winner Gooding Jr. to share Tuskegee story - AOPA Pilot | Gooding will talk about the film chronicling the story of the pioneering Tuskegee Airmen on the AOPA Live stage in the exhibit hall at 11:45 am He also will visit with the Commemorative Air Force's Red Tail Squadron at 1:30 pm at Airportfest at ...

Happy 50th Birthday Chinook from Flight Image of the Day | Although debate rages between the US and UK parts of the office as to whether it's pronounced 'shinook' or 'chinook', what is certain is that Boeing's venerable Chinook turns 50 today. To celebrate this, Boeing has also opened its recently renovated, for a cost of $130 million, production site in Ridley Township, PA. Pictured is a CH-47A belonging to the US Army in about 1961. ...

WWII Bomber Pilot Honored With Legion of Honor Medal - The Intelligencer | WHEELING - At more than 6 feet tall, John O'Shaughnessy was considered too big to become a fighter pilot during World War II.  Fighter planes were too small to fit his stature. Instead, the Army Air Corps put him into a B-26 - a medium-range bomber that replaced the B-25. O'Shaughnessy, 88, of Wheeling went on to fly 68 missions during the war, helping to liberate Europe and defeat the Nazis.  In recognition of his work with the 432nd Bomb Squad, O'Shaughnessy on June 17 received the French Legion of Honor Medal.  ...

Remains of WWII servicemen buried in single casket - Washington Examiner | ... Wednesday's burial brings a close to the remarkable story of the Naughty but Nice, a B-17 Flying Fortress that was shot down in 1943 and earned its nickname from a painting of a scantily clad woman on its side. Nine of the 10 airmen on board were killed and buried in unmarked graves. The lone survivor, Lt. Jose Holguin, was taken as a Japanese prisoner of war but made it his mission after the war to find his lost colleagues. ...

How about running a game in the style of 'Top Gun'? - Translated | Playing the Top Gun | Every fan of the movie Top Gun once thought in charge of a jet of war, crossing the skies at high speed. The company Mig Flug , Switzerland, offers the realization of this dream, in an aircraft MIG 29, L-39 Albatross and Hawker Hunter. ...

USAF F-22 fleet is operational again from Warplanes Online Community The Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz have recently approved an implementation plan developed by Air Combat Command officials that will allow the F-22 Raptor to resume flight operations after a four-month stand down.  “We now have enough insight from recent studies and investigations that a return to flight is prudent and  ...

Engines of the C-130J reach the milestone of 3 million hours of flight - Translated | Rolls-Royce brand has three million flight hours with the AE 2100 engines, which power the transport aircraft C-130J Super Hercules. Rolls-Royce made the announcement at the annual meeting of the Air & Space Conference of the Association of the U.S. Air Force, near Washington, DC.  Rolls-Royce delivered 1,155 engines for the Lockheed Martin C-130J program since the AE 2100D3 model made its debut in 1996. The turboprop increased speed, range and ...

BBH Rebrands British Airways in Grand New Campaign from Adweek : Advertising & Branding | Here's the lavish, poetic 90-second brand spot from BBH London that launches a big new British Airways ad campaign—its largest in 11 years. The planed $30 million campaign will largely be about customer service, and introduces a new tagline, "To fly. To serve," which is actually an old line—it comes straight from  ...

NASA Will Give $1.6 Billion to Private Companies to Design a Shuttle Replacement [Space] from Gizmodo | After announcing its new deep space rocket and Apollo program heir, NASA says that they will give $1.61 billion to private companies to design a full system and a spacecraft capable of ferrying cargo and astronauts to the ISS ...