Sunday, June 3, 2012

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Thunder on the Lakeshore air show is up, up and away - Herald Times Reporter | Jim Maroney, piloting his deHaviland Super Chipmunk, flies a few feet over the Flash Fire Jet Truck, driven by Chris Darnell, at the start of a "drag race" on Saturday at the Thunder on the Lakeshore air show at the Manitowoc County Airport in ...

PhotoBlog - Airshow aerobatics on display in Russia | The Russian aerobatic group "Russkiye Vityazi" (Russian Knights) fly their Sukhoi SU-27 jet fighters during a local airshow at the Pushkin military airport outside St.Petersburg, Russia, June 2.

Acro Camp: Michelle's First Pitts Flight - AcroCamp | his is why we made Acro Camp. Check out Michelle Kole's reaction to her first takeoff and climb in the Pitts!

'Wings of Freedom Tour' WWII planes to visit North Coast this week - Times-Standard | If you've ever wondered what it must have been like during World War II to fly combat missions aboard one of the US Army Air Corps' heavy bombers or fighter planes, or if you've ever wanted to crawl through a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator or a...

B-17 bomber to visit Santa Maria airport Monday - Santa Maria Times | The B-17 Flying Fortress called “Sentimental Journey” will make a return visit to the Santa Maria Public Airport early this week. The flying museum is set to land around noon Monday and remain in Santa Maria until Wednesday.

Vulcan team target Air Tattoo return - The Vulcan Bomber | Well it's been an emotional few days for us Vulcan fans, one day fearing that the airshow season season was lost (and for some of us, being really thankful that that was it all that had happened) but then the hope that followed ...

Tricolor arrows, dress rehearsal for the Sunday of Ostia - The Republic | All set for the second edition of Capital Air Show, which takes place today on the shores of the coast. On Friday afternoon, the planes had started rehearsals. 500 thousand spectators are expected, but could reach over one million...

WNC Air Museum's air fair continues today - BlueRidgeNow.com | A Stearman comes in for a landing during the WNC Air Fair on Saturday at the WNC Air Museum. By Jessica Goodman The roar of aircraft engines was music to the ears of the children and adults who turned out Saturday at the Hendersonville Airport for the...

Bronco Demoteam website update from Apron 6 | Yet another post about the Bronco, last one I promise!...

New Bronco III from Apron 6 | And another view on the Bronco. Tried something with desaturating.

New analysis of distress signals suggests aviator survived for days - Macleans.ca | Amelia Earhart did not simply disappear on July 2, 1937, says a non-profit organization devoted to aviation history. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has released...

Guest view: Ilion native got Navy Cross for actions at Midway - Utica Observer Dispatch | Hornet had left the West Coast with 16 Army Air Force B-25 bombers under the command of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, and in late April 1942, conducted the first offensive attack of the war against the Japanese homeland. Aboard Hornet as a member of the...

Air Force vet recalls exhilaration from aviation - Delmarva Now | He was then sent to Oklahoma and never forgot the miserably hot temperatures exceeding 100 degrees and learning to fly a B-25 in Enid, Okla. In San Antonio, Texas, he was at Randolph Air Force Base, where he flew B-29s, the aircraft that dropped...

Magnificent men in their flying machines - The Canberra Times | Hoyle followed the 1935 Great Air Race from London to Melbourne and sitting at his school desk he would daydream - ''my pencil became a Zeppelin flying in the dark skies … and I was a daring young pilot intent on destroying the great raider...

Treynor native takes to the skies with aviation program - SW Iowa News | He remembers the sounds (loud), the twists and turns, the loops, the Blue Angels. Livengood, 19, remembers it all. His fascination with flight led to a career choice at a young age: Livengood's going to be a pilot. “Ever since I was 4 years old I knew...

After stop at NYC airport, shuttle goes to sea - Seattle Post Intelligencer | In this photo provided by the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, the Space Shuttle Enterprise is loaded on to a barge in a canal near John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, June 2, 2012. The Enterprise will be towed past landmarks...

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