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Weekend's Rhode Island air show to feature high-flying events - Fall River Herald News | The Rhode Island Air National Guard Open House Air Show will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Quonset State Air Field.

The best of the Navy’s ‘Day in Photos’ - Washington Post | Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class Thomas Kinn, assigned to the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, flies an...

Importance of 'Flag Day' from Air Force Link Top Stories | Each year, Americans can enjoy four special days set aside specifically to honor our veterans and comrades in arms. Sadly, too many of us often overlook these opportunities to pay our respect and recognize the sacrifice and service of these individuals. These four days are intended to, in some small way, express the sentiments of a grateful nation. So what does it say of us when we forget, overlook, or simply brush aside the opportunity to honor the best among us?...

Star-Spangled Sailabration Pumps Money Into Baltimore - CBS Local | At Patterson Park, hundreds gathered to watch the Navy Leap Frogs parachute from high above. “The fact that the Navy Seals are here to put on a little show for ...

Ride of my life with Thunderbirds - Delmarva Now | WALLOPS ISLAND -- I got my butt kicked by an F-16.  Take the most rollicking amusement park ride you've ever experienced and then multiply that by a billion. Imagine someone prepping James Bond's shaken-not-stirred martini -- only you're inside the shaker. Add to it the full-body smothering of G-forces and...

Estherville to hold 64th Flight Breakfast - Estherville Daily News | This year, the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce has secured an exciting aerobatic airshow. Minneapolis-based pilot Dick Schulz will perform two shows,...

Red Arrows fly in for Lincoln's Olympic extravaganza - This is Lincolnshire | The Red Arrows will perform a spectacular fly-past at the Olympic Torch Relay evening celebration in Lincoln, the Echo can reveal. The RAF top guns will ...

80,000 to Airshow - TV2/Nord | The vast majority of today's demonstrations succeeded as planned. However, any individual performances, including the prestigious patrol Acrobatique de France, is canceled ...

On Saturday will be in Prague to fly aerobatic champion and Sonka Tchmal - Translated | As an example of art elite aerobatic pilots, smoke effects, historical aircraft, as well as scenic flights visitors can enjoy the first year of competition in freestyle and acrobatic flying. Event called Freestyle Aerobatic Hotpeppers Challenge 2012 will take place on Saturday 16 June at the airport in Prague-Letnany and attended by the best aerobatic pilot Czech Martin Sonka, or the Russian world champion Viktor Tchmal...

Tulsa CAF Is Offering A Ride In A Vintage War Plane - News On 6 | "This particular airplane was a training airplane in WWII-- not fast but highly maneuverable and highly aerobatic, but we don't do aerobatics in it," said Bob Prater ...

Iconic bomber will take to the skies again - The Oxford Times | The last remaining Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in Europe – 'Sally B' – will take to the skies for Fly to the Past at Oxford Airport on September 1-2. The B-17s flew daytime bombing raids on strategic sites in Nazi Germany in the Second World War, ...

Win a display from the Trig aerobatic team at your home airfield! - PilotWeb | Enter the 8.33 Challenge and you could win a jaw-dropping private display from the Trig Aerobatic team. The competition is open to all pilots - no matter what ...

Two JU teams to take part June 19-22 in all-woman 2012 Air Race Classic - WAVE Weekly | ...JU’s two teams are: Air Race Classic Team #9 (“Team Snoopy”), consisting of pilot Juliana Vazquez and co-pilot Heather Meyer, flying a Cirrus SR-2; and Air Race Classic Team #45 (“Team Red Baroness”), consisting of pilot Katja Jourdan and co-pilot Renèe Brilhante, in a Cirrus SR-20....

Flying Katy Kats set to take to the skies - Katy Times | “We did a short 100-mile air race up in Texoma, Texas a couple of months ago, kind of for practice,” Brackley said. “It gave us a chance to actually fly in a race ...

Adria Air Race in Jarun - Translated | The program runs from 10 am, and the main attractions in the range 13.40 and 14:20, when the race takes place acrobatic planes | In spectacle in the sky, visitors this Saturday at Jarun expected and very interesting program on the ground and from 10 hours. The rich program designed for all ages and, moreover, because everyone will be able to enjoy jumping parachutists...

Hero - Vintage Wings of Canada | Vintage Wings of Canada's core program called In His Name dedicates each of the eighteen aircraft of the collection to a Canadian veteran, famous or otherwise, native or foreign born, who had an association with the aircraft type during their flying career. All aircraft carry a dedication panel on each side of her fuselage. Only one aircraft, the Stocky Edwards P-40 Kittyhawk, will now carry two dedication panels. The first is to Wing Commander James Francis “Stocky” Edwards, of Nakomis, Saskatchewan, the great Kittyhawk legend and Canada's highest scoring living ace. The other is for one of only two non-Canadian honourees of the In His Name program – Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping of Southend, England (the other is China-born American John Gillespie Magee who in fact flew for the RCAF). Copping, the son of an English dentist, and Edwards, the Saskatchewan farm boy, knew each other, as they both flew with 260 Squadron in the desert campaign of North Africa. They both flew Kittyhawk HS-B (Serial Number ET574). Edwards survived the war and lives today in Comox, BC. Dennis Copping did not survive. He would be lost in Kittyhawk HS-B, while Stocky went on to fame in its replacement - a new Kittyhawk HS–B, serial Number FR350...

Robin Olds and Scat XXVII — his last ride and end of an era - travelforaircraft | Robin Olds was a remarkable man who passed away at a ripe old age on this day in 2007. Olds served his country flying in the U.S. Air Force — his first fighter was the P-38 Lightning and his last was the F-4 Phantom II which is now on display in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force —  in between these aircraft he flew P-51, P-80 and F-86 fighters — and is the sole USAF ace with aerial victories in WW II (14 victories) and the Vietnam War (4 victories). Olds's style was to lead from the front and he pushed Air Force bureaucracy whenever he felt that it was obstructing its mission of ...

Air Force Capt. Tony McPeak, Over Vietnam - TIME | A fighter pilot — who flew over Vietnam, in war, and as a member of the Air Force's Thunderbirds aerial acrobatic team, in peace – McPeak ran the service ...

Video: The Arizona Desert, A B-17, And A B-25 - Wow! from AirPigz by Martt | Seeing the B-17 Sentimental Journey and the B-25 Maid in the Shade flying around the Arizona desert doesn't exactly make sense to me, but this video is so enjoyable to watch that it doesn't need to make sense. It's actually some fabulous footage taken from a helicopter of the airplanes flying during a weekend event in conjunction with Veterans Day back in 2010. And of course, the setting for historic warbirds like...

Stuka, one of the few from Apron 6 | I’ve posted yesterday about the recovery of a German Stuka. Only 2 are left and one of them is on exhibition at the...

You told us: Top 5 spots for plane geeks - CNN | ...Honestly no list is ever going to satisfy this crowd. Everyone has their OWN list, as shown by CNN commenters who wrote questions like...

Flight suits behind F-22 pilot sickness? - CBS News | Pilots flying the US military's most advanced fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, had been getting sick at the controls, and much of the focus toward finding the cause has been on the plane itself. Now, however, Air Force investigators say the ...

Osprey crash leaves five injured from Air Force Link Top Stories | Five crew members aboard an Air Force CV-22 Osprey that crashed last evening on the Eglin Range, north of Navarre, Fla., were taken to local area hospitals. Two crew members were taken by ambulance, while the other three were taken via air. The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time. The Air Force CV-22 Osprey, assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing, crashed at approximately 6:45 p.m. June 13. The mishap occurred during a routine training mission....

Kids focus of Big Toy Day at airport - StarNewsOnline.com | The Brunswick County Airport Commission provided single engine planes as part of the Young Eagles program. Members of the Civil Air Patrol Squadron ...

Quincy Regional Airport hosting Father's Day Weekend events - Quincy Journal | Qualified children can also participate in the “EAA Young Eagles Program” which provides youth with information about flying and being a pilot and may include ...