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Blue Angels cancel week's remaining practices. - Pensacola News Journal | The Blue Angels received word from Navy officials late Tuesday that their practices on Wednesday through Friday of this week are canceled. “We are still hoping for word about our future” after this week, said Lt. Katie Kelly, spokeswoman for the team.

Many groups fund Sun N' Fun Fly In - Bay News 9 | Visit Florida, the state's tourism marketing group, says it will cover part of the costs to hold the upcoming Sun 'n Fun Fly In in Lakeland. Bay News 9's partner newspaper, The Lakeland Ledger, reports the group will pay $125,000 to help pay for air ...

CoolPix: Jimmy Doolittle And The Gee Bee R-1 Race Past The Bendix Pylon! (1932) from AirPigz by Martt | This is actually a picture of a picture... the enlarged photograph is on the wall at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and I captured a picture of that photograph during the NASM AirPigz MeetUp back in late January 2013. I was...

No Gary Air Show this year - Chicago Sun-Times | Sequestration has grounded the 2013 Gary Air Show. Speros Batistatisos, president and CEO, of the South Shore Convention and president and CEO, said the cost of paying for air traffic controllers and the lack of military planes will make what is a ...

Scouts cancel St. Cloud Air Show - St. Cloud Times | This summer's St. Cloud Air Show has been canceled. The Central Minnesota Council of Boy Scouts decided to cancel the air show Tuesday because the military support needed to put on the show was not available as a result of sequestration. The Blue ...

Rochester Airshow Postponed Indefinitely - 13WHAM-TV | A recent memo from the Department of Defense said that all aerial demonstrations, including flyovers, jump team demonstrations and participation in airshows, would end if no budget deal was reached by April 1. Organizers say they will give attendees 60...

Vintage bombers visit Meacham Field - Fort Worth Star Telegram | This World War II B-17 and two other planes are on display for three days at Meacham Field in Fort Worth on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. GKH8ETJL.1. Star-Telegram/Khampha Bouaphanh. Dennis Little of Burleson tours the inside of a B-17 at Meacham Field in ...

Women in Aviation, International Takes Off for 25th Anniversary Year from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | With the successful conclusion of its 24th Annual Conference last month in Nashville, WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian has now turned her attention to major networking and outreach as part of WAI's 25 years of conferences. The Nashville 2013 Conference set a new record with 3,375 attendees representing all segments of the aviation community....

Tradition Honors Fallen Hero- Pete's Sacrifice from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ...The 30-year-old Center Point, Alabama, pilot was shot to death by one of Fidel Castro's soldiers when his plane, a B-26, was shot down and force landed. They also killed his flight engineer, Leo Baker, after the two had bombed targets near Castro's field headquarters. Two other Alabamians also died when their plane was shot down during the invasion. They were on a mission that the late Col. Joe Shannon, one of the few surviving pilots from the group, recalled was "a last-ditch effort". Through its secrecy, it would change the course of many lives for decades....

Colorado Chapter March 2013 Newsletter from Antique Airfield News
Josh Cawthra's Cessna 140 from Antique Airfield News
Dave Bole's New Howard Cowling from Antique Airfield News
A Few Fleet…ing moments in AAA History from Antique Airfield News | Whether called a Fleet, Husky Jr., Fawn, Finch or YPT-6, Consolidated Aircraft's iconic design has been an integral part of AAA functions from inception in 1953....

Call Sign Misty from The Lexicans by Bill Brandt | ...They flew the 2 seat version of the F100 (F100F) , a pilot and a spotter. Both were pilots, and would rotate seats with each mission. They’d fly their missions at low level, 350-550 mph, looking for batteries and anything else to disrupt the enemy....

Third British F-35B flies at Lockheed's Fort Worth plant from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Lockheed Martin chief test pilot Al Norman flew the third F-35B on it first flight yesterday at Fort Worth, Texas. The aircraft called ZM137 will join two earlier British aircraft at Eglin AFB, Florida, later this year after it finished off its check flights.

Sporty’s Academy president honored from General Aviation News | Sporty’s Academy President Eric Radtke has been named Distinguished Alumnus for 2013 for the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College.  The award is bestowed upon...

Gone but not forgotten from General Aviation News | We lost some key “downtown” airports as the 20th Century faded into history. Famous campaigns fought to save them; local politicians with big plans “got” them — Chicago Meigs (10 years ago this month) and Bader Field in Atlantic City, N.J. They represented the height of GA utility. Now, in their absence, have politicians’ airport-killing schemes and dreams worked out?...

Rancho Cielo Students Win Airshow Top Chef Competition and Take to the Sky - KIONrightnow.com | The students actually won a cooking competition held during the 2012 California International Airshow and first prize was a chance to fly with local airshow performers Sean D. Tucker and Brian Norris. Ewing and Veronica Guizar both won the event last ...

Sneak peek of Disney’s ‘Planes’ released from General Aviation News | Disney has just released a sneak peek of its upcoming movie “Planes.” The 3D animated comedy adventure features Dusty (voice of Dane Cook), a plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. But Dusty’s not exactly built for racing...

Top Gun: Boeing vs Airbus from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar  

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