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Rep. Buschon presses Navy to keep Blue Angels flying - Evansville Courier & Press | “Rather than cut the Blue Angels, I encourage the DOD to look at other ways to cut wasteful spending. The DOD spends $700 million annually on alternative energy research, duplicating research at the Department of Energy or in the private sector. Last ...

Heritage Flight Foundation To Continue Air Show Performances from Aero-News Network| But Modern Military Aircraft Will Not Be Part Of The Displays While contemporary military aircraft will not be participating in air shows this year, the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation (AFHFF) has developed plans to be sure that Heritage Flights will continue to be available to air shows that wish to have them participate.

Tiny stunt plane provides big thrills at Sun n' Fun - Tampabay.com | Now that the lunky cargo has been situated — jeez, I don't even want to know what my call sign would be — it's time for some 2,000-foot-high derring-do with the stars at this year's Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo, the aviation-intense weekend ...

Sun 'n Fun airshow wows crowds - AOPA Pilot | Pilots nationwide and spectators from the Lakeland, Fla., area flocked to the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo in anticipation of the daily airshows and other happenings at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. The daily airshows are shorter this ...

Sun 'n Fun Warbirds 2013 - Photos!

With Blue Angels, Thunderbirds grounded, Wings Over Houston gets creative - Houston Chronicle | A steady stream of bad budget news from Washington, D.C., has left this year's Wings Over Houston Airshow up in the air. Organizers have known since March 1 that the planned headliner - the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration squadron - would not ...

Pilots Work to Save Big Country AirFest after Dyess Backs Out - Big County | You can see them flying high, every May, during Abilene's annual Big Country Airfest, except this year, as Gary Potter admits: "The air shows not going to be the same." The sky will be a bit emptier after budget cuts forced the Air Force to cancel ...

Ocean City air show to go on without Blue Angels, Thunderbirds - Baltimore Sun | In addition to the OC Air Show, Lilley's company also produces the Lauderdale Air Show later this month in South Florida. He said that show has been successful using only civilian aircraft for the past three years and that he would seek a similar ...

Memorial Day Weekend Salute to Veterans Corporation Airshow Confirms Performers for May Event from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Memorial Day Weekend Salute to Veterans Corporation has confirmed airshow performers and display aircraft for this year's event at Columbia, MO Regional Airport May 25-26. The show must go on, as it has for the previous 24 years, despite the cancellation of U.S. military participation...

SF's Fleet Week air show canceled with Blue Angels grounded - San Francisco Examiner | The Blue Angels are the lynchpin of Fleet Week's air show, which draws more than 1 million visitors to rooftops and open spaces around Marina Green and Crissy Field every October. Without the Blue Angels, it is a “safe bet” there will be no air show, ...

Hopes are high for airshow - The West Australian | Those magnificent men in their flying machines will take to the skies over Geraldton at the weekend as part of an airshow organisers hope will grow into one of Australia's biggest. The Valley View Weekend will incorporate a host of aerial displays with ...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Flying Fortress secures place at RAF Cosford Air Show from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The RAF Cosford 75th Anniversary Air Show team is excited to announce that the last remaining airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress in Europe will be joining the packed line-up at this year’s event on Sunday 9th June.

B-17 Bomber In The Skies Over Fresno - CBS 47 | The B-17 Flying Fortress "Movie Memphis Belle" had heads turning all around Fresno on Tuesday. The B-17 Bomber helped the U.S. win WWII, and one of the last of the legendary aircraft was in the skies above the valley Tuesday. Around 13,000 were built, ...

68 years after being shot down over Germany, Fresno WWII vet flies in a B-17 - Fresno Bee | Rudy Giannoni, right, of Fresno steps out of the Movie Memphis Belle, a restored World War II B-17 bomber, after taking a ride in the flying fortress in the skies above Fresno Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Giannoni, who turns 90 later this month, was shot ...

Lt. Matt Williams flew a B-24 on 35 combat missions over Europe during WW II from War Tales by Don Moore | 1st Lt. Matt Williams of Englewood flew his first combat mission piloting a B-24 “Liberator,” four-engine bomber over Nazi-occupied France during the D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944, along the beaches of Normandy in World War II. “My first mission was probably the most interesting because you could climb out of the bomber and walk from [...]

Top flight weekend at Yorkshire Air Museum - The Press, York | VISITORS to the Yorkshire Air Museum could see a flypast of a Douglas DC3 Dakota from the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight at the Battlegroup North weekend event in May. The event, on May 11 and 12, will also feature a war gaming show, performed by ...

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Visit: Airpark in Winter - Fairchild C-119J Flying Boxcar from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Airpark contains a unique Fairchild C-119J Flying Boxcar. The design was an improvement of the company's C-82 Packet, a postwar cargo aircraft used...

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - The Inside View from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Since Fred Harl is covering the aircraft in the Air Park out there in the snow, I thought I would provide an inside look from a recent visit to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. A research trip to the Museum archives...

Brad Tate from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | ...My mother's father was a private pilot. He was a banker in western Oklahoma and got his kicks flying around in a V-tailed Bonanza during the 1960's. My father's father was a WWII era B-25 Crew Chief stationed at Greenville Army Air Field in Greenville, SC where he helped train the Doolittle Raiders. My own father flew OV-1 Mohawks in Vietnam and spent 32 years as a pilot for Delta Air Lines. But as surrounded by aviation as I was, a career in the skies was never pushed on me or even encouraged until I began to show interest of my own....

Yeager Fights To Retain Control Of His Name from Aero-News Network | Has Filed A Petition With SCOTUS In Long-Running Case Retired Air Force General Chuck Yeager has filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) related to a suit against a memorabilia website he says used his name without authorization. The website Law 360 reports that in the petition, Yeager says a legal principal known as "laches" should apply in the case rather than California state law.

Far out space fun arrives April 12 with Yuri's Night - Daily Press | The Yuri's Night event being held Friday, April 12, at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton celebrates space exploration with live music from Slapwater, Nature's Child and DJ Jeyone, intergalactic cocktails, a space-themed costume contest ...

Video: Remembering the 1st to orbit: Yuri Gagarin from Spaceports | On April, 12th, 2013 putting on of wreaths took place on Red Square in Moscow, Russia to designers of space technology and the first cosmonaut of a planet - to Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Virginians may see Antares rocket red glare from Spaceports | The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Mission Planning lab created the visibility map for the launch of the Orbital Sciences Corporation commercial Antares rocket booster from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia's Eastern Shore set for Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 5PM ET....