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Manassas Air Show Takes to the Skies This Weekend - Patch.com | It's head's up this weekend at the Manassas Regional Airport for the area's annual air show. The event, which is from 10 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, will feature an aerobatic air show, wing walkers and aircraft displays. Admission to the show is free and...

Wings and Wheels Fly-In set to soar - Lake Gaston Gazette Observer | The kickoff event for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lake Gaston, the Fabulous 50 Splash, the Fly-In promotes aviation while providing a venue for classic cars and motorcycles to be shown, with underlying goals of honoring military veterans ...

Buttons will be needed only for airshows at ShrinersFest - Evansville Courier & Press | ...Airshow organizer Steve Eberhart promised the airshow will be interesting despite the absence of the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, which was to have anchored it. The famed squadron has been grounded due to budget cuts from the Congressional impasse over the federal budget....

Historic warbirds touch down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon - 10News | Historic warbirds touch down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon. 18,000 B-24s made at Consolidated Aircraft plant. B-24 at Gillespie Field. Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten,...

Sky's the limit for this event - Gympie Times | Contributed. MORE than 100 model aircraft will take to the skies over Tin Can Bay this weekend in the biggest model aeroplane event in Queensland. Hosted by the Tin Can Bay Model Flying Club, the annual SCAF (Southern Cross Air Force) Warbirds, has ...

Working on the line. Golden Eagles from Planeshots

Last Stalag XVII-B POW Group Reunion Arrives in St. Louis May 1-3 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | This reunion is for the POW’s who were aircrews of the US Army Air Forces. During missions over German cities and other Nazi strongholds, their B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators were shot down by Germans with anti-aircraft guns. They sent crewmembers plummeting to the ground while fumbling with parachutes and praying for survival....

A Simple Thing from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | On April 15, 2013, in an emotional ceremony at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, the Government of Canada unveiled an enlarged image of small piece if silvery metal not much bigger than one half centimeter by three centimeters – the Royal Canadian Air Force's Bomber Command Clasp. While it is too late to demonstrate our recognition and pride for the large percentage of former Bomber Command air crew, a small group of Bomber Command veterans were assembled for the unveiling of the new – an extraordinary grouping of proud aviators accounting for 305 Operation over enemy territory....

Ed Rasimus was buried today from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Fellow blogger, decorated US Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran Ed Rasimus was buried at Arlington Military Cemetery today, with full military honors, of course...

Pieter Stroobach Visits Albania Airbases from Photorecon by Pieter Stroobach

There is Always Room For Improvement from Flight To Success | ...When I flew ACTIVE, I was in the last year of my first test tour. In many ways, I was at the top of my skills having benefited from flying hundreds of missions. As good as I thought I was, I wasn't as good as the guys at NASA Dryden. Let me explain....

Video: Free Flights For Medical Patients -- Angel Flight West from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Angel Flight West arranges free flights for people with chronic medical conditions are urgent needs when traditional forms of transportation are unavailable or cost prohibitive. This specific organization is active in the western United States. They're always looking for volunteer pilots to fill the ranks because there is always a need....

An airborne wrecking ball??? from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I was amazed to find this video clip of an AS332 Super Puma helicopter of Airlift AS in Norway. It's using a specially-built multi-ton underslung...

NASA Flies Dragon Eye Unmanned Aircraft Into Volcanic Plume - DirectionsMag.com | NASA Earth science researchers traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica, to fly a Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) -- a small electric aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors -- into the volcano's sulfur dioxide plume and ...

JATO Rocket Car: Mission Accomplished?" (is the 3rd time a charm?) from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick Stafford | The Mythbusters kicked of their 10th season with a third try at the JATO Chevy rocket car myth. A fitting start since the first try was on their very first episode. In short, the myth says that says some guy attached a JATO unit to his Impala...