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Pilot Killed, 18 Injured in Plane Crash at Madrid Air Show - RIA Novosti | MOSCOW, May 6 (RIA Novosti) - A pilot was killed after his plane crashed into a hangar injuring 18 people at an air show in Madrid on Sunday, Spain's EFE news agency reported. Medical assistance was rendered to three policemen, five staff workers and ...

Sometimes Lightning Strikes 5 Times! - Aces Flying High | The Planes of Fame 2013 Air Show in Chino, California was a special one this year. 5 Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft from the World War Two period flew together at the show. There are only 7 P-38′s flying in the world today (6 in the USA and 1 in Europe – unfortunately the 6th US one could not make it), so for the past 60 years this has been a very rare event to see this many flying together!...

GALLERY: Thrilling display at Wings Over Illawarra - Illawarra Mercury | Combat fighter pilot and Red Bull Air Race competitor Matt Hall performs aerobatic tricks. GALLERY: Thrilling display at Wings Over Illawarra. The CAC Boomerang was a World War II fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in Australia. GALLERY...

WWII Re-enactment event planned - Hastings Star Gazette | Organizations on hand will include the WWII Historical Re-enactment Society, the Commemorative Air Force, the Red Bull Military Vehicle Club and Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, along with the Lakeville Area and Rosemount Historical Societies. Food and ...

History comes to life - Temple Daily Telegram | He said the B-25 was a medium-range bomber that wouldn't go too far, but that it was great in the islands of the Pacific. “I'm a veteran of Korea, Vietnam and a few other places that I got out of,” he said. “We were bombing North Korea in B-29s,” he said.

World War II POWs share memories at museum dedication - SuburbanJournals | I lost about 50 pounds by the time we were liberated, and I was pretty thin as a civilian.” Rodgers spent 21 months at Stalag 17-B. He was a gunner in a B-25 when it was shot down during a raid over Germany. He has stories about being hungry and scared.

Port Charlotte, Fla. man flew in three wars from War Tales by Don Moore | As a kid Hal Johnson wanted to be a fighter pilot. When he joined the Army Air Corps in 1943 they made him a B-24 “Liberator” bomber pilot. “By the time I graduated from B-24 training and was ready to go overseas, I was told they needed pilots to fly B-29 ‘Superfortresses.’ So I went [...]

Spotting planes, rescuing airmen, avoiding headhunters in India - Buffalo News  “We radioed for a doctor,” Ross says, “and a B-25 flew overhead and a doctor and first officer parachuted in.” And the airmen survived. The same could not be said for Ross' brother, Everett, who had served as a machine-gunner on a B-17 bomber. Just ...

20th Century Images: Air show - WV Gazette | CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Wertz Airfield was opened in Institute in the 1930s, air shows celebrated. This photo is especially interesting. After World War I, the Germans were made to disarm and one of their most deadly weapons was the fighter plane known as Fokker D-7. These ...

Can Project Robin’s Canberra be saved? from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Project Robin was a series of Cold War reconnaissance missions flown by the RAF, in the early 1950s, until the introduction by the USAF of the Lockheed U-2. The subject aircraft of these images may have been a Project Robin [...]

Warbird Heritage Foundation Begins Restoration of Goodyear FG-1D Corsair - Warbird News | The Warbird Heritage Foundation of Waukegan, Illinois has recently acquired a Goodyear FG-1D Corsair 92050, N194G. The plane which was surplussed from military service in 1963 was extensively modified to run in the Reno Air Races in the early seventies, its engine replaced and wingtips cut off. The museum intends to restore the plane, which has been in storage since 1977, to its original configuration over the next three to five years....

C-130 squadron first to perform new airdrop method from Air Force Link Top Stories | The 772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron executed the first combat Extracted Container Delivery System, or XCDS, airdrop April 29, successfully demonstrating the increased accuracy that this new technology provides. The new airdrop method is designed to pull the bundles out of the aircraft at a faster rate than the current airdrop process, which improves the overall accuracy of the drop itself.

“The Restorers” Needs Your Help! – TV Series In The Making  From Warbird Radio | ...Here’s a note from Adam & Kara describing what they’re looking for:...

May 19th, 1pm: Alive Decisions Discussion  by ameliaearhart1 | The very first Fly With Amelia Foundation event is now on the calendar and I am excited to have you join us. On May 19th, 2013 at 1pm, I will lead an interactive discussion for adults, kids, teens…

SUN ’n FUN baby earns private ticket from General Aviation News | By AMELIA T. REIHELD  | SUN ’n FUN’s contagious aviation joy can claim another recruit to the ranks. Logan Honea has been to every SUN ’n FUN since the year he was born. Sixteen years after his first trip to Lakeland, he soloed on his birthday, and last week, just past his 17th birthday, he earned his license. “I’m probably the youngest private pilot at SUN ’n FUN this year,” he guessed....

Sporty’s Foundation makes grants to ensure next generation from General Aviation News | For the first quarter of 2013, The Sporty’s Foundation made bequests in the amount of $37,500 to groups and organizations promoting youth programs.  EAA’s Next Step continues to be funded year-round by The Sporty’s Foundation. This program partners EAA with Sporty’s to make Sporty’s online Learn to Fly Course available to any Young Eagle....

Meet the 15-Year-Old Girl Who Will Probably Be the First Astronaut On Mars - PolicyMic | AH: The prize, if you won State History Day, was that you got to go to nationals, which was in Washington D.C. And I wanted to go to the Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. I ended up not winning … But along the way … one of the things that I did ...

#Oshbash awards to honor social media stars from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | EUGENE, Ore. – The #Oshbash Awards honor those who keep the aviation conversation humming on Twitter. Airplanista, an aviation blog site cultivated by Dan Pimentel, will present the first-ever #Oshbash Awards at its annual meetup event on Wednesday, July 31 (5:30-7:30 pm) in the EAA Press Tent at the 2013 EAA Airventure Oshkosh....