Friday, May 17, 2013

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Wings and helicopters fly at Strategic Air & Space Musem - Lincoln Journal Star | Then come to the Strategic Air & Space Museum on Saturday for "Wings Under the Wings," a wing-tasting event featuring helicopters. Sponsored by Buffalo Wild Wings in association with the Nebraska Restaurant Association, the event is open to the public.

Snowbirds welcome Memorial Cup to Saskatoon - Star Phoenix - StarPhoenix | Fans of the Saskatoon Blades and other Canadian Hockey League teams gathered at the Vimy Memorial in Kiwanis Park Thursday to kick off the Memorial Cup tournament and watch the iconic Canadian Forces aerobatics squad, the Snowbirds, fly by...

Wyalkatchem Fly-In & Sausage Sizzle by Bunbury Aero Club | Pilots, aviation enthusiasts and friends are invited to take part in the Wyalkatchem Fly-In & Sausage Sizzle on the morning of May 19th, giving our community the opportunity to find out about aviation from local and visiting pilots. No formal flying program, but plenty of opportunity for aviating and sight-seeing....

Biggin Hill Air Show set for take off - This is Kent | ...During nearly five decades the summer crowd-pleaser became one of the largest civilian airshows in the world and the biggest privately organised in Europe, attracting 70,000 visitors at its height....

Team Pancho Barnes from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer(s) | Katja Jourdan and Amanda Suter | Beauty, brains and they fly too! These ladies are not your ordinary run of the mill college students. Times are a changing, and there is no limit for women who fly...

Bikes, blues and women in flight - The City Wire | In honor of Fayetteville being the finish line for the 2013 Air Race Classic, the Fayetteville Underground is holding a National Juried Art Exhibition themed “Women Take Flight” in the month of June. Artists – professional or otherwise – over the age...

Spectacular to pay tribute to fallen aviator - Toowoomba Chronicle | AN AERIAL salute to the life's work of fallen aviator Terry Kronk will be a bittersweet moment for organisers of the Emu Gully Air and Land Spectacular. Mr Kronk, who co-founded the event with Barry Rodgers, died after crashing his P-51 Mustang replica ...

Lancaster bomber to join International Air Tattoo in Dambusters salute - Quedgeley People | To celebrate, organisers of the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford have arranged for a BBMF Lancaster bomber - one of the only two in the world still airworthy - to fly alongside a Tornado from the 617 Squadron in remembrance of the ...

Dambusters Commemoration – Plus 1 from The Lexicans | There was a couple of excellent programmes on the BBC last night, paying tribute to the Dambusters raid of 617 Squadron seventy years ago. There were two surviving crew members present at the sunset ceremony at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire which was broadcast live.

'Save the bomber plant': Yankee Air Museum raising funds to acquire part of ... - Detroit Free Press | The massive Willow Run factory in Ypsilanti Township faces likely destruction, but backers of a plan to preserve part of it to expand the neighboring Yankee Air Museum launched a campaign Thursday to raise $5 million. The “Save the Bomber Plant” ...

From Antique Airfield News

Hats off to the US Coast Guard from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I've always had a lot of respect for the men and women of the US Coast Guard. Not only do they do their best to secure our maritime commerce, they put their lives on the line to rescue those who are in trouble or in danger, despite risks to themselves which are sometimes very great. As their unofficial motto puts it, "You have to go out. You don't have to come back."...

Summer Camp Options Abound For Youngsters - WOWT | It's part of Robotics Camp and Hannah Luebbe of the Strategic Air & Space Museum said, "It's great fun and in addition to we also have Astronaut Academy, and our The Skies The Limit Camp features essentially anything that flies. That includes hot air ...

Virgin Galactic Has Hired Its Pilots from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and a former NASA space shuttle commander have been hired to fly space tourists in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the company has announced....

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