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Details Emerge for 50th Reno Air Races - Flying | ...This year’s event has been themed “Mavericks in the Sky.” In addition to the excitement of the races themselves, attendees will have much to be wowed by in part thanks to a “significant” increase in the sponsorship funds provided by its long-time supporter Breitling. The sponsorship includes a three-year commitment to the Reno Air Races. According to a RARA press release, this is the “largest sponsorship commitment in the Reno Air Race’s 49 year history.”...

Sawbones race plane on display at Aviation Days - Minneapolis Star Tribune | “NASCAR can't hold a candle to the Reno Air Races,” said Schiller, who is part of the Sawbones pit crew. Crandall and the rest of the pit crew watch the races standing atop their semi tractor-trailer. “You are really excited. You want the airplane to ...

An aerobatic outing with the Air National Guard Airshow Team - Daily Press | His days in the seat of a fighter are likely in the past, he said, but his love of flight lives on. Klatt performs in around 15 air shows each year, he said, and his second event this year is this weekend's Virginia Beach Oceanfront Air Show. You can...

18th Annual Wings Over Gillespie Airshow - KPBS | Also new this year will be performances by Silver Wings Wingwalking. Back by popular demand, John Collver's War Dog T6/SNJ aerial display plus the only Northrop N9M Flying Wing will return. Other WWII aircraft include: C-53 "D-Day Doll", F4U Corsair,...

Five Fun Things to Do This Weekend in Waterloo Region – June 1-2 - CBC.ca | The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will be there, and you can also catch the CF-18 Demo Team, the T-33 Mako Shark and wing-walking performances by Jane Wicker. Down on the ground there's a jet car that goes over 600 kilometres per hour. I asked reporter...

Fighter jet to thrill air show crowds - Herald.ie | Biplanes. Aer Arann will show off its new ATR-72-600 airliner while the Trig aerobatic team will display its Pitts Special biplanes. Other highlights include The Blades, former RAF Red Arrows pilots who fly four aerobatic Extra 300 aircraft in perfect...

Frecce Tricolori: June 9 big show in the sky - Gazzetta di Parma | It 's official: After 10 years, the Air Force Frecce Tricolori will return to Parma. Sunday, June 9 the heavens airport will host performances of Verdi's "Top Gun" of the army. Next to the Acrobatic Patrol, in fact, will fly...

Warbirds Over Wanaka Needs Your Help! | WARBIRD RADIO -The world famous Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow is looking for volunteers. According to Event Manager, Mandy Deans the volunteers have a wide range of experience and backgrounds. Working at London’s Gatwick Airport, living in Africa for twenty years and having a love of Spitfire aircraft made Wanaka woman Mo Schofield the perfect candidate for a new position at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow. Volunteers are now being called for to assist with the...

Barnstormer sets off to grow general aviation from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | Sarah Wilson will join with the B-29 bomber Fifi this summer on a national tour. Her goal is to use the original Stearman Speedmail that promoted a wildly successful radio show in the 1930s, “The Flying Adventures of Jimmie Allen,” to interest another generation of youth in aviation. The show...

Air Zoo to offer free airplane rides to veterans from General Aviation News | KALAMAZOO, Mich. — This summer, veterans who served during World War II and the Korean War will have the chance to take flight, for free. Veterans will be able to fly in a Boeing-Stearman N2S-5 Kaydet, courtesy of the Air Zoo and pilot/sponsor Alan Wright. The Kaydet is an open cockpit aircraft that served as the U.S. Navy’s primary trainer during World War II...

Doolittle Raiders: The Last Reunion (VIDEO) - Salem-News.Com | Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson, Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle...

A time for veterans and their memories - Eatonville Dispatch | Edward Saylor and his B-25 bomber crewmates were photographed during their time with “Doolittle's Raiders” in World War II. Doolittleraiders.com courtesy photo. Copy note: background on Saylor from doolittleraider.com. Edward Saylor survived a famous...

New Video Features Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum and EAA Chapter 64 from News

Today's Air Force visits the Boneyard, takes glimpse at aviation history from Air Force Link Top Stories |Air Force Television News released a new, special edition of Today's Air Force on May 31. Featured in this episode is a visit to the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., taking viewers for an inside look at what happens to Air Force planes after they've flown their last mission. Here, a dedicated team brings new life to old aircraft and retrieves aircraft parts for future use...

Pair of 'geeks' sifts through history for aviation ruins - Los Angeles Times | Investigators at the 1967 crash site shortly after a North American Aviation X-15 rocket plane broke up at 62,000 feet while traveling at 4,000 mph. (NASA) More photos. Peter Merlin and Tony Moore, self-confessed aviation geeks, find and sort through ...

Pilot's love of flying a lifelong passion - Stuff.co.nz | Her interest in aerobatics was fuelled by a trip to the World Aerobatic Championships in France in the early 1970s. Despite her mother's concerns about her daredevil antics, Mrs Collings (nee Lock) went on to train as an aerobatic pilot in the United ...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: John Mohr and the Stock Stearman from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | In the airshow business, the mere mention of the name John Mohr conjures up visions of a low-flying Stearman seemingly defying gravity as it floats by in some odd angle past an awestruck crowd. Mohr, grandson of a real barnstormer who was...

Soviet, giant Antonov 124 cargo plane production line to be resumed from David Cenciotti's weblog | Even if the news has been around for several years (and always denied), according to Defence24.pl, vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yuri Boyko has recently announced that the An-124 production will be resumed in cooperation with Russia....

NASA Chief Repeats Warnings On Commercial Crew Delays - Aviation Week | LOS ANGELES — The already delayed NASA Commercial Crew Program remains under threat of further hold-ups because of short-sighted congressional budget cuts in 2014, warns agency Administrator Charles Bolden....