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Air show makes waves at Virginia Beach Oceanfront - The Virginian-Pilot | Members of the Red Bull Air Force Sky Divers near the beach to open the Virginia Beach Oceanfront Air Show on Sunday, June 2, 2013, on the last day of the Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival.

Aircraft, airmen stir passion - U-T San Diego | Because this was the 18th annual Wings event, the organizers — Air Group One, the local branch of the national Commemorative Air Force — are no longer surprised about the passions stirred by these old aircraft. The show featured some pre- and ...

Annual air show inspires future pilots - Waterloo Record | A pilot since 2000, Marek said that the statistics on women in aviation haven't changed much — only five per cent of pilots are women. Marek pointed out that the Waterloo airport was honoured with the third-place standing as the most female pilot ...

Air show pilot dies near Moscow - Newstrack India | Moscow, June 2 (IANS) A pilot was killed when his plane crashed Sunday in an air show near Moscow, police said. "A light plane undershot the runway and crashed near the Bolshoye Gryzlovo airfield in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. The ...
 
 Skyline alumni soar to great heights as Blue Angels By Whitney Bryen Longmont Times-Call | LONGMONT -- Skyline alumni Lt. Col. Eric Himler and Lt. Cmdr. Mark DeBuse traded in the red and gold of their alma mater for the blue and yellow of one of the world's oldest flying acrobatic teams, the Blue Angels...

Performers locked in for Comox Air Show - HQ Comox Valley | “To celebrate the 70 years of Canadian military operations at Comox, there will be a wide range of historic aircraft from Vintage Wings of Canada, Cascade Warbirds, the Heritage Flight Museum from Washington State, and vintage aircraft from across ...

Kokomo air show goes into fifth year - Kokomo Tribune | Despite many air shows across the nation being canceled due to automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration — including the annual Indianapolis Air Show — the Fifth Annual Wings and Wheels Air Show will still take place at 1 p.m. Saturday at ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Fly-in, open house attract aviation enthusiasts - Bakersfield Californian | J. Abraham Aldana holds his daughter, Myra, for a closer look at one of dozens of airplanes on display Saturday at the Bakersfield Municipal Airport during the Chapter 71 Experimental Aircraft Association's open house and fly-in. His sons Danny, left ...

Meet The Racers BBQ from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt

Female pilots 'do more than one thing at once' - Otago Daily Times | Sharing stories at the Wanaka Airport on Saturday, during the New Zealand Association of Women in Aviation annual rally, are (from left) Kerry Conner, of Queenstown, Rhona Fraser, of Masterton, and Ruth Presland, of Wanaka. Photo by Lucy Ibbotson.

Missouri Pilots Association 60th Anniversary Convention Celebrates Past Accomplishments, Looks to the Future from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Members of the Missouri Pilots Association gathered to celebrate past accomplishments and look to the future at the 60th Anniversary Convention held this weekend at the Isle of Capri Booneville. This is the second...

World War II plane offering rides over Carlsbad - Carlsbad Current Argus | The restored plane is owned by the nonprofit Arizona Airbase of the Commemorative Air Force, which is bringing the plane to Carlsbad on the first stop of its summer tour. "This is a great way for people to connect with our living history," said Sharon ...

Pictures: Legendary British warbirds wing it all the way to the USA - Birmingham Mail | There's a clue to what is to come at the entrance to the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, USA. As you turn off to drive up to the building, there's a bright red British post box, incongruously sitting by the side of the road. Inside the ...

Battle of Britain plane to be hoisted from its sandy Kent grave - Flightwire | Given continued calm weather and an element of good luck, at some point on Sunday night one of the most significant surviving artefacts from the Battle of Britain will be raised up from the Channel after more than 70 years beneath the waves. Experts working for the RAF Museum hope to lift the only remaining example of a Dornier 17, one of the three types of German bomber that pounded England during those crucial days during the summer of 1940. The plane crashlanded in Goodwin Sands, off Deal in Kent, and was swallowed by the seabed only to be exposed again five years ago.

Record-Breaking Aircraft Lands At Pacific Aviation Museum from Aero-News Network | Iconic Lockheed F-104A Starfighter Was First To Complete Sustained Mach 2 Flight The iconic Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, Serial No. 56-817 made its final landing at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor on May 9, 2013, bringing the Museum's ever-expanding iconic aircraft collection to 43 warbirds, helicopters and jets. The Starfighter is on long-term loan from Museum of Aviation Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia. It will be on display for visitors in the Museum's 87,000 sq. ft. battle-scarred Hangar 79...

Vought XF4U-1 Corsair from Let Let Let - Warplanes by Srecko | In February 1938 the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics published two requests for proposal for twin-engined and single-engined fighters. For the single-engined fighter the Navy requested the maximum obtainable speed, and a stalling speed not higher than 70 miles per hour. A range of 1,000 miles was specified. The fighter..

New Details Confirm That 2011 EAA Leadership Transition Was Costly from Aero-News Network | But The Next Transition Was (Surprisingly) Far More Cost-Effective Thanks To Pelton Refusing Compensation With the recent public publication of EAA's 2011-2012 IRS Form 990s, details are emerging that show that their first major leadership transition in recent years (in 2011), was a costly one....

Blogging in Formation Set to Takeoff Again This Week from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | During the first part of May, a group of six experienced aviation bloggers got together to "Blog in Formation" and presented six different reads on the same topic of "How I was Brought into Flying."...

An aviation musical to bring in the kids? from General Aviation News by Drew Steketee | At best, it sounded like a novel idea: SUN ‘n FUN would write and stage a musical for local Florida schools to interest kids in flying and aviation careers. Nice community relations for the newly expanding SUN ‘n FUN mission, but could they pull it off? Turns out, they did — with flying colors...

Students get first-hand look at aviation: Jasper County Airport (KRZL), Rensselaer, Indiana - Rensselaer Republican | Students in the Introduction to Transportation Systems class at Rensselear Central High School spend part of the day Friday afternoon getting a first-hand look at the Jasper County Airport.