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Golden West Regional Fly-in & Airshow 2013 takes place Saturday - The Union of Grass Valley | International Young Eagles Day is Saturday at the Marysville Airport. This marks the 20th annual Young Eagles event that continues the outstanding aviation tradition started by the Experimental Aircraft Association in 1992. Since the start, more than 1 ...

Summer fly-in, aviation event season well underway in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch | On the weekend of May 10, Valdez saw more than 150 aircraft in town for their annual fly-in, which included a bulls-eye on the “flour bomb” event for pilot Josh Griswold and “bomber” Lauren Boyle of Anchorage. There was also a new youth outreach ...

Solar Impulse deploys inflatable hangar for the first time - Gizmag | Finding hangars to house an aircraft with a wingspan greater than a Boeing 787 Dreamliner is no easy task when planning a round-the-world journey. That’s why the Solar Impulse team designed an inflatable mobile hangar to be used on the Solar Impulse’s planned 2015 circumnavigation of the globe. After a storm damaged the hangar that was to host the...

Wings Over Gillespie Airshow 2013 from Photorecon by Douglas Aguillard | It’s year Eighteen for the Annual Wings Over Gillespie Airshow, nestled in the valley between El Cajon and Santee, California, it’s on site of a former WWII United States Marine Airfield and Parachutist School. This is a small show, only flying for around 3 hours, but well worth the cost of admission, as you can explore the many many planes...

Waterloo Air Show Galleries - Global News | Gallery1, Gallery2

Ohio Air News 229 - Charles Johnson | Photo's from UK and Andy Warrens trip to "Wings Over The Beach"

Win tickets to The Royal International Air Tattoo 2013 - Herald Series | THE world's most exciting aircraft will be taking to the sky for the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford next month. From legendary wartime planes including the Lancaster bomber and the Spitfire fighter to the cutting-edge Typhoon, you could ...

Potomac's Debi Dreyfuss To Compete in Air Race Classic - Virginia Connection Newspapers | Women's air racing first began in 1929 with the First Women's Air Derby. Twenty pilots entered in that first race that went from Santa Monica, Calif. to Cleveland, Ohio. Air racing became popular in the 1920s, but women pilots were forbidden to race ...

June events aim to introduce women to aviation; first of 3 set for Saturday in ... - The Republic | WARRENTON, Virginia — Organizers of a series of June events are hoping to introduce women and girls to aviation. The first of three "Women Can Fly" events is set for Saturday at Warrenton-Fauquier County Airport. The Virginia Department of Aviation ...

Historic B-17 Airplane Memphis Belle lands at Tulsa Air and Space Museum - kjrh.com | A B-17 Flying Fortress painted in the colors and nose art of the Memphis Belle will grace the Tulsa skies Saturday and Sunday as part of the Liberty Foundation's 2013 Salute to Veterans tour. "It's a remarkable aircraft that has a tremendous history ...

B-17 Yankee Lady To Visit Aviation Museum - Cape May County Herald | Cape May Airport- The Yankee Air Museum (YAM) today announced preliminary flight plans for Flight Experience (FLEX) rides on board its B-17, “Yankee Lady.” The meticulously restored World War II Flying Fortress will be at Naval Air Station (NAS) ...

Flights on restored WWII B-17 set at Kearney Regional Airport - Kearney Hub | KEARNEY — The Experimental Aircraft Association's “Experience History” tour, featuring a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress, is coming to the Kearney Regional Airport June 11 and 12. Ground tours and mission flights will be offered on the restored ...

Stirring B-17 flight: Former WWII co-pilot steps back into aging bomber  - Idaho State Journal | World War II veteran Chester "Chet" Bowers flies in the cockpit of a B-17 bomber May 28 for a flight over Nampa, Idaho. The last time veteran World War II captain flew in a B-17 bomber was on D-Day, June 6, 1944 in support of the Normandy invasion. "It ...

B-25 bomber at Air Zoo offers a ride through history (with photo gallery, video) - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com | About 10,000 twin-engine North American B-25 bombers were produced, in eight different models, for World War II. The aircraft is named after Gen. Billy Mitchell and is best known for being used by the “Doolittle Tokyo Raiders,” a U.S. Army Air Force ...

Twin Cities Eagle Squadron presents Warbirds Over the Missouri model planes ... - SW Iowa News | Twin Cities Eagle Squadron presents Warbirds Over the Missouri model planes event Sunday

Chasing the replica Benoist XIV from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Ed Hoffman Sr. had plenty of company when he reenacted Tony Jannus’s historic first scheduled winged airliner flight of Tony Jannus (piloting a Thomas Benoist design Benoist XIV) on the 1 January 1984. The day was the 75th anniversary of the […]

American Airpower Museum - So through friends we happen to come across the obituary of a WWII Corsair pilot. Mr.Holden had a chance to cross paths with our Corsair in the past as in one of the photos he is sitting the cockpit of our airplane at an airshow...

Guest Blogger: The World’s Best Aviation Museums from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | ...Few things beat the experience of flying, but aviation museums could come close as they let you explore the origins of aviation, live air shows, and even wartime history. The next time you’re planning a trip, consider a destination near one of these great museums....