Thursday, June 6, 2013

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Thunderbirds, Blue Angels could be flying next year - KVUE | Later Wednesday, lawmakers will look at restoring money to get the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels flying again and funding other military programs. If it passes, it won't happen until next year. Military training was cut when Congress insisted the...

Homecoming 2013 – 70th Anniversary from WASP Museum | Featured Guest Speaker Maj. Caroline Jensen, is in her first season with the U. S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, “Thunderbirds,” and flies the No. 3 jet as the team’s Right Wing. Major Jensen earned her...

Blue Angels to serve as grand marshals in Pensacola's Fiesta Day parade ... - The Birmingham News - al.com | PENSACOLA, Florida -- Sequestration may have grounded the Blue Angels from performing air shows, but the U.S. Navy's Flight Demonstration Team are staying visible on the ground. The Blue Angels pilots and 75 crew members will serve as grand marshals during Thursday's Fiesta Day Parade through downtown Pensacola....

Vintage war aircraft grounded due to insurance costs - KRNV | RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) -- An operations official with the The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour says the Reno – Tahoe Airport Authority has forced them to cease flying their WWII Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American P-51 Mustang from the Reno - Stead Airport due to insurance concerns....

Father's Day Fly-In Pancake Breakfast June 16 - Isanti County News | Come join the Cambridge Municipal Airport for an open house and a pancake breakfast by the Cambridge Lions from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 16. Breakfast is $6 for adults; $4 for those 12 years and under; and 3 years and under are free. There ...

Meet Daredevils Sean D. Rucker and Rob Holland at the 2013 Jones Beach Air Show - www.youtube.com By Video Journalists Waldo Cabrera & Nicole

DAV Shares Message at 2013 Battle Creek Air Show and Balloon Festival - DAV Flight Team | Battle Creek, MI – Disabled American Veterans (DAV) will reach out to veterans and their families sharing its message of service and volunteerism in support of our nation’s combat-wounded men and women at the 2013 Battle Creek Air Show and Balloon Festival on July 3-7.  In the company of the iconic World War II era B-25 Mitchell Bomber, the DAV Flight Team will appear at the Battle Creek Air Show. The air show is ...

Tarkio Air Show Saturday, July 13th in Tarkio, Missouri!

Snowbird Commander makes a stop in West Island - The Suburban Newspaper | But a space of five feet is very small when you consider that is how close the Snowbirds' wings get to each other during their complicated maneuvers. Last Wednesday, the 431 Squadron's commanding officer of the iconic Canadian aerobatic demonstration ...

Coronado's Jim Newhall Reconnects with Dad at Wings Over Gillespie Airshow - eCoronado.com (blog) | Jim Newhall, like so many Coronado residents, was the child of a Navy family. His father was a pilot and when Jim was very young, he and his family moved from 800 A Avenue in Coronado to Guam so his dad could join US Naval Squadron VJ-1 flying the ...

After yesterday’s successful landing in St. Louis by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse is one tour stop closer to its expected appearance at our Become A Pilot Day at the Udvar-Hazy Center....

Some "Panchito" history - DAV Flight Team | A little history on the B-25 we've come to love.

“1950’s — A young “cowboy”, the son of a member of the Air Force... from x planes | ... Flight Test
Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, looks over the Convair built YB-60 during its visit at Edwards from the Fort Worth, Texas, plant. 1953 (U.S. Air Force photo)” (via)

Col. Jack A. Sims, former Kalamazoo pilot in WWII air raid on Tokyo, has died - Mlive Kalamazoo | A former Kalamazoo man who was among the Doolittle Raiders, 80 men who led America's first air raid on Tokyo, conducted April 18, 1942, has died. Col. Jack A. Sims, a decorated World War II veteran, died Saturday in Naples, Fla., after a long illness...

A conversation with Amelia Earhart - Boone County Journal | Over the course of your career, I noted, you set one new record after another for women in aviation. Why did you keep challenging the record books? “I believed that 'women should do for themselves what men have already done--and occasionally what men...

Breaking Through the Clouds by Rachael Guadagni | When do you know you’re doing your life’s work? For filmmaker Heather Taylor, it began with a casual comment. Born into a family of pilots, Taylor’s relationship with aviation was in place from day one....

Young Eagles day for kids - Islands' Sounder | Every year the Experimental Aircraft Association on Orcas provides young people a chance to take to the skies with an experienced local pilot, as part of the Young Eagles Program developed to get more young people interested in flying. The rides will ...

LebanAir Aviation rallies Young Eagles - Lebanon Express | A plane landed, and another took off minutes later carrying kids along for free airplane rides during the Lebanon Strawberry Festival. The rides were a part of the “Strawberry Days Young Eagles Rally” where several pilots helped to fly many kids for free.

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