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Excitement for airshow is sky high as planes fly in - Kent News | The planning is nearly complete, the planes are starting to land and the South East Airshow is just over a week away after a 20-year absence. All the organisers have left to do is keep their fingers crossed for good weather next weekend when the air ...

Air Show Report: Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s 23rd Annual World War II Weekend 2013 By Warbirds Update | The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum‘s 23rd Annual World War II Weekend and “Gathering of Warbirds” is one of the largest events of its type in the world. The 2013 event held last weekend in Reading, Pennsylvania hosted over 1800 reenactors, 80 aircraft and more than 200 military vehicles. The weather on arrival or “A-Day” as they call it, had low ceilings and heavy rain. Saturday started out cloudy but, thankfully dry. The sun came out around noon and the the weather was perfect the rest of the weekend....

Trip to air show a step back in time - phillyBurbs.com | I am fascinated by World War II aircraft, although I don't fully know why — I'm not a pilot and so can never operate them, as I could a 1967 cherry-red Shelby if I were a car aficionado. I'll certainly never own one. And, in actuality, I hate flying ...

Female pilots race comes to Logan - Cache Valley Daily | 37 planes and 112 women pilots will be participating in the Air Race Classic sponsored by the Womens Pilots Association from June 18 to through June 21, and one of the stops will be at the Logan-Cache Airport. Kim Hall, general manager of the airport's ...

WWII bomber swoops into Allegheny County Airport - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | The B-29 is part of the Commemorative Air Force?s AirPower History tour, which will be at the airport through Sunday. Visiting hours are 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The tour includes other military aircraft. Fifi was built in 1945 and used mainly as a training ...

Rare B-17 in the Ozarks this Week - KY3 | JOPLIN, Mo.-- Once famed as a "Flying Fortress," the B-17 soaring above the Ozarks Tuesday is now a full-fledged flying museum. "Sentimental Journey" is one of the world's few remaining airworthy B-17's. It touched down Tuesday at Joplin Regional ...

VIDEO: Veteran, with help of son, checks out B-17 at Joplin airport - Joplin Globe | It was painstakingly rebuilt after it was donated to the Commemorative Air Force-Arizona Wing in January 1978. The plane consumes 200 gallons of fuel an hour. It has a range of 3,750 miles and a bomb load of 8,000 pounds. Its cruising speed is 160 mph.

Spitfire tribute to Middleton wartime pilot Manchester Evening News | Sergeant Allan Leaver-Ridings was flying Spitfire W3644 when he was shot down and killed over Devon on June 23, 1942.

'Last' Dornier Do-17 Raised From British Waters By Glenn Pew, AVweb | A salvage crew Monday recovered the badly corroded but recognizable remains of a Dornier DO-17 that was shot down off England's Kent coast during the Battle of Britain 70 years ago, delivering to the terrestrial world what may be the only example of its kind. The aircraft's propellers were separated and dangling from wreckage, the fuselage was nearly split in two and outboard sections of wing were not attached to the aircraft when it was raised from 50 feet of water....

Video: You've Come A Long Way! - WAI Connect | Gladys Ingle, a member of the Los Angeles, California-based aerial stunt group 13 Black Cats, was famous for shooting arrows at a target while standing on the top wing of a Curtiss Jenny—and for changing planes in mid-air. In the film below she repairs a landing gear mid-flight, saving the day for the pilot....

McChord museum's SA-10 restoration wins AMC award - 62nd Airlift Wing | The men and women volunteers of the McChord Air Museum were recently selected as recipients of the Air Mobility Command's Heritage Award for their recent restoration of a SA-10 Catalina aircraft. The award recognizes outstanding achievements by Air ...

Seven decades later, replica of Bugatti 100P may fly - Tulsa World | A dominant force in Grand Prix racing, Ettore Bugatti wanted to conquer air racing, too, with a design just as flamboyant as his spare-no-expense automobiles. In 1937, with funding from the French Air Ministry, he hired a Belgian engineer - Pierre ...

Retired F-111 arrives in Longreach in outback Qld - ABC News | The jet arrived into Longreach in central-west Queensland last night. The F-111 is being taken on the back of a truck from Brisbane to Darwin, where it will be displayed at an aviation museum. The jet is one of six that have been loaned to museums across Australia. Another six F-111 will be on display at RAAF establishments....

Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43 Heading to Fantasy of Flight Collection in Florida By Warbirds Update | This week, Kermit Weeks of Fantasy of Flight of Polk City, Florida will be heading to Texas with a crew of technicians to begin disassembly of Sikorsky S-43 N444, once owned by Howard Hughes. Hughes had the plane built in 1937 for an intended record-setting around the world flight, but delays in flight approval from the Civil Aeronautics Authority (the progenitor of the Federal Aviation Administration), and the emergence of faster aircraft meant that he instead used a Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra for the successful record-setting attempt, circumnavigating the globe in 91 hours in 1938....

Episode 252 – The Airplane Geeks Turn Five - Airplane Geeks Podcast | We celebrate five years of Airplane Geeks episodes. Courtney Miller, Steve Visscher, and Grant McHerron join in and we recall some early moments.

They've Made A Flying Bicycle? (With Video) - AVweb | A group of Czech engineers and designers have successfully test flown via radio control a proof of concept hybrid bycicle/multi-copter, the FBike, at an exhibition in Prague, Wednesday. The group says they hope to perform a manned flight at a future date. Early design specifications made available last year included lithium-polymer batteries powering six electric motors together capable of producing 50 kW of power. Thrust is...