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Attractions aplenty at Rush City Fly-In - East Central Minnesota Post Review | Rush City Regional Airport hosted its annual Fly-In/Drive-In event Sunday, June 9. While visitors had many events and activities to choose from, including the Lion's pancake breakfast, the main attraction was winning a ride aboard a T-6 Texan jet ...

Fly-In is out, Airport Appreciation Day in - Union Democrat | The popular Father's Day Fly-In at Columbia Airport will be scaled back this year because of changes to the federal budget. According to organizers, the Federal Aviation Administration is now charging for temporary tower services at the fly-in, and ...

Wisconsin Air Show Takes A Financial Hit  - Aero News Network | Organizers Say Missing Military Presence Cost Them $100,000 Organizers of the Thunder on the Lakeshore airshow in Manitowoc, WI, say the lack of military participation in the show wound up setting them back $100,000...

Last flying B-29 lands at Allegheny County Airport - WTAE Pittsburgh | The B-29 is preserved by the Commemorative Air Force to keep its history vibrant. It was the aircraft designed to carry thousands of pounds of warheads for bombing missions, including the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the ...

Historic military plane soars over Middletown - abc27 | The plane is owned by the Texas-based Commemorative Air Force, which displayed the B-29 and other historic military planes at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading over the weekend. The B-29 Superfortress began active service in 1944 and is best ...

B-17 On Display At Smyrna Airport This Weekend, Rides Offered - NewsChannel5.com | SMYRNA, Tenn. - One of about one dozen B-17's still flying today will be on display at the Smyrna Airport this weekend. The planes saw a lot of action during World War II, and were also used in the Korean War and Vietnam. Its missions were dangerous as ...

A restored World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress soars over I-80 - Kearney Hub | A restored World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress soars over Interstate 80 east of Kearney Monday afternoon. The Aluminum Overcast is based at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisc. The public can take ground tours ...

CP college student prepares to soar at new speeds in airplane race - nwitimes.com | Although women in aviation have come a long way since Earhart's day, Keck said there's still a shortage of females in the field. “That's why the race is so important,” she said. “Of the 60 students in the professional flight technology program at ...

Here’s an insane video of what you can do with an old Russian An-2 biplane - The Aviationist |This video contains images of maneuvers that may seem impossible at the first sight. The footage shows an old Antonov An-2 Colt’s appearance in Krakow air show, back in 2006. Stunning aerobatics, low speed passes, a loop and an extremely short landing represent the array of stunts no one would be expecting from or associating with the An-2....

Amelia Earhart plane wreck hunters deny keeping site a secret - UPI.com | ... for Historic Aircraft Recovery said in a statement on its website Wednesday it rejected the contention in a lawsuit filed against it last week by Timothy Mellon, a major contributor to its 2012 search for the wreckage of the pioneering American ...

Amelia Earhart Lawsuit: Did Investor Get Cheated Out Of $1M During Search For ... - iScienceTimes.com | Famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart is pictured with her Lockheed Electra 10-E before her ill-fated quest to fly around the world in this undated photograph.

Rexburg's Legacy Flight Museum Shows off Model Airplanes - KPVI News 6 | As youth; our imagination allows us to soar and for many young boys and girls the dream of becoming a pilot is at the forefront of their adult careers. One way many of the youth in the Rexburg area get a glimpse of that dream is by visiting the Legacy ...

Hollywood helps Air Force connect with public  - · nationalmuseum.usaf | The more than one million visitors who tour the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force each year may not realize there's a "movie star" in their midst. But as moviegoers flock to theaters this summer to see the latest Superman film, "Man of Steel," they'll catch a glimpse of the Boeing C-17 that now sits in the museum's Air Park.

Air Racing 101 - Air & Space magazine | A course in handling the course at the National Championship Air Races.

First Woman In Space Would Take One-Way Trip To Mars  - Aero News Network |Valentina Tereshkova Calls Mars Her 'Favorite Planet' It was 50 years ago on June 16th that Valentina Tereshkova become the first woman to fly in space, and now the 76-year-old Russian says she's ready to go back ... on a one-way trip to Mars.