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Reno Air Races replaces Unlimited class with 'Unlimited Warbird' class - Reno Gazette Journal | The Unlimited class of the Reno National Championship Air Races will be replaced by the “Unlimited Warbird” class, the Reno Air Racing Association said in a news release Saturday. The announcement came on the final day of the Reno Air Races' pylon...

La Ferte Alais 2013 - Passion for Aviation | Despite unfavorable weather, the meeting "time propellers" La Ferte Alais has taken place this last weekend of Pentecost (18 and 19 May 2013) in La Ferte Alais on the airfield Cerny. This meeting is organized annually since 1974 and without exception by the Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis (AJBS) helped many partners. The first edition of this meeting that took place in 1970, this is the forty-first edition that I could attend this Sunday, May 19 in a very threatening sky, wondering what time it was going to rain....

Reminder: Air show on Spitzerberg with Hannes Arch - Translated | On 22 and 23 June find again this year from 10 clock, the traditional festival on the airfield Airfield Spitzerberg instead. "On Saturday, the 22th June air show starts at 15.00 clock with a performance from the Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch, "said airport director Wolfgang Oppelmayer pleased. The flight demonstrations on both days start at 15.00 clock and take around 1.5 hours. Be offered glider aerobatics, aerobatics, formation flying, vintage shows, model flying demonstrations and Balloons-ramming....

Record-breaking crowd turns out for Denton Airshow - Denton RC | An estimated 12,000-plus spectators came out to the annual Denton Airshow at Denton Enterprise Airport on Saturday, breaking attendance records, officials said. The air show has evolved over the years, but it’s always been a place to find aviation enthusiasts. Whether it’s seeing the air acrobats or touring inside the Commemorative Air Force’s World War II Douglas R4D Skytrain, there is something for every enthusiast — young and old alike....

B-29 visiting Pittsburgh this weekend - Pittsburgh Business Times | It's owned by the Commemorative Air Force, an Addison, Texas-based nonprofit that flies this aircraft and other warbirds like the B-24 and P-51 around the U.S., offering tours and flights. It stopped at Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin and is ...

WWII B-17 Flying Fortress to fly into Muskegon County Airport, give rides - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com | Sentimental Journey is flown and maintained by the Mesa, Ariz.-base of the Commemorative Air Force, a non-profit group that operates several other aircraft. “These planes are impeccably restored and they are actually better maintained than any ...

Father's Day gift: Flight revisits World War II memories - Austin American-Statesman | On Saturday, Cook's wife, children and grandchildren had surprised the 91-year-old World War II veteran with a Father's Day treat: a flight on the Bluebonnet Belle, a C-47 Skytrain military transport operated by the Commemorative Air Force out of Burnet.

Hours Reduced At Naval Aviation Museum In Pensacola, FL  - Aero News Network | All Navy Museums To Be Closed On Mondays Due To Sequestration The Navy said Friday will close the museums it operates, to absorb reductions resulting from the announced federal furlough, one day a week beginning the week of July 8 until further notice. Among them is the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL.

Dornier Do 17 Retrieved From Goodwin Sands Arrives at RAF Museum Cosford - Warbird News |
The Donier Do 17 that the RAF Museum recently retrieved from under 50 feet of salt water where it had lain for over 70 years, arrived at the museum’s Cosford facility today. Museum staff as well as members of the public were on hand as the two tractor trailers that were carrying the wings and fuselage rolled through the museum’s gates having taken on the plane at Ramsgate, UK where its salvage barge was docked....

The Joys of Surprise Revisited - Nordo News | ...By chance, Doug was in town with his friends Mark Holt and Adam Glowaski.In fact, they were half-way through their own surprise filled trip to Alaska and had been sitting in The Millennium taking and posting photos of themselves with the girls of Flying Wild Alaska. Later I would find out they were doing so at the very time we were driving by The Millennium to look at a 195 on floats?Those were the photos I later saw and to find out if they were currently in town I sent them a message. To my surprise, not only were they in town, they were staying in the same hotel....

Hollywood helps keep Air Force in public eye  - General Aviation News Staff  | The more than 1 million visitors who tour the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, each year may not realize there’s a “movie star” in their midst. But as moviegoers flock to theaters this weekend 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. In addition to its role as an Air Force developmental test and evaluation aircraft for more than 20 years, this C-17 (pictured below) stars in a scene with the villain Faora in “Man of Steel” and has appeared in four other major motion pictures, including “Transformers,” “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Iron Man” and “Iron Man 2,” as well as country superstar Toby Keith’s Emmy Award-winning production of “American Soldier.” In fact, the aircraft has several...

PHOTO GALLERY : Young Eagles Rally - Longboat Observer | PHOTO GALLERY : Young Eagles Rally. Date: 06/15/2013 by: Yaryna Klimchak | Community Editor. Pilot Jeff Walston always goes through a checklist before taking off to make sure the ride goes well and the landing is smooth. Nick Fenske, 17, looks out over ...