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2013 Reno Air Races - Thom Richard and Precious Metal - LiveAirShowTV | Behind-the-scenes look at how "Precious Metal" is being rebuilt to win the Breitling Gold Unlimited Championship at the 2013 Reno Air Races.

Blue Angels Team Members Takes Part In Century Storytime - NorthEscambia.com | A member of the Blue Angels took part in an afternoon storytime Wednesday at the Century Branch Library. PR1 Jeremy Green, a parachute rigger first class for the Blue Angels’ Life Support team, read a story to the packed library crowed and shared stories about his time in the Navy and with the Blue Angels. Green is from Spring Hill, AK, and enlisted in the Navy in February 2002 as an aircrew survival equipmentman...

Melbourne air show may get help from Tourism Development Council - Floriday Today | COCOA BEACH — Potential funding sources continue falling into formation for the first-ever Melbourne Air & Space Show, which may make its debut this fall. Tuesday, the Melbourne City Council tentatively agreed to provide police, fire and medical support. These services previously cost organizers nearly $20,000 a year in Cocoa Beach....

Fairbanks air show to mark 100 years of flight in Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | FAIRBANKS — Keep your eye on the sky next week and you might see antique airplanes flying. The Alaska Air Show Association is celebrating 100 years of flight in Alaska with the Centennial Air Show Celebration. During the past three months, the air show has traveled around Alaska to 17 different cities and communities, including Anchorage, Bethel, Barrow, Dillingham and Valdez. The air show will culminate in Fairbanks, where the first flight in Alaska took place in 1913....

Snowbirds ready for Kenora Air Show by Brenden Harris (Courtesy Canadian Armed Forces) | There's less than a week before the 2013 Kenora Air Show, and Snowbird Captain Gregg Weibe says it promises to be an exciting event. "What we have is our safety pilots that are on the ground. They'll describe the manoeuvres we're doing. They'll be introducing the pilots and where they're from and they'll play great music to go with the show as it's all unfolding. The show itself is going to last between 30 and 35 minutes," he said....

Armed Forces Day to include RAF Red Arrows display | ORGANISERS are making final preparations for Scarborough’s Armed Forces Day, which will include a display by the RAF Red Arrows. The event, on Saturday, will see thousands of people gather from noon, when the Band of the Yorkshire Volunteers will begin proceedings. A display by the RAF Typhoons will take place at 1pm, followed by a 20-minute display by the RAF Red Arrows at 2pm...

Shrinerfest comes with Freedom Festival for a fest surrounding July 4 - Evansville Courier & Press | ...Because of sequestration, the Blue Angels won’t be performing at the show, but Thomas said the show put on by Team AeroDynamix and the other participants is second to none. The shows are filled with nonstop action and Team AeroDynamix features colorful custom-painted planes. After the show, the pilots from the team go into the crowd to sign autographs and answer questions, making the show even more exciting for kids of all ages...

Country USA performer Tippin no stranger to Oshkosh - Written by Steve Clark Gannett Wisconsin Media | Aaron Tippin is no stranger to Oshkosh. This trip, though, he’s looking forward to playing some music. A regular attendee at the AirVenture — he has come to that event each of the last 10 years — Tippin will be setting up on the other side of Highway 41 for this trip as one of the acts at Country USA. “I’m a big aviation buff,” said Tippin, who owns a plethora of planes and flies in on his own each year. “I will be there for the concert and then I will be there the next week for AirVenture....

WWII’s B-17 “All American” Separating Fact and Fiction · WarbirdsUpdate | We got this email in our inbox the other day, purporting to tell the story of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, “All American.” The story, accompanied with some incredible pictures, told of the plane, mortally wounded, getting her crew home safely. We were pretty sure we had seen this email, sent from a friend (who got it from a friend, who got it from a friend, ad infinitum) before at some time in the past, but reading it over, some things about the chain email just didn’t make sense, so we decided to do some research...

Guy on eBay trying to dump WWII plane he says was used to fight Hitler - MSN | World War II memorabilia have always been cherished collectors' items, so why not go all out and own one of the biggest: an Allied aircraft used to fight Hitler. Collector Karl Edmondson from South Shields, England, has put a 1944 Taylorcraft Auster up for sale on eBay. The plane was allegedly used during the closing chapters of the war for reconnaissance while flying low over enemy territory. Starting bid: $6,110. The craft...

Jonathan Collection Caproni Ca.3 Airworthy Replica Project Well Underway · WarbirdsUpdate | In a project that began in 2009, Giancarlo Zanardo’s Jonathan Collection has taken on its most ambitious project to date, the recreation of an airworthy Caproni Ca.3. Already boasting a collection of notable warbirds with a particular focus on WWI, Zanardo seeks to invigorate interest in Italians in the rich aviation history of their country by returning to the sky, the aircraft that played a pivotal role in aviation history in the first half of the 20th Century, even staging (unusual for Italy) war reenactments in furtherance of their educational goals....

Chip Yates Presses On In Quest To Cross Atlantic On Electric By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor, AVweb | AVweb introduced readers to Chip Yates in April, and his quest to retrace the steps of Charles Lindbergh, flying more than 3,500-miles across the Atlantic -- but in an electric aircraft -- is making progress, but is hampered by funding. The engineer's project currently exists as plans calculations and projections. Among...

Luke AFB F-16 crashes, pilots safely eject - af.mil | An F-16 fighter jet with the 309th Fighter Squadron crashed here shortly before 7 p.m. in a field just west of the base. There were two pilots on board. Both safely ejected and have been recovered. Neither pilot was injured...

Ellensburg native bound for paragliding world trials - Yakima Herald-Republic By Danny Schmidt Ellensburg Daily Record | In years past, Marty DeVietti has been ranked fourth nationally in paragliding without being selected to the United States’ team in the world paragliding championships, a dream of his since he began flying...

Did you know? 33 fascinating things about space shuttle Atlantis - Floriday Today | Here are some things you should know about Atlantis, which goes on public display Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex...