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P-47s won't fly in Saturday's Shrinersfest Air Show - 14 News WFIE Evansville | EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - The P-47 Thunderbolts, the World War II planes made in Evansville during the war, won't be in Saturday's Shrinersfest Air Show. Officials with the Shrinersfest say Saturday's show will still go on, but these planes won't be involved. They tell us it's to do with the weather in the area where the planes are currently on the ground and it's keeping them from arriving in Evansville. 14 News is told that the P-47's performance in Sunday's show is still undetermined....

Pilots share their love of flight at annual fly-in - Seacoastonline.com | GREENLAND — Mike Paquin was tuning up his canary yellow gyro plane Saturday afternoon. A member of the Yankee Rotors based in Laconia, Paquin said he decided to treat himself to the adult-sized toy during a mid-life crisis. “It’s kind of like riding a dirt bike in the sky,” said Paquin of Hooksett. While his aircraft can go up to altitudes of 10,000 feet, he likes to hover around 1,000 so he can get a good look at things on the ground. Paquin was one of many pilots who flew into Sanderson’s Field on Post Road for the 22nd annual Yankee Ultralight Flyers Fly-In Camp-In event....

Solar powered plane on final leg of flight to NYC - pilotnewsmag.com | The cross-country flight is a tune-up for a planned 2015 flight around the globe with an up-graded version of the plane. | WASHINGTON (AP) — A solar-powered aircraft lifted off from a suburban Washington airport before dawn Saturday, embarking on the final leg of a history-making cross-country flight. The Solar Impulse flew out of Dulles International Airport a little before 5 a.m. en route to New York City. The flight plan for the revolutionary plane takes it past the Statue of Liberty before landing at New York’s JFK Airport early Sunday. “This is a leg where everybody is quite moved,” Bertrand Piccard, one of two pilots who took turns flying the Solar Impulse across the United States, said shortly after the aircraft was in the air....

Doolittle Raiders vet , 97 , at air show - Battle Creek Enquirer | At 97, Retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole can still pilot a heavy bomber. Cole was at the controls of a B-25 in April during the 71st reunion of the Doolittle Raiders, marking the United States bombing run on Tokyo during World War II. “I flew it in April,” Cole said in Battle Creek on Friday. “I average about once every year or two, but you have to have an instructor pilot in the right seat. I didn’t want to get in trouble with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration).”He said during his career he has flown 300 to 400 hours in the B-25....

For members of Team AeroDynamix, flying is a passion - Evansville Courier & Press | VANSVILLE — For Team AeroDynamix, an 11-member, high-intensity aerial stunt team, they’re not just co-workers — they’re family. Lead pilot Michael “Kahuna” Stewart, 43, has been flying recreationally for the past 15 years. It was a hobby gone wild, he said. Stewart, from Charlotte, N.C., founded the team and has been flying with his teammates for 11 years....

Councilwoman Zapf to ask Defense Dept. to allow Miramar Air Show - San ... - KFMB News 8 | SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Despite air shows being canceled across the country, San Diego City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf plans to call on the Defense Department Tuesday to allow the annual Miramar Air Show to go on as scheduled this fall. Zapf aide Job Nelson wrote in a report that dozens of air shows around the country have been scrubbed because of budget cuts, and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar has not received permission from the Pentagon to host the event....

Phantom Pharewell Wittmund AB, 29 June 2013 Photo Report - fly-by.nl | On Saturday June 29th 2013 the German Air Force organized the Phantom Pharewell at Wittmund Airbase to celebrate the last operational flight of the F-4F Phantom II. The day prior a spottersday was held which was attended by approx. 3000 aviation enthusiasts. Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate, which made me decide to visit the openday on Saturday in stead. The day started very cloudy again with drizzle rain during the morning, lucky the weather cleared during the afternoon...

Saunders-Roe (Saro) A.19 Cloud. - Planeshots | "Here’s a nice Saunders-Roe Ltd photograph of the first A19 Cloud, initially flown on 16 July 1930 with the Class B registration L.4.. This aircraft spent three years in...

Sikorsky Challenges Youths To Envision Future Helicopters - The Aero News Network | Helicopter 2050 Challenge Carries A $1,000 Scholarship Award | Sikorsky Aircraft has launched the 2013 Sikorsky Helicopter 2050 Challenge, a national competition that invites youths ages 9-16 to envision a helicopter capable of addressing global issues likely to be encountered by mid century.