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Air show thrills crowd - Battle Creek Enquirer | Polished aluminum propellers spun in circles on Saturday as pilots created corkscrew dives and hung inverted through the air. Onlookers from the ground watched with their necks craned back to watch the precision training of the pilots put to the test.Watching aircraft soar at 240 mph into what the Field of Flight Air Show announcer, Phil Dacy, called, “that beautiful Battle Creek sky,” is why some families come to the event every year....

Special needs children and adult get private 4th Of July Airshow - fox2now.com | CAHOKIA, IL. (KTVI) – Kids and adults with special needs got their own air show for the Fourth Of July weekend. Planes, helicopters and those from the Tuskegee Airmen Group, put on an air show at the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois Saturday afternoon....

Great New England Wings and Wheels to fill absence of summer air show - MassLive.com | CHICOPEE – Across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration have grounded air shows across the country, but aviation enthusiasts will have the opportunity to see vintage civilian and military aircraft parked at the Westover Metropolitan Airport....

VIDEO: Planes featured in air show after Tyler display - Tyler Morning Telegraph | Jan Collmer, 78, flies a very agile German-made Extra 300L with zeal. Collmer, who has been flying for nearly 60 years — beginning in 1954 in the U.S. Navy — has been flying in air shows for about 35 years and offers rides to those who like adventure.

Despite air show problems, ShrinersFest doesn't disappoint - 14 News WFIE Evansville | ... The Shriner's are hopeful thought that something will work out before the festival is over. "Our goal is to continue to work with them and see if the front moves or if they can figure out a way to get around it because those P-47s," says Dale Thomas. "We've talked about them for six months. What a great piece of our heritage here in Evansville and we're extremely disappointed, but our hope is they'll be here tomorrow."...

RAF Waddington International Airshow in pictures By Lincolnshire Echo

Waddington International Airshow — Day 1 - The Lincolnite | Thousands of spectators gathered at RAF Waddington on Saturday, July 6, to enjoy this year’s Waddington Airshow. The show, now in its 18th year, celebrates the 95th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force, 70yrs since the raids on the German Dams of WW2 and the 100th Anniversary of RAF Waddington’s own 5(AC) Squadron. The locally based Red Arrows, one of the biggest attractions of the day, also celebrated their 4,500th display, and their 49th season since conception....

Hundreds turn out to see Flying Tiger in Chino - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | CHINO -- Hundreds of local aviation enthusiasts filled a hangar on Saturday morning at the Chino Airport to hear the history of one of the most iconic fighting planes of World War II: a P-40 Warhawk, famously part of the 1st American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers. The plane was featured at the Planes of Fame Air Museum's monthly Living History talk....

WWII pilot flew in treacherous conditions - The Desert Sun | William Edelen was determined to take control of his destiny before the military imposed its will on him. The year was 1943. Edelen was a young man in Stephenville, Texas and the United States was fully engaged in World War II.“I knew I didn’t want to be drafted,” he said. “I couldn’t imagine being drafted into the Army....

World War II Pilot Flies Again - CBS Local | MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A World War II veteran takes up an opportunity to step back in history with a commemorative flight on a plane he learned to fly some 70 years ago. John Rewey was trained on a B-25 and was a co-pilot on one for a short time before he was assigned on a B-24 crew. He flew 35 bombing missions over France and Germany....

HARS Receives Multi-Million Dollar Donation to Keep its DHC-4 Caribous Flying · Warbirds News | Milspec Services is donating more than AU$2.2 Million of brand-new surplus parts to help keep the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society of Illawarra, Australia’s ex-Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribous airworthy...

Aerobatic pilot is still winging it at age 77 - Seacoastonline.com | At age 77, Rye's Sigrid Baumann is a grandmother and snowbird who winters in West Palm Beach, Fla. But the senior citizen stereotype stops there because Baumann also pilots her own aerobatic monoplane and does "a lot of upside down" flying. "I love to do hammerheads," Baumann said, explaining that the airborne maneuvers involve flying straight up, then falling nose-down toward earth, then flying straight back up again....

Orion Taking Shape At KSC - The Aero News Network | NASA Working Towards 2014 Test Flight | The pace of assembling the Orion spacecraft that will conduct an unmanned test flight in 2014 if all goes according to plan has stepped up at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. Workers there are reportedly working on the hundreds of systems and key components that will be part of the spacecraft....