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Damaged Solar Impulse Lands Early - AVweb | In the end, one of the most photographed aircraft journeys in U.S. history will have one shot missing, but for the crew of Solar Impulse the mission to fly their solar-powered aircraft across the country has been accomplished. The fragile aircraft, which makes power on its solar-cell-covered wings and stores it in batteries, landed about 11 p.m. at JFK in New York on Saturday night with pilot Andre Borschberg at the controls. The landing came three hours early and before the iconic aircraft could take a victory lap over Manhattan and have its picture taken with the Statue of Liberty. An eight-foot tear in the fabric on the underside of the left wing prompted the crew to set down as soon as possible. The tear caused a minor balance issue but did not seriously threaten the flight. "It was supposed to be the shortest and easiest leg," Bertrand Piccard, who co-founded the project with Borschberg, said after the aircraft landed. "It was the most difficult one." And as pilots familiar with New York will attest, it wasn't just the tear, or fatigue, or weather that gave the flight trouble: It was getting a slot at JFK....

Solar Impulse Makes It to New York Early - CAFE Foundation | ...“This last leg was especially difficult due to the damage of the fabric on the left wing. It obliged the team to envisage all the possible scenarios, including bailing out over the Atlantic. But this type of problem is inherent to every experimental endeavor. In the end, this didn’t prevent us from succeeding in our Across America mission and provided an invaluable learning experience in preparation for the round-the-world tour in 2015,” said André Borschberg shortly after landing, adding “we extend our gratitude to all airport and government authorities whose precious support made this mission possible.”...

Despite two air show acts canceling, ShrinersFest still a success - 14 News WFIE Evansville | "Team Aerodynamix certainly put on a great show. The night time air show that they did on Friday night was such a huge success." Despite the chaos of a rapidly changing schedule, Thomas enjoyed ShrinersFest. "All in all, it was a great weekend," says ...

Photo Gallery: Saskatchewan honours heroes with air show | Metro · Alyssa McDonald | The Snowbirds 431 Air Demonstration Squadron were flying high at the Canada Remembers Our Heroes Air Show on Sunday afternoon in Saskatoon. Veterans from across the province gathered at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway to be honoured for their service and hundreds showed up to watch the show blast off after rain delays set the two-day show back on Saturday...

Wings Over North Georgia Presents Mike Wiskus, Lucas Oil Airshow ... - PR Newswire | The Black Diamond Jet Demonstration and AeroStars Aerobatic Flight Teams will take to the North Georgia skies above the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Rome, Ga., on Oct. 12-13 as headliners for the 2013 Wings Over North Georgia air show, but the weekend will include plenty of other amazing performers, including the Lucas Oil Airshow team featuring Mike Wiskus....

Wings Over Halls Air Show set next month - State Gazette | Mark your calendar for the annual Wings Over Halls Air Show, to be held on the historic site of the Dyersburg Army Air Base on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17 and 18....

Aircraft group to host final Sandusky airport fly-in Aug. 11 - Toledo Free Press | When Sandusky’s privately owned airport closes and its owner moves its operations to Port Clinton, that will also close the doors on a 17-year tradition of pancakes and planes for the public. Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 50, which has hosted a fly-in and pancake breakfast for the public every year since 1996, will have its 17th and last such event at the airport Aug. 11....

Blades display team to appear at Norfolk air show - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | The clock is ticking towards the start of this year’s Seething Charity Air Day, which will commemorate the airfield’s 70th anniversary. The show will be returning to the airfield on Sunday, September 8 to raise money for a number of different charities, including the East Anglian Air Ambulance and Macmillan Cancer Support. Among the acts performing will be the display team, The Blades, which comprises former Red Arrows pilots and is returning for its eighth year....

Air show memories - Yarmouth County Vanguard | Linda Deveau (front) and from left to right: Jim Gavel, Cliff Gavel, Colin d’Entremont and Kevin Cann, met recently to reminiscence about some of the international air shows they have helped organize. This year’s event will take place Sept.... This year marks the 30th anniversary since the first international air show in Yarmouth, in 1983....

Planes to take off at Gathering of Eagles - News-Herald.com By Elizabeth Lundblad News-Herald.com | It just wouldn't be summer in northeast Ohio without an air show. Federal government budgetary cuts, also known as the sequester, grounded the Cleveland Air Show this summer, but Lake County's Gathering of Eagles is still ready to soar this Saturday. In it's 17th year, the two-day air show at Willoughby's Lost Nation Airport is set to add more entertainment to try to capture some of the traffic from the nixed Cleveland show, said Hap Berichon, director of the Northeast Ohio chapter of the U.S. Aviation Museum, which puts on the air show....

AIRCRAFT OVERVIEW - FLYING & STATIC DISPLAY - RIAT | So, what have you got to look forward to at the Royal International Air Tattoo this year? With such a variety of aircraft due to perform in the flying display and to welcome visitors while on static display it is difficult to pick out just one or two stars!...

WWII planes to stop in Wheeling - The Daily Times | WHEELING - Two World War II aircraft - the P51 and B25 - designed by Wheeling native Howard "Dutch" Kindleberger are scheduled to be on display and available for rides July 15-21 at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport. The airplanes' arrival is part of a celebration to show off the airport's newly expanded terminal museum and to allow the public to tour the air traffic control tower, said Tom Tominack, airport manager.