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Photos: Blue Angels Back In The Skies Over Pensacola - NorthEscambia.com | The Blue Angels were back in the skies over Pensacola on Wednesday. While the Blue Angels’ 2013 air show season may have been canceled due to budget constraints, the pilots fly proficiency flights to maintain their qualifications in the F/A-18 Hornets...

The air show must go on - pnj.com | Pensacola Beach will not let the federal budget cuts that grounded the Blue Angels cut out one of its biggest annual events. The beach air show is set to go on this week without its main attraction, the hometown Navy flight demonstration team.Twenty-four civilian aircraft whose pilots will be performing two hours of gravity-defying aerobatics will take to the sky Friday and Saturday....

CAF and EAA Announce "Heavy Bomber Weekend" - PR Web (press release) | In an unprecedented and rare gathering of historic World War II aircraft, the CAF and EAA are joining forces for a “Heavy Bomber Weekend” in Madison, Wisconsin the weekend before EAA AirVenture. The event starts Friday, July 26, 2013 and will feature the world’s only airworthy B-29 Superfortress FIFI; the B-17 Aluminum Overcast; and the B-24 Diamond Lil. Other attending aircraft include a P-51 Mustang, C-45 Expeditor, SNJ-5, PT-26, PT-17 Stearman and T-6 Texan. Most of the airplanes will be available for ground tours and rides. Additional ground tour aircraft include an Air National Guard F-16, and UW MedFlight Helicopter...

Remote Control Air Show In Buder Park This Weekend - fox2now.com | (KTVI) – The skies over Buder Park near Valley park will be buzzing this weekend. We saw the airshow over Fair St. Louis, but this weekend, it’s flying model aircrafts that will take off. Kurt Sieter is a safety officer with “Show Me R.C.” air shows. He talks about what viewers can expect...

Aviation Roundup | The Minden-Tahoe airport has issued a challenge to all aircraft owners’ groups, i.e. Cessna Pilots, Piper, RVs, etc. to see who can have the best showing at the Aviation Roundup on October 5 at Minden-Tahoe Airport.

B-25 flight like ‘stepping back in time’ - Livingston County News | John Makinson has had many aviation adventures in his decades of flying. He’s flown bush planes in the Canadian Arctic and the wild’s of Alaska — possibly the only place you can fly a plane with wheels, skis or floats all in one day — where he’s landed and taken off from glaciers and landing strips not much longer than a football field. But none of those experiences compare to the thrill Makinson, 50, gets from flying a B-25HMitchell bomber with veterans on board...

Concord resident recalls days as World War II bomber pilot - Contra Costa Times | CONCORD -- When American bomber pilot Russell Lynn Clanin set off for the skies above Germany for the first time during World War II, victory for the Allies in Europe was just over the horizon. But danger was ever present, even if the enemy was not...

Mobile Navy Aviator, Missing Since 1942, May Have Been Found - WPMI Local 15 News | MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) It was the day in 1945 that war weary Mobilians had eagerly awaited. VJ Day! It's the day Japan finally surrendered to the United States during WWII. Midtown resident Katharine Phillips Singer knew she would soon see her brother, U S Marine Sidney Phillips, along with two uncles and two cousins who also served in the military...

Nebraska Residents Fly in Historic Planes - 1011now | Grand Island, NE Some people in Grand Island had a chance to fulfill a life long dream while learning a little bit about history. Flying a World War II B-24 or P-51 is a life long goal for many pilots and fans. One is Margie Kohler who had been planning to fly in a B-24 for twenty five years. "I taught in Liberal, KS and that was a B-24 base so I learned about the B-24 and a lot of things about the war and what an important impact it had on the war so I wanted to go up in one. And this is the only one left flying so I figured this was my chance," said Kohler...

CAF Dixie Wing’s P-63 Kingcobra Restoration Update · Warbirds News | Pop Wilson from the CAF Dxie Wing has sent us this video showing the test performed on the Wing’s Bell P-63 Kingcobra’s front landing gear. This historic aircraft has been in restoration since 1999 so this test marks an important milestone...

Rare, restored World War II fighter on display at Pima Air & Space Museum - Arizona Daily Star | The Pima Air & Space Museum, 6000 E. Valencia Road, has added a newly restored aircraft, recovered from a New Guinea jungle, to its Pacific-theater WWII hangar: the rare Bell P-39N Airacobra. Manufactured at Bell Aircraft's New York factory in 1943, the plane was shipped to the 5th Air Force in New Guinea, where it served until it crashed at Tadji Airfield. It was stripped of useful parts and, for 30 years, lay undisturbed as the jungle grew over it....

"Disney Pins On Wings" exhibit one of the high points of the National Museum of the United States Air Force - Jim Hill | When (thanks to the very nice folks at Walt Disney Animation Studios as well as Ron Kaplan, enshrinement director at the National Aviation Hall of Fame) Jim, Gary and I got an absolutely spectacular tour of the National Museum of the United States Air Force. I don't know how many of you folks are already aware of this amazing facility. So let me give you the Reader's Digest version: The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum. It's located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH....

Battle for the North Atlantic — remarkable ·Travel for Aircraft | ...The aviation dimension is also thoroughly addressed — especially how radar and longer ranged patrol aircraft both made detection of submarines beyond visual range possible as well as the closing of the gap in mid Atlantic. Impacts of the air war component are nicely summarized, including the effectiveness of Axis as well as Allied aircraft ranging from raider based floatplanes and the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Kondor (which was highly effective though not often discussed in other texts) to Short Bros. Sunderlands and Consolidated B-24 Liberators....

Colorado governor declares July General Aviation Appreciation Month · General Aviation News Staff | Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s has proclaimed July “General Aviation Appreciation Month.” This proclamation is the third of its kind by Governor Hickenlooper, who also named June 2011 and 2012 “General Aviation Appreciation Month.” The industry contributes $2.1 billion each year to Colorado’s economy....

Video: Unmanned X-47B Makes First Carrier Landing - Very Successfully! - AirPigz | On May 14,
2013 the unmanned Northrop Grumman X-47B made its first ever launch from an aircraft carrier... and today, less than two months later, the pilotless test aircraft has made its first carrier landing! The Northrop Grumman video above is the best one to really experience the excitement of the event, and the two below from the US Navy give some additional views well worth seeing....

Space shuttle Enterprise reopens to visitors - Wall Street Journal | NEW YORK — The space shuttle Enterprise has reopened to visitors after an 8-month hiatus caused by damage from Superstorm Sandy. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to unveil the temporary pavilion housing NASA's retired shuttle....