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Air Force's Thunderbirds, other units to fly again - USA Today | NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Air Force says many of its combat air forces will start flying again after being grounded since April because of budget cuts. The grounding affected about one-third of the Air Force's active-duty combat aircraft, including squadrons of fighters, bombers, and airborne warning and control craft....

Metro Detroiter Pilots Navy's "Blue Angels" - My TV20 Detroit | PENSACOLA, FL (My TV20 News at 10) --- Commander Thomas Frosch is flying high. The Clinton Township native will serve as the commanding officer of the Navy's "Blue Angels" in 2014. That's the word Monday from the flight demonstration team's headquarters at N.A.S. Pensacola, FL. It will mark Frosch's third year at the helm, as he took over the team in 2012....

'Greatest Show on Turf' soars above Geneseo - The Livingston County News From the parachutist who drifted down through the clouds holding an American flag and the simulated bombing runs, to the thrilling aerobatics and the silent flight of glider pilot Manfried Radius, the 2013 Greatest Show on Turf Airshow lived up to its name....

Ohio Air News 239 - Charles Johnson | Ken Mist pictures from Dayton, EAA Tri-Motor and Liberty Foundation B-17 @ Columbus

1917 Standard J-1 Project Coming Together - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | July 15, 2013 - Volunteers at EAA's Weeks Hangar on the Wittman Regional Airport began attaching the wings to a 1917 Standard J-1 biplane last Thursday, giving shape to a project that began in October 2011. The "meat and potatoes" of the aircraft have been in the EAA family since the early 1970s, but due to the passing of time, much restoration still needs to be done. At that time EAA member Charlie Klessig found the fuselage of the old pilot trainer in an EAA warehouse and asked EAA founder Paul Poberezny if he could take it and rebuild it. Paul said yes, as the aircraft had no wings, no engine, and was more or less a giant paperweight.

Restoration projects continue at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force by Sarah Swan, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 7/15/2013 - DAYTON, Ohio -- The volunteers assisting in the Restoration Division at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force are keeping busy this summer. Three volunteers - Garry Guthrie, Ed Keinle and Lou Thole - can be found on the flight deck of the C-82 Packet, which was primarily used for cargo and troop transport in the late 1940s. The C-82 was...

This Weird Plane Was Made By Cold War Britain · Máté Petrány | Only 86 Handley Page Victors were made from 1952 to 1963. Originally designed to be part of the United Kingdom’s airborne nuclear deterrent, these were weird planes. Even though these streamlined strategic bombers were powered by four turbojet engines buried in the thick wing roots, which made them look fantastic and enabled them to have up to 35 × 1,000 lb bombs or 1× Yellow Sun free-fall nuclear bomb onboard, they also turned out to have a massive design flaw....

Book about X-15 Rocket Plane released · General Aviation News Staff | Recently released is “The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space” by Michelle Evans. With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight....

The most stunning Special Colored Fighter Jets taking part in the NATO Tiger Meet 2013 in Norway · David Cenciotti | NATO Tiger Meet is an annual exercise that gathers squadrons sporting Tiger (or feline) emblems. As already explained on previous posts about it, the most peculiar feature of the meeting is the fact that the planes that attend it, (often) get painted in spectacular, flamboyant tiger outfits, making the event a treat for all aviation photographers....

A World War II heroine has died · Peter | Relatively few people outside the former Soviet Union have heard of the so-called 'Night Witches', a Soviet air regiment during World War II comprising all-female pilots and aircrew...

Women in Aviation celebrate new exhibition at Vilnius Airport - MoodieReport | Women in Aviation, a networking group for women in the aviation industry, has organised a travelling photography exhibition at Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania. The exhibition, which opened on 4 July, has already seen many interested visitors, according to the organisers...

Colombia, Six Trophies in Open Paragliding in Bulgaria-Ukraine - Prensa Latina | Colombian paragliding team won six trophies in Bulgaria-Ukraine Open 2013, prior to the World Championship based in the Bulgarian resort of Sopot, on July 26. In this adventure sport the pilot sits in a harness suspended below a hollow fabric wing whose shape is formed by its suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside....