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Air Tattoo celebrates best of British - Stroud News and Journal | TWO spectacular joint fly-pasts featuring the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows have just been announced for next weekend’s Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. On Saturday, July 20, the world’s premier aerobatics display team will fly in formation with British Airways’ brand new Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial aircraft. The giant, two-decked airliner is the first of 12 ordered by British Airways. It only arrived in the UK from Toulouse earlier this month. The airline’s new 469-seat A380 will begin flying to Los Angeles from September 24 and to Hong Kong from October 22. On Sunday, July 21, the RAF Red Arrows will perform a fly-past with an Airbus Military A400M, the RAF’s future transport aircraft that is scheduled to replace the legendary C-130 Hercules when it enters service in 2015. The A400M was officially named ‘Atlas’ at a ceremony during last summer’s Air Tattoo....

Bob Carlton's Super Salto Jet Sailplane Soars Over Fair St. Louis - The Aero Experience | Bob Carlton has a reputation for launching innovative aviation projects, and at Fair St. Louis he demonstrated his current airshow offering: the jet-powered Super Salto sailplane. Along with being a
real rocket scientist, Carlton has flown many types of aircraft, including...

Fair St. Louis Brings Back Matt Younkin and His Beech C-18S "Magic By Moonlight" - The Aero Experience | Fair St. Louis again featured one of the more unusual aerobatic acts around, Matt Younkin and his Beech C-18S, "Magic by Moonlight." Matt Younkin continues the family tradition of providing original aerial entertainment for national audiences, this time flying the Twin Beech C-18S in dramatic rolls and loops over the St. Louis Mississippi Riverfront and again over St. Louis Downtown Airport last weekend....

Fair St. Louis Brings Back Matt Younkin and His Beech C-18S "Magic By Moonlight" - The Aero Experience | Fair St. Louis again featured one of the more unusual aerobatic acts around, Matt Younkin and his Beech C-18S, "Magic by Moonlight." Matt Younkin continues the family tradition of providing original aerial entertainment for national audiences, this time flying the Twin Beech C-18S in dramatic rolls and loops over the St. Louis Mississippi Riverfront and again over St. Louis Downtown Airport last weekend....

Vought Corsair Adds Warbird Presence to Fair St. Louis Airshow - The Aero Experience | Fair St. Louis Airshows featured several warbirds, one of which was the Vought F-4U-5 Corsair flown by one of its owners, Dave Folk. The Corsair was part of the 2011 Fair St. Louis Airshow, and it was great to have the huge World War II era fighter back in the lineup. The Corsair is unmistakable, with its inverted gull wings...

Rising Aerobatic Star Kevin Coleman Brings High-Energy Performance to Fair St. Louis Airshow - The Aero Experience | The Fair St. Louis was treated to several high-energy aerobatic performances by 21-year old Kevin Coleman during the series of airshows last week. The second-generation aviator and current full-time college student worked hard all week to smoothly interact with the other performers and impress another Midwest airshow audience. The Extra EA300SHP he flies is...

Fair St. Louis Features Midwest Airshow Favorite Aeroshell Aerobatic Team - The Aero Experience | For over 25 years, the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team has been entertaining audiences throughout the country (formerly as the three-ship North American Aerobatic Team), and the team has become a staple at Midwest airshows such as the Salute to Veterans Corporation airshow in Columbia Missouri and of course Fair St. Louis. There is nothing like the grace and beauty of the four red and white North American Texans as they dance across the sky in perfect formation...

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Memphis Belle B-17 on area educational mission - Meadville Tribune | ERIE — Poof! Out billows black and gray smoke and building, building, faster and faster the air fills with “wha-wha-wha-wha-wha!” repeated three more times over. The beast is alive and woe be to those inside and below. It creaks, cracks, squeaks, jiggles and wiggles. Touch its thin metal skin and you feel its heart beat. It shakes you to the bone. Slowly, slowly, slowly it begins to lumber. Oil leaks out and its olive drab paint glistens menacingly under the sun. With a roar and then huge buzz like a giant angry wasp, the 4,800 horsepower of its four small-car-sized engines defy gravity. This is the moment of no going back. After this, lives will change — good odds it will be yours — in blast, fire, blood...

WW II planes with local connection arrive - Steubenville Herald Star | WHEELING - An image out of America's past came to rest at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport on Monday. A B-25 bomber, designed by Wheeling native Howard "Dutch" Kindleberger, is on display on the runway for people to see. It is scheduled to be joined by a P-51 fighter plane Friday to kick off a weekend of aviation history. "All the action will begin at the airport Thursday through Sunday," airport Manager Tom Tominack said Monday afternoon....

Superb Restorations at Chino’s Air Museums - Airplanes Channel | Located in San Bernardino Country, California, the city of Chino has two museums which will be of interest to aviation enthusiasts – the Planes of Fame Air Museum and the Yanks Air Museum, both of which are located at the Chino Airport. The Planes of Fame Air Museum has a large collecting of both flying and static aircraft and is the base for restoration of rare and historic aircraft from around the world, while the Yanks Air Museum, as the name suggests, is devoted to restoring, preserving and exhibiting American aircraft and aviation-related artifacts.

PPG donates $15,000 to Air Force Museum Foundation · General Aviation News Staff | DAYTON, Ohio – The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to the Air Force Museum Foundation for construction of a fourth major building at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. The grant was made on behalf of PPG Industries’ aerospace business, which includes an application support center in Indianapolis....

Smart Promo: American Airlines Flies with Disney’s ‘Planes’ - Variety | As Disney readies to release its animated “Cars”-spinoff “Planes” next month, the studio has a high-flying promotional partner in American Airlines. Disney and the airline are collaborating on a campaign that includes traditional media buys, promotions and inflight entertainment. Deal also gives the airline the exclusive rights to offer “Planes” to its customers in October, one month before other carriers can play the film....

Special Announcement: Air Associates to Sponsor Team Coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 | SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! | The Aero Experience Team is proud to announce that Air Associates of Missouri and Air Associates of Kansas will sponsor our coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013! Team members Carmelo Turdo and Fred Harl will be on the ground in Oshkosh from July 26 to August 3, bringing daily reports to our growing audience and providing continuous special features throughout the next year until July 2014. Air Associates of Missouri is regularly featured on The Aero Experience, and we welcome Air Associates of Kansas as part of the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 sponsorship...