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EAA Chapter 50 slates last fly-in at SKY · General Aviation News Staff | With great sadness, the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 50, will hold its 17th — and final — annual Fly-In Pancake Breakfast at Griffing-Sandusky Airport (SKY) in Ohio. Since 1937, The Griffing family owned and operated airport has provided international services to the North Coast of Ohio, including...

Weatherman does it again with Hurricane prediction for Air Tattoo - Swindon Advertiser | ...In fact there will be a Hurricane at the Air Tattoo at Fairford on July 20 and 21, part of the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight which will perform a special flypast with an RAF Tornado from 617 Sqn to mark the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters Raid...

ARROWS TRICOLORI: Between Heaven and Sea AIR SHOW - Translated | Great return in Chioggia acrobats of the sky, the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team (PAN) Italian Air Force. The PAN consists of 9 planes in formation and one soloist, is the most numerous and the most appreciated in the world. The fantastic riders delight us with their aerial acrobatics. Sunday, July 14th...

Aviators plan RC fly-in to Libby airstrip Saturday - The Western News | Their airplanes may be smaller, but to say these aviators pamper their planes less than their full-scale aircraft cousins would not be accurate. These pilots are radio-controlled fliers and their planes come in all sizes and colors. Many are World War II-era replicas. One kit of a B-17 Flying Fortress features a five-foot wingspan...

The 2013 race entries have been posted on our website. As we receive more entrie... · Reno Air Race Association | ...we will be updating the list. Hope you find your favorite on the list.

Flying Tigers reunion to take place in King of Prussia - The Times Herald | The Flying Tigers "Last Dance Reunion" of the veterans who served in China, Burma and India during World War II will take place Aug. 9, 10 and 11 at the Valley Forge Casino Resord, Radisson Hotel Valley Forge, 1160 First Ave., King of Prussia...

US National Museum of the Marine Corps Unveils Ambitious Expansion Plan - Warbirds News | In furtherance of it’s long-term expansion plans, the National Museum of the Marine Corps of Triangle, Virginia, has unveiled the ambitious plans for it’s latest expansion. We recently reported on the restoration of one of the planes planned for the new exhibition space, a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet that is being restored to static display standards and will exhibit the livery of a plane deployed during the period of the First Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm. The museum...

First Air Force One plane decaying in Arizona field By AP staff, Associated Press | TUCSON, Ariz. - The first plane to be designated as Air Force One now sits in a southern Arizona field that's part of Marana Regional Airport. The aircraft that once spirited President Dwight D. Eisenhower on cross-country voyages is nearly forgotten on a 10-acre parcel, decaying under the relentless glare of the sun....

Restoring history - Bomber taken from Alaska to Livingston County for restoration (with photo gallery and video) - Livingston Daily | Crash-landed in Alaska, scavenged for parts, abandoned for 44 years and overgrown with trees, the B-25 Mitchell bomber would have been forgotten.Brighton Township residents Patrick Mihalek and Todd Trainor made sure that didn’t happen to the World War II-era plane....

Aces High: A Heavy Metal Tribute to WWII Fighters - Warbirds News |Spitfire TE311 of the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight performing a flyover for the crowd during Iron Maiden’s June 15th concert at Donington Park, UK.

A different kind of flying by General Aviation News Staff | Ryan Southwell Films has released a short film about flying powered paragliders in Glamis Dunes and Salton Sea in California earlier this year.

Women Rule the Skies - New America Foundation (blog) | History is full of bold and charismatic aviatrixes: Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic; Bessie Coleman, the first African-American to earn a pilot’s license; Beryl Markham, the British-born Kenyan adventurer; and (to name just one more in a long and lively list) Elinor Smith, the “Flying Flapper of Freeport,” who in 1928, at the age of 17, became the first and only pilot to fly under New York City’s four East River bridges, a stunt she did on a dare...

Double amputee, veteran to skydive into, speak at Beartooth Rally - Billings Gazette ..."I do a lot of things other people don't do," he said in a Tuesday telephone interview with the Gazette. "We all have our disabilities and not everyone can land on target. Your disabilities are the things you think you can't do." And Bowman should know. He's a retired sergeant first class who served as a Green Beret in the U.S. Army and a double-amputee who has spoken at more than 1,000 events and continues to skydive after losing both of his legs 19 years ago in a skydiving accident...

Naval Aviator mentors youth in Houston - DVIDS | HOUSTON – A Naval Aviator took time to mentor youth interested in becoming aviators at two separate events July 12-13, in Houston. Lt. Cmdr. Mike Jackson, attached to Navy Recruiting District Houston, spoke with high-school students July 12, at the Aviation Sciences and Technology Center at Texas Southern University. The students, who were attending an aviation summer camp, listened to Jackson as he offered advice, shared personal stories and talked about aviation opportunities in the Navy....

X-47B fails fourth trap attempt · Dave Majumdar | The US Navy confirms that a Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system-demonstrator (UCAS-D) aircraft made a fourth unsuccessful attempt to make an arrested landing on the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush on 15 July, 2013....