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Prosser Fly-In to yield planes, trains, cars - Yakima Herald-Republic | PROSSER, Wash. — Planes of all sorts will literally descend on the Prosser airport Saturday. The fourth annual Fly-In, hosted by the Port of Benton and the Experimental Aircraft Association, involves displays of up to 100 aircraft, a military display, a model train display and antique and vintage cars. Also, the Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary from Yakima will display aircraft....

Balsa Bees plan fly-in Saturday - The-review | The Alliance Balsa Bees will present its 24th annual Big Plane Fly-In from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Barber Airport. The fly-in will feature an extensive variety of large aircraft, ranging from biplanes to jets. Children 10 years old and younger will receive a small glider.

Airdrie Air Show resounding success - Airdrie Echo | Spectators at the Airdrie Regional Air Show were treated to incredible feats of air acrobatics, entertainment, and educational demonstrations. Air Show chair and Mayor Peter Brown estimates more than 20,000 people attended the event, making this year’s show the biggest one yet...

Kokomo, Indiana’s Fifth Annual Wings and Wheels Air and Car Show By Mike Heilman & Ed Wells | Cliff Robinson races a motorcycle down the runway in his modified PT-17 Stearman. Robinson, an airshow veteran, has appeared in more than 300 airshows during his career. (Mike Heilman)It was the little show that could. The 5th annual Wings and Wheels Air and Car show was held June 8 at the Kokomo Indiana Municipal Airport (OKK). The one-day event was billed as the largest airshow in the state of Indiana in 2013. Kokomo can make that claim since the Indianapolis and Gary airshows cancelled due the Congressional sequester. The event drew an estimated 4,000 people....

World War II Weekend – A Step Back in Time By A. Kevin Grantham and Stan Piet | ...The Liberty Air Museum’s beautiful North American Aviation B-25J Georgie’s Gal made an appearance at the show. This aircraft in its current livery is a relative newcomer to the airshow circuit. (A. Kevin Grantham)Army Air Forces 509th Composite Group. He was the navigator of Necessary Evil, the B-29 camera plane that photographed the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. In talking with Mr. Gackenbach, we learned that he was also the navigator on a B-29 named UP an’ Atom....

Ready for RIAT? · Craig Hoyle, The DEW Line | It's Royal International Air Tattoo time, folks, and for once the weather forecast is showing that we're in for a scorcher for the duration of the show. That's good news for those of us who got a soaking at RAF Fairford in 2012, and probably every year before it in living memory.

de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth - Planeshots | “This aircraft was sold to the Prince of Wales and registered as G-ACAJ in November 1932, re-registered as G-ACDD in December and operated by the Royal Flight…."

Race of Champions set for take-off | IT-Online · Allan Davison | It is now less than a month before the fourth Race of Champions air race will take off in the heart of Zululand to find the pilot who flies the fastest and smartest across the province. The popular air race continues to establish itself as the ultimate event for pilots to come and fly their planes to the limit in order to be crowned champion pilot. To add to the excitement around this year’s air race, Ulundi’s Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport will play host for the first time to such an event....

WWII-era B-17 bomber to visit Kentucky Aviation Museum this weekend - Richmond Register | LEXINGTON — One of the very few flying B-17 bombers still in existence is scheduled to visit the Aviation Museum of Kentucky from Friday through Sunday. This is the only scheduled stop for this aircraft in Kentucky and adjoining areas during 2013, according to an announcement by the museum....

Jim Heskett of Punta Gorda was a multi-faceted airman and ‘Cold War’ warrior · Don Moore, War Tales | ...He took basic at Lackland Air Force Base, near San Antonio, Texas. Then Heskett was trained at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle as a crash-rescue specialist. When Air Force planes crashed it was his unit that raced in to pull downed pilots and crew members from the twisted, fiery wreckage. Korea was his first destination after qualifying as a crash-rescue guy. He was based in Osan in 1960 to begin with....

Time running out for Yankee Air Museum to raise $5M to renovate Willow Run ... - The Detroit News | Ypsilanti - The great warplane relics of America's past are treasures to Ray Hunter, who would like to see the Yankee Air Force Museum find a new home in a historic airport hangar. The 76-year-old Air Force veteran, who flew rescue helicopter missions in Vietnam, is one of the many former service members who hope the museum can raise nearly $5 million to save and renovate part of the former Willow Run bomber plant building into its new home on the grounds of the Willow Run Airport....

Yankee Air Museum Takes to Skies to Raise Awareness of Bomber Plant ... - WEMU | The Yankee Air Museum has until August 1st to raise just under $5 million to buy a section of the Willow Run bomber plant for its new home. As WEMU's Bob Eccles reports, the museum on Wednesday gave donors and members of the media flights on its B-17 bomber to raise awareness of the campaign....

Super Constellation · apron6 | I finally saw another plane from my bucketlist: the Breitling Super Constellation. From the local field of Wevelgem over the Belgian coastline, the North Sea and the white cliffs of Dover. It was a bit uncomfortable to sit at the edge of the open ramp again since it’s been a year since my last Skyvan flight. But I forgot about that when the Connie closed in on us.A truly wonderful sight....

Morane Saulnier M.S. 406 - Let Let Let - Warplanes | No matter that it is not one of the top performers, the Morane Saulnier MS 406 was without doubt a most important French fighter at the outbreak of WW2 and most the numerous fighter type in WW2. It was the very first to fly faster then 400 km/h and was built in great numbers...

Vintage: Jack Cope the daredevil - Chicago Tribune | Jack Cope, daredevil pilot and parachute jumper from Forest Park, Ill., began his parachute jumping career training with the famous aviatrix Ruth Bancroft Law in 1917. Newspaper accounts say that Cope was a regular at county fairs and air races performing everything from wing walking stunts to his "comical jumping balloon" act....

Trim the cost of learning to fly · Meg Godlewski | It has been said that copper wire was invented when two pilots found the same penny. We are a notoriously frugal bunch, due in part, no doubt, to the cost of our passion. But it is possible to cut costs when learning how to fly....