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World's largest jet flies with Red Arrows at Royal International Air Tattoo - Telegraph.co.uk | The event, held at RAF Fairford, also featured aerobatic displays by the Frecce Tricolori of the Italian air force and the Breitling Wingwalkers from Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The A380 was flown by Peter Nye, a British Airways’ senior first officer, who described the show as a “very British celebration”. Prince Harry had been rumoured to be preparing to take part in the show after he was spotted flying in an Apache helicopter over RAF Fairford on Friday....

Santa Maria Air Show cancelled due to lack of funding - KSBY San Luis Obispo News | Officials at the Santa Maria Museum of Flight announced Saturday that this year's Air Show will be cancelled. The museum lost much of its funding after the sequestration cuts. The event committee tried to raise the funding needed for the event through sponsorships, but they were not able to raise enough....

Dunsfold Wings and Wheels: Mitchell Bomber returns to aerodrome - West Sussex Gazette | Some 70 years after the B-25 Dutch Mitchell Bomber first arrived at Dunsfold Aerodrome it will be back in our skies for Wings & Wheels on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August thanks to the generous support of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Historic...

Wales Air Show brings back wartime memories for Swansea pensioner - This is South Wales | WHEN the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight passed over Swansea during the spectacular Wales National Air Show it brought back dark memories for one local pensioner. Derek Morris was a schoolboy in 1941 when his home town was subjected to three consecutive nights of heavy bombing at the hands of the German Luftwaffe during the height of the Second World War...

Video: Join Irish aerobatic pilot in a thrilling flight above Dublin - Irish Independent | THE country’s largest free air show takes place tomorrow, with over 80,000 spectators expected at the annual Air Spectacular in Bray. Irish aerobatic pilot Dave Burton in his high speed SBach 342 will be thrilling the crowds with a smoked fill display again this year. But he also thrilled Sunday Independent photographer Gerry Mooney earlier this week with a stunning flight above Dublin – footage of which can be watched here....

Video: The Patrouille de France - Translated | This Saturday at noon, thousands of spectators gathered on the beach promenade Trestaou to admire the traditional show of the Patrouille de France....

Collings Foundation Holding Race of the Century Event July 27-28th - Warbirds News | In a recent story, we recounted the history of races staged over the years between aircraft and motor vehicles. We must have been tapping onto something subconsciously because we were recently informed that the Collins Foundation of Stowe, Massachusetts is holding a racing event later this month in the spirit of these historic cross-transportational contests....

Reno Air Races 1964 to 50th Anniversary - Photorecon.net,· Mark Hrutkay| |There have been few events in sports that manage to last 50 years. Fortunately the National Championship Air Races at Reno are one of them. This year will mark the 50th running of this race during September 11th-15th 2013. Like WWII veterans, few people who were at the races in 1964 will be at the races this year. Few people showed up for the first one and crowds weren’t nearly as crowded as they are today. The current gathering is nothing compared to its humble beginnings and humble it was....

Vet Returns to NKorea for 1st Black Navy Aviator - ABC News | Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy's first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown lay trapped in his downed fighter plane in subfreezing North Korea, his leg broken and bleeding. His wingman crash-landed to try to save him, and even burned his hands trying to put out the flames....

Air museum gets $54000 Gilchrist grant - Sioux City Journal | SIOUX CITY | The Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation has received a $54,000 grant. The money will help fund an education and research center upgrade to the Fed Ex Boeing 727 aircraft display, 2600 Expedition Court. the project includes multiple learning stations, a theatre style area, library and research center and age-appropriate transportation lessons...

Way to Go, Meg! - WAI Connect Blog | Congratulations to Aviation for Women Contributor Meg Godlewski who recently renewed her Master CFI and Master GI accreditations. A journalist with General Aviation News, Meg is a flight and ground instructor with Safety In Motion Flight Center at Pierce County Airport (PLU). Additionally, she teaches at Crest Airpark (S36) and serves as a FAASTeam representative in the FAA's Seattle FSDO area.

This Really Exists: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America - The Daily Traveler | ...The Postal Service solved the problem with the world’s first ground-based civilian navigation system: a series of lit beacons that would extend from New York to San Francisco. Every ten miles, pilots would pass a bright yellow concrete arrow. Each arrow would be surmounted by a 51-foot steel tower and lit by a million-candlepower rotating beacon. (A generator shed at the tail of each arrow powered the beacon.) Now mail could get from the Atlantic to the Pacific not in a matter of weeks, but in just 30 hours or so....

The ‘Dambusters’ will be the first British unit to receive the F-35B - Defense Update | The Royal Air Force has announced that 617 Squadron, the famous ‘Dambusters’, will be the first operational squadron using F-35B Lightning II aircraft. According to Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, the 617 Squadron is to disband on 1st April next year, as part of the planned drawdown of the Tornado GR4 force. It will then reform in 2016, taking delivery of the highly advanced Lightning II. Dalton made the announcement at a...