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EAA AirVenture 2013 gets off the ground - Fond du Lac Reporter | The Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2013 will take off on Monday, July 29, and flies through Sunday, Aug. 4, at Wittman Regional Airport, 525 W. 20th Ave., in Oshkosh. Fly-ins are expected to begin on Sunday, July 28.The EAA AirVenture 2013 will feature programs and activities designed for all ages. Highlights include a Salute to Veterans Day on Friday, Aug. 2, live music throughout the week by Chasin' Mason, Aaron Tippin, Gary Sinise, Da Blooze Brothers and Phillips 66 Plaza....

Volunteers help AirVenture take flight - Fox11online.com | OSHKOSH - With AirVenture 2013 just days away, volunteers are ready to help get the event off the ground. The first planes arrived over the weekend. Crews are putting the finishing touches on the EAA grounds. The sounds coming from the grounds this...

Chew The Fat At OSH13: AirPigz Bacon Parties At CampBacon! - AirPigz | CampBacon for Oshkosh 2013 is indeed in the same location as the last two years. This little avgeek compound within EAA's Camp Scholler is bigger than it's ever been, but don't get too excited, it's only about 90 feet by 75 feet. But it's definitely a beautiful place to talk airplanes and eat a little bacon!...

Through Airmen's Eyes: Thunderbirds egress specialist finds fulfillment service - af.mil | NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) -- Many Airmen discover their paths early in life. Some join the Air Force after graduating high school, and others wait a few years before making the decision to enlist. For one Airman assigned to the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, deciding to join the Air Force took 11 years. Staff Sgt. McGarry Lansiquot, 38, an aircrew egress systems specialist assigned to the Thunderbirds, was born and raised in Castries, St. Lucia, an island country located in the eastern Caribbean Sea. After graduating high school in 1991, Lansiquot and his twin brother, McGarret, both decided to leave home....

Otto The Helicoptor At The 2013 Lehigh Valley Airshow · Ernie Reed | The Sands Lehigh Valley Airshow, presented by Service Electric, is the ideal family event of the summer! Located at the Lehigh Valley International Airport on August 24 & 25, this year’s airshow is sure to please every member of the family; as well as their budget....

2013 Chicago Air and Water Show lineup announced - Chicago Sun-Times | The federal sequester has grounded a few of the Chicago Air and Water Show’s most popular acts, like the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds. The city is still offering a full lineup of veteran and civilian teams for the 2014 show, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on August 17 and 18. Instead...

Avro Vulcan XH558 at 2013 Air Tattoo - Rush Lane | The importance of Vulcan XH558 to British aviation and military history and the need to return this aircraft to flight was recognised in 2004 by the award of a major grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the costs of her restoration to airworthiness...

Washington County Fair, Oregon International Air Show brace for unprecedented double-booking - Oregonlive.com | For the first time, and event coordinators hope the last, the Washington County Fair and Oregon International Air Show will unfold less than half a mile apart in Hillsboro this weekend....

Transformers' Optimus Prime truck driving into Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | AIRSHOW organisers are promising a feast of fun on the ground as well as in the air this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to the seafront for the show, which kicks off on Friday night. Along with a top-class flight programme there will be fairgrounds, inflatables, flight simulators and even video game favourite Mario and Transformer Optimus Prime are getting in on the fun....

R/C airshow takes to the skies - KMAland | R/C airshow takes to the skies Nick Johansen - Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:17:50 CDT The skies over Clarinda's airport will be full of activity this weekend. The 4th annual Clarinda R/C Skyhawk's radio controlled airshow takes to the air from 10:00 a.m. to dark this Saturday on the southeast side of the airfield. Spokesman Steve Mowery says they plan on having 30 pilots on hand for the event, including two big headliners....

Warplane, M.I.A. For 60 Years, Comes Home to WNY - WGRG | 2 On Your Side's Pete Gallivan reports on a warplane that went missing for 60 years, and is now back in its birthplace....

Wiley Post Makes History - History | On July 22, 1933, Wiley Post, the famed American aviator who had overcome personal tragedy to become one of the most popular pilots of the 20th century, touched down at New York’s Floyd Bennett Field to a crowd of more than 50,000 well-wishers, eager to congratulate him on yet another aeronautical achievement. Post, already in possession of several airspeed records, had just made history by becoming the first person to complete a solo flight around the world, beating the previous record, which he had set with a co-pilot just three years earlier, by nearly a full day. Though...

Russian Bear In the Air - English Russia | The Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name: Bear) is a large, four-engine turboprop-powered strategic bomber and missile platform. First flown in 1952, the Tu-95 entered service with the Soviet Union in 1956 and is expected to serve the Russian Air Force until at least 2040. Some pictures of the bomber are inside the post...

Guerchais Roche T35/II F-BFDP - Passion for Aviation (Translated) Thank you to Jacques Hemet for sending me these two pictures you can see two copies of Guerchais Roche T.35. The Guerchais Roche T35 and T39 are a small number of airplanes of 2, 3 or 4 places designed in the 40s. at the end of the Second World War, Aviation Roche designed the T.35, a monoplane of low wing tourism and fixed gear. The first building made its...

Soviet F-84F  - The Lexicans | The website English Russia always has interesting things and you never know where those things are going to lead...

Arch Helicopter at Farmington Regional Airport Salutes First Responders | The Aero Experience appreciates the sacrifices made by members of the military and first responders as they serve to defend and rescue fellow citizens under difficult circumstances. Recently, a salute to first responders was held by Arch Helicopter (Air Methods) at Farmington Regional Airport in southeast Missouri, home of one of the Arch (Air Methods) Eurocopter EC-130s....