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Video: Hillsboro air show starts Friday - kgw.com | HILLSBORO, Ore. -- The Oregon International Air Show starts Friday in Hillsboro. This year's show features performances by the Patriots Jet Team, the Red Bull Air Force and others. There will also be a KidZone, a craft beer garden and a photo pit. Gates open at 6 p.m. Friday and then at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. A raffle was under way Wednesday and Thursday for a chance to ride with an air show performer. KGW's Stephanie Stricklen planned to take a ride with a member of the Patriots Jet Team Thursday.

53rd Annual Flying Circus Airshow - kypost.com | Summer spirits soar at the Greater Cincinnati Radio Control Club’s 53rd Annual Flying Circus Airshow. The two-day Model Aeronautics Extravaganza features more than 175 model aircrafts of all kinds including helicopters, jets and a rocket-powered Space Shuttle...

Toriaflies: Meet the AIR-Bros at Oshkosh! | Oshkosh, WI - July 24, 2013 - Year after year, friends come back to EAA AirVenture to share their love for aviation. Some friends have just started in this new tradition and others have been doing it since AirVenture's inception.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 Reprise: Melissa Pemberton In the Edge 540  - The aero Experience | One of the great young airshow performers at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 or any other airshow is Melissa Pemberton. Since 2002, Pemberton has achieved multiple pilot ratings, placed first with the U.S. National Aerobatic Team, became one of the select 2005 "Stars of Tomorrow" on the airshow circuit and has recently added wingsuit formation flight with her husband Rex. She tours around the world, and will again be performing at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Here are some views and previews of her airshow:...

Balloon race to light up Super Glow Show from RGJ.com | Hot-air balloon fans will have to wake up early on Friday this year during the Great Reno Balloon Race to see one of the event's 2013 innovations.

Fly-in event takes off - Western Wheel | A 90-year-old pilot expects heads to turn as he flies his original war aircraft overhead at one of his favourite events.  Gordon Jones' much-admired Tiger Moth will be among dozens of aircraft to land on the airstrip at the AJ Flying Ranch northeast of Nanton before an enthusiastic crowd at the Joe English Memorial Fly-In on July 27. Jones has attended the event since its inception in 2001....

Amelia Earhart Day marks birth of famed aviatrix - 9NEWS.com | KUSA- Amelia Earhart was an aviation pioneer of the 1930s, taking the advancement of women in aviation to new levels in a time when they rarely graced the cockpit. July 24 marks national Amelia Earhart Day, which also falls on her birthday. Amelia was born in 1897 in Atchison, Kan., the town which still celebrates her passionate spirit to this date. Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean for which She received the U.S.Distinguished Flying Cross....

 Would Amelia Earhart Have Been an Aviator Today? - Pacific Standard | Today is pilot Amelia Earhart’s birthday. With Charles Lindbergh and the Wright Brothers, the enduring figure of American aviation’s golden age was born in Kansas on this date in 1897, and lived only 40 years (or did she…) before...

ARS300 F-PCDF - Passion for Aviation | I saw for the first time this aerobatic aircraft registered F-PDCF Meeting at La Ferte Alais 2013. After some research I learned that the 'team of Aero Catering Service , created in 2002 by Bernard Ducreux Dijon-Darois, developed over two years a new car aerobatics on the basis of a carbon wing. The...

Ten Years of Flying High with Air and Space Art - Smithsonian | Before the first satellites launched into space, before man stepped on the moon and before NASA even existed, artist Chesley Bonestell had already taken a giant leap for mankind. In 1944, Bonestell’s photograph-like paintings of Saturn from the perspective of its various moons appeared in Life magazine, entrancing Americans and providing inspiration for the future space program...

Sky's the limit for student winners in Ryan J. Poe Foundation contest - KTVB | NAMPA -- Wednesday marked the two-year anniversary of the passing of famous aerobatic pilot Greg Poe. In memory of him, and to honor the Ryan J. Poe foundation he started back in 2008, two kids from the Treasure Valley were chosen to fly as passengers in an air-show plane....

SCHOLARS FLY HIGH WITH AWARDS - Royal International Air Tattoo | THE ANNUAL presentation ceremony for Flying Scholarships for Disabled People took place at the Royal International Air Tattoo on Sunday (July 21), when 17 scholars were presented with their wings, certificates and flying jackets....

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to open interactive space shuttle landing simulators as first items of CCT exhibit arrive - af.mil | DAYTON, Ohio -- National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors can now test their skill at landing a space shuttle orbiter with the addition of two new interactive space shuttle landing simulators. The simulators, which open to the public July 25, are free of charge and allow visitors to "fly" the shuttle to a safe landing using a joystick and video screens, and receive feedback on how well they piloted the shuttle....