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The Patrouille de France Méribel Air Show canceled due to storms - Translated |Air festival began the day in Meribel was much anticipated Monday, July 29 with the show of the Patrouille de France. Due to the vigilance storm, he could not take place in the morning and had to be canceled. Other animations finally able to resume at 13:30...

Your photos: 26th annual Oregon International Air Show brings heights and sights to Hillsboro - Oregonlive.com | The Oregonian had full team coverage of the Oregon International Air Show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully readers have had a chance to see the stories and the pictures from the Hillsboro Airport....

Civilians flying at Miramar Air Show - U-T San Diego | Active duty military patriots are grounded for the 2013 Miramar Air Show. Instead, civilian ones will headline the annual air fest this fall, the Marine Corps said Monday, releasing its confirmed lineup of performances. The Patriots Jet Team of volunteer civilian pilots will fly the San Diego skies Oct. 4 and 5 in their L-39 jets, serving as main attraction for this year’s truncated, two-day event. Other civilians booked for the air show include Sean Tucker in his high-performance biplane Oracle Challenger, Chuck Aaron in the Red Bull Helo and John Collver in his AT-6 War Dog, a World War II-era fighter plane trainer....

Warbirds highlight 'Wings' - Wiscasset Newspaper | ...On August 6, he expects to be flying 250 miles an hour over the Wiscasset Municipal Airport in one of the biggest draws at “Wings Over Wiscasset.” Murphy, 43, is one of the pilots of the Texas Flying Legends Museum Warbirds. The World War II-era planes and warplanes from other eras will be on display at the airfield. The Warbirds' airshow is set to start at 5:15 p.m. when they taxi in a parade past the crowd before taking flight....

Revised: Snowbirds to make pass over Williams Lake on August 1 - Welcome to Williams Lake | Michel ‘Spike’ Tremblay Senior Operations Coordinator for the Combined Aerospace Operations Centre - 1 Canadian Air Division Headquarters/Canadien NORAD Region recently confirmed Cariboo community fly-over times with the organizers of Skyfest 2013, Quesnel’s International Air Show. The snowbirds should be flying 100 Mile House at approximately 2:30pm and over Williams Lake at approximately 2:45pm before arriving in Quesnel at 3:00pm....

Return of the Leopard: jet signals countdown to Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | ANTICIPATION is building as Bournemouth Air Festival draws near. The Leopard jet has been put in place at St Paul’s roundabout, signalling that there are only a matter of weeks to go before this year’s extravaganza. The festival takes place on the seafront between August 29 and September 1 and flying fans are in for a host of thrills in the air and on land....

Helicopter Belgian Open Championship in Saint-Hubert - Passion for Aviation | August 29 to September 1, 2013 | The first BOHC take place from 29 August to 1 September of the Saint-Hubert (EBSH) in Belgium It is a competition steering precision helicopter organized by the Management Company Airfield St. Hubert under the auspices of the Royal Aero Club Belgium....

70 years later, a WWII veteran is aloft again on a B-17 - Buffalo News | Richard J. Notebaert piloted 50 combat missions in a B-17 bomber, so it was only fitting that he sat back Monday and enjoyed his 51st ride as a passenger. The Liberty Foundation’s Memphis Belle is back in Buffalo, and the 93-year-old former Army Air Forces captain from Amherst caught a ride on the historic World War II-era aircraft, which is much like the one he flew on daring raids over Italian cities such as Rome, Naples and Bologna in 1943....

Rare WWII B-25 bomber 'Maid in the Shade' soars over Peoria - Peoria Journal Star | A World War II veteran flew into Peoria on Monday, a living reminder of another era. The B-25 Mitchell that taxied down at Byerly Airport for a week's stay in Peoria is a flying museum piece, an actual bomber-fighter that flew 15 missions over Italy and what was then Yugoslavia in 1944. "This plane was purchased for $1,800 by a collector who donated it to us," said Norman "Spike" McLane of the Commemorative Air Force, the non-profit group that restores combat aircraft for display around the country....

One of AF most decorated heroes passes away - Official Site of the U.S. Air Force Top Stories | One of the most decorated Airmen in Air Force history, whose career spanned three wars and four decades, has passed away.  Retired Col. George Everett "Bud" Day, an Air Force pilot, shot down during the Vietnam War and imprisoned in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" along with Sen. John McCain, defiantly resisted the North Vietnamese for more than five years, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. He passed away July 27, in Shalimar, Fla., at age 88....

Squadron commander receives German Air Force award  - Air Combat Command - ACC Headlines | U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Lorne Eshelman, 563rd Operations Support Squadron, receives the German Air Force Service Medal from Oberst Heinz-Josef Ferkinghoof, GAF, here at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., July 18, 2013. Eshelman spent two years in...

Here’s the control tower audio from Virginia Beach F/A-18 Hornet crash last year - The Aviationist | On Apr. 6, 2012, a U.S. Navy F/A-18D Hornet crashed into Mayfair Mews Apartments off of Fleming Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Both pilots ejected safely and, fortunately, no one was killed in the accident....

'Thunder over Dakota' documents Ellsworth Air Force Base history - Rapid City Journal | A B-1B Lancer rumbles as it jets across the sky. That’s why retired Lt. Col. George Larson named his new book, which documents the complete history of Ellsworth Air Force Base, “Thunder over Dakota.” Larson touts the book as a comprehensive look at the history of the base just east of Rapid City....

Advertising Airshows  - Air & Space Magazine: This Week's Most Printed Articles | Long before the airplane, there were airshows. The very first one may have occurred in Paris on August 27, 1783, says Tom Crouch, a curator in the aeronautics department of the National Air and Space Museum. On that date, Jacques Alexandre-César Charles "flew the first small hydrogen balloon from the Champs de Mars, near the present site of the Eiffel Tower." Tickets were sold, and the public promptly went balloon-crazy. As many as 400,000 people—half the city's population—says Crouch, gathered to watch a hydrogen balloon ascend from the Jardin des Tuileries...

Atlantis is the star of new space shuttle exhibit - Sacramento Bee | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Grimy with space dust, scratched, its tiles scorched by the heat of re-entry, the retired space shuttle Atlantis is surprisingly majestic after 33 missions into space. And that's how you can see it in a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center, as if it were just departing the International Space Station, tilted at a 43.21-degree angle, coming home....

Russian Soyuz-U M-20M launched from Baikonur to International Space Station - Spaceports | A Russian Soyuz-U rocket successfully launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan today, July 27th 2013 on a six hour flight to carry supplies to the International Space Station. The spacecraft is known as Progress 52 or M-30M...