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AirVenture 2013 – Tuesday Photo Highlights | WARBIRD RADIO – Warbird Radio LIVE’s Matt Jolley remembered to snap a few pictures this Tuesday during AirVenture 2013. Here’s a look at a few of them. Thanks for tuning in!

AirVenture pilots practice locally - Herald Times Reporter | MANITOWOC — EAA AirVenture 2013 continues in Oshkosh through Sunday attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators. They come from around the world spending millions of dollars on admission, food and lodging and other expenses. With a three-day pre-show visit to the Manitowoc County Airport by about 45 T-34 airplane pilots and family members, the economic impact of America's biggest air show extended east across Lake Winnebago to include businesses in the Lakeshore area....

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2013 Amigo Airsho to be held at Santa Teresa Airport - KVIA El Paso | EL PASO, Texas - The Amigo Airsho is heading to the Santa Teresa Airport this year. While the announcement won't officially be made until Thursday afternoon at a news conference, Karen Perez, the chairwoman of the board of the Dona Ana County Commissioners, told ABC-7 the move is a done deal. Perez said the airshow will be in early October but will be a smaller version compared to past Amigo Airshos and will be more educational and oriented toward children.

Celebration of Light: Stunt pilot loves his dance in the sky - Vancouver Sun | He looked like a brightly coloured hummingbird, hovering restlessly on the flat horizon at the Pitt Meadows Airport. Then, with the mountains shimmering in the background, 29-year-old aerobatic pilot Peter McLeod roared down the runway in his Edge 540 aircraft and soared to the skies, where he swooped and flipped in a stunning preview of the stunt show he will perform over English Bay Wednesday and Saturday before the fireworks...

Airport Fly-In Breakfast set for Sunday, Aug. 11 - Moody County Enterprise | The Team of Angels will be serving breakfast during the Flandreau Airport Fly-in on Sunday, Aug. 11 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Flandreau airport located three miles south of Flandreau on Hwy. 34. The breakfast will include scrambled eggs, French toast, coffee and juice for $6 per person, kids ages 4-12--$3 and kids age three and under and PIC eat free....

Eh? It's a plane! - Budgeteer | It’s a plane! The Commemorative Air Force will be in full force when it makes its way to Duluth next week. The AirPower History Tour lands Aug. 5-7 with a fleet of World War II-era planes. Wanna do more than look? Sign up for a flight at airpowersquadron.org or the CAF Minnesota Wing website, cafsmw.org. Flights can be booked during the event, too, based on availability...

Tuskegee Airmen - Flight To Success | The Pacific West Aerospace Academy aviation youth program conducted under the auspices of the Tuskegee Airmen WW Pilot Colonel Edward Drummond & Executive Director Ty Peterson was hosted by the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island on May 10th 2013...

WWII Veteran Aviator Bill Overstreet and His P-51 Mustang, “Berlin Express” - Warbirds News |
We had the pleasure of speaking at length with World War Two aviator, William B.”Bill” Overstreet at Warbirds Over the Beach 2013, and as promised, we’re going to relate some of the compelling stories of his experiences during the war. While he is in his nineties, he is still sharp, and in talking to him, you can still see the spark of the twenty-something daredevil he once was in his eyes as he recounts his exploits, fighting the forces of fascism from the cockpit of a fighter plane over Europe all those years ago....

Work to begin on Beck-Odegaard Wing addition - In-Forum | FARGO – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Fargo Air Museum’s Beck-Odegaard Wing addition will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 10. Gerry Beck and Robert Odegaard were founding members of the museum and believed in the dream of a rotating flying museum. The new building will display the B-25 Mitchell that Beck donated in the early years with hopes to create an interactive diorama to share the World War II history and stories of the Doolittle Raiders....

Local aviator still flying high at 99 - Dayton Daily News | Helicopter use for care flights, news coverage and police work are common now, but not when 99-year-old Al Butterfield started promoting and flying such missions — after a career in engine maintenance. Born in Indianapolis, Butterfield says, “I took three years of military training in high school and joined the National Guard before WWII started. A commissioned officer in the Guard taught me to fly in 1934 – I could fly all military planes.”...