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Greenwood Lake air show returns to West Milford for fifth year - NorthJersey.com | Excitement is building as the 5th annual Greenwood Lake Air Show prepares to take flight again on Friday, Aug. 16 through Sunday, Aug. 18. In the spotlight this year is Kirby Chambliss, a five-time U.S. national aerobatic champion named one of the top 15 aerobatic pilots in the country. Kirby was invited to compete in the first Red Bull Air Race events held in the early 2000s. He is a two-time Red Bull Air Race World Champion. Appearing for the first time at the Greenwood Lake Air Show, there will be a jet-powered funny car driven by Jerry McCart. Powered by a jet engine commonly used on the F-5 fighter, the jet-powered funny car can produce over 12,000 hp and produces 4.6 g-forces of acceleration force. It burns fuel at a rate of 3 gallons per second, and has been clocked at over 284 mph in the quarter-mile....

Disney's Dusty ready to entertain Airbourne crowds - Eastbourne Herald | Airbourne prepares to take to the skies later this month and the Matadors Aerobatic Team will undergo a makeover in honour of the new Disney film Planes to bring Team Dusty and Team Ripslinger to town (August 15-18). The two planes, Sbach XtremeAir XA41s, are piloted by air racing champion Paul Bonhomme (Team Dusty) and Steve Jones (Team Ripslinger). From above the world of Cars and Cars 2, Planes is an action packed 3D animated comedy adventure featuring Dusty, a plane with dreams of competing as a high flying air racer....

Local air show expects boost in attendance - Winston-Salem Journal | The Winston-Salem Air Show could get a boost in attendance this year because federal sequestration has led to the cancellation of air shows across the country, organizers said. Of the typical 300 to 325 yearly air shows throughout the United States about 65 have been canceled this year, according to the International Council of Air Shows, an industry trade association based in Leesburg, Va. “We’re certainly expecting 40,000 plus this year,” said Steve Flippin, the director of the Winston-Salem Air Show, which will be held Sept. 21 and 22 at Smith Reynolds Airport. “Part of that is there are a lot of air show fans all over the country, but, certainly in the Southeast, so many air shows have been canceled.”...

Rutherford Airshow - ABC Online | Helen Clare visited the Royal Newcastle Aero Club on Sunday and was taken up to host her show from the air by Chris Hirst, the club president, in his Cessna. The airshow included formation flying from club Cessnas and a Grumman Avenger giving a low flyby to the crowd. Over the 85 years the club has operated a range of aircraft with the clubs current fleet consisting of Cessnas, a Piper Archer and a De Havilland Tiger Moth....

Milwaukee Air & Water Show soars in the air but flops in the water - Examiner.com | This past weekend, Milwaukee residents spent their time at the beach, watching the skies and waves during the 2013 Milwaukee Air and Water Show. Sunday, August 4, was a gorgeous day to spend on the beach, as weather conditions were perfect. Some visitors were let down by the lack of Thunderbirds and Blue Angels in the Air Show, but the real disappointment was in the water show....

Three Electric Airplanes Fly at AirVenture 2013 - CAFE Foundation Blog | Electric aircraft have flown for the last six years at the big Oshkosh AirVenture airshow. Randall Fishman started the movement in 2007 showing his ElectraFlyer trike, and then flew his ElectraFlyer C, a single-seater derived from the Moni motorglider the following year. He won the 2008 Stan Dzik Memorial Award For Design Contribution “for the installation of the Electric-Motor power train” and the Dr. August Raspet Award. Last year he displayed his ElectricFlyer ULS, a twin-boom pusher with soaring capabilities....

Why we want to bring back our much-loved Southend Airshow - Southend Standard ...News the council could no longer afford to run the show came as a huge blow. Mr Delaney said: “I was absolutely devastated when I heard they were cancelling it. I was really angry and thought it ridiculous. I immediately started a Facebook campaign. In fact, Tom and I had launched our campaigns within an hour of each other. “When I saw we were getting a good response, I contacted Tom and said: ‘Let’s get together’. We had never met before, but we have become close friends.”...

WWII style hangar dance to be held at Maverick Air Center - KELO AM-FM | Sioux Falls S.D. (KELO AM) - The Joe Foss Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force is putting on a WWII style hangar dance as an initial fund raiser for their unit on Monday, 12 August. The Commemorative Air Force is the largest owner and operator of historic privately owned aircraft and the Joe Foss Squadron is the newest unit....

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP: Yankee Air Museum hosting exhibit on Tuskegee Airmen - Heritage Newspapers The Yankee Air Museum will be hosting a free educational exhibit on the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first-ever group of black military pilots, on Friday, Aug. 9. The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of black military pilots who fought in the racially segregated United States Army. Despite the discrimination they faced, these men served their country in World War II and trained at the Tuskegee...

Air museum hopes to save Rosie the Riveter's factory - Michigan Radio | The Yankee Air Museum hopes to save part of the historic factory where Rosie the Riveter made B-24 bombers during WWII. The historic Michigan factory where the iconic Rosie the Riveter and thousands of other women built B-24 bombers during World War II could face the wrecking ball two months from now....

Commemorative Air Force lands in Duluth - Duluth News Tribune | Planes full of passengers were taking off and landing Monday on the tarmac surrounding the Duluth International Airport, just like every other day. Except most of these planes first flew during World War II. The Lake Superior Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force, a volunteer nonprofit, is hosting seven World War II-era plans at its hangar through Wednesday as part of the nationwide AirPower History Tour....

Warbirds on Parade - Allen American | Lancaster, TX -- There are numerous war movies, history books and stories handed down from servicemen and -women about how warplanes played a significant role in our fight for freedom over the years. Now is your opportunity to walk among some of those planes and experience up close the beauty and silent strength that earned them our respect and gratitude. "Warbirds on Parade" will be held at the Lancaster Airport, Beltline Road at Ferris Road, Between I-45 and I-35 on Saturday, Aug.31, 2013, from 10 am to 4 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 a carload or $5 per person, so bring the family, a friend or a whole carload. This year’s event is bigger and better than ever before!...

World War II warbird a flying history lesson - WXOW.com | LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - A rare piece of history landed in La Crosse on Monday. The B-25J "Maid in the Shade" was a fighter back in WWII, and is still putting up a fight. "We're just wiping it down because these engines back in the day were just meant to leak oil," said pilot Col. Spike McLane, who's rag is covered in oil...

Vet reflects on service during B-17 bomber ride VIDEO - Troy Record | ALBANY - Clad in a blue and green button up shirt, tan pants, and his WWII Army Air Corps hat, Earl Morrow of Granville looked at home in the B-17 bomber, similar to the plane he used to fly when stationed in England in the 1940s. "It felt the same," he reflected after the quick low-flying ride which took him and about 10 other people around the Capital District. "I enjoyed it. I always enjoy anything with wings on it."...

The Aero Experience Contributor and U.S. Air Force Veteran Featured in EAA AirVenture Oshkoch 2013 Publication | The Aero Experience contributor and U.S. Air Force Veteran Fred Harl was featured in the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 "AirVenture Today" daily newspaper (p.42) distributed to thousands of visitors on the grounds Saturday and now online. Harl served in active duty for four years, stationed at Langley AFB in Virginia, Kunsan AB in South Korea, and Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. He also served...

The Lone Wolf and the Alpha Male - Vintage Wings of Canada | It's a famous photograph... at least here in Canada. It depicts two Flying Officers of 403 “Wolf” Squadron, RCAF. Both men are Canadian, both born in or near the Québec city of Montréal. Both are fighter pilots, Spitfire pilots, the finest. It looks like a cool day as the two young men have their battle dress tunics on and the pilot in the back wears a wool turtleneck sweater under his. It's the late autumn of 1943, RAF Kenley in the south of England. Both men are in their early twenties. Both have spent many months training and flying Spitfires in England and Malta. They are both highly experienced....

Air Zoo to restore historic World War II fighter · General Aviation News Staff  | KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Air Zoo has been selected by the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation to oversee restoration of a historic World War II era “Wildcat” fighter recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan after 68 years. The plane, an Eastern Aircraft FM-2 “Wildcat,” Bureau Number 57039, was recovered from 200 feet of water by A & T Recovery of Chicago on Dec. 7, 2012...

Author TD Barnes Interview with uShip News CIA Movement of A-12 Spyplanes to Area 51 | Thornton D. Barnes, former Area 51 Special Projects and author of “My Odyssey to Area 51″ tells about secret military and CIA shipments to Area 51 that have been declassified.

John Mollison & X-POW / F-4 WSO Dick Francis – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Ep 514 WARBIRD RADIO – Aviation artist, author and historian John Mollison is featured on this episode of Warbird Radio LIVE! John is currently working on a series of Vietnam War drawings and invited former Prisoner of War / F-4 Weapons System Officer Dick Francis to join in on the conversation as well. Don’t miss a minute of this incredible story.

A Teacher With Lofty Goals Takes Off In Spirit Of Aviation Aero-News Network | Kentucky Institute For Aerospace Education Growing Momentum By Maxine Scheer | Last week at AirVenture, ANN met up with Tim Smith, CEO of the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education (KIAE). Tim is an educator with a passion for making a difference in STEM education. He first appeared at AirVenture in 2008, with a group of students from a high school in Frankfort, Kentucky, towing along the skeleton of an Aeronca 60-TF. Over the last five years, Time has established an aviation pathways program that has grown from serving one high school (Frankfort, KY) to serving 23 high schools in not only Kentucky, but now includes Tennessee...

Flying Scholarships For Disabled People Presents Wings And Scholarships - Aero-News Network | Awards Made At Royal International Air Tattoo 2013. | On the occasion of this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT 2013) the disability and aviation charity, Flying Scholarships for Disabled People (FSDP) awarded certificates of scholarship to nine new trainees and congratulated a further eight for achieving their wings. The charity’s program aims to change the candidate’s lives, all of whom are disabled, through the medium of flight. This brings the total number of students that have been through the training program to nearly 400 over a 30 year period...

Boeing "Ultra Hornet" Takes Off on Maiden Flight Today - The Aero Experience Exclusive! | The Boeing F/A-18 "Ultra Hornet" took off on its maiden flight today at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport this morning. The modified Super Hornet was configured with conformal fuel tanks as part of a year-long development program to enhance the range and weapons capabilities of the aircraft. Pilots Steve Schmidt and Mike Wallace reported that the aircraft flew as expected and declared the hour-plus functional test flight a success. Here are some exclusive photos of the takeoff:...