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The Patrouille de France hailed - Translated | After a great show in the sky Mainfonds for the airshow, Sunday, Aug. 4, pilots of the Patrouille de France came down to earth. One last flight, but a helicopter from Air Base Cognac which were stored their Alpha Jets and they came out to greet the crowd....

Piper fly-in a real winner - Santa Maria Times | The Piper Cub Fly-In is in it’s 29th year and is a summer tradition here in Lompoc. It’s a great chance for locals, whether they fly or not, to come by and experience aviation history, meet new and old friends, and enjoy some good old-fashioned Lompoc hospitality....

Historic World War II Bombers to Visit Aviation Museum - Cape May County Herald | CAPE MAY - Naval Air Station (NAS) Wildwood Aviation Museum, located at the Cape May Airport, will once again partner with The Collings Foundation to host AirFest and the 2013 Wings of Freedom Tour. This year, AirFest will return to the popular Labor ...

VIDEO: World War II B-17 war bird 'Sentimental Journey' visits Fargo - In-Forum | FARGO – With unmanned aircraft almost certainly the wave of the future, big hulking planes might seem more like UFOs to today’s youth. That’s what makes an old war bird’s appearance this week at the Fargo Air Museum all the more important, said Dick Walstad, co-chairman of the Fargo AirSho....

The B-17 bomber changed how America fights in combat - WDAY | Fargo, ND (WDAY TV)-- It flew in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. The B-17 bomber dramatically changed how America fights in combat. Tonight, only one of the 15 air-worthy crafts in the nation, is here in Fargo. They call this the "big bird."...

Take a peacetime flight on a B-17 - Bennington Banner | BENNINGTON -- The first time Arthur Crowe had a sense of the altitude at which his B-17 bomber flew was just before he bailed out. "I reached out and turned the handle, and the door was gone," Crowe recalled recently. "We were going over a tiny village. And I could see those red roofs." From 22,000 feet above, "the whole town looked about as big as a postage stamp."... 

WHISTLING DEATH – Solomon Islands & The Vought F4U Corsair · Steve Lewis, Photorecon.net |On the first Saturday of every month, the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California holds a ‘Living History Day’. The Air Museum focuses on a specific event or a specific aircraft, and honors those who have participated in these events, those who have flown the aircraft, and the aircraft itself. On August 3rd, the event was centered on the F-4U Corsair and its role in the Solomon Islands. Every one of the 400 chairs set out for the event was filled, and over 1000 people visited the museum throughout the day. In addition, Disney representatives attended the event to promote their soon to be released animated movie ‘Planes’, where one of the planes is a F4U Corsair named ‘Skipper’. There was also a trailer for the new movie being shown in the museum’s forty-five seat theater....

Yanks Air Museum to Debut new “Planes” Ride for the Kiddies August 17th - Warbirds News | Capitalizing on what will surely be full-blown Planes hysteria following the debut of Disney’s much-hyped wide release of Planes on August 9th, Yanks Air Museum of Chino, California will be opening their first carnival-stye ride for children visiting the facility, and you only get one guess on its theme...

Pedro and Planes - MousePlanet | ...The museum has a nice little display exhibit of Disney insignias from World War II (as well as some oddball Disney nose art on some of the planes) and I was surprised to discover this visit that upstairs in the administration offices, they have several framed examples of original artwork of some Disney insignias, including some small sections of mistakes that had been carefully "whited out" in the art before being sent out by Disney....

“Kudy Jay” flying FAC missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trailby travelforaircraft | Kudy Jay was flown for six months by USAF FAC pilots Don Brown and Pat Sweeney during the Vietnam War. Judy is the name of Don Brown's wife and Kay is the name of Pat Sweeney — given the insane aspect of combat the jumbling of their spouse names made for sense or for humor. She, of course, is a Cessna O-2A Skymaster equipped for nocturnal forward air control (FAC) missions....

Profile 79 - UPDATE - "314" as flown by Lt. Col. Farrell Sullivan and Capt. Dick Francis · JSM | It's a question that is so difficult to ask but impossible to leave behind... "What was it like?" It's the question that everyone seems to want to know but for a writer, it's a diabolically difficult one on account of the fact that what I'm really doing is interpreting someone else's perceptions....

Flying Tin: Oshkosh Summary - Seaplane Base | One of the best kept secrets of Oshkosh is the Seaplane base that sits about 5nm SW of KOSH. I ended up spending a few hours there on both Friday and Saturday with my GoPro filming the operations. I recorded the ...