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EAA Founder Paul H. Poberezny: September 14, 1921 ~ August 22, 2013 - AirPigz | Experimental Aircraft Association founder Paul H. Poberezny passed away on Thursday August 22, 2013 at Evergreen Retirement Village in Oshkosh, Wisconsin after battling cancer. His life-long dedication to sport flying and to the knowledge and encouragement to build your own airplane will live on through the work of the EAA, and the through the world's greatest aviation event known as Oshkosh....

Gone West: Last Original Blue Angel Al Taddeo - Aero-News Network |Had Shot Down Three Japanese Airplanes Before Joining The Demonstration Squadron Following WWII | The last of the original Blue Angels, Cdr. Al Taddeo, passed away August 19 at the age of 94....

Lehigh Valley Air Show Takes Off This Weekend - Patch.com | The air show, which runs Saturday and Sunday at Lehigh Valley International Airport, will feature aircraft displays and a classic car show, along with a jet team, flight performances, sky diving demonstrations, exhibitors, food vendors and other ...

Air show returns to Vero Beach - Hometown News | VERO BEACH -- For some, seeing an air show in Vero Beach has been something long forgotten. For most children, something they've yet to see. Thanks to the two-year collaborative effort between several organizations in Indian River County, the skies ...

Airshow organizers says tickets are good value : Miramichi Online | Here are a selection of photos from today. MO))) was given the opportunity for a media flight with stunt pilot Gary Ward. We gave the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to Gail Marsh because she was 1) a friend of MO))), 2) small enough to fit in the plane, and 3) not scared. She said it was real thrill. Other media got to fly around in the Herc.

China's National Team Of Aerobatic Pilots Is Performing Abroad For The First Time - Business Insider | The Chinese national aerobatic team, named August 1st (after the date of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Air Force) is to be the highlight on the MAKS 2013 air show in Moscow on Aug. 27. The team was established 51 years ago; over the ...

Cold War planes (including some special colors) to star at Radom Air Show in Poland - The Aviationist | One of the biggest Air Shows in the Mid-Eastern part of Europe will take place on Aug. 24 and 25 at Radom, central Poland. The Radom Air Show offers a rare occasion to see several Cold War planes (as well as some Western ones) during one event. It is a rarity for Russian aerobatic teams to perform outside the Russian borders (with a few exceptions, as this year’s show in Kecksemet, Hungary), so if one wants to spot a MiG-29 or Su-22 – Radom is the place to go...

Over the Bridge upside down and other memories By John Jackson  ARGUS-COURIER SPORTS EDITOR | One of my favorite events of the summer is the annual Wings over Wine Country air show sponsored by the Pacific Coast Air Museum. I’m not a pilot, not even an avid aviation enthusiast, but I do enjoy marvelling at the wonderful machines the air show organizers bring into the Sonoma County Airport each year. To get up close and personal with the history of military aviation is an opportunity to let imagination take control and recreate what the men and women (the bold leaders) experienced as they helped insure our freedom...

Video: Best of – The Royal International Air Tattoo 2013 at AirClips.net ...  | Best of – The Royal International Air Tattoo 2013. Tags: 2013, Afterburner, Fairford, Jet, RAF, RIAT. Categories: Air Shows, Fighters & Bombers, Low Pass, New Aircraft Model. Related Aviation Videos. North American Rockwell Bronco OV-10B ...

Airport fly-in; FAB Conference - The Sheridan Press | “It’s an opportunity to show how our airport benefits the community,” Hall says. There will be food, exhibits of WWII and Korean War training aircraft, free plane rides for the kids, he adds. It’s the first fly-in since 2006...

Historic aircraft rides available in Princeton next weekend - St. Cloud Times | PRINCETON — The Minnesota Wing of the Commemorative Air Force is offering rides on historic World War II aircraft Aug. 30-31 at Princeton Airport. Rides start at $125. For $450, patrons can ride in a B-25 bomber, a twin-engine airplane that was used...

Warbirds come to Erie Ottawa Regional Airport- The Beacon | The largest remote control model aviation show in the area will be in Port Clinton Aug. 24 and 25. Exhibitions range from medium to giant-scale propeller driven aircraft to turbine powered jets. This year's theme is “Warbirds”, featuring model aircraft...

Italians Looked on Tuskegee Airmen 'With Pride' - hispanicbusiness.com| As the first African-Americans to serve as U.S. military pilots, Romaine Goldsborough and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen flew combat missions in service to their country even as they endured racial discrimination from their own government. In so doing, they helped to end racial segregation in the military and inspired generations of Americans. Goldsborough, one of two surviving Tuskegee Airmen living in Hawaii, died at home Wednesday at the age of 93. "He was a national treasure," said Alphonso Braggs, president of the NAACP Hawaii and a close friend of Goldsborough's. "He was a very, very humble individual, a quiet man, and I felt extremely proud to be in his presence. Just being around someone like him was quite an honor."...

Woman pilots make Coast Guard history - You Fly, Girl | TWO Coast Guard pilots have made Irish aviation history by flying the first all-female mission for the service | The Shannon-based search and rescue Helicopter R115 flew its first missions with a female pilot and co-pilot, Capt Dara Fitzpatrick and Capt Carmel Kirby. Capt Fitzpatrick is the chief pilot for rescue 117 at the Waterford base and was on transfer to Shannon to build up flying hours on the new Sikorski S92, which is due to replace the S61 in Waterford in mid-September...

World War II warbird, a 14-year project of an Orrville man, hits the sky, bound for a museum | 'This is a museum piece that will be flown' | The Daily Record | WOOSTER -- A series of studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Stanford University showed children who delayed gratification tended to do better in life. The children were given the option of having a marshmallow immediately or two if they waited until the person conducting the experiment returned, usually about 15 minutes later. Video footage of some children undergoing the experiment played during Joachim de Posada's TED Talk demonstrates how tempting a mere 15 minutes can be. But, can you imagine waiting 14 years for a reward?...

RIVERSIDE: Air museum seeks volunteer docents - Press-Enterprise | Joe Onesty stands next to a display about the 48th Fighter Squadron at the P-38 Museum in Riverside Sunday, Aug. 18. Onesty, 88, is looking for volunteer docents to help in the museum 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, when the museum is open.

Images: Lightning strikes twice in Beaufort - DVIDS [6 photos] | Distinguished guests of the South Carolina community listen in as Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hedelund, the commanding general of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, debuts the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to the community during a showcase of the aircraft aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Aug. 20. The F-35 will replace the Marine Corps' aging legacy tactical fleet providing the dominant, multi-role, fifth-generation capabilities needed across the full spectrum of combat operations to deter potential adversaries and enable future naval aviation power projection....

Dream Chaser airborne Posted by Guy Norris Aviation Week | Sierra Nevada conducted a captive carriage test flight of the Dream Chaser engineering test article on Aug 22 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif, in preparation for the start of approach and landing free flight tests in September. The two-hour flight covered a three-mile route over the dry lake bed which the vehicle is expected to follow during its forthcoming free-flight...

Video: NASA | From the Cockpit: The Best of IceBridge Arctic '13 - NASAexplorer | The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course -- the airborne mission is there to collect radar, laser altimetry, and other data on the changing ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. But...