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This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar!  Lots of choices.

Airport officials cancel air show due to air quality - Tahoe Daily Tribune | City officials canceled the annual Lake in the Sky Airshow Friday afternoon due to poor air quality.“It’s a shame,” said announcer Jon “Huggy” Huggins. “They’ve put so many hours of work into this.”...

Air Festival Air festival to showcase work at airport - Daily Journal Online |BONNE TERRE - Steve Vogt’s passion is very contagious.After spending just a few minutes with the Festus native, one can’t help but see how he’s poured that passion into the Bonne Terre Municipal Airport. What was an overgrown runway with a shed held up by overgrown weeds just a few short month ago now has a Fixed Based Operator (FBO) facility, complete with all the amenities anyone flying into Bonne Terre would need...

FIFI Returns to the Basin This Weekend - NewsWest9.com | MIDLAND - Starting on Saturday, aviation fans will be treated to a viewing of a well-known airplane. The Commemorative Air Force B-29 Superfortress, FiFi, will be on display at the George H.W. and Barbara Bush Commemorative Center at the CAF Airpower Museum...

Russia showcasing new Sukhoi fighters at Moscow air show - UPI.com | Visitors to the Paris Air Show in June were treated to a display of the Su-35S's impressive aerobatics, including a demonstration of the extraordinary Pugachev's Cobra maneuver. Sukhoi claims the aircraft can "successfully counter" full-fledged fifth ...

Radom Air Show 2013 - Aviation Headlines - Airplane-Pictures.net | Photographs from this years Radom - Sadkow Air show

Biggest Irish airshow since 1936 to take place next month - thejournal.ie | YOU MIGHT BE used to seeing a small twin-seat plane or helicopter flying low overhead — but it will hard to miss some of the massive aircraft which will be flying down the banks of the River Liffey next month. FlightFest, an event organised by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), Dublin City Council, and The Gathering, takes place on September 15th and will see over two dozen aircraft flying low over the city centre...

Vietnam-era F-105D lands at Palm Springs Air Museum - The Desert Sun | Greg Kenny with the Palm Springs Air Museum looks at the empty compartment where the jet -engine of a Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber once sat. The Palm Springs Air Museum hopes to put the Vietnam War era supersonic plane on display.

F-35C refuels from KC-135 - The DEW Line · Dave Majumdar

Thunderjet - Air & Space Magazine | It had the body of a fighter and a bomber’s soul.

A big microphone: AOPA launches one more tool to help unify the aviation family - Airplanista Aviation Blog | Imagine the scene of a large convention hall hosting several thousand pilots. The floor of the convention is awash with the sounds of 10,000 individual conversations as attendees discuss the many issues facing general aviation. Lots of buzz and energy, plenty of great ideas, but not much unified forward progress...

But Will it Fly? - Air & Space Magazine | Red Bull expands its wacky Flugtag competition to five cities this year.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Employees Inducted Into International Space Hall Of Fame - Aero-News Network | Group Developed Reusable Launch Vehicle In The 1990s | Fourty current and former employees of Aerojet Rocketdyne have been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF). All of the honored employees served as members of the original Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X/DC-XA) team which helped develop an unmanned prototype of a reusable single-stage launch vehicle in the 1990s...