Thousands expected for air show - The Citizen | It’s a weekend filled with breathtaking aerial stunts, roaring jet trucks, rock concerts, fireworks and activities for fun seekers of all ages. The Great 
Red Bull Air Race coming to Texas Motor Speedway - Fort Worth Star Telegram | Air racing was created in 2003, but there haven't been races since 2010 as the sport reorganized and worked to improve safety, according to an announcement from Red Bull. “We like doing things no one expects. I think the thing that will be so appealing ...
Red Bull Air Race Finally Returns, Will Zoom Through Two US Cities in 2014 - Jaunted | After three years of quiet, the "world's fastest motorsport" is getting back up into the air as the Red Bull Air Race World Championships announces race dates for 2014, beginning as early as February. Of the seven races throughout the year, two will take place on American soil: Dallas in September and Las Vegas in October...
AIR RACE: Putrajaya to host Red Bull World Championship - New Straits Times | MALAYSIA has been chosen as one of six countries to host the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Known as the world's fastest motorsport series, the championship will start in Abu Dhabi in February next year. Red Bull Air Race GmbH chief executive officer Erich Wolf said the foray into Asia is important and therefore Putrajaya was picked as one of the venues for the air race. "It is a modern city and we hope to introduce this sport to Malaysians," he said during a press conference yesterday....
FOX Sports Signs 3-Year Deal to Broadcast Red Bull World Series - Broadway World | Today, Fox Sports and Red Bull Media House announced a three-year agreement to broadcast THE RED BULL WORLD SERIES; the largest U.S. licensing deal in Red Bull Media House history. For the first time, all four global sporting series created by Red Bull will be made available in the U.S., uniting on Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 starting in 2014...
Coolidge Airport holds first monthly fly-in of season - TriValley Central | There was plenty of eye candy at Coolidge Municipal Airport on Oct. 5. Five war planes flew together, including moments where they seemed too close for comfort...
Thousands of aviation enthusiasts look forward to next air show - WMC-TV | The Memphis Air Show took flight on Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29 and was a Mid-South success. Over two dozen planes were on hand as static displays representing all branches of the military and civilian aircraft. Several of the crowd favorites included the precision flight team of the Canadian Snowbirds and the Lucas Oil Parachute Team. (See below for a more detailed list of other performers.) About 30 newly painted and maintenance aircraft sat in straight rows on the shimmering tarmac at the 2013 Memphis Air Show...
Sky's the limit at Embry-Riddle air show - Prescott Daily Courier | A black, white, and blue Edge 540 rips through the sky and tumbles artfully, performing for a crowd of more than 300 students, alumni, and guests. Melissa Pemberton, a 2005 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate, was one of three aerobatic performers at the "Wings Out West" air show Saturday morning at Prescott Airport. "It was encouraging to see a woman who graduated with my same major (perform)," said spectator Savannah Vairin, an ERAU junior....
2nd annual Warbirds Over Paso - Paso Robles Press | Several thousand people attended the Warbirds Over Paso Air Show on Saturday at the Paso Robles Airport. The event was organized by the Estrella Warbirds Museum and featured the World War II planes from the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino. Planes were on...
Fall Activities At The New Englad Air Museum - Warbirds News | On Sunday, October 13th the Museum will hold an Open Cockpit Day. Visitors can climb into up to 12 aircraft including the A-10 Warthog, the P-47 Thunderbolt, the DC-3 airliner, jet fighters, helicopters and more. On this day the Museum is also pleased to host the Second Annual Great New England RC Swap Meet. Museum visitors will have the opportunity to learn all aspects of RC aviation from area remote control airplane enthusiasts. All types of...
Lt. Vern Greenwood flew 33 mission in B-24 bomber in Pacific during WW II - War Tales | This was Greenwood’s bomber crew. He is the fellow at the far left squatting. Next to him is George Price, pilot of the four-engine bomber who Greenwood said was the best B-24 pilot in the Air Corps. The picture was taken on Morotai Island in the Pacific in 1945 Photo provided Vern Greenwood of Punta Gorda, Fla. signed up for the Aviation Cadet Program on Dec. 1, 1942, almost a year after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor dragging the United States into World War II....
Commemorative Air Force needs your support - Orange County Breeze | The Commemorative Air Force Inland Empire Wing (CAF IEW), a 501(c)3 non-profit, has shouldered the mission to make sure that future generations never forget our gallant men and women — and their aircraft — who flew to protect our nation and way of life. The CAF is dedicated to honoring American military aviation and those that served....
Nobuo Harada To Rebuild The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa - Warbirds News | Nobuo Harada, a collector of World War II-era Japanese aircraft, is now rebuilding a rare fighter plane from components recovered overseas in the hope of keeping wartime memories alive. Harada is businessman born and raised in Tokio whose business is import and export of cars. Mr Harada funded the Kawaguchiko Car Museum ,e is also a warbird enthusiast, and owner and restorer of several Zeros.The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa was used by the former Imperial Japanese Army,Hayabusa means falcon in Japanese.
'Old Blue,' a key part of Unity museum, has frigid flight history - Tribune-Review | It had been 30 years since Mike McCann saw the single-engine airplane he pulled from Alaska's frozen tundra, then hauled piece by piece to a nearby river to be shipped to Montana for rebuilding. “It's bigger than I remember,” McCann, 61, said when he was reunited with the plane on Tuesday at the KLBE Air Museum at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity. “The last time I saw it was heading out of Billings.” The Stinson V-77 Reliant, dubbed “Old Blue,” was one of 1,327 built between 1939 and 1949. It is the same model of airplane that flew the first scheduled airmail pick-up at Latrobe in 1939...
The Hunt for Houdini’s Airplane - Air & Space Magazine | He wasn’t the first magician to attempt flight. As early as the 1800s, at least four others used balloon ascensions to stir up publicity. But Harry Houdini was the only illusionist to set a record recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale: On March 18, 1910, he made the first heavier-than-air flight in Australia, taking off from Diggers Rest, a field roughly 20 miles from Melbourne...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
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