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Video: 2014 Magic Valley Airshow Holds Take Off Party - KMVT | Twin Falls, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KTWT-TV ) On Thursday the Magic Valley Regional Airport held a pre–Airshow Take Off Party. The goal of the event was to kick off the 2014 Magic Valley Airshow and create an early buzz. High flying tricks and fun events for the entire family... That's the goal for the 2014 Magic Valley Airshow. Last year the Blue Angels were the main attraction. But in being one of the world’s top airshow events, the Blue Angels weren't logistically able to come back this year. But representatives with the show aren't worried about a lack of high flying entertainment....

All Civilian Air Show Lands at Alliance This Weekend - NBCDFW | All eyes will be on the sky in north Fort Worth this weekend. The annual Fort Worth Alliance Air Show starts on Saturday and performers are already showing up....

DAV Flight Team - The DAV B-25 Doolittle Raider Special Delivery will be on static display at this year's 2013 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show Presented by Bell Helicopter! The North American B-25 was the most famous twin-engine medium bomber used during World War II. The B-25 achieved worldwide fame on April 18, 1942 when 16 B-25s, under the command of Lt. Col James Doolittle, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and attacked Tokyo in a daring raid...

World Aerobatic Championships 2013 by Melissa Pemberton | I am here in Sherman, TX awaiting my turn to compete in the 27th World Aerobatic Championships. We have pilots from all around the World who have flown in and shipped their aircraft in to participate and to put their name in the hat to become the next World Aerobatic Champion. We have a total of 4 flight programs after which a Men's and Women's World Champion will be named and an overall first second and third place Men's and Women's Team will be named based on Country. A separate 4 minute freestyle competition will be held after the main competition in which smoke and music can be...

Warbirds, weather headline 50th CAF Airsho - AOPA | The weather was perfect on Oct. 12 for the first day of the Commemorative Air Force's (CAF) fiftieth annual Airsho at its Midland, Texas, headquarters. For the second day, however, it was not cooperative; Oct. 13, dawned with a low overcast that began to lift at midday, just in time for torrential rains to move into the area....

Air Race Classic organizers prepare for 2014 race - AOPA | Race runs from California to Pennsylvania | The route for the 2014 Air Race Classic will be from Concord, Calif., to New Cumberland, Pa., race director Terry Carbonell said at the recent AOPA Aviation Summit. The course, with stops including Saratoga, Wyo., Brookings, S.D., and Fayetteville, Ark., will run 2,090 nautical miles...

State honors aviation pioneer and EAA founder Paul Poberezny - The Northwestern | MADISON — Add a legislative resolution to the honors awarded Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association and the annual air show that attracts thousands of visitors to Oshkosh...

Col. Robert Armstrong - Another Fallen Hero by Tyson Rininger | It was a Sunday afternoon, August 4th, 2013, at the first annual Gathering of Warbirds & Legends fly-in and the skies weren’t exactly cooperating. As the bulk of the storm skirted Forbes Field to the north, most of the show’s participants had already begun their journeys home. There was however one man who chose to stick it out and not follow the bulk of his crew back to Texas. Scott Glover remained with his T-6 and Staggerwing hoping to head home the next day...

Korean War veterans take Honor Flight to Washington D.C. - oglecountynews.com | A pair of Korean War veterans smiled and laughed while talking about a recent trip to Washington D.C. The memories from a Oct. 3 Honor Flight were still sinking in Oct. 9 for Neil Holland, 82, and Gene Medlar, 82, both from Oregon....

Dan Gryder - AOPA Flight Training Magazine | October 14, 2013 Drew Gryder, Hampton, GA slugged out four ratings...all on the same day, his 17th birthday! The day started early with paperwork, a lengthy Oral for Private pilot, ASEL, then the flight test. At the successful conclusion of checkride number one, the paperwork process, and Oral started all over again for Private Pilot, AMEL. This checkride...

Timeless Voices - Trey Johnson Featured - EAA Video | October 17, 2013 - Daniel "Trey" Johnson won the Golden Lindy for Grand Champion Seaplane at AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 with his impressive RV-7 on floats. Now he is working on an innovative roadable aircraft called the PD-2, made from a modified Glasair Sportsman.

Grissom Air Museum | Happy Anniversary goes out to the remaining members of the crew of the B-58 called Greased Lightning. today is the 50th anniversary of their world record flight from Tokyo to London. The museum salutes each of you and those that made this flight a success. The museum plans to recognize the remaining members of the crew with a celebration deserving of military veterans who hold a world's record. This celebration will take place at the museum, and I will keep you posted on the date and time. Again we salute the crew of the Greased Lightning!

Former Air Force One lands in Merced County - Merced Sun-Star | ATWATER — Close to 300 people welcomed the Castle Air Museum's newest airplane, a Douglas VC-9 that flew presidents, vice presidents and first ladies for 30 years, as it touched down at Castle Airport early Wednesday afternoon. The air museum's chief ...

Amelia Earhart Search Update: Investigation Of Possible Crash Site To Resume In 2014 - Huffington Post | Fear not, Amelia Earhart fans: The search for America's long-lost female pilot will resume again in 2014, and the expedition may finally prove whether or not Earhart crash landed on an island in the South Pacific and died a castaway. The investigation will be led by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), an...

The Lear Jet Turns 50 — But It Almost Didn't Make It Off the Ground - Wired | Lacy recently flew one of his Lear 24s at the Reno Air Races. He had a smoke system installed and flies a complete aerobatic routine in the business jet. He's also used Lears extensively for filming movies, including all of the air-to-air scenes in Top ...

Fabulous Flying Boats: a history of the World’s passenger flying boats - Travel for Aircraft | Leslie Dawson has an incredible amount of expertise in regard to flying boat history and he is a wonderful author. His authorship skill is so good that the reader is transported back in time to become an experienced flying boat pilot as Dawson explains the cockpit layout and taking off procedure. The writing is so smooth the photos are hardly required yet these, too, are extraordinary and many come from private collections (or even relatives of contacts who kept photos around) — one will simply not see these images in one place elsewhere...

The World’s First Combat Jet - Air & Space Magazine | The Germans had it. The Americans wanted it. | With a top speed of 540 mph, Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262 was by far the fastest fighter of World War II. It was powered by jet engines, a new technology that was not always reliable. Still, the streamlined Me 262 looked—and behaved—unlike anything else in the skies over Europe, and Allied pilots initially feared it. Eventually, U.S. airmen discovered that in a dogfight, North American P-51s could often out-turn the heavier jet fighter....

Historic hangar to be restaurant - Columbia Star | A group of private developers and aviation enthusiasts say plans are moving apace to restore and repurpose the historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar at the downtown Hamilton- Owens Airport....

Haunted Airfields - Air & Space Magazine | For Halloween, a collection of weird tales about airports and aircraft.

NASA Launch Complex 34 Believed To Be Haunted - Aero-News Network | It is one of the true tragedies of the U.S. Space Program. On January 27, 1967, Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a fire aboard the Apollo 1 capsule at launch complex 34 at Cape Canaveral. The Huffington Post reports that the site, which has since been abandoned by NASA but which is on the tour of the Kennedy Space Center, is thought to be haunted, perhaps by the spirits of the three astronauts...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Upgrade: Reusable Boosters - Spaceports | Space Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) demonstrated new technologies for a first stage controlled descent of the Falcon 9 v1.1 during a California spaceflight from the Vandenberg Air Force spaceport on September 29, 2013. SpaceX released a statement with still photographs of the booster in a controlled re-enrty into the Pacific Ocean this week, saying...