Blue Angels Announce Full 2014 Air Show Season | PENSACOLA, Fla. – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will return to its full schedule for the 2014 air show season. “Community outreach is key to connecting Americans to the military,” said Blue Angels Commanding Officer and Flight Leader, Cmdr. Thomas Frosch. “Our performances provide a unique opportunity to inspire millions to connect with and support our service members, and we are looking forward to an exciting 2014 season.”...
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After 3 Year Absence, Blue Angels To Return To Annapolis - Eye On Annapolis | After a three year absence, the Blue Angels will be returning to Annapolis. The squadron released their schedule a few moments ago and they will be flying on May 21 and 23, 2014 at the United States Naval Academy...
Dunsfold Wings? & Wheels wins Hero ?Award? - UK Airshow News | Dunsfold Wings and WheelsOn Friday 18th October 2013 the Wings & Wheels team was delighted to be presented with a Help for Heroes, Hero award ‘For Outstanding Support To Our Wounded’. Along with 30 other nominees, the team visited the Recovery Centre at Tedworth House in Tidworth, Wiltshire for an evening of contemplation and celebration...
Huge crowd attends dedication of Ocala's Taylor Field - Ocala | Just as Rupert Caviness, of the Ocala Aero Club, completed his tribute to Freddie Lund, the wheels of a red and white Waco touched down on the runway. It was Betty Lund in Freddie's famed Waco. She greeted friends from previous visits, expressed...
At EAA AirVenture, inventors look for funding to attain liftoff - jsonline.com | Oshkosh — The Wright Brothers didn't have angel investors or seed funding. But it's a much different world now for inventors, entrepreneurs and people with ingenious ideas...
Centre shares rich aviation history - The Chronicle Journal | The Northwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre was abuzz during its grand reopening Sunday with visitors learning and talking about the region’s rich aviation history. The centre, at 430 Waterloo St., was previously located around the corner but the sale of the building necessitated a relocation....
WW II B-17 Bomber Takes Flight Over Thomasville - WCTV | Thomasville, GA- A little piece of history has landed in Thomasville. It's a restored World War II B-17, which came off the assembly line back in April 1945. "If you're just seeing it still like this, you don't get quite the same thing, but when it fires up, it's basically an assault on all of your senses," said Keith Youngblood, one of the volunteers with the Liberty Foundation. "It's just remarkable to think of what these ten men would've been on this plane doing in combat," he said...
Remembering, and Forgetting, the Flying Tigers - New York Times (blog) | The decrepit state of a graveyard that is connected to one of the most famous World War II fighting forces in China has revived questions about the country’s ability to honor its veterans. In August, the grave sites of several hundred Chinese military personnel who served with the force — the Flying Tigers — were rediscovered on a trash-strewn hillside in the southern city of Kunming. Researchers had reported on the cemetery in 2007, but despite official pledges to restore and protect it, little has been done....
Scholar Confirms US Bomber Wreckage - Anhui News | A U.S. scholar confirmed that the wreckage of an American fighter plane discovered in the Yangtze River last week was a Flying Tiger bomber, a local news paper reported Monday. "I can confirm it is the Flying Tiger B-25 bomber," Dr. Patrick Lucas told Anhui Business News publication. Lucas, the son of a WWII veteran, traveled to Zhanghu Town of Wangjiang County six years ago with a mission -- entrusted to him by the martyred crew member's relatives -- to visit the witnesses and places where the plane had crashed on December 30, 1943...
Check out Amelia Earhart's stylin' ride at Seattle's Museum of Flight - MyNorthwest | ...But right 
Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township to open to public for final tour - Detroit Free Press | The public will get the chance to visit the former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township one last time Saturday before the factory is demolished. A tour of the historic property...
Tenacious explorer hunts down sites of deadly crashes - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | During years of World War II, airspace above San Bernardino County was the training ground for thousands of American pilots and crews preparing for combat in Europe and Asia. About 175 of those airmen never made it to the front lines - the grim toll from more than 140 fatal wartime aircraft accidents in the county’s mountains and deserts...
The 727 that Vanished - Air & Space Magazine | A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla. | Seven years after her brother disappeared from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola, Benita Padilla-Kirkland is trying to persuade the FBI to re-open his case. She believes she has the “new information” agents told her they require. But she suspects that the agency already has more information than agents will admit to....
Space Shuttle Program Fast Facts - (CNN) -- Here's a look at what you need to know about NASA's Space Shuttle Program which ended in 2011 after 135 missions. Facts: The space shuttle is the "world's first reusable spacecraft," launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft, and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and other cargo into orbit around Earth on both commercial and non-commercial missions....
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