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Wheels to Warrior winner to be revealed Sunday morning at Stuart Air Show - TCPalm | STUART — One lucky veteran will receive the keys to a Buick Century on Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Stuart Air Show. Anyone attending the Stuart Air Show is invited to be a part of the event. The car will be given away shortly after 11:30 a.m. in the WWII area. The Wheels to Warrior program is a project of the Road to Victory Military Museum, the beneficiary of the Stuart Air Show. For the second year in a row, Todd Harris of Crown Car Care and Mark Smith, of Crown Collision, have obtained a vehicle that they have restored and outfitted with new tires, a new custom paint job and more...

Aerobatic Team Makes Redwood Shores Flyover - NBC Bay Area | The stunt is meant to call attention to one of Electronic Arts' popular games called "Battlefield 4" | A team of six jets flew in formation over Redwood Shores Tuesday afternoon as part of an Electronic Arts promotion. The Patriots Jet Team, a private aerobatic formation team, flew over the gaming company's offices at about 3:50 p.m. and wrote the number "4" in the sky with jet smoke at 10,000 feet, San Mateo County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Rosenblatt said...

B-17 Memphis Belle and P-51 take flight over Tampa - Creative Loafing Tampa | Sixty eight years ago Memphis Belle took to the skies in hopes of bringing freedom to many demoralized people. In honor of the courageous airmen who lost their lives in the fight and many of the veterans today; come experience history firsthand. Take to the skies like the soldiers before us and get a glimpse of the lives they tried to fly to those far from home. The B-17 and P-51's mission to restore the freedom to the oppressed was...

Vulcan bomber fans could have their name on its doors - Bournemouth Echo | TIME is running out for fans of Bournemouth Air Festival favourite the Vulcan to add their name to its bomb-bay doors. The famous Cold War bomber is a big crowd-pleaser at the annual seafront show – although it has had a chequered history at the event...

NAF El Centro Photocall- October 2013 - Photorecon.net | What is a Photocall? A Photocall is generally when a location such as a military base or an airport, which is normally closed to the public is opened for a day for photographers to come and visit the location and photograph the aircraft from the runway and the ramp area. Naval Air Field El Centro, located in the Imperial Valley of southern California has for several years, held a bi-annual Photocall for several groups of aviation photographers, such as the Arizona Aviation Photographers, the Aviation Photographers of Southern California, and an internet group called Fence Check. This event is organized by the Public Affairs Officer, which is currently held by Michelle Dee...

Doolittle Raider named to Oregon aviation hall - KVAL | MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — As a youngster, Michael Emmens never particularly looked forward to the family's vacation each summer. "We would go to reunions of the Raiders — they had them every year," he recalled. "I remember saying, 'Do we have to do that again for our vacation?' "...

Me and Mr. Jones - Vintage Wings of Canada | If I can walk, I can fly.”  Gordon said this to me when I visited him this past August, as he sat in his easy chair, swollen legs elevated, a warm blanket covering him, still looking like a king, a member of aviation royalty, granting me an audience. Sadly, I could see his flying days were behind him...

Ohio, NC legislators team to defend Wright brothers’ legacy · General Aviation News Staff | DAYTON, Ohio and KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — State legislators from Ohio and North Carolina held a rare joint news conference on Thursday, Oct. 24, to defend the legacy of the Wright brothers against a claim by the state of Connecticut. Ohio State Rep. Richard Perales and North Carolina State Sen. Bill Cook, linked by a Skype connection on the Internet, spoke from historically significant locations in their home states to rebuke a law Connecticut passed earlier this year that claimed one of its residents, Gustave Whitehead, flew two years earlier than the Wright brothers...

Navy pulls plug on Patuxent River Naval Air Museum - Bay Net | The Navy has pulled the plug on the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum. With only a week’s notice the Navy in a letter dated September 24 informed the association that operates the museum that they were revoking a U.S. Government License that allowed the Navy to maintain the three buildings that constitute the museum. The effective date of the revocations was October 1. The Navy has also halted paying for the museum’s annual utility bill of $40,000...

Kanye West: I'll have the Red Arrows for my wedding to Kim Kardashian - Daily Star | ...The bonkers rapper, 36, reckons he’s going to book the Red Arrows to perform a dazzling sky display on his big day, which is set to take place next summer in Las Vegas. He first saw them at the London Olympics last year and is now willing to spend big bucks on landing the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team for himself....

Richard Bach Reunited With His SeaRey 'Puff' - Aero-News Network | Builder In Brevard County, FL Rebuilt The Airplane For The Author | Author Richard Bach was landing his SeaRey amphibious airplane on an island off the coast of Washington State when he clipped some power lines and flipped over. The author, who was rescued by some campers on the island, was in a coma for a week...

Watch this: How insanely low you can fly a civilian jet liner! - The Aviationist | It seems like low level flying in Argentina is not limited to military fighter jets, trainers or cargo planes. The images in this post were taken on Dec. 12, 2007 when, for the 100 años de la aviación civil argentina (100 years of Argentine Civil Aviation), a Boeing 737-500 “LV-BEO” belonging to the Aerolineas Argentinas performed a really low flyby over the Aeroparque at Buenos Aires...

Learn about the space station during free Family Day at museum by Sarah Swan National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | DAYTON, Ohio -- Commemorate the anniversary of the greatest engineering feat in modern history - the International Space Station - during Family Day from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. November marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of the first module of the space station and the 13th anniversary of a continuous human presence on this fascinating human outpost in space!...