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Video: Blue Angels stun crowd before Notre Dame-Navy game - WNDU-TV | Notre Dame, Ind. The Blue Angels were introduced at Friday night's Notre Dame pep rally, but they had a big job Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. The team, based out of Pensacola, Florida, is compromised of six F-18 jets, which are part of a larger fleet...

Stuart Air Show offers thrills, excitement for crowd | Photo gallery - TCPalm | The sights and sounds of acrobatic aircraft performing their routines in the sky above Witham Field brought to life the fun and excitement of the 2013 Stuart Air on Saturday.

HEMET: Young, old enjoy air show - Press-Enterprise | No matter their motive, the thousands of people in attendance appeared to enjoy the Hemet-Ryan Air Show on Saturday, Nov. 2. The crowd spread out across the grounds of the Hemet-Ryan Airport, many in lawn chairs, others on blankets and some seeking...

Airplanes, pilots on display during fall festival - Brownsville Herald | Dean hasn't flown in a few years – family has dominated his Saturdays recently – but he still brings his family from Harlingen for events put on by the Rio Grande Valley Wing of the Commemorative Air Force and didn't want to miss the wing's first fall ...

Cops for Kids fly-in marks fifteenth year - AOPA Pilot | In its 15 years, the annual Cops for Kids fly-in has grown to become a registered nonprofit organization that Miskulin estimates has provided 12,000 toys to 4,000 kids, with fly-ins also held for the University of California-Davis Children's Hospital ...

S. Korea's Fighter Plans in Spotlight at Airshow - Defense News | SEOUL — Western defense contractors participating in South Korea’s biennial arms exhibition tried to convince their hosts they would offer assistance to help build the country’s indigenous fighter jet, code-named KF-X...

World War II plane stops at Page Field - NBC2 News  | It's a chance to get an up close look at planes, including a B-25 Bomber used in World War II. The B-25 Bomber actually trained at Page Field before the plane was used in raids against Japan. It is only one out of around 50 aircraft at the event ...

Aviation Legend Carl "Chub" Wheeler Honored by Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum - The Aero Experience | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, located in historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at St. Louis Downtown Airport, hosted a birthday celebration Sunday for local aviation legend Carl "Chub" Wheeler who recently turned 102 years old.  Family and friends gathered to commemorate his life and an aviation career that spanned nearly 70 years.  Wheeler, a Founder and Life Member of the museum, took his first airplane ride in 1930 at Curtiss-Steinberg Airport (now called St. Louis Downtown Airport, where the museum is located) and soloed in a Curtiss Robin in 1935.  During his aviation career, "Chub" Wheeler instructed new flight students at...

Huntington Vets Take Honor Flight to DC - HNN Huntingtonnews.net | After a second World War II veteran accepted an invitation, Morse spoke to an aero club which outlined a plan to take vets to see the World War II memorial. The first flight had six small planes and 12 veterans. The dream has taken flight across the ...

Vulcan XH558′s Pledge Target Achieved By WarbirdsNews | This has been both a nail-biting and and  exciting week for the Vulcan XH558′s team as they watched the funding gauges accelerate towards the targets that will allow XH558 to be prepared for flight once more. XH558′s supporters contributed to an amazing final few days of fundraising for Operation 2015 with more than £17,000 of pledges received since Tuesday’s newsletter.Robert Pleming , the organization director, said:” i am delighted to announce that our £400,000 Operation 2015 pledge goal was exceeded by a safe margin last night – the target date for the campaign.”...

A genderless sky: One of aviation history's greatest tales is a story you've probably never heard before - Airplanista Aviation Blog | Those who have read my blog for a long time know these two things: First, I am a big proponent of encouraging more women to pursue their pilot's license to enjoy the many benefits of flying a private airplane, and second, I have written at length about what I call "aviation history's biggest malfunction." That of course is how I describe the way Jerrie Mock's epic 1964 "first woman to fly solo around the world" flight has been nearly forgotten in the 49 years since she completed her historic flight....

Edwardian high society: Amazing 100-year-old images of hot air balloon race discovered - Express.co.uk | The point-to-point competition was held at the Hurlingham Private Members Club in Fulham and was organised by the Aero Club of the United Kingdom. Hot Air Balloon Race, London, Auction, Hurlingham Club, Fulham, Old, The event saw Victorian London's ...

VADM Robert Hayward Parachutes into his own retirement - eCoronado.com (blog) | VADM Robert Harward parachuted in to his own retirement ceremony with the Navy Leap Frogs. His parachute is the one with the SEAL Trident flag along with his three star flag above it. His two retirement speakers were Admiral William McRaven and ...

Trio of Boeing F-15SA Eagles Fly out to Palmdale Test Facility - The Aero Experience Exclusive! | The trio of F-15SA (Saudi Advanced) Eagle test aircraft departed from the Boeing Company's Defense, Space and Security division location in St. Louis earlier today.  The three jets took off from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, along with Boeing's T-38A Talon chase plane, on a flight to the company's Palmdale, CA facility for additional development work.  The F-15SA features a fly-by-wire control system, Digital Electronic Warfare Suite, Infrared Search and Track System, Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar and an integrated helmet cuing system among other enhancements.  Development  will continue through 2014...

Declassified documents of Mig fighter jets testing activity at Area 51 available for download - The Aviationist | In the late 1960s, CIA, U.S. Air Force, Navy and several other agencies were involved in highly classified programs whose purpose was to evaluate Mig fighter jets and study the best ways to face them in air-to-air combat. Among these programs, “Have Doughnut” was aimed at exploiting a Mig-21 Fishbed-E that the U.S. acquired in 1967 from Israel that had obtained it in Aug. 1966, when an Iraqi Air Force pilot flew it in Israel during a training sortie that was actually a pre-arranged defection....

NASA Prepares To Launch First Mission To Explore Martian Atmosphere - Aero-News Network | MAVEN To Answer Questions About How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere A NASA spacecraft that will examine the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail is undergoing final preparations for a scheduled 1328 EST Monday, Nov. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...