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Video: 60 Years of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds - DoDLive | For 60 years the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds, an elite air demonstration squadron, dazzled and amazed the American public at air shows across the country. This year, despite spending cuts reducing their flight time, the Thunderbirds return to the skies...

Warbird Radio On The Way To Las Vegas For ICAS Convention | Vegas SunsetWARBIRD RADIO – Our bags are packed and we’ll soon be in route to Las Vegas, Nevada for the 2013 International Council of Air Shows annual convention.  The International Council of Air Shows held its first convention in 1967.  Since then, the air show community has...

John Mohr Retirement - Fence Check Forums | The story of John Morh's retirement has been floating around Facebook for a few days now, but with no source listed. After a conversation with Lynn Mohr this morning, I can now confirm the story. They decided last year to make it the last one, but did not announce it because they did not want any fanfare at the shows they would be performing at. Lynn said...

Younkin Airshows Beech 18 - Promo

Al Ain Aerobatic Show sees world record jump - gulfnews.com | Al Ain: South African Amy Shaw of the Goodyear Eagles aerobatic team set a world record at the 10th Al Ain Aerobatic Show for the first-ever female para-jumper to deploy a dual inverted para-drop. Shaw’s stunt was performed as the Goodyear Eagles’ aircraft, flying at speeds of 380-400 km/h, took her to 2,500 feet and then flew straight down while inverting at around 100km/h. Shaw dived out and opened her parachute within five seconds, landing in front of the royal chalet near the grandstand....

Daredevil stunts by pilots at Al Ain Air Aerobatic Show - The National | AL AIN// All eyes were on the skies as daredevil pilots performed hair-raising stunts at the tenth annual Al Ain Aerobatic Show. Deafening roars from overhead aircraft matched the roaring cheers of approval on the ground as four elite military teams, seven aerobatic teams, wing walkers, parachutists and two solo fighter-jet displays took to the skies...

Al Ain Air Show: Displays continue to enthral - gulfnews.com | Al Ain: Aerobatics teams and individuals performed dozens of exciting displays on Sunday, UAE fighter jets such as F-16 and Eurofighter were just some of the attractions on the second day of Al Ain Air Show...

Heritage with a roar and a bang - Western Advocate | The busy Lithgow Living History group were a highlight of the day at the biennial Warbirds Downunder air show 2013, held at Temora. This is the only major air show of its type in Australia. Lithgow Living History is a new group in the re-enactment area, coming up to its first birthday. Their activities, always in appropriate period costume, branch into local history as well as military campaigns...

Shearwater International Air Show – Hey… I Remember That * Posted by Ken Kula on November 30th, 2013 - Photorecon | Every few weeks or so, you’ll see a new report here about an air show or event that contains some recollections and images from a bygone era.  Some reports will...

Pilot recreates Lady Mary Heath’s 1928 journey · General Aviation News Staff | Pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor is in the midst of a 7,000-mile solo journey, in a reconditioned Boeing Stearman open-cockpit biplane, to retrace Lady Mary Heath’s historic 1928 flight between South Africa and the United Kingdom. Heath was the first pilot, male or female, to make such a journey...

Eulogy For A Fighter Pilot - The Lexicans

Mustangs For the US NAVY (Almost) · Warbirds News By Gaëtan Marie of Bravo Bravo Aviation | With a surface of 69 millions square miles, the Pacific Ocean covers nearly a third of the Earth’s surface. During World War II, military operations in the Pacific were confronted with the problem of range. This was particularly true of aerial operations. Mainland Japan was bombed on 18 April 1942 by Doolittle and his raiders, but that was a one-time effort of mostly psychological value. All of the...

The U.S. Coast Guard in Vietnam And The Albatross Flight At The Palm Springs Air Museum · Warbirds News | On Saturday November 30, 2013 at 1 pm the Palm Springs Air Museum will present THE US COAST GUARD IN VIETNAM by Dr. Douglas Kroll .Vietnam is usually remembered as a war fought in jungles and rice paddies. But there was another conflict as well, a sailor’s war, much of it fought from the decks of United States Coast Guard Cutters. The Coast Guard played a significant role in securing Vietnam’s 1,200-mile coastline. Coast Guardsmen destroyed enemy supply ships...

Video: Watch This Kid Shoot Down An F-35 With His F-18 - AirPigz | I honestly don't know the detailed politics of the F-35 vs F-18 debate, but I'm pretty sure if I did I'd be desperately looking for the government's OFF switch... however, I do know this video is very well done and it really did make me LOL!...

Stunning image of Russia’s new stealth plane clearly shows new shark camouflage · David Cenciotti | As already explained, Russia’s 5th generation stealth fighter plane T-50 (PAK FA – Perspektivny Aviatsionny Kompleks Frontovoy Aviatsii—Future Tactical Air System), has receintly received a new camouflage...

Video: India's interplanetary spacecraft departs Earth orb - Spaceports