Tusker Air Show Festival – 2013, Dec 14-15 2013 @ Wilson Airport | Building on a rich tradition from Kenya’s first air show in Kitale in 1956, through the Caltex Air Shows of the mid 1990’s, to the 
Blue Angels to fly at Star-Spangled Spectacular in Baltimore next September - Captial Gazette | BALTIMORE — The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will perform at an air show next fall during a celebration of the 200th birthday of the national anthem....
Blue Angels, T-birds book OC returns - Delmarva Now | OCEAN CITY — The Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels military jet demonstration teams are scheduled to headline the OC Air Show in 2014 and 2015...
USAF Thunderbirds set to return to Daytona 500 for fly-over - Motorsport.com | DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, known worldwide for their precision aerobatics, will return to Daytona International Speedway to perform the flyover for the prestigious 56th annual DAYTONA 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season opener on Sunday, Feb. 23...
Luke Air Force Base to hold popular air show - azcentral.com | Luke Air Force Base will revive its popular air show and open house on March 15 and 16, following the cancellation of the event last March because of sequestration budget cuts, base officials said Monday...
Season Review 2013 - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | The 2013 airshow season was certainly a varied one in many different ways. One major plus over 2012 was prolonged periods of good weather that stretched across much of the display season. For many events like Cosford and Yeovilton it has been a long time since they enjoyed such wonderful weather. The weather also brought out the crowds with many events recording record attendances which are so important to securing the future of events though it also brought some traffic problems too!...
Retired Area 51 commander, U-2 pilot Slater dies at 91 - Las Vegas Review-Journal | ...A World War II fighter pilot, he was joint Air Force-CIA commander at the classified Area 51 installation along the 
dry Groom Lake bed, 90 miles north of Las Vegas from 1964 to 1968. That was during the heyday of the supersonic A-12 Oxcart spy plane program....
Osprey arrival at Air Force museum canceled - Dayton Daily News | The arrival of a CV-22 Osprey at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday morning has been scrubbed because of weather concerns, a museum spokeswoman said late Tuesday afternoon. A rescheduled date has not been set, according to Diana Bachert, a museum spokeswoman...
Female WWII Pilot Attends Announcement of New Air Museum - KIII TV3 | INGLESIDE (Kiii News) -A new hangar and museum will soon be built in Ingleside. It was announced Monday at a
ceremony at the McCampbell-Porter Airport. The brand new hangar and air museum is expected to be completed by April of 2014. On hand for Monday's announcement was the legendary World War II pilot and instructor, Maxine Flournoy...
LGB businesses hosts Veterans Airlift Command fundraiser · General Aviation News Staff | LONG BEACH, Calif. — Aeroplex Aviation, in partnership with Signature Flight Support, will host a holiday fundraiser Dec. 11 at the Long Beach Airport (LGB) to benefit Veterans Airlift Command, a nonprofit organization that provides free air transportation to wounded warriors, veterans and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes through a national network of volunteer aircraft owners and pilots...
Libya a no-go for Curtis-Taylor and her Stearman - defenceWeb | Annette Porter, producer of the documentary following Tracey Curtis-Taylor on her epic flight from Cape Town to Goodwood in England, reports that with the exception of Libya, the intrepid aviatrix has been able to faithfully follow the flight path of Mary Heath...
Flyboy folklore - Issaquah Press | ...To help supplement the account of his career, McKee turns the pages of a memory book any museum would pine for. McKee filled its pages with personal snapshots, aerial military photographs and original copies of V-mails and Western Union telegraphs. Of particular note in his memory book are his diary entries recounting each of the 23 missions he flew. The first was aboard a B-26 Martin Marauder, the target a railroad bridge near Piazolla in northern Italy. The rest of the missions were then aboard the B-25 Billy Mitchell....
Fleet Air Arm Museum calls for help to decipher Japanese Kamikaze bomber - Culture24 | In advance of their forthcoming exhibition about the Pacific War of World War II, curators at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, near Yeovilton in Somerset, have been taking a closer look at one of their rarest aircraft. The Japanese Ohka 2 is a specially-built rocket-powered kamikaze aircraft used towards the end of the war against the US Navy...
The T-33A “Shooting Star” Of Oak Meadow Park In Los Gatos, Ca · Warbirds News | ...This USAF Lockheed T-33A “Shooting Star” ,Serial Number 53-5421,it is on loan to the Town of Los Gatos by the United and it is located in the Oak Meadow Park. The aircraft has been in the playground area since July, 1974. It was manufactured by Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank, California and delivered to the USAF in December, 1954.The two-seat T-33 jet was designed for training pilots already qualifies to fly propeller-driven aircraft. As one...
How the Mig-31 repelled the SR-71 Blackbird from Soviet skies - The Aviationist | Even if no SR-71 was lost due to hostile actions during the entire Blackbird career, the Mach 3+ capable spyplane faced an adversary that could effectively intercept it: the MiG-31 Foxhound. The SR-71 impressive mission record was reached thanks to some unique features of its airframe, such as its ability to fly at more than three and a half times the speed of sound at 88,000 feet, its small (for the time) Radar Cross Section (RCS) and its sophisticated electronic countermeasures (ECM)....
Royal Malaysian Air Force Museum — “Where it all begins”
by travelforaircraft | The Royal Malaysian Air Force (Tentera Udara
Diranja Malaysia in Malay) offers a museum, near the equator, on the
outskirts of Kuala Lumpur which is free to visit and worth the trip
though a bit of planning is required...
Flying Musicians to perform at Kitty Hawk · General Aviation News Staff | The Flying Musicians Association will participate in the 110th Anniversary of Powered Flight celebration at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Dec. 16 and 17. Members will provide music, staff an information booth, and present a presentation of why nearly 50$ of pilots are musicians with “Symphony in the Sky: The Correlation between Aviation and Music.”...
It was a good day - Apron 6 | I had a great day yesterday. The day started with the preparation of the Skyvan. Around noon we were ready for take off for a photoflight to Midden Zeeland (The Netherlands). First the Extra 300 joined up for some aerobatics behind the Skyvan and after that we had the Bronco of the Bronco Demo Team coming from the UK. It also headed to Zeeland where it will be repainted. The second leg was...
Helicopter creates rain of flares at dusk to fight winter depression in Denmark By David Cenciotti | The Royal Danish Air Force operates a fleet of six EH-101 Merlin (military version of the AgustaWestland AW.101) helicopters, for Search And Rescue tasks. According to the Flyvevåbnet Facebook page, few days ago, one of them made an impressive display for a very unique reason: after receiving several inquiries by Danish people concerned by the fact that December darkness could negatively affect everyday life the RDAF decided to try to fight this scourge, bringing a little extra light by means of a Merlin releasing flares...
Santa Express 2013 - Flight To Success | Where a whole bunch of Delta employees bring holiday cheer to kids who need a smile and some extra love this holiday season. Pictures speak louder than words ...Enjoy!
Dayton film producer buys a UAV - sUAS News | A Dayton film producer has purchased a helicopter. A very small one. Niche Productions said Tuesday it will take possession of a “Black Armored Drone” with a gimbal, or pivot mechanism, manufactured by Intuitive Aerial, of Sweden....
Birthday boy flies solo - Timaru Herald | Tom Thorne celebrated his 16th birthday yesterday in a way few others have. The Waimate lad flew solo for the first time, in a Piper Tomahawk at the South Canterbury Aero Club. His interest in aviation began at the age of 12 when he was introduced to flying model aeroplanes. He began flying lessons at 14 and has been anxiously awaiting his 16th birthday, the age he could legally fly solo....
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
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