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Star-studded homage for Bob Hoover - AOPA Pilot | ... aviation career narrated by Harrison Ford, who will be among those hosting the event—along with Apollo astronauts Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan, “Miracle on the Hudson” captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, airshow star Sean D. Tucker, and many ...

Team Six - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | The first two weeks of winter training has been very successful for Team Six. Thanks to everyones effort we deployed all available aircraft with no issues and were able to start supporting jump operations and a aircraft qualification the next day. That says a lot about the caliber of our maintainers of Kay and Associates, our Crew Chiefs, and Operations NCO who made it such a smooth transition...

“World's Smallest Jet” Hits Road for First 2014 Airshow Performance - Virtual-Strategy Magazine | Oklahoma City (PRWEB) January 31, 2014. The US Fleet Tracking FLS Microjet, renowned as the “World's Smallest Jet”, will open its 2014 airshow performance schedule at the WBCA Stars & Stripes Airshow Spectacular in Laredo, Texas on February 16.

Fate of 2014 Air Show up in the air - Hillsboro Tribune | The future of the 2014 Oregon International Air Show is uncertain following the unexpected cancellation of all Canadian Forces Snowbirds Jet Team shows in America because of budget cuts. The Snowbirds had been announced as the headlining act.

PHOTO: World War II-era aircraft makes Naples stop - Naples Daily News | The Collins Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour featuring a B-17, B-24 and P-51 plane will be on display and available for tours and flights 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Tuesday, and 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday at the Naples Municipal Airport.

Pioneer Hall of Fame inductees named · General Aviation News Staff | Women in Aviation, International has selected the 2014 inductees into its International Pioneer Hall of Fame. These women will be honored at WAI’s 25th Annual International Conference, which will be held March 6-8, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla....

Women Fly it Forward takes off in March - Frederick News Post | “Women in Aviation Fly it Forward is an event that the city of Frederick is again very proud to host at the Frederick Municipal Airport,” McClement said. “The Women In Aviation Fly it Forward has established itself as the event that introduces women ...

Former Tilden woman earns spot in state aviators hall of fame - Norfolk Daily News | Although she was no longer active in flight, Cowing joined the Tucson, Ariz., chapter of the Ninety-Nines in 2010 and continued to promote women in aviation and aviation in general. Last spring — after being out of the cockpit for 30 years — she ...

Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame names Class of 2014 - General Aviation News | OSHKOSH, Wis. — Six aviators will be inducted into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (WAHF) at a ceremony this fall. Brig. Gen. Peter Drahn (ret.), Vice Admiral James H. Flatley, Jr., Donald Voland, and brothers James, Ed, and Ray Knaup will be honored for their achievements and significant contributions to aviation in Wisconsin....

4 left of gutsy Doolittle Raiders crews who took on Tokyo - Columbus Dispatch | The Doolittle Raiders, as they became known — 80 men in 16 bombers led by a swashbuckling lieutenant colonel, James H. Doolittle — launched themselves over the Pacific from the aircraft carrier Hornet, aiming to strike at Japan when few thought it ...

British village grateful to World War II airman - Danville Commercial News | James Howery of Danville was a B-17 pilot and also a member of the 8th Air Corps. He noted at the time he flew his first mission in 1943, only 25 missions were required. The air group he was assigned to as a replacement had lost 80 percent of their planes.

He bombed Saigon bridge in World War II – Sgt. Giff Stowell watched Japanese surrender on Ie Shima Island - War Tales | Giff Stowell of La Casa mobile home park in North Port, Fla. was a gunner on an A-20 Havoc twin-engine bomber in the Pacific during his first nine months of combat in World War II. The rest of the war he flew as the nose gunner in “Lucky Strike,” a B-24 “Liberator” in the 380th […]

Local veterans sign traveling WWII bomber wing - Ocala | World War II veterans Paul Bureau and John De Francesco recently added their signatures to a section of a wing from a B-17 bomber during an event at the Ocala-Marion County Veterans Park as part of the nationwide 384th Bomb Group Veterans Signing ...

Canada’s 1st Tiger Moth Takes Flight! – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Ep533 | WARBIRD RADIO – Harry Schoning joins Matt Jolley with a full report on CF-BNF’s recent test flight.  CF-BNF is Canada’s first Tiger Moth and marks the start of a long love affair between the RCAF and the “C” model DH-82 Tiger Moth.  Mike Porter also chimes with news on DH-82C 1136 and winter flying. For […]

Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1 Now On Show At RAF Museum Cosford · Warbirds News | From our friends at the Royal Air Force Museum in the UK comes news that their freshly restored Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1 XS695 has gone on display in the Test Flight Collection hangar at RAF Museum Cosford following roughly a year of intensive conservation and restoration work. The Kestrel was a development of the...

Osprey “Feet Dry” - Travel for Aircraft | Bell Boeing’s V-22 Osprey is remarkable with its ability be fly either as a helicopter as well as a conventional airplane (VTOL/STOL). Taking nine years to fly since design-start and almost as long again before first entering service with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) as the MV-22 Osprey. The USMC  likely was […]