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Blue Angels Lend a Hand at Niland Food Shed - Imperial Valley News | Niland, California - Members of the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, helped sort and bag donated food at the Niland Food Shed to give to 219 families in need in Niland, California, February 19. The third Wednesday of the month, ...

A rush of blood to the head at the Red Bull Air Race in Abu Dhabi - The National | Most will finish
within a second or two of each other. “Because of the speeds you're travelling at, if you're not completely precise with the turn, you end up travelling a longer distance,” he said. Mr Cyster compared air racing with the skills needed ...

TICO Warbird Airshow Will Honor Tuskegee Airmen - SpaceCoastDaily.com | The Valiant Air Command will host the 37th Annual TICO Warbird Airshow on Friday, March 14; Saturday, March 15 and Sunday, March 16, 2014....

F-22 Raptors expected to fly at 2014 Thunder Over Louisville air show - WDRB |  More military flare will fly the skies during this year's Thunder Over Louisville. The F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team is expected to return to the air show. Spectators can expect to...

Pilot of the Year Award: Chuck Aaron - Aviation International News | It’s a chicken-and-egg sort of question: did helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron make Red Bull’s aerobatic MBB Bo105 famous or did Red Bull make Chuck Aaron famous for his helicopter aerobatics? The short answer is “yes.”...

Oklahoma to host cross-country air races - AOPA Pilot | The International Air Meet-Championship Air Races will take place on May 23 through 26 at Durant Municipal Airport in Durant, Okla. All fixed-wing propeller-driven aircraft are eligible to compete, so long as they are members of the Sport Air Racing ...

Living History Event at Planes Of Fame on Saturday March 1st · Warbirds News | While it is a little close to the date for most people to act on, Warbirds News would like to highlight the upcoming Living History Event this Saturday, March 1st, at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California. These are always fascinating opportunities to learn about aviation history from...

Promo video for LA County Air Show | Check out Los Angeles County Air Show's latest vlog from Ric Peterson, our announcer! He's looking a little cold and can't wait to get to sunny California. Warning this video contains content that some may find offensive (a runny nose)!

Carol Pilon · Women of Aviation Worldwide | She is a wingwalker, an aircraft mechanic, and aerobatic team owner. Meet Carol Pilon in Lachute-Montreal or online on March 8

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Fly Jive Fly! - The Aero Experience caught up with a Midwest Aviation favorite airshow team, Fly Jive Fly, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013.  It was great to visit with Jerry "Jive" Kerby and L.M. "Lunar" Sawyer just weeks after their appearance at Fair St. Louis.  "Jive" Kerby's flying has become a staple on the air show circuit, ranging from the first...

AirFest grounded for 2014 and likely beyond - gazettextra.com | JANESVILLE—Southern Wisconsin AirFest will not return this summer, and an event organizer said Tuesday it's unlikely the show will ever return to Rock County. “You can never say never, but I'd say it's not likely,” said Tom Morgan, the executive director of the event that started in 2002. Organizers put the annual air show on hiatus last year because it didn't have a major performer or significant corporate sponsor to boost what had become a worsening bottom line....

Timeless Voices - M.J. "Jack" Gruber - eaavideo.org | M.J. "Jack" Gruber was a B-17 pilot with the 711th Bomb Squadron of the 477th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force during WWII. He flew 33 combat missions. On one of his last missions he had to ditch his B-17 in the English Channel. (recorded in 2002)

B-17 'Memphis Belle' takes to the skies with WWII aviators on board (VIDEO + Pics) - Guns.com | The B-17 “The Movie Memphis Belle” flew over the Atlanta skies Monday with several WWII aviators on board. Aboard the aircraft was former B-17 crew members Henry Hughey, 89, Albert McMahan, 93, and Lt. Col. Hap Chanderl, 92. “The Movie Memphis Belle” is famous not only because she completed her 25-mission tour without being shot down, but because each of the 10 crew members survived without sustaining any injuries, News Daily reports...

Wings of a Warrior: the Jimmy Doolittle Story by travelforaircraft | Gardner Doolittle (who is a third cousin relation to Jimmy Doolittle) has a voice which is somewhere between gravelly and one that growls — usually not the best choice for a narrator — especially with predictable spoken euphemisms. The archival footage used in the production fits into the story well but a very small portion of this footage does not jive with the narration. These small errors have no effect regarding the accuracy of the story given and do serve to set the emotive forces at work back in the day so many decades ago....

Amelia's Plane - Flight To Success | At the Northwest Washington Aviation Trade Show last weekend I met some amazing people. And Kim Star was one of them. I am still in awe of her talent. I want this painting! While not many of us would have the room to hang a painting this size, could you imagine having an oil painting of this quality painted of your plane?...

Aviator speaks to OMAH group - Orillia Packet & Times | Gary White, who retired to Orillia, always knew he wanted to be a flyer. However, he couldn’t have conceived he would be landing on aircraft carriers and chasing down Soviet submarines...

Former Vietnam War Flight Attendants Reunite in Sacramento - NBC | ...She landed a job as a flight attendant aboard a fledging airline drawing its name from the elite Flying Tigers of World War II fame. The new Flying Tiger airline had its own military role; carrying cargo and troops back and forth to the war in Vietnam....

Need an early build 787? Hurry Boeing is selling them cheap! - Aero Pacific Flightlines | There are 11 Boeing 787 Dreamliners parked on the tarmac at The Boeing Co. plant near Seattle that have been rejected by the airlines that placed the original orders. Normally, Boeing would just march down its order backlog and find another buyer. But these planes are special...

Space shuttle pilot visits with Colo. cadets - Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | The Broomfield Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol’s Colorado Wing was host recently to a special guest — retired Air Force colonel and former NASA space shuttle commander Loren Shriver. Shriver graduated from...