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VIDEO: Fat Albert performs at NAF El Centro Air Show * Imperial Valley News | See some highlights of the Fat Albert performance at the NAF El Centro Air Show.

Wing of Blue skydiving team added to Dayton air show By Jill Drury | DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The opening act of the Vectren Dayton Air Show was announced Tuesday. The Wings of Blue U.S. Air Force Skydiving Team, will decend from the sky with the U.S. flag during the singing of the National Anthem at the opening ceremony June 28...

Team Fastrax, America's Skydiving Team, to perform prior to Auto Club 400 * AmericaJR | ...Made up of military veterans from the Rangers, Special Forces and Airborne units, Team Fastrax has totaled over 300,000 skydives including several NASCAR events as well as displays over Ground Zero in New York City, Independence Hall in Philadelphia and the Pentagon in Washington, DC....

La Ferte-Alais commemorates the D-Day * Translated | The traditional annual meeting of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis (AJBS) will take place on 7 and 8 June 2014, on the plateau of the Ardennes La-Ferte-Alais, Cerny. With the commemoration of the Normandy landings as the main theme of this meeting, one of the most spectacular pictures of the show will feature a formation flight over a dozen warbirds, 4 DC3/C47 Dakota....

Video: Historic B-17 'Memphis Belle' flights to take place over El Paso * KDBC | El Paso, TX (KDBC) — There are few things in a lifetime that could compare with the pure exhilaration of lift-off in a piece of history. That's exactly what some Borderland residents will have the opportunity to do this coming weekend, March 22nd and 23rd at Atlantic Aviation, located at 1751 Shuttle Columbia Dr....

Warplane barnstormers coming to Pensacola * PNJ.com | If you yearned for but missed the chance at an up-close look at a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress when the Collings Foundation’s barnstorming tour came through Pensacola earlier this month, another opportunity awaits....

Warbirds Over Wanaka: Jurgis vs Murphy * Scoop | Wanaka, 17th March 2014 - World aerobatic champion Jurgis Kairys has decided to give four-time Bathurst V8 Supercar winner, Greg Murphy, a chance in a head-to-head clash at Easter’s Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow...

Women's heritage honored with all female refueling mission * Air Mobility Command | FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash.  -- Airmen from different units at Fairchild came together to conduct an all-female refueling mission March 13 in honor of women's history month and to remember women's heritage....

‘Follow’ Jerrie Mock’s historic solo flight around the world — 50 years later * General Aviation News | To help celebrate Jerrie Mock’s 50th anniversary as the first woman to fly solo around the world, you can follow her “progress” on Twitter and Facebook. From March 19 to April 17, the folks behind Fly 38Charlie...

WWII B-17 co-pilot shares experiences * AETC | GOODFELLOW AIR FORCE BASE, Texas  -- William Archer, World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress co-pilot, visited here for the first time in almost 70 years to share his experiences during WWII March 7....

World’s Only Flying Privateer Navy Patrol Bomber will Visit the Palm Springs Air Museum * Warbirds News | From Monday March 17th until Sunday March 23rd, the world’s only flying PB4Y-2 Privateer naval patrol bomber will visit the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California. The...

Happy Birthday To The Douglas A-1 Skyraider * Warbrids News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | Sixty-nine years ago today [Mar 18], the Douglas A-1 Skyraider took flight for the first time.  Designed by the legendary Ed Heinemann, the Skyraider was able to deliver an incredible array of ordnance and was an incredibly strong and versatile platform.  Initially known as the AD-1, Skyraiders were re-designated as “A” series aircraft when the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft designation systems merged in 1962.  The Skyraider deservedly acquired the...

Video: MAAM’s P-61 ‘Black Widow” Restoration Update and Kickstarter Fundraising Campaign * Warbirds News |Most of our readers will be aware of the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s Herculean efforts to restore Northrop P-61B Black Widow 42-39445 back to flying condition. The museum and its volunteers have been working on this project since their epic 1991 recovery of the Black Widow from its crash site atop Mt. Cyclops, Indonesia, where it had lain since January, 1945.  It’s a...

DC-3 Donated to The Texas Air & Space Museum * Warbirds News | The Federal Aviation Administration has just retired the last of their Douglas DC-3 flight inspection aircraft. Registered N34, the aircraft wore many hats during its decades of FAA service, and now calls the Texas Air & Space Museum its home. After more than a year of negotiations between TASM and the FAA, the DC-3 made her final flight to the museum, in Amarillo, Texas on February 13th....

The day they bombed the Susquehanna * Cecil Whig | Lt. Rene R. Studler was called into action on March 10, 1920, to take off from the airfield at Aberdeen Proving Ground, and bomb the blue blazes out of the frozen Susquehanna. Those who are inclined to think the bombing of the Susquehanna at Port Deposit is merely an urban legend or local myth, would do well to read a tiny blurb recorded in the magazine Flying Volume 9 by the Aero Club of America in 1920. It reads thusly...

So, were there EVER any Spitfires buried in Burma? * Fly Me Friendly | Back in April 2012 there was a bit of excitement in the aviation world, especially amongst those who love old World War II aircraft. This was when the news was running that a collection of Spitfires had been buried in their shipping crates in Burma towards the end of World War II and...

Flying again: 90-year-old takes to biplane cockpit for birthday celebration * CAP Volunteer Now | NEVADA -- Herman Bishop of Sun City Summerlin is used to escaping the bonds of gravity to soar the skies, but recently, on his 90th birthday, he got a special treat: piloting a biplane, the...

Young aviator earns his solo honors on four airplanes * mtairynews.com | Teen aviator Brock Newsom holds the singular honor flying solo on four different planes at the Mount Airy Airport on his 16th birthday, hours before he earned his driver’s license...

SolarStratos high-altitude solar-powered aeroplane * Solarracing.org | There seems to be something in the Swiss drinking water that makes them want to built innovative solar-powered vehicles. From this mountainous country hail the Solar Impulse project (currently hard at work at building their second aeroplane which is to fly around the world in 2015), the PlanetSolar project...

Space Expo 2014 at New England Air Museum on March 30th * Warbirds News | On Sunday March 30th, visitors to the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut will be able to participate in their annual SPACE EXPO, which is set to be a fascinating experience for the whole family. NASA Astronaut and Connecticut native, Captain Daniel Burbank will be on hand to relate his experiences on two Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station....

NASA's Vomit Comet Trains Astronauts in the Ways of Weightlessness * Gizmodo | With limited lab space aboard the ISS and skyrocketing launch costs, only the very best extra-terrestrial experiments make it into orbit. To put prospective experiments and astronauts alike through their weightless paces over the last six decades, NASA has relied on a gracefully arcing series of cargo planes called The Vomit Comet...