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LA County Air Show To Mark Official Blue Angels Comeback - CBS Local | LANCASTER (CBSLA.com) — Some of the world’s finest aircraft is set to take over the skies above the Antelope Valley this weekend. KNX 1070's Brian Ping reports the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will arrive at Gen. William J. Fox Airfield in preparation for the Los Angeles County Air Show...

Watch What Happens When Maria Molina Flies with the Blue Angels - Fox News | FOX NEWS INSIDER - Ever wonder what it's like to fly in one of the Blue Angels' F/A-18 Hornets? We got a glimpse of that this morning on Fox and Friends as our very own Maria Molina showed us how it feels to travel at the speed of the sound...

Skywriting Leads Up To LA Air Show - Aero-News Network | To build awareness of and excitement for the inaugural Los Angeles Air Show planned for this weekend, organizers have turned to the nation’s only female professional skywriter to paint the skies over southern California...

Tampa Bay Airfest promises touching tales, dazzling aircraft - Tbo.com | Every airplane has a story, but when it comes to airshows such as MacDill Air Force Base Presents Tampa Bay AirFest 2014, no story is more poignant than the one behind the F4U-4 Corsair flown by Jim Tobul. Tobul, whose father Joe was a Marine Corps pilot, began flying when he was nine and has flown many different warbirds, including the B-25, T-28, L-5, B-17, P-51, F-18 Super Hornet, and PBY-5, according to his website...

MacDill turns to private money to make AirFest work - Tampabay.com | TAMPA — It is the era of the frugal air show. Get used to it. MacDill Air Force Base's Tampa Bay AirFest 2014 opens Saturday with the requisite aerial thrills and screaming aircraft despite a one-third cut in its military budget that had imperiled the popular event. Fewer military aircraft will fly this year with civilian fliers filling the gap. Otherwise, the 200,000 or more spectators expected this weekend will notice few other big changes...

Wings over Northaest Georgia Extends Activities - CVN News | JLC AirShow Management is excited to announce the 2014 Wings Over North Georgia air show and Smoke-n-Thunder BBQ Classic weekend continues to get bigger by extending the Saturday air show and BBQ Classic operating hours into the evening. The Saturday evening events begin immediately after the last aerial day performance concludes around 5pm ending with a mini-night air show and fireworks grand finale...

LVIA to hold air show again this summer - Allentown Morning Call | The Black Diamond Jet Team performed at the Lehigh Valley Air Show in 2013. After the success of the 2013 air show, Lehigh Valley International Airport officials decided they weren't going to wait another 16 years to do it again...

Sky Grand Prix daredevils set to wow - Citizen | Granted, most commercial planes are not designed to fly inverted – and fixed-wing aircraft typically have wings that are curved on top, but flat on the bottom, creating lift. They are also usually flown in controlled environments, reducing the chances of error...

F1 racing: the return of racers in Europe? - Translated | In the wake of the Red Bull Air Races, the Formula 1 races are about to make their return to Europe under the leadership of the British company Air Race Ltd CC. A championship is under consideration for 2015. Meanwhile, a first international race is organized by Spain (Lleida), on June 1. Of French racers will line up at the start...

Soaring Expo at Museum of Flight - General Aviation News | SEATTLE — Soaring Expo, the Seattle Glider Council’s annual celebration of the world of silent flight, is at The Museum of Flight the weekend of March 22-23...

'Greatest Generation' revisited - Alpine Avalanche | EL PASO – Residents here will get a look back some 70 years into the past into what has been called the "Greatest Generation" with a display and rides on two iconic World War II US aircraft this weekend...

Memorial Planned for “Checkertails of Lesina” – 325th FG in Italy - Warbirds News | Lesina, a little town on the shores of Lake Lesina in south eastern Italy, played host to the P-51 Mustangs of the 325th Fighter Group, USAAF during the latter stages of WWII. Known as the “Checkertail Clan,” the men and machines of the 325th FG made a great impression on the local population, whom greeted them as liberators when they arrived in March, 1944, such was the brutality of the German occupation in the region...

Elbert Bishop and crew of ‘Betty-J’ watched mushroom cloud rise over Nagasaki - War Tales | It was their last mission aboard “Betty-J,” a B-24 four-engine bomber named for the pilot, Jack Bates’ wife, that Elbert Bishop of Paradise Park, east of Punta Gorda, remembers most. The crew was part of the 42nd Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, 7th Air Force....

Making a stamp in honor of Caroline Aigle - Translated | Caroline Aigle would have been 40 this year. Daughter of a military doctor she continued her education in military schools before joining the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique. In 1997 she decided to serve in the Air Force and joined the school of the air of Salon-de-Provence. In 1999 she became the first patented French fighter pilot in the Air Force. It...

Flying her own path - Pasadena Weekly | Born in 1901 and raised in Pasadena and San Marino, Florence Leontine Lowe never seemed to fit in with the rest of the girls in her family’s high-society circles. While she was raised as a proper young woman, the charismatic Lowe exhibited a passion for flying from a young age. This was due to the fact that her grandfather, Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, was an aviation pioneer...

Upcoming Events At Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor March ~ August 2014 · Warbirds News | March 29th – Discover Your Future in Aviation. Honoring Captain Sharyn Emminger Dey, 10am to 4pm. Young people interested in aviation as a career or hobby will want to attend. This is the fifth year for the special aviation day filled with...

P-8 Poseidon — U.S. Navy’s newest submarine adversary by travelforaircraft | The U.S. Navy is currently replacing the Lockheed P-3 Orion with the Boeing P-8 Poseidon as its premier antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. Capable of carrying a myriad of weapons (torpedoes, depth charges as well a variety of missiles) not to mention sonabuoys the P-8 is obviously a sinister derivative of the Boeing B-737 airliner....

Hubble Celebrates 24th Anniversary With Infrared Image Of Nearby Star Factory - Aero-News Network | Images Give A Taste Of What Scientists Can Expect From The Webb Telescope In The Future | In celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured infrared-light images of a churning region of star birth 6,400 light-years away....