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Video: Tampa Bay AirFest at MacDill is back! - WTSP 10 News | Over 100 thousand people are expected to come to the event. This year the Tampa Bay Airfest Team says they only had 3 months to plan the comeback event...

EAA, FAA reach settlement over AirVenture fees * Sacramento Bee | Last year, the FAA told EAA officials that the cost for 87 air traffic controllers and supervisors to come to Oshkosh for AirVenture would be nearly $448,000. The EAA signed a one-year agreement under protest and asked a federal appeals court to review ...

Annual Paulding air show to wait until 2015 by Tom Spigolon | Organizers of Paulding’s annual air show are canceling the event for 2014 and planning a 2015 show after military budget cuts in two countries cut the number of available performance dates by top-drawing acts...

Hot Rods in the Sky: Up in the Air with Red Bull Air Race Pilot Kirby Chambliss - Popular Mechanics | Car guys love to talk horsepower and top speed, but translating those specs to the sky requires a complete relativity recalibration. Witness, for instance, Red Bull's recent F/A-18 Hornet versus F1 car drag race (top speeds: 1,242 mph vs 236 mph)-- or more even recently, my gut-wrenching aerobatic flight with Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss over the California desert...

Breitling Jet Team are reaching the European continent

The 2014 NAF El Centro Airshow montage

Revenge of Hermann Goering: Red Arrows took flight after Second World War 'Luftwaffe bombs' found at base - Daily Mail | Air aces the Red Arrows took to the skies this week fearing that they could be blown up by the Luftwaffe. The nine jets scrambled from their base at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire after Second World War bombs were found there. Bomb disposal experts rushed to the site to defuse the unexploded devices thought to have been dropped by the Germans around 70 years ago...

Red Arrows to take part in Portsmouth D-Day commemorations - Portsmouth News | THEIR high speed displays stun crowds around the world – and now the Red Arrows are on their way back to Portsmouth. The Royal Air Force’s aerobatic team will take part in the city’s D-Day commemorations on June 5. There will be a number of events taking place over the week of D-Day’s 70th anniversary this year, and the Red Arrows have now confirmed their return to take part....

Can you spot the difference? Father and son become world-renowned stunt pilots from the ground after building their own remote control Red Arrows planes - Daily Mail | These photographs may appear to show a magnificent display by the world-renowned Red Arrows – but in reality they reveal remote control replicas which have been made by a father and son ‘stunt pilot’ duo....

Aviation Open House - Las Vegas Sun | North Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday March 29th, 2014 – The Clark County Aviation Association in conjunction with the Clark County Department of Aviation will be hosting the 7th Annual Aviation Open House....

Tuskegee airmen speak in Lynwood - nwitimes.com | LYNWOOD | Samuel Dave wasn't aware that he sat across the room from aviation history as he folded and played with his paper airplane at Glenwood-Lynwood library Thursday. But the Highland Elementary third-grader certainly had a big smile on his face when he asked the members of the Chicago "Dodo" chapter of the Tuskegee airmen what it was like to fly...

WWII veteran, of Clifton, honored on 90th - NorthJersey.com | CLIFTON — World War II veteran Thomas Bristol was surrounded by family and friends for his 90th birthday last week – so unlike his birthday 70 years earlier when he was instead surrounded by flames trapped inside his plane that crash landed after it was hit by enemy fire...

Danforth Loring, 95, flew dozens of bombing missions during WWII - Omaha World-Herald | Danforth “Dan” Loring distinguished himself flying dozens of bombing missions during World War II and then served in the Korean War before enjoying a long and successful career in Omaha in the insurance industry. The retired major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve died Tuesday at the Nebraska Masonic Home in Plattsmouth at age 95, said his son, Dan Loring of Omaha. Mary Loring, Danforth Loring's wife of 70 years, was at his side....

Christ Nielsen was crewman aboard Navy rescue helicopter during Vietnam War * War Tales | Christ Nielsen of Punta Gorda, Fla. was a “Seadevil.” He was a member of U.S. Navy Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Seven that rescued downed pilots and seamen in trouble off the coast of Vietnam during the war. After three years of college he joined the Navy in December 1968. Trained to be part of the flight crew on a H-3 “Sea King” helicopter, Nielsen wound up in Subic Point, Philippines. Before his three year tour of duty was over the young Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class had served on nine of this country’s 11major aircraft carriers and 26 destroyers while flying as cable operator aboard a rescue helicopter...

Help the Yankee Air Museum Save the Willow Run Bomber Plant! * Warbirds News | As many WarbirdsNews readers will know from our previous articles ( click HERE), the Yankee Air Museum is hard at work raising the funds to help save part of the Willow Run Bomber Plant to become their permanent home. The Ford Motor Company license-built Consolidated B-24 Liberators in this factory by the thousand during WWII, so it...

Reaching for the Sun * CAFE Foundation Blog | SolarStratos, a two-seat, solar-powered airplane, is being readied for record flights in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, just a 25-minute drive from the Solar Impulse hangars in Payerne...

Tradition Aviation at the Jacqueline Cochrain Airport owner: 'Girls didn't fly' - The Desert Sun | INDIO — Penny Nelson has loved airplanes since she was a little girl. She remembers going to the airport with her parents to watch planes take off. But back then, aviation was a man's world. Flying planes was a distant dream...

Failure To Launch: How New Mexico Is Paying For Richard Branson’s Space Tourism Fantasy - BuzzFeed | They came from the north by helicopter, flying over scattered cattle and mesquite brush and yucca plants straining skyward. To the east was White Sands Missile Range, where the first atomic bomb was detonated, and further east was Roswell, where the streetlamps are little green alien heads. Below them was that old muddy snake, the Rio Grande, and just west, a town called Truth or Consequences. But the men on that cherry red Bell 206 LongRanger chopper were not sightseeing. They were headed to middle of the desert, where they planned to launch a bunch of spaceships...

Solar powered plane aims for the edge of space * euronews | Tickets to see the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space above are projected to be 50,000 euros. There are many issues and questions yet to be resolved. Domjan may be a highly experienced pilot, but he's yet to fly a solar-powered electric...