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USAF Thunderbirds roar into Punta Gorda for weekend air show - Wink News | PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - WINK News cameras caught special visitors soaring into Charlotte County: The United States Air Force Thunderbirds! They're here to put on a show for you this weekend at the Punta Gorda Airport. You'll hear them, before you see them, speeding like a bullet across the sky....

2014 Blue Angels return to Kingsville - Alice Echo-News Journal | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels are back, and headed to NAS Kingsville for the 2014 "Wings Over South Texas" Air Show, March 29-30. The Blues kicked off their 2014 air show season March 15 at their winter home in El Centro, Calif. "Our goal for 'Wings Over South Texas' 2014 is to provide something for every member of the family," said NAS Kingsville Commanding Officer Capt. Christopher Misner, "and we're thrilled to have the Blue Angels as our headline act. We view this air show as a base-and-community event, and out base and community teams have been working hard for the last five months to put our 2014 show together. I'm certain that air show fans won't be disappointed."...

Flying With Blue Angels: View from Inside a F/A-18 Fighter Jet * ABC News | Take a wild ride with the US Navy's elite aviation team.

Taking to the skies: Several North Dallas aviators to perform at Durant air show - Star Local Media | Durant, Okla., is perhaps best known in North Dallas for the Choctaw Casino Resort. On Saturday, however, some of the best aerobatic performers in the area will take to the Durant skies In hopes of giving people something else to remember about the city. For the second consecutive year, the Take to the Skies AirFest comes to the city to offer a day of fun with an airshow...

Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival Makes Strong Return with Canadian Forces Snowbirds, Top Civilian Airshow Performers By Carmelo Turdo | The Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival is making a strong return to the Midwest region's airshow lineup for May 17-18 through the support of loyal sponsors and the commitment of the  Canadian Forces Snowbirds Demonstration Team and top-tier civilian performers.  The Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival is a...

U.S. set to approve international debut of F-35 fighter * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department is poised to approve the first trans-Atlantic flight of Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 fighter jet in July, when the new warplane is expected to take part in two international air shows near London, according to multiple sources familiar with the issue...

Mojave Experimental Fly-in * Latest updates, who is attending

Luke Days 2014 * Photorecon.net | Luke Air Force Base has been a part of the Phoenix area for more than 70 years. In that time, as well as becoming a vital part of the local tapestry, Luke has become the premier fighter pilot training base in the world, and over 50,000 aviators have earned the title Fighter Pilot in the skies over and around this hallowed ground. Countries from around the globe send their pilots here to learn from the best of the best. The base is a source of pride for not only the men and women stationed there, but for the Phoenix area, the state and the Air Force as a whole....

Dr.Sky Conducts LIVE Radio Show At Luke AFB “Lightning In The Desert” * Photorecon.net | Dr.Sky, had the honor of doing his other radio show, A CALL TO RIGHTS, heard on the big Independent Talk 1100 AM/ KFNX, out of Phoenix,Az., on Saturday March 15th 2014.

Reno Air Races to expand this fall, include concerts; insurance said to be cheaper from RGJ.com | The Reno National Championship Air Races, looking ahead to what it called its "next 50 years" said changes are in the works to make the event "a full festival of flight" that will appeal to traditional air race fans and open the door to a generation of new fans...

98-Year-Old Veteran Describes Legendary Mission In Heartwarming Reddit AMA - Business Insider | When Lieutenant Colonel Richard (Dick) Cole participated in the first American bombing raid on Japan in World War II, his plane was destined not to return to the U.S....

One of a kind WWII plane stops in DeLand - Daytona Beach News-Journal | DELAND — A rare piece of military history landed in the city Tuesday, as the last remaining flying Boeing B-29 Superfortress in the world touched down for two days of tours and demonstration flights at DeLand Municipal Airport...

Into the Mushroom Cloud * Most pilots would head away from a thermonuclear explosion. By Mark Wolverton Air & Space Magazine | He wasn’t supposed to do it, but on May 15, 1948, Lieutenant Colonel  Paul H. Fackler, commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force 514th Reconnaissance Squadron Weather, flew his airplane into the seething mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb detonation. As part of Zebra, the final shot of America’s second series of atomic tests at Enewetak atoll in the Pacific, Fackler had the job of tracking the atomic cloud from at least 10 miles away, hoping that special filters attached to the airplane would catch samples of the radioactive debris. But as he pulled away from the enormous roiling cloud in a climbing turn to the left, Fackler suddenly found his weather reconnaissance Boeing WB-29 inside a small finger-like projection of the main cloud...

Sea-Tac’s evolutionary Alexander Aircraft Eaglerock 1928 by travelforaircraft | The Eaglerock, made by the Alexander Aircraft Company, was a vast improvement and part of a wave of new designs replacing the surplus World War I aircraft. Streamlining, folding wings, more reliable engine (Curtiss OX-5 rated 90 hp) and available tailwheel (too novel for many aviators of the time). Restored by...

Historic military technology for sale * Bayou Renaissance Man | An e-mail today drew my attention to the fact that World War II aircraft bomb sights are available on eBay - something of which I hadn't been aware...

138th Aviation Company Memorial · Warbirds News | ...Beechcraft RU-21A “Ute” s/n 67-18113 was one of four RU-21A’s built for the US Army Security Agency developed for use in the latter years of the Vietnam War.  The aircraft and its’ associated mission gear were given the code name “Cefirm Leader” (AN/ULQ-11) which included four RU-21A’s for Direction Finding, three RU-21B’s for Intercept and Collection, and two RU-21C’s as radio jammers.  Although the system never deployed to Vietnam, it was eventually turned over to the US Army Reserve and the 138th Aviation Company (EW), of Orlando Florida...

Earhart to fly around world - The Randolph Guide | ASHEBORO — This just in: Aviatrix Amelia Earhart has announced plans to fly around the world. She intends to take off in July, making 14 stops and covering some 28,000 miles before circumnavigating the globe...

Sioux City air museum gets AmeriCorps help for new exhibit - Sioux City Journal | SIOUX CITY | Nine AmeriCorps volunteers have been readying new projects during a two-week stint at the Sioux City aviation museum. Among the work, a Boeing 737 passenger plane formerly used by FedEx is being renovated into an education center. The AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) Cedar 2 team, from Vinton, Iowa, gutted the plane in less than two days, removing panels and insulation...

Essay Contest Winners Will Earn Time with NASA Legend Gene Kranz - The Aero Experience