Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day Weekend Recap

Blue Angels Soar Over Naval Academy Class Of 2014 Graduation - CBS Local | ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)—It’s the finale of four years of hard work. Hundreds of midshipmen at the Naval Academy became commissioned officers. Monique Griego has more from the ceremony that also welcomed back the Blue Angels. For the graduates, Friday’s ceremony marks the end of one journey and the beginning of another. After a four-year absence, the Blue Angels once again take flight over Annapolis....

Blue Angels take to sky on Memorial Day weekend - Fox News | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels took to the sky in New York this weekend. According to Newsday, nearly 231,000 came out to watch the Blue Angels at the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach State Park Sunday. Cloudy weather kept attendance to about 86,000 people the day before. The appearance last year was canceled because of federal budget cuts, the report said. The crowds also saw Red Bull Air Force skydivers jump out of a plane in "wing suits," streaming colored smoke, Newsday reported...

Aboard the 'Fat Albert' with the Blue Angels | PIX 11 | FARMINGDALE, Long Island (PIX11) – It was a gloomy and rainy day in Farmingdale, Long Island, but that didn’t stop the Blue Angels. I got a special look inside a Blue Angels flight. A once in a lifetime experience in the skies over Long Island. The Blue Angels maintenance and support crew travel aboard a Marine Corps C-130 Hercules aircraft, according to officials, known as “Fat Albert.”...

PHOTO GALLERY: Golden Knights perform at Salute to Veterans Air Show - Columbia Missourian | The U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team performed in Columbia as part of the Salute to Veterans Airshow Saturday at Columbia Regional Airport. It was the team's first Columbia performance in 15 years....

http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/wisbech-life/vibrant_aerobatic_display_by_the_patrouille_de_france_begins_commemoration_of_70th_anniversary_of_d_day_at_duxford_air_show_1_3615230Vibrant aerobatic display by the Patrouille de France,begins commemoration of 70th anniversary of D-Day at Duxford Air Show * Wisbech Standard | Thousands of visitors came to IWM Duxford today, Saturday, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day at The D-Day Anniversary Air Show...

SLIDESHOW: D-Day commemorations at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford ... - Cambridge News  | More than 10 thousand visitors watched spectacular aerial displays at the Imperial War Museum’s D-Day Anniversary Air Show at Duxford. The weekend event is to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings in 1944. Visitors were able to meet with serving soldiers from today’s airborne forces alongside living history groups who brought D-Day’s history to life...

Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach holds final performances - News 12 Long Island  | WANTAGH - Huge crowds flocked to Jones Beach State Park under sunny skies Sunday for the second and final day of the 11th annual Bethpage Air Show. The Meadowbrook Parkway seemed more like a parking lot for most of the day as cars inched their way to the beach to see the show in the sky....

Daredevil Bethpage Air Show stuns spectators By Tom Wilson | ...The show went off without a hitch http://nypost.com/2014/05/25/daredevil-bethpage-air-show-stuns-spectators/despite overcast skies. Along with the famous formation squadrons, the Marine Corps’ MV-22 Osprey, half plane and half helicopter, drew cheers as it hovered over the water...

Fans call 2014 air show a success - KRCG | COLUMBIA -- Newcomers and regulars alike told KRCG 13 Sunday they thoroughly enjoyed this year’s Salute to Veterans Air Show.  Fayetteville, Arkansas resident Tony Miller said while he has been to a number of air shows nationwide, this is the first time he has been to Columbia’s. He said he liked the predominance of propeller- as opposed to jet-driven aircraft. He said the Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds were the main reason he came to Columbia....

SLIDESHOW: Cannon AFB Air Show & Open House 5/25 | Photos from the air show and open house at Cannon Air Force Base.

Sporty’s celebrates 10th Annual Fly-In · General Aviation News | Sporty’s welcomed more than 100 airplanes and their occupants, as well as many guests who arrived by car, to Sporty’s Tenth Annual Fly-In, held Saturday, May 17. “Counting attendance is always an iffy proposition, but at Sporty’s, we can count free hot dogs,” says Sporty’s President Michael Wolf. “We grilled and distributed more than 1,100 hot dogs to Fly-In attendees...

Community Aviation Day Fly-In/Drive-In - Pocono Record | The Mount Pocono Rotary sponsored the Community Aviation Day Fly-In/Drive-In Breakfast at Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport. The majority of this year's proceeds are benefiting the Valor Clinic for Homeless Veterans and Monroe County Joint Veteran's Honor Guard....

Marines put on air show at Orchard Beach - News 12 Bronx | ORCHARD BEACH - The U.S. Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force put on an air show Friday at Orchard Beach for Fleet Week. Among the spectators was World War II veteran William Johnson, who said it was his first time seeing the choppers up close....

23 Awesome Photos From The Berlin Air Show * Business Insider | The 2014 edition of the Berlin http://www.businessinsider.com/awesome-photos-from-the-berlin-air-show-2014-5?op=1Air Show took place this week at Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, with festivities both in the air and on the ground. First held in 1909, the air show proclaims itself to be the longest-running show of its kind in the world...

The Red Bull DC-6B during its display at ILA 2014 Berlin. · Airliners.net

Fly-In and Car Show draws large crowd to Mercer County Airport - Bluefield Daily Telegraph | BRUSHFORK — When young Aiden Jennings saw all the airplanes in the sky Saturday, he wanted to join the hundreds other people converging on the Mercer County Airport.   “We were going down Airport Road,” said Darren Jennings of Princeton, Aiden’s father. “He saw the planes and he had to come.” Soon, 5-year-old Aiden was getting a peek inside a Soviet jet....

20 Years Flypast Wows Inauguration Crowd - AllAfrica.com | Jacob Zuma's presidential inauguration in Pretoria on Saturday was followed by a stunning aerial display - including a formation flypast in the shape of "20", marking South Africa's 20 years of democracy - that left the massive crowd at the Union Buildings breathless....

Aviation and heritage fans wing it to Old Station Fly-in - Central Queensland news | A BIRTHDAY present doesn't get much better than a joy flight in a Second World War Yakovlev fighter plane. Well, maybe it does - if it's your 77th birthday present. Norman Taylor was one of many aviation enthusiasts that flocked to the Old Station Fly-in and Heritage Show at Mt Larcom on Saturday to see a collection of vintage planes, cars and trucks, as well as live music and Red Bull Air Race legend Matt Hall in action....

Flying in B-17 is a 'Sentimental Journey' - Midland Reporter-Telegram  | The Flying Fortress began to sway and bounce as her four engines roared to life under an overcast West Texas sky Sunday afternoon. I could smell the fuel, and feel the outside breeze whipping around in my hair. This flight is about to be unlike any other I’ve ever taken, I thought, as I sat strapped in near the waist gunners’ stations on the World War II-era bomber for a media flight....

Memphis Belle On Memorial Day · Beau Goff, Photorecon.net  | The early morning fog is thick, heavy and low hanging. It blankets the fields in a gray mist dense enough to block the early morning sun as it creeps over the eastern horizon. The fog touches everything, and when it does it sticks- to leaves, blades of grass and to olive drab green aluminum...
Air Force Museum Foundation hosts annual Legacy Data Plate Wall of Honor Tribute Ceremony by Matt Lynch, Air Force Museum Foundation | 5/23/2014 - DAYTON, Ohio -- Stories honoring the heroic actions and dedicated service of veterans, patriots and loved ones were commemorated yesterday at the Air Force Museum Foundation's Legacy Data Plate Wall of Honor Tribute Ceremony.  Every one of the 665 data plates on the Wall of Honor represents a unique and lasting tribute to veterans, patriots and loved ones. Data plates are custom-etched aviation-grade stainless steel plates displayed near the entrance to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force....

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