1812 bicentennial celebration kicks off in city with a loud boom - Baltimore Sun | The Navy's celebrated Blue Angels will perform shows over Fort McHenry and numerous activities for all ages are scheduled throughout the city and at Glenn L. Martin Airport in Baltimore County. "Baltimore is providing a depth to the events like we will...
Vintage flyover caps jubilee - TheChronicleHerald.ca | The British Royal Air Force Red Arrows fly in formation over Buckingham Palace in London to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee as 
Diamond Jubilee RAF Shorts Tucano T1 from Flight Image of the Day by Miquel Ros | The Diamond Jubilee is also being celebrated in the...
Snowbirds take flight at Borden Air Show this weekend - The Barrie Advance | The Snowbirds demo team will take to the sky, along with the Canadian Forces Parachute team the Skyhawks, a CF-18 Hornet team and a demonstration by a CP-140 Aurora Maritime Patrol Aircraft. There will be several exciting performances from civilian...
P-51 vs Me-262 - AAFO | I had the unique opportunity to fly with the Collings Foundation's P-51 Mustang and Me-262 today....
Texas Chapter 50th Annual Fall Festival of Flight Fly-In from Antique Airfield News | The Texas chapter is proud to announce the 50th Annual Fall Festival of Flight, to be held October 11-12 at the Gainesville Airport, TX. For more information see the Chapter Website.
Alphajet planes from the Patrouille de France fly over the Philippe Chatrier court before the start of the French Open - Stuff
Sixth Cannes AirShow - Corporate Jet Investor | Fast becoming a must go to show, the Cannes AirShow will open its doors for the sixth year running this week on Thursday 7 June at Cannes International Airport. The event continues until Saturday 9 June 2012. The show highlights all kinds of general ...
La Ferté Alais Airshow 2012 - Zap16 | 40 km south of Paris is Musée Jean Baptiste Salis at 
Sudden cancellation for weekend air show in Addison - WFAA | The Cavanaugh Flight Museum postponed its annual Warbirds Over Addison Air Show, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The museum would only say "unforeseen circumstances" prompted the sudden decision, saying it would work better to move the show to the...
Runway project celebrated - Laurinburg Exchange | Following the ribbon cutting, members of the Golden Knights Parachute Team conducted a demonstration for those gathered at the event, conducting a jump and landing at the airport. “What better way to mark the opening of this completed project than by...
Looking Forward To Reno 2012 (Sept 12-16)... And I Hope I See YOU There from AirPigz by 
Gordon Bennett Cup (1923) from AIRBOYD.TV
The Flyin' HawaiIowans | Our 2012 Air Race Classic adventure will take us from eastern Iowa to Lake Havasu AZ and then to Batavia OH via New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We invite you to join us on this flight of fancy...
Solar Impulse Crosses Mediterranean, Joins Continents from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Waking up in the middle of the David Letterman show this morning, your editor stumbled into the computer room to check on the Solar Impulse trip to Morocco. From the live Google Earth map shown on their web site, and the inset live video of Bertrand Piccard, all was well, and the giant solar-powered craft was sailing over surprisingly irregular terrain. It just wasn’t the expected flat, featureless desert seen in countless films...
Clemmons D-Day veteran: 'I didn't get a scratch' - Winston-Salem Journal | Kermit Smith of Winston-Salem remembers preparing a B-17 bomber for its mission over Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944. Smith, a 21-year-old aircraft engine mechanic, and a crew chief started the plane's four engines at their Army Air Force base...
Rob Taylor/The Daily Reflector - Greenville Daily Reflector | Jasper Lewis, Sr., stares proudly at photographs of himself and his B-17 bomber squadron at the office he maintains at his son's pediatric dental practice in Greenville. Lewis, 91, participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944,...
At 12000 feet, a fiery moment of truth - U-T San Diego | His B-17 had been shot up by Luftwaffe fighters. Two engines were on fire and the crew began parachuting out of the crippled bomber. As Voit stood in the flaming plane, preparing to jump, he had second thoughts. "I've got to say, I was really scared,"...
WW II planes to fly over Bellingham on D-Day anniversary - TheNewsTribune.com | The Heritage Flight Museum, located at the airport at 4165 Mitchell Way, is putting on the show and contributing its P-51 Mustang, a US Army Air Corps plane. The other two planes in the flyover will be British Supermarine Spitfires, on loan from the...
Explorers Hope They Are Close to Solving Amelia Earhart Mystery - Voice of America | Seventy-five years after the disappearance of famed woman aviator Amelia Earhart, explorers are getting closer to solving the mystery of what happened to her. She disappeared over the Pacific while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in her airplane ...
Palm Springs Air Museum to adopt cutting-edge A/C - The Desert Sun | The vintage World War II airplanes at the Palm Springs Air Museum will soon have a cutting-edge solar thermal air conditioning system to keep them cool, run almost entirely by hot water. The technology, called micro-concentrated solar power,...
A Sexy Beast Returns to the Air from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | The Lairds built some 
awesome flying machines. The latest one to go airborne after restoration is no different. Damn this thing is sexy. Woo hoo what a hot little number!...
Snapshot of plane spawns show - The Sunshine Coast Daily | ABC Coast FM presenter Robert Blackmore was intrigued when he came across a Queensland Air Museum photograph of a plane which landed on Maroochydore beach on February 1, 1922. Mr Blackmore said that according to one story about the landing,...
June 5, 2012 Rocket Man part 1 from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: We spent some time recently at the world headquarters of Team Rocket, the company that developed the F-1 Rocket, a very fast two-seat experimental airplane. The F in F-1 stands for Frederick, as in Mark and Cheryl Frederick, who live on their air strip they’ve named Macho Grande....
Wolfenbarger makes history as AF's first female four-star - Dayton Daily News | Wolfenbarger's historic accomplishment marks another major aviation-related milestone in the Miami Valley since the Wright brothers invented the airplane, said Tony Sculimbrene, executive director of the National Aviation Heritage Alliance...
Helicopter Does Double Duty As Diving Platform from Aero-News Network | But When They Find The Pilot, He Or She Will Likely Be In Hot Water Video recorded on cell phones on Memorial Day could land the pilot of a helicopter in Tennessee in hot water. That's because he or she was recorded allowing people on a pontoon boat on Dale Hollow Lake to climb onto the landing skids of the aircraft, and then fall from an altitude as high as 50 feet back into the water....
The teenager who landed at Red Square from TAKEOFF TUBE | Do you remember the teenager who landed with a Cessna 150 at Red Square in Moscow? His name is Mathias Rust and this is his story.
Youngsters Learn About Aviation At Combat Air Museum Camp - WIBW | Area youngsters are learning the sky is the limit a the Combat Air Museum camp this week. Kids between the ages of eight and 12 are learning all about flight theory, aircraft structure and everything between the engines and the cockpit...
Young Eagles a soaring success - Minden Times | Seven airplanes, three days, 71 kids. The 19th annual Young Eagles event at the Stanhope Airport on May 31 and June 2 was a success, despite forecasts of ominous weather...
"Where did model rocketry really start?" from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Issue 314 of Apogee's Newsletter features an article with the same title as this post. Written by sport and...
Shuttle Enterprise Damaged On Trek To Manhattan - Aero-News Network | Right Wing Dinged On Bridge Abutment | It must have been a sinking feeling on the part of the tow boat captain when the space shuttle Enterprise crunched ever so slightly into a navigation marker for a New York Railroad bridge. The shuttle was being towed to a temporary stop in New Jersey ... the first leg of its final voyage to the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan....
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
LiveAirShowTV to broadcast Baltimore event!
The current schedule includes: F/A 18, H-53 Sea Stallion, E-2 Hawkeye, USCG MH-65 Dolphin SAR Demo, and the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels.
This LIVE Internet broadcast will include coverage of the ships and activities in and around the harbor, and will be turned over to LiveAirShowTV both days for the air show. Keep watching our website (www.LiveAirShowTV.com) for exactly how you can watch this great event.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Video: Grimes Gathering of B-25s from AOPA Live: Latest videos from AOPA Live | Grimes Gathering of B-25s thumbnail Many of the remaining aiworthy B-25s are gathered in Ohio to mark 70 years since the Doolittle Raid.
B-25 gathering honors Doolittle Tokyo Raiders - AOPA Pilot | Panchito will lead a mass B-25 formation flight over the National Museum of the US Air Force during a special ceremony on April 18. Jerry Gecowets, president of the Grimes Flying Lab Foundation, helps man the Beech 18 on display during the B-25 ...
Navy Week NOLA events - NOLA.com | Navy and Marine Corps' Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron scheduled to arrive in the area in advance of the weekend's air show, from 8:50 am to 9:50 am, at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse. Not a public event, ...
April Air Show to Feature Blue Angels - 13WMAZ | The Air Show lineup features performers including the US Navy Blue Angels, F-18 Hornets, the C-130 Hercules, and the Air Force F-22 Raptor. You can park at the Macon Airport, McConnell-Talbert Stadium and Anchor Glass and then catch bus transportation ...
Lauderdale Air Show Line Up Is “Bad to the BOne” - CBS Local | FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – In just two weeks, an Air Show returns to Fort Lauderdale Beach for the first time in 5 years and with it comes 300000 pounds that can break the speed of sound. It's the B-1 Bomber, known in the Air Force as the Bone...
Cherry Point Air Show preparing for take-off - Havelock News | The Raiders Flight Demonstration Team will be bringing six planes to the Cherry Point Air Show. “The last time we were at Cherry Point, we had nine aircraft,” Sheehan said. “We flew a bunch of Wounded Warriors but we didn't fly in the air show...
Thousands Show up to Watch Air Show - KIII TV3 | The attraction lured thousands of spectators to the Wings Over South Texas Air Show on Saturday. People watched on as the planes twist and turned so close to one another, the Angles have to be precise in every choreographed move...
Cosford Air Show takes off with huge revamp - shropshirestar.com | The Cosford Air Show – one of UK's top aviation events – is set for a revamp, organisers revealed today. A new management team has taken over the organisation of the one-day event, which attracts thousands of visitors each summer...
WWII veteran shares his story - WLFI.com | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - More than 80 World War two veterans will be leaving for a trip of a lifetime Monday. The veterans will be flying to Washington DC on Lafayette's first Honor Flight. One of those veterans that will be going on the trip is ...
NTSB releases report on Pardue accident - Breckenridge American | At 2:10 pm April 4, a Grumman model F8F-1 airplane, N14HP, registered to Pardue, was substantially damaged when it collided with terrain during a low-altitude aerobatic maneuver performed shortly after takeoff from Stephens County Airport...
Damage at McConnell Air Force Base & Wichita Air Museum - KWCH | by John Boyd Officials 
He Rained Fire On Hitler - Investor's Business Daily | View Enlarged Image The sky over Europe was streaked with clouds and danger when Ira Eaker climbed into the cockpit of a B-17 bomber in August 1942. Taking off from an English airfield, the middle-aged Texan led a dozen planes toward the western coast ...
Hooked on History: B-17 stuck in the mud at Harry Clever Field - New Philadelphia Times Reporter | By Jon Baker Army Air Force Lt. Glen “Sunny” Dye's short visit with his wife in New Philadelphia on April 23, 1943, lasted longer than he expected after his B-17 Flying Fortress got stuck in the mud at Harry Clever Field. Dye and his 11-member crew, ...
Amelia Earhart: The search continues - Washington Post | This year, the National Portrait Gallery will devote an exhibition to the aviatrix. Amelia Earhart, shown here at the controls of her plane, was 
Douglas XB-19 First Flight (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV
Turkey Shoot from Seymour Johnson AFB Photos
USMC’s Harriers Could Fly Until 2030! from Defense Tech by John Reed | Yup, you read that correctly. With the help of spare parts scavenged from Britain’s old GR9 Harriers that the Marine Corps just bought from the UK, the Marines could keep their AV-8B Harrier jump jets flying until 2030. Yes, the Harriers could serve alongside, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers, and whatever [...]
FlightTime Radio Show 221 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Milford and Charlie were in the Key Auto Studio today with guest host Glenn Boyles and show guest Surfer John Rutherford. Actually, he is Sheriff John Rutherford, Sheriff of the largest city in the continental United States. If you include Alaska, Jacksonville is the 5th largest behind the sprawling metropolises of Stitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and Anchorage Alaska. Even though Jacksonville...
"A Dead Bee" UCAP #281 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
When is a Ventura not a Ventura? When it’s a Howard 500 ! from Shortfinals's Blog | The end of World War Two saw the perfect storm in corporate America. An economy swollen with profits from the war, executives and middle management used to moving swiftly from plant to plant, division to division across the country and lots of returning pilots, many anxious to continue flying - for a living, this time. There lacked but one thing, the fast passenger aircraft to act as a corporate transport. The demobilised C-47 (see blog entry) was too slow, the C-46 (see blog entry) was too large and not many were available. Companies turned to the ranks of the now redundant twin-engined medium bomber and attack aircraft...
Glenn Curtiss historic Florida estate restored from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | A 13-year restoration of the historic Florida estate of inventor, developer and "Father of Naval Aviation" Glenn H. Curtiss is now complete...
Concept Plane Eye Candy: Boeing’s F/A-XX - Defense Tech | While we’re on the topics of new 
Astronaut alumni to keynote graduate school commencement - Purdue Exponent | David Wolf - medical doctor, awarding winner inventor and astronaut - will be speaking at the fourth out of five commencements, in Elliott Hall on Music. President France Córdova will give a short address at this commencement as well...
Astronauts Bid Farewell to Space Shuttle Discovery from SPACE.com | The space shuttle Discovery will be delivered to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Shuttle Enterprise to Fly Over New York City Metro Area April 23 from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Enterprise mounted atop will fly at a relatively low altitude over various parts of the New York City metropolitan area on Monday, April 23...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
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FA-18D crashes at Virginia, Beach VA from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | VIRGINIA 
BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - The Navy confirms that a two seat F/A 18D jet has crashed in Virgnia Beach Friday afternoon. Grazia Moyers, spokeswoman for the Virginia Beach Police Department, said just before 12:30 p.m. what police believe is a military aircraft has gone down...
Navy F/A-18D crashes into Va. apartment complex
from Air Force Times - News by Staff writer
An F/A-18D Hornet from Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., crashed Friday into a two-story apartment building in nearby Virginia Beach...
Blue Angel Practice at the National Naval Aviation Museum - WKRG-TV | The Blue Angels are back in Pensacola for their practice sessions and you are invited. Practices begin at 8:30 am** and last about an hour. Admission to practice is FREE and open to the public. In addition, following most of the Wednesday practices, ...
U.S. Navy Commemorates Bicentennial of the War of 1812 - Sacramento Bee | A series of public events will continue in additional cities across the nation this year, featuring Sailors and Marines, US Navy & international warships, the Navy's Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team, as well as equipment and static displays...
A look at Lakeland's annual Sun 'n Fun event - Orlando Attractions Magazine (blog)
By Jane Dunkelberger The 38th Annual Sun 'n Fun expo took place last week at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. The annual event is sort of like a spring break festival and air show for pilots and airplane enthousists. There were many food choices, ...
Catch "The Restorers" Tomorrow!! - Hemlock Films | Tomorrow Hemlock Films will kick off our theatrical tour of The Restorers - They Were All Volunteers. Starting in St. Paul, MN, The Restorers will screen at the Minnesota CAF’s home base. Then the tour moves on to Cleveland, Ohio to screen at the Capitol Theater....
Warbirds take to the skies at aircraft event - Daily News - Galveston County | By TJ Aulds TEXAS CITY — B-17 bombers, Mustang P17s and other forms of military aircraft will make sorties in the skies Saturday over Texas City. No it's not an invasion, rather members of the Texas City RC Club are showing off their skills flying ...
Tens of thousands expected for Warbirds airshow - 3News NZ | By Dave Goosselink Perfect flying and viewing conditions are forecast for this year's Warbirds over Wanaka airshow, and tens of thousands of people are expected to fill the Central Otago airfield over the weekend. One plane that will feature in the ...
Veteran takes flight in his stride - Otago Daily Times | He has rarely travelled in one and had never been to an airshow before visiting the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow yesterday. The only time he sorely missed the presence of an aircraft in his life - specifically an air force - was when he ...
Red Arrows return for Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Air Show - This is Somerset | The Red Arrows will return to Weston-super-Mare this summer at the resort's annual air show. The Royal Air Force aerobatic team will perform on day one of the two-day show, which is being organised by the owners of the resort's Grand Pier and takes ...
Red Arrows to return to town - Weston & Somerset Mercury | During the Grand Pier air show, the world's only aerobatic formation wing-walking team, the Breitling Wing Walkers, will perform a breathtaking sequence of acrobatic manoeuvres and handstands while strapped to the top wings of the team's beautiful ...
Model airshow at aviation museum - Louth Leader | THE Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre is set to give aircraft enthusiasts a special treat this Easter - when it hosts a Large Model Airshow. The event is set to run on Saturday, April 7 and Sunday, April 9. And the amazing models on display at the ...
Breckenridge plane crash preliminary report to be released next week - ReporterNews.com | By Denise Blaz Findings so far about the cause of a Breckenridge plane crash Wednesday that claimed the life of 77-year-old pilot Howard Pardue will be released early next week, a National Transportation and Safety Board investigator said Thursday...
Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photos feature Airmen 
WWII veterans share history and now a friendship - HeraldNet | Nugent followed Unruh on Wednesday afternoon into a small room filled with his personal collection of World War II memorabilia. Nugent, 88, said he became a B-17 pilot after enlisting in the United States Army Air Forces in November 1942...
Is the hunt for Amelia Earhart finally over? - Ottawa Citizen | In 1937, the world's most famous female aviator vanished while flying around the globe. Now, a new search hopes to prove that she survived a crash-landing, only to die on an island within reach of rescue. By Charles Bremner, The Times, London April 6, ...
USAF Museum trip — a friend’s impression by travelforaircraft | It is good to have friends and I have always believed that much of a person’s value can be assayed in the quality of their friends. I have a few 
Jeremy Carlisle from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Jeremy Carlisle—someone I’m proud to call my friend—has reached out on numerous occasions and touched my world with his kind words, and stories he’s shared through glimpses into the window of his life. Sometimes I wonder if he’s a pilot with wings of an angel. As a vocational trainer for adults on the Autism Spectrum, caring is what he does for a living—when he’s not flying that is...
Another excerpt from Cloud Cuckooland, by Harald Penrose. In... from x planes | In the chapter “A Forgotten Air”, Penrose includes an account of a flight by early aviators Graham Gilmour and Eric 
Skydiving grandad takes to new heights - Bexley Times | “I have promised my family that I will save up to do a wing walk,” he said. The grandfather of two has volunteered at the hospice for 15 years since retiring. After a long career first in the navy then with the police he wanted to continue doing ...
Student soars, credits mentors for successes - Indiana Statesman | By Jessica Squires Kay Brown poses with her mentor, Melanie Abel, both members of Indiana State's Air Race Classic Team (Photo submitted by Melanie Abel). Junior professional aviation flight technician and aviation management Kay Brown plans on passing...
Terrafugia Soars with Mass Interest at the NY Auto Show - CleanTechnica | You want to be in the air flying straight to your destination, avoiding traffic and the restriction of following a roadway while enjoying the view from the air. If it were only an electric aircraft … it could also be whisper silent...
Air Museum hosts annual Space Expo - Reminder Newspapers | At the New England Air Museum, the history of local connections to significant air and space achievements are highlighted and documented. During the museum's annual Space Expo on April 1, NASA astronaut and test pilot Rick Searfoss enthralled a ...
