Oceana Air Show bigger and better than ever * WVEC.com | If you're planning to go, be aware that London Bridge Road will be closed between Central Drive and International Parkway for the NAS Oceana Air Show from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm on Thursday, September 18, 2014, and 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm daily on Friday,...
Annual air show takes to Sonoma County skies * Santa Rosa Press Democrat | It takes off vertically like a helicopter, then tilts its rotor blades to fly like a plane. Pilots do get equal billing ... Aaron is the only civilian-licensed pilot to fly an aerobatic routine in a helicopter, including back flips and 360-degree...
Oregon International Air Show 2014: Canadian Forces Snowbirds to perform for ... * The Oregonian - OregonLive.com | And for the first time since 1993, they'll perform at the Oregon International Air Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Hillsboro Airport. The performance will be one of only five in the U.S. this year, as most of the Snowbirds' 30-plus shows a year are...
World War II training aircraft scheduled to be on display for fly-in * Terrell Tribune | It was March 10, 2013, when No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum Board President Don Thurman announced the museum would be getting an AT-6 Texan — albeit in pieces. Eighteen months later, the museum's AT-6 is nearing completion. It may not...
Fly-in touches down at local airport * Maryville Daily Forum | Aircraft enthusiasts from across the region winged their way to the Northwest Missouri Regional Airport west of Maryville Sunday for the second annual fly-in hosted by the Hawk Road Fliers, a local aviation club. While most of planes cruising out of...
The Patrouille de France attracts the crowd at the rally Somme 14-18 * Translated | Yes, Saturday, Sept. 13, peak caps, the ring road, adjacent to highways, to Amiens station, was the result of the delivery of the Patrouille de France to 16 hours. The PAF is not Sunday, September 14 but the meeting will certainly air with pilots who pamper their horses for hours to a few minutes of acrobatics....
“Best Little Air Show in the World” Returns in October * MyArkLaMiss | This year's Air Show will benefit the Warrior Bonfire Project, which was founded in 2013 by Daniel K. Fordice III. The Warrior Bonfire Project “provides opportunities that improve the lives of combat wounded veterans on their lifelong journey of...
Golden Age Air Museum hosts Barnstormers Day and open house * Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers | Not only were the attendees treated to presentations, fly-bys, aerial competitions, World War II aircraft flight, radio controlled aircrafts, antique autos, live music, comedy and action, but also the chance to go up into the sky in Golden Age Air...
Report: Wing parts fell before Reno Air Race crash * MyNews4 | ...Preliminary findings released by the National Transportation Safety Board say portions of the right wing separated from the Backovich GP-5 before it crashed in a more than half-mile long debris path in a remote part of the Stead Airport race course....
Jumping into Football Games at Belle Vernon High School and the University of Pennsylvania · U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Gold Team spent the weekend in the great state of Pennsylvania where they were able to perform for Bell Vernon High School and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The team worked with local recruiters, as well as the schools academic professionals, to carry out two great shows. Before the game began on Friday, a few members of the Gold Demonstration Team linked up with the....
You can fly on a combat-scarred Vietnam icon * CNN International | The flight crew on this March Saturday are from the nonprofit Army Aviation Heritage Foundation in Hampton, Georgia. They volunteer countless hours to restore and maintain Army helicopters from the Vietnam era and then take them to air shows across the...
How an Israeli F-15 Eagle managed to land with one wing · The Aviationist | The legendary Eagle is also a very robust aircraft, that can survive some serious damages. As shown by a very well-known incident which occurred in 1983, in the skies over Nahal Tzin in the Negev desert, in Israel, during a mock aerial combat between two Israeli Air Force F-15Ds and four A-4Ns, when one of the Eagles, the F-15D #957 nicknamed ‘Markia Shchakim’, 5 killmarks, used for conversion of a new pilot named Zivi Nedivi, collided mid-air with one of the Skyhawks. As explained in No Wing F-15, an interesting piece written by...
Coast Guard Announces WWII Coast Guard Grumman Duck crash Site Located After 70 years · Warbirds News | The Defense Department’s Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command recently announced that they have determined the location, beyond reasonable doubt, for one of their missing aircraft from WWII. The US Coast Guard Grumman J2F-4 Duck disappeared with its three man crew over Greenland on November 9th, 1942. The exhaustive search by an expedition team of...
World War II history: B-17 Memphis Belle visiting NC * Durham Herald Sun | Oscar Smith, 95, of Burlington tours The Movie "Memphis Belle, " a B-17 bomber, at the Raleigh Executive Jetport at Sanford-Lee County on Monday, September 15, 2014 in Sanford. The restored WWII B-17 "flying fortress" bomber was used in the 1990 film,...
Yankee Air Museum to host Behind the Scenes tour Sept. 27 * Heritage Newspapers | Before the tour concludes, guests will have the option to see flyable aircraft including the B-17 Yankee Lady and the B-25 Yankee Warrior. The B--17, a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft, secured itself as an effective weapons system by dropping more...
B-17 takes flight in Tri-Cities * WCYB | That's why the Commemorative Air Force has brought the old bird to our region. "The theme of the Commemorative Air Force is "keep them flying." In other words keep the heritage, keep the history going and show people what these airplanes did during...
Yankee Air Museum to host Behind the Scenes tour Sept. 27 * Heritage Newspapers | Yankee Air Museum to host Behind the Scenes tour Sept. 27. Published: Monday, September 15, 2014. The Yankee Air Museum is hosting a Behind The Scenes day Sept. 27. The free event will give 120 people the chance to tour the museum, workshops and...
Video of DC-10 Supertanker’s fire retardant drop on a mountain · The Aviationist
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Jet Combat Show Will Fill "Angel" Void - Tristatehomepage.com | The Red Star is a Red Alert Viper-29 which is one of the highest performance subsonic jet warbirds on the air show circuit, reaching speeds of 545 miles per hour. This air show is renowned to be one of the most intense civilian jet air shows performing ...
Final Airfest in Edmonton - Aviation.ca | Since 1999 Airfest has been the Edmonton area premier aviation event, however, 2011 will be different this will be the last. The airport decision and closure of the longest operational runway is forcing change. The ability to bring in many of the large ...
Fly-in soars with big turnout - Times Record | Inkellis, a retired Washington, DC lawyer, flew in for the airport's first International Fly-In on Saturday, an event organized to show the facility off after decades of being off-limits to civilian pilots. But Inkellis wasn't alone. ...
Leuchars Air Show now 'more crucial than ever' - Scotland Courier | Mr O'Donnell said many of the old favourites would be back, including the Red Arrows aerobatic display team. Stunts will also be performed in the air by the French team Patrouille de France. Historic aircraft will fly, including a first world war SE5a, ...
World War II warplanes on display at Sonoma County airport - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | Three historic World War II warplanes will arrive at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport today for a three-day stay, part of a nationwide tour promoting aviation history. The rare planes are part of the Wings of Freedom Tour by ...
Boettger Flies 1,400 Miles Without Engine from www.avweb.com | FedEx pilot Gordon Boettger on Tuesday set the new high mark for glider flight in the northern hemisphere when he covered more than 1,400 miles surfing a mountain wave downwind of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in his 1972 Kestrel 17. The trip was a 13-hour "yo-yo" flight from Minden, Nev., to Minden, Nev. -- meaning it flew back and forth along the primary wave. But Boettger did have one section of 854 ...
Hunt inducted into Florida Aviation Hall of Fame from General Aviation News | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's former president Jack Hunt was inducted into the Florida Aviation Hall of Fame at the Florida Air Museum May 21. ...
Pilot's condition improves after weekend Vancouver Island crash - Vancouver Sun | Series of images shows the path of Bill Phipps' plane as it crashed at the Nanaimo air show on June 4. NANAIMO -- The condition of a 71-year-old pilot seriously injured when his small plane slammed into the ...
Former AFA President, WWII Ace Gen John R. Alison Dies - PR Newswire | Alison's wartime achievements include seven confirmed and numerous probable kills while flying with, and commanding, the 75th Fighter Squadron "Flying Tigers." Additionally, he was co-commander of an Air Commando Force – the first in military history ...
Willis' 14th bombing mission - McCook Daily Gazette | Willis Jones, a member of the 96th (B-17 Flying Fortress) Bomb Group in World War II, suffered through great adversities during the war, including being shot down (on his 26th mission) over Augsburg, Germany, and surviving 13 months in a German POW ...
Retired Italian Navy captain pays tribute to American aviator at NAS - Pensacola News Journal | Sergio Santi returned to Pensacola Naval Air Station last week after more than 40 years to pay homage to his friend and mentor, retired US Navy aviator Cmdr. Mike Shane. During a June 1 ceremony, Santi placed flowers beside a statue of the patron saint ...
The History of Barnstorming When Pilots Were Real Pilots - from all-things-aviation.com | Anyone who has read “Illusions” and “A Gift of Wings” by Richard Bach cannot but be fascinated by the world of the Barnstormer in the 1920s. The History of Barnstorming is a history of human courage and risk taking. While there have always been traveling pilots with their light airplanes, barnstorming saw its peak in popularity in the 1920’s when the American government found itself with a surplus of aircraft especially the Curtiss JN-4 Biplane “Jenny”. Not having any use for them these were sold off to civilians mostly former aviators and old timers. ...
CIA declassifies photos of Area 51 spy plane crash - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Area 51 still doesn't officially exist, but photos of a crashed A-12 spy plane do after the CIA declassified several photos from 1963. The A-12 was developed as a successor to the U-2. The same project developed the SR-71 Blackbird. ...
Kiln pilot wins aircraft association award - SunHerald.com | For many years, he has volunteered his time at EAA AirVenture and the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In teaching gas welding, sheet metal and tech counselor workshops. A tornado this year destroyed a plane he helped build at Sun 'n Fun. He and Burl Nelson had planned ...
Lancaster Barnstormers holding WWII and D-Day tribute - CBS 21 | The players will be wearing custom jerseys with a WWII look that will be auctioned off to support the Richard Winters leadership project. One of the project's initiatives is to make a documentary focusing on Dick Winters' leadership skills. ...
Boeing Expands Social Media Outreach – Starts YouTube Channel from Airline Reporter | Social media has become a must-have for most large companies today. Some will approach it with a thought out approach and others do not really know why they are on social media, but just feel they are supposed to be on it. I have enjoyed following Boeing’s slow approach to social media and applaud them for recently adding a YouTube channel. ...
Ex-Ohio astronaut John Glenn: aviation can still learn from flight of ... - The Republic | Former astronaut John Glenn says that, for all its advances, the aviation industry still has plenty to learn from birds. Glenn says anyone who has ever watched a hummingbird will know that people haven't even begun to learn how to ...
Ground Effect - Air & Space Magazine | Landing a shuttle while re-adapting to gravity can be disorienting. Now there's a way to simulate it on the ground.
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Blue Angels headline NO air show this weekend - The Republic | Marking the centennial of naval aviation, the Navy takes flight for the 2011 N'Awlins Air Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Belle Chasse Naval Air Station. The Times-Picayune reported the Blue Angels team will be the headliners. ...
N'awlins Air Show marks 100 years of the Navy taking flight - NOLA.com | John Klatt, shadowed by fellow Air National Guard Aerobatic Team member Bill Kerns, inverts his plane as they practice for this weekend's N'Awlins Air Show at the Belle Chasse Naval Air Station on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Air Show Practice Flights ...
Look to skies over Smyrna for Great Tennessee Air Show - The Daily News Journal | This weekend's signature aviation event will also include performances by air show legends Gene Soucy and Wing Walker Teresa Stokes; Michael Goulian, USA pilot in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship; Jason Newburg flying the Viper; Cheryl Stearns, ...
New show of Strizhi aerobatic team: live broadcast at EN.RIAN.RU - RIA Novosti | The
Russian Strizhi (“Swifts”) aerobatic display team celebrates its 20th anniversary on May 6 with a new air show at the Kubinka airfield near Moscow. Watch the show live at 1.00 pm Moscow time (09.00 GMT) at EN.RIAN.RU. “This year, the pilots will ...PAS11: Russia drops Su-30 from Paris Air Show line-up from The DEW Line | The Su-30 has been pulled from the flying display and the static line.
Loving the steely hues in this photo of a MATS (Military Air... from You like airplanes, too? | Loving the steely hues in this photo of a MATS (Military Air Transport Command) C-121 Constellation doing a lovely photo pass at the 1993 Livermore Airshow. Photo by Tom Hardin.
"Loss of Separation" UCAP #234 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Amy Laboda joins us in the virtual hangar.
Air Museum names speaker for opening - In-Forum | FARGO – National Vietnam Veterans Association President John Rowan will be the keynote speaker for the opening ceremonies of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Exhibit at the Fargo Air Museum. FARGO – National Vietnam Veterans Association President John ...
Pima from Jetcareers forums [photos] | Just a few. Went there yearly w/my pops when I was a youngster. Had the opportunity to slip out with the crew car to see the old birds. Too bad it was a Sunday because I would have loved to tour the Boneyard again. ...
U. of Maryland's Human-Powered Helicopter Aims to Make Aviation History Next Week - POPSCI | Two years, 50 graduate students, countless man hours, and mankind’s insatiable need to prove he can defy gravity will all come to a head on Wednesday when a team of University of Maryland Students attempts to fly its human-powered helicopter, Gamera. They won’t be flying very high, but the payoff could be tremendous; hanging in the balance is a world record, an aviation “first,” and a claim to the $250,000 Sikorsky Challenge. ...
Bill Chases the Hindenburg from AirSpace | May 6th marks the anniversary of the tragic end of the airship Hindenburg, destroyed by fire as it came in for a landing at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, in 1937. Last year, to commemorate the anniversary, we posted the story of Anne “Cookie” Chotzinoff Grossman, who, on October 9th, 1936, spotted the Hindenburg in flight from her Connecticut schoolyard. She took off in hot pursuit along with her brother ...
Video: Piper Pilot Needs Just 10 Feet To Take Off - from Autopia | KNIK RIVER, Alaska – Unlike other places where speed may dominate pilot discussions, up here it’s all about how slow you can go. It’s directly related to how quickly you can get off the ground and how little room you need to land. It’s called STOL, or “short take-off and landing,” and here in Alaska it is synonymous with flying. This weekend pilots, pilots from throughout Alaska and ...
Learn to fly at Barnstormers Air Festival (5/6) - The American Press (blog) | ... with tahe help of the Jeff Davis Tourist Commission, the Jeff Davis Airport Commission and the Louisiana Department of Transportation-Aviation Division, will sponsor the second annual Barnstormers Air Festival 10 am-4 pm at the Jennings Airport. ...
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Barnstormers Air Festival to return May 7 - Jennings Daily News | The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 541 Barnstormers will be returning to the Jennings Airport on Saturday, May 7 for the second annual Barnstormers Air Festival. EAA 541 President Lenora Krielow said “bigger and better” will be the ...IAF air show at MSU tomorrow - Times of India | As a part of the ongoing celebrations of Swarnim Gujarat, the IAF has organised an air show in the city. This is for the first time that IAF has participated in the state government's celebrations. Entry for all the citizens is free. ...
Shared history of Tulsa, American Airlines to be celebrated at Aviator Ball - Tulsa World | The "Flagship Detroit," a 1937 Douglas DC-3, will be on display Saturday at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum as part of the 2011 Aviator Ball, which will celebrate the 65-year relationship Tulsa has had with American Airlines. Tulsa World file photos By ...Honor Flight reunites families while - Vinton Today | When Cedar Rapids WWII veteran George Oujiri stepped off the bus at the World War II Memorial, another Oujiri was waiting to greet him with a big bear hug: Col. Temon Oujiri, an Army Review Board ...
86-Year-Old WWII Female Marine Takes Honor Flight - KPTV Portland | This weekend she flew from Portland to Washington, DC, as part of an Honor Flight to see her name on the Women's World War II Memorial. Waldroff is one of 26 veterans taking the trip courtesy of Honor Flight of Oregon. The organization arranges to fly ...
Classic Fighters at Omaka Easter 2011 from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Easter week end marked the tenth anniversary of Classic Fighters at Omaka. This aviation show has become a World aviation spectacular not to be missed. A good crowd...
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The Blue Angels – The Ultimate Team Effort by Chief Monkey | The Blue Angels are a team, from top to bottom, each man and woman involved in each event sets a standard of outstanding performance that we could all aspire to. And they do their jobs well, even if they are out of sight, ...
The Ultimate Fantasy Air Show - Airlock Alpha | One of the most amazing things about the Web is that you can find a website devoted to just about any possible topic or genre. Many times, it is fun to just do a search for a topic and just see what it turns up, ...Saturday, March 12, 2011
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Blue Angels Will Perform in Lynchburg Air Show – WSET | AP National/International News Entertainment News from AP Lynchburg, VA – The Blue Angels will be performing at this year's Lynchburg Air Show in May. John Barksdale, the executive director of the air show, confirmed the news to ABC-13 Friday night. ...
The Full Story Of Farnborough Airshow | Military Aviation Media - The Farnborough International Airshow is a weeklong aviation tradeshow. It features military and civilian aircraft and brings together…
Warbirds to fly in - The Noosa Journal | “While the open day is not an airshow and no air display is planned, several of South-East Queensland's most famous warbirds, some from as far away as Bundaberg, will be attending and in operation.” They are expected to include two Trojans and a P51 ...
Model aircraft memories - Biggleswade Today | OUR 1946 photo of Dunton Model Aero Club prompted a call from Mick Lees whose eldest brother John, a former member, is in the picture. Mick now owns Scientific, the model aircraft which was built by Bob Course, and appears on the left hand side of the ...Local woman key in getting space shuttle to pad - WRDW-TV | "That was a lot of fun, getting to do some model rocketry---an early intro into the space atmosphere," she said. This roll-out will be Dana's last, as the space shuttle program nears its end. Even though many of her coworkers will be laid off soon, ...
Boeing gives $4 million for new Aviation High School - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Boeing has pledged $4 million for Aviation High School's planned new home adjacent to Boeing Field and the Museum of Flight, Highline Public Schools reported this week. Several other aerospace companies and individuals chipped in more than $3 million ...
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Resort air show schedule depends on participants - Ocean City Today | This is not a complicated question, as it all comes down to what kind of air show Ocean City wants: a good one, or a better one. The show's promoter must ...
Air Zoo plans 50000-square-foot addition for exhibits, aircraft and library - MLive.com | PORTAGE — The Air Zoo is planning a $1.8 million expansion that will add about 50000 square feet to the flight and aviation history museum. ...
Missing F-22 pilot identified from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | The pilot of the F-22 aircraft that crashed Tuesday night has been identified as Capt. Jeffrey Haney, assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron. Capt. Haney's current status is missing. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday, while on a nighttime training mission. Search and rescue teams discovered the wreckage of the F-22, assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. Rescue teams from the 11th Rescue Coordination Center, Alaska Air National Guard, the 3rd Wing and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson continue to search the area, approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage.
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Missing F-22 pilot one of top in the country, former university instructor says - The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com | Air Force Capt. Jeffrey A. Haney distinguished himself as one of the top pilots in the country while attending Western Michigan University College of ...
Continuous Updates on the F-22 Down story here
Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | This week's photo highlights feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
Ross A. Calvert, 89 - Kitsap Sun | He attended Bradley University & then joined the Army Air Corps becoming a Tail Gunner on a Boeing B-17. He was stationed at Snetterton-Heath Air Force Base ...
200000 people worldwide celebrate Guinness World Records Day – Sify | And Thomas Lackey completed his wing walk across Cirencester, Gloucestershire, at the record age of 90 years and five months, for Guinness World Records Day ...
The Jenny and the Barnstormers by Joe Clark | One of my favorite airplanes is the Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny." Benjamin Thomas, an Englishman working for Thomas Sopwith of Sopwith aeroplane fame, designed the Jenny and the airplane went into production in 1915. It became the most important Army training aircraft of World War I. More importantly, the Jenny was the airplane that gave aviation a beginning in America…
Taylor air show Saturday - Taylor Daily Press | This year has the most air race entries in the history of the Taylor event. The show lasts until 4 pm with food vendors and arts and crafts available to the ...
How the Last Star was Born - Part 1 from AirSpace by Orion | This week marked the 40th anniversary of the first flight of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (hat tip to Max Kingsley-Jones). The TriStar was the last in a long line of Lockheed commercial aircraft, including geat names like the Electra and Constellation, and the last new Lockheed aircraft (I think) to have a star-themed name…
PLAAF's 6th Gen Fighter? from Ares by Robert | During the Airshow China here at Zhuhai, Avic Defense and one of the country's aeronautics academic institutions, launched a competition with the Chinese air force for new UAV designs. The prize is to be awarded next year and to spur some innovative thinking. On one of the Chinese CD handouts were a couple of concept drawings. Where they are from or what they represent is unclear, but they are nonetheless entertaining…
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Aces Its 3rd Glide Flight - Space.com ... especially due to the sweeping graceful planform of its wing and boom tails," said Scaled's chief technical officer Burt Rutan, the veteran aerospace ...
Hansen Authors Prize Winning Book on Space Shuttle Accident from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | AUBURN - History professor James Hansen of Auburn University will receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2011 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award for his book, "Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster." Published by the University Press of Florida in 2009, the book was co-authored by Alan J. McDonald, the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol Inc. at the time of the Challenger accident.
Aero-TV: Albuquerque Balloon Museum -- Where Ballooning Comes Alive - Preserving The History Of An Amazing Facet Of Aviation ANN's phenomenal trip to Albuquerque for the 2010 ABQ Balloon Fiesta is the gift that keeps on giving... both with the memories we have of the extraordinary visual delights of that week as well as the tremendous opportunities our Aero-TV crews had to experience so much of the world of ballooning, its people and its history…
Look for EAA Young Eagles on Nemechek's No.87 Car this Weekend from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The EAA Young Eagles program, which is already the largest youth aviation education program in history, is reaching an even higher profile this weekend as a featured sponsor on Joe Nemechek's NEMCO Motorsports race cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races at Homestead Motor Speedway near Miami…
Chesley Sullenberger, 'Hero of the Hudson', Promotes Aviation to ... by Kane Farabaugh | Now Sullenberger is heading up the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) Young Eagles program. "Young Eagles is a program of volunteers who give young people who are interested in aviation a first flight," he says, "It's a chance to ...
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Skies 'Thunder Over Nampa' - Idaho Press-Tribune, ID
Even after recently performing for nearly a quarter-million people in Washington DC, acrobatic pilot Greg Poe of Boise said it was great to come back to the ...
5th Annual Ada Air Show - KTEN, TX
They asked me what I wanted to do and I said I want to go to the air show." Ingham is a Navy veteran who at one time spent many hours in the sky's. ...
History touches down at Wings Over Akron - Akron Beacon Journal, OH
By Mary Beth Breckenridge Panchito is a B-25 Mitchell bomber first piloted during World War II by an Akron man, the late Don Seiler. ...
Restored B-17 bomber to be on display in South Dakota - Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD
The Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will fly the bomber, the Flying Fortress, to Rapid City Regional Airport. The World War II vintage bomber is ...
Vintage bomber glistens with memories - Rapid City Journal, SD
... is one of 10 "flyable" B-17s in the United States, according to Chuck Youngbeck, a volunteer crew member with the Arizona Wing Commemorative Air Force. ...
Fly-In fights brain cancer - The Southern, IL
... light sport aircraft gathered Saturday at the Sparta Airport for the 2nd annual Sparta Fly-In an event to benefit the National Brain Tumor Foundation. ...
Father's Day Fly-In At Columbia Airport (MyMotherLode.com) -
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Columbia, Ca -- The 42nd Annual Father's Day Fly-In is taking place today at the Columbia Airport. Opening ceremonies began at noon and air demonstrations will run until four o'clock....
1920s aircraft coming to C.B. (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil) - Aviation & Aerospace News
Clay "Pork Chop" Adams imagines himself a barnstormer. Along with about 35 of his flying buddies, Adams will take to Council Bluffs' skies Thursday and Friday, forming a heavenly parade...
AirVenture Performance Planned For ElectraFlyer-C - Aero-News Network
Fishman Aims For 2008 Oshkosh Display Randall Fishman, the 2007 AirVenture Grand Champion 'Lindy' and Ultralight Innovation award winner, hopes to reprise his performance from last year with the introduction of his ElectraFlyer-C, an electric-powered, single-seat airplane at AirVenture 2008.
Wings and Wheels at PARR Airport - WHIZ News Zanesville
Classic airplanes and cars were on display saturday at the PARR Airport on Fairview road in Zanesville. Robert Normans' family owns the airport and said it's his mission to get...
Route 173 renamed to honor 173rd Airborne - Chicago Daily Herald, IL
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, nicknamed the Sky Soldiers, was activated in 1917 and has served as infantry, armor or airborne infantry units and has received ...
[Coyote Squadron...] Local Beat 6/14/08 - Corsicana Daily Sun, TX
The Coyote Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force will hold its monthly meeting in the Tucker Hardgrave Memorial Hangar at the Corsicana Municipal Airport, C. David Campbell Field. To be discussed will be the recent 10th annual AirSho and making plans for the 11th. ...
Bond. Daddy Bond. - The Desert Sun, CA
OK, so we're not talking actual bombs, but a trip to the Palm Springs Air Museum would be pretty cool. Dads are supposed to like things with engines that go ...
To his family, famed test pilot Scott Crossfield flew highest as a ... -
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY
The Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine named him one of the 10 best pilots of all time. Yet Sally, one of six children, most remembers her father as the ...
Wiltshire Hercules takes part in royal flypast - This is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK
A Hercules from RAF Lyneham will take past in a flypast over London to mark the Qyueen's birthday today. The flypast will involve 55 aircraft, ...
Visitors to fete urged to look to skies - Norwich Evening News, UK
Visitors to the Brundall School Fete on Saturday were urged to look to the skies - as RAF Typhoons provided a low level flypast. ...
Westland Wyvern from Flight Image of the Day by Paul Gladman
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The Westland Wyvern was a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft and that served in the 1950s, seeing active service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers and was able to carry an aerial torpedo.
... in brief ...- St. Joseph News-Press, MO
... an international organization of female pilots, will sponsor a display of Judi Geer Kellas’ “Celebration of Flight: Women in Aviation” series in the St. ...
Scientifically Speaking, 6/15 - Denver Post, CO
Air and Space museum | Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, 7711 E. Academy Blvd., needs volunteers to help with youth and adult education programs ...
The chance to fly with Dad passes by - New River Valley Current, VA
He flashed me a big grin from under his Snoopy aviator's leather hat and goggles, and said, "You bet!" Hot exhaust and oil smoke mixed with the cool, ...
Aviator in training - Roanoke Times, VA
Larry Hairston Jr. (middle) helps Jimmy Stewart (left) and his son JP Stewart get their plane started during the second annual Paul Offermann Fly-In. Matt ...
Kids Of All Ages Take To The Skies (R News) - from Aviation & Aerospace News
The Rochester Wings Aviation Expo and Fly In is trying to get more young people interested in flying. It held an event this weekend, letting eight to 17-year-olds get a...
16-year-old prepares to take off on first solo flight - Times Herald-Record, NY
At home in Washingtonville, where she is home-schooled, Rachel spends her time on the Internet researching aviation history and women in aviation. ...
"Young Eagles" take to the air - Asbury Park Press, NJ
Comerford and 46 other children participated in the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 898 Young Eagles Rally held Saturday morning at Robert J. ...
Young Eagles take off - The Eureka Reporter, CA
Pilot Jib Ray, right, and Young Eagle flier Gavin Dresen prepare to take flight Saturday afternoon during an Experimental Aircraft Association event at ...
Young Eagles and a useful lesson - from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
I had two good flights today, both of them flights for the Club's Young Eagles [YEs]. ...
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