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Crowd-pleasing Hunter Jet returns to Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | A MULTI-coloured crowd-pleaser is making a return to Bournemouth Air Festival in August. The Hunter Jet Miss Demeanour was one of the highlights of last year's weather-hit event as it was still able to display when other aircraft were ...

MIS president celebrates Army's birthday by going airborne - Detroit Free Press | GOLDEN KNIGHTS PARACHUTE TEAM/Special to the Free BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Michigan International Speedway president Roger Curtis took the plunge of his life Wednesday as part of the US Army's 236th birthday celebrations. Curtis took a tandem skydive with ...

What makes the aerial acrobatics team of the Red Arrows the best in the world? – Scotsman | Next week the Red Arrows will perform in the skies over Edinburgh for the first time in 20 years as part of the build-up to UK Armed Forces Day. Our reporter went to meet the magnificent men and woman FLIGHT Lieutenant Sean ...

Tricolor arrows, the return - The Nation | MARINA DI CARRARA, 18 June 2011 - BACK Apuan Coast tomorrow on the Tricolour Arrows. The Air Force's aerobatic team will bring in the sky over Marina di Carrara, the show dedicated to the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy. ...

A meeting of top-flight - the Journal of the Haute-Marne | Besides the presence of the Patrouille de France and the Rafale, the public will see the progress of patrols national Moroccan, Jordanian and English, the famous Red Arrows Royal Air Force. Bragard fly in the sky also F ...

Day One of Credentials from Air Race Classic 2011 by Jo Alcorn and Michelle Bostick | We've survived the first day of credentials check-in. Surprisingly, we had very few problems with people and their licenses, medicals, flight reviews, insurance forms, and training certificates. Nobody really got into any trouble! Almost all of the airplanes are here; I think we're only missing about six or so. Tomorrow is the arrival deadline, so everyone should be pulling in at some time or another…

WICHITA-FALLS.ORG » Two Texoma Women Compete in the Air Race Classic  by Wichita_Falls | Two Texoma women are ready to hit the skies to compete in the Air Race Classic. The women, who are from Wichita Falls and Vernon, are the first from our area to compete in the 82 year old competition. ...

Kansas Hall of Fame inducts inaugural class - Topeka Capital Journal | Richard Myers, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Pizza Hut founders Dan and Frank Carney; and aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Beth Fager, spokeswoman for the Great Overland Station, said the Kansas Hall of Fame was established to celebrate the ...

Restored B-25 bomber to be on display next month - Yakima Herald-Republic | A restored B-25 Mitchell, the World War II medium bomber made famous by the Doolittle Toyko Raid, will be on display at the Yakima Air Terminal from July 5-11. Named "Maid in the Shade," the restored B-25 is a veteran of 18 combat missions flying out ...

Make the Best of a Bad Situation from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | My recent editorial about Liberty Belle was, for the most part, well received and for a while I was pleased. But then today I received a comment from another B-17 operator slamming me for having my facts wrong and, from what could tell, that my facts were wrong because he believed they had the best B-17 operation. Well, here’s the deal; my opinions and experiences are just that, mine. If you are incapable of understanding that, or, if anything written above a third grade level, of which I rarely am capable of creating, throws you so off course that you cannot understand the difference between an editorial and a news piece, then I do not give a rats rear end what you think. Sorry, that’s my opinion… 

Weekend Wings #39: South Africa's "Franken-Mirages", Part 1  from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I'm sure readers know of Mary Shelley's famous novel 'Frankenstein'. Briefly, Dr. Victor Frankenstein assembles a monster in the form of a human being, using body parts from "the dissecting-room and the slaughter-house". Since then, the first part of his name has become a byword to describe anything that resembles a known thing, but uses parts from other things…I use the term in this article to refer to the front-line combat aircraft of the South African Air Force during the 1980's and 1990's. They began life as various models of the Mirage fighter built by Dassault in France. However…

A Couple of Interesting Things | Flying Friday  from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt | If you’re looking for a destination for your weekend flight, I recommend you check out the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The facility is part of the Smithshonian’s National Air and Space Museum (probably the best part for plane geeks) and will play host to the annual ‘Become a Pilot’ day tomorrow, June 18th. Unlike the main museum, the Udvar-Hazy Center is in Chantilly, Va., on the grounds of Washington Dulles International Airport. For directions, the address is 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway Chantilly, VA 20151…

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M'ville air show grounded - The Daily Journal | The 2011 Wheels & Wings Airshow may be the last of its kind here, thanks to fallout from this weekend's canceled visit by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels...

Solar Impulse headlines packed Paris Air Show - Independent | The world's oldest air show returns June 20, and already the guessing game has begun as to what major airplane makers such as Airbus and Boeing have got up their sleeves...

Paris Show Promises to Show Industry in Recovery - AIN | The aerospace industry is in recovery, and if you don’t believe that come to this year’s Paris Air Show and see for yourself. That is the optimistic message from the organizers of the biennial event, which will be staged for the 49th time at Paris Le Bourget Airport from June 20 to 26...

Bournemouth Air Festival attracts major sponsorship - Daily Echo | THE Bournemouth Air Festival has attracted a major sponsor as the countdown continues to Thursday, August 18, and the start of the three-day air spectacular. National Express, the UK’s largest coach operator, announced today...

Licensed to Loop: America’s Only Aerobatic Copter Pilot - Wired | Red Bull aerobatic helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron is flying straight and level 2,000 feet above the citrus groves south of here. We're moving along at 110 knots when Aaron gives the control stick — known as a cyclic in a helicopter — a gentle pull. Suddenly we see nothing but blue sky...

Cleveland National Air Show looking for a hometown hero for a ride aboard a Thunderbird F-16 - Greenfield Reporter | CLEVELAND — The Cleveland National Air Show is looking for a hometown hero who will be selected for a ride aboard an Air Force Thunderbird jet, the first time in the event's history that such an offer has been made...

Kevin Coleman - Kevin Coleman Aerosports | Kevin Coleman is 20 years old from Coushatta, LA. Kevin is a full time college student at Louisiana Tech University where he is pursuing a degree in Business Administration. Kevin grew up going to airshows watching his father and older brother perform! Kevin soloed on his 16th birthday...

Ride in a B-29 bomber! - Cincinnati Warbirds | The Cincinnati Warbirds will be hosting the B-29 "Fifi" at Lunken Airport, 262 Wilmer Avenue in Cincinnati, OH Friday, June 10th through Sunday June 12th, 2011...

Family's flight on B-17 evokes memories for WWII vet - AZ Central | Harold "Bunky" Snider flew more than 100 missions in a B-17 bomber during World War II, but when he was offered a chance recently to go up in one of the planes, he passed. The Phoenix man has great respect for the plane in which he logged more than 1,000 combat hours as a navigator, but having survived the war, he didn't want to push his luck at age 94...

WASPs visit N TX - Vans Air Force | During Memorial Day Weekend, the WWII WASPs (Women's Air Service Pilots) held a reunion in Sweetwater, TX, the site of their training base during WWII. The Brazos River 99s and many neighbors at Pecan Plantation in Granbury helped transport the ladies. Most of the WASPs arrived at DFW, thanks to donated tickets from AA, and were picked up by the Pecan crew and transported down to Pecan. On Friday morning the WASPs were treated to Stearman rides and Breezy rides...

Hero Pilot Is Ready for New CBS News Job - ABC | Retired pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger expects a lot more from his new job at CBS News than waiting for a plane to crash so he can be a "talking head." Sullenberger, who became a national hero two years ago when he landed a crippled U.S. Airways jet in the Hudson River and saved 155 lives...

Girls With Wings Aviation Inspiration Day - Rotor.com | Girls With Wings, Inc., announces the success of their first annual Aviation Inspiration Day, which took place May 28th, 2011, at Fleming Field in South St. Paul, MN. This day-long event, in conjunction with the Commemorative Air Force...

VIDEO: THE TUPOLEV TU-144 - Short Final | The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO name: Charger) was the first supersonic transport aircraft (SST), constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev...

VIDEO: Colour film of Great Patriotic War trophies - Vintage Aeroplane Writer | The following film is a piece of W.W.II Soviet propaganda, and as partisan as you'd expect. However it's a colour film of a remarkable array of captured German materiel, and starts with slow passes over a now fascinating collection of Luftwaffe aircraft...

VIDEO: Frecce Tricolori History - TakeOff Tube

Lauren Martino: Why I Want To Fly - Flight To Success | Lauren is another runner up in the "Why I Want To Fly" essay contest. I wish we could get her to the U.S. in July... there is another essay contest brewing for "anyone" -- yes guys, you're invited too -- who want to learn to fly. The prize? $3500 toward flight training. More news on that tomorrow...

Lean about the Space Station during Family Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - Air Force Museum | DAYTON, Ohio -- Learn about one of the greatest engineering feats in the history of mankind - the International Space Station - through hands-on activities and demonstration stations, during Family Day from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on June 18 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force...

VIDEO: STS-134 Landing - CRUFC | Endeavour makes final landing.