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Deadly Crash at Air Show - KWQC | There has been a fiery crash involving a flight team performing at the Quad City Air Show.... KWQC-TV has confirmed that at the pilot is dead. We have also confirmed that it involved the Hopper Demo Flight Team.

Plane crash has occurred at the Quad-City Air Show - Quad City Times | Officials at the scene told spectators to not go to their cars because the area near the air show at the Davenport Municipal Airport in Mt. Joy was being cordoned off to let emergency vehicles in and out. Flights continued soon after the crash ...

Coast Guard rescues Army Golden Knights parachutist during Cleveland ... - Plain Dealer | CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Coast Guard rescued a member of the Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team on Saturday morning, after he missed the landing zone and ended up in Cleveland Harbor during the Cleveland National Air Show...

Canadian International Air Show wows Toronto - Toronto Star | The 63rd annual Canadian International Air Show — which repeats 1 p.m to 4:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday — brought fighter jets and acrobatic flyers to the CNE waterfront. Snowbirds, CF-18 Hornets, T-33s and CP-140s dove, looped and carved white ...

Plymouth Airshow - Wicked Local | PLYMOUTH – Plymouth Aero Club will host the Plymouth Airshow from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, at the Plymouth Municipal Airport. There will be two shows, one in the late morning and one in the afternoon. The featured performer will be Dan...

Wild West Air Fest brings back memories Saturday in Steamboat - Steamboat Pilot & Today | Less than an hour earlier, Harris, who turns 96 years old in a few months, had been helped onto a C-47 aircraft at the eighth annual Wild West Air Fest to take a ride she had looked forward to all her life. “I've been in almost every kind of airplane ...

Labor Day weekend visitors drawn to the Cleveland National Air Show - NewsNet5.com | An economic impact analysis suggests that Labor Day weekend visitors will spend more than $7.1 million annually in the Greater Cleveland area as a result of the Labor Day Weekend Cleveland National Air Show. The 2012 Cleveland National Air Show ...

Brunswick air show a chance for outreach to veterans - Lewiston Sun Journal | BRUNSWICK — As jets soared and tumbled through the air at the Great State of Maine Air Show last weekend – an event meant to honor those who have served in the U.S. armed services – Randall Simonse of North Yarmouth remembered a darker time ...

Rain forces air show flights to end early - WANE | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -Rain forced officials to end the flying part of the Fort Wayne Air Show two hours early on Saturday. Flying ended at 2 p.m. after the F-22 Raptor show. The static displays would have remained open until 5 p.m. even with the ...

Rain not stopping air show - Quad City Times | Despite the rain, the Quad-City Air Show at the Davenport Municipal Airport is going on, officials said about 11:30 a.m. today. If conditions become unsafe, with thunder and lightening, flights would be delayed. However, just rain will not change the...

Stearman Fly-In celebrates 41 years - Burlington Hawk Eye | As a special treat this year, "The Tin Goose" comes to Galesburg Municipal Airport for the National Stearman Fly-In, which starts Monday and continues through Sept. 8. It's a nine-passenger aircraft built by the Ford Motor Co. in 1929. Fly-In visitors ...

Fly Baby Gathering Set for September 8 to Sparta, IL from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

Picture: The air date came on Saturday 50-thousand people - Webnoviny.sk  | Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic formation during their acrobatic show at the International Air Siafu days of the 2012th Sliač, 1 september 2012.Foto SITA / Branislav rack. SLIAČ 31st (Reuters) - International Air Day Slovak ...

Public invited to welcome B-25 bomber - Journal-Advocate | "Maid in the Shade," a World War II B-25 bomber from the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing in Mesa, Ariz., is scheduled to land at the Sterling Municipal Airport at noon Tuesday. It will be in Sterling through Sept. 10. The public is invited to help ...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 - Aviation International News | While the 60th EAA AirVenture didn't disappoint in the normal arenas of kitbuilt aircraft, workshops, new light sport aircraft, ultralights, warbirds, stirring airshow aerobatics, a performance by the Steve Miller Band, outdoor movies, bratwurst ...

Oshkosh Review on Stuck Mic #31! from Toriaflies | Bob joined me on the Stuck Mic AvCast this episode and we took over the show to tell you all about our 2012 EAA AirVenture experience! Listen now!

Grass Roots Perfection: Antique Airplane Association Fly-In 2012 (9 Pix) from AirPigz by Martt | I was a member of the Antique Airplane Association when I was a kid (thanks dad!) but I haven't been active as a member or to any of the official Fly-Ins since the early 70's... until today. I joined the AAA again (you have to be a member to participate in the fly-in) and I'm at Antique Airfield near Blakesburg Iowa right now! The AAA/APM Invitational Fly-In runs August 29th thru September 3rd, and I drove over from northern Indiana yesterday afternoon and evening, slept in the car (of course) and arrived at Antique Airfield this morning. Btw, the APM in the...

Big plans possible for Castle Air Museum - Merced Sun-Star | ATWATER -- ATWATER -- As Castle Air Museum readies its grounds for another Open Cockpit Day this weekend, volunteers are toiling away on two military planes that soon will be ready to add to the site's collection. And bigger plans may be in the works.

Indonesia gets new shark-faced warbirds - Jakarta Post | Sinister grin: Indonesian Air Force officers take a closer look at the newly arrived EMB-314 Super Tucano airplanes at Halim Perdanakusuma airports in Jakarta on Saturday. The Brazilian-made warbirds are famous for their shark-face nose art...

Tony Scott, Hank Kleeman, Kara Hultgreen and the F-14 Tomcat: three (tragic) stories and a legendary plane from David Cenciotti's weblog | Few days ago, Dario Leone, a long time reader and a huge F-14 Tomcat fan, sent me an email to point out what he had noticed about the date Tony Scott, the famous director of “Top Gun”, chose to commit suicide. He had observed that Aug. 19 was the 31th anniversary of the day when two F-14s...

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Elisa Amigo, Ohioans Fly with Blue Angels - Cleveland News - Fox 8 | CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland National Air Show is in town and that means Blue Angels are soaring high in the sky. This week, two men from Northeast Ohio experienced a once-in-a lifetime flight with the Blue Angels. A few months ago, Iwan Alexander ...

Cleveland Air Show features Goodyear-sponsored aerobatics superstar [The ... - Businessweek | Aug. 30--Mike Goulian will be putting his specially built single-seat plane through all sorts of precision aerial maneuvers this long Labor Day weekend over Lake Erie as part of the annual Cleveland National Air Show. The former U.S. National Aerobatic...

Air show chance for fun and chance for recruiting - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | Make no mistake, the 2012 Fort Wayne Air Show hosted by the Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing today through Sunday will provide the entertainment for aviation enthusiasts and fans alike. But it will also let officials at the base show off ...

This year's Reno Air Races start Sept. 12. - Fox News | The air race championship, entering its 49th year, is the only event of its kind in the world. It draws thousands every year to Reno Stead Airport, where it features aircraft flying at speeds of over 500 mph sometimes wingtip-to-wingtip around an oval ...

Annual Blakesburg Fly-In shows off the golden age of aviation - KTVO | BLAKESBURG, IOWA -- Each year, hundreds of antique airplanes fill the skies of Southeast Iowa for the annual Antique Airplane Association's Airpower Museum Invitational Fly-In. Flyers come from across the country for the event, including Clay Adams of ...

Toronto Air Show 2012 at the CNE - blogTO | Tips: Aside from the fact that you should know that you don't really need to pay any money to enjoy the air show, the big key for those looking to spend the day watching this display of militarism is that you need to save your spot along the waterfront...

Flier gets unique view of Seafair - Bainbridge Island Review | Navy Lt. Schuyler Boone pilots a specially painted P-3C Orion from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island over Lake Washington during the Seafair Airshow on Friday, Aug. 3. Boone flew in two flights over appreciative audiences at Seafair, which included two ...

Biplane makes emergency landing on Iowa highway - Sacramento Bee | KNOXVILLE, Iowa -- A biplane on its way to an airshow for antique aircraft has landed safely on a state highway near Knoxville in south ...

Something you don’t see everyday: a C-130 cruising down the street from David Cenciotti's weblog | Published by the Little Rock Air Force Base Facebook account the following picture shows a local C-130 being moved to be a static display in front of the base education center. The Hercules was taken apart, transported and...

Proud day as memorial to Red Arrows ace unveiled - This is Leicestershire | A glass and steel sculpture of three planes has been officially unveiled in memory of a Red Arrows pilot who was killed during an air show. Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, 33, from Morcott, Rutland, died after his Hawk 1 jet crashed during a performance ...

WWII Fighters, Bombers & Armor Featured at Republic - Patch.com | The show offers a chance to tour the legendary B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator bomber and a P-51 Mustang fighter, beginning Friday, August 31, through Labor Day, September 3. These aircraft will also offer once-in-a-lifetime flight experiences, ...

Chanute Air Museum – Part 2: The 99th Fighter Squadron from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | As the war in Europe heated up, it was anticipated that eventually the United States would be involved in it in some way. In 1937, funds were allocated by Congress to rebuild Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois, and turn it into a top aviation technical school for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Recruits at Chanute would train to become parachute techs, airplane mechanics, radio operators, pilots, electricians, maintenance officers and ground crew members in a relatively short time. By the spring of 1941, Chanute Field was “home” to thousands of...

Tucson News NowPima Air & Space Museum unveils historic fighter planes - Tucson News Now | Pima Air & Space Museum unveils two newly restored fighter jets this Labor Day weekend. The Vampire and the MiG-15 are both mid-20th century planes built and used in countries outside the U.S.. Tim Vimmerstedt, Director of Operations and Community ...

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photos 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.  View the slideshow.

aviationphotography.be Update from apron6 | Aviationphotography.be is now updated with the Junkers 52 album

Beech D18-S N500MK from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | The blog post across at NZ Civil Aircraft (see here) prompted me to hunt out the photos of Beech D18-S N500MK on the occasion of its visit to New Zealand during winter 2005.  Notes from that time indicate it arrived at Auckland direct from Tonga on 23 August 2005 and flew to Ardmore two days later for a repaint and maintenance.  It...

Air Force tanker crew assists stricken jet fighter from Air Force Link Top Stories | When the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron crew stepped into their large tanker aircraft for a recent mission and departed the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, they believed they had just begun another "normal" day over Afghanistan.  This day, however, proved to be anything but normal as the crew found themselves in a unique situation, literally acting as a wingman to a much smaller fighter jet in trouble...

“Gray Dragon”: the only F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter painted in a two-tone gray experimental color scheme from David Cenciotti's weblog | Taken towards the end of 2003/early 2004 by a KC-135 boom operator using the nickname “boomer135″ and brought to my attention by Aviationintel‘s Tyler Rogoway the following pictures show the quite rare “Gray Dragon”, the gray F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter....

54 is a flying car sold for $ 2.5 million from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | The Taylor Aerocar Transition N-101D is a classic car-plane, which was created in 1954 by aeronautical engineer Moulton Taylor. Almost 60 years later, the American collector Greg Herrick puts rarity for sale and who want to have the Aerocar in the garage or in-hangar - will have to pay to the tune of U.S. $ 1.25 million, which equates to about £ 2.5 million...

No-go for Endeavour ferry flight over air show - Florida Today | The payload bay doors of space shuttle Endeavour were closed in June, for the last time at Kennedy Space Center. This shuttle will eventually be sent to the California Science Center in Los Angeles...

Family Buries Neil Armstrong - Cleveland News - Fox 8 | Memorials were also being held around the country, including events at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first man on the moon died on August 25, ...

2 Apollo veterans to promote Armstrong charity - NECN | The evening service was at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum. Friday's service comes the same day of a rare "blue moon." It occurs when there's a second full moon in one calendar month, and won't happen again until July 2015. The moon won't actually be ...

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Inaugural Paulding air show gaining momentum, sponsors - NeighborNewspapers.com | Co-director Dave Carmichael said the idea behind the air show was to give families in the area an exciting activity to participate in, while still remembering the country's heritage. “Air shows are tremendous community events,” he said. “It gives us...

Jet rally takes flight next weekend Show at local airport is first of its kind ... - Foster's Daily Democrat | The Horizon Hobby 2012 Air Meet and Air Show Extravaganza is being promoted as the largest RC event of its kind and is the first such event to be held in the U.S., according to organizer Ray Labonte, owner of Ray and Robin's Hobby Center in Falmouth.

Sixteenth annual AirFest in Lower Township attracts hundreds of aviation lovers - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | The boy and his father, Robert DeDemenico, of Westfield, were among hundreds of visitors who made their way to the airport for the 16th annual AirFest, a three-day event that serves as both a fundraiser and a history lesson. Joe Salvatore, director of ...

Look up! Fort Wayne Air Show this Labor Day weekend - WANE | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Leading up to the Air Show this Labor Day weekend, planes took to the sky to advertise. If you looked up around 11:30 on Thursday, you probably saw "Air Show" being written in the clouds. The Fort Wayne Air Show presented by ...

Stearman Fly-In ready to land in Galesburg - Galesburg Register-Mail | Hundreds of Stearman bi-planes like this Navy Model 75 will converge on Galesburg beginning this weekend for the week-long National Stearman Fly-In that officially kicks off Monday. The Navy typically painted the fuselage and wings of its planes yellow.

Great Barrington: Fly-In event to benefit Rotary Scholarship Fund - Berkshire Eagle | The Great Barrington Airport and Great Barrington Rotary will present their second annual Fly-In from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Great Barrington Airport, 70 Egremont Plain Road. New and old airplanes will be touching down and ...

Gold Team Headlines in Bellevue from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | This is the second time the Gold Demonstration Team has visited Bellevue for a show and both times the team has encountered adverse weather. Upon arriving the team was briefed on what their schedule was for the Defenders of Freedom Open House Air Show held on Offutt Air Force Base and along with the schedule came a warning of possible changes to the planned schedule due to the weather forecast. As always the Gold Team stands ready to adjust to any situation that might arise and did so effortlessly. On Friday the team...

Fiorito: CNE air show? Incoming, take cover - Toronto Star | The best letters are written by those who know how to think, to reason and to spell. The worst are from those who can't tell spin from Spinoza. Here, from the mailbag, are some things to think about while you're huddling in your bunker during the air ...

Vulcan marks 60 years since maiden flight - Telegraph.co.uk | Sixty years later, the last flying example of that plane, which was later named the Vulcan, will celebrate its Diamond anniversary with air displays at the Bournemouth Air Festival and Shoreham Airshow this weekend. Now a famous example of British ...

Red Arrows in emotional tribute to fallen pilots - Bournemouth Echo | The Red Arrows made an emotional return to Bournemouth on Thursday afternoon with their first display in the town since the deaths of pilots Jon Egging and Sean Cunningham last year. The seven plane team opened the 2012 Bournemouth Air Festival with ...

First day of Bournemouth Air Festival looks set to be record breaker - Bournemouth Echo | THE first day of Bournemouth's Air Festival was looking like the busiest Thursday in the event's short history. That was the view of Bournemouth Tourism director Mark Smith, a year on from the deluge which threatened to sink last year's event on day one.

Displays in the air and on the ground at Shoreham Airshow - Shoreham Herald | With more than 60 display aircraft, the event, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the RAF Central Flying School, should have something for everyone. For some of the highlights, aviation photographs, interviews with organisers and more on the work of ... 

Royal Air Force pays tribute to the “queen of the skies” VC-10 with a three-ship flypast across the UK from David Cenciotti's weblog | In 1960, the RAF issued Specification 239 for a strategic transport, which during September 1961 resulted in an order for five VC-10’s from Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. The VC-10 was an airliner designed for high subsonic speed at high altitude whilst operating from hot and high airfields found in African countries of the old British Empire. The design that came out of these requirements was quite simply the stuff of legends: the performance was...

Video: RAF Waddington 2012 DVD intro from stickandrudderWTO

The Patrouille de France, guest of honor of the 68th anniversary of the Liberation ... - Lyon first | As a prelude to ceremonies commemorating the liberation of Lyon, the Patrouille de France fly over Lyon twice, Monday, September 3, 2012 from 11:30 am paying tribute to those who liberated France and Lyon. After a first ...

The Patrouille de France fly over Lyon Monday - mLyon | The Patrouille de France fly over Lyon on Monday. The prestigious formation fly over the city on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of its liberation. From 11am on 9 Alpha Jets lights will make a first pass from west to east over the place ...

Italy paints the sky in Slovakia: the Frecce Tricolori Air Fest Sliac - Hello Slovakia | The Frecce Tricolori, officially "313 ° Acrobatic Training Group", also known as National Aerobatic Team, from their base at Addressed in Friuli Venezia Giulia will be visiting the skies of central Slovakia in the end ...

Warbirds: Models that 'come alive' - Muncie Star Press | MUNCIE — To be amazed by the efforts that warbird modelers put into their prized machines, you need only study the rivets that Sam Parfitt painstakingly etched into the surface of his shiny P-47 Thunderbolt. How many thousand are there? “Several, I ... 
 
Taking flight: What it's like to fly in the Flying Fortress - Suburban Life Publications | World War II veteran Lt. Charlie Mueller, of Plainfield, looks out the window of the "Aluminum Overcast" B-17 Bomber during a flight on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. To honor World War II veterans, the Warbirds of America Squadron 4 is offering rides on the ... 

Timeless Voices - Leo Thorsness from eaavideo.org | Medal of Honor recipient Leo Thorsness was a USAF F-105 fighter pilot with the 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War. He was shot down on April 30, 1967 and spent six years as a POW in North Vietnam.

Historic bomber on display at Missoula airport - KPAX-TV | MISSOULA- The engines of a B-25 bomber roared as it taxied to the Museum of Mountain Flying at the Missoula International Airport on Monday. This type of plane was made famous after the raid on Tokyo, on April 18, 1942, the first bombing of the city ...

Canadian air museum finds home at Toronto airport - CTV News | Canadian air museum finds home at Toronto airport. The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, left, looks up at the full-scale replica of the legendary Avro Arrow before speaking at the New Canadian Air & Space Museum "Takes Flight" ...

Young Eagles Flight Rally: Kids can take off - KeepMEcurrent.com | SANFORD – The Young Eagles Flight Rally, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, at Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport, is sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapters 225 and 1210. The free program, for children ages 8-17, started as a way to ...

Wapakoneta memorial honors favorite son Neil Armstrong - Canton Repository | Hundreds attended the twilight service for the fallen astronaut Wednesday night in his Wapakoneta hometown, the site of the Armstrong Air & Space Museum.

Discovery, Science to air Neil Armstrong special by Kevin Ritchie | Discovery Channel and sister network Science will host the U.S. premiere of One Giant Leap: A Neil Armstrong Tribute, a special commemorating the passing of the famous astronaut. ... The news comes after U.S. net History devoted an entire day of programming to late astronaut Armstrong yesterday (August 28).  As commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. He died on August 24 following complications from heart-bypass surgery that he had undergone earlier this month. He was 82.

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PHOTO GALLERIES - Air Show Sunday - Star-Telegram | The two-day Air Power Expo concluded on Sunday with the Blue Angels at NAS Fort Worth.

Air Show Thrills Thunder Viewers - WLKY | Young Watchers Most Enthusiastic - LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- At times cloudy skies and a low ceiling caused havoc for the Thunder Over Louisville Air Show, but there was still plenty to see and enjoy...

"Legends over the Colorado" airshow - S & W Forums | My son and I went to the "Legends over the Colorado" airshow last weekend. The highlight was "FIFI" the only remaining flying B-29 bomber. It was really cool to see it flying and then to crawl around and in it. We also took a ride on the Grumman TBM "Avenger" torpedo bomber, used in the Pacific during WWII...

Video: Red Bull skydiver transfers between gliders mid-flight - Flight Blog | (2010) Redbull skydiver Paul Steiner has pulled off this amazing feat, captured on video, in which at 2100m he climbs out of his glider's cockpit (don't worry: the pilot stays), climbs to the outer edge of the wing, hangs down underneath it, transfers to a second glider, and then...

North Texas Spring - 2011 - Another Time | After a windy week in North Texas the winds let up for our little airport to come alive with antique, classic and contemporary classic airplanes!  Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke, Texas shows its variety when the weather makes it perfect for flying...

WWII veterans group gathers for last toast - Air Force Times | TEMPLE, Texas — It was over with the clinking of glass. Recently, four World War II veterans lifted shot glasses filled with Tsingtao beer for a final toast. The Central Texas Basha of the China-Burma-India Veterans Association was officially dissolving, six years after the national organization closed up shop. Basha is a bamboo hut in India...

Profile 47 - "1" as flown by Lt. Ted Hutchins - WW2 Fighters | Done!  Sort of.  I'm not happy with the wing and I might redo it.  But for now, I'm content to put "1" up for  readers to see/read about this machine and the man that flew her...

War effort - Roger Wilco | One of the biggest industrial efforts ever undertaken was that of the United States during World War II...

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 29) - Cencio 4 | Once again “stalemate” is the most used term to define the situation on the battlefield in Libya. Misratah is still under siege as Gaddafi’s forces pounded the third largest Libyan city with rocket, mortars and cluster bombs used also on residential areas...

Multiple Airships? - Jet Careers | I've been in San Antonio for the last 2 weeks or so with my job and yesterday I was hanging out at the airport when the Zeppelin came into town. Managed to get some decent pictures of multiple airships at the same place...

If it floats..... - Airline Pilot Forums | Moving things in still pictures. (great seaplane pix)