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Navy Blue Angels fly into era of budget questions - AP | PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) — The Navy's Blue Angels have been thrilling audiences for more than six decades with their acrobatic flying in fighter planes, but a new era of federal budget worries and proposed deficit cutting has some inside and outside the military raising questions about the millions it costs to produce their shows. Some want the popular shows grounded and some readers of the Air Force Times newspaper — most of them active or retired service members — recently listed eliminating the Blue Angels and similar programs as one way to cut defense spending. The Pentagon spends $37 million for the Blue Angels, whose mission is to enhance recruiting for...

Santa's helper Lockheed Martin - Star-Telegram | Looks like Santa is being escorted by F-35s this year. The Blue Angels Fat Albert C-130 flew into Lockheed Martin facilities in Fort Worth and Marietta, Ga. on Tuesday to pick up loads of toys donated by Lockheed to Toys for Tots. The toys are being delivered to...

Viper West Before Dawn at the 2011 Jacqueline Cochran Airshow - Randy Rothhaar Photography | A 5am 11mm wide angle shot of the Viper West F-16s before dawn at the 2011 Jacqueline Cochran Airshow.

DVD Review: RAF Waddington International Airshow 2011 - Flightline UK | Recently, the Waddington International Airshow DVDs have been amongst the best airshow productions released each year and we feel the 2011 edition will be no different! What really marks the Waddington productions...

Peter Twiss - x planes | “Aviator Peter Twiss pictured with the model of the....

Sully, Skiles, Flight 1549 Passengers Fly Again - Aero-News Network | But Fundraising DC-7 Flight To Charlotte Not Without Problems | Some of the passengers from US Airways Flight 1549 got back into an airplane with Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles Friday, but this time it wasn't an Airbus, and it wasn't flying over the Hudson River. Sully and Skiles had agreed to pilot a 1958 DC-7 (photo: Facebook) once flown by Eastern Airlines from Miami's Opa-Locka Executive Airport into...

National Naval Aviation Museum to feature Apollo 15 astronaut - PNJ | Apollo 15 astronaut retired Col. Al Worden will speak about his trip to the moon at the National Naval Aviation Museum next month. The event, which is 10 a.m. on Dec. 3, is part of the museum’s Discovery Saturday series, which features presentations by experts on a variety of aviation issues. Worden piloted the Apollo 15 command module on its 1971 flight to...

de Havilland Canada U-6 Beaver - Travel for Aircraft | What is not to love about this aircraft? Big radial engine for power and reliability. High wing with high lift devices to enable short field performance and ground maneuvering around field clutter. A roomy cabin and stout landing gear. A pick-up truck for the skies. Canada’s de Havilland company considers the DHC-2 Beaver their ¼-ton truck since that was the aircraft’s capacity, or about six people. So what’s not to love? Well, at first the Beaver wasn’t! De Havilland Canada (DHC) introduced the DHC-2 Beaver in 1947 but there were few customers. Then...

Model gift boost for museum - North Hampton Chronicle & Echo | A 10ft radio-controlled aeroplane model has ended its flying days to be displayed at Sywell Aviation Museum. Ken Harris, from Wellingborough, donated the model Avro Lancaster bomber, which took him years to build, to the museum over the weekend....

Mini Aerobatic pilots to show off - Katherine Times | ON?SATURDAY, December 3, the Katherine Model Aero Club will be hosting the final international miniature aerobatic competition for the year. These competitions can be found world wide and are devoted to the pursuit of excellence in aerobatic radio control aircraft flying. It follows the full size aerobatic rules and sequences. The competition is divided into five categories...

Grissom to host live Twitter Q-and-A session for potential Airmen - Grissom ARB | GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind. -- Do you have what it takes? That's the question many people ask themselves when deciding if they want to be an Airman in the world's greatest Air Force. That question, along with a host of others ranging from what basic military training is like to what to what it means to be an Airman, are what the recruiters here at Grissom aim to answer during a special live question-and-answer session on Twitter Dec. 1 from 7-8 p.m....

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Flying Scholarship... Relieving Stress - Flight to Success | ...Barry Schiff is spending the week with us, and today he is reducing the financial stress of learning how to fly. He is running a scholarship to give $3000 toward one lucky winner to learn how to fly, up to their solo!...

Airplane Geeks - Episode 174 - Airport_Girl Returns - Airplane Geeks Podcast | Returning guest Stephanie Gehman is the Manager of Marketing and Customer Service at Harrisburg International Airport. Find Stephanie on Twi...

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Family and Friends Honor Local Wing Walker Who Died After Plane Crash - Family and friends gather to celebrate the life of a local wing walker whose life was cut short after a plane accident. She was just 25 years old.  Planes soared through the summer sky Tuesday, a fitting tribute to 25 year old Amanda Franklin. Hundreds gathered to remember the Springdale native, a renowned pilot and wing walker. She traveled the country doing air shows with her husband Kyle.  “She had a spirit like you wouldn't believe,” says Kyle Franklin. “I mean she just she just glowing smile blue eyes and whoever met her just loved her to death.”…

Air Show celebrates 100 years of Naval Aviation as a Tier One Centennial of ... - Aledo Times Record
By Anonymous The Blue Angels are back! After being grounded for their past four shows, the US Navy Blue Angels return to the Quad City Air Show! Aviation enthusiasts young and old are gearing up for one of the largest air shows in the Midwest at the ...

F-16 Down In Wisconsin  from Aero-News Network  | Pilot Ejected During A Training Mission An F-16 on a training mission went down in Adams County, WI Tuesday afternoon. The pilot, who ejected from the aircraft, was recovered in the town of Chester, WI, and is being medically evaluated…

Fly-in event June 11 landing with fun in Defuniak - Walton Sun | More than 2000 people and 40 pilots are expected June 11 at the first Marvel of Flight Fly-in at the DeFuniak Springs Municipal Airport. The event, initially inspired by another airport's fly-in, was created to help foster tourism in Northwest Florida. ...

John R. Alison, daring WWII ace who led Burma invasion, dies at 98 - Washington Post | John R. Alison, a retired Air Force major general and World War II fighter ace who helped lead a nighttime invasion by glider into enemy-held Burma — a logistical feat that included the transport of troops, heavy machinery and even ...

WWII bombers bring back memories for veterans - Visalia Times-Delta | Eric Woomer ª Where: Visalia Municpal Airport; 9501 W. Airport Drive, Visalia It was a sentimental walk into history as David and Phyllis turner approached two World War II-era combat planes at the Visalia Municipal Airport Monday. ...

Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s – 21st Anniversary World War II Weekend from photorecon.net | The stage was set for the 21st annual WWII Weekend in Reading PA. The cast of characters were the over 2000 military and civilian re-enactors, that assembled here to provide an awesome living history experience. It has been characterized by many as like being on a movie set…you pass through the gates and you find yourself in a quaint French villa. Soldiers mingling about, while families sit outside their homes, enjoying a cool breeze...

Flying Fortress takes to skies above Centennial - The Aurora Sentinel | Bobby "Gunny" Baumgartner prepares a B-17 Bomber for a flight June 7 from Centennial Airport. Veterans and members of the local media flew in a B-17 World War II bomber on Tuesday. The B-17 is at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum from June 9 - 12 as ...

Pensacola NAS — home of the Blues and the National Naval Aviation Museum, prelude  from Travel for Aircraft | The nation’s naval air museum lies with the Pensacola Naval Air Station (NAS) and is open to the public. Entry is through a security gate, of course, where one is guided to the visitor’s lane. I was asked if I had weapons in my car, then given a pass to place on the dash to show I was permitted to be at the museum, Barrancas National Cemetery, historical forts and the old Pensacola lighthouse…

Aviation Heritage Park Will Unveil New Plane – WBKO | Graduate of Western Kentucky University, native of Glasgow and, Aviation Heritage Park looks for guys like General Russ Dougherty that have a distinguished Aviator Career," said Arnie Franklin. The Hanger Party will take place June 25, at the Bowling ...

It’s T-6 Time Again!  from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography » Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | PRS is just around the corner (Pylon Race School) and that means spending time with one of my favorite aircraft, the T-6 Texan. “Midnight Express” and its owner/pilot Dennis Buehn are dear old friends that I always look forward to seeing. Dennis has had nearly 100 T-6s over the years, always looking for that special one to fly and more to the point, race…

CAP wins World Peace Prize  from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Civil Air Patrol will be awarded a World Peace Prize during a June 14 ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Continue Reading »

'Bride Flight' - Moving Pictures Network | The year is 1953, and the women are part of a select group of emigrant passengers chosen to travel aboard KLM in the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch. En route, the three women happen to meet a particularly gallant young man seated ...

Photos: Wings and Waves water park – KATU | The water park, which is next to the Evergreen Air Museum holding the Spruce Goose, contains 10 water slides - four of them exiting directly out of the fuselage of a Boeing 747 on the roof.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) The nose of a Boeing 747 looks out over the ...

Episode 150 – John and Martha King  from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks)  Both John and Martha King from King Schools join us as guests this episode. These two have flown almost everything that flys. They also provide video and computer-based training to countless pilots.  The week’s aviation news:...

Rocket program lifts off - Post-Tribune | Susan Peterson of Action Science guided the NASA hopefuls in a rocketry workshop, which was hosted by the Portage Parks and Recreation Department. Parents watched as their children created miniaturized versions of rockets, which they would take home to ...

Volcanic ash halts air travel in Argentina  from PhotoBlog by Rich Shulman | Rich Shulman writes - We've seen some stunning eruption shots in the past few days. These ash fall pictures have an eery beauty of their own…An aircraft belonging to Austral with ash on it from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain remains standred on the tarmac of the sky resort San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina's Patagonia June 6... 

Jimmy Buffett to perform at Naval Aviation Museum

MUSEUM ENEWS	MARCH 2011
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM with special guest JIMMY BUFFETT Thursday, April 28 Tickets on sale now for the ultimate "Parrot Head" experience-an intimate concert with Jimmy Buffett to benefit the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. Reception at 6:30 p.m., Concert at 7:30 p.m. This concert is limited to only 500 people and will sell out quickly. >>Click here to purchase tickets. DISCOVERY SATURDAY-HISTORY OF NATIONAL NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM 10 a.m., Saturday, March 19 As part of the Centennial of Naval Aviation activities, retired Navy Rear Admiral Skip Furlong will present the history of the Naval Aviation Museum and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. >>Learn more about the Centennial. BORN TO BE WILD PREMIERES ON THE IMAX® GIANT SCREEN 10 a.m., Friday, April 8 Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Morgan Freeman, Born to be Wild is an inspiring story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them—saving endangered species one life at a time. >>Click here for prices & showtimes.	SAVE THE DATES! Blue Angels practice & autograph* schedule March 16*, 22, 23*, 29, 30* Medal of Honor Ceremony March 25 Donald Rumsfeld booksigning March 27 "Aviation Week" at NAS Pensacola May 2-8 Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Symposium 2011 May 4-6 National Flight Academy Christening ceremony May 6 WHAT'S NEW This Month in Naval Aviation QUICK LINKS Naval Aviation Museum Naval Aviation Museum Foundation National Flight Academy IMAX Theatre Flight Deck Store JOIN IN ON THE BUZZ
Naval Aviation Museum Foundation I 1750 Radford Blvd. I NAS Pensacola, FL 32508 Phone: 850-453-2389 I Fax: 850-457-3032 I namfoffice@navalaviationmuseum.org