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Only a trail remains: At least 70000 attend air show over two days; crowds pleased - Foster's Daily Democrat | "A beautiful weekend, great weather and the Blue Angels were a great combination." For most of those estimated 70000 people, bathrooms, shade and mapping ...

Mexico, MO Salute to Veterans Air Show from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo:

Winds trim Offutt air show - Omaha World-Herald | One of the show's highlights was the Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, which performs aerial stunts in tight formation. The Thunderbirds have been ...

Flypast offers a new view of show - The Northern Echo | A FLYPAST by a Second World War Dakota aircraft proved to be the star attraction at an agricultural show in the heart of the North Pennines. ...

United States - Oregon - Oregon International Air Show 2010 - Hillsboro (Portland) - 08/20/10 from FenceCheck Forums:

Nation loses another hero - Sun-Sentinel | He was a B17 navigator in World War ll. He was truly part of the Greatest Generation. Try to imagine climbing into your B17 aircraft knowing you will be ...

Review: A2A Simulations' B-17G Flying Fortress - FlightSim.com | The Boeing B-17 could be called the greatest aircraft in history. It was produced and shot down in vast quantities, housed a crew of around ...

Scrapbook: Legend of the skies. 25th Aug 1943 - RantRave | Published Opinion.| Didn't he win the Kings Cup Air Race in 1938? And now he is more than ever a legend for all the ants on the ground, who never cease to be astonished when ...

Aviation Celebration Honors Alabama's First Lady of Flight Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- On National Aviation Day the Birmingham Aero Club hosted an evening event honoring Alabama's First Lady of Flight- Nancy Batson Crews (1920-2001) with a new exhibit at the Southern Museum of Flight. Award winning author and featured speaker, Sarah Byrn Rickman, highlighted Nancy's story from her recent biography as told to her by her late friend and mentor. Aero Club President, Holly Roe opened the program with Dr. Ed Stevenson from the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame introducing Sara Rickman. Dr. Jim Griffin, Director of the Southern Museum of Flight presented the new Crews exhibit…

The DC-3, A Real Man's Airplane from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7 | Every now and then you run across an article you just have to read, and so it was with an article in Flying by Martha Lunken titled "DC-3, A Real Man's Airplane." Without a doubt this is one of the best articles written about this wonderful 75 year old airplane, and which brought back memories [...]

Happy 40th Birthday To The DC-10 from Flying With Fish by flyingfish | If you're a regular reader of Flying With Fish you may have noticed I am a 'three-holer' fan.  While my favorite three-holer, the Lockheed L-1011, is all but gone from the skies, the long serving three-holer workhorse of the skies is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its very first flight…

Video: Sumptuous 747 Landing In 120fps Slow Mo - Wow! by Martt | I'm a freak for great video, and for great airplanes... guess you could say that makes me a 'super freak' for great video of great airplanes! That's exactly what youtuber GatwickSpotting has here. Shot from over 4 miles away, this slow mo 747 landing is a real treat to watch…

A Fine Day's Cataloging from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Another fine day of editing here at Airspeed Studios. I got most of Day 2 (15 May) cataloged and ready to link up with alternate camera angles and the cockpit audio. And I found several of the Easter eggs that the cast left for me. Like this shot of Jim Rodriguez and Don Weaver giving the thumbs up, er, down, er up. The tech frame evolved when Roger Bishop gave in to the ham that's in all of us and gave the camera a wave. Being a guy with a true sense of lighting and composition, I'm sure that he couldn't resist stepping out into the near-perfect lighting of one of the early flights of that day…

John And Martha King Held At Police Gunpoint (Really) from AVwebFlash Current Issue - Aviation's most prominent husband and wife team is calling on government agencies to keep their databases up to date and warning pilots and aircraft owners they could be next to be surrounded by heavily armed police, handcuffed and detained because of a bit of miscommunication. John and Martha King say there's a lesson to be learned after they spent about 30 scary minutes in the custody of Santa Barbara, Calif., police at the Santa Barbara Airport Saturday…

Guns, Handcuffs and John and Martha King from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Think it can't happen to you? John and Martha King (of King Schools) beg to differ. Aviation's best-known couple were the subject of a bizarre case of mistaken identity on Aug. 28 that resulted in them having guns drawn on them, being handcuffed and held for about 30 minutes. As always, there are lessons to be learned from Martha King as she goes through the bizarre event at the Santa Barbara Airport in this unedited and, at 15 minutes, longer-than-usual AVweb podcast.This podcast is brought to you by Bose Corporation…

Strange But True Aviation News from Things with Wings by fail…

How Did An IPhone Take This Picture? - Gizmodo Australia - Unless the blades of this aeroplane propellor can defy gravity and float, the iPhone's camera totally distorted ...

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Su-27 aircrash at Air show in Poland kills 2 Colonels - Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
The Su-27 jet began to lose altitude during a stunt flight, the pilots “did not eject and steered the plane away from the town, avoiding graver consequences ...

Belarus confirms deaths of 2 pilots at Polish air show GDANSK: The Belarusian Defense Ministry has confirmed the deaths of two Air Force pilots in a fighter jet crash at an air show in central Poland on Sunday. The Belarusian Su-27 Flanker fighter crashed while performing aerobatic maneuvers as part of the Radom Air Show. Polish TV channels showed the jet performing a stunt before disappearing behind trees. The Belta news agency quoted ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Remenchuk as saying Col. Alexander Morfintsky and Col. Alexander Zhuravlevich both...

A final farewell by yellerbelly
Today I attended the Radom Airshow which was supposed to have been the biggest military airshow in Poland. Sadly at around 1.30pm this afternoon an SU-27 took off in front of the crowds and after a short display, lost power and crashed into the ground at the rear of the airfield behind some trees, killing both pilots. The aircraft was on loan from the Belarusian Air Force and was one of the highlights of the show. No-one yet knows what happened, but I saw the aircraft go down and there was seemingly no attempt by either pilots to eject. The highly-trained and skilled pilots risk their lives every time they fly these multi-million dollar jets and when something goes wrong, the effects happen very quickly. At the last Radom Airshow in 2007, two pilots from Team Żelazny were killed when their aircraft collided in mid-air. May the pilots rest in peace.

Poland: Belarussian fighter Airshow Plane Crash – 08-30-09

The Red Arrows at Radom by yellerbelly

Air show dazzles flight buffs - Windsor Star - Windsor Star
He said one of the things he found most interesting was how announcer Rob Reider was able to provide a little live history lesson with the demonstrations as ...

The 2009 Windsor Air Show Soars Through Town! Windsor Visuals ... by Owen (westerntragedy)
The two-day Airshow in Windsor was a jet-blast! Many, many photos from the show... A WWII United States P51-D Mustang Rick...

Offut Air Show - A Distraction Happens Daily - The family decided we did not want to pass up the opportunity of seeing the Blue Angels in action at the Offutt Air Show. The air show is held on the Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, NE. Offutt is also known for being apart of ...

Clear skies, full house - Omaha World-Herald
The Offutt AFB Defenders of Freedom Open House and Airshow was held Saturday. JAMES R. BURNETT/THE WORLD-HERALD By Juan Perez Jr. It was an hour to showtime ...

2009 Brantford Charity Air Show Takes To The Skies Local Vibe by IanR
On Wednesday September 2nd, 2009, the 10th Annual Brantford Charity Airshow is going to be held with funds being raised for the Rotary Club of Brantford...

2009 OCNJ Boardwalk Aerobatic Show from Kings Media by steven@kings-media.com (Steven King)

Air show provides festivities, flights - Daily Eastern News
Soucy and Stokes performed at the eighth annual air show at the Coles County Memorial Airport on Saturday. Planes from all over the United States flew in ...

Vintage Wings Tiger Moth Crashes from AVwebFlash Current Issue
Click for more photosA British pilot is recovering in an Ottawa, Ontario hospital after the vintage Tiger Moth he was flying crashed shortly after takeoff from nearby Gatineau Airport on Friday. Howard Cook suffered some broken bones and lacerations and underwent surgery to repair the damage and is expected to make a full recovery. The aircraft is part of the Vintage Wings of Canada collection, which is owned by Canadian businessman Michael Potter and it's the first crash of one of the faithfully restored aircraft in the collection. Vintage Wings of Canada pilot Dave Hadfield (whom AVweb interviewed in a P-40 cockpit tour video made at AirVenture Oshkosh last month) said in a podcast interview that Cook is a passionate vintage aircraft pilot who flies for the famed Duxford Museum in England and is an associate pilot with Vintage Wings. Hadfield said Cook is the consummate pilot and his first question was about the condition of the aircraft.

Pilot Recovering After Tiger Moth Crash from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
Howard Cook, a British pilot visiting Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau, Québec, is in the hospital recovering from injuries suffered in the crash of the collection's Tiger Moth last Friday. Vintage Wings volunteer pilot Dave Hadfield spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles about the accident, Cook's condition, and the organization's response to the mishap.

Video: In-Cockpit Video of Old Rhinebeck Mishap from AVwebFlash Current Issue
There's been nothing written (that we can find, anyway) about an accident involving the New Standard biplane used for giving rides at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, but this video, posted on YouTube about 10 days ago, tells quite a tale. According to the reader who sent us the YouTube link, the accident reportedly happened July 26 and, from the video, appears to be an off-runway excursion into a nasty ravine filled with big rocks. As might be expected, the off-roading takes a toll on the wood and fabric but doesn't seem to have banged up the pilot and his passengers, one of whom kept the camera rolling through the whole accident and aftermath. There is no NTSB report on the mishap, and FAA incident reports are only available for the last 10 business days. The museum's web site says only that biplane rides are suspended until Labor Day weekend, but it's not clear whether the crash airplane will be fixed or a replacement found for rides.

Two Purdue graduates recount their latest voyage to space - Journal and Courier
David Wolf and Mark Polansky returned from a 16-day, 6.5 million mile mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on July 31 and are venturing out to their ...

Astronaut's Memories Live on in Art - CBS News
A lunar landscape painting by former Apollo astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man to set foot on the moon. Bean has made 162 such paintings in 28 ...

Mechanic recalls favorite airplane - Billings Gazette
Former airplane mechanic and inspector Milt Kramlick stands in front of a B-17 plane in July. (Courtesy photo) After more than four decades as an airplane ...

B-17 Flying Fortress takes off in Johns Is. - Charleston Post Courier
The 390th Bomb Group suffered the second largest mission loss during the war in Dusseldorf, Germany, when anti-aircraft gunfire hit a B-17's bomb bay...

WASP interviewed today in San Diego Union-Tribune from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
The San Diego Union-Tribune has published a cover story today featuring interviews with two WASP of World War II Joyce: Sherwood Secciani and Vivian Eddy, (as well as Amy Goodpaster Strebe, the author of Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II…

This Week In Military/Aviation History 31 August - 6 September from Warbirds Online by Tom Kwiatkowski Sr.
Hello Folks, sorry about being MIA for the last few weeks. I had an emergency gall bladder removal, but I’m feeling much better now, thanks for asking. Let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Flying the Cessna Citation Mustang from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
This time on the show, we’re going to talk about flying a jet. But first, we’ll take a quick detour to talk about how we’re going to talk about flying a jet.

Planes vs cars at the airport on the Rock of Gibraltar from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
The only airport, I think, where drivers would't be trying to "beat a train," but rather a plane. Click on each photo for larger size.

Oldies and Oddities: Where Do Ailerons Come From? from Air & Space Magazine

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