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Air show thrills crowd - Battle Creek Enquirer | Polished aluminum propellers spun in circles on Saturday as pilots created corkscrew dives and hung inverted through the air. Onlookers from the ground watched with their necks craned back to watch the precision training of the pilots put to the test.Watching aircraft soar at 240 mph into what the Field of Flight Air Show announcer, Phil Dacy, called, “that beautiful Battle Creek sky,” is why some families come to the event every year....
Special needs children and adult get private 4th Of July Airshow - fox2now.com | CAHOKIA, IL. (KTVI) – Kids and adults with special needs got their own air show for the Fourth Of July weekend. Planes, helicopters and those from the Tuskegee Airmen Group, put on an air show at the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois Saturday afternoon....
Great New England Wings and Wheels to fill absence of summer air show - MassLive.com | CHICOPEE – Across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration have grounded air shows across the country, but aviation enthusiasts will have the opportunity to see vintage civilian and military aircraft parked at the Westover Metropolitan Airport....
VIDEO: Planes featured in air show after Tyler display - Tyler Morning Telegraph | Jan Collmer, 78, flies a very agile German-made Extra 300L with zeal. Collmer, who has been flying for nearly 60 years — beginning in 1954 in the U.S. Navy — has been flying in air shows for about 35 years and offers rides to those who like adventure.
Despite air show problems, ShrinersFest doesn't disappoint - 14 News WFIE Evansville | ... The Shriner's are hopeful thought that something will work out before the festival is over. "Our goal is to continue to work with them and see if the front moves or if they can figure out a way to get around it because those P-47s," says Dale Thomas. "We've talked about them for six months. What a great piece of our heritage here in Evansville and we're extremely disappointed, but our hope is they'll be here tomorrow."...
RAF Waddington International Airshow in pictures By Lincolnshire Echo
Waddington International Airshow — Day 1 - The Lincolnite | Thousands of spectators gathered at RAF Waddington on Saturday, July 6, to enjoy this year’s Waddington Airshow. The show, now in its 18th year, celebrates the 95th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force, 70yrs since the raids on the German Dams of WW2 and the 100th Anniversary of RAF Waddington’s own 5(AC) Squadron. The locally based Red Arrows, one of the biggest attractions of the day, also celebrated their 4,500th display, and their 49th season since conception....
Hundreds turn out to see Flying Tiger in Chino - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | CHINO -- Hundreds 
WWII pilot flew in treacherous conditions - The Desert Sun | William Edelen was determined to take control of his destiny before the military imposed its will on him. The year was 1943. Edelen was a young man in Stephenville, Texas and the United States was fully engaged in World War II.“I knew I didn’t want to be drafted,” he said. “I couldn’t imagine being drafted into the Army....
World War II Pilot Flies Again - CBS Local | MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A World War II veteran takes up an opportunity to step back in history with a commemorative flight on a plane he learned to fly some 70 years ago. John Rewey was trained on a B-25 and was a co-pilot on one for a short time before he was assigned on a B-24 crew. He flew 35 bombing missions over France and Germany....
HARS Receives Multi-Million Dollar Donation to Keep its DHC-4 Caribous Flying · Warbirds News | Milspec Services is donating more than AU$2.2 Million of brand-new surplus parts to help keep the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society of Illawarra, Australia’s ex-Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribous airworthy...
Aerobatic pilot is still winging it at age 77 - Seacoastonline.com | At age 77, Rye's Sigrid Baumann is a grandmother and snowbird who winters in West Palm Beach, Fla. But the senior citizen stereotype stops there because Baumann also pilots her own aerobatic monoplane and does "a lot of upside down" flying. "I love to do hammerheads," Baumann said, explaining that the airborne maneuvers involve flying straight up, then falling nose-down toward earth, then flying straight back up again....
Orion Taking Shape At KSC - The Aero News Network | NASA Working Towards 2014 Test Flight | The pace of assembling the Orion spacecraft that will conduct an unmanned test flight in 2014 if all goes according to plan has stepped up at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. Workers there are reportedly working on the hundreds of systems and key components that will be part of the spacecraft....
P-47s won't fly in Saturday's Shrinersfest Air Show - 14 News WFIE Evansville | EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - The P-47 Thunderbolts, the World War II planes made in Evansville during the war, won't be in Saturday's Shrinersfest Air Show. Officials with the Shrinersfest say Saturday's show will still go on, but these planes won't be involved. They tell us it's to do with the weather in the area where the planes are currently on the ground and it's keeping them from arriving in Evansville. 14 News is told that the P-47's performance in Sunday's show is still undetermined....
Pilots share their love of flight at annual fly-in - Seacoastonline.com | GREENLAND — Mike Paquin was tuning up his canary yellow gyro plane Saturday afternoon. A member of the Yankee Rotors based in Laconia, Paquin said he decided to treat himself to the adult-sized toy during a mid-life crisis. “It’s kind of like riding a dirt bike in the sky,” said Paquin of Hooksett. While his aircraft can go up to altitudes of 10,000 feet, he likes to hover around 1,000 so he can get a good look at things on the ground. Paquin was one of many pilots who flew into Sanderson’s Field on Post Road for the 22nd annual Yankee Ultralight Flyers Fly-In Camp-In event....
Solar powered plane on final leg of flight to NYC - pilotnewsmag.com | The cross-country flight is a tune-up for a planned 2015 flight around the globe with an up-graded version of the plane. | 
Doolittle Raiders vet , 97 , at air show - Battle Creek Enquirer | At 97, Retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole can still pilot a heavy bomber. Cole was at the controls of a B-25 in April during the 71st reunion of the Doolittle Raiders, marking the United States bombing run on Tokyo during World War II. “I flew it in April,” Cole said in Battle Creek on Friday. “I average about once every year or two, but you have to have an instructor pilot in the right seat. I didn’t want to get in trouble with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration).”He said during his career he has flown 300 to 400 hours in the B-25....
For members of Team AeroDynamix, flying is a passion - Evansville Courier & Press | VANSVILLE — For Team AeroDynamix, an 11-member, high-intensity aerial stunt team, they’re not just co-workers — they’re family. Lead pilot Michael “Kahuna” Stewart, 43, has been flying recreationally for the past 15 years. It was a hobby gone wild, he said. Stewart, from Charlotte, N.C., founded the team and has been flying with his teammates for 11 years....
Councilwoman Zapf to ask Defense Dept. to allow Miramar Air Show - San ... - KFMB News 8 | SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Despite air shows being canceled across the country, San Diego City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf plans to call on the Defense Department Tuesday to allow the annual Miramar Air Show to go on as scheduled this fall. Zapf aide Job Nelson wrote in a report that dozens of air shows around the country have been scrubbed because of budget cuts, and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar has not received permission from the Pentagon to host the event....
Phantom Pharewell Wittmund AB, 29 June 2013 Photo Report - fly-by.nl | On Saturday June 29th 2013 the German Air Force organized the Phantom Pharewell at Wittmund Airbase to celebrate the last operational flight of the F-4F Phantom II. The day prior a spottersday was held which was attended by approx. 3000 aviation enthusiasts. Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate, which made me decide to visit the openday on Saturday in stead. The day started very cloudy again with 
Saunders-Roe (Saro) A.19 Cloud. - Planeshots | "Here’s a nice Saunders-Roe Ltd photograph of the first A19 Cloud, initially flown on 16 July 1930 with the Class B registration L.4.. This aircraft spent three years in...
Sikorsky Challenges Youths To Envision Future Helicopters - The Aero News Network | Helicopter 2050 Challenge Carries A $1,000 Scholarship Award | Sikorsky Aircraft has launched the 2013 Sikorsky Helicopter 2050 Challenge, a national competition that invites youths ages 9-16 to envision a helicopter capable of addressing global issues likely to be encountered by mid century.
Commemorative Air Force, Minnesota Wing Museum, along with Hemlock Films is proud to announce that The Restorers – They Were All Volunteers has been nominated for three Emmy's. The pilot episode of The Restorers is based on the Commemorative Air Force, Minnesota Wing, their members, and their journey to the 68th Doolittle Raiders Reunion in 2010 in Dayton, Ohio. The Minnesota Wing volunteers are proud to be part of such an amazing series that showcases what they do best, preserve history for future generations to enjoy. The Minnesota Wing is based in South Saint Paul, MN and has resided there since 1971. The Restorers- They Were All Volunteers was nominated in three categories: Best Writing, Technical Achievement, and Best Documentary. The 2012 The Regional Great Lakes Emmy Awards will be held on Saturday, June 2nd in Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information about the Emmy's, please visit their website at http://www.nataslgl.org/index.php. 
was not as well-attended as in previous years. During the 2009 air show, about 13 700 people turned out for the event while this time around only about 30 per cent of that...
reconnaissance platform, capable of loitering in the sky for days, or weeks, at a time ... provided it's not really windy at its operating altitude...
Shuttlebration is coming. Photo via Tookies, the best hamburger joint in the Houston area (or possibly everywhere)....
“unknown” fighter of WWII for most of the public. Those like the P-38, P-51 & F4U are readily recognized in comparison. Yet, the P-47D was produced in greater number then the P-51. While not as “sexy” at the other fighters, the P-47D and its crews were a major influence in the European theater. The... 
'This is probably one of the first planes shot at during the attack' - KVAL | The plane bounced around from state to state until Kent Pietsch purchased the plane. He enlisted longtime friend and plane restorer Tim Talen from Jasper to rebuild the Interstate Cadet to its original form. Since June, Talen has been working to ...
Report.com | Eagle balloons balloon festival in December 2011 Airport Preturo For the first time at the Eagle air balloons take off, to d 'to 8' 11 December there will be a weekend at a high altitude for L'Aquila Abruzzo you can admire the scenery from 'high....Blue Angels overcome plane trouble in city - Sea Coast Online | ...The pair of pilots arrived at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease on Monday night, hours later than anticipated. The delay was due to a mechanical issue with their aircraft. The F/A-18 Hornet was once again delayed on Tuesday, after both Tedrow and Royles encountered a similar mechanical issue while taxiing on the runway....
Air show to return in 2012 with Blue Angels this time - The Journal Pioneer | SUMMERSIDE - After a successful 2011 show, the Atlantic Canada International Air Show is returning to the Summerside airport next August. The Air Show has been held in four different locations since 2003 but will be back in Summerside in 2012, said Colin Stephenson, executive director of the Air Show....
Blue Angels announce next trip to New England - WCSH6 | PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (NEWS CENTER) - The Blue Angels came to Portsmouth Tuesday to announce their Summertime plans. Members of the Blue Angels spoke at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease to detail the 2012 "Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show". That takes place in June and July....
Avro Canada CF-100 Mk 3 Canuck - Planeshots | Avro Canada CF-100 Mk 3 Canucks stand ready to protect North America from the “Red Menace”
Extraordinary slice of history comes to Shreveport - Shreveport Times | Shreveport-area locals have one final day to tour and even fly in a historic, restored B-17 World War II-era bomber. The Experimental Aircraft Association brought the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" to the Shreveport Downtown Airport as part of the bomber's national tour. A handful of enthusiasts took the opportunity to participate in a "mission flight" in the craft Tuesday morning to experience the piece of history as only the airmen of the 1940s could....
recall, as a boy, when I saw the Vought F7U Cutlass model kit. The fighter looked futuristic, slick and the pilot sat high with a commanding view all around. I was too young to realize the troubled history of the aircraft. The Cutlass was an evolutionary transition from straight wing jets to swept wing jets as turbojets were now the future, instead of piston engines, for high performance combat aircraft. The U.S. Navy needed a high performance fighter quickly and Vought designed the F7U. Though turbojets would be the future they were unreliable and the Cutlass was underpowered though it had a pair of Westinghouse turbojet engines. The original engines did not come to be so lesser performing....
Rock-it and roll: Students celebrate the anniversary of first man in space - Russian Yuri Gagarin - Daily Mail | It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. So it's no surprise that people in Russia have been out in full force celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin...
The Family He Left Behind - Air & Space | This month the heirs of Yuri Gagarin will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his flight into orbit. They are his daughters and his widow, his nieces and cousins, his space-going peers, his former rivals, millions of us who knew him only from black-and-white newsreels as the first man in space...
Celebrating 50 Years of Human Spaceflight - The Launch Pad | Tomorrow is April 12. This is a date that most space geeks have committed to memory like it's their mother's birthday -- you just don't forget it. It is a landmark day in the history of human space exploration when Yuri Gagarin exclaimed, "Poehali!" (Let's go!) and became the first man to orbit the earth in 1961...
Legendary rocket propulsion icon Frank Kosdon passes away - Rocketry Planet | VENTURA, California USA — The year is 1961 and a student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, destined to make an impact on the rocket propulsion industry, is recognized at a luncheon where Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was the guest speaker...
Crews Prep For A Wet 'Thunder Over Louisville' - WLKY | LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Thunder Over Louisville is less than a week away. The air show will feature more than 60 aircraft both civilian and military planes, and the fireworks will feature the latest in pyrotechnic power from Zambelli...
Vipers, Sabre's, & Starfighters, oh my...... - Airline Pilot Forums | Moving things in still pictures...
Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 24) - Cencio 4 | Day 24 saw the quick and quite expected collapse of the African roadmap to halt Libya’s civil war: as representatives from the African Union were in Benghazi to discuss with rebels the plan for peace, including immediate ceasefire...
US naval aviation back on the rise - Flightglobal | Retired Vice Adm Robert Dunn remembers being called to the Secretary of the Navy's office. It was 1989 and the US Navy was still at the peak of its Cold War, 600-ship glory. Defence spending, however, was already in decline and the navy's top civilian, Henry Garrett, had a tough decision to make...
So You Think You Can Fly? Virgin Galactic is Hiring Pilot-Astronauts - MRO Magazine | Virgin Galactic LLC, the world's first commercial spaceline, is accepting qualified applications for pilot-astronauts. Pilot-astronaut responsibilities include the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spaceflight system test program in accordance with government regulations...
T*C P-47G DX Latest 10-4-2011 - Stick And Rudder | Six pictures...
Sun ‘N Fun Photos - Joe Clark | Top row, the Blue Angels of course. From left to right, the two solos blowing around the area low and fast, the only way to fly. Center, the diamond breaking up from the south. Right, the six going to separate points on the compass...
Retired Fat Albert ,from the Blue Angels - FlightSource - Aviation ... by example@example.com (Flyvertosset) Description: Retired Fat Albert ,from the Blue Angels, Hercules C-130 with JATO bottles at rear (Jet Assisted Take Off), seen here at Pensacola FL. Word has it that the current Fat Albert will stop using the JATO from the end of the ...
A lifelong passion for winged machines - Israel 21C | A gallery of civilian aircraft and flight artifacts from as far back as the Golden Age of aviation joins the rich variety of ...
Aviation Hall of Famer Comes Home for Christmas - WSAZ-TV | He is the youngest army aviator in history to be inducted into the Combat Airman Hall of Fame in Midland, Texas. It was an award that Fox accepted humbly. ...
It's Not Earhart, It's Haizlip! from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | You've just got to laugh at the Reno ... something (The website says RGJ...but doesn't explain what it is. THe name of some newspaper, no dout.) Reno Man Has Rare Footage of 1933 film that may show Earhart In any event, on the front page of the site is a headline saying "1933 film may show Amelia Earhart" accompanied by a photo, which I reproduce, of a woman who is clearly not Earhart. Since when did Earheart every wear plus fours, or a skirt, or whatever this woman is wearing, let alone look so bulky…
Aviation Count-Down! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Fly It Forward Event continues...
High school students in aviation class – KRQE | Denman is one of about 80 students in Southwest Learning Centers' aviation program, which allows students to gain flight experience and eventually become ...
Is This China's First Stealth Fighter? from Wired: Danger Room by David Axe | They could be the products of a Chinese government misinformation campaign. They could be clever Photoshop jobs by Chinese aviation fanboys. Or they could be the real thing: the first hard evidence of the long-rumored Chengdu J-20, China's first stealth-fighter prototype…
An Interesting Story for Aircraft Buffs from LiveATC Discussion Forums - Listener Forum | Very interesting story, but it's not the only 747 that did not went to the scrapyard....
Sunday fantasy #277: Manolo Chrétien (spotted via... from x planes:Racing pilot loved the camaraderie - Indianapolis Star | Minerva Mahoney was born too late to be a pioneering female aviator. She was a toddler when Amelia Earhart disappeared. But she certainly did her part in ...
DVD Review: Biggin Hill International Air Fair 2010 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News by Flightline UK | Biggin Hill International Air Fair 2010 DVD Produced by Their Finest Hour. Available from Their Finest Hour priced £11.99 plus £1.50 P&P. We already know that the 2010 Biggin Hill International Air Fair was the last such event after the contract to hold the event was cancelled by the Airport. However, it is fondly remembered by many as one of the best ever Air Fairs ever with a superb tribute to the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. As such, we hoped to for a very high quality production covering the event…
AOPA 'Summit' A Success from Pacific Flyer | Nearly 10 thousand pilots and aviation enthusiasts gathered in Long Beach, Calif. Nov. 11-13 for the 2010 AOPA Aviation Summit. There, they heard from industry leaders, saw the latest and greatest, from aircraft to engines and avionics to pilot supplies, and attended more than 60 hours of educational forums. Hundreds more from the local community came out to see the planes on display at Airportfest, which was free and open to the public…
The Navy Corsairs by Joe Clark | Whenever someone mentions the name "Corsair," most aviation enthusiasts immediately think of the inverted gull-winged F-4U Corsair from World War II. A few will think of the A-7 Corsair which gained fame as a light attack bomber in Vietnam. Even fewer know of the existence of the O2U or SU-4 Corsair, the very first Corsairs…
P-47G lands! from Classic Aviation Worldwide by classic-aircraft | On 1st December 2010 a photo was posted on the Fighter Collection blog of their P-47G Thunderbolt resting on it's undercarriage. No further details have yet been released. Pictured below is the aircraft before restoration and during Classic Aviation's latest visit…
Owner of rare WWII pics sought - Topeka Capital Journal …1945, were anonymously dropped off earlier this fall at the Combat Air Museum at Forbes Field. Danny San Romani, curator at the Combat Air Museum, ...
Confident in the Cockpit During Three Wars – Patch | He ended up flying 108 missions all over the Pacific and compiled more than 300 hours in the cockpit, flying everything from tiny L-4s to copiloting B-25 ...
Video – The Original Four Horsemen 1960 from photorecon.net | Filmed in 1960 – The Four Horsemen were the world's only four engine per aircraft demonstration team. Flying four C-130As in close formation, the team would perform a number of maneuvers over a twenty-three minute airshow that closed with a bomb burst — or as the team called it, Horseman Burst. The show was performed [...]
A Brand New Airplane by Joe Clark | Many would not know what the Ryan NYP is if asked about the airplane in that manner. The NYP is one of the most important airplanes ever designed, built, and flown and today, resides in the Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC. While few know the airplane as the Ryan NYP, almost everyone knows the aircraft by its given name, The Spirit of St. Louis. The airplane, registered as N-X-211, truly is one of the most important airplanes ever to fly…
December 5 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite
New Calendar Features Women for Women from Pacific Flyer | A new page-a-day calendar for 2011 highlights achievements and events in women's aviation history is now available. This Day in Women's Aviation is published by Powder Puff Pilot, a Denver-based web retailer that specializes in gear and accessories for women pilots. The 2011 version is the third edition compiled by Sue Hughes, a flight instructor who founded the company in 2008…
NBAA To Support Hainan Rendez-Vous 2011 from Aero-News Network | Cross-Promotion Of Asian Biz-Av Events Intended To Help Both Succeed The NBAA and China Rendez-Vous will partner in the promotion of each other's upcoming events in the Asian region…
A-12 Avenger. AKA The Dorito! from Parrothead Jeff by ORPO1 Glenn | In reference to an earlier post. The A-12 was going to replace the A-6. It was a "stealth" platform. It was way over budget and was cancelled by then Secretary of Defense Cheney. There were only mock ups built. No flying prototypes at all. Weird. But then again is the northrop-Grumman X-47 UCAS. A carrier based unmanned attack aircraft…
The Japanese Balloon Offensive of 1944-1945 from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | On 18 April 1942, the Doolittle Raid on Japan not only provided a tremendous boost to American morale but it spurred the Japanese military to search for a way to exact revenge in the form of retaliatory attacks on the American homeland. Following the defeat at Midway, some in the Japanese military command realized that it was only a matter of time before the Home Islands would come under air attack yet no means existed for Japan to reach the North America which would remain untouched…
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Discovery Launch Off Until Late November from AviationWeek.com Space Channel
The pre-launch Mission Management Team initially braced for repairs that would permit another flight attempt on Nov. 8. ...
Air show gives Union County economic push, record crowd expected - WBTV
MONROE, NC (WBTV) – Organizers expect a record crowd for the 2010 Warriors and Warbirds air show. The Nov 6 & 7 event held at the ...
8th Air Force veterans to have reunion at Stuart Air Show - TCPalm
This will be the first time they reunite at an air show. “When we get together, we do talk about our experiences back there,” said Bill Uphoff, ...
Stuart Air Show ready to soar with new displays, features - TCPalm
STUART — The Stuart Air Show is ready to rev up the jet engines Nov. 13 and 14 at Witham Field for another year of military air ...
CF-18 Hornet to be Displayed at KSU Salina Event - KSAL
A CF-18 will be on display during Kansas State University at Salina's Women in Aviation International chapter's Plane Wash and Wax event next Saturday, Nov. ...
Cocoa Beach air show filled civic, school group coffers - Florida Today
The Cocoa Beach Air Show, which featured the Air Force Thunderbirds, started with a practice run last Friday, followed with shows Saturday and Sunday. ...
St. Augustine Air Show call for art - St. Augustine Record
The St. Augustine Air Show will be May 28-29, 2011 at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport in St. Augustine. The deadline for the poster art contest is ...
Aero-TV: World's Greatest Biplane? -- Steve McDonald Praises the Stearman
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Biplane Fever Comes In Many Forms... But Stearman Fever May Be The Best Of Them All! There is something about a biplane... especially when that biplane happens to be a Stearman... one of the most iconic bi-wingers to take flight since this whole shebang got going on Kill Devil Hill. ANN happened upon an ...
