Steven Point Air Show Cancelled Following Plane Crash - WSAW | A performer in the Steven Point Air Show is dead after his plane crashed while performing an aerial maneuver at the show this afternoon. One witness tells us the pilot was making what appeared to be a question mark in smoke trails when it sounded like the engine failed....
Thousands of air show fans welcome SkyFest return to Fairchild Air Force Base * The Republic | FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Washington — The SkyFest air show returned to Fairchild Air Force Base this weekend for the first time since 2010 when it was grounded by budget problems...
75-year-old Air Force veteran sees Thunderbirds for first time - KREM.com | AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash.—A Coeur d’Alene Air Force veteran saw the Thunderbirds at SkyFest for the first time on Saturday. SkyFest returned to Airway Heights Saturday after a four-year hiatus. The air show featured several demonstrations, including the Air Force Thunderbirds. It was the first time 75-year-old Del Still of Coeur d’Alene saw the fighter jets in action....
Video: Les Smith gets a wild ride at the Patriotic Festival * wtkr.com | Les Smith gets a wild ride at the Patriotic Festival
Flying with Fat Albert * www.wxow.com | LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - Before you see the Blue
ICAS: ICAS Member Scott "Scooter" Yoak shows us a different view of the Patriotic Festival - Virginia Beach, VA.
Pilot killed in glider tournament - thenews.pl | Sunday's collision occurred shortly before 1 pm local time, and witnesses have commented that the 49-year-old's parachute failed to open. Both gliders fell on the town itself, and the second pilot, whose parachute opened, was taken to hospital with serious injuries....
Golden Knights wow crowds at SkyFest - KXLY Spokane The United States Army Parachute team, the Golden Knights, entertained the masses at SkyFest 2014. The Golden Knights are comprised of 89 paratroopers. Sargent First Class Brian Karst has been a part of the team for three years. "There is no greater thrill or better way to bring the American Army to the American public," said Karst....
Video: Helicopter Day at the Strategic Air and Space Museum * Omaha.com | The Strategic Air and Space Museum held its annual "Helicopter Day" Saturday. And, boy, was it quite the show. The day began with a group helicopter landing at the museum, located about 20 minutes west of Omaha in Ashland, Neb., off of I-80....
Indy Fly-In builds dreams, offers second chances - AOPA Pilot | Austin Malcomb flew an Experimental Vans Aircraft RV-12 that he helped build in with his father, and met his grandfather, also a pilot, at the fly-in. Malcomb of North Vernon, Ind., earned his private pilot certificate on Jan. 4, his seventeenth birthday. He worked on and trained in the aircraft through Eagle’s Nest, a program in seven states that works with high schools to place an RV-12 kit for students to build and get three hours of college credit with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Purdue University, or Liberty University....
Red Arrows return to Lincoln after winter training - Lincolnshire Echo | It's a sure sign that summer has arrived in Lincolnshire - the Red Arrows have returned to the county ahead of the new display season. The squadron are back in the UK after a month-long winter training sojourn to Cyprus, and last night arrived at their home base, RAF Scampton, following an appearance at a display in Cornwall....
VIDEO: Red Arrows perform in Falmouth - West Briton | Barely an inch of sand could be seen at Falmouth’s Gyllyngvase Beach as crowds flocked to see a spectacular air display by the Red Arrows. Sunshine brought thousands of spectators to the bay at 3.30pm to watch a 30-minute aerial acrobatic performance from the distinctive red Royal Air Force jets....
3rd annual fly-in and open house for charity at Ferguson airport - WEAR | Hundreds of people went to the 3rd annual fly-in and open house at Ferguson Airport this weekend. They offered plane and helicopter rides to people who donated to a charity. The charity allows local high school students a chance to learn to fly. People waited for hours to get on their favorite aircraft.
For some it was their first time flying....
Historic biplanes flock to Stearman fly-in in Benton - Kansas.com | Owners of historic Stearman biplanes are gathering this weekend for a fly-in at the Lloyd Stearman Airport in Benton. The blue sky was dotted Friday with the Wichita-built open-cockpit planes as about 16 pilots arrived for lunch at a private airport west of Goddard. Some flew in formation as they arrived....
Females fly in for fun and fellowship - Northern Advocate | Helicopter hover, aeroplane aerobatics, glide approach and spot landings aren't your average Saturday afternoon games, but for New Zealand Association of Women in Aviation (NZAWA) members it was all part of their yearly rally held in Dargaville over the weekend. NZAWA treasurer and rally organiser Joanne Hales said 47 people came from as far afield as Dunedin for the association's 54th annual rally, held at the Dargaville Aero Club from Friday and finishing today....
Photos from the Reykjavik Air Show 2014 · Lisa All the fun from yesterday’s show in pictures! The annual Reykjavík Air Show is hosted by Iceland’s aviation association (Flugmálafélag) and sponsored by Icelandair and Ísavia. Live commentary was by Icelandic legend of stage and screen, Gestur Einar Jóhannsson....
Effortlessly fit: Godfather of aerobatics Peter Besenyei still feels 25 - The Star Online | Eating whatever he wants and only exercising when he has the time, this competitive air-racer somehow remains fighting fit and healthy. When it comes to staying healthy and fit, Besenyei is one of those people we desperately envy and love to hate. The veteran Hungarian acrobatic pilot, who will be celebrating his 58th birthday on June 8, reveals that he has stayed a trim 73kg over the last 35 years. At 1.85m in height, that puts him smack in the middle of the normal body mass index (BMI) range of 21.3....
Tuskegee Valiant Campaign – Plus Freshly Restored TBM Avenger · Warbirds News In mid-March, the CAF National Capitol Squadron’s BT-13 Valiant experienced power loss and engine vibration on the downwind leg coming in to its home field at Culpeper Regional Airport in Culpeper, Virginia. Thankfully the pilot made a safe, but effectively dead-stick landing. The engine is now with Covington Aircraft Engines in Okmulgee, Oklahoma for a complete overhaul, but the bill is expected to cost a whopping US$78,000. The National Capitol Squadron is now entering a fund raising campaign to gather the necessary capital to support the rebuild. The money will go strictly towards the contracted repair, overhaul and materials. Volunteers, including some of the Squadron’s cadets (ages 12-23) will provide the additional labor in bringing the Valiant back to health again....
Restored Iolar plane for Athboy air show on Sunday - Meath Chronicle Up to 80 light aircrafts are
expected to come from all over Ireland for an aerobatic display at a HB Hazelbrook Farm Ice Cream Fundays event on Sunday 1st June from 1pm in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland at a private airfield just oustide Athboy....Solar Impulse 2 Makes Premier Flight by Dean Sigler | Solar Impulse HB-SIB, the second aircraft from the program headed by Andre’ Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, took to the skies early this morning piloted by Markus Scherdel. Taking off from Payerne Airport at 3:38 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Solar Impulse 2 climbed to a randomly orbiting path within a 20-mile compass of the airfield to the southwest, Lake Neuchatel to the north, and Belleville to the northeast....
Dreams taking flight - Farm Weekly | ANYTHING is possible if you try hard enough, says retired teacher and pilot, Gordon McCaw. Sitting in a wheelchair as he addressed members and delegates of the 92nd State conference of the Country Women’s Association of NSW in Griffith, Gordon began to relate the story of one man’s dream – to fly solo around Australia....
Inside The New Dragon Spacecraft * www.popsci.com | The Dragon V2 Capsule can carry humans, dock with the ISS, and land on its own.
Musk Says SpaceX Manned Craft Can Be Ready To Fly In 2016 - International Business Times | Elon Musk, the CEO of private aerospace company SpaceX, said the company’s soon-to-be unveiled reusable space capsule, the Dragon V2, could be ready to carry astronauts by 2016. SpaceX unveiled the new craft Thursday at its Hawthorne, California, plant, Bloomberg News said....
