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Incoming! Blue Angels zooming over downtown Nashville tomorrow * Nashville Business Journal (blog) | If you're working in downtown Nashville tomorrow, it might be hard to hear during that mid-morning meeting or conference call — or focus on it at all. The famed Blue Angels air squadron will fly over part of downtown Thursday for a photo shoot. At...

17th annual Pylon Racing Seminar flies into Reno * KRNV My News 4 | RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- The Reno Air Racing Association announced this week that a record number of pilots and planes will take to the famed Reno Air Race course for the first time in 2014 during the 17th annual National Championship Air...

Thunder Over Utah to feature state aircraft enthusiast * St. George Daily Spectrum | Shortly afterward, Wursten bought his first aerobatic plane and has been flying aerobatics for 10 years. Although Wursten is a newcomer to the air show scene, the high-energy and high-speed aerobatics he performs are nothing short of aggressive and ...

Vulcan in full effect at Bournemouth · UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | It’s the news everyone has been waiting to hear – Air Festival organisers have confirmed the Avro Vulcan XH558 will be bringing its awesome roar to Bournemouth this August. Thanks to a collective effort by Merley House, Vulcan to Bournemouth and Vulcan enthusiast Stephen Young Lord of Westbury and Waxham, the only airworthy example of the classic Cold War bomber has been funded for a single appearance on Saturday 30th August....

Videos: Skip Stewart Flies UNDER Jumping Motorcycle... Or Is It Cody Elkins Jumps OVER Flying Airplane!?! · AirPigz | This well executed stunt last weekend at the Cameron Airshow between airplane (Skip Stewart) and motorcycle (Cody Elkins) is extremely impressive... but I think I like the view of Skip flying over the camera and making a mountain of smoke just as much!

SEE IT: FMX bike rider jumps over airplane in Missouri air show stunt * New York Daily News | The video features a unique stunt at the 2014 Cameron Air Show in Cameron, Mo., last weekend. FMX jumper Cody Elkins rides his bike along a ramp and jumps high in the air as a modified Pitts special single engine biplane, piloted by Skip Stewart ...

Congratulations to Bob Johansen, GEICO Skytypers... · The International Council of Air Shows | Congratulations to Bob Johansen, GEICO Skytypers and the latest winner of the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award that recognizes pilots for their half-century of aviation safety.

Midwest Airport Fun Days Provides Aviation Experiences for Visitors · Midwest Airport Fun Days concluded the first annual event at St. Louis Downtown Airport with cloudy but dry weather following a stormy Saturday afternoon. The ramp in front of Ideal Aviation and The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum was full of warbirds and fly-ins, and visitors were...

Nebraska Fly-In a huge success * York News-Times | ... June 11, 2014 12:00 am. Nebraska Fly-In a huge success By News-Times Staff York News-Times. YORK – Despite cooler weather, hundreds of people turned out this past weekend for the Nebraska State Fly-In at the York Municipal Airport. The fly-in event...

Organizers call county air show a success * The Henderson Daily News | A crowd of just over 2,000 enjoyed sun, food and plenty of vintage airplanes during the Rusk County Air Show and Fly-in Saturday at the Rusk County Airport. Rusk County Airport Manager Ron Franks and his volunteer team were lauded by the Rusk County ...

Folkestone Airshow may not return * Folkestone Herald | THE future of the Folkestone Airshow is unknown after the organisers admitted making a loss. About 180,000 people came to the event on Saturday and Sunday, watching the likes of the world-famous Red Arrows and Breitling Wingwalkers. A ticketed concert...

Concord to Pennsylvania: Female pilots' cross-country air race begins June 16 * Contra Costa Times | The Air Race Classic is not just the only cross-country air race for women, it's the only cross-country air race that exists. "In today's reality of races, yes, we have the Reno Air Races, which are very exciting, but that's a closed loop," said Dianne ...

Payette pilot competes in oldest air race * Ontario Argus Observer | Local pilot Brenda Carter, Payette, will soar across the country in her team's small aircraft competing in the 2014 Air Race Classic this summer which begins June 16 in Concord, Calif. and spans over 2,338 nautical miles. Racers will undergo briefings ...

China To Host Cross-Continent Air Race * Flying Magazine | Pilots of light piston airplanes are being invited to participate in the epic air race next year from Istanbul to the Chinese coast. September's qualifying race will cover a course from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, cutting across the heart of China to Xian ...

WWII bomber draws crowd to Cheektowaga By News 4 Digital Staff | CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – “Diamond Lil,” the world’s oldest flying bomber, is drawing a crowd to Prior Aviation in Cheektowaga. Some World War II veterans were at the site on Tuesday, which is where we met Silviu Dan. He was an aerial gunner on another B-24 during the War....

Lee Matthews Takes A Flight on the B-17 Used In The Movie Memphis Belle-You ... * KTOK | Bookmark and Share. RSS. Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 @ 12pm. Have a look at my video blog of a flight I recently took on an authentically restored B-17. So authentic it was used in the movie Memphis Belle! It was definitely a bucket list item for ...

PHOTOS: Warbirds soar over Reading at 24th annual World War II weekend * The Mercury | Robert Wood, of Phoenix, Ariz.; June Otto of Douglassville; and Ryan Wood, of Phoenix, Ariz., pose with their flag that has been around the world at the 24th Annual World War II Weekend and Airshow at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum held June 6, 7, 8 ...

Hot air balloons to soar during Van Wert County Fair * Van Wert independent | Jerry Mazur, organizer of the Hot Air Fest, a successor to the former Hot Air Affair created by the Van Wert Area Jaycees several decades ago, noted that, while financial constraints made having a third edition of the festival a non-starter, he helped ...

We've Got Your Six, Hero · Voices From The DC-3 | The formation of ten wheelchairs lined the jet bridge as we disembarked in Dallas after the flight from Paris. After ten hours folded into an economy seat, I no longer felt the need to complain about my minor aches and fatigue upon seeing that reminder. For each chair in that lineup represented a man who had survived D’Embarquement--D-Day--and the ensuing 70 years. Each one had made the journey to France for the 70th anniversary of the invasion, and each was flying back home on American Airlines Flight 49 that day...

The Kansas City B-25 Factory * Air & Space Magazine | This hastily constructed plant produced 6,608 bombers during World War II

Daedalus D-Day 70th Airmen & Airborne Memorial Service – Lee-on-the-Solent – 3 June 2014 | Avpics * Avpics - Phil Whalley | A memorial service was held at the Civic War Memorial on the Lee-on-the-Solent seafront in the evening of 3 June to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of D-Day – one of many such events each side of the Channel. The Memorial is located just a few hundred yards from HMS Daedalus, an airfield which played a major part in the embarkation of troops for ‘Operation Overlord’. Much of the...

Timeless Voices - Harold Olsen · eaavideo.org | Harold Olsen (1921-2009) was a B-17 copilot with the 95th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force during World War II. His plane was shot down on his very first mission, March 16, 1944, and Harold become a POW in Stalag Luft III for the duration of the war.

AMELIA EARHART EXPEDITION TO SOUTH PACIFIC WILL INCLUDE CRUCIAL CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT * Tighar | OXFORD, Pennsylvania, June 6, 2012 — The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is expanding the mission of its 2014 underwater search for Amelia Earhart’s aircraft to include vital ocean science data collection. As explained by TIGHAR Executive Director and Expedition Leader Ric Gillespie, “We have broadened the scope of this expedition because the craggy underwater mountainside that may hold the wreckage of the Earhart plane also holds the answers to questions far more important than what happened to Amelia. The unexplored depths off Nikumaroro contain information crucial to understanding climate change, the most serious environmental challenge of our time....

AD-4 Skyraider (BuNo:128988) Wreck Discovered In Florida · WarbirdsNews | WarbirdsNews recently learned of the discovery in April of the wreck of a long-lost AD-4 Douglas Skyraider in the Florida Everglades. The aircraft was located by the aviation-archeology minded volunteers at Aeroquest.org, and we have reproduced some of their photographs here for your interest. The group had actually been out on a quest to locate the remains of a TBM-3 Avenger which belonged to Lt. Charles Taylor, the commander of Flight 19, the infamous “Lost Patrol” of Bermuda Triangle lore. Instead they came across the substantial remains of a US Marine Corps Skyraider. The data plate they....

The Red Baron — graphically shown ·Travel for Aircraft | The Red Baron — graphically shown The Red Baron: the graphic history of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI, Wayne Vansant, 2014, ISBN 9780760346020, 100 pp. Wayne Vansant brings his history skills with the graphic arts to us with another enrapturing graphic novel, this one on the life of “The Red Baron”...

Cessna kicks off third annual Discover Flying Challenge · General Aviation News | WICHITA, Kan. – Cessna has kicked off the third annual Discover Flying Challenge (DFC) during a launch event here. Eight pilots will take part in this internship promoting general aviation and engaging aviation enthusiasts across the country.

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2 planes hit one another during air racing training in Reno, pilots not hurt - RGJ.com | Two pilots escaped uninjured Thursday when their small planes hit one another as they were flying during air racing training at Reno Stead Airport. Both planes landed safely, said Mike Houghton, president and CEO of the Reno Air Racing Association...

Solar Plane Makes Stop in Cincinnati Tonight - YahooNews |  A solar-powered airplane that is attempting to fly across the United States without using any fuel is en route from St. Louis to Cincinnati today (June 14). The plane, called Solar Impulse, took off from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport early this morning, and is expected to land at Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport around 9 p.m. EDT tonight, after approximately 16 hours in the air...

No Good Options in FAA ATC Demands - Alabama Aviator | From EAA- AirVenture's importance to GA overriding factor-- Facing a spectrum of unpalatable options, EAA today finalized a one-time agreement with the FAA to cover nearly $450,000 in expenses related to air traffic control services at the 2013 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in, which begins on July 29...

Thunderbirds use down time help make toys for children in need - Las Vegas Review-Journal | Tech. Sgt. Holly Mays and Maj. Michael Carletti of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds sand wooden toy cars May 22 at Toys 4 Smiles. The Thunderbirds are continuing to be active in the community even though federal budget cuts have prevented the group from...

Win a Helicopter or Plane Ride at the Father's Day Fly-in Breakfast - Madison County Courier | (Hamilton, NY – June 2013) Annual Father's Day Fly-In Pancake Breakfast will be held Sunday June16 from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Hamilton Airpark, 6610 Airport Road/Wings Way. The Hamilton Rotary Club and the Hamilton Business Alliance have again ...

Thrills will be sky high at Cononley Gala display by Red Arrows pilots - Craven Herald | One of the highlights will be a performance by the world-famous aerobatic team The Blades. They fly four Extra 300 purpose-built aerobatic aircraft, a display which showcases the jaw-dropping capabilities of the aircraft and the skills, experience and ...

Public gets opportunity to take a ride in B-17 bomber - KCTV | LEE'S SUMMIT, MO (KCTV) - The B-17 bomber is an icon of World War II. This weekend, not only can people see the legendary plane, they can take a ride in it. It's the absolute best view of the city from 2,000 feet up in a B-17 bomber, and if someone decides to take a ride, they'll be helping to support WWII veterans...

Vintage warplanes arrive in PA Monday - KONP.COM 1450 | Flight experiences on the B-25 are $400 for forward fuselage seats, and $325 for waist gun seats. Flight training in the TP-51C "Betty Jane" is $2200 for a half hour flight, and $3200 for a full hour. All participants will get the chance to feel what ...

Celebrating a small town, hometown hero: Audie Murphy Day to honor veterans, active duty - McKinney Courier-Gazette | Unfortunately, the town was unable to secure its trademark military flyover with jets; however, the Commemorative Air Force will kick things off at 10 a.m. with a flyover consisting of World War II-era aircraft....

Honoring Leaders of Great Moments in Aviation History - Alabama Aviator | Maxwell AFB ALABAMA- Hosting a crowd of hundreds for an after-hours barbecue brings the annual Gathering of Eagles capstone event to a close. The guests of honor includes the 2013 fifteen distinguished aviators invited to share their unique personal experiences. Traditionally, special aircraft representative of the Eagle's stories and experiences are brought to the hangar for display during the dinner. Family members of Eagles, Air Command and Staff College, Air University students and faculty meet together for one last time drawing this year's GoE to an end....

Wes Fields Earns Doolittle Raider Crest - WTVY | For the first time in 71 years, the Doolittle Raiders have granted two very special individuals the honor of wearing the sacred Doolittle Raider’s Crest. The organization’s own Wes Fields was one of the honored recipients. Up until now, the Raider Crest has only been worn by the Doolittle Raiders themselves and a small group of Honorary Raiders. Fields was awarded the Crest at the last Doolittle Raider Public Reunion that was held in Fort Walton Beach, FL in April...

Tony de Bruyn: Cotswold Airport crash pilot thanks medics - BBC | A Belgian pilot who was badly burned in a crash at an airport in Gloucestershire has returned to thank people for their "support and prayers". Tony de Bruyn, who flies with a display team, was injured during a practice flight at Cotswold Airport last July...

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Air Force Week in Photos - af.mil | 6/14/2013 - FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- 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.

This awesome video shows several U-2 crash landings (proving how difficult landing a Dragon Lady may be) - David Cenciotti | The U-2 Dragon Lady is probably one the most difficult plane to land in the world....

Anatomy of a hurricane hunter: When storms get personal by Randy Roughton Air Force News Service | 6/14/2013 - KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. (AFNS) -- During Maj. Sean Cross' first flight into what became Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, he and his WC-130J Hercules crew joked and asked themselves why they were even tasked for the mission. "There was absolutely nothing to it at that point," he said. By his second flight, the jokes stopped and were soon replaced by concern for their own families and homes after the hurricane crossed south Florida and entered the Gulf of Mexico on a direct path toward the Mississippi coast where the Hurricane Hunters of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron are based...

Airbus A350 completes maiden flight – Competition expected to dominate Paris Airshow - Kuwait Times | Europe’s newest jetliner, the Airbus A350, successfully completed its maiden flight yesterday, stepping up the battle with arch-rival Boeing for sales of a new generation of sleek, lightweight passenger aircraft. Watched by more than 10,000 staff and spectators, the aircraft’s curled wingtips sliced into clouds above the Airbus factory in southwestern France and flew over the Pyrenees mountains, with a crew of six wearing orange jumpsuits and parachutes. The flight, with two former fighter pilots at the controls, lasted about four hours and capped eight years of development estimated to have cost $15 billion...

Eurocopter Ponders X3 Helicopter’s Next Steps By Tony Osborne, Graham Warwick, Aviation Week & Space Technology | Eurocopter's X3 has claimed the unofficial helicopter speed record from Sikorsky's X2, achieving 255 kt. in level flight and 263 kt. in a dive, and raising the question of what comes next for the European manufacturer's high-speed rotorcraft concept...

Young pilot Jonathan Power, 14, takes first solo flight - Stroud News |  BANK Holiday Monday was a fantastic day for many reasons.The sun put in a rare appearance and it made for a beautiful day off for most people. But it was even more special for one of the youngest members at Cotswold Gliding Club. Jonathan Power, at the age of 14 has now fulfilled his long held dream of flying a glider solo and becomes the youngest person to ever fly solo at Cotswold Gliding Club...

Video: First Woman in Space: Valentina Tereshkova - Spaceports | FIFTY YEARS AGO: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman in space to solo pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft on the 16 June, 1963, becoming the first woman to fly in space and orbit the Earth. Tereshkova remains revered as a hero in post-Soviet Russia and among women and spaceflight advocates  of both sexes everywhere....

Russia to Unveil New Piloted Spacecraft at MAKS Airshow - RIA Novosti | NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 14 (RIA Novosti) – A mock-up of Russia's new piloted spacecraft will be showcased in August at the MAKS airshow near Moscow, Russia's space chief said Friday. The new craft, being developed by the Russian spaceship ...

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This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar!

EAA Agrees To Pay  - AVweb | Thursday, EAA finalized a one-time agreement with the FAA that will assure air traffic control services for the 2013 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in at a cost to EAA of nearly $450,000, but according to EAA Chairman Jack Pelton, "this isn't over." Pelton has described the FAA's position as "holding AirVenture and GA hostage this year." The FAA, acting under budgetary constraints created by the sequester,...

Four-Day Pylon Racing Seminar Underway in Stead - KOLO | The Reno Air Racing Association is holding the 16th annual Pylon Racing Seminar through this weekend. “It's designed to take brand-new race pilots and teach them the ins and outs of racing,” Reno Air Racing Association President and CEO Mike Houghton ...

Excitement Grows for Airshow in Thanet. - This is Kent | It has been twenty years since the last airshow took place in Thanet, and the return comes after the cancellation of the annual Folkestone Airshow. Manston Airport will play host to some of greatest modern and historic aircrafts.The show will be a ...

A couple of thousand people expected at Holdrege Air Show - Omaha World-Herald | HOLDREGE, Neb. — The skies above Holdrege will be filled with airplanes and aerobatics Saturday afternoon for the 2013 Holdrege Air Show. Event coordinator Dan Powers said he's expecting a couple of thousand people to attend the air show, which ...

Father's Day Fly-In one of many promising foothill events - Merced Sun-Star | This Father's Day weekend, foothill communities will hold events for families, dads and music lovers. It's Airport Appreciation Day at the Father's Day Fly-In on Sunday. At the Columbia Airport from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., vintage aircraft and WWII planes ...

All Lady Pilots To Start Cross Country Plane Race in Pasco - KNDO/KNDU | The 100 or so ladies manning the aircraft are gearing up for the 2013 Air Race Classic. The 2,500 mile cross country races takes off from the Pasco Airport on Tuesday. Terry Carbonell and Ellen Herr took top honors in this race in 2010 and placed third ...

Embry-Riddle Prescott, Daytona Beach Teams Compete in Women's Air Race ... - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | June 13, 2013 – Teams from Embry-Riddle's campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., will represent the university in the 2013 Air Race Classic (ARC), a four-day transcontinental flight competition for female pilots. Flying for Prescott are ...

The Women of The Air Race Classic  - Flight to Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday Flyers... Meet the ladies of the Air Race Classic

The Aero Experience Forms Partnership with The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum | The Aero Experience is proud to announce a formal partnership with The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum to promote Midwest Aviation from the museum's location at historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2, St. Louis Downtown Airport. The objectives of The Aero Experience and those of The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum are compatible to the point where a natural synergy has developed between both groups....

Planning - The Enemy of Surprise  - Rich Davidson Nordo News | ...No more than five minutes later we had changed lanes, taken the first exit, made our way to Bowman Field, and found, to our surprise, a familiar Lockheed 12A sitting in front of an FBO. It was our friend Joe Shepherd. Ginger and I had arrived so fast, Joe wasn’t even out of the plane and yet the surprise of seeing such a beautiful aircraft on the field was already generating a crowd....

Ray Jasica trained to deliver nuclear bomb to Russian sub pens during Cold War - War Tales | Ray Jasica, who now lives in Punta Gorda, Fla. was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in Marine Corps Aviation after graduating from training at Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1954. After he got his wings, he was sent to a squadron of F9F “Panther” jet fighters based at El Toro Naval Air Station in Southern California. […]

Pakistan’s woman pilot ready for combat - The Times Asia | Pakistan’s first combat-ready female fighter pilot has said she is fully prepared for her first mission and that she feels no different from her male colleagues. Ayesha Farooq, 26, is one of five female fighter pilots in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s Air Force, but the first to have completed exams allowing her to carry out active combat missions in her Chinese-made F7PG fighter jet, a variant of the Soviet MiG21....

Video: Airbus A350 XWB Is In The Air! (First Flight 6-14-13) - AirPigz | Airbus has put the A350 XWB into the sky for the first time today... and in fact, if you're checking out this post before 8:00am EDT on Friday 6-14-13 then it's probably still on its first flight! This initial test flight is expected to last around 4 hours....

A Successful Flight School Understands Their Responsibility to Educate and Inspire Young People - Dan Pimentel Airplanista | Ask anyone in the flight training business and they'll talk at length about the need to reach out to children and young people as a means to "light fires" for aviation, as we often say. Kids are the next generation of pilots, and everyone in the aviation family knows the future health of GA depends on these "young people" growing up to eventually earn their Private Pilot's license and replace a senior aviator who has lost their medical, and thus their flying privileges. We need to keep the ratio of new tickets to lost medical certificates at 1-to-1, or do the math...GA's pilot population continues to shrink year after year....

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Early results show drop in Rockford Airfest attendance - Rockford Register Star | Spectators watch the US Army Golden Knights Parachute Team during Rockford AirFest on Sunday, June 5, 2011, at the Chicago Rockford International Airport. By Brian Leaf ROCKFORD — Some 60000 people attended Rockford AirFest 2011 at Chicago Rockford ...

Airshow to take flight Saturday - Denton Record Chronicle | The biggest difference at the Denton Airshow this year is the addition of modern military aircraft demonstrations, made possible by a 1000-foot addition to Denton Airport's runway. “The [military] aircraft are heavy ...

Everything in order for Purdue pair in Air Race Classic - Journal and Courier | She and pilot Allison Springer leave today for Iowa to prepare for the Air Race Classic. / (By Jordan Kartholl/ Journal & Courier) After attaching decals to the right side of the airplane on Wednesday, Purdue University's air race duo opened the door ...

Purdue women air racers ready for Classic event - Media Newswire | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University students Allison Springer and Chantel Steele will participate in the 34th annual Air Race Classic all women's transcontinental air race from June 21-24. (Media-Newswire.com) - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue ...

RV's and Rockets at 2011 Reno Pylon Racing Seminar!  from VAF Forums by rvmills | This week is the 2011 Reno Air Racing Association Pylon Racing Seminar (PRS), and there are 4 RVs and 2 Rockets participating! I thought I'd blog a little here this week, to try and give our VAF family a taste of what its like to turn props on the biggest Air Racing Stage in the World!  PRS is where pilots earn the qualification to run in the big show in September. Pilots that have raced in the last 3 years or have completed PRS in the past 2 years do not need to complete PRS to compete in September. However, if you do not meet those criterion, you must complete PRS to race in the show…

UARC Air Racing Program Shuffles Team Roster, Dumps Controversial Pilot  from Aero-News Network | Event Spokesman Confirms FAA Race Approvals Still Under Way... BUT NOT YET GRANTED In a story broken last week by ANN and earning extensive concern and attention from the airshow and air racing community, we have confirmed that UARC (Ultimate Air Race Challenge) has eliminated controversial Pilot David Riggs from its program. First described as "Mixed Martial Arts with Airplanes," it appears that the fledgling race program is reshuffling its pilot roster in order to present a more conservative profile to an industry wary of controversy and the potential of bad press…

KPAE Paine Field: FHC's Fw 190 Debut Saturday, June 18 from kpae.blogspot.com | Earlier this spring the Flying Heritage Collection finished restoration of the world’s only original flying condition German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5, now on display inside the collection’s hangar facility located at Paine Field in Everett, Wash.  After carefully rebuilding the aircraft, the Flying Heritage Collection will debut the workhorse German fighter plane this Saturday in a free-to-the-public Fly Day event…

Veteran lamented role in WWII's end - Tulsa World | aviator Ben West: The Sapulpa native flew 35 combat missions as a B-29 navigator-bombardier during World War II. He delivered warnings of an atomic bomb attack and regretted the loss of civilian life but was glad to help end the fighting. ...

Cheraw Airport hosts breakfast fly-in - Cheraw Chronicle | The rest of the Fly-In participants flew mostly Mooneys, Cessnas and Pipers of various models and years. The South Carolina Breakfast Club was founded in 1938 and has continued every two weeks since then. Sometimes the turn-out is dismal if the weather ...

The 6th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships has started !  from Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI - by fca | The 6th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships started yesterday in Sweden. 47 pilots from 12 Countries are at the airfield of Arboga, enjoying warm hospitality and beautiful landscapes, to select the best gliding lady in three classes, Club, Standard and 15m...

Booklist: Callsign Revlon  from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Call Sign Revlon: The Life and Death of Navy Fighter Pilot Kara Hultgreen, by Sally Spears - In October 1994 Navy Lt. Kara Hultgreen died when her F-14 fighter jet crashed into the ocean during an attempt to land aboard an aircraft carrier. As the first woman to fly the high-powered Tomcat in a fighter squadron, Hultgreen was already a visible figure in the debate over whether women should serve in combat, and her death only intensified that debate. After her crash, sources within the Navy released documents to show that Hultgreen was an unqualified pilot who got through training because she was a woman…

Winged acquisitions:Chico Air Museum to attempt cross country transport of F-15 - Enterprise-Record | CHICO — The rich aviation history of Chico began in 1913 when 16-year-old Thaddeus Kerns built and flew a small plane in south Chico. It continued through the 1940s and 1950s when Chico Army Airfield was the training ground for thousands of military ...

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Solar flight hopes to pave way - Sky News Australia | So of course, the aeroplanes will make some evolution, it will not always stay so big, so light, so sensitive to the weather, but this is a first step, now we are showing that an aeroplane with zero fuel, just on solar power, can fly day and night with ...

Balloon fest is next week - Tualatin Times | As always, the sky will be dotted with brightly colored hot air balloons in the early morning hours, but Saturday evening the 2011 Twilight 5k race will bring a new time (and a new name) to the Bridging the Gap 5k/10k run. The race has been renamed and ...

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It’s That Time Again – PRS  from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography - The venerable, reliable and historic T-6 Texan is one of the highlights of PRS, Pylon Race Seminar that occurs each June. PRS is where aircraft and pilots who are new, requalifying or just getting in course time come to get ready for the Reno Air Races in Sept. Held at Stead airport, PRS is a four day event where all classes of racers are on the course. At the same time a select group of photographers are permitted on the course to photograph the racers…

Thousands expected at Hamilton air show this weekend - Stoney Creek News | Gates open at 9 am for static displays and the air show is slated to begin at 2 pm and run as long as two-and-a-half hours. The museum has brought back the Father's Day weekend air show after a 10-year absence. While he has more than 24000 hours of ...

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses chase each other through the skies...  from You like airplanes, too? | Two B-17 Flying Fortresses chase each other through the skies over 2008 Flying Legends Airshow. The lead aircraft is “Liberty Belle” which was sadly lost June 13, 2011 after a forced landing (and subsequent fire) in a corn field. Happily, all crew and passengers were unharmed and able to exit the plane safely. Photo by Pete. Full version here.

Smoke and flames at airport - Bundaberg NewsMail | But at the end of the day no-one was really injured as organisers of the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow ran through a series of emergency scenarios. They were making sure their systems were in place to deal with anything that happens at the ...

Air Force Armament Museum — a place to see things that fly and go BOOM!  from Travel for Aircraft | The Air Force Armament Museum is not really near anything or along the way to anywhere unless you are on US 98 going through the panhandle near Pensacola. That being said, though, it is easy to get to from either US 98 or I-10, and the panhandle possesses Florida’s most spectacular sand dunes and brilliantly white quartz sand beaches. It is adjacent to Eglin Air Force Base, requires no base access, has free parking as well as entry but no eating facility nor is there one close by — and it is worth the trip as fits a national museum…

Booklist: Wings Around the World  from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | WINGS AROUND THE WORLD: The Exhilarating Story of one Woman's Epic Flight from the North Pole to Antarctica, by Polly Vacher - Polly Vacher wanted to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world via both Poles in a single-engine aircraft. Her 60,000 mile voyage would take her to every continent. She prepared meticulously for two years and had garnered multifarious sponsors…

Local group offers aviation experience for youth - Carroll County Comet | The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 256 will host a Young Eagles Flight Rally at the Delphi Municipal Airport for youth ages 14-17, June 18, beginning at 9 am The rally is intended to create interest in aviation for young people. ...