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Photos: Air Show Flying Machines - Massapequa Patch | Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air was another incredible success this weekend as more than 100,000 people flocked to Jones Beach for each session. The aircraft at this annual event are spectacular, and the spectacle is breathtaking. Many representatives of  the U.S. Armed Forces were on hand as well...

Photos: Home Base at the Air Show - Farmingdale Patch | A look at the Bethpage Air Show weekend events from its launching grounds in Farmingdale...

Updated: Thousands turn out for Southend Air Festival - Echo-News | BARREL rolls, nosedives and loop-the-loops became familiar sights in the skies above Southend as aviation fans lapped up two days of aeronautical stunts and displays. The 2011 Southend Airshow attracted about 300,000 people to the town’s seafront to watch the spectacular sights overhead on Saturday and yesterday...

Honor Flight | For the WWII Vets (with VIDEO) - OkcHomeSellers | We need to honor the World War II vets. Unfortunately, we are losing them at a rate of 1,000 per day. My dad was one of those vets and great Americans, but unfortunately I lost him in 1964. I miss hearing his stories of the war in the Pacific, specifically Guadalcanal, where he served in the Navy Seabees. He had an influence on me that has lasted a lifetime...

WWII pilot, POW finds joy in life - The Spectrum | ST GEORGE - At 95 years old, Harold "Bud" Cannon is enjoying his life too much to stop for Memorial Day observances. "I usually don't participate," said the retired Army Air Corps bomber pilot and World War II prisoner of war. "I hold back and be quiet."...

History comes alive; WWII vet honored in Missoula - KAJ18 | MISSOULA- The Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History honored a handful of former pilots and ground personnel on Sunday to kick off their Memorial Day celebrations, and one of the men they honored is a 94-year-old combat pilot from World War II...

Last shall be first: World War II POW to lead 91st annual Corvallis Memorial Day Parade - Missoulian | Chuck Duus has always considered himself a lucky man. As an 18-year-old, Duus' luck held for 16 bombing missions as a tail gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress that struck deep over German territory in World War II...

Memorial Day Memories: Tosa Veterans Recall Service in WWII - Wauwatosa Patch | Some 16 million Americans served in World War II. Most of them were very young men and women when they entered their country’s service in the largest conflict the world has ever seen. We are now entering the year that, on Dec. 7, will mark the 70th anniversary of the United States’ entry into that war...

Inside a Flying Fortress - Air & Space | Compared with the B-29, the B-17’s navigation equipment was basic. The navigator’s principle tools were the air position indicator (an electromechanical dead reckoning computer), a drift sight, and an astrodome to take sextant sightings...

American good deed remembered -- and appreciated -- 70 years later - Star Advertiser | Military Appreciation Month in Hawaii seems the perfect time to recount a recent experience that defines military appreciation. As an American with a busy international travel schedule, I'm often drawn reluctantly into political discussions with citizens of countries I am visiting...

Aviation Inspiration Day Recap - Life on the Road as a Pilot | Last Saturday, May 28th, was the first ever Aviation Inspiration Day - a joint effort between Girls With Wings, Inc., and the Commemorative Air Force - Minnesota Wing, led by Squadron Commander Col. Amy Lauria. Amy and I had talked at EAA Airventure in Oshkosh about "someday" coordinating an event at the CAF museum... 

Love of aviation led to illustrious career - Winnipeg Free Press | George Elliott is being remembered as an icon in Manitoba's aviation history. Elliott, who was general manager of Winnipeg International Airport and later the executive director of the Western Canada Aviation Museum, died suddenly on Thursday of a heart attack...


Still Time to Register - Big Muddy Air Race | We will be taking registrations right to the end. Claude Hendrickson just entered with his beautiful P-51, Sarah Jean, so I just had to post this photo from the Texoma race...

“Piston” pack reaches 5,000 feet - AOPA Blog | The Martin Jetpack, really a piston-engine pack powered by a derivative of a Mercury motorboat engine, has reached 5,000 feet above New Zealand with a mannikin simulating the pilot. It should be ready for delivery, the company says, in 18 months...

Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth for Final Time Wednesday - NASA | Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to return to Earth for the final time on Wednesday, June 1, completing a 16-day mission to outfit the International Space Station. If Endeavour lands Wednesday, it will have spent 299 days in space and traveled more than 122.8 million miles during its 25 flights. It launched on its first mission on May 7, 1992...

Endeavour is Coming Home: Amazing Photos From the Shuttle’s Last Voyage - Mashable | NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station at 11:55 p.m. ET Sunday, embarking on its last voyage towards home. After undocking, Endeavour flew around the station at distances of about 450 to 650 feet, with crew members taking videos and photos of the station...

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Blue Angels and beams from WTC will be key attractions at earlier-than-ever air show - Daily Reporter | Indianapolis Air Show - The roar is back: The Blue Angels, which last appeared at the air show in 2009, are back this year. Accommodating the Angels' schedule is one reason the air show, typically held in August and then June over the past few years, is early this year...

Langley Air Show Wynne Hampton Local Ford Dealer - Ford Dealer Virginia | Wynne Ford in Hampton is part of your Local Ford Dealers and happy to have the AirPower over Hampton Roads Show in their community.  The show runs from Friday May 13th through the 15th, 2011.  Below is a schedule of events.  Please enjoy and stop by to see Wynne Ford of Hampton...

Kirtland Air Force to put on a show - KASA | KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (KRQE) - The air force thunderbirds will dazzle crowds with their aerial maneuvers at Kirtland Air Force Base. It’s part of the Kirtland’s open house to celebrate its 70th anniversary... 

New River Air Show This Weekend - WCTI | ONSLOW COUNTY -- At the 2011 New River Air Show, the Marines appear to be going the Canadian way. The Snowbirds, a Canadian military jet team, will headline this year's show with a nine-plane demonstration team...


CAF’s Red, White & Loud to take part in AirVenture - GA News | The world’s only flight-worthy Boeing B-29 Superfortress FIFI, and country music star/pilot Aaron Tippin will take the CAF’s Red, White & Loud Tour to the “World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration,” EAA AirVenture July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh...

Michelin inks deal with Rob Holland - GA News | Michelin Aircraft Tires has signed a sponsorship agreement with aerobatics expert pilot Rob Holland. Holland, the 2008 World Advanced Aerobatic Champion, will feature Michelin Air tires on his plane at the 2011 World Aerobatics Championships, as well as showcase his plane for Michelin at a number of air shows in 2011...

First F-35A formally delivered - Aviation week | he U.S. Air Force officially accepted the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from Lockheed Martin at its Fort Worth, Texas facility on May 5. The milestone, which occurred with the formal acceptance of F-35A AF-7, comes just under 10 years since the F-35 System Development and Demonstration contract was awarded to Lockheed...

WWII paratrooper skydives at 85 (With VIDEO) - USA Today | TURTLECREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Clarence Turner Jr. had open heart surgery in 1999 and knee replacement surgery in 2009. Before anything else happened, the 85-year-old wanted to realize a dream: A parachute jump, just like he did 65 years ago right after World War II...

B-25 Vets To Hold Reunion in Crest - CMC Herald | WILDWOOD CREST - Veterans from World War II and their families will be having their Eastern Reunion at the Pan American Hotel in Wildwood Crest this weekend, May 13-16. These veterans are from the 57th Bomb Wing. They flew B-25's over North Africa, Corsica, and Italy in 1943-1945...

RAF aerial photos from WW2 used to discover location of £500m Nazi gold bunker - Daily Mail | Historians using RAF surveillance photos shot by Mosquito fighter-bombers over Germany during WW2 believe they are poised to uncover a mammoth bunker containing the secret gold reserves of the Third Reich. After using photos and eyewitness reports from the time to pinpoint the spot, a dig is due to start next month in the Leinawald forest near Leipzig in the hope it will uncover the lost underground complex...

Naval Aviation: Breathing Life into Pilots and Passengers - DoD Live | This month we celebrate the centennial of Naval Aviation.  This is a huge milestone in the history of our service and I am incredibly proud of our aviation community.  For the past 100 years, Navy Medicine has been committed to keeping our pilots and aviators in the air and I am elated at the success we’ve had and the partnerships we’ve built within the community...

Lockheed Martin pledges $10M to Air Force Museum Foundation - Aviation Dayton | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. today announced its acceptance of a $10 million pledge from Lockheed Martin Corp. It's the single largest dollar gift the Foundation has ever received, according to the announcement...

1939 Waco popular bird at fly-in - Abilene-RC | A hobby of Jim Clark is to restore biplanes and his rare 1939 Waco bird was a star at the annual Abilene Fly-In this past Saturday. Clark, Chapman, said his 1939 Waco Custom Cabin EGC-8 was built for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the fore-runner of today’s Federal Aviation Administration...

Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame to honor outstanding youth - Milford Beacon | Wilmington, Del. - The Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame will confer its annual “Youth Aviation Achievement Award" this fall to the young man or woman who has distinguished himself or herself in aviation training, career development or participation in aviation community activities. Delaware youths ages 15 through 21 are eligible...

CHELSEA: Resident to be inducted into Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame - Heritage | Chelsea resident Captain Jim Mynning was enthralled as a child watching the planes flying over his home -- so much so that he hitchhiked to the Ann Arbor airport when he was 9 years old. There, his aviation career began. Pilot Roy Rice hired young Mynning on the spot at the airport to hawk rides in his 1929 Stinson SM-8A...

Earning her wings: Montana teen flies solo at Eagles Nest - The News Virginian | She started by biting her lower lip. Pre-flight jitters, mostly hidden in a stiff westerly wind that tossed the hair of a dozen onlookers. At 14 years old, Lillymae Gunick prepared Friday to do what few before her have attempted in their early teens: a solo flight in a glider plane...

V750 Unmanned Helicopter Can Rival US Counterparts - Gizmodo | Shiny and purple. It may look like a baddy chopper from an 80s TV movie made in a Foxconn factory, but it's China's latest flying machine, the V750. And it means the Chinese's aerospace industry is maturing dangerously quickly...

Endeavour's Launch Set for Monday ... - Black Horizon | NASA managers have set the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour for 8:56 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 16. Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses and Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach announced the date at a news briefing Monday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida...