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Canadian Snowbirds to Perform at Tillsonburg Regional Airport This Weekend * Am980 London News | The world famous Canadian Snowbirds will perform on Saturday and Sunday with gates opening at 12 p.m., and shows starting at 3 p.m. both days. In addition to the Snowbirds, CF-18 demo teams will also be on hand. Tickets and parking passes must be...
Historic WW2 bomber FIFI arrives for the 2014 Olympic Air Show * The Olympian | Historic WW2 
Experimental Aircraft Association to hold Father's Day Fly-in/Drive-in Breakfast * Quincy Journal | Experimental Aircraft Association #488 will hold their annual Fly-in/Drive-in Pancake and Sausage Breakfast on Sunday, June 15th. The fundraiser will take place from 7 - 11 am at the Great River Aviation Hanger at Quincy Regional Airport. Breakfast is ...
Father's Day fly-in, breakfast Sunday at Beach City Airport * Canton Repository | The Beach City Airport Pilots Association will sponsor its 30th annual Beach City Airport Father's Day fly-in and breakfast Sunday at the airport, state Route 212, just west of the state Route 21 intersection. This is one of Ohio's longest-running...
Air fair ready for takeoff * Kenai Peninsula Online | The fair is not limited to pilots, Food, live music, vendors and five Alaska Wing Commemorative Air Force aircrafts will be on display and offer rides, said Kenai Municipal Airport Manager Mary Bondurant. “It is an opportunity for people to show off...
Strother Field fly-in will be Saturday * Arkansas City Traveler | ... administrators have planned another stellar fly-in event for Saturday, but this year, a unique contest for teens has been incorporated into the deal. The seventh annual Melvin Current Wings and Wheels Fly-In is scheduled for this morning at ...
The International Council of Air Shows · Check out this "rough cut" for a new video with Skip Stewart Airshows and Kyle Franklin - Franklin's Flying Circus.
US Army Golden Knights * Brinn Black, song writer and country music singer from Nashville, TN joined the Golden Knights at Fort Knox KY, for a tandem skydive. Watch as she falls from...
HIGHEST AIR SHOW IN THE WORLD – DILLON CO By Ralph | Density altitude at six-thousand feet can be deadly for anyone, try performing an air show with ground level near 10,000 msl and density altitude at 13,000 feet msl. FLY-LOW attended the yearly air event and will share photos at this time....
The Patrouille de France welcomes the Mirage F1 Friday afternoon in the sky ... * South West (translated) | ...e Friday afternoon, the 118 Air Base Mont-de-Marsan honors the Mirage F1. After 40 years of career, single-engine Dassault left the Air Force. The last copies of this plane, still active in the squadron...
Hellenic Airforce returns to airshow with Phantom * Times of Malta | The Hellenic Air Force has 
Airplanista to Host the GA Power Collective at AirVenture 2014 #Oshbash Meetup * PR.com | ... Chancellor, Prescott Campus Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Dick Knapinski, Senior Communications Advisor, Experimental Aircraft Association; Dr. Peggy Chabrian, President, Women in Aviation International; Brittney Miculka, Director of ...
Reading World War II Weekend – Airshow Report · Warbirds News Article and pictures Tom Pawlesh. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s 24th Annual World War II Weekend and “Gathering of Warbirds” is one of the largest events of its type in the world. The show, held between June 6th and 8th, hosted dozens of historic vehicles and aircraft as well as hundreds of re-enactors. The perfect summer weather brought out large crowds of winter-weary spectators....
B-17 brings back memories * Lincoln Journal Star | “Yeah,” said Dick Miller through a mouthful of pastry, already ducking his head into the small door at the back of the 65,000-pound Boeing B-17. Then the 94-year-old hiked up his shorts, revealing the scar from knee replacement surgery in December, and ...
Bob Burdick flew as top turret gunner on Ventura patrol plane in Pacific during WW II · War Tales, Don Moore | Bob Burdick was a top turret gunner on a PV-1 Ventura patrol plane in the Pacific during World War II. The 88-year-old former gunner who now lives in Port Charlotte, Fla. with his wife, Maryan, saw combat at Tannin Island in the South Pacific, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Japanese home islands before war’s end. […]
Extraordinary aviator Jim Hazelton passes away * The Macleay Argus | A modest person, James David Hazelton was one of the greatest aviators and gifted pilots this country has seen. There are few people in the aviation community that have not known of him and the many achievements and contributions he made to general...
[Photo] U.S. B-2 stealth bomber suffers bird strike while landing at UK base · The Aviationist | B-2 involved in a mission launched from the UK hit a bird on landing at RAF Fairford ...Interestingly, while landing at the end of the mission flown the morning ahead of the 20 hr sortie, one of the B-2, AV-4 – 82-1069 “Spirit of Indiana” suffered a birdstrike, as the images taken by photographer Matthew Morris show (before and after the hit): fortunately, the “close encounter” did not cause any serious problem to the B-2, but it proved stealth bombers are invisible to radars…and birds.
YOUNG EAGLES: Kids 8-17 can fly free on Saturday at Reese Airport * Muncie Star Press | Saturday, though, he'll be doing far more sedate but fun flying in his Cub when Reese Airport hosts the Young Eagles Rally, a program sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association, in which kids get to fly for free. Coordinating the event is Bob ...
Friday, June 13, 2014
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
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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 
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
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Eddie Andreini remembered on the Central Coast - KSBY | ...Eddie Andreini of Half Moon Bay was a veteran aerobatic pilot and he had connections to the Central Coast.... Friends say he was a true professional and experienced pilot, one who will be missed. "You are losing a good friend," said Michael Geddry, Andreini's friend and Director of the Thunder Over the Valley Air Show in Santa Maria...
Windy Travis Open House and Air Show draws thousands - The Reporter | Despite wind gusts of up to 35 mph, many onlookers at the 2014 Travis Air Force Base Open House and Air Show on Saturday seemed unfazed by the breezy conditions and simply enjoyed the myriad displayed planes, small to jumbo, props to jets, courteous airmen, visits to cockpits, flyovers and airborne stunts...
Solano deputy sheriff gets the 'ride of a lifetime' with Thunderbirds - The Reporter | "The black dot up there, that's our dad in there." Four-year-old Jackson Harris III and his older brother, Brody, pointed at the sky as an F-16 jet, Thunderbird No. 7, screamed by giving their father a "ride of a lifetime."...
Spirit of St. Louis Airshow: Sunday Wrap-up * The Aero Experience Team | The Spirit of St. Louis Airshow continued today with a variety of aerial entertainment acts that ranged from top-tier performers like the Blue Angels, Patty Wagstaff and Skip Stewart to warbirds and Vietnam War-era helicopters. There were so many...
Spirit of St. Louis Airshow: Rampside With Top-Flight Performers Michael Goulian, Skip Stewart and Patty Wagstaff * The Aero Experience Team | The Spirit of St. Louis Airshow provided aerial entertainment from a variety of performers, including three of the best in the industry: Michael Goulian, Skip Stewart and Patty Wagstaff. Not only did all three of these top-tier airshow stars 
perform their amazing aerobatics for the St. Louis area audience, but they also performed together in pairs several times during the weekend. The list of...
Spirit of St. Louis Airshow: Blue Angels "Fat Albert" Hercules Has a Style and Grace All His Own * The Aero Experience Team | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron brought more to the Spirit of St. Louis Airshow than the precision formation flying performances given by the six team members flying the F/A-18C Hornet jet fighters. The team's support aircraft was...
Spirit of St. Louis Airshow: Warbird and Cold War Era Aviation * The Aero Experience Team | The Spirit of St. Louis Airshow continues through this weekend, and we have just started to cover the variety of aircraft participating in this great Midwest Aviation event. The lineup for the airshow... More coverage
2014 Central Texas Airshow closes BY LARRY CAUSEY | TELEGRAM STAFF | The 2014 Central Texas Airshow wound up its spine-tingling aerobatic performances on Sunday at Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional Airport. Expected to draw 30,000 people, the three-day event had a good turnout, said Bonnie Tamres-Moore, VIP director, who has been with the show for 10 years. “Saturday was one of our busiest days ever,” she said...
Wings and wheels turn out in support of Wounded Warriors - Odessa American | Odessa-Schlemeyer Field welcomed the public for the first time to the second Wings and Wheels Fly-In and Classic Car Show Saturday morning. Airport officials helped raise funds for the Wounded Warriors Family Support with a raffle and silent auction. People gathered as live music played, barbecue was grilled and planes flew across the early afternoon’s clear skies....
The Frecce Tricolori back in Romagna * Translated | The return of the Frecce Tricolori on the 
Talladega Flyover Planes From Hixson Air Museum - WDEF News 12 | It's a T-28 Trojan, and it is leaving this small runway at Dallas Bay Airpark for a very big fly over, one of three planes provided to NASCAR by the Hixson Air Museum...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
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Birmingham News - al.com | PENSACOLA, Florida -- Chances are, you won't see Lt. Cmdr. David Tickle in the cockpit of an F-18 Hornet this year. But that doesn't mean the Trussville native isn't working hard at his mission as an ambassador for the U.S. armed forces. "We're focusing on community outreach," said Tickle, who serves as the lead solo pilot and operations officer for the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels. "We're still flying; we're just not doing public demonstrations."...Vintage Aircraft Weekend prepares for takeoff · General Aviation News Staff | EVERETT, Wash. — Historic Flight Foundation will host the 6th annual Vintage Aircraft Weekend, offering food, fun, flying, music, and more Friday, Aug. 30, to Sunday, Sept. 1 at Paine Field. Together with Paine Field Partners, Castle & Cooke and the Snohomish County Airport, Historic Flight Foundation expects as many as 65 pilots from across the Northwest to fly in, piloting a wide variety of privately owned vintage aircraft....
CAF “Celebrating America’s Aviation Heritage” 2013 - Photorecon.net | On August 17th and 18th, the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force held their annual air show at their Headquarters in Camarillo, California. With the lack of military air shows due to the on going fiscal budget issues, these events, held by our beloved warbird community, have satisfied our hunger for our love of aviation. While I myself...
Labor Day Celebration Set at Airpower Museum - Patch.com | The American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport is scheduled to launch a formation flight of historic B-25 Mitchell bombers and World War II escort fighters for a tribute flight near the World Trade Center and Statue of Liberty. The pattern was...
Middle East security expert to headline Curtiss Fall Flying Festival dinner · General Aviation News Staff | HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. — Middle East security expert Christopher Harmer will be the keynote speaker at the Curtiss Fall Flying Festival Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Glenn Curtiss Museum...
Amazing New Air Show Act -Good vs Evil - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Kyle Franklin talks a little about the new act, "Skip
Stewart and I have been talking about doing this act for years. It's a combination of an aerial dogfight/squirrel cage with pyro going off all over, jet trucks blowing fire left and right, all to hard hitting music and the story of good and evil. One thing that's...Over 18000 people visit MAKS-2013 Airshow near Moscow - Tne Moscow News | About 18,000 people visited the MAKS-2013 airshow just outside Moscow on the first day, the region's police department said in Tuesday. Some 1,460 police and servicemen were deployed in the area to maintain security and public order at the at the...
Bournemouth Air Festival: Unique heritage flypast will feature Vulcan, Meteor ... - Bournemouth Echo | UP to a million people are set to descend on Bournemouth over the next four days as the sixth annual Air Festival gets underway tomorrow. And Air Festival goers will be in for an extra special and unique treat this year. The display by Avro Vulcan XH...
Bournemouth Air Festival: One to day to go! - Bournemouth Echo | Fans of the Red Arrows will get to see their heroes at the end of the afternoon, alongside the Tigers parachute team, the Merlin helicopter and gravity-defying aerobatics from Gerald Cooper. From 8pm, the stunning Night Air programme takes off, with...
Take it to the MAKS - Flight Image of the Day | It’s probably not pronounced that way in Russian,
but we’ll not let language stand in the way of a good pun.
Anyway, here’s a fantastic image of the air display at Russia’s biennial
air show extravaganza courtesy of Rex Features...Travel Back in Time to Aviation Museum's AirFest - Cape May County Herald | NORTH CAPE MAY - The Cape May – Lewes Ferry has teamed up with the Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum to offer a package for Delaware residents and visitors to attend this year's 17th Annual AirFest at the Cape May, NJ Airport....
Community members gather to mark Ramstein air show disaster anniversary - Stars and Stripes | Franzjosef Witt, 73, looks at the stone memorial just outside Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for a moment after a ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the1988 air show catastrophe on the base. Witt's uncle, Mario Witt, perished in the disaster....
Fairchild AFB – The War Years, Spokane Army Air Depot - af.mil | The transition from Spokane Air Depot to Spokane Army Air Airfield meant chaos and confusion during the formative stages of an organization becoming a well, knit smoothly running operation. In June 1943, the first B-17, "Junior", arrived for repairs at the Spokane Army Air Depot....
The REAL answer to “What’s wrong with this picture?” - The Lexicans | The Connie in this picture is PanAm NC88858 landing at Burbank Airport in 1946. There are only 3 engines, #4 engine caught on
fire on climb out on a flight from the U.S. to London on June 18, 1946. The fire eventually became uncontrollable and burned through the engine mount, resulting in the entire engine leaving the airplane. The plane returned to the U.S. and landed with no problems....Speaking of Connies…. - The Lexicans | With the solving of Busbob’s Connie Mystery...
August 1909: First passenger flight - The Engineer | Cody continued in the record-breaking vein, building the world's largest aeroplane, the Flying Cathedral, which finished fourth in a round-Britain air race in 1911. The end of his story is sad but probably inevitable: in 1913 he built a floatplane, and...
Willow Run Bomber Plant Needs Your Help - Photorecon.net |There is an effort at the Yankee Air Museum to save part of the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Their currently trying to raise funds to save a portion of the old Ford plant that produced B-24 bombers during World War II at the rate of one per hour. This plant employed 40,000 workers during World War II. Willow run produced...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Air Assault Huey walkaround — Tampa - Travel for Aircraft | This park is located on the east side in Tampa FL on the northwest corner of the intersection of U.S. Hwy 301 and the Tampa Bypass Canal — just a bit south of Martin Luther King Blvd. This […]
Famous Hoax WWI Dogfighting Photos Sell at Auction - Warbirds News | A set of 34 famous black and white photos of WWI dogfights sold recently at auction in Australia for AUD$1,130 (+/- US$1,000), the only rub? They’re fakes. In the 1933, a woman who claimed to be the widow of a Royal Flying Corps pilot, going by the name of “Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburne-Lange” published Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot, which included numerous photographs purportedly taken in the...
KLAPMEIER, CLARK, WELCH Join EAA Board of Directors - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - Three aviators with extensive experience in EAA programs and activities have joined the top leadership of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) as the newest members of the EAA Board of Directors....
EAA Marks 1,000th Eagle Flight in First Year - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA's year-old Eagle Flights program, which provides one-on-one flight experiences and pathways for adults interested in becoming a pilot, marked its 1,000th flight on August 10 in Hickory, North Carolina. Bradley Bormuth, EAA 423388, of Hickory's Chapter 731, took Joshua Austin for a flight in a Cessna 172....
Saturday, August 17, 2013
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Skip Stewart- Bill Barber Award 2013 Video - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Aerobatic 
performer Skip Stewart, EAA 864349, of Wheeling, West Virginia, received the 2013 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship by World Airshow News on Tuesday evening during AirVenture at Theater in the Woods. Skip joins a growing list of honorees that reads like an air show hall of fame. Many of those latest honorees attended the ceremony MC’d by “Mr. Hollywood” Danny Clisham. Current 2012 award recipient, Matt Younkin also participated in Skip’s award....
A Different Air & Water Show On Tap - Chicagoist | ... But the show does go on. While many air shows were simply cancelled in the wake of losing many of their most popular performers, Chicago scrambled to add new acts to fill out the schedule for the 55th annual show. As in past years, the 2013 Air & Water Show will take place both Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at North Avenue Beach. As always, it's open to the public and free to attend. Those who want to catch the show without the crowds can hit the beach today, as most acts take part in a full rehearsal....
Lima Lima, other acts ready to show off skills at lakefront extravaganza - Daily Herald | John Rippinger acknowledges the danger. He flies his T-34 within inches of his Lima Lima Flight Team's five other planes during air shows. And that's why they conduct extensive briefing and debriefing sessions before and after every show....
Take off to the air show: Annual event includes performances from Team Aero-Dynamix - Jackson Sun | Vintage aircraft engines will roar back to life for the 13th annual Wings Over Halls air show Saturday and Sunday at The Veterans’ Museum in Halls.The event, open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, will feature a two-hour orchestrated air show as well as aircraft exhibits, said Pat Higdon, air show coordinator. World War II aircraft across the U.S. will be in the skies and on display both days, including the B-17 “Yankee Lady” from Michigan....
YPSILANTI: 40000 wowed at Thunder Over Michigan airshow - Heritage Newspapers | YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP — Thousands of people gathered at the Willow Run Airport this weekend to watch vintage jets fly through the skies at the Thunder Over Michigan airshow. The annual air show features bomber planes, jets and helicopters that date back as far as the early 1900s. Aerospace fans of all ages visit the airport each year, and tailgate along the surrounding streets, to watch these planes streak through the sky at alarming speeds with deafening sounds...
Planes, spectators plentiful at Milaca Fly-In - Mille Lacs County Times (blog) | It was a magnificent sight when this 10-passenger Cessna 208 Caravan left the fly-in and flew into the clouds Sunday at the annual Milaca Airport Fly-In. The plane was piloted by owner Wally Fisk of White Bear Lake....
Family Fun at Moontown EAA 190 Open House and Young Eagle Event - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | 8/15/2013 - Family Fun at Moontown EAA 190 Open House and Young Eagle Event Brownsboro ALABAMA- The sky above Moontown Airport will be abuzz with some 100 classic, vintage, warbird and experimental airplanes on September 21, 2013 when the airport welcomes the Experimental Aircraft Association Annual Open House sponsored by EAA Chapter 190. This free, family-friendly event is a unique opportunity for the public to rub elbows with amateur and professional pilots and explore up close a variety of light aircraft in a fun, laid-back environment...
Blue Angel commander lands first-pitch assignment at Tigers' game - The Macomb Daily | During his career as a U.S. Navy pilot, Cmdr. Thomas Frosch has logged thousands of flying hours and earned a chest full of medals for his airborne exploits. But come Friday afternoon, the commanding officer of the U.S. Navy’s decorated Blue Angels will return to Earth for a special assignment....
Vero Beach Air Show looking for volunteers - TCPalm | VERO BEACH — It’s been a long time since Vero Beach has hosted an air show, but that will all change on Oct. 5-6 when the sky over Vero Beach Airport will be alive with high flying aerobatics, daredevil stunt pilots, pyrotechnics and more...
South Carolina governor proclaims Aviation Week - General Aviation News | South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has proclaimed Aug. 19–23 South Carolina Aviation Week. The South Carolina Aeronautics Commission (SCAC) has partnered with the South Carolina Aviation Association (SCAA) to develop a week that promotes, educates and celebrates the aviation industry in South Carolina.“South Carolina’s airport system plays a vital role in the state’s transportation network and economy,” said SCAC’s Executive Director Paul Werts. “Not only does aeronautics support the development and maintenance of our local airports, but we try to promote and foster aviation education and connections to the workforce through economic development.”...
Tour the B-17 at Wings of Freedom - Daily Local News | Each year, World War II becomes a little 
Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame Gala & Inductions Ceremony 2013 - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | The Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame Gala & Inductions Ceremony will again take place on November 9th at The Embassy Suites Hotel & Convention Center in Murfreesboro. Following last years successful event, moved to Middle Tennessee for the first time, the TAHF Board of Directors decided to remain in Murfreesboro. Chairman, John Black said, "Acceptance of the move to Middle Tennessee last year was very positive, so the Board decided to opt for this more central location again in 2013."...
Spitfire Fly-Over Honors Tony Gaze, Australian WWII Ace - Warbird News | Temora Aviation Museum‘s Spitfire Mk VIII flew over a memorial service held in the Geelong Grammar School chapel in Geelong, Victoria yesterday, honoring the highly-decorated WWII fighter ace and later Gran Prix race car driver, Tony Gaze, who died on July 29 at the age of 93....
Remembering Flying Tigers war heroes[1]|chinadaily.com.cn - China Daily | The Flying Tigers Exhibition Hall in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality offers the latest collection of relics, historical information and pictures to Chongqing Economic Times, revealing little-known stories about the "Flying Tigers", an American air force fleet that helped China fight against Japan's invasion during World War II....
Chinese to salvage Flying Tigers plane - Xinhua | KUNMING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A salvage team on Thursday started to retrieve an airplane sunk under a lake in southwest China's Yunnan Province that was flown by the Flying Tigers during World War II. The Flying Tigers, officially known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force, was a group composed of ex-pilots from the U.S. military....
SPECIAL DELIVERY: Chinook Brings Plane To Camp Dodge - whotv.com | The newest addition to Camp Dodge’s Gold Star Museum made its way to Johnston Thursday. A refurbished A7K Corsair was dropped off at Camp Dodge via Chinook helicopter. The plane has been in storage at the Air National Guard base in Sioux City for decades. After cleaning it up, it was time to bring it to Johnston. It’s normally a 90-minute flight from Sioux City to Johnston. But when you’re hauling 18,000 pounds it takes a little longer...
2013 DVD TRAILER - RIAT | Our 2013 DVD is available for pre-order here and you can view the trailer below...
PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS - Royal International Air Tattoo News | We have counted up all the votes for our 575 photo entries and identified our winners. With three categories (DSLR, Basic Point & Shoot, and Mobile Phone) offering a top prize of 2014 Air Tattoo tickets, and runner-up prizes of 2013 Air Tattoo DVDs, there were six prizes up for grabs - but due to the high volume of outstanding talent on display, we have awarded an additional two entries with prizes as voted for by a panel of judges here at the Air Tattoo offices....
Alabama Proclaims August 17 Model Aviation Day Video - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | 8/15/2013 - Alabama Proclaims August 17 Model Aviation Day Video The Academy of Model Aeronautics is pleased to announce that the state of Alabama, led by Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, has declared August 17, 2013, as Model Aviation Day. Montgomery ALABAMA-The Academy of Model Aeronautics is pleased to announce that the state of Alabama, led by Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, has declared August 17, 2013, as Model Aviation Day....
Oban to see 70 year old floatplane fly 100 year old 1,450 mile challenge route to commemorate epic first attempt - For Argyll | At 10.30 on Wednesday 21st August 1913, A Sopwith floatplane 
Author to speak at museum’s Open Cockpit Day · General Aviation News Staff | ...At noon at the Oakland Aviation Museum’s annual Open Cockpit Day, she will share details of the drama and danger during this most violent time in commercial aviation. In addition, she will highlight sensational episodes she experienced between 1965 and 1972 in Europe, the Orient, and Egypt (during the infamous 6-Day War).
Area 51 -- It Really Does Exist -- Officially According to the CIA! - Milcom Monitoring Post | The CIA has finally acknowledged the existence of Area 51 in newly declassified documents detailing the area in the Nevada desert. These newly declassified documents...
Eglin AFB F-35 fleet exceeds 2K sorties, training presses on - Milcom Monitoring Post | By Maj. Karen Roganov, 33rd Fighter Wing Public Affairs EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- Airmen and Marines assigned to the F-35 Integrated Training Center at the 33rd Fighter Wing here have consistently flown successful training sorties and generated their 2,000th sortie Aug. 13 with an instructor pilot of the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 (VMFAT-501), at the controls...
Danny Boyle leads tributes to dead Olympic stuntman Mark Sutton - The Guardian - Team AeroDynamix | Sebastian Coe and Danny Boyle led tributes to Mark Sutton, the stuntman who was James Bond's stunt-double in the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, who died in a wing-diving accident. Swiss police were investigating how the experienced 42-year-old wing suit flyer was killed on Wednesday, after jumping from a helicopter wearing aerodynamic equipment and hitting a mountain ridge at high speed....
The man behind the real ‘Propwash Junction’ - AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points | Billed as coming “from above the world of Cars,” Disney’s Planes gives an imaginative glimpse into the world of general aviation. And while the animated film, which hit theaters Aug. 9, takes a few liberties with the story of a cropduster turned international air racer (it is, after all, an animated children’s film), it’s grounded in the real world of small airplanes....
Truth in animation - AOPA Pilot | Tucked away in a grove of evergreen trees, the rust-lined fuel truck had fallen into disuse. A visit from Disney filmmakers gave the vehicle new life, in a way, as a star in the animated film Planes. “That little one?” said Bob Leaders, owner of Leaders Clear Lake Airport (8Y6) in Clear Lake, Minnesota, when he heard that the truck had served as the inspiration for Chug, a friend and fan of the movie’s crop duster-turned-air-racer hero. Filmmakers had traveled to small airports across the Midwest while researching for the film; Leaders had no idea his privately owned, public-use airport surrounded by corn and alfalfa fields would be reimagined as Propwash Junction, the hometown of crop duster Dusty Crophopperin this extension of the Cars franchise....
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Skip Stewart to Receive 2013 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship
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| Skip Stewart (photo by Eric Coeckelberghs) |
Skip is known worldwide for his innovative high-energy airshow performances in his highly modified Pitts biplane. He is a master at grabbing the audience’s attention with his spine-tingling tumbles, ribbon cuts, and knife-edge passes. Skip has also been an innovator with multi-dimensional theme acts like Tinstix and flying under a jumping motorcycle.
Skip has been infatuated with airplanes as long as he can remember, and built remote-controlled models as a kid. But it was the flying of the great Leo Loudenslager, another Barber Award winner, which inspired Skip to set his goals high and eventually pursue airshow flying.
He learned to fly while in college and almost immediately began to learn aerobatics. He began his aviation career with a variety of jobs with commuter airlines and corporate flight departments, and eventually saved up enough to buy his first aerobatic airplane, a Pitts S2A.
As many do, Skip started out in competition aerobatics before moving into airshows. After taking an
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| Skip cuts the ribbon in “Prometheus” (photo by Jim Froneberger) |
Today, in addition to an extensive schedule of North American airshows, Skip is one of a handful of performers who flies worldwide, with shows in the United Arab Emirates, Australia, the Caribbean, and Latin America to his credit. He now has two Prometheus biplanes to help facilitate his wide-ranging schedule and has a new, custom-designed all-composite biplane under construction.
The Bill Barber Award for Showmanship began in 1986, and is awarded to airshow performers or teams that have demonstrated great skill and showmanship. World Airshow News (www.airshowmag.com) and the friends and family of the late Bill Barber present the award annually.
Tentative plans call for the award to be presented during EAA AirVenture 2013 at EAA’s Theater in the Woods.
Past Bill Barber Award winners include:
2012 Matt Younkin
2011 Rich and Dee Gibson
2010 Steve Oliver and Suzanne Asbury-Oliver
2009 Michael Goulian
2008 Bud Granley
2007 Dacy Family Airshow Team
2006 Danny Clisham
2005 Pietsch Airshows
2004 Bobby Younkin
2003 Jim LeRoy
2002 AeroShell Aerobatic Team
2001 Northern Lights Aerobatic Team
2000 John Mohr
1999 Dan Buchanan
1998 Patty Wagstaff
1997 Gene Soucy & Teresa Stokes
1996 Wayne Handley
1995 Bob Hoover
1994 Bob & Annette Hosking
1993 Red Baron Stearman Squadron
1992 Sean D. Tucker
1991 Julie Clark
1990 Leo Loudenslager
1989 Jimmy Franklin
1988 No Award
1987 The French Connection
1986 Eagles Aerobatic Flight Team
Saturday, June 1, 2013
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Podcast: Palmetto Mornings: 5/31/13 John Cudahy - WRHI By Freddie Hammer | The potential to lose US Navy Blue Angels, US Air Force Thunderbirds and other patriotic air shows around the country is imminent unless we get Congress to vote down sequestration budget cuts.
Video: Museums help Air Force grads get ceremonial flyover, despite sequester cuts - FoxNews | The 
sequester cuts have grounded the Thunderbirds and other U.S. military flight demonstration teams, but it hasn’t stopped Air Force Academy graduates from getting their own ceremonial flyover....
Skip Stewart to Receive 2013 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | EAST TROY, WISCONSIN, June 1, 2013 -- World Airshow News has announced that Skip Stewart is the 2013 recipient of the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship. Skip joins a growing list of honorees that reads like an airshow hall of fame...
Waterloo Air Show - 570 News | The Waterloo Air Show takes flight this weekend and the show will be teaming up with the Canadian Aviation Expo this year.The expo will be offering free flight lessons, and you can also purchase a variety of aviation accessories and products. Diana...
Flag Day, Western Music and Air Show Fly Into East County - Patch.com | Flag Day, Western Music and Air Show Fly Into East County. You made it to the weekend, now what? Patch has you covered for weekend events in East County happening June 1-2...
RARA 90 day rule from Wasabi Air Racing by Elliot "Stinky" Seguin | ...We are happy to announce that thanks to the unwaivering support of our sponsors and fans that flight testing is complete and the associated report for was submitted on May 30th, ahead of schedule....
WWII Airplanes Barnstorm Dillingham to Celebrate 100 Year of Aviation in Alaska - KDLG | Jeff Siever is with the commemorative Air force and flew in on an AT-6. "The first step in their flight training would be to fly a basic trainer, like a steerman, then step up to the advanced trainer, the Texan. This would have a lot of the same...
IAF inducts Swiss basic trainer aircraft Pilatus PC-7 MK II - Daily News & Analysis | The 
Plock Air Picnic in Poland | May want to cut/paste text to http://translate.google.com as the URL doesn't seem to work in Translator.
The Frecce Tricolori in Vasto: the event program - Translated | The official program of the first International Air Show in Vasto. The event will conclude with a performance of the Frecce Tricolori in Vasto on 22 and 23 June. Seduito of the complete program...
An era's return flight - Hutchinson News | The only B-29 currently in flight is Fifi, owned by the Commemorative Air Force based in Addison, Texas. Were Fifi to visit Pratt, today's standards would require completely restructuring the runway, Stevens said. But a flight in a B-17, some of which...
Museum slates Open Cockpit Day from General Aviation News | The Oakland Aviation Museum in California will hold an Open Cockpit Day and aviation paraphernalia fundraising sale June 16 — Father’s Day — to support its A-3 Skywarrior restoration project. The planes will be open for inspection from 12 noon to 4 p.m...
Legacy Flight Museum plans open house, free breakfast - Rexburg Standard Journal | The Legacy Flight Museum's collection of flying history is unique because all of the aircraft are in flying condition. The collection of airplanes, some owned by the city and some by private owners, are on display to show examples of civil and military...
One of the first Gold Star Wives dies - Tampabay.com | Mrs. Tedesco was one of the founding members of Gold Star Wives of America after her husband, a B-25 pilot, was presumed killed when his plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1945. She served as the third president of Gold Star Wives, a group of war...
Spitfire vs Bf 109 and F-14 vs Su-27: the difference is always the pilot from David Cenciotti's weblog | Not always the best aircraft is the one that wins in an air-to-air engagement. Most of the times it is the training the pilot has received and his/her skills, experience to make the difference: that’s why a well trained pilot with a less capable aircraft can defeat a more powerful plane piloted by a scarcely trained airman....
Belgian Spitfires from Let Let Let - Warplanes by Mick | In the late 1930′s Belgium had an interest in obtaining the right to produce Spitfires under licence in their own country, so in 1937 the Belgium Government requested one example of a Spitfire from the UK, this was to be used as a pattern aircraft. After talks between the two...
Airmen inspect bomber's 'bare bones' from Air Force Link Top Stories | With a career that spans across three decades and a warfighting reputation that rivals nearly every aircraft in the Air Force's arsenal, the B-1 Lancer has established itself as one of the United States' most crucial assets to maintaining air and ground superiority...
Friday, May 3, 2013
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News Magazine recently announced that ICAS member and air show performer
Skip Stewart will be the 2013 recipient of the Bill Barber Award for
Showmanship. Stewart joins a star-packed list of past recipients that includes... When Skip Soars, Summer Airshow Season Is Here from Featured by Webmaster | The name “Skip Stewart” has become synonymous with summer airshow excitement!...
Now, this weekend's events, summed up concisely by LiveAirShowTV:
Manassas, VA, Central Texas Air Show, and the Plane of Fame Air Show.
Jetman to be at AirVenture from General Aviation News | Yves “Jetman” Rossy, the world’s first jet-powered man, will make his first public U.S. flights this summer at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh July 29-Aug. 4. The U.S. flights are supported by Jetman’s sponsor, the Swiss watch manufacturer Breitling. Along with the appearance at Oshkosh, Jetman will flyin the U.S. at the Reno Air Races in September....
It's the 500th Episode of Warbird Radio LIVE! Tom Reilly fills us in on the XP-... from Warbird Radio's Facebook Wall | It's the 500th Episode of Warbird Radio LIVE! Tom Reilly fills us in on the XP-82...
SAAF Museum airshow looking good - defenceWeb | But Museum Officer Commanding Lieutenant Colonel Mike O'Connor is confident the 2013 edition of the airshow will be another good one and he is hopeful it will again get the nod as the best airshow in South Africa. The Museum currently holds this award ...
In case you missed them earlier this week, we had two great posts covering an issue that has had incredible impact this year, but first a link, where you can do your part:
Bring Back the Jets - www.bringbackthejets.org | Join the White House Petition to Restore the USA's Military Flight Teams
SEQUESTRATION! | PFLUGERVILLE, TX – May 1, 2013 – It was supposed to be something so horrible that it would force lawmakers to strike a deal on budgetary restraint! Yes, you should probably never see “lawmakers” and “budgetary restraint” in the same sentence. Needless to say Sequestration was forced on the American people and air shows were among those who got hit...No military at Air Show; Cutbacks cited in pullout from annual event.Show won ... - Avionics Intelligence | DAYTON - For the first time in the four-decade history of the Vectren Dayton Air Show, the military won't provide support for the June 22-23 event, which means no Air Force or Navy fighter demonstrations or modern military aircraft displays, a top air ...
Sequester and Airshows - What Happens Next... | We recently learned that the Blue Angels, the USAF Thunderbirds, the Golden Knights and all the Military Demo Teams have cancelled their entire Airshow season due to the Sequester. The Military will not take part in Airshows in any way – not static displays, not flying, nothing. This information has sent the Airshow Industry back to their drawing boards to see how they can move on from here....
Stunt plane forced to land on Long Island highway - Fox News | ...Newsday identified the pilot as David Windmiller. The stunt pilot was forced to land after his engine seized up at about 2,200 feet....Windmiller has been a professional stunt pilot since 1994. He is a former member of the United States Aerobatic Team....
Ford Tri-Motor Tours Set to Launch in May from Featured by Webmaster | EAA’s vintage Ford Tri-Motor heads out on tour in May 2013. (Air Venture Museum)EAA’s 1929 Ford Tri-Motor and its “sister” plane from the Kalamazoo Air Zoo will tour the country this spring and summer, giving passengers an opportunity to travel back to the early days of luxurious commercial flight...
Final Push Is On for Bugatti 100P Racer Project By EAA Staff | Scotty Wilson’s Bugatti 100P Racer
project has wide international interest and support, and is nearing completion in his Tulsa, Okla. hangar.About two and a half years ago Scotty Wilson, EAA 572551, of Tulsa, Okla., traveled to Oshkosh to examine the original Bugatti 100P Racer that’s on prominent display in the AirVenture Museum after being donated to EAA in 1996....[Photo] Three B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are prepared for a night mission from David Cenciotti's weblog
Last of the legendary U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom jets to become yet another missile victim from David Cenciotti's weblog | The last of the produced F-4 Phantom jets has been converted into a flying dummy target-drone for missile training. The plane was a part of...
Najla, The Winner of the Dreams Take Flight Scholarship, Spring 2013! from Life on the Road as a Pilot | We are so happy to announce the first winner for the 2013 Spring Scholarship Program: Najla Dorsey!
126 apply for Flying Club scholarship from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | One hundred twenty six applications from 37 states were received after Ground Effect Advisors (GEA) announced a scholarship focused exclusively on Flying Clubs. GEA expected 40-50. On May 15, GEA will announce 10 finalists for the scholarship. The...
NASA Teaches Aviation to Middle School Students - WBOY | ...NASA organized an introduction to aviation workshop Tuesday for Philippi-area middle school students. The students learned aviation basics, and saw the FSU Cessna land at Fairmont Airport. They then went Meredith Field for a more realistic experience...
How to fly from Baltimore to Venus...in 1928 from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick Stafford | io9 has an article on Robert Condit and his gasoline-powered rocket...
Space Center Houston | Today is a great day for Houston! NASA has officially transferred ownership of the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA-905) to Space Center Houston. Get ready for an experience so big, it can only happen in Texas!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Dayton Air Show will feature 14 spectacular acts in 2013
...Thunderbirds cancel due to Sequestration
Dayton, Ohio – The Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger will fly as-planned on June 22nd
and
23rd despite budget cuts announced by the military due to
Congressionally-mandated sequestration. A recent Department of Defense
memorandum confirmed that all military aerial teams will cease public
performances as of April 1, 2013. This includes the USAF Thunderbirds,
who were scheduled to appear at Dayton this year. The Air Show had hoped
that Congress would reach an agreement permitting the military jet
teams to fly, but with the April 1st deadline rapidly approaching, such
an agreement appears unlikely.
This year's show will feature a spectacular lineup of some of the nation’s top attractions. A total of 14 acts will fly each day in the feature show, including: “FIFI”, the only flying B-29 in the world, will create a "Great Wall of Fire" atomic bombing reenactment; there will be both a MiG-17 and an F-86 Sabre flying demonstration; the AeroShell Formation Aerobatic Team will perform; Melissa Pemberton’s Edge 540 flying aerobatics will be on display; Skip Stewart will perform high energy aerobatics; Jane Wicker Wing Walking will risk all; and the "School Time" jet-powered school bus will roar down the runway at 300+mph.
"With such a tremendous lineup of top attractions already in place, we felt it was important to continue the 38-year tradition of Dayton and move forward with the 2013 show," stated Michael Emoff, United States Air and Trade Show Board of Trustees Chairman. "We think spectators will be excited by not only the thrills of these professional acts, but also with the overall quality of this year's show both in the air and on the ground," he added.
In addition to previously planned attractions, Air Show officials announced today the addition of the following new features:
One of the most famed fighters of WWII is the F4U-5N Corsair and Vectren Dayton Air Show spectators will get to witness this unique gull-winged aircraft both in flight as well as on static display. The first U.S. fighter to fly at 400 mph in level flight, the Corsair was designed for aircraft carrier-based service. Called “Whistling Death” for the distinctive sound the engines of the Corsair made in a dive, US Marines referred to the Corsair as their best friend for the excellent air support it provided when troops were pinned down on the ground. Dave Folk will fly the Corsair, which is housed in Greenwood, Mississippi in the winter and Kalamazoo, Michigan in the summer.
The Warbird Heritage Foundation’s A-4B Skyhawk, flown by Paul Wood of Waukegan, IL will return to Dayton after its first appearance in 2012. The Skyhawk was a light bomber/attack aircraft flown by both Vice Admiral James Stockdale and LCDR John McCain (now Senator McCain) during the Vietnam War. The Skyhawk appearing at the 2013 Vectren Dayton Air Show is painted to represent aircraft BuNo 148609 flown by LCDR Ted Swartz, who shot down a MiG-17 over North Vietnam with an unguided ZUNI rocket. This was the only air-to-air kill by a Skyhawk during the entire Vietnam War.
Team Fastrax, a world-class skydiving team located in Middletown, Ohio has also been added to the 2013 Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger lineup. To be considered as a Demo Team member, individuals must first have at least 1,000 jumps and meet stringent professional standards. As a result, Air Show spectators will witness a thrilling collection of precision maneuvers that display the ultimate skill in skydiving. Kicking off the show each day with a 7,500 square foot U.S. flag (the world’s largest), Team Fastrax is sure to leave a lasting impression on Air Show spectators as the team has performed around the world and at high profile venues such as NASCAR, the NFL and MLB.
Along with historic aircraft flying each day, the Vectren Dayton Air Show will present an impressive number of classic aircraft on the ground. Recently added to static display are the Douglas C-54 Skymaster “Spirit of Freedom” and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Diamond Lil”. Each of these storied aircraft served at various times for the US military during WWII: the C-54 was made famous in the Berlin Airlift and the B-24 was used in both the European and Pacific theaters. Spectators are sure to enjoy close-up views and tours of these amazing aircraft of yesteryear.
Tickets for the popular Chairman’s Club, Dannon Pavilion, Family 4 Pack, and Blue Sky Chalet are now on sale, offering an attractive range of seating options. Tickets can be conveniently purchased through the show website at www.daytonairshow.com. Many of these venues sell out early, so don’t wait to get your tickets!
Beginning May 13, 2013, deep discount general admission tickets will also be available for purchase at over 100 Kroger stores in the Dayton-Cincinnati region.
The Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger is produced by the United States Air and Trade Show, Inc, a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit Ohio Corporation that relies on sponsorship and community support to offset the cost of producing the event. The Dayton/Montgomery Convention and Visitors Bureau estimates that the show has a $3.2 million annual economic impact on the region.
For more information on performers:
F4N-5N Corsair
A-4B Skyhawk
Team Fastrax
Founded in 1975, the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger is one of America’s premier air shows. The Air Show showcases world-class aerobatic champions, military jet demonstrations and entertainment for the whole family celebrating Dayton’s aviation heritage as home of the Wright Brothers, National Museum of the US Air Force and Wright Patterson AFB. For more information visit www.daytonairshow.com
Friday, March 1, 2013
Vectren Dayton Air Show adds attractions... Thunderbirds expected to perform despite cuts
Appearing for the first time in Dayton will be the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, a high-subsonic fighter jet aircraft used by the North Vietnamese as their primary Air Force interceptor during the Vietnam War. Piloting the MiG-17 will be Randy Ball of Tyler, Texas. Randy is the only pilot in North America (Civilian or Military) to hold an FAA Unlimited Aerobatic rating for both Day and Night jet fighter performances, and he is one of the most internationally recognized aerobatic pilots of jet aircraft. Powered by a Klimov VK-1F afterburning turbojet engine enabling a top speed of 711 mph, the MiG-17 became a formidable foe to U.S. pilots during the early years of the Vietnam conflict. In addition to flying, the MiG-17 will also be on static display.
The famed North American F-86 Sabre jet will also display its capabilities in Dayton this summer. The Sabre entered USAF service in 1949, becoming the primary U.S. air combat fighter in the Korean War. Like the MiG-17, the F-86 will fly as well as be featured on static display. Powered by a General Electric J47-GE-27 turbojet with a top speed of 687 mph, the F-86 was the fastest U.S. aircraft of its time. Notable American pilots flying the Sabre during their careers included Major John Glenn, Colonel Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Lt. Colonel Virgil "Gus" Grissom. The F-86 at Dayton will be flown by veteran pilot Paul R. Wood, founder of the Warbird Heritage Foundation in Waukegan, IL. This is a beautiful aircraft that spectators won't want to miss.
Also added to the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger lineup is the "Great Wall of Fire”, a spectacular display of explosive excitement. Rich's Incredible Pyro will stage this amazing pyrotechnics display as a reenactment of the world's first atomic bomb drop. The performance is completed with the only flying B-29 Superfortress, "FIFI", making a rare in-flight appearance to stage the drop. Previously announced in December, "FIFI" is flying in the show as well as being on static display. The B-29 heavy bomber "Enola Gay" is credited with ending WWII when it dropped the first atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. Spectators will have an exciting opportunity to see, hear (and FEEL!) the reenactment of this historic event. The "Great Wall of Fire" is the creation of renowned special effects’ expert, Rich Gibson, call sign "Dynamite Boss".
History comes alive as Jane Wicker brings the Barnstorming era to Dayton with her heart-stopping wing walking performance. Jane is not your average wing walker. She will demonstrate the daring and breath-taking art of wing walking from the Golden Age of Aviation in a way never before seen in Dayton. Wing riding is not for this damsel; her wing walking style is the real thing. With no safety line and no parachute, Jane amazes the crowd by climbing, walking, and hanging all over her beautiful 450 HP Stearman aircraft that she affectionately calls “Aurora”. Not only will she be on top of the airplane during aerobatic maneuvers, including inverted flight, but you will also see her climb between the wings and witness moves that no other wing walker is brave enough to try. Spectators are sure to gasp as this daredevil demonstrates in true form the unbelievable art of wing walking.
“These are awesome additions to our 2013 lineup,” stated Michael Emoff, Chairman of the United States Air & Trade Show Board of Trustees, producers of the event. “We have put together one of the most diverse and entertaining shows ever seen in Dayton. Watch for more announcements in coming weeks as we continue to build the show program,” he added.
Show features previously announced include: U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Team, AeroShell Formation Aerobatic Team, Melissa Pemberton Edge 540 aerobatics, Skip Stewart aerobatics and the School Time jet-powered school bus.
As earlier announced, ticket prices for the 2013 Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger will remain unchanged from 2012. Tickets for the popular Chairman’s Club, Pavilion, Family 4 Pack, and Blue Sky Chalet are now on sale, offering an attractive range of seating options. Tickets can conveniently be purchased through the show website at www.daytonairshow.com. Many of these venues sell out early, so don’t wait to get your tickets!
Beginning May 13, 2013, deep discount general admission tickets will also be available for purchase at over 100 Kroger stores in the Dayton-Cincinnati region.
For more information on performers:
MiG-17
F-86
Rich’s Incredible Pyro
Jane Wicker
Founded in 1975, the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger is one of America’s premier air shows. The Air Show showcases world-class aerobatic champions, military jet demonstrations and entertainment for the whole family celebrating Dayton’s aviation heritage as home of the Wright Brothers, National Museum of the US Air Force and Wright Patterson AFB. For more information visit www.daytonairshow.com
