This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar!
YPSILANTI: Mission group to dedicate plane at air show - Heritage Newspapers | YPSILANTI – Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)’s newest missionary airplane will make an appearance at this weekend’s Thunder Over Michigan | Air Show in Ypsilanti. It will be dedicated for service in a special public ceremony on Saturday, Aug.10, at 4 p.m. This exciting new aircraft will join the MAF fleet in Indonesia, where it will serve the people who live and work in isolated mountain villages. It will carry missionaries, medical teams, relief workers, Bible translators, and the sick or injured....
Air show bringing days of 'Thunder' to Metro Detroit - The Detroit News | Ypsilanti - Death-defying aerobatics and American aeronautic history will soar together during the Thunder Over Michigan air show this weekend at Willow Run Airport. War birds such as Fairchild C-123K Provider, affectionately called "Thunder Pig," and the North American Aviation P-51B Mustang named "Old Crow" will wow spectators along with two of the world's top civilian aerobatic performers, Michael Goulian and Sean Tucker....
Warbirds and Legends Airshow Takes Off - Flying Magazine | A whole new airshow concept made its debut this weekend with the inaugural Gathering of Warbirds and Legends in Topeka, Kansas. Sixty-one airplanes of various types and sizes were on display and flew over Forbes Field. But none of these flights included what airshow attendees have become accustomed to: aerobatics, inverted flight or wingwalkers. “This was an airshow that was not an airshow,” said Dan Gryder, one of the main organizers of the event. “We flew our airplanes but that’s all we did. We just flew around in circles and the public seemed to enjoy it.”...
Olympic Air Show focuses on heritage aircraft - The Olympian | Return to golden age The 15th annual Olympic Air Show takes to the skies Saturday, no small feat after sequestration grounded the Blue Angels and other military aerial demonstration teams. The show, traditionally held on Father’s Day weekend, was delayed to accommodate the schedules of the civilian pilots who’ll be the main attractions this year...
Abbotsford Airshow taking off without US involvement - CTV News | Families heading out to the annual Abbotsford International Airshow this weekend may want to keep their expectations a little grounded. That’s because so-called sequestration cuts in the U.S., which is struggling to control a $16-trillion federal debt, have forced the American military to cancel all airshow appearances across North America. As a result, the 51st Abbotsford Airshow will be missing fan favourites like the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels performance teams....
CF-18 Hornet demo team roars in for Abbotsford International Airshow - Abbotsford Times | Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet demonstration pilot Capt. Patrick "Flocho" Pollen is ready and raring to go for the Abbotsford International Airshow this weekend - literally. "I'm strapped into the cockpit as we speak," said the fighter pilot during an interview over the phone with the Times on Wednesday. "I'm making a quick stop in Cold Lake this afternoon . . . then zipping down to Abbotsford right after."...
Portrush Airshow set to welcome biggest array of jets - Coleraine Times | Coleraine Borough Council’s NI International Airshow sponsored by RSA Insurance will feature FIVE jet displays, including the world famous Red Arrows. Council also announces that the free event at Portrush will host displays in the sky never seen in Ireland before during both days (Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September). “The NI International Airshow is Council’s flagship event held annually in Portrush”, said Mayor of Coleraine Councillor David Harding, “this year will be a very different show as the majority of our aircraft will already be in the country ensuring that we have an event, no matter what the weather!..
Tortoli prepares Air Show Sunday, the Frecce Tricolori in Ogliastra - Translated | Next Sunday, August 11th many fans from all over the island will find themselves in the stretch of coast from San Gemiliano comes up to Cea to admire the extraordinary spectacle of the Frecce Tricolori, who make thrilling performances over the sky of Tortoli....
The Aero Experience at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Airshow Performers - The Aero Experience | Producing an airshow this year without military participation is always a challenge, even for such a huge event as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013. Whatever the odds, there were four-hour airshows daily, with two night airshows, featuring top-tier airshow performers from all over the country...
Flight Test Summary Video - Wasabi Air Racing | Here is the video we unveiled the airplane with at Oshkosh.
Rare World War 2 fighter planes at Fargo Air Museum - WDAY | Fargo, ND (WDAY TV)-- Two of the rarest World War 2 fighter planes still roaming the skies, touched down in Fargo today. This is "fifi", the only remaining flying B-29 bomber in the world. The B-29 will forever go down in history as the bomber that ended the second world war, as it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Along with the B-29, a plane equally as rare, the B-24, also flew into Fargo today. Both aircrafts will be on display today through Sunday at the Fargo Air Museum.
Presidential Lockheed Constellation “Columbine II” Seeks New Owner - Warbird News | The 
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress Swamp Ghost - Pacific Aviation Museum | United States Army Air Forces aircraft 41-2446 has made an immense journey. Seventy-two years and thousands of miles back and forth across the Pacific have finally brought her to her new and final home, Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor. She started operational life as a Boeing B-17E heavy bomber, delivered to the USAAF on December 6, 1941, just one day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She became one of the planes striking back at the Japanese in one of America’s first heavy-bomber combat 
missions of World War II...
World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942 - LIFE | Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, Allied forces in Europe activated the now-legendary VIII Bomber Command (often referred to as the Eighth Air Force) to serve as the principal American force to attack Germany from the air. Often in tandem with planes from the Royal Air Force, American B-24s and B-17s — or Flying Fortresses — from the “The Mighty 8th” would spend the next several years bombing strategic towns and cities in Nazi-held Europe...
WWII program set at McRitchie-Hollis Museum - Newnan Times-Herald 'Victory At All Costs,' a World War II-themed program, will be held by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society at the new McRitchie-Hollis Museum in Newnan on Aug. 17....Arrieta said she is especially excited about the involvement of the CAF Dixie Wing at this special event. As the Georgia chapter of the Commemorative Air Force, the CAF Dixie Wing is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to preserving WWII aircraft and teaching WWII history....
Real-Life Cropdusters Keep Northern Illinois Crops Healthy - The Aero Experience | This past 
weekend we took a family trip up to Northern Illinois to see family and attend a wedding. On the way North up I-55 on Friday, we saw a number of crop dusters on the ramp at the Pontiac Municipal Airport (PNT) so hopes were up that they would be there on our homebound trip on Sunday. As we headed home Sunday, we found the ramp at PNT loaded with 9 crop dusters and the airport staff kindly allowed us to walk the ramp and take photos. With the cool and somewhat damp conditions prevalent during July through mid-Illinois, the crop dusters were in the area spraying the area cornfields with fungicides to combat an emerging fungus problem....
Friday, August 9, 2013
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Blue Angels scheduled to fly, others not at NAF El Centro Air Show - Imperial Valley Press | “(The Blue Angels) They've announced the intent to cancel the April shows, but because we fell before the April 1 cutoff, we will still have the Blue Angels,” said Michelle Dee, Naval Air Facility El Centro public affairs officer and Navy Region...
Sky's the limit for daredevil Lara - The Australian | The brave 25-year-old performed a series of graceful poses as the plane swooped and dipped over the city after getting tips from the world's only aerobatic wing walking team, the Breitling Daredevils. "Initially I thought it was going to be a lot ...
Free Plane Rides to Promote Women in Aviation - ChrisD.ca | To celebrate Women of Aviation Day, the St. Andrews Airport is giving women and girls free rides in fixed wing aircraft and helicopters today. More than 600 people are signed up to take part in Women Fly from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Barring any...
Women's roles evolve quickly following World War II from Air Force Link Top Stories | ...By the end of World War II, women were fully incorporated into the military, although still primarily limited to mostly clerical roles such as typists, clerks and mail sorters, and represented only about two percent of the force. Less than a year after the Air Force became its own service, President Harry Truman signed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, accepting women as a permanent part of the military. It was the beginning of the Women's Air Force, and for the next 30 years would represent a separate, but equal part of the military....
'Women's History Month': Women in the Air Force - The Moderate Voice | She was the first woman in U.S. military history to fly the B-25, flying it coast-to-coast in record time, and was one of the first two women to check out in a B-17. Another group of brave and dedicated young women who served and sacrificed for their ...
The ‘Swamp Ghost’ B-17 comes home, unveiled in Long Beach - War History Online | More than six decades after a B-17 E Flying
Fortress ran out of gas and crash-landed in a Papua New Guinea 
Ohio memorial service, flyover honor WWII Raider - WTRF | Thomas C. "Tom" Griffin was a B-25 bomber navigator in the daring bombing attack on mainland Japan during World War II. The Cincinnati-area resident died last week at age 96. His death leaves four surviving Raiders. Lt. Col. Richard Cole is among them ...
Two enemies discover a 'higher call' in battle - CNN International | The B-17 pilot, Charles Brown, was a 21-year-old West Virginia farm boy on his first combat mission. His bomber had been shot to pieces by swarming fighters, and his plane was alone in the skies above Germany. Half his crew was wounded, and the tail ...
Aviation Collectibles - Greatest Generation Aircraft Auction from Another Time by Dan Linn | Collecting, it is what we do when we gather things of meaning and importance to us. Some like to 
gather memorabilia to bring back memories from times gone by. In this day and age we see numerous TV shows filling the cable channels that highlight people hunting, searching and digging for collectibles all over the country. Cars, airplanes, toys, antiques and all manner of items! Maybe to add that specific item to their personal ...
The Weekend Walkabout - Your Suggestions, Your Links from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...Because this open format always has a name associated with the time frame in which it is held, I decided (with Ginger's permission) the NORDO News "free-for-all" would be called "The Weekend Walkabout". During this time people are encouraged to send links to anything they find interesting. These can even be things that I would otherwise never post. And just like call radio shows, unfortunately not all things make it on the list because sometimes the lines are busy or the screener just can't handle them all. Yet, don't let that stop you from trying....
Ballooning Illegal In The Balloon Capital of the World? from Aero-News Network | Albuquerque, NM City Council Changes Zoning Code That Lacked 'Hot Air' Our April 1st, April Fool’s Day spoof is still a few weeks away so you’ll understand our confusion when we thought someone was trying to pull one over on us! Ballooning in Albuquerque, New Mexico Illegal? April Fools right? Wrong.
February Photos of the Month Published from FenceCheck Forums
Tiger Three from Apron 6 | Day three in the ten days of tigers. As promised a picture of the French Mirage 2000. Together with the Rafale certainly one of better looking planes during the Tiger Meet and still one of my favorite jets. The beautiful lines just look good from every angle. The paint on this plane was already peeling [...]
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Heroic Mission Ends in Heroic Recovery: Living History Event
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