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Snowbirds return to 50th Abbotsford airshow - Abbotsford Times | Loved the world over, the iconic RCAF Snowbirds Demonstration Team will soar over Abbotsford along with a bevy of Thunderbirds, bombers, fighters and fancy fliers during this weekend's 50th anniversary celebration of the Abbotsford International Airshow...

US Thunderbirds ready to rock and roll Abbotsford Airshow - Abbotsford Times | The U.S. Thunderbirds have touched down for the 50th celebration of the Abbotsford International Airshow and they intend that waiting fans have a blast. Capt. Blaine Jones, who is the opposing solo pilot and flies the No. 6 jet for the U.S. Air Force ...

Helping the Snowbirds fly - Mission City Record | Capt. Thomas Edelson, who was born and raised in Mission, serves with the Canadian Forces as the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron Snowbirds' public affairs officer. He and the team will be in Abbotsford this weekend for the 50th anniversary Airshow.

Waco Mystery Ship Re-Build from Franklin's Flying Circus's Facebook Wall | The Waco "Mystery Ship" re-build after being damaged March 12, 2011. She's back on her gear! Everything has to be re-built from scratch. There's no buying new parts for this plane.

Red Arrows perform displays in Russia after 22 year gap - BBC News | The Red Arrows will perform displays in Russia for the first time in 22 years this weekend. The Royal Air Force aerobatic team has performed in the country only twice before, at a two-day airshow in 1990. The displays this weekend are part of centenary...

Impressive line-up for 20th year of Eastbourne airshow - Eastbourne Herald | The Vulcan Bomber restored by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust and 9 Hawks from the Red Arrows flew together for the first time since 2010, as they departed from the Royal International Air Tattoo and appeared in the skies over Hampshire to open the ...

Blades pilot 'Cutty' set to take to the skies in regatta aerobatic display - This Is South Devon | AEROBATIC ace Mark Cutmore will be doing his home coming when he leads a Blades team over Dartmouth. The pilot (pictured) will be the team leader for The Blades when they display their skills during Dartmouth regatta. This will be the first time they ...

Inside a Head-Scrambling, Upside-Down-Flying Stunt Plane - Popular Mechanics | Kirby Chambliss, five-time national aerobatic champion and Red Bull racer, performs his gut-churning air-show routine for the crowd each year at the EAA AirVenture Fly-In at Oshkosh, Wis. It's a gut-churning spectacle—an aggressive, low-altitude ...

Blue Angels Cancel Three Upcoming Practice Days - NorthEscambia.com | The Blue Angels will resume regularly scheduled practice demonstrations onboard NAS Pensacola Wednesday, September 5th...

Who We Are and What We Do: A Journeyman’s Letter Back to the Tribe - Airspeed Online | ...I discovered something this weekend. A TFR is perfectly fine as long as they put it there for you and you’re in it, wings-up and burning free gas. Long story short, I flew my first airshow this weekend...

Dayton 2012 Air Show By Mike Heilman and Joe Gust | The Blue Angels diamond flies in tight formation. The four diamond pilots will fly only 18 inches apart during several of their maneuvers. (Mike Heilman)The Dayton Ohio Air Show organizers had a tough decision to make when planning the 2012 show. Should they continue with the traditional third weekend in July or...

Airport to host fly-in Saturday - El Dorado Times | At 10 a.m., there will be an air show featuring a Hawker Beechcraft T-6C, and at 10:30, the fly-in pilot competition will begin. The pilots who come to the airport will compete in events including spot landings, balloon bursting and flower bag bomb...

New addition to Air Force's rescue squadron to be displayed at show - Focus Taiwan News Channel | 8 (CNA) The latest addition to Taiwan's Air Force rescue squadron, the EC225 search-and-rescue helicopter, will be one of many aircraft on display at an air show in southern Taiwan Saturday, the Air Force said recently. Purchased from France, the ...

Enterprise Considers David Shultz Airshows for Expo from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | ENTERPRISE AL- According to an eprisenow.com article, the Enterprise City Council agreed Tuesday to a contract with David Schultz Airshows to manage the city's annual Aviation Expo event.  Enterprise Mayor Kenneth Boswell said the company will be responsible for filing necessary forms with the Federal Aviation Administration, coordinating the expo including the airshow and ensuring all safety aspects are covered. "We felt it better to put it under one umbrella," Boswell said in the article...

Honor Flight Film Looks to Break World Record at Miller Park - Patch.com | The Brewers are playing the Astros in an away game during this event. "All seats are great," Dean said, "most of the program will be on the scoreboard and even seats up high will have extraordinary views of flyovers and Leap Frogs Sky Diving into ...

Biggest and best yet - The Bristol Balloon Fiesta takes off - This is Bristol | Half a million people are expected to attend the fiesta over the next 4 days enjoying the traditional mass balloon assents every morning and evening, an aerobatics show by the Blades, Spitfire flights, a new IlluminAir display and two nightglows and ...

Videos: The Pure Flying Perfection That Is The Piper Cub from AirPigz by Martt | Here are two short-but-sweet videos that give a little peek into the Piper Cub invasion of Oshkosh 2012 that celebrated 75 years of Piper's iconic little airplane. The Cubs had gathered at the...

Sunken machine guns 'probably from' US warplane - ABC Online | The Queensland Air Museum says three machine guns from a World War II plane found in waters off the Sunshine Coast are most likely from an American Vought Corsair fighter. The machine guns were attached to a section of wing that was found off Point ...

MODERN ATTACK AIRCRAFT RESEMBLES WWII FIGHTERS - A-29 Super Tucano, a counter insurgency powerhouse from Aviation by K.P. | Designed and built by Embraer Defense and Security, the EMB-314 Super Tucano (also named ALX and A-29) is a versatile turboprop aircraft aimed mainly for light attack, aerial support, and reconnaissance roles in low threat environments...

Australian airman pilots F-22s at JBER - Sourdough Sentinel | The Australian is one year into his three-year exchange with the 90th FS where he traded in his RAAF F/A-18 Hornet for the stealthy F-22 Raptor flown at JBER by the 90th and 525th fighter squadrons. For his part, Biele said he feels fortunate to have ...

Podcast: You as a Volunteer Pilot from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | Pilots for Angel Flight West provide free air transportation to people in need of vital healthcare who can't take a commercial flight or other transportation because of health, financial, or geographic considerations. And you can probably be one of them. AVweb talks with Cheri Cimmarrusti, associate executive director of Angel Flight West for more.

Tucson News NowGiant paper airplane goes on permanent display next week - Tucson News Now | For all those paper plane enthusiasts in Tucson, according to museum officials, there will be another 'Great Paper Airplane Fly Off', scheduled for January 2013 at the Pima Air & Space Museum. "We plan on making the fly-off part of our annual ...

Interns give Bell Helicopter's talent pool a boost - Fort Worth Star Telegram | At Bell's headquarters in Fort Worth, Michael Ramsey, a marketing intern from the University of Texas at Arlington, was capturing Twitter and Facebook comments of the folks attending the air show and commenting on Bell's aircraft and competitors...

Elon Musk Presented "Mars Pioneer Award" - video from Spaceports | The Mars Society's Robert Zubrin presented SpaceX CEO and Founder Elon Musk with 'The Mars Pioneer Award' on Saturday, August 4th during the 15th Annual International Mars Society Convention in Pasadena, California. Musk received the award in recognition of his strong dedication to and support of the goal of human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars...

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Air show draws 35000 in Portsmouth, NH - Boston Globe | PORTSMOUTH, NH—About 35000 spectators showed up for first of a two-day air show, featuring the US Air Force Thunderbirds, at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. Foster's Daily Democrat ( http://bit.ly/qURMaP) says many people attending the show ...
   
Record attendance expected at Fargo AirSho - In-Forum | “We have a lot of super performers,” he said Friday during a press conference at the Fargo Air Museum. New to this year's show are The Horsemen, the world's only P-51 Mustang aerobatic team. In honor of the naval centennial, the California-based team ...
   
Sonoma County air show growing in popularity - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | 20-21 to the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport north of Santa Rosa, with nationally known aerobatic pilots Patty Wagstaff and Kirby Chambliss, a flying formation of vintage World War II warbirds and fly-bys of military aircraft. ...

ICAS Foundation to Raffle WACO MYSTERY SHIP Pedal Plane from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -from ICAS- A small group of air show enthusiasts have built a pedal plane version of Kyle Franklin's Waco Mystery Ship. The ICAS Foundation will be selling raffle tickets for this one-of-a-kind work of aviation art/toy. All proceeds from the raffle will go to the Kyle and Amanda Fund being administered by the ICAS Foundation.   ...

Female pilots, vintage airplanes crowd Moraine Airpark for fly-in - Dayton Daily News | Aviation enthusiasts Judy Birchler, of Mount Comfort, Ind., and Heins' wife, Susan Theodorelos of Dayton, organized the Lady Taildraggers fly-in. Moraine Airpark offered better facilities to host the event than were available in Mount Comfort, ...

Air show roaring into Broomfield next weekend - Broomfield Enterprise | Here is a list of some of the Rocky Mountain Air Show's most highly anticipated events and performances. Aug. 26 -- 7 pm twilight air show begins, 8:45 pm fireworks display begins. Aug. 27 -- 8 to 10 am pancake breakfast, 11 am parade and salute to ...

Final day for Abbotsford International Airshow - BCLocalNews | Along with well-known returning acts, including the Snowbirds, a CF-18 Hornet TAC demo and the A-10 Thunderbolt II, two milestones are being celebrated. The Canadian Forces SkyHawks is celebrating its 40th anniversary and the Supermarine Spitfire is ...
   
Jets overhead - Abbotsford Times | With its high maneuverability and relatively slow speed, the Tutor is ideally suited to the formation and aerobatic roles of the Snowbirds. The Snowbirds symbolize more than the pride citizens have for Canada, said Chagnon. "We do our best to represent ...

An Arrow escape - The Sun | NOW that's what we call blue sky thinking! Two daredevil dockers make sure they get a great view of the Red Arrows - from the end of a towering crane. The pair hit the heights to escape a crowd of 30000 who turned up to watch the aerobatic display team ...

T-50 Fighter to Be Unveiled at MAKS - The Moscow Times | Russia has been developing the jet — known as the T-50 or by its Russian abbreviation PAKFA — for some years in the hope of competing with the established F-22 US aircraft made by Lockheed Martin/Boeing and the upcoming Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint ...

Reading WWII Air Show: 1911 Ely Curtiss "Pusher" by Nels  | The plane above is a 1911 Ely Curtiss Pusher, here is the website set up for the folks that own and show this replica of the original planes.  It’s called a pusher because the engine sits behind the pilot.  This was the first plane to take off from a ship, ushering in the era of Naval aviation.  Watching the Curtiss fly by was nostalgic, and very interesting.  We’ve come a long way from this plane to the modern day jets taking off from aircraft carriers. ...

Remote Control Air Show begins Thursday - Fond du Lac Reporter | The fifth annual Warbirds & Classics Remote Control Air Show in Fond du Lac is expected to feature more than 100 pilots and over 200 flying aircraft. The Fond du Lac Aeromodelers Club hosts the event from Thursday, Aug. 18, through Sunday, Aug. ...

Nearly 60 years after flying in the Korean War, Mike Stanton again sits at the controls of his Skyraider - Naple News | It was a reunion — not man to man, but flyer to his flying machine.  The reunion took place during a July visit to the Duxford Air Show in the United Kingdom. There I saw the attack plane — the AD-4NA Skyraider, BuNu 126922 — that I flew in Korea.  The plane was even painted in the same colors and markings that she had in 1953. ...

WWII veteran celebrates 91st birthday flying wartime biplane - Central Florida News 13 | He flew the famous C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain among many others, such as the B-25, B-17, C-124, C-119 and a fabric covered bi-plane called the Tiger Moth. So in honor of his 91st birthday, Shook requested to be able to fly again in the first ...

The Rutan Boomerang from Airspeed | I was admiring the Rutan Boomerang in the Wednesday of Airventure Oshkosh when I spotted two guys who appeared to be working on it. Intrigued, I approached and introduced myself and that's when I met Tres Clements. He is a manufacturing engineer with Scaled Composites. He lead a team of volunteers who worked over several months to get the Boomerang ready for a tribute to Burt Rutan at Oshkosh.  The asymmetric features of the Boomerang are apparent in this view but, as Tres describes the flying qualities, it's more symmetric than it looks. He discovered during the renovation why certain design choices were made and how they solved aerodynamic problems in an unexpected way. With the  ...