Blue Angels never get old for Boeing employees - STLtoday.com | The Blue Angels descended on St. Louis Wednesday morning, making a brief stop en route to a Chicago air show to visit the Boeing Company division - Defense, Space and Security - that sends them aloft. For the U.S. Navy elite flight team and its crew ...
Tips to navigate the Chicago Air and Water Show with kids - Chicago Parent | The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Army Parachute Team Golden Knights will headline an aerial show along the lakefront fro ... Fall may be sneaking up on us faster than we'd like, but there's still a Chicago summer must-see happening this weekend.
Camarillo Airport gets ready for popular air show this weekend - Ventura County Star | The only 
Air Show to Feature B-17 Bomber, Aerobatics and Family Fun - PR Web (press release) | The B-17 is the cornerstone of this year's air show experience, and we have dozens of other aircraft representing the past 100 years of aviation, and they will be flying throughout the day and on display for a close-up view. Quote end. Waukesha, WI ...
Celebrate National Aviation Day Sunday from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | In 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed August 19 - birthday of first pilot Orville Wright - as America's first National Aviation Day celebrating the development of aviation. This Sunday marks the 73rd observance of National Aviation Day, so how does an aviator mark the occasion?
Rides offered on biplane at MAPS Air Museum breakfast - Canton Repository | This 1943 Boeing Stearman biplane is owned and flown by Robert Preston. A MAPS Air Museum member, Preston will be offering rides on his plane at MAPS' annual fundraising fly-in and pancake breakfast.
FL Fly-in will feature plane rides, music, food - Forest Lake Times | Food, music and a car show are staples of the fly-in, and another big draw is also sure to please: pilots from the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program will once again offer free plane rides to youth ages 8-17. New ...
TORCM Airshow - Tiffin Advertiser Tribune | TORCM Airshow. Sat, August 18, 2012 @ 9:30AM. TORCM to host Annual Airshow August 18 and 19, 2012. The Tiffin Ohio Radio Control Modelers welcome spectators to their annual Big Bird Fly-In, featuring model aircraft on August 18 and 19, 2012 at their ...
Photoflying Days - Apron6
Beautiful Image of Russians Fighters Piercing the Sky - Gizmodo | Flight Global has a beautiful image of the Russian Knights—the equivalent of the US Navy's Blue Angels, the USAF's Thunderbirds, or the RAF's Red Arrows—celebrating the Russian Air Force 100th anniversary with a perfect, flare-riveted dance in the ...
NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum to Hold 16th Annual AirFest - Cape May County Herald | CAPE MAY AIRPORT – Naval Air Station (NAS) Wildwood Aviation Museum, located at the Cape May Airport, will once again partner with The Collings Foundation to host AirFest and the 2012 Wings of Freedom Tour. This year, AirFest will take place Wed., ...
B-29 Bomber displayed at old Springfield Airport - KY3 | SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- People got an up close look today at a B-29 bomber and other aircraft from WWII on display at the old Springfield airport. The exhibit is organized by the Commemorative Air Force. The B-29 is ...
March Field Museum (KRIV) - Part V from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Part 5, and final part (!), of our visit to March Field Museum in late July 2012.
Burt Rutan's Favorite Ride from Air & Space Magazine
Aviation club to celebrate 70 years in Topeka - Topeka Capital Journal | Aviation club to celebrate 70 years in Topeka. Air Explorers offers flying and maintenance instruction to youths. Posted: August 15, 2012 - 12:59pm. Advertisement. By The Capital-Journal. Aviation club to celebrate 70 years in 
Soul of the Skyraider - Air & Space Magazine | A U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation pilot describes what it’s like to fly three generations of ground attack aircraft.
Flying car closes in on FAA OK - bostonherald.com | Four months after its debut at the New York International Auto Show, Woburn-based Terrafugia’s version of the “flying car” has buzzed into a second phase of testing, with hopes of obtaining final approval from the Federal Aviation Administration in the coming months. If everything...
Eagle Flights Rally Makes History from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA Chapter 105, of Hillsboro, Oregon, hosted the first Eagle Flights flight rally last weekend in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Twin Oaks Airpark (7S3). The collaboration between chapter Eagle Flights coordinator Jan Novak, her team, and the airpark owners resulted in the Pacific Northwest's first 19 Eagle Flights since the program's introduction at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012.
Air Force UAV: Hypersonic aircraft crashes over Pacific in failed test - Examiner.com | Air Force officials report a UAV or unmanned X-51A Waverider aircraft crashed in the Pacific Tuesday during a test flight. The hypersonic jet, thought to fly at six times the speed of sound -- nearly three times faster than the Concorde -- suffered a ...
The Path of Nicole Stott to Earth Orbit from Spaceports | NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott discusses her path to a spaceflight career, life aboard the International Space Station, the legacy of the Space Shuttle Program, and more.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
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Navy fighter jets to highlight air show - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | High-performance military fighter jets will be center stage this weekend at the annual Wings Over Wine Country air show, which is commemorating the 100th anniversary of Marine Corps aviation.
Wings Over Camarillo Air Show to take off Aug. 18-19 - VC Star | ...The Wings Over Camarillo Air 
Show takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Camarillo Airport, off the Las Posas Road exit south of the 101. Instead of rubbernecking, pull off and check out the high-flying jinks from the safety of something nonmoving; i.e., the ground. The air show, hosted by the Camarillo Wings Association, features aerobatic routines by nearly 90 aircraft, including vintage and experimental planes, and World War II fighters, bombers and transports....
Elite Frogs Returning To Lake Wawasee - Stacey Page Online (blog) | Most team members have had at least five years experience on the Navy Parachute Team, the “Leap Frogs.” Several members have logged over 6000 parachute jumps. During their skydiving careers, each team member has mastered the art of Freefall and ...
Pride, Passion, Planes – A Day With the Patriots from Featured by Sagar Pathak | (Sagar Pathak)If you hear a plane overhead, and you look up to see what kind it is, then it’s safe to assume you love aviation. And most of us can trace back to the moment when that love first started. For me, like millions of others of children, it was at an airshow. Back in May I got to spend the day with 20 of these folks who live and breathe aviation at the March Field Airfest. They are an all-volunteer team who maintain and fly the six sleek, all-black L-39s that make up The Patriots Jet Demonstration Team.
Awesome Vulcan XH558 Beachy Head Flypast, Eastbourne Airshow. WOW! from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon
“The Pilot Who Could’ve Saved Goose” Steve Tupper - www.warbirdradio.com | This is THE shortest story post ever on Warbird Radio.com. Steve Tupper is on tomorrow. What more can we say??
August 14, 2012 The race to Osh from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: Forty airplanes sat on the ramp in Mitchell, South Dakota, their pilots awaiting a decision from AirVenture Cup race officials on the status of this “race to Oshkosh.” Oshkosh, Wisconsin is the site of the annual aircraft lovers’ gathering. Sixty years ago Paul Poberezny created what would become the world’s largest convention of any kind, a week-long fly-in that would include forums, vendors, daily air shows, and plenty of places to pitch a tent under the wing...
Why, How and When the Sport of Air Racing Was Born from Featured by Alan Smith | Ever since the industrial revolution we have found ways to race every machine of motion that we have built. We raced steam locomotives on the main line, and steamboats on the nation’s rivers. We raced bicycles, scooters, ice skates and roller skates. We race anything that can move. It wouldn’t be surprising if we raced elevators in new office towers....
Chasing Reno Gold from Wasabi Air Racing by Elliot "Stinky" Seguin
B-17 Leaving Ohio For New Orleans from Aero-News Network | With Blue Ash Airport Likely To Close, My Gal Sal Will Head For A Louisiana Museum A vintage WWII bomber which spent more than 50 years buried in a Greenland glacier is being shrink-wrapped and prepped for a move from Blue Ash airport near Cincinnati to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans...
Virgil Moyer - Sioux City Journal | In the winters, Virgil enjoyed Arizona where he volunteered for the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. While he was in Arizona, Virgil flew the B17 Sentimental Journey, the B52 Maid in the Shade, The C-45 Expeditor, the L-16 Grasshopper, the ...
Will the Solway Air Museum ever be able to reach for the skies? - News & Star | Will the Solway Air Museum ever be able to reach for the skies? It occupies just under three acres at Carlisle Airport yet Solway Aviation Museum is packed with history. For the past 50 years, a team of ...
Flyby tests show atmosphere - Labmate Online | Visitors to the UK's Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in July saw a new visitor to the show as the FAAM BAe-146 Atmospheric Research Lab made its first-ever appearance at an air show. Researchers last year flew into the most disruptive ...
The Waverider Set for Mach 6+ Test Flight from Spaceports | ...The Waverider, which resembles a missile with a flat nose, will be dropped off the wing of a B-52 bomber off the California coast at an altitude of about 15,000 meters (50,000 feet), according to the US Air Force. The latest test of the experimental vehicle is tentatively scheduled for 10 am local time (1700 GMT) at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, spokesman Kenji Thuloweit told AFP...
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Air show promises to deliver true flights of fancy - Camarillo Acorn | The plane, one of many that will fly this weekend at the Wings Over Camarillo Air Show at the Camarillo Airport, was used by the US Navy as a training plane ...
Hometown Hero flies with Thunderbirds - WSHM-TV | That honor scored him a ride with United States Air Force Thunderbirds. Thunderbird Number 5, Maj. Rick Goodman says "Everywhere we travel, what we try to ...
Parking Aircraft from Windsor International Air Show by Sounds of Freedom II | If you haven't noticed yet an Air Show is gearing up at the Windsor International Air Show. The Snowbirds arrival capped off an absolutely fantastic arrival day. Pilots filtered through the Windsor Flying Club and many were glad to be back and others glad to be a part of the Windsor International Air Show…
Chocks away for hit Rougham Air Show - Bury Free Press | Fly-overs from a fully-restored P51 Mustang, Spitfires, the World's only working Hawker Hurricane IIB and a B17 Bomber thrilled the crowds and the Breitling ...
"An air-show minute for Fred Wiseman" - Petaluma Argus Courier | At this weekend's Pacific Coast Air Museum air show, a pilot flying a Stearman biplane will be the first local event, in years, that observes Fred J. ...
Plans taking flight for an action-packed show - Diss Express | ADISPLAY from the Red Arrows is just one of the attractions in a packed programme for this year's Eye Show and Country Fair. The aerobatic daredevils can be ...
Winston Churchill's Battle of Britain 'Few' remembered - BBC News | The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain is being commemorated by a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past. ...
Barnes shows off upgrades at air show - WWLP 22News | It's a great opportunity to do real world protection of the homeland, so it's an honor to have this mission here," said Captain Neal Byrne, an Airshow ...
Classic car and airplane show at the Pearson Air Museum in Vancouver - OregonLive.com | View full sizeJoel DavisPearson Air Museum Operations Manager Tom Clark wheels a 1951 North American T-28A Trojan outside the museum hangar. ...
Dale "Snort" Snodgrass – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Monday from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | MONDAY – Matt's back… with legendary warbird pilot Dale "Snort" Snodgrass! Plus he'll have the latest news on the Helldiver raised in California (and much more from his summer "warbird" travels). This will be the first Warbird Radio LIVE from our new studio…and one you don't want to miss. Tune in… and call in to…
Disaster from the Air Show Announcer's Point of View from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Click for photos & videoFor the most part, being an air show announcer is all about entertainment and educating people about aviation. But, as Roy Hafeli of Hafeli and Hildebrandt Air Show Announcers can attest, there's a serious side to the job sometimes. Hafeli spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles about how his training kicked into gear when a CF-18 fighter exploded in front of him at the Alberta International Air Show on July 23 in Lethbridge.This podcast is brought to you by Bose Corporation.
United States - Michigan - Thunder Over Michigan 2010 - Belleville - 08/07/10 from FenceCheck Forums:
WhiteKnightTwo landing gear collapses from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust | The AP reported late today that part of the landing gear for Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo aircraft collapsed upon landing at the end of a test flight today at Mojave Air and Space Port in California. An FAA spokesman told the AP that the left main landing gear, the one that collapsed, was damaged, but he did not know if there was any other damage to the aircraft. SpaceShipTwo was not attached to the aircraft during Thursday's flight…
Aero-TV: Coming Home To Roost -- The 'Last Time' For The DC-3 Community from Aero-News Network | An Extraordinary Gathering That May Truly Be The Last Of Its Kind What a concept... An historic event, billed as "The Last Time", was organized to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the DC-3 type aircraft. Designed as an airliner in 1935, the DC-3 was pressed into military service in WWII as the C-47 and served in every theater of the war. Formerly; the largest gathering of them, in any one place, was at the English air fields in preparation for the D-day invasion of Normandy. Some of these same crew members once again flew in these magnificent birds gathering at Whiteside Airport (KSQI) in Rock Falls, IL, just a few weeks ago…
WWII Vet Secor Harris: B-24 Pilot Means Dangerous Job - WKRG-TV | DAPHNE, Alabama - Secor Harris learned to fly and trained with B-17 bombers. But he ended up dropping bombs over Germany in B-24's. ...
Divers work to lift WWII plane from Calif. lake - The Associated Press | If it can be restored, the National Naval Aviation Museum hopes the Helldiver fills a void in its collection, considered to be one of the world's largest ...
Submerged WWII plane to land in Pensacola - Pensacola News Journal | A rare World War II-era dive bomber that spent 64 years at the bottom of a California reservoir will get a new resting place at the National Naval Aviation ...
Roush overshot runway, blames traffic controllers - CBS 5 - Green Bay | We have an update on the Nascar team owner who crashed his plane at EAA Airventure. The preliminary report on the crash investigation has been released ...
Oshkosh announces new brand - Fox11online.com | But in surveys, those outside the area, said events like Country USA, Lifefest and AirVenture are the city's calling card. "A lot of cities have water by ...
First 787 to the north pole from Things with Wings by Guy Norris | Boeing plans to send the second 787, ZA002, to the north pole at the weekend. The flight will be a key test of the Honeywell-developed navigation package, as magnetic heading in the polar region is unreliable or completely useless for navigation…
