Attention all amateur and professional photographers, we are pleased to launch Photo Tour membership registration for the 2013 California Capital Airshow! This is an awesome opportunity for non-credentialed photographers, granting unbelievable access to Airshow grounds, aircraft and entertainment – not available to the public.
This year’s robust and varied performer’s roster and will offer over five hours of thrills, chills and jaw-dropping excitement each day of the show, including breathtaking performances by the Snowbirds Jet Demonstration Team, world-class aerobatics by Kirby Chambliss, Mike Goulian and John Klatt, the Red Bull Jump team, barnstorming, wing walking, endless displays and activities along the ramp, WWII aircraft and so much more.
The 2013 show will be exciting for photographers and fans alike. You will not only have a front row seat to one of the largest and most exciting shows in the nation, but also the opportunity to experience the past nine decades of aviation history up close and personal.
A day at the California Capital Airshow is truly an unforgettable experience, whether you're already an avid aviation fan or want to learn how to take great aircraft photos. Review the details and complete the registration form today -- space is limited!
http://www.californiacapitalairshow.com/event-information/photo-tour-2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
PHOTOG ALERT!
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Manassas Air Show Takes to the Skies This Weekend - Patch.com | It's head's up this weekend at the Manassas Regional Airport for the area's annual air show. The event, which is from 10 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, will feature an aerobatic air show, wing walkers and aircraft displays. Admission to the show is free and...
Wings and Wheels Fly-In set to soar - Lake Gaston Gazette Observer | The kickoff event for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lake Gaston, the Fabulous 50 Splash, the Fly-In promotes aviation while providing a venue for classic cars and motorcycles to be shown, with underlying goals of honoring military veterans ...
Buttons will be needed only for airshows at ShrinersFest - Evansville Courier & Press | ...Airshow organizer Steve Eberhart promised the airshow will be interesting despite the absence of the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, which was to have anchored it. The famed squadron has been grounded due to budget cuts from the Congressional impasse over the federal budget....
Historic warbirds touch down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon - 10News | Historic warbirds touch down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon. 18,000 B-24s made at Consolidated Aircraft plant. B-24 at Gillespie Field. Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten,...
Sky's the limit for this event - Gympie Times | Contributed. MORE than 100 model aircraft will take to the skies over Tin Can Bay this weekend in the biggest model aeroplane event in Queensland. Hosted by the Tin Can Bay Model Flying Club, the annual SCAF (Southern Cross Air Force) 
Working on the line. Golden Eagles from Planeshots
Last Stalag XVII-B POW Group Reunion Arrives in St. Louis May 1-3 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | This reunion is for the POW’s who were aircrews of the US Army Air Forces. During missions over German cities and other Nazi strongholds, their B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators were shot down by Germans with anti-aircraft guns. They sent crewmembers plummeting to the ground while fumbling with parachutes and praying for survival....
A Simple Thing from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | On April 15, 2013, in an emotional 
Ed Rasimus was buried today from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Fellow blogger, decorated US Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran Ed Rasimus was buried at Arlington Military Cemetery today, with full military honors, of course...
Pieter Stroobach Visits Albania Airbases from Photorecon by Pieter Stroobach
There is Always Room For Improvement from Flight To Success | ...When I flew ACTIVE, I was in 
the last year of my first test tour. In many ways, I was at the top of my skills having benefited from flying hundreds of missions. As good as I thought I was, I wasn't as good as the guys at NASA Dryden. Let me explain....
Video: Free Flights For Medical Patients -- Angel Flight West from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Angel Flight West arranges free flights for people with chronic medical conditions are urgent needs when traditional forms of transportation are unavailable or cost prohibitive. This specific organization is active in the western United States. They're always looking for volunteer pilots to fill the ranks because there is always a need....
An airborne wrecking ball??? from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I was amazed to find this video clip of an AS332 Super Puma helicopter of Airlift AS in Norway. It's using a specially-built multi-ton underslung...
NASA Flies Dragon Eye Unmanned Aircraft Into Volcanic Plume - DirectionsMag.com | NASA Earth science researchers traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica, to fly a Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) -- a small electric aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors -- into the volcano's sulfur dioxide plume and ...
JATO Rocket Car: Mission Accomplished?" (is the 3rd time a charm?) from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick Stafford | The Mythbusters kicked of their 10th season with a third try at the JATO Chevy rocket car myth. A fitting start since the first try was on their very first episode. In short, the myth says that says some guy attached a JATO unit to his Impala...
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Tricolor arrows: ready for 2013 season - ANSA | Looking at rehearsal, performances next Sunday
La Ferte-Alais honors Roland Garros on 18 and 19 May 2013 - AeroBuzz.fr | Not to mention the "limousine of the air" in the 1930s. The active participation of the Armed Forces will also be ensured through the patrol of France, with its naval Rafales and Super Etendard and the aerobatic team of the Air Force.
Historical bomber group keeps air show alive with show this weekend - Bossier Press-Tribune Online | The news was certainly a shock to Chris Ebdon with the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Gulf Coast Wing since they were set to fly their historic B-17 aircrafts in this year's show. “We were going to participate in the air show as we have for many years...
A Salute To The Spirit Of San Diego In WWII - KPBS | Please join Air Group One of the Commemorative Air Force as we honor veterans and veteran organizations for a "Salute to the Spirit of San Diego in WWII" reception as part of our continuing effort to preserve the aviation heritage of San Diego. San ...
Agreement signed to promote Aeromodelling - www.fai.org | FAME, the marketing arm of the FAI, the World Air Sports Federation has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM), during the 2013 CIAM Annual Meeting held Friday, April, 20th.
Lee Lauderback: The Horse Whisperer - PilotMag | If it is said the best feelings are the ones unable to be described with words. I agree with that statement, not just because its truth resonates somewhere deep within me, but because I’ve seen it manifest in my life—especially as a pilot. I think about how blessed I am to have visited the places I have, met some of the most incredible people walking the planet Earth, and been able to fly some of the world’s most amazing aircraft. People, places, and planes....
Aerobatics group lands at Sebring Regional Airport - News-Sun | SEBRING - It's the spring, and while many young men's fancy turns to baseball, it also means the first of a pair of aerobatic competitions of the year will take to the skies above Sebring Regional Airport. This will be the spring meet of the ...
AERO Friedrichshafen 2013: A Fabulous Show from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | AERO Friedrichshafen 2013 is over, and for the first time in a long time I was sad that it lasted only four days. Why? Because I wasn't able to see it all.
Doolittle Raiders hold final reunion from General Aviation News | By ROBERT JAQUES | The Doolittle Raiders held their 71st and final public reunion in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, April 16-20. Of the 80 men who took part in the daring mission to bomb Japan, only four are still living. Three were able to attend this final reunion: Lt. Col. Richard Cole, 97, co-pilot on plane #1 who flew with Col. Jimmy Doolittle; Lt. Col. Edward Saylor, 93, an engineer on plane #15; and Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, 92, an engineer and gunner. The fourth, Lt. Col. Bob Hite, 95, co-pilot of plane #16, could not travel due to illness....
Ghostrider Goes to The Aviation Wing of the Marietta Museum of History By WarbirdsNews | The volunteers from Marietta Museum of History’s Aviation Wing of Marietta, Georgia had an exciting day last week as work was begun to prepare the museums’s latest acquisition for transport back to their facility, a Lockheed AC-130 Spectre Ghostrider...
Bede BD-5J (The Flying Bulls) crash near Innsbruck from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | RedBull's Microjet crashed into a field near Innsbruck today, killing the pilot. The pilot reported a technical problem and wanted to make an emergency landing on a...
Sky's the limit in a Tiger Moth - The West Australian | Aero Club of WA operations manager Rick Ennis said the flights appealed to a wide range of people. "Some like the idea of flying around with the wind in their hair in an open cockpit," he said. "Other, older people can remember the Tiger Moth and want ...
Howard Aircraft DGA-15P — aircraft of the wealthy by travelforaircraft | Benny Howard, of Howard Aircraft Corp., designed what became a coveted aircraft in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The 
Moody holds F-86L Sabre dedication ceremony
from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories | Members of Team Moody came together to attend the F-86L Sabre dedication ceremony in honor of fallen U.S. Air Force pilot Maj. Lyn McIntosh at the President George W. Bush Air Park at Moody Field April 27, 2013...
National Park Service official tours Wright Company factory buildings from General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — A National Park Service official toured the Wright Company factory site Tuesday, April 30, the highest-ranking park service official so far to tour the place where America’s aerospace industry was born...
Bronco air to air from Apron 6 | I have never really filmed allot with the idea of using the footage, except for the Hangar Queen film I made. When I filmed this Bronco footage I didn’t think about using it, cause the quality is rubbish. I actually forgot about it for two years. When I saw it again yesterday I decided to [...]
Aaron Tippin buys 'Little Toot' biplane - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association - AOPA Pilot | Country music performer and general aviation pilot Aaron Tippin recently purchased a tiny biplane—Georgy Meyer's “Little Toot”—to go along with Tippin's hulking Stearman. Tippin, a multiengine airplane, helicopter, and instrument-rated pilot, is also ...
Chicago returns for Oshkosh opening day concert from General Aviation News | One of the music world’s legendary bands will be back at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013, as Chicago will take the stage on Monday, July 29, for the event’s opening-night concert.
Artist uses jet engine to create works from General Aviation News | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Flexjet has partnered with the Jet Art Group to create artworks in celebration of Learjet’s 50th anniversary. On April 30 and May 1, at Signature Flight Support in West Palm Beach, artist Princess Tarinan von Anhalt harnessed the power of Flexjet’s Learjet 45 XR engine to replace the traditional paintbrush...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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. “Air shows have been cancelled from coast to coast. The military jet demo teams and single-ship demo teams and jumpers are grounded! Who would have ever thought that would happen”, said LiveAirShowTV President Jeff Lee. “It’s a season where some of the most successful air shows in the country will not have an event this year.”While at Sun ‘n Fun, LiveAirShowTV got a few minutes with Congressman Sam Graves (R) (MO) who sits on the House Transportation Committee, and the General Aviation Caucus; John Cudahy, President of the International Council of Air Shows; and John “Lites” Leenhouts CEO of the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In. We asked these aviation experts about the effects of Sequestration, what they see going forward, and what we can do to help out.
We also met with Red Bull racer and aerobatic pilot Kirby Chambliss when he was in Austin for the MotoGP race at the Circuit of the Americas. He told us how he has been affected by the action.
Watch the video HERE.
Share this with all of your aviation and air show friends. Make note of the web address to contact your Representative and Senators. We will also have it at:
www.LiveAirShowTV.com/links
Many air shows have been cancelled, but many more are still going to happen. LiveAirShowTV will be at many of them throughout the year. Watch for continuing coverage from Sun ‘n Fun, the Take to the Skies Airfest, the upcoming EAA AirVenture, the 50th Reno National Championship Air Races as well as performer profiles and more. LIKE us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter as we continue to bring you the Inside Story from air shows around the country.
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Bring Back the Jets - www.bringbackthejets.org | Join the White House Petition to Restore the USA's Military Flight Teams
Snowbirds to soar above the roar - Niagarathisweek.com | In what organizers are calling the first 
Civilian Jet Confirmed As New Air Show Headliner - SBY News | OCEAN CITY -- Just weeks after the U.S. Navy Blue Angels team, the planned headliner of the 2013 Ocean City Air Show, announced it was shutting down its show schedule indefinitely due to federal budget cuts, the event has added a civilian-owned Harrier jet to the lineup....
AirFest to continue this weekend with private pilot fly-in and air time trials - ReporterNews.com | However, without the airshow this weekend, Krazer said the scheduled Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 471 Private Pilot Fly-In and Sport Air Racing League air race “time trials” weren't enough to draw out the crowd of 30,000 or more who ...
Sporty's to hold fly-in, open house - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association - AOPA Pilot | “Sporty's has always believed in creating a sense of community at the airport, and so the Fly In is a natural expression of that,” said spokesman Mark Wiesenhahn. “We enjoy providing a venue on a beautiful spring day where folks can come out to the ...
Tickets now on sale for Salinas Airshow - The Salinas Californian | Performing for the first time at the Salinas Airshow are The Pemberton's Wing Suit Jump and Aerobatic Demonstration, the Ace Maker Airshows T-33 Demonstration Team and Metal Mulisha, a free-style motocross demo. General admission tickets (does not ...
September Boy Scouts Airshow cancelled - WEAU | Representatives for the Chippewa Valley Air Show have announced the event has been cancelled. Julie Pangallo, the media representative for the event, says due to a lack of military support, the show has been cancelled. She says the decision ...
Michigan Sen. Goeff Hansen to hold fly-in events at airports, landing in ... - Mlive Kalamazoo | “Our airports are hubs of commerce and play an important role in Michigan's economic turnaround,” Hansen said in a statement. “They are also a great resource to pursue recreational interests and host community events.” The fly-in schedule includes a 1 ...
AirVenture Attendees To Get Preview Screening Of 'Disney's Planes' from Aero-News Network | Animated Feature To Be Shown At Fly-In Theater August 2 Those attending AirVenture this year will have the opportunity to experience a Special Preview Screening of the Disney animated feature "Disney's Planes" at the Fly-In Theater on Friday night, August 2, one week before the movie opens in theaters nationwide. The company said in a news release that the movie "will touch all who see it and help them understand the thrill and excitement that flying offers."
Air show takes flight - Kiama Independent-Lake Times | NOT only does the Wings Over Illawarra air show provide entertainment to thousands of people each year, it offers valuable financial assistance to those who need it. Wings Over Illawarra takes place this Sunday, May 5 at Illawarra Regional Airport...
Warbirds to fly over Sydney in commemoration of ANZAC Day - Australian Aviation | HARS sends its collection of warbirds aloft each year to mark the occasion. Catalinas and Dakotas saw service in World War 2, and Caribous served with the RAAF from 1964 until their retirement in 2009, including service in Vietnam. The Caribou taking ...
Restoration reunites WWII vets - Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria Times | The group, associated with the Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, just finished restoring the plane at ArtCraft Paint at the Santa Maria Public Airport. The volunteers and the craftsmen at ArtCraft carefully restored the plane to its flat, dull ...
Adacel Hosts Women in Aviation International from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Adacel welcomed the Central Florida Chapter of Women in Aviation International to a reception held at Adacel’s Orlando Headquarters on the 18th of April. Ten very accomplished women representing a wide range of roles within the aviation and environmental fields attended to learn more about Adacel’s role in the aerospace community....
Wings Over Michigan - Hour Detroit Magazine | A couple of generations later, the former aviatrix relives the life-changing moment in the opening lines of the unpublished manuscript she wrote for the benefit of her children and grandkids. “Although I was very young,” the now 80-year-old memoirist...
Historic flight to get a new home - South Coast Register | The Historic Flight is to come under the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society Inc (HARS) management and will be known as Navy Heritage Flight. The project, which will involve building three new hangars and an administration block, as well as a ...
FedEx Express Boeing 727 Walk Around: Donated Aircraft Shines in the Midwestern Sun from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A little over a week ago, a FedEx Express Boeing 727 was delivered to St. Louis Downtown Airport as the first installment of a future regional emergency services training center. The overcast conditions that day made it difficult to fully appreciate the gleaming white jet as...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: QF-4E Phantom II from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Over the last decade, aviation enthusiasts and history buffs have been given the opportunity to share a timeless experience: the raw power and performance of the F-4 Phantom II more than a decade after its retirement....
Happy 100th Birthday Alenia from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | To celebrate it's 100th birthday, Alenia Aermacchi has sent through this cracking pic of its four key products...
B787 Battery Fix!!! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt
Flight delay from General Aviation News | By RAEANN SLAYBAUGH | More than 60 years elapsed before 87-year-old Karl Klingelhofer of Tucson, Ariz., revisited his love of aviation and earned his sport pilot’s license. But if you ask him when he decided he wanted to fly...
April 2013 Young Eagles Report: Now Past 10,000! - EAA Chapter 242 | Productive Month! At our first Young Eagles event in April we flew twenty-seven. We needed 26 to make 10,000 – so we are now past 10,000! Later in April...
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AIRSHOW NEWS: Spring Air Show flies the stars and stripes from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The Spring Air Show, on Sunday 26 May, commemorates the 70th anniversary of the arrival 
AIRSHOW NEWS: First-ever display by the Eagle Squadron opens the Spring Air Show from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The Spring Air Show (Sunday 26 May) commences its flying programme in superb style with the first-ever display of the Eagle Squadron, a historic four-ship comprising a Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and North American P-51 Mustang....
Aerobatic team to wow crowds at free airshow - This is Bristol | AN aerobatic team is the latest attraction to confirm its place at Weston-super-Mare Air Day. The event, organised by North Somerset Council, is on June 22 and will feature a host of famous names from the world of aviation. Topping the bill will be the ...
SUN 'n FUN 2013 - YouTube | Here's a brief look at the week of fun and flying at SUN 'n FUN 2013....
Ohio Air News 226 - Charles Johnson
FlightTime Radio Show 263 | Retired Naval Aviator Bill Beard sits in with Milford and Glenn to talk grass roots and military flying. He followed an unusual path to the left seat in a P3... and here is number 264.
Warbird hit by stray bullet - News - MSN New Zealand - MSN NZ News | The aircraft's owner, Arthur Dovey, discovered the bullet on Sunday and told the paper he estimated it caused about $2000 worth of damage. He has owned the Yak 3 for about eight years and flown it in four Warbirds Over Wanaka air shows. Such aircraft ...
Faith in captivity: Vietnam War POW inspires Airmen from Air Force Link Top Stories | With his hands bound in manacles, an imprisoned Air Force pilot watched from his bamboo holding cell as North Vietnamese soldiers moved a wounded American prisoner into the cell across from his. The pilot was shocked at the man's appearance; his fingers were raw and his body was emaciated. His whole body was covered in wounds; he had been pushing through the jungle for 45 days without food. The pilot did not recognize the new prisoner...
Winners announced for museum's national writing competition award from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Ryan Dickerson, Isaiah Markley and Deborah Rocheleau were announced as the first, second and third place winners, respectively, of the Air Force Heritage and History Writing Competition, sponsored by the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Tess Green, Caleb Van Winkle and Megan Chappie received honorable mentions...
US Navy gaggle over the Pacific from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Top shot from Rex, via the US Navy, of this gaggle of aircraft from the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group flying in formation during an air power demo over the Pacific Ocean.
Angel Flight West Sharewares Web-Based Flight Coordination Database System - PRWEB | In an unprecedented move, Angel Flight West (AFW) is making its new software system and database
program, Angel Flight Information Database System (AFIDS) 2.0, available to all volunteer pilot organizations at no cost. First users include four independent organizations based in California, Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. This past weekend, AFW staff presented the program and the opportunity to 15 additional public benefit flying organizations. “If it will enhance their services, they’re welcome to use it,” said Executive Director Alan Dias. “We’ve chosen to do this in keeping with Angel Flight West’s desire to support volunteer pilot organizations and to make the case for general aviation, which is the backbone of public-benefit flying.”...
Star Trek's Enterprise to boldly go ... to San Diego? - U-T San Diego | Nothing's confirmed yet, but organizer Huston Huddleston said he is in talks with the San Diego Air & Space Museum to bring the bridge there in the middle of 2014. It will remain there for a year, the plan goes, before possibly hitting the road for ...
Virgin Galactic's Big SpaceShipTwo Rocket Test: Reactions & Celebrations - Space.com | ... inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists. I applaud the team at Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites for their accomplishment, and the team at Mojave Air & Space Port for their efforts in creating a professional and safe testing ...
