Lehigh Valley Airshow stunts impress visitors; traffic headaches arise - The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com | Lehigh Valley International Airport’s runways saw a bit more action than 
Airshow soars through the Valley - Allentown Morning Call | Seated on a folding chair under a cloudless blue sky, an awestruck Ron Sierzega cocked his head upward and watched the fighter jets streak by. "It's just awesome," he said as four L-39 Albatroses that make up the Black Diamonds soared overhead in tight formation. "It seems as though they're roped to each other."...
Local residents treated to "old school" air show - WKTV | FRANKFORT, N.Y. (WKTV) - Frankfort residents received a blast from the past, as a 1930's/1940's-style air show took place at Highland Airport, Saturday. The 12th Annual Radio Control Airshow included combat demonstrations, giant scale aerobatics, clown flying acts, and vintage flying models, dazzling local residents on a beautiful day in August...
Air show raises money for Wounded Warriors - UpNorthLive.com | BENZIE COUNTY -- The Benzie Area Radio Control club (BARC) held their 16th Annual Model Aircraft Show on Saturday, but changed things up this year by donating what they raised to a special cause. There were model planes of all different shapes and sizes at the show held at the Thompsonville Airport. Hundreds of spectators watched as pilots made their aircrafts dip, dive, twirl, and jet through the air...
Owatonna airport hosts aviation-filled weekend for area residents, WWII ... - Southernminn.com | OWATONNA — When the Minnesota Wing of Commemorative Air Force landed its World War II aircraft at the Owatonna Degner Regional Airport Saturday, Jim Fairchild had a smile on his face. “I like airplanes,” Fairchild said. Fairchild of Owatonna said he has a pilot’s license, but hasn’t flown in years...
Russian air show rehearsals canceled - UPI.com | MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Rehearsals for a major Russian air show were postponed after media reports said several planes suffered mechanical failures and couldn't get off the ground. The MAKS-2013 air show, set to run in Moscow from Tuesday to Sept. 1, will draw 100,000 visitors per day, organizers said. But rehearsals were halted, officially due to poor weather...
Fifth Annual EAA Warbirds Badger Squadron 6 Oconto Fly-In: 9/14/13 - Warbirds News | The air 
will be filled with excitement at the 5th Annual Oconto Fly-In hosted by Wisconsin’s EAA Warbirds Badger Squadron 6. The event will take place at the J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport in Oconto, Wisconsin on Saturday September 14th 2013 with gates opening at 9am with festivities running throughout the day until 5pm. Admission is $4 per person and children under 12 are FREE.
Cascades airshow lifts off Video: Restored World War II bomber flies at Airshow - Bend Bulletin | MADRAS — At the edge of the taxiway at the Madras Airport on Saturday afternoon, a B-17 bomber paused in front of the VIP tent at the Airshow of the Cascades. Already nearly close enough to reach out and touch its wing, the VIPs crowded in to take a better look, just in time for the plane to belch a cloud of pungent black smoke directly into the tent...
The 23rd annual Fly/In Cruise/In to take place Aug. 31 - Chronicle-Tribune | The event features a number of air and motor vehicles. The Tri-Motor Ford 5-AT will offer rides from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with the purchase of a ticket. Food tickets for the all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast are also available for purchase. All proceeds from those sales will benefit the Marion High School Band.
Labor Day Benefit Event to Be Held at St. Louis Downtown Airport The Aero Experience | Flyer
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Warbird Nose Art Is Still Popular Attraction - The Aero Experience | In any large gathering of aircraft, there will be a number of examples of what is traditionally known as "nose art," here loosely defined as a personalized emblem or nickname given to an aircraft and applied near the nose of the aircraft. Finding examples of nose art at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013, with over 10,000 aircraft in attendance, was not difficult - it was more a matter of how many examples would be missed during the week. Nose art is most...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: More Aircraft Markings - The Aero Experience | With so many aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this year, there were bound to be interesting markings besides the typical "nose art" featured in the previous post. Again using warbirds and...
Grandfather a nearly famous B-17 crew chief - Concord Monitor | Looking over the .50 caliber waist guns of the B-17 flying low over Hooksett, it was easy to imagine ourselves transported back 70 years to the skies over Europe. Except of course, we were warm. We were within sight of a safe landing strip. And no one was shooting at us...
Residents, vets enjoy flights in Vietnam-era helicopters - Dothan Eagle | OZARK – Dozens of area residents and military veterans showed up at Blackwell Field Airport on Saturday for the unique chance to fly in Vietnam-era U.S. Army helicopters. The Friends of Army Aviation-Ozark partnered with the Hampton, Ga.-based Army Aviation Heritage Foundation to present an open house event of sorts, celebrating the permanent arrival of a UH-1H Huey N104HF and an AH-1F Cobra Attack Helicopter N766HF to Ozark. ...
Historic Aircraft Finds Permanent Home in Ozark - WTVY, Dothan | OZARK -- Veterans, soldiers and civilians all connected today at Blackwell Field Airport. They had the chance to ride in a UH-1H Huey and an AH-1F Cobra Attack Helicopter. The Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and the Friends of Army Aviation-Ozark chose to permanently station the two aircrafts in Ozark...
Students experience rides aboard Yak 52s · General Aviation News Staff | FRANKFORT, Kentucky — Several students from the Institute of Aerospace Education recently met at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, to fly in Yak 52s. Six Yak pilots from around the country gathered at the airport, letting each student experience formation flight in these amazing World War II Warbirds...
Virgin launches glass-bottomed plane - Virgin.com | I’m thrilled to announce that Virgin has created another world-first with the introduction of the technology required to produce the world’s first glass-bottomed plane. This technological innovation coincides with the start of Virgin Atlantic Airways’ first ever domestic service to Scotland...
NASA to crash helicopter to study safety · General Aviation News Staff | NASA researchers will drop a 45-foot-long helicopter fuselage from a height of about 30 feet to test improved seat belts and seats and advance experimental techniques and crashworthiness data. The test is slated for Wednesday, Aug. 28, at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va...
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This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar! Lots of choices.
Airport officials cancel air show due to air quality - Tahoe Daily Tribune | City officials canceled the 
Air Festival Air festival to showcase work at airport - Daily Journal Online |BONNE TERRE - Steve Vogt’s passion is very contagious.After spending just a few minutes with the Festus native, one can’t help but see how he’s poured that passion into the Bonne Terre Municipal Airport. What was an overgrown runway with a shed held up by overgrown weeds just a few short month ago now has a Fixed Based Operator (FBO) facility, complete with all the amenities anyone flying into Bonne Terre would need...
FIFI Returns to the Basin This Weekend - NewsWest9.com | MIDLAND - Starting on Saturday, 
Russia showcasing new Sukhoi fighters at Moscow air show - UPI.com | Visitors to the Paris Air Show in June were treated to a display of the Su-35S's impressive aerobatics, including a demonstration of the extraordinary Pugachev's Cobra maneuver. Sukhoi claims the aircraft can "successfully counter" full-fledged fifth ...
Radom Air Show 2013 - Aviation Headlines - Airplane-Pictures.net | Photographs from this years Radom - Sadkow Air show
Biggest Irish airshow since 1936 to take place next month - thejournal.ie | YOU MIGHT BE used to seeing a small twin-seat plane or helicopter flying low overhead — but it will hard to miss some of the massive aircraft which will be flying down the banks of the River Liffey next month. FlightFest, an event organised by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), Dublin City Council, and The Gathering, takes place on September 15th and will see over two dozen aircraft flying low over the city centre...
Vietnam-era F-105D lands at Palm Springs Air Museum - The Desert Sun | Greg Kenny with the Palm Springs Air Museum looks at the empty compartment where the jet -engine of a Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber once sat. The Palm Springs Air Museum hopes to put the Vietnam War era supersonic plane on display.
F-35C refuels from KC-135 - The DEW Line · Dave Majumdar
Thunderjet - Air & Space Magazine | It had the body of a fighter and a bomber’s soul.
A big microphone: AOPA launches one more tool to help unify the aviation family - Airplanista Aviation Blog | Imagine the scene of a large convention hall hosting several thousand pilots. The floor of the convention is awash with the sounds of 10,000 individual conversations as attendees discuss the many issues facing general aviation. Lots of buzz and energy, plenty of great ideas, but not much unified forward progress...
But Will it Fly? - Air & Space Magazine | Red Bull expands its wacky Flugtag competition to five cities this year.
Aerojet Rocketdyne Employees Inducted Into International Space Hall Of Fame - Aero-News Network | Group Developed Reusable Launch Vehicle In The 1990s | Fourty current and former employees of Aerojet Rocketdyne have been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF). All of the honored employees served as members of the original Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X/DC-XA) team which helped develop an unmanned prototype of a reusable single-stage launch vehicle in the 1990s...
Aviation Pioneer Colonel Joe Kittinger Receives Cliff Henderson Trophy
Colonel Joe Kittinger, USAF, an aviation and aerospace pioneer for more than five decades who set two world ballooning records and won numerous ballooning competitions, was honored with the Cliff Henderson trophy at the June 2013 NAA luncheon.
The Cliff Henderson Trophy is awarded to "...a living individual, group of individuals, or an organization whose vision, leadership or skill made a significant and lasting contribution to the promotion and advancement of aviation and aerospace in the United States."
Kittinger took the "highest step in the world" on August 16, 1960, when he made history as he ascended to 102,800 feet in a high-altitude balloon and jumped to earth. Most recently, Kittinger provided capsule communications as the primary point of radio contact with Felix Baumgartner in the Red Bull Stratos Project, which set three world skydiving records in 2012.
Sherry Butcher, President of the United States Parachute Association, introduced Kittinger at the luncheon, explaining that he "changed forever the world of skydiving and enabled many more people to enjoy skydiving. His quest for knowledge had many unintended benefits. He stimulated interest in aviation over several decades."
She added that Kittinger accomplished many things that did not receive enough recognition, including inventing tandem skydiving equipment, which is the basis for skydiving training around the world.
In accepting the trophy, Kittinger said," I am here representing a lot of people - teammates who made my flights possible. You cannot do these things by yourself. I have been fortunate to be surrounded by people who are a lot smarter than I am."
He specifically praised the hard work of Art Thompson over the course of seven years as technical project director for the Red Bull Stratos Project. "He made the flight happen," Kittinger said. "Thank you for a job well done."
Kittinger is also an NAA Distinguished Statesman of Aviation, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement in Aviation trophy from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, was made an honorary U.S. Army Golden Knight, and is enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the U.S. Ballooning Hall of Fame, and the National Skydiving Museum Hall of Fame. He has logged more than 16,800 hours of flying time in over 93 aircraft. His adventures are detailed in his autobiography, "Come Up and Get Me."
Source (NAA News Letter)
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EAA Founder Paul H. Poberezny: September 14, 1921 ~ August 22, 2013 - AirPigz | Experimental Aircraft Association founder Paul H. Poberezny passed away on Thursday August 22, 
Gone West: Last Original Blue Angel Al Taddeo - Aero-News Network |Had Shot Down Three Japanese Airplanes Before Joining The Demonstration Squadron Following WWII | The last of the original Blue Angels, Cdr. Al Taddeo, passed away August 19 at the age of 94....
Lehigh Valley Air Show Takes Off This Weekend - Patch.com | The air show, which runs Saturday and Sunday at Lehigh Valley International Airport, will feature aircraft displays and a classic car show, along with a jet team, flight performances, sky diving demonstrations, exhibitors, food vendors and other ...
Air show returns to Vero Beach - Hometown News | VERO BEACH -- For some, seeing an air show in Vero Beach has been something long forgotten. For most children, something they've yet to see. Thanks to the two-year collaborative effort between several organizations in Indian River County, the skies ...
Airshow organizers says tickets are good value : Miramichi Online | Here are a selection of photos from today. MO))) was given the opportunity for a media flight with stunt pilot Gary Ward. We gave the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to Gail Marsh because she was 1) a friend of MO))), 2) small enough to fit in the plane, and 3) not scared. She said it was real thrill. Other media got to fly around in the Herc.
China's National Team Of Aerobatic Pilots Is Performing Abroad For The First Time - Business 
Cold War planes (including some special colors) to star at Radom Air Show in Poland - The Aviationist | One of the biggest Air Shows in the Mid-Eastern part of Europe will take place on Aug. 24 and 25 at Radom, central Poland. The Radom Air Show offers a rare occasion to see several Cold War planes (as well as some Western ones) during one event. It is a rarity for Russian aerobatic teams to perform outside the Russian borders (with a few exceptions, as this year’s show in Kecksemet, Hungary), so if one wants to spot a MiG-29 or Su-22 – Radom is the place to go...
Over the Bridge upside down and other memories By John Jackson ARGUS-COURIER SPORTS EDITOR | One of my favorite events of the summer is the annual Wings over Wine Country air show sponsored by the Pacific Coast Air Museum. I’m not a pilot, not even an avid aviation enthusiast, but I do enjoy marvelling at the wonderful machines the air show organizers bring into the Sonoma County Airport each year. To get up close and personal with the history of military aviation is an opportunity to let imagination take control and recreate what the men and women (the bold leaders) experienced as they helped insure our freedom...
Video: Best of – The Royal International Air Tattoo 2013 at AirClips.net ... | Best of – The Royal International Air Tattoo 2013. Tags: 2013, Afterburner, Fairford, Jet, RAF, RIAT. Categories: Air Shows, Fighters & Bombers, Low Pass, New Aircraft Model. Related Aviation Videos. North American Rockwell Bronco OV-10B ...
Airport fly-in; FAB Conference - The Sheridan Press | “It’s an opportunity to show how our airport benefits the community,” Hall says. There will be food, exhibits of WWII and Korean War training aircraft, free plane rides for the kids, he adds. It’s the first fly-in since 2006...
Historic aircraft rides available in Princeton next weekend - St. Cloud Times | PRINCETON — The Minnesota Wing of the Commemorative Air Force is offering rides on historic World War II aircraft Aug. 30-31 at Princeton Airport. Rides start at $125. For $450, patrons can ride in a B-25 bomber, a twin-engine airplane that was used...
Warbirds come to Erie Ottawa Regional Airport- The Beacon | The largest remote control model aviation show in the area will be in Port Clinton Aug. 24 and 25. Exhibitions range from medium to giant-scale propeller driven aircraft to turbine powered jets. This year's theme is “Warbirds”, featuring model aircraft...
Italians Looked on Tuskegee Airmen 'With Pride' - hispanicbusiness.com| As the first African-Americans to serve as U.S. military pilots, Romaine Goldsborough and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen flew combat missions in service to their country even as they endured racial discrimination from their own government. In so doing, they helped to end racial segregation in the military and inspired generations of Americans. Goldsborough, one of two surviving Tuskegee Airmen living in Hawaii, died at home Wednesday at the age of 93. "He was a national treasure," said Alphonso Braggs, president of the NAACP Hawaii and a close friend of Goldsborough's. "He was a very, very humble individual, a quiet man, and I felt extremely proud to be in his presence. Just being around someone like him was quite an honor."...
Woman pilots make Coast Guard history - You Fly, Girl | TWO Coast Guard pilots have made Irish aviation history by flying the first all-female mission for the service | The Shannon-based search and rescue Helicopter R115 flew its first missions with a female pilot and co-pilot, Capt Dara Fitzpatrick and Capt Carmel Kirby. Capt Fitzpatrick is the chief pilot for rescue 117 at the Waterford base and was on transfer to Shannon to build up flying hours on the new Sikorski S92, which is due to replace the S61 in Waterford in mid-September...
World War II warbird, a 14-year project of an Orrville man, hits the sky, bound for a museum | 'This 
is a museum piece that will be flown' | The Daily Record | WOOSTER -- A series of studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Stanford University showed children who delayed gratification tended to do better in life. The children were given the option of having a marshmallow immediately or two if they waited until the person conducting the experiment returned, usually about 15 minutes later. Video footage of some children undergoing the experiment played during Joachim de Posada's TED Talk demonstrates how tempting a mere 15 minutes can be. But, can you imagine waiting 14 years for a reward?...
RIVERSIDE: Air museum seeks volunteer docents - Press-Enterprise | Joe Onesty stands next to a display about the 48th Fighter Squadron at the P-38 Museum in Riverside Sunday, Aug. 18. Onesty, 88, is looking for volunteer docents to help in the museum 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, when the museum is open.
Images: Lightning strikes twice in Beaufort - DVIDS [6 photos] | Distinguished guests of the South Carolina community listen in as Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hedelund, the commanding general of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, debuts the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to the community during a showcase of the aircraft aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Aug. 20. The F-35 will replace the Marine Corps' aging legacy tactical fleet providing the dominant, multi-role, fifth-generation capabilities needed across the full spectrum of combat operations to deter potential adversaries and enable future naval aviation power projection....
Dream Chaser airborne Posted by Guy Norris Aviation Week | Sierra Nevada conducted a captive carriage test flight of the Dream Chaser engineering test article on Aug 22 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif, in preparation for the start of approach and landing free flight tests in September. The two-hour flight covered a three-mile route over the dry lake bed which the vehicle is expected to follow during its forthcoming free-flight...
Video: NASA | From the Cockpit: The Best of IceBridge Arctic '13 - NASAexplorer | The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course -- the airborne mission is there to collect radar, laser altimetry, and other data on the changing ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. But...
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Friday, August 23, 2013
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Old warplanes fly in for air expo - Kansas City Star | Read more News Spotlight. Vintage World War II aircraft of the Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour were arriving Thursday at the New Century AirCenter for the CAF Heart of America Wing's annual AirExpo this weekend. Check here for the...
Preview to Wings Over Waukesha Airshow - WDJT | WAUKESHA--- The Wings Over Waukesha 
Airshow opens to the public on Saturday, August 24th at 10:00am. Adult admission is $10 and child admission is $5. For an additional cost, you can ride a B-17 bomber plane from World War II or a Ford TriMotor. Airshow guests can also talk to pilots, watch flight demonstrations, and listen to live music.
The Jetman:From EAA Oshkosh to the Reno Air Races - Photorecon |· Dave Budd | Brave? The Right Stuff? That doesn't even start to cover it somedays. Yves Rossy is an amazing pilot, if you want to call him that. He clearly breaks into my list of the greatest pilots in the world; ranking with Bob Hoover, Steve ...
One of the world's rarest planes flies into Gardner - fox4kc.com | GARDNER, Kan, – It’s the worlds only flying B-29 Superfortress and it landed at New Century Air Center in Gardner on Thursday afternoon for the annual air expo. The historic plane and at least 25 others was met with fanfare from local veterans. As one of the rarest World War II Bombers still in the air today, the B-29 brings with it history and stories becoming almost as rare by the day...
Despicablimp in St. Louis: Extreme Walk-Around Tour - The Aero Experience | The Despicablimp is in the middle of its stay at St. Louis Regional Airportthis week, casting its conspicuous shadow on the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. The Despicablimp, named "Stuart," is on tour across the country promoting the movie, Despicable Me 2, and is currently making stops throughout the Midwest. Media flights were conducted yesterday, and today The Aero Experience was given a detailed tour of the blimp as it remained moored for the day in the grass inside the gate across from the F-4C Phantom II on display. The Despicablimp, piloted by Mr. Allan Judd, a Swiss-born, 20-year veteran...
Pressure of Red Arrows to perform as many displays as possible 'could have been a factor in death of pilot' killed when his ejector seat went off - Daily Mail | Pressure on the Red Arrows to perform as many displays as possible could have been a factor in the death of a pilot, a hearing has heard. Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, 35, died in November 2011 after his ejection seat went off while he was on the ground at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. He was thrown into the air and his parachute failed to work...
Sean Doolittle gets lesson on Gen. James Doolittle - KTVU San Francisco | ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sean Doolittle tugs gently on his bushy red beard and soaks in a history lesson as he strolls in silence along the 872-foot wooden flight deck of the USS Hornet. He checks out old war planes while gazing at spectacular views of San Francisco and the bay, then climbs dozens of stairs to take a turn in the ship's "air boss" seat. At the USS Hornet Museum, the Oakland Athletics reliever hears all about then-Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle and his lead role in the first attack against the Japanese home islands after Pearl Harbor, a daylight barrage on April 18, 1942...
Visiting the NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum - Toriaflies | A weekend trip to Cape May with Bob and Turbo concluded with a visit to the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum at the Cape May County Airport (WWD) in New Jersey. From April 1943 to February 1946 the NAS Wildwood was an active base focused on training dive bombers during World War II. Now it is a museum housed in an all wood, 92,000 square foot hangar featuring many aircraft on...
Ohio Air News #248 - Charles Johnson | 2013 Sport Aviation Association Fly In, Mount Vernon, OH Photos By Bob Seevers, Orient, OH.
MiG Fury Fighters’ North American FJ-4B Fury: The Last of its Kind Warbirds News | Every year a gathering of people and aircraft come together in one big celebration of freedom, technology and patriotism. That event is EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For one week people of all ages and nationalities come out to watch the performances of some of aviation’s best. During that week hundreds if not thousands of aircraft line the runways 2 7 and 3 6. Everything from homebuilt, to antiques, to warbirds, and modern jets are there supporting the event. With this great diversity comes some truly rare planes, one of which seen this year was the North American FJ-4B Fury, BuNo 143575....
Welsh TV Host Hopes To Follow Amelia Earhart Around The World - Aero-News Network | Flew First Solo Flight, Which Was Broadcast On Live TV, Wednesday | The host of the television program "Loose Women" in Wales, U.K., has an ambitious goal; retrace the flight of Amelia Earhart around the world ... solo...
Sharon Menear - Flight To Success | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | Sharon Menear | From Flight Attendant to Airline Pilot to Award-Winning Author | ...During my career, I also flew many antique and exotic experimental aircraft on my days off. I helped my husband restore antique airplanes and build experimental aircraft. My flight favorites were the fully aerobatic Bücker Jungmann biplane, Italian SIAI Marchetti SF260, Glassair III, Swearingen SX300, Russian Yak 52, and my Piper Cub Special, which played a role in my thriller novel, Deadstick Dawn, but that’s a story for the next blog..."
