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Welcome to the new air show - Sun-Sentinel | The Lauderdale Air Show — successor to the wildly popular Air & Sea Show — comes to the beach this weekend, five years after the last performance of the old show. The good news: No city tax dollars are being spent on the show, with the cost of over ...

Beach packed for Air Show practice - Local 10 | Spectators thronged Fort Lauderdale Beach on Friday afternoon to welcome back the Air Show after a hiatus since 2007. The show in the sky appears to have been missed. "It's so fantastic to have the Air Show back. We've been waiting for this for years, ...

High Flying Acts Land At Robins Air Force Base - 13WMAZ | Around 10:00 am, Thursday morning, six of the Blue Angels landed at the base, but not without doing a few twist and turns in the sky. They came to the base from Pensacola. Leaders from Houston County were on hand to welcome the airmen to Central ...

The Spitfire and Mustang which will be on show at Old Buckenham Airshow on June 24 - Norwich Evening News | By dominic bareham Two of the world's most iconic fighters will be gracing the skies over a Norfolk village on June 24 when an airshow returns after a year off. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below....

Red Arrows flying back for air show - Clacton and Frinton Gazette | THE world-famous Red Arrows will be returning to Clacton this summer for the town's 21st air show. The display team will perform on the second day of the event on August 24. It was forced to pull out of the show last year following the death of Flight ...

P-38 'Glacier Girl' Returns To Oshkosh In 2012 from Aero-News Network | Appearance Celebrates The 20th Anniversary Of The Iconic Plane's Recovery The Lockheed P-38 Glacier Girl, the fearsome twin-boom fighter aircraft that has become one of the world’s most well-known warbirds since its rescue from the Greenland ice cap in 1992, will return to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture on the 20th anniversary of its first public appearance.

Holleder posthumously awarded Distinguished Service Cross from Stars and Stripes | Pat Tillman and Don Holleder played football well enough to draw the interest of NFL teams. Like Tillman, Holleder - a generation earlier - opted for military service. Both died in the line of duty in a far away land.

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Russia’s Golden Eagles helicopter pilots group celebrates 20th anniversary from AVIATION-NEWS by Marcel van Leeuwen | Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the Golden Eagles, the pilots group that is the symbolic calling card of the Russian helicopter industry. Based at the Russian Army’s Flight Training Centre in Torzhok, the Golden Eagles are one of the few helicopter pilots groups anywhere in the world to perform flight acrobatics in both the [...]

Local WWII vets prep for Honor Flight missions - Tbo.com | About 900 World War II vets die every day; today there are about 2.9 million left. About 81000 have been thanked for their service by being invited on one-day Honor Flights to see the monuments of Washington. DC, especially the ones dedicated to their ...

World War II Military Transport Plane, C-47 Dakota, Makes Final Leg of Voyage April 27-28 to New Home at Fantasy of Flight from State Aviation Journal by Kim Stevens | POLK CITY, Fla. (April 27, 2012) - After a nine-month layover at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a World War II C-47 Dakota, will make the final leg of its voyage this weekend to its new home at Central Florida's Fantasy of Flight, home to the world's largest private collection of rare and vintage planes. Fantasy of Flight creator and founder Kermit Weeks purchased the plane, also known as the Skytrain, last year from a private owner in the U.K. and began ...

The Sonex, a Back to Basics Kit-Built Airplane from Flight Monkeys | It’s called the Sonex. It’s a kit plane, which means you build it yourself. Much like the models you built as a kid, this one comes in a multitude of pieces, with an instruction manual that tells you which tab goes in which slot, and what type of glue you should use to hold the whole thing together...

The Spirit of Santa Monica - airspacemag.com | Between 1920 and 1975, Donald Douglas’ company—and a southern California city—helped shape aviation history.

Que Sera Sera from per Ardua ad Astra by Grant Piper | In the past I have written often about aspects of the sport of aerobatics, and alluded to whether it is, or should be, made into a form of public entertainment.   This may seem like heresy to those of us that participate in the sport, and naturally wish that we can evangelically ‘spread the word’ and show our sport to the world (big note ourselves?).   Do not for a minute think that I don’t also want this, or that I wish the sport to be (some would say, remain) ‘exclusive’!   In contrast, I want to make the sport more accessible to all those people and pilots out there who want the opportunity to participate....

Shuttle Enterprise's final journey - CNN.com Video | Space shuttle Enterprise flies past the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks on the way to its new home at the Intrepid.