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Matt Younkin To Receive 2012 Bill Barber Award for Showmanship from Aero-News Network | Becomes First Second-Generation Barber Award Winner Matt Younkin has been named as the 2012 recipient of the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship. The award will be presented during EAA AirVenture 2012 at EAA's Theater in the Woods on Tuesday, July 24th at 7pm. Matt joins a list of honorees that reads like an airshow hall of fame. He also becomes the first second-generation Barber Award winner. His father, Bobby Younkin, won the award in 2004...

Westmoreland County Air Show soaring back to previous form - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | The four blue and gold planes, locked in a diamond formation, thundered down the runway toward June Kennedy, then screamed overhead and out of sight at ...

Reno Air Race Organizers Plan Memorial To Crash Victims - KCBS | RENO (CBS/AP) — Organizers of the Reno National Championship Air Races are pursuing plans to build a permanent memorial for victims of last year’s mass-casualty crash. Reno Air Racing Association officials hope the memorial can be installed at the crash site at Reno Stead Airport by the start of the Sept. 12-16 event....

Race Jets – The Rock Stars of Air Racing - Chasing Clouds | Chasing Clouds is back at it again with a new added member to prove you with more exclusive trick shots than any other photog. We mean it when we say if you are chasing clouds you must be rising above the competition. This year we will be doing more with promoting the Jet Class and...

The Finale – USAF Thunderbirds - Joey's Blog | As usual, the finale is loud! Instead of it being a mirage of fireworks, it was 6 F-16 Vipers called the USAF Thunderbirds, and boy did they make some thunder...

Indianapolis Airshow 2012 - Brokaw Images | Just for fun I went to the Indianapolis Airshow 2012 at the Indianapolis Regional Airport.  I knew it was going to be extremely hot and sunny, but I figured there would also be aircraft, people, activity, noise, etc.  You get it a photo rich environment...

Red Cans for the Red Tails takes off for the airshow  - The Livingston County News | As the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group gears up for the 2012 Geneseo Airshow, so too is long-time volunteer Austin Hancock...

Idaho crash grounds pilot set to fly Breckenridge July Fourth - Summit Daily News | Buck Roetman and Gary Rower were set to attempt to break the record for the highest air shows ever to be performed over land and water this Fourth of July...

Bumper crowds at weekend airshow - ITV News | Organisers of the Lowestoft airshow say holding it over a weekend helped lead to bumper crowds turning out. Over 190,000 people attended the festival on Saturday alone. It was the first time in its 16 year history that the two day event airshow was held at a weekend. Organisers say they plan to do the same next year....

Keeping Red Arrows in Lincolnshire is worth £1.5ma year, say ... - This is Lincolnshire | "The high profile specialist aerobatic display team are well known throughout the world and attract visitors to our area to catch a glimpse of the Reds...

Both drivers rewarded the championship of France aerobatic - Maritima.info (translated) | The aerobatic team of the Air Force, led by Captain Fabrice Camliti, is with the Patrouille de France, the teams presented the Air Force established the Air Base 701 Salon de Provence . The aerobatic team of the Air Force, whose godfather is 2012 Luc Alphand, a former ski champion, aims to represent the Air Force at meetings and national and international competitions...

The arrows show the tricolor - Il Tirreno (translated) | The patrol world's most famous has not lived up to expectations: in thousands, from Cinquale in Viareggio, attended the stunts. The roar rends the sky Cinquale at 18 o'clock when two hundred thousand heads suddenly, as in a dance movement, is running simultaneously to follow the line of sound. And by the sound of the air here they are, finally, the tricolor arrows shot towards the horizon...

Flight Instructors To Embark On Nationwide Tour In A J-3 Cub from Aero-News Network | Plan To Write A Book To Support Aviation Scholarships A pair of flight instructors from Montgomery County, MD is planning an 8,000 mile 48-state odyssey this summer in a 1938 Piper J-33 Cub. Meredith Tcherniavsky, age 40 and her 51-year-old husband Dana Holladay have set July 4 as their departure date from Fallston Airport (W42) in Fallston, MD...

Chroma DC Supply Donation Powers B-17 Restoration - DigitalJournal.com | On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 10 am, California based Chroma Systems Solutions will contribute Modular DC Power Supplies to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum’s B-17, City of Savannah Restoration Project. This equipment will provide DC power to the aircrafts radio room, turrets, flaps on the wings along with its landing lights and interior lighting. The Museum will demonstrate the use of this power supply by operating the B-17’s chin turret on Tuesday morning.

T/Sgt. Howard Dillingham nearly shot down in B-17 over Osha Buren from War Tales by Don Moore | It was the railroad yard at Mannheim, Germany that was almost T/Sgt. Howard W. Dillingham’s and the other seven members of his B-17 bomber crew’s undoing. The five lines of penciled notes written nearly 60 years ago doesn’t do justice to his World War II tale. The ” Flying Fortress” flight engineer and upper-turret gunner [...]

Now that we have wrapped up the USPA CP Nationals, it’s... from Bonjour BlueSky | Now that we have wrapped up the USPA CP Nationals, it’s time for the US CP Team to start thinking about...

Civil War Balloon Replica To Get A Lift From Macy's from Aero-News Network | Last-Minute Helium Donation … A ‘Macy's Miracle’ … Makes Civil War Replica Balloon Flight Possible When Peter Arnold, Genesee Country Village & Museum president and CEO, set out last year to build and fly the world's first replica of a Civil War manned balloon – the Intrepid – little did he know his dream could collapse from a nationwide helium shortage. But he also didn't bargain that one of the country's most iconic retailers would step forward to deliver a miracle at the last minute, literally raising the project off the ground...

TCC's Martinelli receives Emmy for aviation movie - New Philadelphia Times Reporter | The Raiders launched their B-25 Mitchell Bombers off an aircraft carrier so they ... Seventeen B-25 bomber crews volunteered to gather in honor of the Raiders...

Monday Motivation Appreciation from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | ...We will be seeing more of Aviation Universe, but for now let me tell you what a fabulous store this is. How do you find them? Fly into O'Hare, and they're just on the west side of the airport. 10 minutes away....

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AeroCamp To Be Held In Greenville, SC July 16 - 20 from Aero-News Network | First Time For The Airport To Host Such An Activity AeroCamp, which is designed to give young people a unique opportunity to explore the vast and exciting world of aviation and aerospace at their local airport, will be held at Greenville Downtown Airport in Greenville, SC July 16-20...

Short Final from AVwebFlash Current Issue | On a Young Eagles flight recently, the 8-year-old girl sitting in the right seat asked me what why I had a switch for "rotting bacon." Confused, I asked her to point to it. Then I said, "Oh, that's for the rotating beacon!"I'm going to...

'Son of Concorde': London to Sydney in four hours gets closer - Sydney Morning Herald | London to Sydney in four hours, they were saying, in the run-up to next month's Farnborough air show outside London in the UK, which is one of the aerospace ...