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Doolittle Raiders to meet for final reunion: 'We're going to close this mission' - The Northwest Florida Daily News | Doolittle Raiders to meet for final reunion: 'We're going to close this mission'. Doolittle Raiders. By ANGEL McCURDY / Daily News. Published: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 15:09 PM. FORT WALTON BEACH — The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders will end their...

Pilots show planes, skills - Southland Times | People were encouraged to come and watch the full aerobatic displays and catch a glimpse of the turbine jets reaching their maximum speeds, he said. "It's an amazing event; the jets go so fast and some of the skills from the aerobatics pilots is just...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Blades are just the ticket for RAF Cosford Airshow from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News by Flightline UK |As tickets start to go on sale today for this summer’s Cosford Air Show, organisers have unveiled the first aircraft to take part in the thrilling six-hour flying display. The Blades aerobatic display team, who perform their breathtaking manoeuvres around the world, have confirmed they will be among a number of star attractions at the air show on Sunday, June 9, joining celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the West Midlands’ RAF station....

2013 Cosford Air Show tickets go on sale - shropshirelive.com | Link to 2013 Cosford Air Show tickets go on sale. February 1st, 2013 shropshirelive.com. Tickets for this summer's Cosford Air Show have gone on sale today with organisers unveiling the first aircraft to take part in the thrilling six-hour flying ...

Raptor to take to the skies at Avalon - The Australian | THE formidable F-22 Raptor will take to the skies during this year's Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition for its first ever Australian flying display. Although two F-22s attended the show at Victoria's Avalon Airport for ...

NASA Researchers, Tuskegee Airmen To Honor Black History Month from Aero-News Network | 'Red Tails To Red Planet' Presented At Langley Research Center In VA A full-scale Mars Curiosity rover model that was featured in President Barack Obama's Inaugural Parade is one of the highlights of a Black History Month celebration, called "Red Tails to Red Planet," at NASA Langley Research Center's official visitors' facility, the Virginia Air & Space Center (VASC)...

Cape WWII vet gets fly one more time - North Fort Myers Neighbor | The B-24J Liberator, along with the vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, which served as heavy bombers, and a North American P-51 Mustang, which flew escort on their missions, will be part of a unique display at Page Field from Monday to Wednesday of...

Havasu's Rosie the Riveter - Today's News-Herald | “One time we had to salvage a B-25,” Naylor continues. “And we had to go through it — it was all in pieces — and we found body parts. I will never forget the smell.” Soon the war was over and Naylor was discharged on Sept. 29, 1945 — a month and 20...

Restored, upgraded B-29 now at Pima Air Museum - KVOA Tucson News | TUCSON,AZ- The KB-50J is back and ready to be displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum after spending the last 6 months with a restoration team. The KB-50J began as an upgrade to the victorious B-29. Since...

The Highs and Lows of Human-Powered Flight - Engadget | ... Lippisch's achievement remains up for debate. He would, however, go on to put any doubts of his aerodynamic knowledge firmly to rest, by later designing the first-ever rocket-powered fighter plane -- the Lippisch Ente and the Messerschmitt Me 163...

Hindenburg (LZ 129) — the walkaround that could have been from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Hindenburg (LZ 129) — the walkaround that could have been Dwarfing an Airbus 380 or Boeing 747 — longer than an ocean liner from stem to stern and as high from keel to stack — the airship Hindenburg must have been a sight to witness. Of course, we know of her tragic loss, but her history and her many [...]

Dakota Departure from Apron 6 | It’s time for a first picture of the new album. It will be a few photo’s from the Sunday at the Photoflying Days last summer. I already posted one picture of that day
as an update then. It...

Video: November 11, 1956 - The Sexiest Jet (Ever) Makes Her First Flight! (B-58 Hustler) from AirPigz by Martt

Museum Participates in Midwest Aviation Conference and Trade Show from News  | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum participated in the 2013 Midwest Aviation Conference and Trade Show (MACTS) held January 26-27 at the Maryland Heights Centre in St. Louis County. The event was sponsored by the Greater St. Louis Flight Instructors Association and the Missouri Pilots Association. Day one consisted of a Flight Instructor Revalidation Clinic and aviation safety seminar running concurrently with the...

Wichita Aero Club pulls out all the stops at 2013 annual gala - Wichita Business Journal | I've flown along on a KC-135 refueling training mission; I've ridden around the airport on one of the fire trucks and seen the water cannon in action; I stood only a matter of yards from the runway by Boeing Wichita (in the freezing cold) and took...

Mark your calendar for 'Top Gun' on the big IMAX screen - Daily Press | The Virignia Air & Space Center in Hampton announced this week that "Top Gun" would play on its gigantic IMAX screen from Feb. 7-13. The good parts, in particular the flight scenes, will look absolutely spectacular. The dumb parts? Well, the big screen...

Like the light from a hundred (very small) suns from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Nice picture from the UK's official Defence Images website showing an AgustaWestland Merlin helicopter from HMS Northumberland vomiting forth 100s of flares over the Indian Ocean. The...

Photos: A-10: from trainer to storm chaser from Air Combat Command - ACC Headlines | While most aircrafts try to avoid storms, the 309th Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.., is finishing the first transition of preparing an A-10A Thunderbolt to do just the opposite -- fly into the storms!

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force. View the slideshow.

U.S. Air Force gearing up for the largest B-1 bomber modification in program history from David Cenciotti's weblog | The U.S. Air Force is about to furtherly upgrade its fleet of B-1B Lancer bombers. With what the service announces as “the largest B-1 modification in program history” the supersonic swing-wing bomber will get several improvements as part of the Integrated Battle Station and Sustainment-Block 16 (SB-16) upgrade aimed to provide B-1 aircrews with...

"SpaceShipOne" creator talks importance of PS Air Museum - KESQ | ... you don't know anything about airplanes, to go and look at the hardware that kept us free, is something everyone should do." Money from the Palm Springs Air Museum Gala on Friday, February 8th, goes to preserving those historic airplanes at the museum...

We'll post this one too because we all know who Rob Reider is! -

Former ‘Braun Show’ singers reunite for concert - Cincinnati.com | ...Former “Bob Braun Show” singers Rob Reider and Nancy James celebrate their 1970s Cincinnati TV roots when they perform “Together Again” Feb. 28 at Covington’s Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center....