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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Greatest of ease - Comox Valley Record, Canada
Sean Hanson, flying in Snowbird No. 6, keeps his position as the Snowbirds fly in formation during their photo flight over the Comox Glacier and Beaufort Mountains. By Lindsay Chung - Comox Valley Record The Snowbirds' annual aerial pilgrimage to the ...
Commentary: NASCAR driver Crawford feels the Blues - Pensacola News Journal
FLA race car driver fulfills a dream by flying with the Blue Angels, a local track athlete shines in senior amateur meets, and the Andrews Institute provides free physicals for thousands of prep athletes. When he drove into victory lane 20 years ago as ...
Thunderbirds fueld by tankers' support - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, ALA
KC-135 Stratotanker from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas flies in formation with the Thunderbirds over the Caribbean Sea enroute to an air show held at the new Ceiba Airport, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico April 18 and 19. Altus and McConnell tankers ...
Museum opens Thunderbirds F-16 aircraft exhibit - Air Force Link, DC(AFNS)
The Museum of Aviation here will open to the public a permanent Thunderbirds F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft exhibit May 3, the same day the Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team will perform at nearby Robins Air Force Base. ...
Frecce Tricolori season’s opening and Rome International Airshow
With the mini-airshow that will be held in Rivolto, home of the Frecce Tricolori, on May 1, the airshow season of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) will officially start. Since the annual Giornata Azzurra (held each year at Pratica di Mare airbase) was canceled due to budget cuts, the traditional Frecce Tricolori season’s opening was enriched with the displays..
Air show to usher in new airport in Branson - News-Leader.com, MO
The first Branson Air Show, which will kick off the grand opening of the Branson Airport, will be May 8 to May 10, a news release about the event said. The country's top air show performers, including the US Air Force Thunderbirds, the US Army Gold ...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

High-flyer lives his Red Arrow dream
Bromley Times - ‎Apr 22, 2009‎
A PILOT is to live out his boyhood ambition by taking to the skies with the Red Arrows this summer. Flight Lieutenant Mike Ling, from Orpington, ...

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Two more soar high with Angels - Goldsboro News Argus, NCBy
Steve Herring For Bill Bryan and Dan Jackson, being suited up to soar with the Blue Angels only to be grounded because of the weather was kind of like waving candy in front of child only to tell him he cannot have it. ...

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Air show this weekend at Langley Air Force Base Daily Press
On Saturday, the B-2 stealth bomber will fly by the air show crowd, and locals can expect the well-known F-16 Thunderbirds to fly overhead on Saturday and ...
Snowbird Training Camp coming to an End - Aviation.ca
After an intense three week training camp, the Snowbirds are ready to begin the 2009 Air Show Season. The Birds will fly their final practice on Saturday over the Strait of Georgia at 9:30 am Then it is back to Saskatchewan for the 15 Wing Armed Forces ...
Snowbirds get ready for air show season kick-off from Headline News431 Air Demonstration Squadron-better known as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds-based at 15 Wing Moose Jaw, Sask., is getting ready to kick off the 2009 air show season.
Blue Angels team visits hospital, two county schools - Goldsboro News Argus, NCBy Kenneth Fine and Phyllis Moore Caroline Bryan, 5, gets an autographed poster from Blue Angels flight surgeon Lt. Johannah Valentine during a visit to Wayne Memorial Hospital Friday morning. US Navy Blue Angel Lt. Mark Swinger tells seventh-grade ...

Friday, April 24, 2009

BIGGIN HILL: Red Arrows to fly with Boeing 747 at airshow
The Red Arrows will fly in a V-formation salute with a Boeing 747 at this summer's Biggin Hill International Air Fair. Flying their nine Hawk T1 jets, ...
Blue Angels, Golden Knights to visit air base News & Observer
Two members of the Blue Angels pass one another during a maneuver at the Wings Over Wayne air show in 2007. The Navy demonstration team is returning to the ...
Thunderbirds fly 'Hampton Roads Hero' WAVY-TV
The US Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team honored a local hero Thursday with a flight in one of the team's F-16 Falcon fighters. ...
Meet and Greet With The Snowbirds! - Soonews.ca,
CanadaTickets are now available for the dinner reception in honour of Canada's famous Snowbirds. The event will be held Tuesday June 9th, in the Grand Ballroom of the Water Tower Inn beginning at 7:00 pm This is your chance to meet and dine with members of ...
Blue Angels have several members with local, NC ties - Goldsboro News Argus, NCBy Kenneth Fine One of the Navy Blue Angels taxis down the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base runway this morning. The elite F/A-18 Super Hornet demonstration team arrived in advance of its performances at this weekend's Wings Over Wayne air show. ...

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Thunderbirds flying team takes Hampton by storm Daily Press -By Hugh Lessig
The Thunderbirds arrived in town Wednesday and did a quick stroll around the block, just to get a feel for the ...

Monday, April 20, 2009

Snowbirds, Hawk One and the Century Hornet to Meet the Public - Aviation.ca (press release), CanadaThe Snowbirds will conclude their Spring Training Camp at 19 Wing Comox with an autograph session open to the public on 25 April. With them will be the Hawk One, a refurbished F-86 Sabre commemorating the famous RCAF Golden Hawk, and the Century Hornet ...
Brooklyn's Blue Angel - Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NYNavy Lieutenant Johannah Valentine, age 30, is the Flight Surgeon of the Blue Angels. She is also a 1996 graduate of Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights...
Canada's pioneering air acrobats to meet up again - Canada.com, Canada
He says the Golden Hawks created and perfected some of the aerobatic stunts later adopted by other flying teams around the world. They were the first to use a pair of solo pilots in their shows, flying head-to-head loops, and they even pulled off a few ...

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Red Arrows is men-only - Mirror.co.uk
The female Top Gun pilot hoping to break into the Red Arrows has had her dreams grounded. She was on the shortlist of nine hoping to fill one of the three ...
Beale air show to feature Patriots Jet Demonstration Team
The Union of Grass Valley - ‎Apr 17, 2009‎
Entrance and parking are free to the Beale Air Force Base Open House and Air Show to be held from 9 am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday...
Record Crowd Expected At This Weekend's Air Show - KRIS-TV
This is a sneak peek of what you can expect to see at the air show. It will be a mixture of old and new, but the highlight will be the Blue Angels...

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Former Blue Angels Commander to Speak at SSU Commencement WSAV-TV
Cochran's distinguished career also included two tours with the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels. ...

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Legendary Golden Hawk Sabre Arrives in Comox from Aviation.ca NewsThe Hawk One F-86 Sabre will arrive here in Comox, Wednesday, 15 April at 11 a.m. to begin training with the Canadian Force Snowbirds in preparation the 2009 airshow season...

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Red Checkers birdstrike. (aerobaticteams.net)
One of the New Zealand Air Force aerobatic team Red Checker’s planes hit by a bird, during its performance at Classic Fighters Airshow at Marlborough, NZ...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Flying high with the famous Snowbirds team - Gravenhurst Banner, CanadaSince 2006, the Bracebridge native has been the technical co-ordinator for the world-famous Snowbirds Demonstration Team. Speaking from the squadron's headquarters in Moose Jaw last week, Beauchesne said the acrobatic aviators are gearing up for ...

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Don’t let GAAW stop the Red Arrows, says Crowe
Galway Advertiser - ‎7 hours ago‎
By Kernan Andrews An air display by the Red Arrows for the Volvo Ocean Race is not a glorification of war or a championing of the British Army, ...
Red Arrows hope for Horley takes a dive - Redhill And Reigate Life, UKOrganisers of Horley's St George's Day celebrations are keeping their fingers crossed over getting a flypast from the Red Arrows. Hopes for the supersonic hello from the world-famous RAF aerobatic team took a dive when event organisers Horley and ...
Famed aerobatics team back in Valley for spring training - Canada.com, Canada"It is a great opportunity for 19 Wing to host the Snowbirds and to have them for such a length of time," said 19 Wing public affairs officer Lt. Alexandre Cadieux. "It gives, for three consecutive weeks, the opportunity for school groups and general ...

Monday, April 6, 2009

Blue Angels Debut At Wisconsin Air Fest - WIFR, ILIn less than two months, the Blue Angels will make their debut in the stateline once again, for the 2009 Southern Wisconsin Air Fest just south of Janesville. The event will take flight May 30th and end on the 31st. The Rockford Airport is expected to ...
Teamwork ensures Thunderbirds performance from Air Force Link Top StoriesAirmen from three commands came together to prepare the Thunderbirds F-16 Fighting Falcons in time for the Keesler Air Force Base airshow April 4 after inclement weather damaged five of the aircraft's noses.The damage from the weather occurred as the Thunderbirds arrived for the airshow and was limited to the red cones called radar domes, or "radome," at the nose of the aircraft.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Tuscaloosa to get Air Show this weekend
The University of Alabama Crimson White - ‎4 hours ago‎
The Blue Angels doing a fly-by over the university during their rehearsal. /CW Babatunde Ajilore Thundering jet engines roared across the grey, ...
Thunderbirds touch down
SunHerald.com (registration) - ‎4 hours ago‎
Teams of blue-clad Thunderbirds immediately went outside into the thunderstorm to push the planes inside the hangar. “We were expecting it,” said ...

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Former Air Force Thunderbird recollects - WLOX, MSBy Jeff Lawson - bio email BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Biloxi resident Chuck Johnson and his wife Betty will be among the estimated 70000 people expected to come to Keesler this weekend for the Air Force Thunderbirds show. For Chuck, the Thunderbirds bring ...
Red Arrows could get first female pilot - Telegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe Red Arrows could get their first ever female pilot later this year, it has been reported. The officer, one of only ten female pilots in the entire RAF, is among an elite group of fliers competing to fill three vacancies on the world-famous ...

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Red Arrows could get first female pilot Telegraph.co.uk.
... of only ten female pilots in the entire RAF, is among an elite group of fliers competing to fill three vacancies on the world-famous aerobatics team. ...

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