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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Biplane at Luke Days Air Show By FlyingNews @ 11:00 AM :: 425 Views :: 0 Comments :: Aerobatics, Flying Events Many high-powered airplanes will perform at the Luke Days Air Show this weekend at Luke Air Force Base, but many of the oohs and aahs will be directed at a fabric-covered biplane whose first model flew more than 50 years ago. The Air Force Reserve biplane, piloted by Goodyear resident Ed "Hamster" Hamill, 40, will be the centerpiece in a show called "Living the Dream," which tells the story of air-show flight, with narration and music that takes the viewer from the era of the barnstormers in the 1920s through the competition flying of the 1950s and 1960s up to the current high-energy aerobatics Hamill calls "sky dancing."

Monday, March 19, 2007 300,000 gapers at air show By FlyingNews @ 8:03 AM :: 437 Views :: 0 Comments :: Aerobatics, Flying Events Hundreds of thousands of spectators at the Aerospace & Arizona Days air show were wowed by aerobatics and perhaps experienced a sense of patriotism. Scott Tilden, 54, brought his sons to the annual air show at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Sunday. "This event in general just makes oneself proud to be an American," he said. Slathered in sunscreen, with water bottles handy, more than 300,000 people took advantage of shade from canopies to watch stunts and get close looks at military aircraft, base officials estimated.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series By FlyingNews @ 9:21 AM :: 416 Views :: 0 Comments :: Aerobatics New venues, new pilots, new race format. The Red Bull Air Race World Series switches to a higher gear in 2007. Twelve instead of eight races, including Rio and San Diego, fourteen instead of eleven pilots and a knockout final will top last year’s sensational success. Six million spectators at eight races in 2006, dramatic high-speed, low-level flying through air gates* – this brand new motor sport has developed incredibly in the past two years and exceeded all expectations. The pace will continue in 2007 by extending the World Series to twelve international races. Among the new venues will be the famous Botafuogo Beach at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio, Interlaken in Switzerland against the backdrop of the spectacular Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau mountains, and San Diego, California, where the planes are set to take off from an aircraft carrier. Read More..

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Caught On Tape: Plane Crashes During Air Show By FlyingNews @ 3:55 PM :: 419 Views :: 0 Comments :: Flying Accidents, Aerobatics BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A stunt pilot lost control of his plane and crashed during an air show in Argentina, and the whole thing was caught on tape.

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