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Red Arrows Announce North American Airshow Schedule

Royal Air Force Team to Highlight Key Show Locations

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force Demonstration Team announced on Friday their return to North America this summer to promote trade and cooperation at select air show sites this summer. Providing a dizzying array of red, white, and blue smoke trails, the squadron’s nine BAE Systems Hawk T1 and T1As jets will provide a nearly 30-minute aerial […] More

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Thunderbirds Pumped and Ready for Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII Flyover

ATLANTA — The Air Force Thunderbirds arrived into Dobbins Air Reserve Base late Friday pumped and prepared to perform a six-jet high-speed flyover of Super Bowl LIII. Sunday will mark the Thunderbird’s third Super Bowl flyover in the past five years. Each flyover is precisely timed to the second so that the six jets are over the […] More

by Charles Atkeison February 2, 2019, 7:16 am

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F-16 Viper Demo Team Selects First Female Pilot for 2019

SHAW, AFB — The U.S. Air Force announced on Tuesday the selection of the first female to command and pilot the F-16 Viper Demonstration Team during the 2019 air show season. Capt. Zoe Kotnik becomes the Air Force’s first female single-ship aerial demonstration pilot. She will also lead the demo team during their 20 show site visits […] More

by Charles Atkeison January 29, 2019, 9:26 am

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Air Force Thunderbirds to Perform Super Bowl LIII Flyover

ATLANTA — Kick-off of Super Bowl LIII between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams will begin in high fashion next Sunday with an Air Force Thunderbirds flyover. The Air Combat Command made the official announcement on Wednesday following several meetings with both NFL officials and the Super Bowl host committee. The 53rd Super Bowl […] More

by Charles Atkeison January 24, 2019, 4:35 pm

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Air Force Thunderbirds Preparing for an ‘Amazing’ International Airshow Season

High performance flight demonstrations by the Air Force Thunderbirds will return to the skies in a few weeks as the elite pilots and service personnel prepare for the squadron’s historic international air show season. Winter training is underway with the Air Force’s flight demonstration team practicing and studying formations aboard their F-16 jets, and in […] More

by Charles Atkeison January 10, 2019, 6:06 pm

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Flying Cars to be Debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019

Flying Cars to be Debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 “Mark my words: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come,” Henry Ford reportedly predicted in 1940. At the beginning of the 20th century both aircraft and automobile were invented and since then we’ve dreamt of bringing both […] More

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