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05/18/2026
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BREAKING NEWS: Two E/A-18G Growlers have crashed at Mountain Home Air Force Base during todayโ€™s Gunfighter Skies Air Show. Four parachutes were seen deployed following a mid-air collision between both aircraft.

05/09/2026
05/03/2026

April showers usually bring May flowers. Let's hope they bring some great airshows this weekend!

The Red White and Blue Airshow takes off in Monroe LA with the hometown TITAN Aerobatic Team Younkin Airshows RAD Aerosports NextGen Eagles Dacy Airshows and Spanky Gallaway

The The Great Texas Airshow at JB San Antonio welcomes the Thunderbirds F-22 Raptor Demo Team Golden Knights Ace Maker Airshows Tora Tora Tora Airshows USAF Heritage Flight and more!

Joint Base Charleston has rescued their show by moving it to Charleston Harbor and the USS Yorktown with the Blue Angels F-16 Viper Demo Team USCG SAR Demo Airlift Heritage Flight with air show announcer Bill Walsh - Live 5 News

Again, to our knowledge, there is no streaming of these shows. If you see links to a stream, it's a scam. Don't click on it, but please report it. If there is a stream that we don't know about, please let us know.

Get out to one of these great shows and share your pix and video here with airshow fans from around the world!

See you on the ramp!

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05/03/2026

Denys Overholser, the Lockheed engineer whose work made American stealth aircraft possible, has passed away at 87.

Lockheed Martin announced his death this week, calling him "a legendary Skunk Works engineer whose work helped shape the foundation of modern stealth."

His big moment came one April afternoon in 1975. He was 36 years old, working at Lockheed's secret Skunk Works division in Burbank, California. He walked into the office of his boss, Ben Rich, holding a translated science paper written by a Soviet physicist named Pyotr Ufimtsev.

That paper had been ignored in Russia and almost forgotten in America. But Overholser saw something nobody else did. The math inside it could be used to predict how radar waves bounce off an airplane.

In his own memoir, Ben Rich later called that moment "the Rosetta Stone breakthrough for stealth technology."

Overholser turned the math into a computer program called ECHO 1. With fellow engineer Bill Schroeder, he used it to design an airplane shaped like nothing anyone had ever seen, flat, sharp, and covered in angles. It looked so strange that Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson nicknamed it the "Hopeless Diamond."

But it worked. When the team mounted a small model on a pole in the desert and aimed radar at it, the radar could not find the airplane. The pole was easier to spot than the model.

That design led to the Have Blue demonstrator in 1977, and then to the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the world's first operational stealth aircraft.

During the 1991 Gulf War, F-117s flew over Baghdad, one of the most heavily defended cities on Earth at the time. Not a single one was shot down.

His work did not end there. According to Lockheed Martin, the same ideas he pioneered helped create the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the fighter jets that protect American skies today.

Every American stealth aircraft flying right now owes something to the quiet engineer who walked into Ben Rich's office with a Soviet paper and an idea.
Rest in peace, Denys.

05/03/2026

This is why you stay for the night show. ๐Ÿ’จ Titan Aviation Fuels

๐Ÿ“ธ: Steven Serdikoff

05/03/2026

the wait is over itโ€™s SHOWTIME ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ come checkout the world famous as we rock&roll over the skies of Monroe, La

04/24/2026
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