Air Show

The Ocean City Air Show Where: Ocean City. Show Center Beach will be located between 14th and 17th Streets. Most events will take place inside the "Aerobatic Box" which will span from the Inlet to 36th Street. When: June 5-6, 2010 What: Lounge on the beach and experience some of the nation's top fliers as they twist and dive over the Ocean City beachfront this weekend. The event kicks off Thursday afternoone with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds roaring into town, followed by a welcome party at Sunset Grille restaurant, where spectators can mingle with performers and watch the U.S. Navy Seals Leap Frogs parachute team perform.

OC Air Show What: The F-22 Raptor and AV-8B Harrier demo teams share the skies at the OC Air Show this summer, honoring the event's theme "Year of Extreme Flight. " The fun kicks off Ocean City's start of summer and takes place across the beaches and the boardwalk. This year's air show highlights include ace pilot Chuck Aaron, flyovers by a B-2 stealth bomber and the Red Bull Helicopter, and the Red Bull Air Force, one of the most extreme parachute teams in the world.

WESTMINSTER - The Westminster Rotary Club will not sponsor a third Labor Day SkySpectacular next year, after losing money on the 1990 venture, club president Arnold L. "Skip" Amass has announced.After losing $2,373 on this year's show, the club voted last week not to sponsor a third one. The 1989 event, however, enabled the club to donate more than $27,000 in profits to local charities.Amass declined to say anything further on the decision, and June Poage, wife of the late Jack Poage, who also was instrumental in bringing the air show to Carroll, was unavailable for comment.

The Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, abruptly canceled its practice demonstration and air show scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Annapolis, but officials said the group's planes could still fly at Friday's U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony. In a statement, the Pensacola, Fla.-based Blue Angels said it is in a "safety stand-down" after an error during a maneuver during a performance on Sunday at the Lynchburg Regional Air Show in Virginia. A spokesman said planes were doing a "barrel-roll split" in which planes turn 360 degrees and then break apart.

The Navy's famed Blue Angels aerial demonstration squad has canceled the rest of its 2013 performances, including dates this summer in Ocean City, in San Diego, Navy officials announced earlier this week. "This is one of many steps the Navy is taking to ensure resources are in place to support forces operating forward now and those training to relieve them," the Navy said in an official statement. The move was caused by the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, officials said.

The Jack B. Poage Air Show returns to the Carroll County Regional Airport on Saturday and Sunday with military displays, stunts, aerobatics and flybys.More than 70 aircraft from all branches of the armed forces, civilian aerobatic performers and aviation museums participate in this event. Planes from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf war will be featured.Confirmed acts include the USAF-10 Thunderbolt II Demonstration Team, EAA's World War II B-17G Flying Fortress bomber "Aluminum Overcast," AMPHA's P-40 Warhawk World War II vintage fighter, military flybys and aerobatic performers Drew Hurley, John Greenwood, Nancy Lynn, Roger Lehnert and Ned Surratt.

Carroll County Regional Airport may be the site next spring of a two-day show on the history of aviation that could attract as many as 30,000 people, June M. Poage told county commissioners yesterday.Ms. Poage is president of Westair Inc., which leases the airport from the county. She said she has been working with a Severna Park man who has organized similar shows.John Tegler, president of Wings Publishing and Production Co., wants to do the show in May when the new runway at the airport should be finished, she said.

ANNAPOLIS -- All through a damp, gray afternoon, the crowds gathered yesterday on the banks of the Severn River to watch the Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flying team, in its annual salute to the graduating class at the Naval Academy.But the picnic atmosphere turned to disappointment. The squadron swept past Dewey Field only twice, canceling the rest of the show because of low clouds and occasional drizzle."I know it's real disappointing," apologized Lt. Cmdr. Chuck Franklin, a spokesman for the team of F/A-18 Hornets.

THE PARIS Air Show is where everybody who's anybody in the defense industry goes to show off for the international marketplace.Jet-lagged aerospace executives spent the past week recovering from the June 15-22 dose of Paris in springtime. The huge bazaar of winged muscle is staged every other year at Le Bourget airport.While giants like Lockheed Martin Corp. and British Aerospace get most of the attention with daredevil flight demonstrations, and Boeing Co. and Airbus Industrie slug it out over contract announcements, swarms of smaller companies make the scene as well.

The Decorators' Show House tour in Bel Air last fall, sponsored by the Harford County Chapter of the AMC Cancer Research Center, was the AMC's most successful single fund-raiser in the nation, chapter officials said last week. At its January meeting last week, the chapter presented a $62,500 check -- proceeds from the event -- to Tracey Hoffman, national director of volunteer services at the AMC's national headquarters in Denver. The money will be used for research in the prevention and control of cancer.