2012 Atlantic City Airshow

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds were forced to end the Atlantic City Airshow early Friday after one of the pilots struck a bird. Within 10 to 15 seconds of the strike, the team decided to skip the final pass, airshow boss David Schultz said.

The 10th Atlantic City Airshow has begun with banner plane flybys.

Traffic is building on the Atlantic City Expressway and Route 40 causeway as people arrive for the Atlantic City Airshow starting at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday was better than Christmas for 7-year-old Domenic Garufi.

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are here, ready to perform in Friday’s Atlantic City Airshow.

Practice is essential for the pilots performing in the Atlantic City Airshow to ensure they’re prepared for the intricate maneuvers the crowds will see Friday.

Three days of festivities surrounding the Atlantic City Airshow began tonight with the second annual Atlantic City Salutes America’s Armed Forces Parade, which was scheduled to step off at 6:30 p.m. at New Jersey Avenue. The start, however, was delayed by at least a half-hour.

Harry “Knock” Nordheim taught about 500 people to fly — from commercial pilots to hobbyists and even aerobats for the Ice Capades — in his 60 years in aviation.

Five hundred people gathered in the pre-dawn of July 17, 1933, to watch Albert Forsythe and C. Alfred Anderson take off from Atlantic City’s Bader Field on what would be the first cross-country flight undertaken by black pilots.

Crowd estimates for the annual Atlantic City Airshow have increased by at least 300 percent since the modern airshow returned in 2003.

Atlantic City had already outgrown Bader Field, its municipal airport, by the late 1930s, and city officials had begun seeking a new site on the mainland.

Aviation enthusiasts are expected to crowd Atlantic City for the much-anticipated airshow later this week, but how long they will stay and how much money they will spend remains a question.

Atlantic City has four major events in 10 days, something that hasn’t happened in a long time.

A record-setting crowd packed the city’s beaches to watch the Atlantic City Airshow-Thunder Over the Boardwalk — with an estimated 800,000 people filling the city and other towns along Absecon Island.

Mother and daughter Karen and Kelsey Bowden of Hamilton Township, Mercer County, camped in Port Republic before coming to the show.

The Pisiechko family of Northeast Philadelphia was watching the show by the dunes as a Spitfire MK18 jet did stunts in the near distance. Everyone on the beach was wowed, but Jen Pisiechko had a special tie to pilot Jim Beasley Jr.: they work together in the same law office building in Philadelphia.

The Atlantic City Airshow - Thunder Over the Boardwalk - may be on its way to a record-setting day.

Crowds thronged to the center of town for the start of today's Atlantic City Airshow, and prime beach real estate disappeared early.

ATLANTIC CITY - "Programs, get your programs here," 8-year-old Gavin Weis yelled with gusto on the Boardwalk Wednesday morning.

ATLANTIC CITY -- It's still clear enough on the Boardwalk to take a run or ride a bike, but the crowds for today's Atlantic City Airshow are quickly starting to take over.

ATLANTIC CITY — “You’re in Atlantic City, and you need to have fun while you’re here,” Greater Atlantic City Chamber President Joe Kelly told a ballroom full of pilots Tuesday night. “When you come to Atlantic City, you get to enjoy real first-class accommodations.”

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - Air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration's Atlantic City Control Tower are just hours away from what is by far their busiest day of the year.

ATLANTIC CITY — U.S. Army Sgt. Rachel Medley surveyed her surroundings on the beach at Florida Avenue on Sunday afternoon, looking for tall obstacles, a secure exit path and a place to access medical care, if necessary.

10 a.m. Airspace closes