Indy Transponder: Indy Transponder 28-January

Donations soar over $1 million at 2008 Air Show lineup launch - Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Hillsboro,OR,USA
Along with the Patriots, returning acts include the Air National Guard's John Klatt, Bill Reesman and the Red Bull MiG, Renny Price and Hammerhead ...
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/1201285248245790.xml&coll=6

The first woman to fly the F-117A Nighthawk.

A recent interview with Donna Kohout Douglass by Winged Victory, Women in Aviation Web Magazine.

http://thethunderchild.com/YouFlyGirl/Interviews/DonnaKohout.html

Blow for air show - The Lowestoft Journal - Lowestoft,England,UK
ORGANISERS of Lowestoft's Seafront Air Festival have been dealt a major blow after losing their main sponsor. Birds Eye have been donating a massive wedge ...
http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/content/lowestoftjournal/news/story.aspx?brand=LOWOnline&category=NEWS&tBrand=lowonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED25%20Jan%202008%2009%3A07%3A10%3A590

Airshow cancelled in third year - BBC News - UK
An airshow which was launched two years ago has been cancelled this summer because it failed to attract a sponsor. Lydd Airshow, backed by London Ashford ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7207351.stm

Lydd Airshow had needed a sponsor deal to go ahead - Kent News - United Kingdom
The people behind the decision to cancel Lydd Airshow this year have been explaining their reasons. It was announced yesterday (Thursday) that Lydd Airshow ...
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Lydd-Airshow-had-needed-a-sponsor-deal-to-go-ahead-newsinkent9143.aspx?news=local

Aviation group planning summer air show - Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home,AR,USA
Among groups slated to fly to the air show are the Experimental Aircraft Association Warbirds. The Warbirds began as a club for World War II fighter plane ...
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080125/NEWS01/801250333/1002

Spectators spellbound by air show - GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Mohammad Abbas, an expatriate from Sharjah, said he took a day off from work to attend the opening day of the air show. Two ticketing booths have been ...
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Leisure/10184513.html

Spectators on a high at Al Ain air show - XPRESS - Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates
By Faisal Masudi, Staff Reporter Explosions, a flying lawnmower, and girls dangling from airplanes were just a few shockers at the Al Ain Aerobatic Show ...
http://www.xpress4me.com/life/reviews/events/20005431.html

Airplane to cruise down Knoxville - Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
It will make its return run to Mount Hawley on Monday morning at 9 am In addition to the Blue Angels, the Prairie Air Show also will include the Golden ...
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/012508/TRI_BFJG2AG1.045.php

Landing Planes in Style - Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
Linemen at the airport this week were trained to use a style of marshaling - or hand signals - developed by the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team ...
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_8084310

Muncie museum a model of small-plane flight - Indianapolis Star, United States
A Grumman F9F-6 Cougar, the transportation of choice for the Blue Angels, built in 1958. • A 1/12-scale, 38-pound Boeing B-176 "Flying Fortress," which took ...

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/LIVING03/801270311/0/ENTERTAINMENT02

2008 EAA Skiplane Fly-In

As EAA Founder Paul Poberezny has said many times, while it was airplanes and the love of aviation that brought people together to form the EAA, the organization is really all about people. At no time was that more evident than on the organization's 55th anniversary, Saturday, January 26, as a large group of aviation enthusiasts turned out on an overcast, flurry-filled day for the annual EAA Skiplane Fly-In at Pioneer Airport.

http://www.eaa.org/news/2008/2008-01-26_skiplane.asp

Triumph Over Adversity” Exhibit Honors Tuskegee Airmen and Black ... EVLiving - USA
Among the warbirds on display for the event will be a reduced scale P-51”Mustant” and the museum’s B-17 Flying Fortress “Sentimental Journey”, ...
http://www.evliving.com/cities_news.php?action=fullnews&id=8626

Mini air show at Fleet Air Arm Museum - Yeovil Express - Yeovil,England,UK
By Steve Sowden THE Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton is getting ready to host its biggest and best model shows on February 9. ...
http://www.yeovilexpress.co.uk/news/yenewsyeovil/display.var.1995432.0.mini_air_show_at_fleet_air_arm_museum.php

Collins inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame - Woburn Daily Times Chronicle - Woburn,MA,USA
By ELLEN KNIGHT news@woburnonline.com WINCHESTER — Former resident Paul F. Collins (1891-1971), a pioneer in the aviation industry, was inducted into the ...
http://www.woburnonline.com/frontpage/january08/12408-4.html

Al Ain air show enthrals spectators - GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Al Ain: Thousands of spectators on Friday enjoyed the stunts at the air show by Arab and international teams. Thousands of spectators on Fridayenjoyed the ...
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Leisure/10184958.html

Find out more about air museum - Grantham Journal - Grantham,England,UK
By Jo Hall Friday, 12.35pm - LONG Bennington Local History Society will host a talk on the history of Newark Air Museum on Monday. ...
http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/Find-out-more-about-air.3712740.jp

Possible sale of historic plane panned - Calgary Herald - Calgary,Canada
To keep the Mosquito in Alberta, the Nanton Lancaster Air Museum has offered to restore it at no cost to the city. "Several hundred Canadians were killed ...
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=47e35e9d-05d3-46f5-9f12-6ca73c539f78

Alderman wants the plane truth - Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Bob Evans, curator of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum, said the non-profit group has offered to restore the classic aircraft for free and display it ...
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2008/01/25/4793053-sun.html

First public UAS flight demonstration in Sweden – CybAero ... - By alain
For the first time in the history of Swedish aviation an Unmanned Aerial System was demonstrated to the public venue on January 8th 2008. The event happen to coincide with the 99th anniversary of the first motorized flight in Sweden, ...
http://www.skycontrol.net/uav/first-public-uas-flight-demonstration-in-sweden-%E2%80%93-cybaero-successfully-demonstrated-flying-an-unmanned-helicopter-in-central-stockholm/

This "Pig" Flies at Mach 2, Thank You Very Much
... at RAAF Base Edinburgh in November, 2007, by AC Craig Barrett. The photo at the bottom of Flight Lieutenant Susan Youngman in the cockpit as the aircraft taxis in after a flight demonstration was taken by Aircraftman Warren Derwent.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Af75cdc97-9240-4bf7-bde9-9dfabda62422

Spitfires at Planes of Fame on September 6, 2008 - Chino, California

Chino, CA - Fabulous Spitfires will be the theme of the monthly special event hosted by Planes of Fame Air Museum at Chino Airport on Saturday, September 6, 2008. The event will begin at 10 a.m. with a seminar describing what was certainly the most famous British fighter plane of all time and conclude with a flight demonstration by a Supermarine Spitfire currently on display at the museum. Conceived in the mid-1930s when biplanes were the order of the day, the Supermarine Spitfire boasted many innovations for the time, one of the most important of which was an eight-machine gun armament that provided four times the firepower available to most other fighter planes in service at that time. Described by many, especially the British, as the most beautiful fighter plane ever built, the Spitfire design was literally the last gasp of legendary designer Reginald J. Mitchell, who died of cancer shortly after the British Royal Air Force placed the first production orders for the airplane. Renowned for its exploits during the Battle of Britain, the Spitfire and its naval variant, the Seafire, remained in production until 1948, with a grand total of 22,890 having been manufactured.

http://www.skycontrol.net/history/spitfires-at-planes-of-fame-on-september-6-2008-chino-california/

'At The Controls' - Pearson Air Museum - KPTV.com - Portland,OR,USA
This is the exhibit's only appearance in Oregon and Southwest Washington and can be seen at the Pearson Air Museum (1115 East Fifth Street, Vancouver, ...
http://www.kptv.com/gooddayoregon/15135277/detail.html

Lockheed P 38 Glacier Girl Video Study
This is a close up video study of the famous Lockheed P 38 Glacier Girl that was recovered from under 268 feet of glacier ice in Greenland in 1992. Most of the video was taken at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino Calif. in March and ...
http://www.videogully.com/Lockheed-P-38-Glacier-Girl-Video-Study__gaGN6veTC5A.html

Al Ain aerobatic display ends on a spectacular note - GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi has well established itself as the Middle East's air show hub by organising Al Ain International Aerobatics Show and the Red Bull Air Race in the ...

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Leisure/10185304.html

Korean Air War at Planes of Fame on August 2, 2008 - Chino, California

Chino, CA - With the Korean Air War as its theme, jet age air combat will be the subject of the monthly special event hosted by Planes of Fame Air Museum at the Chino Airport on Saturday August 2, 2008. The event will begin at 10 a.m. with a history seminar on the subject and conclude with a demonstration by the Planes of Fame North American F-86F Sabre, America’s premier jet fighter plane during that conflict. Beginning just five years after the end of World War II, the Korean War saw World War II vintage warplanes fighting side-by-side with then relatively new jet combat planes. Although jet warplanes first entered production near the end of World War II, they did not engage each other in air combat until Communist forces attempted to overrun South Korea in 1950. In many respects, the Korean Air War proved to be a learning experience in new techniques for aerial combat that ensued during the rest of the 20th century. That experience set the stage for the conduct of the subsequent Cold War aerial confrontations between the forces of democracy and communism.

http://www.skycontrol.net/history/korean-air-war-at-planes-of-fame-on-august-2-2008-chino-california/

Retirees' activities at Grissom ARB - Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind. --- A special Valentine’s dinner, commissary case lot sale, and trips to the Honeywell Center and Branson, Mo., ...
http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080125/NEWS03/80124009/1002/NEWS01

Enola Gay crewmember connects with Naples veterans - Marconews (subscription) - Marco Island,FL,USA
One man helped transport the Hiroshima bomb, known as “Little Boy,” aboard the USS Indianapolis during the war. A second man’s father was a key member of ...
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/jan/25/enola-gay-crewmember-connects-naples-veterans/