Indy Transponder 9-May 0945z

Blue Angels prepare for weekend shows Shreveport Times, LA - It was the sound of F-18 Hornet fighters, the brightly decorated first of the Blue Angels, the US Navy's flight demonstration squadron practicing for free ...
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/NEWS01/805090323/1060

Bucs' Russell tweaks lineup again Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - The US Navy Leap Frogs and US Army Golden Knights parachute teams will jump into PNC Park before the games tomorrow and Saturday.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/pirates/s_566362.html

Spread your wings Beaver County Times, PA ... showcasing the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft, and performances by parachute teams from both the US Army’s Golden Knights and US Navy’s Leap Frogs. ...
http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/05/08/news/top_stories/doc4823a606c3102700121005.txt

RED BULL AIR RACE Navy Compass, CA - MA1 (SW) Keith Clough entered his name into the history book of Red Bull Air Race aviation when he became the first US active duty service member to take a ...
http://www.navycompass.com/modules.php?name=Top_Stories&action=view&id=336

New Snowbirds show 'a little more intense' Brantford Expositor, Canada - The Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team launched their 2008 season Monday with a shorter show than past years, but promise to pack more excitement into ...
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1005472

San Diego hosts Red Bull Air Races Navy Compass, CA - The event began with a legacy flight of an F/A-18 Hornet, a Grumman F4F Wildcat and a Hawker Typhoon circling the bay and leaving the crowd in awe and ...
http://www.navycompass.com/modules.php?name=Top_Stories&action=view&id=337

Red Bull gives Naval Base Coronado Sailors of the Year, Wounded ... Navy Compass, CA - The Red Bull Air Race World Series features world class pilots performing aerobatic stunts while speeding through a short course, competing for the title of ...
http://www.navycompass.com/modules.php?name=Top_Stories&action=view&id=343

Aero-TV Asks... Are Airshows As Safe As They Can Be??? (Part 5) from Aero-News Network - It's Airshow Week At Aero-TV! The last in a five part series, this week, continues with a series of interwoven interviews in which we asked about a dozen airshow professionals the same three questions... each of which was the topic of its own program over the course of the week. In this final installment, we asked a number of airshow luminaries the following question... after a year in which there were a number of tragic but unrelated accidents, are airshows as safe as they can be???
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=52db74e3-158b-450e-b7d2-b8bb5e3395df

WWII aircraft to fly into Camarillo next week Camarillo Acorn, CA - To take a flight in the B-25, cost is $400 for the front fuselage and $325 for the waist gun section. P-51 flights are $2200 for a half hour and $3200 for a ...
http://www.thecamarilloacorn.com/news/2008/0509/community/017.html

Best viewing for air show? Middletown Journal, OH - By Eric Robinette MIDDLETOWN — The air show that comes to Middletown this weekend will have its ideal viewing times this evening, May 9, and Saturday. ...
http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/05/09/mj050908airupdate.html

High flying, adored Monessen Valley Independent, PA - The acts include the headlining Snowbirds Demonstration Team, a group from the Canadian military that does daredevil aerobatic stunts like looping, ...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/teenscene/s_566243.html

I Got Shot Down from Air & Space Magazine
http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/16044702.html?imw=Y

Lost Bomber Crew Buried With Full Military Honours - In a poignant and moving ceremony, the crew of a World War Two RAF bomber have finally been reunited and laid to rest with full military honours, 67 years after their aircraft crashed onto farmland in the Netherlands after being shot down by a German night fighter. Hampden P1206 of 49 Squadron took off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire at 1714 hrs on 8th November on an intruder sortie in the Bocholt area but failed to return. The aircraft was attacked over the coast by a German night fighter and crashed shortly after 2100 hrs onto farmland along the Dorfstrasse of Berkhout in the neighbourhood of Hoorn.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=C40E55A3-1143-EC82-2E58D057456376B0

Republic F-105 Thunderchief from Flight Image of the Day by Paul Gladman - The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, was a single-seat supersonic fighter-bomber used by the United States Air Force. The Mach 2 capable F-105 bore the brunt of strike bombing over North Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam War. A two-seat Wild Weasel version was later used in the specialized SEAD role of suppressing surface-to-air missile sites. It was commonly known as the "Thud" by its crews.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/2008/05/republic-f105-thunderchief.html

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