Sunday, June 15, 2008

Indy Transponder 15-June 1350z

Skies 'Thunder Over Nampa' - Idaho Press-Tribune, ID
Even after recently performing for nearly a quarter-million people in Washington DC, acrobatic pilot Greg Poe of Boise said it was great to come back to the ...

5th Annual Ada Air Show - KTEN, TX
They asked me what I wanted to do and I said I want to go to the air show." Ingham is a Navy veteran who at one time spent many hours in the sky's. ...

History touches down at Wings Over Akron - Akron Beacon Journal, OH
By Mary Beth Breckenridge Panchito is a B-25 Mitchell bomber first piloted during World War II by an Akron man, the late Don Seiler. ...

Restored B-17 bomber to be on display in South Dakota - Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD
The Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will fly the bomber, the Flying Fortress, to Rapid City Regional Airport. The World War II vintage bomber is ...

Vintage bomber glistens with memories - Rapid City Journal, SD
... is one of 10 "flyable" B-17s in the United States, according to Chuck Youngbeck, a volunteer crew member with the Arizona Wing Commemorative Air Force. ...

Fly-In fights brain cancer - The Southern, IL
... light sport aircraft gathered Saturday at the Sparta Airport for the 2nd annual Sparta Fly-In an event to benefit the National Brain Tumor Foundation. ...

Father's Day Fly-In At Columbia Airport (MyMotherLode.com) -
Aviation & Aerospace News
Columbia, Ca -- The 42nd Annual Father's Day Fly-In is taking place today at the Columbia Airport. Opening ceremonies began at noon and air demonstrations will run until four o'clock....

1920s aircraft coming to C.B. (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil) - Aviation & Aerospace News
Clay "Pork Chop" Adams imagines himself a barnstormer. Along with about 35 of his flying buddies, Adams will take to Council Bluffs' skies Thursday and Friday, forming a heavenly parade...

AirVenture Performance Planned For ElectraFlyer-C - Aero-News Network
Fishman Aims For 2008 Oshkosh Display Randall Fishman, the 2007 AirVenture Grand Champion 'Lindy' and Ultralight Innovation award winner, hopes to reprise his performance from last year with the introduction of his ElectraFlyer-C, an electric-powered, single-seat airplane at AirVenture 2008.

Wings and Wheels at PARR Airport - WHIZ News Zanesville
Classic airplanes and cars were on display saturday at the PARR Airport on Fairview road in Zanesville. Robert Normans' family owns the airport and said it's his mission to get...

Route 173 renamed to honor 173rd Airborne - Chicago Daily Herald, IL
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, nicknamed the Sky Soldiers, was activated in 1917 and has served as infantry, armor or airborne infantry units and has received ...

[Coyote Squadron...] Local Beat 6/14/08 - Corsicana Daily Sun, TX
The Coyote Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force will hold its monthly meeting in the Tucker Hardgrave Memorial Hangar at the Corsicana Municipal Airport, C. David Campbell Field. To be discussed will be the recent 10th annual AirSho and making plans for the 11th. ...

Bond. Daddy Bond. - The Desert Sun, CA
OK, so we're not talking actual bombs, but a trip to the Palm Springs Air Museum would be pretty cool. Dads are supposed to like things with engines that go ...

To his family, famed test pilot Scott Crossfield flew highest as a ... -
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY
The Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine named him one of the 10 best pilots of all time. Yet Sally, one of six children, most remembers her father as the ...

Wiltshire Hercules takes part in royal flypast - This is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK
A Hercules from RAF Lyneham will take past in a flypast over London to mark the Qyueen's birthday today. The flypast will involve 55 aircraft, ...

Visitors to fete urged to look to skies - Norwich Evening News, UK
Visitors to the Brundall School Fete on Saturday were urged to look to the skies - as RAF Typhoons provided a low level flypast. ...

Westland Wyvern from Flight Image of the Day by Paul Gladman
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The Westland Wyvern was a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft and that served in the 1950s, seeing active service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers and was able to carry an aerial torpedo.

... in brief ...- St. Joseph News-Press, MO
... an international organization of female pilots, will sponsor a display of Judi Geer Kellas’ “Celebration of Flight: Women in Aviation” series in the St. ...

Scientifically Speaking, 6/15 - Denver Post, CO
Air and Space museum | Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, 7711 E. Academy Blvd., needs volunteers to help with youth and adult education programs ...

The chance to fly with Dad passes by - New River Valley Current, VA
He flashed me a big grin from under his Snoopy aviator's leather hat and goggles, and said, "You bet!" Hot exhaust and oil smoke mixed with the cool, ...

Aviator in training - Roanoke Times, VA
Larry Hairston Jr. (middle) helps Jimmy Stewart (left) and his son JP Stewart get their plane started during the second annual Paul Offermann Fly-In. Matt ...

Kids Of All Ages Take To The Skies (R News) - from Aviation & Aerospace News
The Rochester Wings Aviation Expo and Fly In is trying to get more young people interested in flying. It held an event this weekend, letting eight to 17-year-olds get a...

16-year-old prepares to take off on first solo flight - Times Herald-Record, NY
At home in Washingtonville, where she is home-schooled, Rachel spends her time on the Internet researching aviation history and women in aviation. ...

"Young Eagles" take to the air - Asbury Park Press, NJ
Comerford and 46 other children participated in the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 898 Young Eagles Rally held Saturday morning at Robert J. ...

Young Eagles take off - The Eureka Reporter, CA
Pilot Jib Ray, right, and Young Eagle flier Gavin Dresen prepare to take flight Saturday afternoon during an Experimental Aircraft Association event at ...

Young Eagles and a useful lesson - from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
I had two good flights today, both of them flights for the Club's Young Eagles [YEs]. ...

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