Monday, June 30, 2008

Indy Transponder 30-June 2130z

PJC Student Chosen To Fly With The Blues - WKRG-TV, AL
The 19-year-old Pensacola Junior College journalism student has been selected to fly with the Blue Angels on July 10. Spears' adventure will be part of the ...

Holiday spirit booms across SW Michigan - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI
The Thunderbirds will be back as the headline aerial display act. Hot-air-balloon launches will be at 6:30 am and 6:30 pm each day. Fireworks will launch on ...

'Trust and teamwork' Arctic Thunder rolls - Anchorage Daily News (subscription), AK
The stunt was one of dozens of air acrobatic wonders from the Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron or "Thunderbirds" at Elmendorf's air show, Arctic Thunder ...

Experimental aircraft fly-in - Indianapolis Star, United States
... Larry Jacobi's 1941 Stearman plane at the Experimental Aircraft Association's fly-in and pancake breakfast Saturday, June 28 at the Noblesville Airport. ...

Air Fest - Jamestown Sun, ND
All of the show's features — the Rick Hieb Boulevard ribbon cutting, a warbird dogfight between MiGs and the Fury, tours of the B-17 and stunt piloting ...

Attendance down at air show - Baraboo News Republic, WI
Brian D. Bridgeford/News Republic Attendance was down at the weekend's Baraboo-Dells Airport Air Show but pilots managed to put on an impressive show, ...

Coast Guard sets up safety zone during RI airshow - Providence Eyewitness News, RI
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) - Coast Guard officials are warning boaters to keep away from a safety zone set up in Narragansett Bay during a military air show. ...

Chia Ti Lik's Blog :: National Day Celebrations & Rehearsals - The ... - from Google Blog Search
I just happened to be working in office clearing my work on a saturday evening only to find the peace being broken by F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Black Knights, Republic of Singapore Air Force doing their aerobatic rehearsals for ...

Air shows and exhibitions in the first week of July - Avionews, Italy
+ 33 1 46 37 89 20 +86 10 67 05 07 82 www.vbevents.org - Aerobatics - "16th FAI European Aerobatic Championships". Hradec Kralovè, Czech Republic. ...

GALVESTON.COM: Historic Aircraft Flights
Galveston.com & Company (press release), USA
The museum is currently taking reservations for flight positions aboard the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-25 Mitchell and PT-17 Stearman. ...

Baby boomers snatch up fighter planes of dad's era - San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA
MURRIETA—In the world of warbird collecting, Glacier Girl was a rare prize. The World War II-era P-38 fighter made an emergency landing on a Greenland ice ...

MANGOLD ON A MISSION - Red Bull Air Race News
Mike Mangold is hoping Europe will once again prove to be the tonic he needs to jump-start his campaign to defend his Red Bull Air Race World Series championship after Europe turned out to be a magic place for the American in 2007. He won three of the five European races last year and overtook Britain's Paul Bonhomme with victories in Istanbul, London and Budapest. ...

Purdue team places 16th in air race - Journal and Courier, IN
The Purdue team placed third in the Air Race Classic Collegiate Challenge Trophy. Three college teams competed in the race this year. ...

Rocket Racing Revelations, AirVenture Oshkosh - JETS.ru, Russia
The drumbeat driving the march to this year´s AirVenture Oshkosh will end with the roaring cacophony of the Rocket Racing League, which plans a public debut ...

Sydney fly-past sparks confusion - BBC News, UK
The media had been alerted about the fly past over Sydney harbour bridge but not, apparently, the public. A number of office workers decided to evacuate ...

RAF flypast celebrates Veterans' Day - Huddersfield Examiner, UK
AN RAF flypast was a major attraction in Huddersfield at the weekend as hundreds came together to celebrate and remember all those who have served in the ...

Liverpool Airport celebrates 75th anniversary with airshow - Liverpool Daily Post, UK
Proceeds from the airshow will be divided between the Jetstream Club, Marie Curie and the North West Air Ambulance. Keep up to date with the news. ...

VULCAN WILL FLY AT AIR SHOWS THANKS TO FIRM'S DONATION - Leicester Mercury, UK
... that will mean the aircraft can appear at the Royal International Air Tattoo, in Fairford, and Farnborough International Airshow, both next month. ...

PICTURES: Dogfight screenshots from new Bond movie trailer from Flight International by Rob Coppinger
This screenshot is from the new James Bond 007 movie Quantum of Solace teaser trailer that is to be officially launched on the internet at 1700h BST this evening. The movie is to be released worldwide on 7 November and this image shows Daniel Craig playing the British secret agent flying a Douglas DC-3 Dakota during the movie's aerial sequence. ...

Berlin Airlift Turns 60, A Firsthand Account - from Military Photos by PrinzEugen
A good read I stumbled across, enjoy.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...562269,00.html
Quote:
Traute Grier was 16 years old when the Soviets cut off West Berlin from the rest of the world. Here, she recounts her desperate struggle for survival, her terror of the Russians and how friendships developed between the Americans and occupied Germans....

History of Flight Air Show planned at Geneseo Airport - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY
July 12-13: The History of Flight Air Show takes place at the Geneseo Airport, Big Tree Lane, off Route 63 in Geneseo, Livingston County. ...

Air show fails to take off - Canoe.ca, Canada
By AEDAN HELMER, SUN MEDIA Air Show Ottawa had better luck with the weather yesterday, but organizers are still pondering the exhibition's future in the ...

The Flight Life: Air Show Videos (Circa May 24th) - from Blogging Pilots
Listening to - "The History of Rock and Roll" on VH1Classic cause I'm a music Junkie...
Here are those videos from the air show back in May... Turn up 'dem speakers boys and girls..
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RAAF bomber found in PNG - from Alert 5
A RAAF Hudson bomber shot down in Papua New Guinea during World War 2 has been found after 66 years.
A16-126 was found by a missionary thick jungle on a ridge inland from the town of Gasmata.

First Man from DailyAviator by Dennis Collins
I've been reading "First Man", the biography of Neil Armstrong by James R. Hansen.
Biographies are interesting because they record not only the person of interest, but the time and environment that they lived in. I really didn't know anything about Armstrong, other than that he almost ran the Eagle lander out of gas, and that he was the commander that saved Gemini 8 from a near fatal out-of-control situation....

Zeppelins To Fly Again Over New Jersey? from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The German company, Zeppelin NT airships, that earlier this month announced its airship would in July begin Zeppelin air tours over London, Thursday announced that "the U.S. market is opened for the Zeppelin NT." While something may have been lost in translation,...

Airshow pics are up at flickr - by wjHunter

Dell Sym: Rhode Island Air Show 2008 (via YouTube) from FriendFeed
Rhode Island Air Show 2008


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