Saturday, August 2, 2008

Indy Transponder 2-August 1500z





Continuing Oshkosh - AirVenture 2008 news is consolidated HERE ! Updated throughout the day!

The latest updates on Alan Henley from Team AeroShell have been posted also.

Aviation cures John Travolta's blues from Aviation & Aerospace News Updated Constantly
Soaring into the great blue yonder cures John Travolta's blues. 'Aviation has always bailed me out of anything in my mind that is blue,' the 54-year-old actor told reporters at...

Glacier Girl at Oshkosh from Google
If you haven't heard, they have scheduled Glacier Girl to be there. Just to see this amazing piece of history will be worth the trip if you can possibly get there. (Here's the extraordinary history of this special P-38.)

Camera in the cockpit: Photog flies with Seafair stunt pilots (video) Seattle Post Intelligencer
John Klatt of the John Klatt Airshows for about an hour Wednesday over Puget Sound and Elliott Bay. His mission: To photograph the sky. ...

Seattle Celebrates Seafair 2008 from Technorati
Seattle Celebrates Seafair 2008 For many Seattle-ites, this is the best weekend of summer – SeaFair! With its parades, Blue Angel performances, concert, fireworks, and hydroplane races, it's the time of year when Seattle gets to strut its stuff. Now let's just hope that the weather cooperates! Here's the info you'll need to decide if you'll venture out for the activities, are just enjoy the show from the comfort of your own home. My favorite of all the events is the air show featuring the

Snowbirds Salute Veterans in Wetaskawin, Alta. from Aviation.ca News
The Snowbirds were thrilled to take part in the Salute to Veterans air show at the Reynolds Alberta Museum in Wetaskawin, Alta. The weekend was a touching tribute to veterans, past and present, including an Act of Remembrance held at...

B-24 LIBERATOR FLY-BY IN HONOR OF MARGARET RINGENBERG- WW2 VETERAN ... from Google
P51'S AT RENO AIR RACES( WHERES TOMMY KELLEY RACING?) ... NOW WE MUST TEACH THE NEXT GENERATION TO PROTECT AMERICA IN THE SEA, AIR, LAND AND SPACE...FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS....TODAY, TOMORROW, AND FOREVER.

Rocket Racer Takes to the Skies - Space.com
... Nev., between Sept.10-14; X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, NM, in late October; and Aviation Nation at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 8-9.

WK2 Rollout Audio Clips
from Mojave Skies by Alan Radecki
To close out this week of posts on the historic unveiling of White Knight Two, I'm posting some of the audio highlights of the presentations that were made at the media ceremony (these are audio recordings only, no video, but because of software limitations, they have to be uploaded as video files...sorry!). Enjoy!

Much more coverage here

Vintage aircraft of WWII on display from WISH - Local News
A bit of history is on display at the Mount Comfort Airport, vintage aircraft of World War II.

Grissom to host Warbirds Cruise-in
Wabash Plain Dealer, IN
By the WPD staaff Grissom Air Museum will host the 2nd annual revival of the classic Warbirds Cruise-in on Saturday. For automotive and aviation enthusiasts ...

World War II planes coming to Dayton
Dayton Daily News, OH
The Collings Foundation, which organizes and sponsors the tour, plan to fly in the B-17, B-24 and B-25 bombers and the P-51 Mustang escort plane. ...

WWII Fighters roar into Atlanta
The Citizen.com, GA
The airplanes, maintained and flown by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing, will provide enthusiasts with a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to ...

Commemorative Air Force forms local wing, looks for new members
Alaskajournal.com, AK
... State Tradeshow and Conference, the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum's salmon bake and at the Elmendorf Air Force Base's Arctic Thunder air show. ...

Museums, Aug. 1, 2008
Grand Junction Sentinel, CO
Rocky Mountain Wing Commemorative Air Force, southeast of Grand Junction Regional Airport terminal in the Commemorative Air Force Hangar, WWII TMB Avenger, ...

Museum brings Bradford's past to life
Lake Region Monitor, FL
... 1920s on which museum board member David Montgomery said he first heard, as a seven-year-old, of the disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937. ...

San Diego Museum Introduces International Aerospace Hall Of Fame
HULIQ (press release), NC
On October 25th, the San Diego Air & Space Museum is honoring national and international air and space legends at its 45th Hall of Fame Induction and Gala. ...

Government Funds for Aviation Museum
from Aviation.ca News
The North Atlantic Aviation Museum in Gander is getting a boost from the provincial government. Tourism, Culture and Recreation Minister Clyde Jackman has announced almost $30 thousand dollars in operational support through the department's Cultural Economic Development Program. The museum...

Preston P. Kellogg
Dawson Times, GA
During the Korean War he was a Marine Aviator flying combat missions from aircraft carriers. After his retirement from the military he was hired by Southern ...

Yeah, it's been a while.
from Northwest Flying Photography Blog by roymcm
One of the unfortunate side effects of procrastination is that the amount of work you need to do in one sitting increases. A perfect example is my complete failure to post about the Flying Heritage Collection, the Gathering of Warbirds at Olympia, and the Flying Heritage Collection Part Two

NFL fly over video
from Airwarriors by Flying Low
Pretty cool video of military flyovers from various NFL games.

Jonathan Kay on the day a bomber hit the Empire State Building ...
National Post, Canada
... this shockingly good 13-minute feature on the 63rd anniversary of the July 28, 1945 crash of a B-25 bomber into the Empire State Building, killing 14. ...

Pilot honoured for youth aviation
Newsdurhamregion.com, Canada
For more than 10 years Mr. Raine has been taking children up on flights as part of his work as a volunteer pilot with the Young Eagles, an aviation program ...

Milestones of Flight: 8/1
from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

Summer 2008
from Google Blog Search: Reno air races by chipandveronique
Since we didn't attend Oshkosh this year, we are going to the Reno Air Races next month; and in November, we'll be flying to New Zealand for two weeks. That's it, hopefully we'll be opening the space training center before the end of ...

USS Indianapolis survivors gather to remember - WTHR, IN
Sixty-three years ago this week, a Japanese submarine attacked a Navy cruiser in the Philippine Sea. It sank it in 12 minutes. Of the 1096 men on board, ...


Red Bull News -

Air Racing: A Slowly Dawning Interest
Bleacher Report, CA
I just took a look at the Red Bull Air Race page on Bleacher Report and got hooked. I visited the Red Bull Air Race official web site after bugging Mr. ...

PROPELLED TO SUCCESS - Red Bull Air Racing News
Sometimes it helps to have friends in high places: it certainly did for Red Bull Air Race rookie Glen Dell when he called on the gentlemanly good nature of championship leader Paul Bonhomme to lend him a propeller for his plane. "I am not sure anyone else would have done that," joked Bonhomme, who had a spare that was identical to one the South African has ordered.

BRIT FASTEST IN BLUSTERY 2ND TRAINING - Red Bull Air Racing News
Britain's Paul Bonhomme put in the fastest time during a blustery training session at the Red Bull Air Race in London on Friday, clocking a run of 1:20.81 with no penalties over the River Thames. Defending Red Bull Air Race World Series champion Mike Mangold, who won in London last year, came second in training with a time of 1:21.29.

AIR RACE MAKES SPACE- Red Bull Air Racing News
It is one of the world's busiest hubs and the largest city to feature in the Red Bull Air Race World Series. This weekend London plays host to 12 of the world's best pilots and makes room for their challenging course of 'Air Gates' on the River Thames.

MACLEAN MAKES A MESS - Red Bull Air Racing News
Spaniard Alejandro Maclean was having a hard time keeping his MXS plane on track during the second training session for the Red Bull Air Race in London on Friday, hitting two pylons on one run and racking up a record 47 seconds in penalties to finish slowest at 2:14.85. No pilot in the Red Bull Air Race World Series history had ever notched up as many seconds in penalties, although Russia's Sergey Rakhmanin holds the record number of penalties handed out – 15 three-second penalties in Detroit.

IVANOFF AT THE LONDON TRAINING ...[And Other Red Bull Air Racing Photos] from Red Bull Air Race Photos

VIDEO OF THE DAY - Red Bull Air Race - London
Pocket-lint.co.uk, UK
If you get your kicks well above ground and you're anywhere near London this weekend, head to Docklands to catch the UK leg of this global touring aerobatic ...

Photos -
Vectren Dayton Air Show from FenceCheck Forums
Seafair from FenceCheck Forums

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