Sunday, August 24, 2008

Indy Transponder 24-August 1430z

Innovation soars at air show - Albany Democrat Herald, OR
They've traveled to Texas and to Mexico in their 15-foot, Burt Rutan-designed aircraft.They know it can go from Seattle to Los Angeles on one tank of gas. ...

Art & Air Fest aims for the sky - Albany Democrat Herald, OR
By Amanda Robbins Whether you like being in the sky or walking around on the ground, the Wah Chang Northwest Art & Air Festival has you covered. ...

Wing walker an air show hit - Kansas.com, KS
Battles, 25, will be one of the featured performers today when the Wichita Flight Festival wraps up a three-day air show. For the most part, she said, ...

Air show awes with power and precision - Kansas City Star, MO
By DONALD BRADLEY At the Kansas City Aviation Expo & Airshow on Saturday at Wheeler Downtown Airport, Angie Arzola watched the Air Force Thunderbirds, ...

Thunder Over the Valley air show takes off in Santa Maria - KSBY, CA
All eyes were on the sky at the Thunder Over the Valley air show in Santa Maria Saturday. Pilots showed off their aerial skills, while both modern and ...

Southington's Fly-In - WYTV, OH
Rain free skies helped pilots sore through the skies for Southington's fly-in. Experimental Aircraft Association or EAA showed off their planes at the ...

Festival's uphill climb, new leadership may spur change - Henderson Gleaner, KY
The festival was successful in 2001 and 2002 — both years when the Blue Angels, the US Navy's flight demonstration team, were part of the air show ...

Armed Forces Day Today! - Discover Moose Jaw, Canada
Then of course we'll have the F-18 demonstration and The Snowbirds." Clowe says one of the highlights of the day will be the C-17 Globemaster. ...

Baby boomers will love Cradle of Aviation car show - Newsday, NY
By Peter King | pwking@aol.com The original Batmobile - built for the 1966-68 "Batman" TV series - is on display this weekend at the Cradle of Aviation ...

Restored WWII fighter morphs into Flying Bull - Seattle Times, United States
"This plane will be the featured attraction along with the B-25," said Siegfried "Sigi" Angerer, the chief pilot for the Flying Bulls. ...

Flying P-38 coming to Austria from Alert 5 - Military Aviation News
One of the six Lockheed P-38 still flying today will be going to a new home at Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria next week.
The plane will be flown from West Texas across the Atlantic Ocean over four days of flying.

WWII-era fighter plane will be centerpiece of fleet that promotes ... - Belleville News Democrat, USA
Perhaps the best known P-38 is Glacier Girl, which was buried under a sheet of ice in Greenland. Along with five other P-38 s and two B-17 s, it was forced ...

F-14 Tomcat memorialized in Bethpage from Alert 5 - Military Aviation News
Vice Admiral David J. Venlet was a speaker at the ceremony that memorized the 2nd last F-14 Tomcat being displayed at its birth place in Bethpage on Friday. ...

Naval air museum home to old fliers - Arkansas Online, AR
BY MELISSA NELSON AP PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. — Ed Ellis steps across the National Naval Aviation Museum into the aircraft that was Pacific Fleet ...

Scientifically Speaking, 8/24 - 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 ...

Storied bomber takes trip back in time - Calgary Herald, Canada
Volunteer crews at the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum worked hundreds of hours to restore two of the plane's four engines to running condition in time ...

Lasham Air Fair - 6th September - all welcome from PPRuNe Forums by 172 driver
In September, Lasham Gliding Society is holding the UK Qualifying round of the FAI/IGC Sailplane Grand Prix series, a new format of glider racing which is designed to be more interesting to watch and which culminates each day in a straight 'race to the line'. All the gliders will be trackable on-line via satellite data feeds from each glider. ...

Restoration: Desperate Journey from Air & Space Magazine
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.

Aviation artistry - The Press Democrat
Santa Rosa firefighter satisfies appreciation for flight by restoring traditional artwork found on noses of legendary airplanes.
Ricci also volunteers his time and talents restoring and maintaining the Pacific Coast Air Museum's F-4 Phantom.

An aviation enthusiast who also worked for world peace - The Gazette (Montreal), Canada
Ross Smyth won a model-airplane building contest during The Depression when he was 14 years old, started an aviation club and for the rest of his life was ...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar plane makes night flights from The Digital Aviator by Norman
The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. ...The flight was a demonstration for the US military, which is looking for new types of technology to support its troops on the ground. ... "A satellite goes over the same part of the Earth twice a day - and one of those is at night - so it's only really getting a snapshot of activity.

Travolta Takeoff from AviationBull - Where pilots go to shoot the bull... by Ted
John Travolta's Boeing 707 had a bit of a hiccup while departing this years EAA Airventure. Check out the video and see if you can spot the problem...

GLYNN: Reliving a WWII tragedy - Niagara Gazette, NY By Don Glynn NIAGARA FALLS — A former Niagara Falls resident long identified with the survivors of the USS Indianapolis — the worst US naval disaster at sea ...

John Penney getting some V 12 time - AAFO
Moon over the Bull! - AAFO
Former racer "asleep" - AAFO
Bent Wing Serenade - AAFO
Thunder Over Michigan 2008 from FenceCheck Forums
Paragliding reentry capsules celebrate 44-year anniversary from Flight Image of the Day by Barbara Cockburn

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