Saturday, November 8, 2008

Indy Transponder 8-November 2355z

Warriors and Warbirds Airshow Nov. 8-9 at Monroe Airport -
CharlotteObserver.com, NC
In honor of the upcoming Veterans Day holiday, the City of Monroe offers high-flying war machines of yesterday and today. Highlights of the two-day event ...

Up, up and ... up comes my lunch
Palm Beach Post, United States
John Klatt of the Air National Guard's Aerobatic Team on Thursday in Stuart. This was my attitude when I met Maj. John Klatt, Air Guard F-16 pilot and one ...

Spreading Wings Gala - Metromix, IL
Come to the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum to celebrate the first ladies of Air & Space. The gala this evening will honor the accomplishments of ...

Stuart Air Show from Technorati
On November 8 and 9 the Treasure Coast residents have the chance to watch the Stuart Air Show. The Visiting Nurses Association Presents the Stuart Airshow. The aerobatic team of four performs maneuvers such as the bomb burst, vertical rejoin, avalanche and the breathtaking ’switch blade,’ as well as graceful loops and rolls ...

KSC Space & Air Show mired in traffic - Florida Today
The 2nd Annual Space & Air Show is under way at Kennedy Space Center, but if you're thinking now is the time to head out there, you might as well put the car keys back in your pocket.

Join us at Mojave for Veteran's Day, 2008! from Mojave Skies by Alan Radecki
The annual Mojave Air & Space Port Veteran's Day celebration is coming up, and is open to the public. This event, taking place on November 11th at 11 a.m., is the closest thing to an annual air show and open house at Mojave. ...

Stadium rededicated as war memorial -
Austin American-Statesman, TX
Minutes into the event, nine aircraft from the Commemorative Air Force rumbled over the new Frank Denius Veteran's Memorial Plaza. Denius also was presented ...

New York's USS Intrepid Museum to Reopen - FOXNews
... the Statue of Liberty as it heads to Bayonne, NJ NEW YORK — The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is reopening to the public with a two-day celebration. ...

Man donates amphibious plane to Aviation Museum - Kentucky.com
So, on Oct. 30, he donated his little wood, metal and fabric plane to the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, which plans to put it on immediate display at its facilities at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport.

2008 Millville airshow may be last - The Bridgeton News - NJ.com, NJ
Museum Executive Director Lisa Jester said the US Army Golden Knights parachute team wants to come on Memorial Day weekend in 2009 for their 50th ...

9:45 pm update: Millville air show will not occur without sponsor
Press of Atlantic City, NJ
Video | Red Bull Through Vision Research's High Speed Eyes from Reggie Paulk
Watching Red Bull Air Races is exciting, but when seen through the eyes of a camera shooting upwards of 1000 frames per second, it is downright mesmerizing. ...

Most requests by the public to fly with the Red Arrows are turned down - BBC News, UK
A flight with the Red Arrows is to be sold at auction to raise money for British troops and their families. Proceeds from Wednesday's sale at Sotheby's will ...

Red Arrows are a waste of money - Sunday Mercury, UK
THE Red Arrows have been cleared to be part of the opening ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics. Can you imagine the reaction if the Games were due to be ...

WWII vet urges 'Secretary of Peace' - Marlborough Enterprise, USA
Like many of the young men of his generation, Van Voorhis signed up for the flight training program and became a pilot for the B-25 medium bomber. ...

Dream Machines from Neptunus Lex
This week, aerobatic airplanes, production models only.
First up, we have the venerable American Champion Citabria, a conventional gear, high wing utility stressed to +5/-2 g and easy on the wallet. Next on display is her grown up cousin, the Super Decathlon, a Citabria derivative adding inverted flight capability as well as a chance to actually get somewhere. We get a little racier - and a whole lot more expensive - with the Aviat Pitts Special, with an optional second seat and two wings, for those who can’t do without and don’t mind a bit of tricky rudder work on landing.

F-111 at Amberley Air Show - Spectacular Dump and Burn
from air-show « WordPress.com
This F-111 was captured at the Amberley air show doing a dump and burn, this is a most spectacular sight to see. The image was taken with a Nikon D2H and 300mm f/4.0 lens using a monopod. The image was processed in Photoshop and adjusted by cropping, saturation increase, sharpening and a slight curves adjustment to improve the image.

Soesterberg AFB F-16 pics. from Military Photos by Kaasjager
Hey guys, my college just got a F-16 for in our Hangar but it's pretty much a hollow shell. So some classmates, teachers and yours truly went to Soesterberg AFB where the RNLAF's F-16 disassembly crew is stationed. (we went from 213 F-16's to 96 now, a bunch got sold but the oldest are getting scrapped or are going to schools and museums) So we could get parts from the party disassembled F-16's there. Here are the pics i took while being there. ...

The Rocket Ships from Air & Space Magazine

Blinded Pilot Lands Safely from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 15,000ft was guided to a safe landing by an RAF pilot according to British news reports. A former Tornado display pilot, was already in the air carrying out a training sortie in his Tucano T1 turboprop aircraft when air traffic controllers asked him to respond to O'Neill's mayday call.

Happy 80th Birthday Herbert Watson from Warbirdworld
At Hucknall today, we were pleased to attend an 80th Birthday lunch in honour of Herbert Watson of Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust and current C.I. at 1803 Squadron ATC at Hucknall.
Happy birthday 'H' had a great time meeting your close friends.

STS-126 Launch Is On For November 14
from MT Utility World by BlogAdmin
RELEASE: 08-279
NASA GIVES "GO" FOR SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH ON NOV. 14
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Endeavour's readiness for flight and selected the official launch date for the STS-126 mission. Commander Chris Ferguson and his six crewmates are scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station at 7:55 p.m. EST on Nov. 14. ...

Space tourists to get limited protection - New Scientist (subscription), UK
"Both [Virgin's] carrier aircraft and the rocket-powered aeroplane/glider would meet the definition of an aircraft, and therefore fall under EASA's scope," ...

Indianapolis International Airport's New Midfield Terminal To Open ...
AHN - 18 hours ago
Indianapolis Airport Authority board president Randall Tobias said that the opening date was pushed back by two weeks to fall on Veteran's Day. ...

Photos of the Month published from Fence Check
Lightning Returns Video and Sea Harrier FRS1 Display
from PlanesTV (BETA) - Aviation Action by Iain PlanesTV
Wrecks and Relics! and Gate Guards I guess from Fence Check
P- 51B and P-51D Mustangs from Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics
B-17 Aluminum Overcast from Fence Check
Airpower Arkansas from Fence Check
Lackland AFB Airshow 2008 from Fence Check
C-17 Globemaster III from Fence Check

Pulled this from TwitPic - Eli at the Air Show with Jimmy - Dave Carey















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