Sunday, December 14, 2008

Indy Transponder 14-December 1400z

Gene Soucy Receives 2008 ICAS Art Scholl Showmanship Award
from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
Las Vegas- Part of the annual International Council of Airshows Convention is the exciting awards ceremony during the Thursday night banquet. Legendary performer Gene Soucy was honored as the recipient of the Art Scholl Showmanship Award. ...
[Photo from GeneSoucy.com]

Sonoma's “Wings Over Wine Country” TV Ad Wins at Las Vegas ICAS ... - PRLog.Org (press release)
We were up against shows that host the Blue Angles, Thunderbirds and Canadian Snow Birds...with attendances of around 100000,” said Pacific Coast Air Museum Marketing Director, Roger Olson. “To compete with the country's largest Air Shows, ...
[see the ad: YouTube]

Final Flight for WASP Organization Leader Betty Jane Williams
from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
Los Angeles CA- Betty Jane Williams, who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, an elite group that flew noncombat missions during World War II, and served as a test pilot in Texas, has died at age 89. Williams, of Woodland Hills, died Monday at Providence Tarzana Medical Center of complications related to a stroke, her family said. ...

AMERICAN ICON TOUR from www.americanicontour.com
... As well as being economical to produce, the Mustang was a fast, well-made, and highly durable aircraft. The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a two-stage two-speed supercharged 12-cylinder Packard-built version of the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, and was armed with six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) Browning M2/AN machine guns, a version of the Browning adapted for use in combat aircraft. After World War II and the Korean conflict, many Mustangs were converted for civilian use, especially air racing. The Mustang's reputation was such that, in the mid-1960s, Ford Motor Company's Designer John Najjar proposed the name for a new youth-oriented coupe after the fighter.

Final salute for FWB's Ed Horton Jr. (with VIDEO, PHOTOS) - The Northwest Florida Daily News, FL
FORT WALTON BEACH - When 26-year-old gunner Ed Horton Jr. got the order to bail out of his B-25 bomber over China after the Doolittle Raid, ...

Celebrities film ads for honor flight group from Air Force Times - News
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Oscar winner Clint Eastwood and country music singer Trace Adkins have signed up to support an Ohio group that takes World War II veterans to their memorial in Washington.

Exclusive Live Broadcast of Aero GP 2009 - TechWhack (press release), India
Air Race – Six aircraft in the circuit at the same time racing against each other just metres above the ground at speeds of up to 500mph. 2. ...

Drop dead gorgeous P-38 [and photo] from DailyAviator by Dennis Collins
At this web site you can see several copyrighted images from Bernard Zee of a beautiful P-38 recently restored and under Red Bull livery. Wow. The web site says it will soon be taken to Austria.
It has the early model streamlined cowls that look great. And other images show an induction across the top of each engine that I don’t recognize. Maybe it’s an early cowl feature I don’t remember. I wonder if this is the plane Lefty Gardner used to fly? His airshow act at Reno every year was my favorite. He did all the classic maneuvers, but instead of whiplash inducing radical aerobatics, his maneuvers were graceful and huge, taking up the whole airshow area, like he was the Blue Angels, except with the sound of those purring Alisons loafing along like he was flying out to breakfast.

Wright Squawks: Aircraft boneyard from Google
Rocket Racing League · 747 wing house · Submersible aircraft · Aircraft furniture · Air Force 2 · Whose house is this anyway? Martin Baker Tie Club · Forum for Licensed Aircraft Engineers ...

Above & Beyond: The Village of Tempelhof from Air & Space Magazine

Grant will help record WWII vets' outreach - IdahoStatesman.com
One of the most popular education programs of the Warhawk Air Museum will become a professionally produced film, thanks in part to a $2000 grant from the Idaho Community Foundation.

Development around Las Vegas threatens Nellis from Air Force Times - News
NORTH LAS VEGAS — In 1941, when the Strip was still U.S. 91 and not even 10,000 people lived in the city, Las Vegas was a practical place to build a military base.

Big Tow Little Tow from aroundthepattern.com by Tracy
Gripen Demo, flying with heavy load from Military Pictures by rattmuff
Trade Winds Cargo 747 goes off the end of the runway from Air Cargo Blog

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