Sunday, January 4, 2009

Indy Transponder 4-January 1550z

Air show in Tiruchi on February 3 - Hindu, India
Suryakiran, the aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force, will stage an air show at the Tiruchi airport on February 3. The team, based at Bidar in Karnataka, ...

Astonishing Extreme Aerobatics - No Room for Error from Amazing Facts
The Frecce Tricolori aerobatics team of the Italian Air Force, flying at the Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England.

Second historic flight re-creation in Alberta on hold from Aviation.ca News
Severe weather conditions have once again played havoc with the Alberta Aviation Museum Association and the Edmonton Aviation Heritage Centre. The medical mercy flight from Edmonton to Fort Vermillion which was to have taken place on Friday has been...

2008 Unlimited Final from www.aafo.com
For now, lets just say it will only let me capture a few minutes at a time, so here is a test of the first two laps of the race posted to youtube. It's not too bad if you chose the view in high quality option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT5IAmFr60

Barbados Connection To Famed Tuskegee Airmen from Barbados Free Press
In 2007 I had the high honour of meeting briefly with retired Lt. Colonel Lee Archer at an airshow in the United States. Lee Archer is one of the original Tuskegee Airmen - the first black US combat pilots who flew in World War II. That was my second meeting with Lt. Colonel Archer. The first happened some ten years earlier at the world's largest fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
For all my enthusiasm about aviation and aviation history, until I read a story yesterday at Ian Bourne's blog (The Bajan Reporter), I never knew that one of the Tuskegee Airmen was from Barbados. Colonel Fitzroy "Buck" Newsum was born in Barbados and at the age of ten saw his first airplane and decided that he was going to be a pilot. ...

New exhibit spotlights WWII air unit - Arizona Daily Star
By Danielle Sottosanti The Pima Air and Space Museum houses a new exhibit showing World War II's 406th Fighter Group, an air unit commanded by late Tucsonan Anthony V. ("AV") Grossetta. The exhibit, which opened Dec. 19, includes official orders, ...

Museum displays famed jet - Florida Today
TITUSVILLE -- Valiant Air Command rolled out its F-86 Sabre Jet, arguably the best fighter aircraft of its time, for permanent display at its Titusville museum. A crowd-pleaser at air shows around ...
[Photo by Images by A.J.]
Sabre on the Deck

Mililani homes sit atop WWII airfield - Honolulu Advertiser, HI
B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators — two of the better-known bombers of the era — were based at the runways that were cut out of the sugarcane, ...

The Avengers | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine from www.airspacemag.com
The flight leader sprints to the flightline, followed by other pilots and aircrew. Within two minutes, three Grumman TBM Avengers have fired up, and the lead airplane begins to taxi. I close my eyes and listen to the rising and falling chorus of 1,950-horsepower Wright R-2600 radial engines. I can imagine this roar on a carrier deck as the squadron prepared for battle in the Philippine Sea 57 years ago. Soon these sounds will be only a memory. ...

2008 General Aviation Gammy Awards from Max Trescott on General Aviation
... The 2008 Gammy Award for Pure Fun was awarded to the Rocket Racing League, which debuted this past year. What could be more fun than a general aviation airplane with fire coming out of its tail—intentionally! ...

January 2009 Aviation Calendar of Events from Technorati
Let me start 2009 with the aviation calendar of events for the month of January that I have rounded up from different aviation organizations around the world ...

16-Year-Old Sitka High School Student Wins 'Paint the Plane' Contest from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation

The Digital Aviator: Icon Aircraft from Blogging Pilots [video]
De Havilland Mosquito - Wood Composite Manufacturing from DailyAviator by Dennis Collins [video]
Gotcha..... from Theo Spark by Theo
2001 NAS Lemoore Airshow - Silver Wings Wingwalking - Asterpix Interactive Video
Low-flying RAF Harrier from Flight Image of the Day by Stuart
Slack Day from Neptunus Lex by lex
A Year in review from Technorati
USS Midway Museum CV-41 from Fence Check
RAF Church Fenton 1971 from PPRuNe Forums by QuePee
NAS Miramar 1957 from Fence Check
Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase from Aviation & Aerospace News

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