Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Indy Transponder 6-January 2235z

The 2009 Florida International AirShow from www.fl-airshow.com
NAVY BLUE ANGELS TO HEADLINE FLORIDA AIR SHOW
The United States Navy Blue Angels will headline the 2009 Florida International Air Show. It will be the team's 11th visit to the Southwest Florida event. The Navy precision flying team made the announcement today in Las Vegas at the Annual International Council of Air Shows Convention.

New training guidelines adopted for Blue Angels - Beaufort Gazette, SC
In the last maneuver of the Blue Angels' performance at the 2007 Beaufort Air Show at the Marine Corps Air Station, Davis was trailing the other pilots and ...

Golden Knights return to Yuma skies - Yuma Sun, AZ
The Golden Knights, which started in 1961, will begin their 35th year of winter training Jan. 20 at YPG's Cox Field. The public is invited to watch the ...

Goulian's Race Plane (#99) Returns to USA from Mike Goulian Airshows by Karin
With the Red Bull Air Race in Perth, Australia, now just a piece of racing history, time is ticking as Mike Goulian Aerosports is already busy readying the #99 Edge 540 for the 2009 season. The first week of the new year brought the arrival of the plane in great shape. In addition to a [...]

Elite stunt pilots to compete at air show - GulfNews, United Arab Emirates
By Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief Al Ain: Six elite stunt pilots will perform in the Al Ain Aerobatic Show to mark 100 years of air racing and will compete in ...

Aero GP announces first grand prix of 2009 - Sportbusiness.com, UK
The Aero GP series of races will be the main event of the prestigious Al Ain Aerobatic Show, which will be held from 28 – 31 January 2009. ...

Top Gun: Survive first, win later - Metro Canda - Edmonton, Canada
The 24-year-old pilot is the first Canadian and the youngest pilot ever to race professionally in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, ...

Join the dogfight over Wellington - Wairarapa Times Age, New Zealand
Ms Pollock said the Reno-style air race would have planes descending from height and in tail-chase fashion passing low across the start before racing across ...

Fantasy of Flight Founder Inducted into Florida Aviation Hall of Fame from AMTOnline.com
Kermit Weeks selected for leadership and accomplishments in aviation.

WASP Exhibit Opens! from Kermit's Blog by Kermit
I am pleased we finally opened our tribute to the WASP’s at Fantasy of Flight. It’s a new exhibit we hope will create an opportunity to meet our Mission Statement, which is to “Light that Spark Within!”
As with our Audio Experience CD “We are the Past!” we are trying to accomplish that by delivering the Human Experience, through Entertainment, and in a way that people Self-Discover something about themselves. ...

There is no Kara Wade! There is only Donna Kohout! from You Fly, Girl
I continue to get most of my hits from people looking for Lt. Kara Wade!
Kara Wade is a fictional character, from the movie Stealth. She's billed as the first woman to fly the Stealth attack plane, the Nighthawk (and was played by Jessica Biel) This is because a mass email seems to be sent out on a periodic basis, purporting to be photos of the naval maneuvers of Valiant Sheild. And one of the photos features "Kara Wade" in the cockpit - and doesn't point out that she's a fictional character.
What I want to know is - why wasn't Donna Kohout - the real first woman to fly the Nighthawk, included instead? (Since she did so, at least two other women have also piloted this plane).
Read my interview with Donna Kohout, at:
[photo] Donna Kohout: 1st woman to fly the F-117A - Nighthawk.

MAPS Air Museum to commemorate first woman pilot - Suburbanite, OH
The craft’s sleigh-like runners glided through the snow for only a short distance before the aeroplane lifted from the ground and rose to a height of 20 ...

Pappy Boyington Field: A Documentary Film by Kevin Gonzalez from www.museumofflight.org
Saturday, Jan 10, 2009: 2:00pm-3:30pm
"Pappy Boyington Field – A Campaign to Honor a Hero" is a chronicle of the community events surrounding the controversy to change the local airport name to "Coeur d'Alene Airport/Pappy Boyington Field." Filmmaker Kevin Gonzalez will be on hand to introduce the film and to answer any questions.
The film features members of the Marine Corps League Pappy Boyington Detachment, local representatives of the Disabled American Veterans, The Distinguished Flying Cross Society, and other community members. Personal insights into Pappy Boyington's life are provided by his son Greg Boyington Jr, as well as actor Robert Conrad who portrayed Pappy in the television series "Baa Baa Black Sheep." The music of The United States Marine Band "The President's Own" is featured in the soundtrack.
Program is Free with Museum Admission.

Public input sought in fate of 2 aircraft - Metro Canada - Calgary, Canada
The Mosquito was donated to the City of Calgary in 1972, and the Hawker Hurricane was brought to Calgary to be a part of the Air Museum of Canada in the ...

Coast Guard museum may be coming to site at airport - Press of Atlantic City
Joe Salvatore, who heads the Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum, said one of many roles the Coast Guard had in World War II was to patrol the beaches on horseback and with dogs in case German spies came ashore.

New air museum from Pilots of America Message Board by Richard
So Port Townsend has an aero museum now? Cool! Their Aircamper project is for sale.
http://www.ptaeromuseum.com/

Most beautiful prewar ( WW II ) fighter ac ? from www.aafo.com
[Lots of pictures, links and info about some vintage aircraft]

Hog Wild About Anything That Flies - 1888 Press Release (press release), TX
Flight Line Radio-tm is all about aviation and radio. On-site at major aviation events like Oshkosh and Sun 'N Fun, we offer our personnel radio receivers ...

AFA grad with 'zero desire to fly' becomes F-22 flier from Alert 5 - Military Aviation News
1st Lt. Austin Skelley, who is one of the first F-22 pilots without previous fighter experience, shares his story on how he became a fighter pilot.

St. Johns coaching legend dies - Payson Roundup, AZ
Heap played basketball for the Sun Devils during the 1942-43 season but then enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot. After a two-year stint in the ...

City won't bail out of deal with Rocket Racing - Las Cruces Sun-News, NM
By Steve Ramirez Sun-News reporter John Hummer, who helped get six leases for Rocket Racing League at the Las Cruces International Airport, speaks Monday to ...

Problems for Rocket Racing League's Las Cruces facility from RLV and Space Transport News
The Rocket Racing League's plan for building facilities at the Las Cruces Airport is running into some turbulence ...

Skydivers just miss out on SA record - Independent Online, South Africa
Ridge said the convention was in line with the provincial government's theme of "Bringing aviation to the people", which also includes an annual airshow at ...

A small man and a light aircraft (!) from Flight International by Barbara Cockburn
Here's a video of Mariusz Pudzianowski pulling a Lockheed Martin C-130 as part of the World's Strongest Man 2008 competition. It's fair to say that he won the title.

Snoopy Soars with NASA at Charles Schulz Museum from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
Astronauts To Open Exhibit- The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 10 mission with an exhibition highlighting the connection between NASA's pioneering astronauts and Peanuts' barnstorming beagle.
In May 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Gene Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford traveled all the way to the moon for one final checkout before the lunar landing attempt.
Because the mission required the lunar module to skim the moon's surface to within 50,000 feet and "snoop around" scouting the Apollo 11 landing site, the crew named the lunar module "Snoopy." Naturally, the Apollo command module was labeled "Charlie Brown." ...

NASA Astronauts Connect With Lucky Las Vegas School Students from NASA Breaking News
Las Vegas students who "struck it rich" and have an opportunity to chat with NASA Expedition 18 astronauts.

Historic Agreement for Virgin Galactic's World HQ from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
New Mexico- Virgin Galactic has signed a 20 year lease agreement with the state. Virgin Galactic's world headquarters will be established in New Mexico and its operations will be located at Spaceport America, the nation's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. ...

Grissom personnel depart for Pacific, Asia - Peru Tribune, IN
GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind., -- Senior Master Sgt. Joe Allen, 434th Air Refueling Wing financial management office, briefs unit members completing a ...

Medical Helicopter Forced To Make Emergency Landing from TheIndyChannel.com
A medical helicopter makes an emergency landing after the crew reports engine issues, police say.

Plane Lands After Part Of Propeller Sheers Off from TheIndyChannel.com
A small plane makes an emergency landing in a northern Indiana farm field after part of its propeller sheers off.

Before There Were Co-Pilots from Neptunus Lex by lex
C-53 Skytrooper on final into Camarillo in August 2008 - VG-Photo
F-22 Raptor from Fence Check [F-44?]
We Haven't Heard from THIS Cat in Awhile... from Tailhook Daily Briefing by JC
EC135 to be used as wind farm maintenance helicopter from Flight Image of the Day by Barbara Cockburn

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