Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Indy Transponder 05-APR-09 0400z

Planes, jets fly high at air show... ... - Killeen Daily Herald, TX 
The Aeroshell Aerobatic Flight Team flies through the air in their North American AT-6 Texan airplanes while at the Central Texas Airshow Sunday in Temple. By Mason W. Canales TEMPLE — It not every day two F-18s take off from the Draughon-Miller ...

Colin Smith, who has been on the air show organising committee for three years, said ticket sales for this year's event were double what had been expected. He said: "It was definitely very well attended. One of the main attractions was an RAF C-17 ...

El Al Israel Airlines coordinated last Wednesday for the first time ever an air show in honor of Israel's 61st Independence Day. During the air show four of the company's Boeing aircraft took off at two-minute intervals from Ben-Gurion International ...

Bottorff said the upcoming Cherry Point Air Show, scheduled for May 15 to 17, would go on as scheduled. "We are not making any adjustments to the schedule at this point," he said. "We are watching the situation very closely going and will see if the ...

Gates will open for the 11th Annual Corsicana Airsho at C. David Campbell Field, the Corsicana Municipal Airport, at 8:30 AM on Saturday, May 9. The theme for this year's air show is "A Gathering of Trainers." The show hearkens to the history of the ...

Five teams will be selected to continue to the live final in June 2009 at Le Bourget Airshow in Paris. The five finalist teams will have the opportunity to finalise their proposal with the help of an Airbus coach, before presenting the result to the ...

A few from a rather cold and breezy Old Warden display. Unfortunately the sun didn't quite break through for most of the afternoon and the breezy conditions didn't help the programme too nuch as the Ryan PT 22 and Pup, 504k unfortunately had stay firmly on the ground. 

By Russ Niles, Editor-in-Chief Sean D. Tucker, one of the world's premiere aerobatic pilots and the owner of an advanced flight school he calls the Tutima Academy of Flight Safety made an off-airport landing on one of California's busiest highways ...
Pilot Makes Emergency Landing On Highway - KSBW, CA

Is Sun 'N Fun, Like, Over? - AVweb, CT - Paul Bertorelli
We are contemplating the larger metaphysical question of whether this annual spring show is in decline, destined for that boneyard occupied by the Reading Airshow and the Bendix Cup Race. I'm raising it here because in the river of e-mail that flows ...

Tim Weber really tears up up the sky at the Beale AFB Airshow! Tim's aerobatics are intense combinations of high roll rates and tumbling in the Geico Insurance sponsored Extra 300S. Tim also writes and records his own music for his airshow routine!
Gordon Bowman-Jones is the airshow narrator.
Geico Extra 300 / Inverted Pass / Beale AFB Airshow 2009


P-51D Ride from Military Photos by Kaasjager
So, today yours truly made a ride in the backseat op a P-51D Mustang and it was ****ING AWESOME. My boss was asked to fly over a ww2 memorial service in my hometown and I asked if I could tag along and I could. So after taking off we immediately made a tight turn and after some playing around we made some low passes over the crowd followed by a victory roll and then back to base where we did a high speed low pass (600kph at 30ish meters). Pretty much the most awesome thing I have ever done. So here are the pics

Red Bull Air Races - SanDiego.com, CA
After the unparalleled success of the last two races in San Diego, the Red Bull Air Race Championship returns to "America's Finest City" on Saturday, May 9 and Sunday, May 10. This will be the third consecutive year San Diego plays host to the Red Bull ...

San Diego Course from Team Bonhomme #55 Pit-News
What a great spot for an air race… we're back in San Diego and Team Bonhomme arrived yesterday ready for racing. We've saved a little bit of weight since we got back from Abu Dhabi. Wade, Jim and Tex worked hard on the plane and we're all set. The track here is the same as last year… after the start gate it's a slight right turn into the chicane followed by a right into gate 3 and then a hard left turn into 4 before a long stretch to a right turning quaddro and then a right turn to the last gate… there are two laps of the course and the fun here will be the turn in to gate 4 and the turn into the last gate… both easy to do with a relaxed turn but more challenging to turn in tight to save time. Another fun challenge will be the start speed because I don't think we'll have the luxury of a straight run in here (there's a nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the way!)… so watch out for some track time being thrown away as pilots try and get up to 200 kts without exceeding it before the start gate… roll on race day!
RBAR Coverage by Smoke-On!



'Honor Flight' takes WWII vets to DC - The Daily News Online, NY 
Phil Serafine of Rochester flew 40 missions in a B-25. While all had different service backgrounds, they were in agreement that seeing the World War II memorial was something they never thought they would get to do. Pete Amos of Medina read about the ...

Air museum boon to region - Monterey County Herald, CA 
With Salinas Valley communities located in the heart of California's only new enterprise zone, seldom do economic development opportunities offer such potential to strengthen the economy of a region as those embodied in the Yanks Air Museum project off ...

Baikonur - Air & Space Magazine
A lonely, weathered marker standing next to Site 1 at Baikonur Cosmodrome informs visitors that this is where it all began. The marker, a simple concrete obelisk topped with a small metal sphere, commemorates the launch of Sputnik from this site almost 50 years and hundreds   of launches ago. As you climb the steps from the Sputnik monument and stroll the short walkway to the launchpad, the concrete—worn away to expose rusted reinforcing bars beneath—crackles underfoot like a broken windshield. Paint ripples off the nearby blockhouses. Yuri Gagarin, the first space explorer, also launched from this pad. ...

Space-Law Pioneer Eilene Galloway Dead at 102 from AviationWeek.com Homepage
Galloway joined U.S. government under President Roosevelt; later helped draft legislation that created NASA

Air & Space Smithsonian lists about a dozen astronauts who are contenders for nasa's next big mission to the Earth's nearest neighbor. Burlington native Jim Kelly says he's seen the article that carries his name and picture and if he's going to the ...

Rocketry club wins big at NASA competition - Arizona State University, Tempe
The ASU student rocketry club Daedalus Astronautics took a top award at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 2009 University Student Launch Initiative rocket competition. The club is made up of about 20 engineering students, ...

AOPA Taps Harrison Ford For GA Campaign from The Weekly of Business Aviation 
The actor--and pilot--will be the public face of a $1.5 million multiyear campaign to show benefits of general aviation


Boeing has moved the first 787 prototype to the flight line in preparation for first flight, scheduled for next month, the company announced yesterday. Fuel testing–the first in the next phase of pre-flight checks the airplane must undergo–will begin in the next few days, the company said.  
Central Texas Airshow 2009 - from FenceCheck Forums
G-ACSP BLACK MAGIC restoration project 3-5-09 from Stick and Rudder by Gary Watson
Beech Restorations at Bruntingthorpe 3-5-09 from Stick and Rudder by Gary Watson

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