Indy Transponder 14-JUN-09 1500z

Ejection Problem Grounds Snowbirds - 980 CJME News Talk Radio, Canada
In a news release, the department of national defence says the Moose Jaw-based Snowbirds aerobatic team and two other aircraft with the same ejection system were going through pre-flight testing when the problem was discovered. ...

Problems with ejection system put Snowbirds on hold - Ottawa Citizen, Canada
By Tim Shufelt June 14, 2009 Members of Canada's Snowbirds perform at the Air Show during the Canadian National Exhibition, Monday September 1, 2008. OTTAWA — The Snowbirds, Canada's iconic acrobatic flying team and the centrepiece of Canada Day ...

Spare parts could keep Snowbirds aloft until 2020 - Toronto Star, Canada
The cost of keeping the Snowbirds' aging Tutor jets in the air for a decade is estimated at $116 million. New aircraft could cost $30 million apiece, an unlikely expenditure given air force budget constraints. OTTAWA – The famed Snowbirds aerial fleet ...

Paris Air Show opens under a cloud - Melbourne Herald Sun
By Nathaniel Harrison THE biennial Paris Air Show opens Monday at a tense time for global aviation, with airlines staring at dwindling passenger numbers and huge financial losses in the sombre aftermath of the unexplained crash of an Air France Airbus ...

Air show brings thrills, memories for fans - Times Daily
The Red Thunder Aerobatics Team, featuring Russian YAK-52 and Chinese Nanchang CJ-6 planes, flies in formation on its first pass over the crowd at the Courtland Air Show at the former Courtland Air Base. By Dennis Sherer COURTLAND - Blue skies filled ...

Haze doesn't hamper Air Show - Bethany Beach Wave, DE
Crowds did see performances by the Navy's Leap Frogs parachute team, an A-10 Thunderbolt jet and a World War II-era Russian Yak-9 prop plane, among others. But the day's slam-dunk highlight was a spectacular aerobatics performance by an Air Force F-18 ...

Anchors away! Robin Meade skydives with Bush 41 - New York Daily News, NY
Meade and Bush joined the Army's famed Golden Knights parachute team in a skydive in Kennebunkport, Maine, to mark the 41st President's 85th birthday. "I was afraid right at the moment where they said, 'All right, let's go,'" Meade said. ...

Former Presidents Leaps Into Birthday - KEYC, MN
Bush made a tandem jump with a member of the Army's Golden Knights parachute team.He landed near a church in Kennebunkport, Maine where he has a summer home.He's made several jumps before...His first as a Navy pilot when his plane was shot down over ...

How an 85-year-old tested his new knees in 15000ft skydive - Daily Mail, UK
Now, for his next knee-testing challenge, he plans to wing-walk while strapped to the top of an airborne Tiger Moth. 'I read about a couple who got married on the wing of a biplane,' he says, 'and I thought, I could do that. The older I get, ...

Varazdin to host international air show - Croatian Times
The Croatian international air show, Aeromiting CIAV 2009, will be held on 20 and 21 June in the city of Varazdin, northern Croatia.

Film celebrates historic flight - BBC News, UK"
Alcock and Brown were the pioneers of long distance travel by aeroplane," he said. "Before they did the first transatlantic flight quite frankly, in Britain at least, aviation was a bit of a gimmick and they really opened up the world to people ...

A sight for sore eyes - Kirksville Daily Express and Daily News,
MOBaker, 35, who lives with his wife, Susan, in Louisiana, is looking forward to another trip north in September, when the B-52 makes an appearance as part of the Kirksville Regional Airport Air Festival. He said he'll either be a member of the crew, ...

Mitsuo Fuchida: A remarkable story from the Pacific War (part III) - Examiner.com...
who proclaimed a deep compassion for his country: Mitsuo Fuchida, leader of Japan's first attack on the United States was about to meet a member of the first official US attack on Imperial Japan -- Staff Sergeant "Jake" DeShazer of Doolittle's raiders.

Friends share planes, one larger, one small - Press-Enterprise, CA
Collver flies his plane at air shows across California, including the Riverside Air Show and the March Field Air Fest. He hopes Miller can join him in future shows, so spectators can admire both airplanes, big and small.

Wings Of Freedom Tour To Stop In Salina, Kansas - Aero-News Network, FL
The Wings of Freedom Tour, featuring a WWII Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, two Consolidated B-24 Liberators and a North American P-51 Mustang, will roar into Salina Municipal Airport from July 8 for a three day visit. Sponsored by The Collins ...

Plane Pull Drags In $12000 For MS Society - WCSH-TV, MEPORTLAND (NEWS CENTER)
-- One of the highlights of the Air Show at the Portland Jetport is the plane pull. 13 teams of 20 people each arch their backs and stretch their hamstrings to pull a Boeing 727 weighing 145000 pounds. ...

Sitcom collection showcases Norman Lear's legacy - Los Angeles Times, CA
Lear was born in New Haven, Conn., and dropped out of college to serve in the Air Force, where he flew 52 combat missions on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Less than a year after his arrival in LA, he got a big break when he and a partner, Ed Simmons, ...

Aviation pioneer, inventor lived in Fly Creek - Oneonta Daily Star, NY
You know you're an aviation pioneer when your registered US pilot's license is No. 2. For 17 years, Fly Creek was home to this pioneer, A. Leo Stevens. What Stevens piloted weren't airplanes, as he got his start in tethered balloon ascensions at age 12 ...

mod steps in to defuse row over bouncing bomb - Northern Echo, UK
The bomb has been on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum, near York, for several years. The mod stepped in after an apparent disagreement over the ownership of the artefact between the Elvington-based museum and the Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust. ...

Italian air force F16s special color - from Military Photos by easyand

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