Thursday, July 9, 2009

Indy Transponder 8-JUL-09 2300z

Dayton gearing up for barrage of aviation events from AviationDayton
DAYTON, Ohio — For air show and aviation event organizers across the Dayton region of Ohio, the afterburners are about to light. A barrage of aviation-related events will start this weekend and continue through July 26, from Troy in Miami County to Middletown in Butler County, with activities to suit every taste and budget. ...

Base doctor will soar with Thunderbirds - Arkansas Leader
By AIRMAN 1ST CLASS When the Thunderbirds, the Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, announced officer selections for the 2010 demonstration season, ...

Blue Angels ready to thrill you - Pensacola News Journal
This week, thousands will flock to the beach to watch the aerial acrobatics of the Blue Angels — the Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron. ...

Helicopter Only Air Show, Los Angeles July 11, Free Admission ... by Rotor F/X
Established in Los Angeles in 1992, the American Heroes Air Show began as a grass-roots community effort to celebrate the dynamic role of helicopters in law enforcement, fire service, search and rescue, homeland security, ...

Kashmiri women lift veil, eye career in the skies - Reuters
"When this institute opened, we got really excited," said Samiya Ayub, a trainee cabin crew at Viinzs Aviation Training Institute, which is located a short ...

Warhawk Air Museum - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion
Just a reminder to warbird lovers in the inland Nortwest that the Paul family's Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa Idaho is holding "A Salute to North American Aviation" this weekend.
They will have on display several Mustangs including -A, -B, -D, and TF models as well as their F-86, T-6s, T-28s, and maybe a B-25. Of course the family P-40 collection will be there as well. The featured speaker is triple Ace Bud Anderson.
Should be a great event, as always with this fine Warbird museum!
http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/
http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/docs...ionevent09.pdf

Students take flight at camp from Technorati
It's always been a guy thing - until now.For the last four years, the physics and flight summer camp in Council Rock has attracted young men only.But at Council Rock High School South in Holland this week, a gal finally joined the fellas for the first time in building and flying model airplanes."I heard not many girls come, but I didn't think much about it," said Tanya Kumar, 11, a seventh-grader at Holland Middle School before trying to assemble a model aircraft's wheel Tuesday. "I mean, it'd b

SR-71 JET POWERED RC - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion
This RC jet powered SR-71 Blackbird is an awesome piece of work. Nice sounds too. Amazing what modelers are doing these days (ha ha).
http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4464984

MLAS launch (update!) from Dick's Rocket Dungeon
Twitter indicates it happened on schedule but doesn't cover the flight or any results. Anyone know if there was a webcast? I hope a video crops up somewhere.
Well, NASA Watch was watching and found an article, with the following photo, in the PilotOnline.com. Click it!

A review of space tourism in Europe from Personal Spaceflight
I was on vacation last week in London, but that did not stop me from making a visit to the Royal Aeronautical Society last Tuesday for their "Space Tourism: A New Industry in the Making" conference. I've written up some highlights of the conference in The Space Review this week. ...

Pre-order "Chasing the Dream" from Chasing the Dream

A Closer Look: 787 Taxi Testing from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower

Indiana-based World War II ship joins historic list from WTHR
A World War II troop landing ship that is now a floating military museum on the Ohio River has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.




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