Indy Transponder 16-OCT-09 1030z

Balloon Boy Mania: Media Gets Punk'd While Boy All But Admits Hoax on CNN from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel
…In this video, CNN's Wolf Blitzer is interviewing the family, and asks why Falcon didn't come out when he heard his name being called. In a small, kind of scared six-year-old voice, he is heard clearly saying "because you guys (parents) said we did this for a show." 'Nuf said…

Ozark air show set for Saturday - Dothan Eagle
The City of Ozark is planning at least the fourth Blackwell Airport Air Show featuring a Curtis Pitts fly-in for Saturday, according to officials. ...

New Schools Initiative – Voxy
A strong new focus on educating young people about aviation and its history in New Zealand has prompted the organizers of the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow ...

Next air show set for 2011 - SunHerald.com
Chris Valle, vice commander of the 81st Training Wing, said Keesler is bidding to bring the Blue Angels to South Mississippi for the next show. ...

See the Turkish Stars this Weekend - Fethiye Times
Don't forget you can see the famous Turkish aerobatic team twice this weekend at the Oludeniz Air Games. The talented team of aviation experts will be ...

Aero-TV: Granley Family Airshows - Bud Granley, Creating a Legacy from Aero-News Network
Granley Describes His Passion for Aviation and Air Show Performance Bud Granley is certainly not a new face on the air show circuit; after 47 years as an aerobatic pilot, Granley now performs with his company, "Granley Family Airshows," alongside his son Ross. Their hair-raising formation act has garnered much acclaim among the aerobatic community.

Move Over Sully… by Phil Derner Jr.
Last week I let it roll out of my mouth to a friend that US Airways Flight 1549 was the first airliner to successfully “land” on water with everyone onboard surviving. Whoopsies! I knew this wasn’t true, and I thought about the similarities between US Airways 1549 and another airliner that went for a swim over 50 years ago…

VIDEO: As 'Amelia' nears take-off, local angles pique interest - The Daily News Online
The plane does not fly in the film, but is used as a background set piece for an interior hangar sequence that includes a cocktail party. ...

Astronaut group backs commercial crew transportation for NASA from RLV and Space Transport News
Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Ken Bowersox, Jake Garn, Robert Gibson, Hank Hartsfield, John Herrington, Byron Lichtenberg, John Lounge, Rick Searfoss, Norman Thagard, Kathryn Thornton, Jim Voss and Charles Walker give a strong endorsement of NASA's use of commercial crew transportation services: Commercial Spaceflight: All Systems Go: NASA should push the frontiers. The private sector can handle the business of low Earth orbit. - Wall Street Journal (op-ed section)…

Dayton, Ohio USA Part III — Wright Brother sites neighboring the National ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
... for a few minutes to Huffman Prairie (Huffman Flying Field or Huffman Field) which is part of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park . ...

The lawyer who shot down bombers - BBC News
... in his car from the clock tower in Castle Douglas, drive to Turnhouse in Edinburgh and be back over the clock tower in an aeroplane within two hours. ...

Memories soar for WWII veteran - DeSoto Appeal
When 89-year-old Jep Williamson sees B-17 bombers like the one offered for public flights starting today, he wants to embrace the aircraft, ...

Estrella Warbird Museum hosts annual fly-in - Paso Robles Press
Soaring in synchronized formation, warplanes of old thundered into the El Paso de Robles Municipal Airport at the museum's annual fly-in held last week. ...

Pretty Pilots in Pink ... For Christmas from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
October 15, 2009, Aurora, Colorado – Denver-based web retailer Powder Puff Pilot is taking steps to make the airplane cockpit more feminine-friendly. Sue Hughes, owner of the company that specializes in designing and selling products targeted to women pilots, announced her new line of pink aviation headsets. She hopes to attract more women and girls to the cockpit with her line of pilot gear for women, which also includes a pink pilot logbook, pink seat cushions, and aviator sunglasses with pink-tinted lens, to name a few…

The view from the cockpit - Ukiahan completes 32-state solo flight from Diamond Pilots by Diamond Pilots
By Carole Brodsky Jim Derickson's grandfather was a barnstormer during the late 1920s. He built his first airplane at 16 and later constructed a glider. He landed a single engine plane in Donner Lake, ran liquor and flew nearly every type of aircraft available. Jim's grandmother and aunt were pilots. The genes were stacked in Derickson's favor…

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