Indy Transponder: Indy Transponder 26-OCT-09 0200z

Monday, October 26, 2009

Indy Transponder 26-OCT-09 0200z

Wings, Wheels expo lures admirers - OCRegister
"Executive Sweet", a World War II B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, takes off from the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base at the Wings Wheels Rotors & Expo ...

Fun Fly Rally: Part race, part scavenger hunt - General Aviation News
Organized by officials with the Seagull Flying Club, the rally is part air race, part airborne scavenger hunt, in which pilots fly 166 miles from Tracy to Los Banos without modern navigational aids. The report notes: ...

Pass notes 2671: Asterix - guardian.co.uk
La Patrouille de France, the equivalent of the Red Arrows, are going to fly over Paris in celebration. Sounds like he's pretty popular. Less than he was, ...

Two Pittsburgh natives linked to Amelia Earhart - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Her plane was repaired by members of the Aero Club of Pittsburgh. Rodgers Field, which predated the Allegheny County Airport by almost a decade, ...

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A Pacific Adventure - Ottawa Citizen
Whilst swimming not too far from shore I was able to look down in the crystal-clear water and see the complete outline of a B-25 Mitchell. ...

Online site gathers Whatcom County aviation stories - TheNewsTribune.com
The Heritage Flight Museum in Bellingham has created an online site where people can share their stories about local aviation history, with an emphasis on ...

Tribute to North Yorks war dead - Darlington and Stockton Times
Michael Prestell visited the Yorkshire Air Museum, York, to pay a bagpipe lament to the crew of a Halifax bomber shot down in 1943. ...

'Just Jane', Lancaster NX611 in close-up... - Military Modelling
... during a Taxy run in this Lancaster at the Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirby, in Yorkshire. it is a neatly restored machine and very well looked ...

The Winds of Kitty Hawk (film) from PPRuNe Forums by protectthehornet
On October 31st, the encore cable channel will show the finest dramatization of the Wright Brothers and their flying experiments. I encourage anyone interested in the wonderful story of flight to see this film. ...

Hawker Hurricane's return to North Weald. from PPRuNe Forums by Batchy
A few shots from today's Hurricane pilots reunion held at the 'Squadron' at this famous former Battle of Britain Aerodrome.
It was great to see four Hurricanes together again, albeit on the ground. It was especially nice to see the Shuttleworth Sea Hurricane making a rare appearance away from home. ...

Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario (part 2) by David Cenciotti
In the previous post "Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario" I explained what a compressor stall (or surge) basing on a picture I took aboard USS Nimitz. I uploaded an image within that post that I created by merging two pictures I took one after the other. Since that picture provided a view of the last few seconds of the catapult launch by a VFA-86 F-18C, I thought it could be interesting to publish the whole take off sequence that you can find here below.

Original Qantas hangar reopens in Cloncurry - ABC Online
Cloncurry Shire CEO Craig Turner says it is vital aviation history is preserved. "It is a working hangar also and it's a major piece of infrastructure out ...