Friday, October 30, 2009

Indy Transponder 30-OCT-09 0330z


Nov. 14 is final JATO for popular Fat Albert - Marine Corps Times
A Navy aircraft, Fat Albert has been manned by an all-Marine crew since it joined the legendary flight demonstration team in 1970. Its primary mission is to ...

South Carolina scrambles at Falcon Air Meet 2009 from National Guard - Top News
F-16 pilots from the United States, Belgium and Jordan competed in the Scramble launch portion of Falcon Air Meet 2009, a multi-national F-16 competition hosted by the Royal Jordanian Air Force here Oct. 21...

A day with the Collaborators by A Pilot's Story movie
Will and I have been on the road quite a bit filming exciting content for the upcoming film, A Pilot's Story. Earlier this month, Will and I got to spend 2 days with the Collaborators Aerobatic Team at their home airport, King City, CA. ...

Wings & Wheels set for Saturday - Sussex Countian
By Georgetown COC Above, Larry Kelley's "Panchito," a B-25J operated by the Delaware Aviation Museum, based in Georgetown, represents a B-25 that served ...

Stuart Air Show attendance could benefit from weak economy - Vero Beach Press-Journal
Despite a fizzling economy and difficulty securing sponsorships, organizers with the Visiting Nurse Association Air Show at ...

Parachute Team will skydive into Gardner-Webb's Spangler Stadium on Saturday - Shelby Star
BOILING SPRING – The Golden Knights, the United States Army's elite parachute demonstration team, will be dropping from the sky and landing on the campus of ...

Two-day airshow in Chhattisgarh - Zee News
Airforce Marshall PV Nayak will be sending a aerobatic team 'Surya Kiran' along with 11 planes to Raipur of the show on the request of Chief Minister Raman ...

In Pictures: 'Turkey 86th Anniversary' - Monsters and Critics.com
The Turkish Stars aerobatic team from the Turkish Air Force perform with supersonic NF-5 aircraft during a parade of ...

Ecuador may return Indian helicopters after crash - RIA Novosti
One of the seven Dhruv combat helicopters Ecuador had purchased from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited crashed during an air show in the Ecuadoran capital, ...

Saga Rose Sails From Southampton For The Last Time - CruiseCritic.co.uk
The ship will sail at 4:30 pm packed with celebrity guests, with an aerial display from the Blades aerobatic team as tribute. ...

A-20 to go on show at Hendon in 2010 from Aeroplane Monthly News
RAF Museum Douglas A-20G Havoc 43-9436 Oct 09Work on the RAF Museum's Douglas A-20G Havoc 43-9436 'Big Nig' is advancing rapidly with Precision Aerospace Productions of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia.

Red Bull Air Race Takes Off With Riedel - 4RFV
Britain's Paul Bonhomme won the 2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship with a thrilling victory in the final race of the season in Barcelona in front of ...

B-17, B-24 and P-51 flying in to Lexington - Salisbury Post
The Wings of Freedom Tour of the World War II Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American P-51 Mustang will be on ..

Legendary Bush Pilot and Award-Winning Author To Appear At Fantasy ... by noemail@floridaattractions.org
Featuring some of the world's finest classic land, sea, and air racing machines, the aviation attraction's fast-paced, two-day extravaganza takes place on the weekend of Nov. 7 and 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with doors opening at 9 a.m. ...

Catch a high view of the Grafton purple haze - Daily Examiner
Grafton Aero Club president Peter Clement said there would be plenty of activities and things to do over the weekend, weather permitting. ...

Oklahoma City 99s Museum of Women Pilots pays tribute to Amelia Earhart, other ... - NewsOK.com
A cutout of Amelia Earhart stands in front of one of the exhibits on the pioneering aviatrix at the 99s Museum of Women Pilots in Oklahoma City. ...

Women aviators help keep Earhart's legacy alive - Wicked Local (blog)
... resident Margot Cheel and Scituate resident Trish Sauve are part of a organization keeping alive and continuing the long history of women in aviation. ...

Determined search finds, returns WWII airman from Air Force Times - News
HIGHLAND, Calif. — For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found — or if anyone was looking.The mother of six strapping boys went to her grave without the answer that has finally reached her two surviving sons 65 years later: the remains of Sgt. Robert Stinson are coming home.Military divers recovered several pieces of leg bone from the wreckage of a B-24J Liberator bomber found at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the island nation of Palau. ...

RCAF Museum:25 years and still flying high.the Royal Canadian Air Force museum in Trenton is just wrapping-up its silver anniversary - CKWS Television
25 YEARS AND STILL FLYING HIGH.
THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE MUSEUM IN TRENTON IS JUST
WRAPPING-UP ITS SILVER ANNIVERSARY.
BUT, THAT'S NOT THE ONLY MILESTONE THAT'S BEEN MARKED IN AVIATION CIRCLES.
THE CENTENNIAL OF POWERED FLIGHT IN CANADA, THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE R-C-A-F, AND THE 60TH OF TRENTON'S MEMORIAL GATES.
HERE'S NEWSWATCH'S MIKE

Meet the infamous Carmelita Pope at the USO on Friday - Vero Beach Press-Journal
Today she is director of the Veterans´ History Project at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho. STUART — Walking into "Meet Me at the USO," a costume ball ...

Robert L. Chester 1919 - October 10, 2009 - Lusk Herald
There he immediately made a number of friends, taught art classes at the Sr. Center and volunteered at the Prairie Air Museum. Bob enjoyed talking about art ..

Imperial County Aviation Day Celebrates The Importance of Imperial County ... - Imperial Valley Weekly
... up close to static airplane displays, including military, emergency, commercial, agricultural and other aircraft that are a part of aviation history. ...

Tennessee aviation legend turns 100 - AOPA Pilot
"I enjoy everything about aviation and flying." The city of Morristown is building a new terminal building at the airport, which will be named for Johnson. ...

What Does a Pilot Look Like? - AVweb
Manzano is now a senior at York College's Aviation Institute and president of the school's Women in Aviation chapter. While she might be a minority in the ...

Kissimmee Airport completes projects - AOPA Pilot
The Kissimmee Air Museum's Warbird Adventures, located on the airport, matched a grant from the Florida Department of Transportation to fund the $1.1 ...

Hurricane accident report released from Aeroplane Monthly News
On October 20 The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) issued its report on the crash of Hawker Hurricane XII G-HURR at Shoreham airshow on September 15, 2007, which took the life of Brian Brown.

Gotta buy gifts for an airplane nut? #EAA fall/winter merch. catalog now available. Also, great ideas available at http://shop.eaa.org/. by EAAupdate (Dick Knapinski)

fsweekend Flyin And London Melbourne Race - FlightSim.com
We the KLM-VA (Virtual airline of KLM on IVAO), will be hosting a48 hour flight from London to Melbourne re-tracking the 1934 race witha 737 and the DC2.
The MacRobertson Trophy Air Race took place October, 1934 as partof the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. The idea of the race wasdevised by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, and a prize fund of $75,000was put up by Sir Macpherson Robertson, a wealthy Australianconfectionery manufacturer, on the conditions that the race be namedafter his MacRobertson confectionery company, and that it beorganized to be as safe as possible.
We will be flying it in the footsteps of the original DC-2 theUiver and we will be flying it with a KLM-Retro livery 737-800 fromthe show floor. ...

Texas Trails: High-Flying Adventure - Sulphur Springs Country World News
Oct. 29, 2009 - One of the first great aviation events in Texas was the arrival of a flying contraption known as the Vin Fiz Flyer, which landed in Fort ...

Nimitz by night by David Cenciotti
The following pictures taken from the Vulture's Row, the narrow balcony on the ship's island, don't give the exact idea of the darkness that surrounds an aircraft carrier at night. The flight deck is illuminated by a soft sodium-vapor light and by the runway lights. The aircraft are surrounded by many coloured shirts performing the usual tasks needed to launch and recovery aircraft in safety. The afterburners create a bluish-white glow that disappears immediately after launching from the catapult. Combined with thousands of stars clearly visible above us, the sight is absolutely stunning. ...

Sharing Aviation from Let's Go Flying by Jason Schappert
Sharing aviation with someone, now that's a rewarding experience! I recently had the opportunity to design and lead an after school aviation program for middle school age kids appropriately called "The Future Pilot Flight Academy."
I've always had a huge passion for aviation and try to be an ambassador wherever I go. Seeing a group of kids at this age get so excited about flying and what happens "behind the scenes" to make each flight a success was powerful to experience. ...

Youngsters turn high fliers - The Star
By Staff Copy CELEBRATIONS to mark the centenary of Britain's first airshow in Doncaster in 1909 really took off for youngsters at the borough's museum. ...

Purdue Pete's head created by aviation students from Purdue Technology News
Purdue Pete's head is created by aviation technology students in the Composites Laboratory at the Purdue University Airport. This video provides a look at how this Purdue icon is created.
Watch the video.

Aero Santa! - Magnet #2 from Zazzle.com from www.zazzle.com
Christmas Eve, 1921. An obscure airfield... somewhere in the world. A little known and perhaps forgotten chapter in Santa's long career of gift giving. Some gifts should be given SERIOUS thought before presenting! Although, we should add, Santa did manage the deliveries... with a little help. The Bon Ton Crew is proud to present this vintage photo ...

5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories - Discovery News
Air & Space Magazine has even more about the mission here. Apollo Toilet Horrors: On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard wet his pants aboard Freedom 7, ...

Ares I-X successful, but not perfect (updated) from Dick's Rocket Dungeon by Dick
Space.com discusses the apparent staging problem with Ares I-X. They cite comments from Mission Manager Bob Ess. He said to CNET, "So far, we're on a path to learn a lot. The separation seemed a little different than we predicted as far as how the upper stage reacted after separation. So right there's an opportunity for us to jump in and figure out what was different in the actual flight from our models. So, hugely successful." ...
Xoie at Mojave from Dick's Rocket Dungeon by Dick

Aeroplane Photographic Archive from Aeroplane Monthly News
North American's B-25 Mitchell bomber was one of the most outstanding bombers of World War Two, with the 10,000-plus built seeing service with the American air arms as well as those of several other nations in just about every theatre of war. Designed as a rugged, heavily-armed medium bomber, the first prototype made its maiden flight on August 19, 1940 ...

Classic photos, WWII aircraft, pictures you can't miss from x planes
Seriously - you'll want to check out the archives here... Mike

Target practice from AF.mil Photos
Off to the stars and beyond! from AF.mil Photos
Michael de Boer from FenceCheck Forums ...Here's another Bronco-shot.
Best Pictures of the 2009 Airshow Season from FenceCheck Forums
F/A-18 Superhornet shot at Cochran Airshow in Palm Springs from FenceCheck Forums [video]
'Voodoo' Race 5 – Unlimited Gold Heat 3A 9/19/09 from Jason Schillereff on Vimeo. via Neptunus Lex
Strega Arrives @ 4SD...... - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion


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