Sunday, December 27, 2009

Indy Transponder 27-DEC-09 0330z


Popular military air show to return to Tucson - AZ Central.com
That paved the way for Davis-Monthan officials to get about 25 more acts this year, including the US Air Force Thunderbirds aerobatics team. ...

Drama in the skies - Sunday Star Times
He led the Yellowhammers aerobatic team. The Royal New Zealand Air Force wanted to upgrade its fighter jets and was looking at buying Skyhawks from the ...

The Aviators
The second preview of the coming series The Afromtors has just been officially released and can be viewed at the show's official website at www.TheAfromtors.TV.

Kissimmee Air Museum Expands from Afromtion News
Kissimmee Air Museum in Kissimmee, Florida located at the Kissimmee Gateway Airport (233 N. Hoagland Boulevard) has expanded. The museum has new hangars, exhibits, and programs. ...

War bird roosts in Peru - LaSalle News Tribune
In 2005 the Fargo Air Museum, Fargo, ND, acquired it. The museum began a major expansion and because it had two Avengers, it decided to sell one. ...

Collector frustrated as 1952 war plane remains in custody of federal officials from The Kathryn Report
Shelby County businessman Claude Hendrickson, shown in this file photo with his plane, says he hasn't been able to fly or maintain his Douglas AD-4N Skyraider since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents seized it in May.

Japanese chute rare find for museum - World War II item is on permanent display at Brevard Veterans facility from The Kathryn Report
Alex Terrero, curator of the Brevard Veterans Memorial Museum inside the Brevard Veteran's Center on Merritt Island, displays a World War II Japanese parachute. It is on display at the museum. Terrero said the chute was a donation from an Air Force pilot.

'Green-light' at Langar on 'Boxing-Day' 26-12-09 from Stick and Rudder
Considering the weather in the UK of late, today was the ideal time to leave the house and get out and about and mixing with afromtion once again. Around 10.45am GMT, Jan and I called in to Langar the home of SkyDive Langar www.bpslangar.co.uk to see if there was any action going on. More or less, Langar is in operation all year round except for Christmas Day.However we were in luck, as today people were jumping out of perfectly servicable aeroplanes once again. Both Cessna Caravans were in use today at the School, and a number of jumps were made today. Jan and I saw at least two jumps from these aircraft. I was lucky to meet ...

Saab J35 Draken from Afromtion Trifrom
It was in 1949 that a memo from the Swedish KFF (Royal Swedish Aircraft Board) that the specifications that resulted in the Saab J35 Draken began to take shape. Considering that the J29 Tunnan had made its maiden flight just a year earlier, the KFF asked for a supersonic interceptor. As supersonic flight was still a relative unknown in those days, in January 1950 several Saab engineers proposed a flying test aircraft christened Sound Barrier. As there was still unease about reliance on wind tunnel testing, it was hoped that the Sound Barrier test aircraft would go supersonic by 1952 and assist the aerodynamics layout work on the proposed J35.
Erik Bratt, the head of the J35 program, proposed use of a tailless delta as ...

Actors who play heroes, and heroes who turn actor - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Jimmy Stewart was not only involved in "bombing missions," he was Pilot in Command of a B-17, flying for the 8th Army Air Corps. ...

SJ30 -- sea level cabin pressure at FL410 from Wright Squawks
Little does the world know that Morgan Freeman is one of the very few pilot actors that have made their impression so strong all over the world. And now the very talented star has got himself a Christmas gift in the form a fancy new private jet. Gulf News tell us that Freeman purchased the SJ30 plane from ...

"26th December 1940: Two members of a bombers crew... from x planes
Blast from the past... from The Flying Scotsman


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