Indy Transponder 03-JAN-10 1500z

A fascinating piece of aviation history from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter It's reported from Antarctica that the remains of a 1911 Vickers REP monoplane (link is to a .PDF file), taken there as part of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), have been rediscovered. The BBC reports: Australian explorer Douglas Mawson had the single-propeller Vickers with him on a 1911-12 expedition but it was abandoned because of engine troubles. Brought to the frozen continent without its wings, the plane was used for a time as a kind of motorised sledge…

Anniversary – First US flight school, established by the Wright brothers, opens from Roger-Wilco by steve 100 year anniversary on 15 February 2010 - Seven years after their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, Wilbur Wright was scouting locations suitable for a flight school. The idea was to train a number of pilots who could in turn teach flying to the wealthy individuals who were expected to buy the airplanes manufactured by the Wrights. Perhaps it is important to note how the commercial aspect of aviation was already rising to the surface just a few years after the success of the Wright Flier…

A Goal And A Passion: Restoring A WW II Corsair To Flight - Hartford Courant McBurney and his team of volunteers built a 7-foot model for the world-famous Paris Air Show in June, which they attended as part of the state Department of ...

A man of three worlds - Santa Maria Times They were Doolittle's Raiders, zooming in from the deck of the USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in broad daylight. The Japanese propaganda machine cranked into high ...

History enthusiasts take unforgettable flight in Fort Lauderdale - MiamiHerald.com A traveling history program allowed civilians to fly in a WWII aircraft as part of the History Flight tour. BY BRIAN HAAS Maybe it was the history behind it ...

Edward Steers Jr. publishes 'We'll Meet Again' - Martinsburg Journal Two members of his family were highly decorated combat pilots whose war records exemplify the characters within his latest book about the B-17 bombers that ...

Natick native served as a WASP in World War II - MetroWest Daily News It was getting all varieties of military aircraft, including the B-17 and B-29 bombers, to the places they needed to be. "We were aware that we were kind of ...

Top local stories to watch for in 2010 - Oshkosh Northwestern Some notable aviation anniversaries will be celebrated during AirVenture 2010, which runs July 26 to Aug. 1. It's being dubbed "The World's Greatest ...

Rose Parade Thrilled Thousands – KESQ And the former Naval aviator was honored with a Navy fighter fly-by, in the missing man formation. Flower-covered hot air balloons from the state of New ...

Alberton bookseller steeped in dad's history since making WWII connection - The Missoulian Zwanenburg relived with Wales how he, as a 15-year-old boy, heard anti-aircraft fire shooting at the "Holy Mackeral," the B-17 that Kenneth Wales was ...

Lecture series on history of flying - Maidenhead Advertiser ... will by taken by Richard Poad, chairman of the Heritage Centre starting on Tuesday, January 12, in the West London Aero Club at White Waltham Airfield. ...

City readying for IAF airshow - Express Buzz A fleet 12 HJT-16 Kiran Mk II will present an airshow on January 12 to mark the culmination of the five-day youth festival, which is being hosted by Orissa ...

Waterford students have eyes on the sky - Flight school new program for wannabe pilots from The Kathryn Report by TheKathrynReport A handful of juniors at Waterford Kettering High School are proving to be high achievers -- really high achievers. They soon will be soaring in single-engine Cessna 172s, as part of a new district program to cultivate wannabe pilots and aircraft mechanics before they even get out of high school. (Full article here)

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