Indy Transponder 04-JAN-10 1130z

Blue Angels land in El Centro, ready to train for 2010 show season - Imperial Valley Press | About a dozen honorary Blue Angels and fans came out to welcome the bright-blue-uniformed pilots back to the area, which will be their winter home for the ...

Air Force pioneer Lloyd 'Fig' Newton reaches new lofty height - Tampabay.com | Newton, a retired four-star general in the US Air Force, is the first black man to fly with the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's aerial demonstration team. ...

Person Of The Year: The Space Entrepreneur - Aviation Week | As Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites was putting the finishing touches on SpaceShipTwo, the commercial version of the vehicle that won the privately backed ...

Go for Launch Sweepstakes from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Star Trek have teamed up to celebrate the release of Star Trek on DVD. Be a part of the final frontier and enter to win a trip to Kennedy Space Center and a chance to view one of the final space shuttle launches. The deadline to enter ends at 3pm ET on Jan 15, 2010.

Grand prize includes:
·  4-day, 3-night trip to Kennedy Space Center
·  VIP space shuttle launch viewing opportunity
·  Lunch With an Astronaut
·  Discover KSC : Today & Tomorrow Tour

No purchase necessary. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. States and D.C. who are 18 or older as of date of entry. Sweepstakes starts 10 a.m. ET on 11/18/09 and ends at 3 p.m. ET on 1/15/10. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: DNC Parks & Resorts at KSC Inc, Kennedy Space Center, FL.  For more Details see: http://goforlaunch.dja.com/

LiveAirShowTV Announces 2010 Broadcast Season - JANUARY 4TH – PFLUGERVILLE, TX -- After a very successful International Council of Air Shows (ICAS) convention in Las Vegas in December, LiveAirShowTV announces part of their broadcast plans for the 2010 air show season. "The shows listed below have agreed to be part of our broadcast season," says LiveAirShowTV President Jeff Lee. "This is by no means a complete list and it will continue to grow to a full season of air shows."

DC-3 75th Anniversary Reunion from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | The Last Time is an organization created for the sole purpose of reuniting flying examples of the Douglas DC-3 and the people associated with them, for one last time. The goal of the organization is to celebrate these aircraft and these people. At the same time the group wants to honor their service and provide assistance to the people and aircraft making their journey to EAA AirVenture 2010…

ME-262 Over Berlin! - http://www.aviationvids.com | Here's a sight no one has seen in over 60 years -- a Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighter flies... airshow in Berlin, Germany!

Macia was a navigator in WWII's Doolittle Raid - San Antonio Express | The B-25 crewmembers trained diligently for about a month, learning the skills needed to take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. ...

B25 Mitchell "Wild Cargo" pt1 from feed/http://aviationbreak.com/feed/ by Admin | The Newly painted Wild Cargo B-25 Mitchell at the Military Aviation Museum … B25 Mitchell Bomber WW2 WWII aircraft airplane fighter factory Military Aviation Museum

Spitfire Mk.II and the BA Hawk. Some musings on how they compare. from AirSpace by dakota67 | During the summer of 1940, very young men were fighting, in MK.II Spitfires, against enemy aircraft intent on destroying Britain's seaports and RAF bases. Now, nearly 70 years later, similar young pilots are training on the BA Hawk. A while back I used a fine photograph of these two great aircraft in formation as the basis of a rather simple comparison between the front-line interceptor of 1940 and the advanced trainer of today. I have been told that the Hawk is the easier aircraft to handle, albeit packed with many more "bells and whistles". The attached item was cobbled together pretty well off 'the-top-of-my-head', so do please forgive any areas where I may have strayed from exact numbers.

Narellan's nine-year-old Elise Brown becomes Australia's youngest skydiver  by TheKathrynReport | PINT-SIZED Elise Brown will have more than the usual holiday yarns to share with her year 5 mates from Narellan Public School when school returns at the end of the month. The nine-year-old, of Narellan, became Australia's youngest female skydiver when she had her first jump from Sydney Skydive Centre, Wilton, on December 19. She did it all again for the cameras on December 21, but by then she already had ensured her place in history and star status among her friends. To view the full article, visit Macarthur Chronicle.

Real People: Woman was one of the first female air traffic controllers by TheKathrynReport | Gloria Langmade Yow was on the front lines of women's liberation years before it had a name. In September 1947, she was the only woman in the air traffic control station in Danville, Va., surrounded by some fellows who weren't sure what to make of her. Yow had been an air traffic controller, and certified as a supervisor, more than three years before she was transferred to the Virginia station. But a woman had no place in the all-male world of air traffic controlling; they thought (and sometimes told her). This was unfamiliar territory. The first female air traffic controller was certified in 1942, just months before Yow. To view the full article, visit The Times News.

FOR SALE: Two Slightly Used Space Shuttles for $42-Million Each Without Launch Pads from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy | The space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis are FOR SALE for a mere $42-million each next year with the market being American museums. NASA has told museums around the country that they can have a genuine space shuttle if they're willing to pay $42 million, according to the Houston Chronicle. The two space vehicles do have high milage but are in good shape needing only minor repairs following their last flights later this year. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has been guaranteed space shuttle Discovery. There it will join other legendary space vehicles such as space shuttle Enterprise and the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. Jack@JackKennedy.net

On This Day in Aviation History: January 4th by Matt Molnar | A day of firsts: The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first baseball team to own a plane, Pan Am launches the first all-cargo transatlantic service, a pope flies on a plane for the first time, and Sputnik 1, the first satellite, falls out of orbit.

Aviation News :: JAL Boeing 767-346 JA8299 ingests a bird!!!, photos . . . from FlightAware > Discussions Author: robbreid Subject: JAL Boeing 767-346 JA8299 ingests a bird!!!, photos . . .

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