Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Indy Transponder 05-JAN-10 0345z


AL AIN PREPARES FOR ITS MOST STUNNING AEROBATIC SHOW TO DATE - xenios
Following the huge success of the 2009 centrepiece challenge – the Middle Eastern debut of the Aero GP Air Race, regarded as the Formula One of air racing – the show organisers have confirmed that the air race will return to the UAE's ...

War birds return to Stuart's Witham Field - Stuart News
The Wings of Freedom Tour of the World War II Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American ...

Longtime Sun 'n Fun volunteer dies from General Aviation News
Born June 30, 1940, in Hamilton, N.Y., she loved airplanes and traveling. She began volunteering at Sun 'n Fun in 1981 in the media center. Just a few years later she was appointed to the media chairmanship, a post she held for 18 years. She then served as morning show co-host on Sun 'n Fun Radio 1510 AM. ...

West Alabama features top tourism events - Tuscaloosa News
Tuscaloosa Regional Airshow: In its second year, this brought an estimated 150000 people out last year, despite rainy weather. ...

Car festival opens - Auckland stuff.co.nz
An aerobatics and air show is planned. There's plenty more to see with a line-up of drag cars and a 1/25th scale drag strip model display with all the gears ...

Project 206: National Air and Space Museum by The Roberts Five
It's really neat to see this airplane in such beautiful condition and know that, in some way, the aviation heritage of the Roberts family is being preserved for the world to see. There are more pictures of the 307 below. ...

AVIATION WEEK Names 'The Space Entrepreneur' Person of the Year from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation
AVIATION WEEK has named "The Space Entrepreneur," a group of visionaries and engineers who are leading the way for commercial space tourism, as its 2009 Person of the Year in a cover story released today in Aviation Week & Space Technology. Privately financed spaceships, such as Scaled Composite's SpaceShipTwo and Masten Space Systems' lunar lander, are growing in number and budgets. After receiving more than $1 billion in private capital, NASA has recently awarded space entrepreneurs with multi-billion dollar contracts for transporting cargo to the International Space Station, and may rely on them to transport astronauts once the space shuttle fleet is retired. ...

Cartoons and Airplanes, A Match Made in Heaven from AviationBull
I just came across a video that is guaranteed to please just about any pilot out there...and kids might even like it too. Air Show Buzz has released the first full episode of their new cartoon, Mike Da Mustang. It's about a group of animated aircraft and friends and does a great job showing how much fun flying can be. It has some other morals in there too...kids might pick them up while enjoying Mike's antics.
Thanks ASB and great work!

Air Vice-Marshal Charles Maughan - Telegraph
Air Vice-Marshal Charles Maughan, who has died aged 86, grabbed the headlines in July 1959 when he won the London to Paris Daily Mail Bleriot Anniversary Air Race flying a Hunter jet fighter.

Air Zoo adds value packages for 2010 from General Aviation News
While continuing to offer free general admission, the Air Zoo will be adding additional value packages for its experiences and rides beginning Jan. 4. ...

Old wings restored to former glory - Ocala
There is a beautifully restored piece of aviation history flying the skies over Marion County these days. ...

'Stunning' antique bush plane up for auction - Anchorage Daily News
The only other remaining Metalplane, once operated by Wien Alaska Airways, is at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum at Lake Hood in Anchorage. ...

TBM Avenger January 2009 from aviationbreak
[video] TBM Avenger flying from the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The plane flew from here to do a fly over at the commissioning of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush on January 10, 2009. President Bush flew these torpedo bombers in WWII and was shot down once in one. www.militaryaviationmuseum.org www.fighterfactory.com … TBM Avenger aircraft WWII torpedo bomber military aviation museum virginia warbird "aircraft carrier" "george hw bush" …

FAIRFORD 2009 PART 2.avi from aviationbreak
[video] Me and Jack went to the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in Gloucestershire England in 2009. Friday and Sunday were wet days, Saturday was the best day for photography. If you like Military Aviation you will not be disappointed. Me and Jack our both looking forward to Fairford airshow in 2010, we might see you there. …

Day 3 - Preliminary Results - grandprixchile
Sailplane racing: After a head to head race, Thomas Gostner (ITA) in KT, beat Sebastian Kawa (POL) in RP by a small margin. It was Diana against Diana. In third place was Heimo Demmerer (AUT) in OF. So after 3 races and 4 to go ...

Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet Ace Publication – Serie Pod Lupa number 14 from Let Let Let
Serie Pod Lupa is known to me for a some times already since I have in my modest library their first monograph P-51A, A-36 Mustang. Ace publication has done a great work once again with their monograph about Me-163 Komet. ...

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron VMMT-204 "Raptors" from Military Photos by HadesssLoakoon
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron 204 (VMMT-204) is the MV-22 Osprey training squadron of the United States Marine Corps. Known as the "Raptors", the squadron was originally designated Marine Medium Helicopter Training Squadron 204 (HMT-204) to train new CH-46E pilots and was officially redesignated as VMMT-204 on June 10, 1999. They fall under the command of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).

100, 75, 50 Years Ago - New York Times
M. Léon Delagrange, the aviator, was killed on Croix d'Hins aerodrome, near Bordeaux, yesterday afternoon [Jan. 4], his Blériot monoplane suddenly ...

Aviator Not Worried About Wright Brothers Suit - The Daily Mirror - Los Angeles Times
Jan. 4, 1910: The Times profiles aviator Louis Paulhan and his wife, Celeste, who will take part in the Aviation Week events as part of a U.S. tour.
The French liner carrying the Paulhans was met in New York by an attorney for the Wright Bros. who served Louis Paulhan with notice of a suit for using a Farman aircraft, which the Wrights said infringed on one of their patents.
"Paulhan said he was not altogether surprised over the Wright suit and added that he would go on flying just the same. He said that he could easily remove the wing tips which the Wright Bros. assert are covered by their invention," The Times says. ...

Evelyn Bryan Johnson 100 Years old from Aviation News
Evelyn "Mama Bird" Bryan Johnson born November 4, 1909-Alive. Age 100.
Evelyn Bryan Johnson turned 100 years old on November 4, 2009 and still serves as the Manager of Morristown, Tennessee's Moore-Murrell Airport. Congratulations!

DARPA Kick-Starts Flying Car Program from Slashdot
coondoggie writes to share that DARPA is finally trying to make good on the promise of flying cars for our future with the new "Transformer" (TX) project. "DARPA said the vehicle will need to be able to drive on prepared surface and light off-road conditions, as well as support Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) features. The TX will also support range and speed efficiencies that will allow for missions to be performed on a single tank of fuel. DARPA said the TX will 'provide the flexibility to adapt to traditional and asymmetric threats by providing the operator unimpeded movement over difficult terrain. In addition, transportation is no longer restricted to trafficable terrain that tends to makes movement predictable.'"

ROCKETS Magazine, December 2009 from Dick's Rocket Dungeon
Among other things, the holidays (along with the cold weather) have pushed my rocketry reset button. My two ongoing project need paint and that isn't happening any time soon. To the rescue...the December issue of ROCKETS! ...

Uncontrolled Airspace #166 "Leaning Into the Wind"
A 182 with unusual wings... Airplane porn... Santa's Instrument Approach... and New Years Greetings from TeamUCAP. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #166 "Leaning Into the Wind"

Interview: Dreamliner Test Pilot from Planenews Aviation News Portal
Boeing Chief Pilot Michael Carriker talked recently with EAA Radio about the 787

Aerial refueling. B-2 from Planeshots [more]
JAL Boeing 767-346 ingests a bird - photos from Airline Pilot Central Forums
Image of the Week: 787 Maiden Sortie from Flight Image of the Day

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