Indy Transponder 05-APR-10 1030z

Warbirds over Wanaka exceeds expectations - Wanaka Airport, April 2 to 4. | A Japanese fighter was supposed to be the drawcard at the weekend's Warbirds Over Wanaka air show, but a bunch of Australians and a madcap Lithuanian stole the show. The Japanese A6M3 Mitsubishi Zero was still an impressive sight. Piloted by former United States Marine flyer Colonel Stephen W Barber, it amply demonstrated how this agile and powerful warplane gave the Japanese a dog-fighting edge early in World War 2...


Warbirds at New Zealand Air Show from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Just came across this article from a New Zealand paper. There was a German woman wing-walker involved...

NAS KEY WEST ADD LOCAL FLAIR – ASB.tv | The USN Blue Angels are headlining the NAS Key West air show April 10-11, but organizers say there's more to see in the air and on the ramp such as Viper West and ASB.TV's The Horsemen with its own Navy twist…

V for Victory in 2011 - Marlborough Express | Allied Forces will unleash a ferocious assault on the Axis Powers at next year's sixth Classic Fighters Airshow. The 2011 event is themed V for Victory and ...


Welshpool Air Show Scheduled for July 17th « Walesairnetwork's Blog - The annual free air-show will take place on Saturday July 17th. The flying programme starts at  11am and full details will be known nearer the date...

Mumford Family: Air Show by The Mumfords - Air Show. Last Saturday they had and air show at Maxwell. We had never been to one before. It was pretty cool. They had jets doin all sorts of tricks throughout the day. And, of course, you've got to love the Thunderbirds. ...

'B-58 Week' Ends With A Thank You, And A Tribute by Martt | This is the last post in 'B-58 Week', but you can be sure we'll be talking more about this phenomenal aircraft in the future.   The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world's first operational supersonic bomber.  It inspired allies with its awesome beauty and blistering performance, and it struck fear in potential enemies with its aggressive look and the fact that it represented an engineering capability that could not be surpassed…


USAF Mini-Shuttle Launch April 19, 2010 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) | The US Air Force will launch a somewhat mystery mission with the new mini-space shuttle known now by the moniker X37-B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) on Monday April 19, 2010 amid some measure of secrecy. Liftoff should occur the evening of April 19 in a launch window opening at 6:49 p.m. EDT and closing at 9:12 p.m. EDT with a landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. up to 270-days later, according to an Air Force spokesperson…

YF-23 - What could have been the F-22 from Aviation by K.P. | The YF-23A was a prototype fighter designed and developed by Northrop and McDonnel Douglas. It was a competitor to Lockheed's YF-22 in the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition of the USAF (meant to replace the F-15). Lockheed won and the YF-22 eventually became the renowned F-22 Raptor we now hear so much about…

Discover the World: Amazing Jessica Cox - The armless pilot by Sahasi | Born without arms Jessica Cox, is a native of Tucson, Arizona (USA), she has done almost everything that any normal person of her age could do. Her latest achievement is to obtain a pilot's license to fly a plane using her feet - one ...


Didn't find any Easter Eggs, but I did find... from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick - 'Flying Jenny' at Cape Canaveral.

Hi everybody! I have some new stuff to share........... and it's all about movies! Here is my review of a great new documentary on Pancho Barnes http://evanflys.com/pancho_barnes It's a great movie and I highly recommend it. On Vimeo I have my interview with Bob Button and Bill Kerchenfaut that I did up at the Voodoo hanger yesterday http://www.vimeo.com/10665417 Also on Vimeo, we have a new slide show called "Friends" with a lot of you guys in it! http://www.vimeo.com/10573169 And finally, Netflix just started showing "The Great Waldo Pepper" in their Watch Instantly thing. What a great movie! Can't wait for the air show season to start!
Evan http://evanflys.com

Bonnie Henry: He was blasted out of sky - Arizona Daily Star | 19, 1943, McHugh, a retired attorney and longtime Tucsonan, was bombardier on a B-17 that literally exploded in midair after being attacked by the Luftwaffe ...


A Pacific Theater of Memories - Wall Street Journal | That airstrip has disappeared, but on a steamy afternoon I visited Bomber Three, where B-17 Flying Fortresses once roared off into the sky for bombing ...

Local Museum Lands New World War II Plane - LocalNews8.com | A World War II plane has landed at a new home in Rexburg's Legacy Flight Museum. By Brett Crandall, Local News 8 Reporter The 600 horsepower T-6 Texan ...


Truck Smashes Hangared Aircraft from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Two California Dept. of Fish and Game aircraft were destroyed early Saturday when they were rammed by a runaway pickup. The aircraft (which we can't identify from the picture) were in a hangar at Hemet-Ryan Field in Southern California when the pickup came through the back wall and stacked them up against the hangar door. Before hitting the hangar, the truck sheared off a fire hydrant and went through a wrought iron fence. The mishap occurred at about 2:30 a.m. and the driver was nowhere to be found when emergency personnel arrived.

This Week In Military/Aviation History 5-11 April from Warbirds Online by Tom Kwiatkowski Sr. | Well Folks, believe it or not, here we are again. Time for another nice, leisurely stroll down History Lane. Not like last week. The weather here was quite nice for the last couple of days. Record-breaking in fact.  Kinda makes ya wanta take your time and, of course, "smell the roses." Also of course, they're not in bloom yet so we havta fake it. Well, let's get started, shall we? Yes, I think we shall. Tom K.


C-130 Hercules from FenceCheck Forums - Ernie practicing the BA demo at El Centro