Friday, September 10, 2010

Indy Transponder 10-SEP-10 0900z


Airshow Honors Women Pilots - KXJZ News | It's part of the California Capital Airshow at Mather Airport. Organizers are expecting around 100000 spectators. By Steve Milne "We're celebrating the ...

Women in aviation theme for air show - Red Bluff Daily News | Other performers include up and coming female pilot Melissa Pemberton, Kent Pietsch with the world's smallest "carrier landing," a jet powered car, ...

Pilot Shows You Don't Need Arms To Fly - KCRA Sacramento | "I fly with my right foot on the yoke, my left foot on the throttle," Jessica Cox said. The woman, who was born without arms, is the first and only Federal ...

Thunderbirds is top draw at air show this weekend - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | The 2010 Wings Over Pittsburgh Air Show will dazzle onlookers this weekend at the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon but will also bring traffic delays and detours ...

Air Show collected $100000 for United Way - The Herald-Mail | Mild weather conditions were "a big savior" for emergency officials at the recent Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Open House and Air Show, members of the ... and more »

Air show will remain one-day event - Cookeville Herald Citizen | SPARTA -- The Upper Cumberland Air Show will remain a one-day event when it hits the runway in 2011, members of the airport board voted this ...

Airshow hits new heights | Bundaberg News | Local News in ... - THE 2011 Wide Bay Australia International Airshow has scored a great coup, announcing an Australian Red Bull air racer as the program headliner…

Aviation Weekend Slated in Ocean City - Cape May County Herald | Attendees will also get to meet some of the performers in Sunday's Aerobatic Airshow. Also on Saturday will be air demonstrations over the field including ...

Airfoil Shapes In The Fast-Lane World Of The Reno Air Races by Martt - I'm guessing the best way to go fast and win at Reno is horsepower under the hood. However, drag-reduction thru proper design and great attention to detail is not only a major part of any winning team, but it's probably a large part of what makes this game so much fun for those who get to play it…

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WWII pilot returns to China from Flying Tigers News | The first time Harry Schlueter went to China, he flew over the Himalayas, aka "the Hump," to reach Kunming in the southwest. That was during World War II, when Schlueter was a pilot for the Army Air Forces' Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India Theater, supplying Chinese and U.S. ground forces in the Yunnan Province. China, a U.S. ally, had been cut off by invading Japanese forces…

Wings of Freedom Tour this weekend at airport - Redding Pilot | The tour features the World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, the North and the P-51 Mustang. All World War II veterans ...

Liberty Belle - Step aboard a piece of history at Deer Valley Airport AZFamily | PHOENIX -- The World War II B-17 "Liberty Belle" provides passengers an opportunity to take a step back-in-time and gain respect for ...

As funding lags, Great Reno Balloon Race struggles to stay airborne from Latest news updates from RGJ.com by By Frank X. Mullen Jr. fmullen@rgj.com | The Great Reno Balloon Race has been hemorrhaging funding over the past few years, but organizers said the 28-year-old event isn't in danger of a crash landing…

New mayor, new Meigs? from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's unexpected announcement earlier this week that he will not seek re-election may have opened the door for the return of something Daley stole from America's national aviation transportation system: Meigs Field. Read more...

Navy Blue Angels | Flickr - Photo Sharing! by Scott Moody | View On Black US Navy Blue Angels taking to the skies over Cleveland during the Cleveland National Airshow. Here are the 2 solo pilots, #5 lifted directly into a "dirt roll" as #6 continued down the runway and pulled into a step 90 ...

Chicken coughs up lung just in time for Long Beach from Runway Girl by Mary Kirby | The Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas (AIX) and co-located Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) exhibitions in Long Beach are fast approaching and, true to form, I feel like a chicken with its head cut off (here is how chill I looked before the beheading). I've taped a quick and dirty video to talk about just a few of the themes emerging in advance of the two shows, and to highlight the fact that Flightglobal's crack team of journalists (who do not use illicit drugs), will be in Long Beach en force to generate show daily magazines, and to bring you all the latest news, blogs, images, video and tweets via this special online landing page

John Spencer and the Space Tourism Society from RLV and Space Transport News | Long time chief of the Space Tourism Society John Spencer is profiled in this article: John Spencer Discusses Mars On Earth, Yachts In Space And Space Tourism's Future - Neon Tommy - Sept.8.10 (via spacetoday.net). BTW: The STS's website has a lot more substance to it than the last time I looked. See, e.g., the Web Links and Library sections…

'It feels good' from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Alyssa Miller | It's not often that I get to take someone on his or her first GA airplane ride, but when I do, I'm not sure who is more excited—me or my passenger. During Labor Day weekend, I took up my youngest passenger, Sara Moore, a sixth grader in Reedy, W.Va., a rural farming community where I grew up. My dad had made sure that he put plenty of sick sacks in the pilot side pouch of his Cessna 172… just in case…

BEA Gets the Trident and More from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Back in February I had posted about a short lived proposal between Boeing and De Havilland for the former company to license build the DH.121 Trident in the United States. That was but one of many twists and turns in the rivalry between the DH.121 Trident and the Boeing 727…

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