Saturday, September 11, 2010

Indy Transponder 11-SEP-10 0100z

Tricolour Arrows, the festival is here - Corriere della Sera (translated)
To give the show there will be more important aerobatic teams in the world, the Red Arrows of the British Royal Air Force at the Patrouille de France ...

Thunderbirds is top draw at air show this weekend - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The duo will be performing in the "Wings Over Pittsburgh" airshow this weekend. The 2010 Wings Over Pittsburgh Air Show will dazzle onlookers this weekend ...

Malaga looks to the skies as 250000 people watch airshow - Euro Weekly News | ON Sunday, September 5, crowds were seen heading to La Malagueta Beach to get a choice position to watch the Second International Malaga Airshow. ...

Waukegan Air Show - Waukegan News Sun
More military planes will be on view during the Waukegan Air Show at the Waukegan Regional Airport on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 12:30 pm to 4 pm.

Small, but growing airport hosts air show - NorthJersey.com
The eclectic and historic collection of planes will anchor the second annual Greenwood Lake Air Show & World War II Showcase, which starts today and runs ...

Spitfire to be star of show at RAF Leuchars - Fife Today
Over 100 aircraft from all over the world will be on show, while visitors can also watch spectacular displays by the likes of the Red Arrows. ...

Canada Gears Up for National EAA Event - from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
The much-anticipated Canadian EAA Convention/Fly-In is fast approaching on the weekend of September 17-19 at the Ottawa/Gatineau Airport (CYND), home of the Vintage Wings of Canada collection of airworthy vintage and warbird aircraft.

End of aerobatics for Fraser Blues flyers from www.langleyadvance.com
The aircraft of Langley's precision flying team, the Fraser Blues, will swoop and soar through their routines for the last time this weekend.
George Miller, the team leader and manager of the Langley Regional Airport, said the team is retiring from precision flying and airshow displays after the Sept. 11 show in Penticton.
"It's always difficult to shut something like this down," Miller said.
The Fraser Blues, composed of five former Canadian Forces pilots, all flying L17 Navions, has been visiting airshows in Western Canada and the United States for 13 years.  ...

NASA Glenn Brings the Excitement of Exploration to Urbana Fly-In - Space Ref
CLEVELAND -- For the first time, NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will have a presence at the 44th Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In at Grimes Field in ...

Airshow Pilot - capradio
The California Capital Air Show is this weekend and we'll talk with one of the participating pilots. Jessica Cox was born without arms and became the first female pilot in aviation history to fly with her feet.
The California Capital Airshow is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11th and Sunday, Sept. 12th at Mather Airport in Sacramento.

Some Air Racing History from Sports Illustrated (hat tip to AAFO)
His F-104 was a junkyard jet, but after he set the speed - 06.12.78 - SI Vault
For dramatic brevity without parallel in the horse-drawn past—and for a sample of the sort of split-second heroics still being performed far from the madding crowd today—let us move on to Veterans Day 1977 and look upon Mud Lake, a baked clay expanse in the emptiness of western Nevada. On Mud Lake that October day were about 250 engineers, technicians, timers, military observers, aviation buffs and ordinary gawkers, all waiting for a former Lockheed test pilot, Darryl Greenamyer, to fly past in his Red Baron, a homemade, needle-nosed, snub-winged jet plane whose very looks bespeak danger. ...

Tiger Destefani is an ace at racing old fighters - 10.10.88 - SI Vault
The V-12 engine of Bill (Tiger) Destefani's Ferrari-red fighter plane coughed rich blue smoke as it fired up and settled into a throaty idle. A heavy current of prop wash flowed over the still open cockpit as the P-51 Mustang taxied on to a runway at Hamilton Army Airfield. This little-used airport just north of San Francisco seemed just as much a relic of World War IT as the airplane. The canopy closed and the sound of the engine became urgent as the plane accelerated down the concrete strip. Surprisingly quickly, it lifted off the ground and banked over San Pablo Bay. ...
Adding a parade to the Atlantic City Airshow would take the event to the next ... - Press of Atlantic City | I was attending a dinner for those who were participating in the Atlantic City Airshow, and I was invited to sit down and talk with this gentleman about it. ...

In pictures: Red Arrows and a chance to see the new Nimrod MRA4 - BBC News
The Nimrod, which is still undergoing testing with the manufacturers and the RAF, made a single flypast above the island. The T28 Fennec was first used by ...

Peachtree City Patriot Day, Freedom Walk events Saturday - Newnan Times-Herald
Plans are for the Freedom Walk to start at the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) hangar, at the far end of the taxiway, and walk up the taxiway to the event ...

The Battle of Britain: “Their finest hour” from Aviation.ca News
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain – “their finest hour”. Canadian historian Hugh Halliday says the Battle “represented the first commitment of the Royal Canadian Air Force to combat in [the Second World War].” The...

Remarkable Sonar Image Shows Intact German WWII Bomber
from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
"At 1142 hours, 264 Squadron was ordered to take off and patrol Dover, to intercept enemy bombers." So begins a typically terse and understated British Royal Air Force Fighter Command Combat report posted on August 26, 1940, in the midst of what was to become known as the "Battle of Britain."

Raising Ghosts Long Thought to Be Laid to Rest - New York Times
But here, on a late August evening in 2010, the airplane was not an American B-17 or a British Lancaster or a Soviet Ilyushin — airplanes from the three ...

Blue Angels F/A-18B Hornet unveiled at St. Louis Science Center - KMOX.com
But the wait was worth it as the retired Blue Angels F/A-18B was unveiled to a private audience. Science Center president Doug King says the 27-year-old, ...

ALBERTA AVIATION MUSEUM GETS A NEW RESIDENT from Aviation.ca News
The Alberta Aviation Museum has added a new prize to its collection, a replica of the Fokker D.VIII. The Fokker DVIII was the last German Fighter to be designed and built by Anthony Fokker during World War I. It...

B-17 Tours, Flights Offered At Leesburg Airport - Leesburg Today
The Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 186 will offer tours and flights in a World War II era B-17 aircraft this weekend. ...

New EAA President on the Job from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
New EAA President Rod Hightower described his first two days on the job this week succinctly. "It's been rather manic," he said late Wednesday just before departing for the annual Stearman fly-in in Galesburg, Ill. "But it's been a great manic and really positive."

Aviation family link for Sunderland Trust - Tenby Observer
A member of one of Britain’s most famous aviation dynasties has become the latest trustee to join the Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust.
John de Havilland is the grand-nephew of pioneer aviator Geoffrey de Havilland who set up the de Havilland company in 1920, turning it into a worldwide aviation name and building some of the most iconic aircraft in history.
Now Pembrokeshire based, John is already very familiar with the Trust and its plans as he has been a volunteer at the Flying Boat Centre in Pembroke Dockyard since it opened in June last year. ...

Local flyer made history a century ago - Victoria Times Colonist
It was an airplane, or aeroplane if you prefer. William Wallace Gibson built it at his home at the corner of Simcoe and Clarence streets in James Bay and ...

September 10 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

Kansas to host aviation convention - KOAM-TV
State aviation officials from around the country are gathering in Wichita for their annual convention, hosted by the Kansas Department of ...

Vote for your top famous Kansans - Kansas City Star
Olive Ann Beech, Waverly and Wichita — First woman to head a major aircraft company and the most successful female executive in aviation history. ...

Giants in the field - Salina Journal
John Newman and Jerry Shumaker, both of Wichita, are planning to bring a one-sixth scale model of a B-17 bomber the two have been building for 4Ôªø1âÑ2 ...

Midland R/C Modelers Club presents a Swap Meet and AIr Show - The Saginaw News
Midland R/C Modelers Club will offer a Swap Meet and Air Show, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 11-12 at MRCMC Field, 200 Patterson, in Midland. ...

Young Eagles take flight - Superior Telegram
“I gave a Young Eagle Flight to a 13-year-old, and he is now in his second year at the Naval Academy, hoping to become a Naval aviator,” White said. ...

We are recruiting volunteers for the Great State of Maine Air Show. If you are interested, please go to http://www.greatstateofmaineairshow.us/volunteer.html for more information:
from Great State of Maine Air Show's Facebook Wall by Great State of Maine Air Show

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