Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Indy Transponder 21-SEP-10 1030z


2010 Reno Air Races - Picstream #3 Sunday 9.19.10 (14 Pix) by Martt - The big finale Gold Unlimited race for Sunday was cancelled at the 2010 Reno Air Races for safety reasons due to high winds and accordingly, winners were announced based on race statistics from thru the week. The championship for the second year in a row goes to Steven Hinton and team Strega. Second place went to Rare Bear and third to the P-51 Miss America…

Strega Wins At Reno By Default from Pacific Flyer | Winds said to be gusting to 35 mph were blamed for the cancellation of the 2010 Gold Unlimited Air Races at Reno's Stead Field this month…

Reno Air Races - Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy Winners - Examiner.com | The National Aviation Heritage Invitational was held at the Reno National Championship Air Races, September 15th – 19th, 2010 at Stead Field in Reno. ...

Spectacles from the 2010 Reno Air Races from Telstar Logistics | The planes themselves range from biplanes, to purpose-built aircraft, to hopped-up vintage warplanes, to jets. The sponsored warbirds provide an alternate-universe glimpse as to what World War II might have looked like if it was organized by NASCAR, while the jets hit speeds over 510 mph on the straightaways -- which certainly lends plausibility to the event organizer's claim that the Reno Air Races are "the world's fastest motorsport."…

Reno Air Races 2010 – the final results
from Aviation News by Nick | Due to high winds on Sunday afternoon, officials for the Reno National Championship Air Races had to cancel the final race – The Breitling Unlimited Gold Race because of winds gusting out of the southwest to 35 mph…

Reno – Day Six from arounddthepattern.com by Tracy | For those of us who are based at Reno-Stead the races are not just the five days published as the race days. The airport starts to transform into the race venue about a month prior to the event. It all begins with the set-up of the temporary bleachers – all the sections to the east of the main grandstands…

Air Show a great success - Australian Department of Defence | Making a special appearance was local hero, Matt Hall the former RAAF fighter pilot who now stars in the Red Bull Air Race series. ...

AirFest could break even for 2010 - Rockford Register Star ... drops in revenues this year, but Chicago Rockford International Airport officials say the sixth annual airshow is close to its goal of breaking even. ...

The Show, Part 2 from Blogging at FL250 by Sam | On Tuesday morning, I woke to the considerable racket of a early-model Learjet departing Runway 18. I wanted to beat the morning rush to Ripon, so we got up, broke camp, and packed everything back into Foxtrot Zulu. Our neighbors helped us push her out of the wet grass and up onto the taxiway…

Misawa Air Festival from AF.mil Photos | The Japan Air Self-Defense Force Blue Impulse aerial demonstration team flies in formation during the Misawa Air Festival Sept. 19, 2010, at Misawa Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Russell McBride)

Misawa air show highlights 50 years of Japan-U.S. cooperation from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil (Tech. Sgt. Kelly White) Japan Air Self-Defense Force and U.S. Air Force aviators took advantage of the 2010 Misawa Air Festival to commemorate half a century of the nations' shared pledge to regional and world peace, stability and prosperity…

Interesting people, unusual flight plans… from Roger-Wilco by steve | Marissa Colclasure – The sky is not the limit, it is the beginning | Marissa is a mom, pilot, sky-diver and co-founder of Wings over Hawaii

Women in Aviation International hosts European regional conference - Helicopter Association International
As part of an aggressive international outreach, Women in Aviation, International, in partnership with two of its British chapters, will host a regional ...

CAF to join in Musuem Day - Odessa American | The Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, will participate in the sixth annual Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day on Saturday, ...

Racing to Find Aviators Entombed in Ice - New York Times …her brother and two other Coast Guard aviators had been listed as missing after their plane lost radio contact — and presumably crashed — during a ...

Skyhawk 'giveaway' after failed sale - Stuff.co.nz | The Ardmore based New Zealand Warbirds Association wants to pickup a Skyhawk - but only for static display. General manager Peter Horton said he believed it ...

Spaceplane that takes off from airport runway could be ready in 10 years - PhysOrg.com ... and costs less than one-tenth to launch into space compared to a conventional rocket could be ready to fly in 10 years, according to its developers, ...

The Space Review this week from RLV and Space Transport News | The new issue of The Space Review begins with Dwayne Day surveying various areas of spysat history that might be involved in a promised release of declassified information to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO): A paler shade of black

The Bell RP-63 Pinball from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | As the strategic bombing campaign over Germany built up in the spring of 1943, losses over the skies of the Reich began to mount as mission momentum increased over the course of that summer…

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