Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Indy Transponder 05-OCT-10 1030z


MCAS Miramar Opens Door for Air Show - Navy Compass (NNS) -- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar opened its gates to the San Diego community to host its annual air show Oct. 1-3. An estimated 500000 people came ...

Sky Country Lodge Air Show from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News -ASHVILLE AL- One day a year, in a small country town, the hills of Alabama rock with air show spirit, it is the best place on earth to be invited. Sky Country Lodge is the home of Greg and Cora Koontz located right on Dugger Field Landing strip. That is the same Greg of The Alabama Boy's, World's Smallest Airport Comedy Act and Super Decathlon Aerobatics. Since Air show performers generally hang together, there is usually a lot of flying going on down there! …

Aero-TV: Flying A Piece Of History -- Jerry 'Jive' Kerby at Oshkosh 2010 from Aero-News Network | Air Force Vet Lends Expertise To Team MS760 Program -- When He's Not Herding An F-4 Through The Skies! As previously noted, the skies of Oshkosh 2010 were the host to one of the early performances of a unique two-ship formation aerobatic jet team... better known as Team MS760…

2010 NAS Oceana Airshow – The Fleet from Aviation Blogs - IN THIS VIDEO, this massive video features MANY acts, most of which are related to the Fleet activities. First, you will see eleven Hornets and Super Hornets take to the skies over NAS Oceana. Two Hornets are from the VFC-12 Omars, while one Super Hornet is from VFA-106, two Super Hornets are from VFA-143, and five Super Hornets are from VFA-31…

Texas Antique Airplanes - Oct 8/9 - KGLE from Pilots of America Message Board by TangoWhiskey | Fall Festival of Flying, Gainesville, TX (KGLE), October 8th & 9th: http://www.texasantiqueairplane.org/flyin Just learned about it! Will have to try to get up there.

Historic aircraft to be showcased - Daily Breeze | A North American B-25 Mitchell performs its flying display during the 48th international Paris Air Show on June 20, 2009, at Le Bourget airport, near Paris. ...

Rare Chance to Fly on Legendary Bomber WTVQ "To me, it's one of the greatest airplanes that's ever been built," Herb Heilbrun, a retired 1st Lieutenant, 35 Mission B-17 Pilot told us. ...

Restored Lockheed P-38 "Glacier Girl" UP CLOSE Video Study ... - This is a close-up video study of the famous Lockheed P-38 "Glacier Girl" that was recovered from under 268 feet of glacier ice in Greenland in 1992. Most of the video was taken at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, Calif. in March and ...

The Paper from thecommunitypaper.com | He seemed to stand taller and his shoulders squared. "Okay? Hell yes, I'm okay! THERE'S MY PLANE!" It just so happed that "his" plane was also "our" plane. Lockheed PV-2 "Harpoons" were never immortalized by Hollywood like the Flying Fortresses of "12 O'Clock High," the B-25 Mitchells of "Catch-22" or any of a score of other films. Why this is so remains a mystery, for the missions they flew were some of the most heroic—and harrowing—of the war. Flying out of New York, Norfolk, and Pensacola, PV-1s and 2s scoured the Atlantic for Nazi U-boats. The WWII cliché "sighted sub, sank same" is attributed to a PV-1 crew. In the Pacific theater, astonished Navy pilots soon realized that the PV-1 could actually outrun the dreaded Japanese Zeros, a feat unheard of for a medium bomber. The Lockheed's phenomenal speed saved scores, perhaps hundreds, of American lives…

The birthing of the 787 In Pictures from Things with Wings by Michael Mecham | I'm just back from a Boeing-sponsored tour of 787 suppliers in Korea and Japan, where factories are full of wings, wing boxes and wheel wells. We visited Korean Air's Aerospace Division, Korea Aerospace Industries and the Big Three "Heavies" in Japan – Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi.  More about all of them later…

Pilots without pants from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Fourteen pilots of the Antique Airplane Club of Greater New York recently shed their clothes and posed for their 2011 calendar titled Pilots Without Pants." They also participated in the making of the mockumentary, called "Pilots Without Pants – The Making Of The 2011 AACGNY Calendar."…

Oshkosh Stories Part 1 - Episode 21 from Mile High Flyers Podcast by DenverPilot | The Mile High Flyers get together to share Oshkosh 2010 stories. Doug, Mike and Nate all relate their stories. This is Part 1 of a multi-part episode that comes from a HUGE marathon Skype session wherein we start telling our stories, and other friends from the online world become available online during the recording, and ... well, hey... it's the internet, and why not add them in and let them tell their stories too?...

Flyabout Creator Visits Denver - Episode 20 Bravo from Mile High Flyers Podcast by DenverPilot | The reason this episode is 20 Bravo, is 20 Alpha & Bravo were recorded in the same week. This is a quick podcast of a live recording of Monika Patrillo, the creator of the aviation movie Flyabout. and her introduction and Q&A after the first Denver screening of the movie at the newly renovated movie theatre at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum on August 18th, 2010.

Parachute collection is formally dedicated - It opened in 2003 on the second floor of a building at 16 S. Williams St. that Aviation Trail shares with the National Park Service at Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The all new update will add TV touch-screens that ...

More Talk About Bringing Space Shuttle To Area - WHIO Dayton | Now, the drive is on to add one of the most sought after pieces of aviation history. When the shuttle program is finally phased out by NASA, ...

Russia Planning Two Moon Missions from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The moon is becoming internationally popular as the Chinese Chang'e-2 is set to enter lunar orbit this week joining the American LRO with the Russians and Indians are not to be left out…

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