Thursday, October 7, 2010

Indy Transponder 07-OCT-10 1030z

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Offers Special Glenn Curtiss Air Show from Aero-News Network - Expands Biplane Rides Over Hudson Valley For The Fall Foliage Season The Hudson River Valley Institute (HRVI) at Marist College and the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum come to Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome to pay tribute to Glenn Curtiss this Saturday…

Pilots practice for Wings and Waves Air Show - Daytona Beach News-Journal | The show marks the return of the popular oceanfront air show, last staged in 2003. Standard rates apply to public parking areas in the vicinity. ...

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Flying window seat in a two-man stunt plane - San Jose Mercury News | John Klatt of the Air National Guard over the Bay Area in an Extra 300L acrobat plane Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Klatt's group is in town for the upcoming ...

The sky is the limit for Fleet Week - San Francisco Examiner | The former fighter pilots and current commercial pilots who make up the only civilian-owned and operated aerobatic team in America will soar into San ...

Pilots ready to soar during Wings Over Houston Airshow - Cleveland Advocate | Reedy is getting ready for the annual Wings Over Houston Airshow that will fill the skies with vintage warbirds over the Houston area, including Clear Lake, ...
 
Gone with the Wind… from Indy Transponder - Have you ever looked forward to something, a once in a lifetime vacation perhaps – and when you can just about see the brass ring, you blink and it's gone. Anticipation followed merely by disappointment is hard to reconcile. That is how I felt after the Reno Air Races of 2010 came to a close. Mother Nature took the wind out of our sails and threw it back at us, with a vengeance. All of the preparation and handwringing ended, not with a crescendo – but with a whimper and a sigh…
A Reno recap   By ANITA C. INFANTE, For General Aviation News | There is always a first time for everything and this year was the first time in the history of the Reno National Championship Air Races that two Sunday races were canceled: The final Unlimited Breitling Gold Race and the T-6 Gold Race. Read more...

2010 Cocoa Beach Air Show by tim846 - The NASSF will be supporting an educational event on Friday, October 29, 2011, in conjunction with the 2011 Cocoa Beach Air Show.  Details will be released soon. For more information about other air show events, please see: http://www.CocoaBeachAirShow.com For more information about the Air Force Week in Central Florida, please see: http://www.airforceweek.af.mil/cocoabeach,fl,26-31oct10/index.asp

AirBridgeCargo 747 becomes an aircraft carrier! - Heavy Lift | October 7 - One of AirBridgeCargo Airlines' Boeing 747-400 freighters has acted as an 'aircraft carrier' for four aerobatic aircraft travelling from the ...

'Fly with a Spitfire' gift experience launched to commemorate the 70th ... in 1996 as an off-shoot of Air Displays International Ltd (operator of the world-renowned Biggin Hill Air Fair), offering flying activities and lessons…

Historic First: Edwards AFB Lakebed Fly-In from The Fabricator by eaa90org | Last week saw the first-ever Flight Test Nation Lakebed Fly-In, allowing private aircraft to land on the cracked clay surface known as Rosamond Dry Lake Bed at historic Edwards Air Force Base, California. A total of 2,263 pilots applied to participate and 100 were chosen in a special lottery, along with 20 alternates.

English Russia » Air Show In Gostomel - In Gostomel (airdrome "Kiev-Antonov") from 30 September to 4 October there was being held the 7th International air show "Aviasvit -XXI". It is an event that lets us see modern aviation technologies, equipment for airports and airdromes ...

WASP Musuem, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | I visited the WASP museum today. I have much to say about it, but for tonight will just share a handful of photos…

BELLEVILLE: Yankee Air Museum gala dinner set Saturday - Heritage Newspapers | Two of the three aircraft that were rescued from the fire, a C-47 and a B-25, are temporarily being stored at a site in Grosse Ile. ...

Tulsan served country in WWII, Postal Service - Tulsa World | World War II veteran Murle Wagner revisits his past at the controls of this vintage B-17 bomber in 1983. Wagner, a tail-gunner who later spent nearly 40 ...

Wings Of Freedom Tour To Visit Virginia from Aero-News Network | Making The Rounds Of VA GA Airports This Fall The Wings of Freedom tour, featuring an authentically restored B-17, B-24 and P-51, will visit three airports in Virginia in October…

Maverick "Flying Car" LSA-Approved from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The Maverick "flying car" has received ASTM approval as a Special Light Sport Aircraft, the company said this week. I-tec, based in Orlando, Fla., has been working on the vehicle for about six years, with the goal of creating transportation for indigenous people who live in roadless areas. The vehicle also has commercial potential for sport flyers, search and rescue, fire spotting and other uses, the company says…

Gulfstream G450 Sets Speed Record Between Savannah And Sao Paulo from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | A large-cabin, long-range Gulfstream G450 business jet recently established a city-pair speed record between Savannah and Sao Paulo, completing the 3,922-nautical-mile flight in less than nine hours. The average cruise speed for the flight was Mach 0.80, with altitudes ranging from 41,000 to 45,000 feet…

Dreams soar sky high - The Transcontinental | Plenty dream about it, but few can actually claim they have actually flown an aeroplane. Yet this is just what eight local kids had the chance ...

Overwhelming Majoirty of Americans Back NASA; Human Space Program; Split on Cuts from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans of 72% say it's at least somewhat important for the United States to have a manned space program, including 35% who say it's Very Important. Only 21% say it's not very or not at all important for the country to send humans into space…

The US Navy's First Nuclear Bomber from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | While the US Navy in the immediate postwar period was placing its nuclear strike capability with the supercarrier USS United States (CVA-58) and long-range bombers to operate from the carrier, the Navy had first issued a request for proposals (RfP) in January 1946 for a modest capability carrier-based strategic bomber that could operate from the three existing Midway-class carriers, then the biggest carriers in the fleet…

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