Thursday, October 7, 2010

Indy Transponder 07-OCT-2010 0100z

Lost balloonist among seven to be honored. - Denver Post
Seven new Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame laureates have been announced, including a female balloonist lost last week over the Adriatic Sea. ...
   
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, ...

NAS Jax 70th anniversary history exhibit opens at JIA - Florida Times-Union
... organized by decades, focuses on the accomplishments of the air stataion and its tenant commands during many crucial periods in naval aviation history. ...

Air Show In Gostomel  - English Russia
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, programs of modernization and armoury. ...

Indian Air Force gears up to celebrate its 78th anniversary - Sify
The Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team treated the audience with breathtaking formation flights. The entire air show was coordinated with precision from five ...

A View from the Cockpit at the Reno Air Races from Telstar Logistics 
A few weeks have elapsed since the conclusion of the 2010 Reno Air Races, which means the myriad photographers and videographers who attended the races have now had some time to edit the footage they captured during the event... with some pleasing results. ...

Air Racing Channel [FAI Videos] | Watch live online TV Channels broadcasting on the internet from englishpack.com
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautics and astronautics world records. This includes man-carrying aerospace vehicles from balloons to spacecraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles (such as model aircraft and UAVs). It was founded on 14 October 1905. To read more about this channel click here. ...

Airplanes fuel the passion 365 days a year in Oshkosh from GlobalAir.com 
Throughout many communities in the United States, it is always football season. Here in Kentucky, it is always basketball season.
It is another sport of sorts however (alongside the Packers) that dominates the calendar in eastern Wisconsin. In addition to sometimes being a sport, it is also a hobby, a mode of travel and a way of life.
Simply put, the folks that put on Airventure spend the entire year preparing for the EAA’s weeklong grand festival in Oshkosh, Wisc.  ...

Wings of Freedom Tour to visit Virginia - WHSV
The Wings of Freedom tour, featuring an authentically restored B-17, B-24 and P-51, will visit three airports in Virginia in October. ...

U.S. Army Golden Knights visit Orange County from Aero Pacific Flightlines 
U.S. Army C-31A (F-27-400M) (c/n 10668) 85-1608 operated by the Golden Knights parachute demonstration team overnighted at John Wayne Orange County Airport (SNA/KSNA) on Friday October 1st as they made thier way to the Miramar Naval Air Station for a performance at the stations annual air show.

THE LATEST FROM THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS
Aviation Attractions of New Jersey - Apache Ant
The museum, founded by Michael T. Stowe to keep U.S. military aviation history, usually as the artifacts, equipment, photographs and motorscontributions of veteran air force base. A Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp radial engine, double-, ...

WWII’s Flying Tigers Reunite - FLying Tigers News
Veterans share how the community and Chinatowns across the country changed forever after their return home — including them.
Back in 1943, Joe Young, a Chinese American living in New York, was a photography buff when he saw an advertisement looking for young men to join a new unit in the air force. Young, who was 18 years-old at the time, volunteered to join the air force as a chance to work in aerial mapping and ...

Pilots of The Antique Airplane Club of Greater New York Shoot Nude Calendar - AACGNY
Bayport Aerodrome, New York October, 2010: Fourteen pilots of the Antique Airplane Club of Greater New York 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. Their goal is to raise money to promote and preserve antique aviation in the greater New York area.
The calendar is available for purchase here - http://www.aacgny.org/store.asp. And, you can also view the mockumentary, Pilots Without Pants – The Making Of The 2011 AACGNY Calendar on the same website.

World Hot Air Balloon Championship from ExpressJet Forum 
... We have flown 3 times and there are 118 competitors from around the world. We have 5 more flight opportunities left through Saturday morning.  ...

French Pilot in NL Hopes to Change History - VOCM
A retired pilot from France, Bernard Decre, currently visiting Newfoundland and St. Pierre et Miquelon, hopes he can change aviation history. ...

New book reveals high life of Ireland's first aviator - Northside People
A NEW book just published by a Southside author has revealed previously unknown details about the colourful life of Ireland's famed aviator whose historic ...
   
South Carolina Group Wants to Sell WWII B-25 Bomber - ABC NEWS 4
It has been stored in Columbia since 1992 and was used as a centerpiece for three reunions for the Doolittle Raiders, who bombed Japan early in World War II ...

Boeing B-29 flew over the top from Hawaii to Egypt 64 years ago from Aerospace News 
Sixty-four years ago Wednesday, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress named "Pacusan Dreamboat" landed in Cairo, setting a world nonstop, unrefueled distance record of 9,500 miles over the magnetic North Pole.

Historic First: Edwards AFB Lakebed Fly-In from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
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.
   
Ex-POWs to talk about experiences - Post-Bulletin
Jostad, of Brownsville, was a radio operator and gunner aboard a B-17 bomber when the plane was shot down Feb. 8. 1944, over France. ...

VIDEO: Oxcart/SR-71 - History as indictment of today's aerospace industry? - The DEW Line
Could the modern US aerospace industry build an aircraft today that is as ambitious as the A-12 Oxcart/SR-71 was for its time? Could the industry build an aircraft today that could beat the performance of the CIA's Oxcart and the Air Force's Blackbird? ...

Herb Andersen recognized for his contribution to aviation design - Star Valley Independent
Herb Andersen is the most recent recipient of the Curtis Pitts Memorial Trophy for Innovative Aerobatic ...

Luther Lee “Tommy” Thomas - Amarillo Globe News
... He also was a licensed pilot and a longtime member of the AOPA. From 1988 through 1996, he was the volunteer coordinator for the Amarillo Air Shows and served on the board of directors for the Texas Aviation Historical Society. He volunteered and was involved extensively at the Kritser Air Museum at Tradewind Airport and then the English Field Air and Space Museum at Amarillo International Airport. ...

Aerobility – a new start? - Digital Aviator
UK flying charity Aerobility www.aerobility.com, alongside the Ministry of Defence ‘Battle Back’ scheme and Help for Heroes is providing tuition so that injured service personnel can learn to pilot light aircraft. In the coming months, Trooper Corie Mapp, who was seriously injured by a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan will be participating in flight training provided by Aerobility. Others have already benefited from the scheme, such as paraplegic Royal Marine Arthur Williams, who this summer achieved his pilot’s licence through a program facilitated by Aerobility. ...

Convair XB-46 in glorious ExtraColor from The Unwanted Blog 
An old magazine photo of the Convair XB-46. A truly beautiful aircraft, and had the Boeing B-47 not come along, it almost certainly would have spent several years swarming the airways, scaring the pants off the Russkies and looking good doing it.

Axalp (-Ebenfluh) Airshow 2010 - Training on the shooting range from AirSpace 
Yes - Airshow Axalp begins early for a Grimmi
But I was not alone up there today - for the hundreds of visitors expected there had to be a lot of things ready. This Super Puma was used for transporting Toilets, Speakers, Wood and Humans to fix everything for the Show next Wednesday / Thursday. ...

The Beauty of Vapor Cones from ASB.tv 
A trans-sonic vapor cone occurs right before the plane breaks the sound barrier, providing there are the correct atmospheric conditions.  Photographing with high-quality stop action captures the art and science of the ...

October 6 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

Tigermeet 2010 at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands from Military Photos 
Reader photos: Miramar Air Show from www.signonsandiego.com
Bird Strike Pictures 1 from Aviation Blogs  

Police Pull Jet Airplane to Raise Money for Special Olympics - Patch
The 20-member community team participated in the 2010 Plane Pull at Newark Airport, a competition that had the 20 men pull a 93000 lb. ...

XCOR to launch private rocket plane from Curacao - LA Times
On the Caribbean island of Curacao, tourists enjoy picturesque views of sun-splashed beaches and scuba diving among the radiant coral reefs. In a few years, they may also be able to take rocket trips into outer space.
XCOR Aerospace Inc., a Mojave-based space-tourism company, announced Tuesday that it signed a deal with the government of Curacao and a group of Dutch investors to launch its rocket plane from the island and take adventure seekers to more than 327,000 feet, or 62 miles, above the Earth's surface. ...

AirplaneGeeks Episode 117 – Something Fishy Here from Flying With Fish 

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