Indy Transponder 06-NOV-2010 1200z

Armless pilot teaches kids to say 'Yes, I can' - Anchorage Daily News | Airplane pilot Jessica Cox, born without arms, has spent the week in Western Alaska and in Anchorage motivating students to believe in themselves and ...

Flying With the Blue Angels | DaveCurlee Media - Blue Angels Fat Albert This magnificent beast not only carries all their materiel it also leads off their air show display. As the pilot explained to us, they push the operational limits of that air craft for each demonstration. ...

Appeal for Leuchars Airshow favourite smashes £400000 target - Scotland Courier | Almost two million people have seen the restored Avro Vulcan bomber in action at various airshows, including Leuchars, this year. ...

Air show gives Union County economic push, record crowd expected – WBTV | MONROE, NC (WBTV) – Organizers expect a record crowd for the 2010 Warriors and Warbirds air show. The Nov 6 & 7 event held at the ...

Jetman flies over Switzerland by Robert Hood - Laurent Gillieron / POOL / EPA | Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the first man in the world to fly with a jet-fitted wing, launches himself from a hot air balloon to perform a loop, near Bercher, Switzerland, Nov. 5, 2010. Yves Rossy completed two full loops using a jet-propelled wing in the sky over Switzerland. Msnbc.com's Keva Andersen reports.  It looks fun, but it's hard not to think that this will eventually end badly for Mr. Rossy.

First Looping Accomplished for Jetman! from Aviation News by Nick | Yves Rossy performs a loop over Lake Geneva in Switzerland today. Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/Reuters - News item from www.jetman.com. Friends of Aviation kindly thanks Yves Rossy for being able to repost his news article on our website. Click on the photo to the left to watch a video of this very unique and spectacular flight. "Yves Rossy, alias Jetman, successfully realized today at 10:03 am (Swiss time) his first looping in front of a hot-air balloon piloted by Brian Jones above Bercher…

Capture Air Tattoo thrills on DVD  - Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard | ALL the thrills and excitement from this summer's Royal International Air Tattoo have been captured on the official DVD of the world's ...

Nostalgic trip in the 'flying museum - DeSoto Times Today | The B-17 isn't as big as the plane you expect to see from the stories told by folks like my grandfather. You want the plane to be a massive, ...

Recounting freedom's price on Veterans Day - Fort Worth Star Telegram | Belle is the Liberty Belle, a lovingly restored B-17 making her way across the country to remind Americans that freedom is not free. ...

Some amazing aviation photographs! from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Via an e-mail from a friend, I learned of a Flickr photostream by user PhoenixFlyer2008. He has many really superb photographs of aircraft. Here are a few examples to whet your appetite, all reduced in size to fit this blog (his photostream offers various sizes)…

Late Fleming native honored at Kentucky Aviation Museum - Ledger Independent | David F. Fleming, already the namesake of the Kentucky Army Aviation Support Facility, is being honored at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, at Bluegrass ...

In My View: A reminder of real price of freedom - The State Journal-Register | Two years later, he was training to fly B-17 Flying Fortresses. By early 1944, Ernest was newly engaged and in England, serving as a co-pilot on missions ...

The Unexpected Rebirth of the Flying Car from Military Photos by Empulse | Of all the far-out visions for the future provided us by popular culture (indeed, by this very magazine above almost all else), perhaps none is so conspicuously absent today as the flying car. Other sci-fi fantasies – the invisibility cloak, laser weapons, universal translators, 3-D printers – exist to some degree, if only on a lab bench somewhere…

Air Force to End the Need for Pilots In 6th Generation Fighters [Aircraft] from Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz | The United States Air Force is now looking for a F-22 Raptor replacement. It must be in service by 2030 and, for the first time ever, they want to be able to deploy these combat fighters unmanned and remotely controlled. More »

New "Pocket Aviation" iPod and iPhone App Provides Aviation Enthusiasts with 6 ... - San Francisco Chronicle | This version includes the following 6 categories: Classic Aviation; The Arrow Era; Showbirds; Search & Rescue Helicopters; RCAF Classic and Fighter Aircraft ...