Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Indy Transponder 10-NOV-2010 1130z

2011 OC Air Show plans stumble - Delmarva Daily Times | OCEAN CITY -- The man behind Ocean City's wildly popular OC Air Show says he would consider not holding ...

Blue Angels to perform at Keesler air show - SunHerald.com | The US Navy's Blue Angels will be part of the next air show at Keesler Air Force Base, bringing the act to the base for the first time since 1978, ...

Golden Knights Return to Homestead from US Army Golden Knights by Jennifer Schaben | Almost 10 months after leaving their new winter training home, the Golden Knights return to Homestead ARB, FL to show the locals the results of the hard work they put in there. The Team was working with the now familiar personnel  on the base to put on the Wings Over Homestead Airshow. With high winds [...]

Spend your weekend outside: Southwest Florida filled with outdoor fun - Marco Eagle ... with demonstrations of a P-51D Mustang, which actually began its military service at Page Field in 1945, as well as a North American B-25 J Mitchell ...

Ex-Blue Angel pilot to share story - Enterprise-Record | After retirement, Parker flew for Southwest Airlines for 11 years. For information, call the Chico Air Museum at 345-6468.

Iruma Base Air Show 2010 by tokyobling | t's this time of the year again, the annual Iruma Base Air Show! I try to go every year but this year and last we were able to enjoy fantastic weather and a brilliant blue sky with just enough clouds to make it interesting. Iruma City is in the south of Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. It is one the biggest Japanese Air Force bases and houses both fighter squadrons, helicopter battalions and Patriot Missile batteries. Quite interesting! Every year in November they stage a small festival and open their gates to interested visitors from Japan and abroad…

The Cox Family Blog: Lackland Airshow 2010 by { Lana Cox } Kudos to my friend Michelle for introducing us to the Lackland Airshow, it was awesome. Every year Lackland Airforce Base puts on this airshow. My boys LOVED LOVED LOVED it. Days later, Devan is still talking about the airshow and ...

PAF team leaves for China to participate in air show - Business Recorder | The PAF Sherdils formation aerobatics team comprising nine K-8 aircraft would perform aerial display during the air show. This is for the first time that ...

San Antonio Airfest - The B-52 Bomber by atmtx | Last Sunday, I headed down to San Antonio's Lackland Airforce Base for the 2010 Airfest with a couple of photography friends. We started at 7:30 from Austin and got to the Air Force base early — early enough that I had some time to take some images of the planes on display before the air show started. From the start, I wanted to take two type of photographs. Of course I wanted to get action shots of the airshow itself and for this purpose I brought my Canon 70-200 F4 IS lens. I also wanted to take wide-angle images of the various aircraft with my Sigma 10-20 lens. I also brought a tripod for when I wanted to do some HDRs of the stationary planes…

Barksdale's changing cast list - Shreveport Times | North American B-25 Mitchell: Used 1942 by the 321st Bomb Group, 1946-49 by the Air Training Command's Twin-engine Pilot Training School. ...

1943 U.S. Army Air Corps Survival Story from Military Photos by Baked Alaskan | This article was posted in the local paper here (The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner), it is a great, and interesting story. I would hope members will appreciate what this soldier endured. Ladd Field is presently Ft. Waiwright, located in Fairbanks,Alaska. Marooned soldier survived 120-mile walk in the subarctic after 1943 plane crash
by Russ Vander Lugt/ Special to the News-Miner Fairbanks Daily News Miner…

B-17 bomber salutes veterans, gives lessons - Picayune Item | Even now, decades later, the 89-year-old Mississippi native gets emotional talking about bombing missions as a pilot in a B-17 Flying Fortress. ...

A Veteran's Story Made for Hollywood - Huffington Post | So, as part of his private mission, and whenever his bombing runs take him over or near the town where Malou's family lived, John tossed out of the B-17 a ...

Mesa to donate unclaimed WWII medals - Victoria Advocate | A display box has been made for the medals and the city will be donating them to the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum during their ...

VIDEO & PHOTO: Boeing's Second 787 Dreamliner ZA002 Has Emergency Landing Due to Smoke from Airline Reporter by David Parker Brown | Firefighters and airport officials investigate the scene of an incident involving a Boeing 787 jetliner at the Laredo International Airport Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 in Laredo, Texas. (The Laredo Morning Times, Ricardo Santos)

Episode 46: Qantas A380 incident – from the Ground Up from Plane Crazy Down Under by Grant (Falcon124) On November 4th, 2010 Qantas A380 VH-OQA ("Nancy Bird Walton") was operating flight QF32 from Singapore to Sydney. During the climb out from Singapore, the number 2 Rolls Royce Trent 900 engine's Intermediate Pressure Turbine appears to have failed and flown apart, sending bits through the aircraft's wing in multiple locations and raining debris down on Batam island, Indonesia. After assessing the problem, determining their options and burning off fuel, the crew were able to return the aircraft to Singapore for a safe landing.

Video: Blue Angels F-18 Refueling... In The Clouds! by Martt | This video from 2009 would be cool enough if it was just an F-18 sucking up some gas from a KC-135, but it's more than that. It's a Blue Angels, F-18 sucking up some gas! Oh but wait, it gets even better... they're actually flying thru the tops of the clouds while the Blue Angels F-18 is sucking up some gas!  And to top it all off (no pun intended), the pilot has added some excellent voice over to explain a little about the refueling process. This is a must see video if there ever was one : )

Smithsonian Exhibition 'Suited For Space' Will Tour Next Year from Aero-News Network | DuPont Is The National Sponsor For The Traveling Exhibit "Suited for Space," a new exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, will embark next year on a five-year U.S. tour…

Investors Throw Another $50 Million Into SpaceX from TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld | Investors just love to give money to Elon Musk. The billionaire behind electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors, which has raised more than $800 million to date, just raised another $50 million for his other swing-for-the-fences company, SpaceX. According to an SEC filing, SpaceX raised $50.2 million on October 28. Jay Yarrow at Silicon Alley Insider first reported the funding, which came from existing investors. (Musk, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and the Founders Fund are the biggest investors). ..


EAA to Offer Free Memberships to Aspiring Pilots - News - According to a press release from EAA, the goal of the Flight Plan program is, "[so a] young person can take that initial spark of curiosity from the Young Eagles program and pursue a direct path toward aviation participation," and also ...

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