Indy Transponder 11-NOV-2010 1130z

3 Day Of Blue Angels Shows Begin Today - NorthEscambia.com | The Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will close the 2010 season at their annual Homecoming Air Show aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola ...

Veterans Day parades, ceremonies - Pensacola News Journal | Performances will begin at 9:30 am The Navy's flight demonstration team flies at 2 pm each day. There also will be an evening show at 4:30 pm today. ...

Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow Ends Season with Salute to Veterans from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | NAS Pensacola- US Navy Blue Angels' three-day homecoming show this month will include a performance on Thursday, Nov 11, Veterans Day. The air show will be at Pensacola Naval Air Station on Nov. 11-13. Each day of the free air show gates will open at 8 a.m. and performances will begin at 9:30 a.m. There will be performances throughout each day, with the Blues flying at 2 p.m. In addition, there will be a second evening show on Veterans Day only, starting at 4:30 PM.  Aircraft will light up the sky with full afterburner and pyrotechnics displays. Rich's Incredible Pyro will perform each show…

Aviation Nation show set for Nellis - Las Vegas Review – Journal | "Several military air demonstration teams, including the US Air Force Thunderbirds, F-22A and US Navy F/A-18C Hornet will participate. ...

Veterans Day from AF.mil Photos | Veterans Day originally was called Armistice Day to remember the cessation of hostilities for World War I. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Corey Parrish) Fighting ceased between the Allied nations and Germany  when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. For that reason, Nov. 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of "the war to end all wars."  However, it officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed  June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France…

Veteran's Day from Guided by History by Charles Riggs | Look at these guys — young, brash, tough. Warriors. The reality, of course, is that their youth was probably stowed away PDQ after seeing combat. You know, 20 going on 50, almost overnight. Every story a Vet tells you, that one that gets inside you and helps you understand just how hard it is to serve your country, seems to involve a quiet kid who becomes a hero or a big tough guy who cries openly at a tough loss…

Veteran's Day 2010 from J Clark | When you're a kid you really have no idea about the meaning behind Veteran's Day. It is just another of those days in November, except that on the 11th, the old guys who were soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines get teary-eyed and choked up. You never knew why, they just did…

From World War II to Iraq, veterans share their stories that helped pay for ... -  LubbockOnline.com | By Ray Westbrook Rufus Grisham had already lost one of the four engines on his B-17 before beginning a bomb run that targeted a major rail terminal inside ...

Tribute to Virginia Guck - Muscatine Journal | She got a telegram in November 1944 that her brother, Charles McBride, a B-17 gunner, had been shot down over Germany, where he was taken prisoner. ...

Tales from aboard the Flying Fortress - Thousand Oaks Acorn | BRAVERY EXEMPLIFIED—Les Reekers, 85, sits in his Thousand Oaks home with some of the paraphernalia from his days as a navigator aboard a B-17 ...

Pilot recalls amazing escape - St. Augustine Record | Bill Harvey was shot down over Europe in World War II while piloting a B-17 bomber. By PETER WILLOTT, peter.willott@staugustine.com By JENNIFER EDWARDS When ...

Soldier survives Black Death March - Amarillo.com | My childhood hero and older brother (by 18 years), Harry R. Sparling III, trained to be a US Army Air Forces B-17 tailgunner at the wartime airfield in ...


Freeport to unveil monument at Veterans Day ceremony - Destin Log | Boudreaux's late husband, Robert, was a native of Freeport and a member of the first team of Blue Angels in 1946 and 1947. The Boudreaux's used to talk to ...

Robert Lee soldier died in World War II crash - San Angelo Standard Times | Frank Tubb was killed in 1945, when B-25 bomber crashed into a mountain near Hong Kong harbor. SAN ANGELO, Texas — Among the 30 names read ...

It finally happened! - Valley Breeze | Tessier ended up in the Air Force as a B-25 bomber pilot. The B-25 was a low-flying bomber and most of the action he saw was bombing railroad and other ...

Decorated pilot flies bombers in Europe, Pacific - Amarillo.com ... where he flew such aircraft as the B-25 Mitchell, A-26 Ivader, B-26 Marauder, B-24 Liberator, B-29 Superfortress, and the little-known B-32 Dominator. ...

Avon Lake veteran recalls trials of war - The Morning Journal | Gerrone, 89, served as a turret gunner and waist gunner aboard B-24 Liberators in the Flying Tigers, a volunteer unit of the US Army Air Corps that fought ...


Pride in plane sight – Ocala | The plane is the type used by the Flying Tigers prior to American entry into WWII and by US Army Air Corps pilots throughout the war. ...


Pearl Harbor Museums | Pearl Harbor Blog - Opened on the 65th anniversary of the Japanese attacks, this is the first of many phases of the U.S. aviation history with Hangars for the Korean War and Vietnam War currently in the works. Visitor's Center – The entrance to Pearl ...

CoolPix - Airshow: Kent Pietsch 'Jelly Belly' Motorhome Landing! (3 Pix) by Martt |  I had a really cool opportunity at the Indy Air Show back in June... and these three pix are the result of it. Airshow pilot Kent Pietsch (say peach) does some of the coolest aerobatic routines in his humble 1942 Interstate Cadet, including landing on the tiny runway on top of this motorhome while it's driving down the runway. At some airshows he uses a modified pickup truck with a platform mounted above it, but either way it's very, very impressive. (learn more about the Jelly Belly sponsored Cadet and Kent Pietsch in AirPigz podcast #12)…

JSSI AWARDS "Fly a P-51" PRIZE TO LUCKY WINNER - Helicopter Association International | Russell, a Piaggio Avanti pilot and former volunteer at the Reno Air Races, has always wanted to fly a P-51 and shares that dream with his father, ...

J-10 Fighters train for 2010 Zhuhai Air show - People's Daily Online | On Nov. 10, a J-10 Fighter from the Ba Yi Aerobatic Team takes off for training in the Zhuhai Sanzao Airport. The newly-arrived aerobatic team from the Air ...

China Air Show-Zhuhai 16 November 2010 - Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses | China began showcasing its air power capabilities in 1996 when it staged the first Air Show in Zhuhai near Macao in the southern province of Guangdong. ...

Desert Jet sponsors aviation scholarship – CharterX ... announced that it will award a $1000 scholarship at the 22st Annual International Women in Aviation Conference, February 24-26, 2011, in Reno, Nevada. ...

Paper aeroplane launched into space captures breathtaking images - Telegraph.co.uk | British space enthusiasts have made history by launching a paper aeroplane into space which captured a series of breathtaking images on its glide back to ...


 The Experimental STOL Demonstrator That Fooled NATO from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Impressed with the performance of the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II that had just been introduced into service with the US Navy, the Soviet Air Force asked the Mikoyan design bureau (OKB Mikoyan) for a successor to the MiG-21 "Fishbed" that could counter the F-4 on equal terms. The first attempt by the OKB was the experimental Ye-8 demonstrator that was based on the MiG-21…