Indy Transponder 19-NOV-2010 1130z

Resort air show schedule depends on participants - Ocean City Today | This is not a complicated question, as it all comes down to what kind of air show Ocean City wants: a good one, or a better one. The show's promoter must ...

Air Zoo plans 50000-square-foot addition for exhibits, aircraft and library - MLive.com | PORTAGE — The Air Zoo is planning a $1.8 million expansion that will add about 50000 square feet to the flight and aviation history museum. ...

Missing F-22 pilot identified from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | The pilot of the F-22 aircraft that crashed Tuesday night has been identified as Capt. Jeffrey Haney, assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron. Capt. Haney's current status is missing. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday, while on a nighttime training mission. Search and rescue teams discovered the wreckage of the F-22, assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. Rescue teams from the 11th Rescue Coordination Center, Alaska Air National Guard, the 3rd Wing and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson continue to search the area, approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage.
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Missing F-22 pilot one of top in the country, former university instructor says - The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com | Air Force Capt. Jeffrey A. Haney distinguished himself as one of the top pilots in the country while attending Western Michigan University College of ...

Continuous Updates on the F-22 Down story here

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | This week's photo highlights feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

Ross A. Calvert, 89 - Kitsap Sun | He attended Bradley University & then joined the Army Air Corps becoming a Tail Gunner on a Boeing B-17. He was stationed at Snetterton-Heath Air Force Base ...

200000 people worldwide celebrate Guinness World Records Day – Sify | And Thomas Lackey completed his wing walk across Cirencester, Gloucestershire, at the record age of 90 years and five months, for Guinness World Records Day ...

The Jenny and the Barnstormers by Joe Clark | One of my favorite airplanes is the Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny."  Benjamin Thomas, an Englishman working for Thomas Sopwith of Sopwith aeroplane fame, designed the Jenny and the airplane went into production in 1915.  It became the most important Army training aircraft of World War I.  More importantly, the Jenny was the airplane that gave aviation a beginning in America…

Taylor air show Saturday - Taylor Daily Press | This year has the most air race entries in the history of the Taylor event. The show lasts until 4 pm with food vendors and arts and crafts available to the ...

How the Last Star was Born - Part 1 from AirSpace by Orion | This week marked the 40th anniversary of the first flight of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (hat tip to Max Kingsley-Jones). The TriStar was the last in a long line of Lockheed commercial aircraft, including geat names like the Electra and Constellation, and the last new Lockheed aircraft (I think) to have a star-themed name…

PLAAF's 6th Gen Fighter? from Ares by Robert | During the Airshow China here at Zhuhai, Avic Defense and one of the country's aeronautics academic institutions, launched a competition with the Chinese air force for new UAV designs. The prize is to be awarded next year and to spur some innovative thinking. On one of the Chinese CD handouts were a couple of concept drawings. Where they are from or what they represent is unclear, but they are nonetheless entertaining…

Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Aces Its 3rd Glide Flight - Space.com ... especially due to the sweeping graceful planform of its wing and boom tails," said Scaled's chief technical officer Burt Rutan, the veteran aerospace ...

Hansen Authors Prize Winning Book on Space Shuttle Accident from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | AUBURN - History professor James Hansen of Auburn University will receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2011 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award for his book, "Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster." Published by the University Press of Florida in 2009, the book was co-authored by Alan J. McDonald, the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol Inc. at the time of the Challenger accident.

Aero-TV: Albuquerque Balloon Museum -- Where Ballooning Comes Alive - Preserving The History Of An Amazing Facet Of Aviation ANN's phenomenal trip to Albuquerque for the 2010 ABQ Balloon Fiesta is the gift that keeps on giving... both with the memories we have of the extraordinary visual delights of that week as well as the tremendous opportunities our Aero-TV crews had to experience so much of the world of ballooning, its people and its history…

Look for EAA Young Eagles on Nemechek's No.87 Car this Weekend from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The EAA Young Eagles program, which is already the largest youth aviation education program in history, is reaching an even higher profile this weekend as a featured sponsor on Joe Nemechek's NEMCO Motorsports race cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races at Homestead Motor Speedway near Miami…

Chesley Sullenberger, 'Hero of the Hudson', Promotes Aviation to ... by Kane Farabaugh | Now Sullenberger is heading up the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) Young Eagles program. "Young Eagles is a program of volunteers who give young people who are interested in aviation a first flight," he says, "It's a chance to ...

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