Sunday, November 21, 2010

Indy Transponder 21-NOV-2010 0345z

Organ transport plane crashes, liver saved and transplanted by Katie Cannon
West Midlands Fire Service firefighters investigate the crash of a light aircraft at Birmingham airport on Nov. 20, in Birmingham, England. Flights were suspended at Birmingham airport on Friday after a light aircraft carrying human organs for transplant crashed on arrival injuring two men on board, West Midlands Police and the airport said.
When I initially read this caption, I thought, "Wow, I can only the imagine the disappointment the recipients of ...

Air Force: Capt. Jeffrey Haney, missing pilot from Jackson County, died in crash - The Jackson Citizen Patriot
A military memorial service for the fallen aviator, a WMU alumnus, is scheduled for Monday in Alaska. Westcott, a 2001 WMU aviation graduate who now flies ...

Memorial Monday for pilot killed in F-22 crash - Anchorage Daily News
A memorial will be Monday for the pilot who died when his F-22 Raptor crashed in a valley between two mountains after vanishing from radar on ...

Continuous Updates on the F-22 Down story here

2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow - Otto the Helicopter - YouTube
IN THIS VIDEO, Roger Buis flies Otto the Helicopter in his special Veterans' Day performance over NAS Pensacola. Roger would fly again later in the evening for the night show. ...

The ‘Blue Angels’ Approach 
to Project Leadership - “Coach” Gary Micheloni
... What’s the Blue Angels’ secret? If you ask them, you’ll hear them say that they are just ordinary guys, doing extraordinary things. So, the obvious question is: How do the ...
   
Fly a piece of history - Tulsa World
GK Gentis, a former B-17 bombardier, waits for a ride on the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" as it sits on a ramp at Jones Riverside Airport on Thursday. ...

Super-secret 'bat bomb' project from So. Texas caves might have ended WW II - WOAI
They would still be semi-conscious when fleets of B-25's would drop them from a mile above Japanese industrial targets. On each of those containers, ...


‘Pioneers’ Gallery Highlights Aviators Who Pushed Limits from Aviation Blogs 
Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega and the globe-spanning Douglas World Cruiser Chicago are among the newly restored aircraft on display in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s “Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery” opening Nov. 19.
The redesigned gallery tells the story of the 1920s and 1930s, when aviators pushed the technological and social limits of flight. It highlights early 20th-century pioneers such as the Tuskegee Airmen, Charles and ...

Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopter draws a crowd from Helikopter Hysterie - The Helicopter Blog
A shot from the American Heroes Airshow in LA 2010. The UH-60 Blackhawk is definitely drawing a crowd at any airshow. Especially when you can climb in and touch stuff. Everyone loved it!
In the background we have a UH-1H Huey, and a Sikorsky UH-72 Lakota

Airplanes on a Stick - Planeshots
T-33, Vampire, Corsair II, Harvard, CF-104, and more

Nanchang display at the airport open morning from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings 
A number of flying and static displays had been arranged for the Wellington International Airport open morning. According to airport publicity, this included Brendan Deere's Supermarine Spitfire, the ...

Amazing Little-Known Aircraft from Cockpit Conversation 
... The Goodyear Inflatoplane was built long before I was born, but really that is the sort of thing that legend should keep alive in everyone's hearts, even though the project is long gone. I love inflatable stuff. Inflatable ...

Aircraft drawings collection WWII and after from Military Photos
I thought someone might like to see, or use these drawings for something.


Caption Contest #42 - Bow Down To The Winner by AirPigz
When Caption Contest #42 came to a full stop, twitter follower @Willhamrick had earned himself a delectable bacon sandwich at OSH11 - great job Will! I don't have any details on this unusual DC-3 situation, but it looks like the damage was minimal (at least to the airplane, the ego, I'm not so sure about) ...

Free EAA Student Membership Maintains Young Eagles' Connection To Aviation - Aero-News
EAA Young Eagles can now stay connected to the aviation world and enjoy a variety of benefits at no cost through the EAA Student Membership supported by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  The EAA Student Membership, available free of charge to all Young Eagles and valid until the individual's 19th birthday, is the next element of ...


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