Saturday, November 27, 2010

Indy Transponder 27-NOV-2010 2345z

Snowbirds could take flight over Royal Victoria Yacht Club - Saanich News
Approval was also requested to allow for a demonstration by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, who could fly as low as 500 feet (152 m) over Oak Bay. ...

X-15 Pilot Joe Walker Inducted Into Nevada Aerospace Hall Of Fame http://airboyd.tv Courtesy: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center This movie clip shows Dryden pilot Joe Walker in the X-15. The late NASA research pilot and X-15 rocket plane astronaut Joseph Walker was among eight aerospace pioneers who were inducted into ...
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EAA is already planning next summer's convention - WKBT
Hoover is enjoyed a legendary air show and air racing career after flying 59 missions in World War II and escaping a prisoner of war camp by commandeering a ...

Airsho 2010 - CAF Warbirds from MILAVIA 
Between Midland and Odessa in Texas, the Midland International Airport hosted the 2010 Airsho of the Commemorative Air Force on October 9-10. The large CAF collection of warbirds was joined by the last surviving B-29 Super Fortress. More than 90 photos of the warbirds and modern military jets.

Comox Air Force Museum from Airline Pilot Central Forums 
My husband and I spent Thanksgiving driving in the snow and ice to get to the beautiful Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. Today, after a wonderful spa experience, we drove on to the Comox Air Force Museum, which is situated at the entrance of CFB Comox.
This museum has the most interesting exhibits dedicated to the Canadian Air Force and all her accomplishments from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and they are working on Kandahar. It specifically is the repository of all things from 19 Wing. ...

Entrepreneur’s Dreams Take Flight from Aviation Blogs 
To say Richard ‘Coop’ Cooper loves to fly is an understatement.
The Mississauga businessman says he feels like he’s in withdrawal if he hasn’t flown one of his vintage planes across the blue skies of the city at least once a week.
“Until I started flying, I never understood addiction at all,” said Cooper, who’s also an Honorary Snowbird, inducted into the Canadian Forces Snowbirds in 2006. “Now, I get it. Flying is addictive.”

Making the Ship Go Faster from J Clark 
... On the proverbial dark and stormy night, a Tomcat crew lost an engine on the catshot. The pilot and his radar intercept officer (RIO) executed all of their immediate action procedures and cleaned up the airplane for single-engine operations. Then they headed for the marshal stack where they had to hold until all the other airborne aircraft were safely aboard the carrier. ...

Graf Zeppelin film “Farewell” available online until December 6, 2010
from Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site 
The Dutch film “Farewell” can be viewed in its entirely (in English with Dutch subtitles) at the following URL between now and 01:35 on December 7, 2010:
http://beta.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1013339
“Farewell” is a fictional account of Lady Grace Drummond Hay’s experience on the 1929 Round-the-World voyage of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. ...

Giant flying aircraft carrier concept from Grover Loening. Art... from x planes
Joseph J. Leray, Inventor, 1933 from x planes

Dallas Historical Society reopens 'Remembering Tom Landry' exhibit at Fair Park - Dallas Morning News
... memorabilia from the University of Texas, where he played for the Longhorns; medals earned when he was a B-17 co-pilot during World War II; ...

Top 5 Fighter Planes Under development from Defence Aviation 
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of fifth-generation, single-seat, single-engine stealth multirole fighters. After entering service it would be considered as the  most advanced fighter aircraft in the world, performing ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions.
The F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), integrates advanced very low observable ...

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Miles O'Brien Looks at Private Space Flight from Spaceports 
Judy Woodruff of PBS looks at the future of space exploration with the NewsHour's Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien. The segment reviews the retirement of the space shuttle system and the post-shuttle era. The Washington Post provides a summary of the private sector efforts now underway. ...

IMAGE: Space Aircraft X-34 hangar at Edwards Air Force Base - CAVOK
Yesterday we disclose here the interest of NASA , the American space agency, in putting the project of development of reusable spacecraft X-34 on active duty. It was then that our collaborator in the U.S., Bernardo Malfitano, sent us a picture taken last year during a visit ...

X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon from Slashdot 
Phoghat writes "The highly classified X-37B Space Plane is scheduled to land soon. It was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on April 22 atop an Atlas 5 rocket, and the Air Force is still being very secretive on all aspects of the flight. We do know that it's set to touch down at Vandenberg Air Force Base's 15,000-foot runway, originally built for the Space Shuttle program. In many ways, the craft resembles a Shuttle with ...

Early signups for Space Adventures/Armadillo flights from RLV and Space Transport News
Space Adventures says they have "more than 100 reservations" for rides on the Armadillo Aerospace space tourism vehicle: Space tourism becomes big business, attracts Silicon Valley figures like Google's Sergey Brin - San Jose Mercury News.

Russia will invest $ 2 billion in garbage space
Russian space agency unveiled plans to create satellite system to remove the dying and leaving the area cleaner ...

Soyuz TMA-19 with 3 crew on board lands in Kazakhstan
Um russo e dois norte-americanos permaneceram por mais de cinco meses na Estação Espacial Internacional A Russian and two Americans remained for more than five months on the International Space Station ....


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