Indy Transponder 03-DEC-2010 1100z

Fat Albert Delivers For Marine's Toys For Tots Program - NOLA.com | Dignitaries and the crowd welcome the crew as "Fat Albert", the Marine-crewed C-130 cargo plane of the US Navy's Blue Angels ...

Hudson named Air Force Museum director - Bizjournals.com | The Dayton Development Coalition — along with the National Aviation Heritage Alliance and the Air Force Museum Foundation — have been spearheading efforts ...

Sunset at 2010 MCAS Miramar Airshow from Randy Rothhaar Photography | A couple of sunset shots from the second day of the 2010 MCAS Miramar Airshow:

Women in Aviation, International Represented at Zhuhai China Air Show 2010 from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | There's a great interview found on Sina.com of Women in Aviation, International members Melissa Rudinger (Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs at AOPA), Denise Waters (President, AWAM), and Amy Laboda (Editor, Aviation for Women). It was a great opportunity for Women in Aviation, International to participate in the air show at which Chinese officials announced the opening of areas of…

MEBA 2010 Expected To Smash Previous Records - Aviation International News | Airshow organizer F&E Aerospace is expecting some 7000 attendees–a record number–at the Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) show next week in Dubai. ...

Farnborough International Airshow 2010 » Airstrike Aviation ... by Justin | Every two years, the airfield of Farnborough becomes the largest aviation trade show in the world. There you can buy anything from an airliner to a missile to shoot it.

F-111 flies into history - Australian Aviation | The RAAF retired the F-111 on December 3 after 37 years of service, with a flypast of Ipswich, Brisbane, and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts by six F-111s ...

Royal Australian Air Force Retires Its F-111 Fleet from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) retires its F-111 strike fighters effective today after 43 years of service. Developed in the 1960s and first entering service in 1967, the United States Air Force (USAF) variants were officially retired by 1998. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) was the last operator of the F-111. The F-111 pioneered…

Exercise Vega 2010 @ Decimomannu airbase – part 4 from David Cenciotti's weblog | Below, more pictures about Vega 2010 exercise taken by Giovanni Maduli in Decimomannu. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 …

Sage-Popovich's Nick Popovich: Business Jet Traveler Online from http://www.bjtonline.com/ Nick Popovich looks like a bouncer and can talk like a longshoreman. But he also has a keen understanding of geopolitics, international finance and commercial trends. He runs a far-flung global aviation business, Sage-Popovich, from his 120-acre ranch near Valparaiso, Ind. He drives a Bentley, breeds thoroughbred Rocky Mountain horses and enjoys fine cigars. For more than 30 years, when a banker anywhere in the world has had an aviation loan or lease that was circling the bowl, Popovich has often been the go-to guy. This ex-airline pilot and his team have grabbed more than 1,400 airplanes…

Remembering Pearl Harbor - Abilene Reporter-News | The Big Country Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force invites these and all readers to attend our annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Hour on Sunday at 2 pm ...

Airman, Attorney, Author: Bay area legend writes it all down ... by GNR | The 89-year-old has seen it all, including fighting with the Flying Tigers during World War II in China and later becoming the longest serving city attorney in U.S. history. The details are sorted out in Johnson's self-published book ...

The last aerial torpedo attack in history from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I was researching air-dropped torpedoes for an upcoming Weekend Wings article, and discovered that the last recorded use of aerial torpedoes was in 1951, during the Korean War. It was a unique operation in many ways, including the fact that the torpedoes were not aimed at a ship, but at a dam, and were dropped in fresh water, not into the sea!...

This Recruit did its duty.......the Ryan PT-22 by shortfinals | Bright colours, a distinctive sound – it has to be a Ryan PT-22 Recruit! The Ryan Aeronautical Corporation was always seeking to re-invent itself and 'build a better mousetrap' or airplane, in their case. In the 1930s it looked like they had come up with a winner at last, the Ryan Sport Trainer (or ST)…

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…

How To Repaint a Boeing 777 in Under Three Minutes from Telstar Logistics | This nifty time-lapse video shows the first United Airlines Boeing 777 (N222UA) being repainted in the airline's new combined United/Contintental livery. Kindly refrain from huffing the fumes. PHOTO: N222UA departing LAX, by Peter Spence THANKS: @adamfritzler

Student Rocketeers Nationwide Reach for New Heights in 2010-11 NASA Student Launch Projects from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News -HUNTSVILLE AL - The annual NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge, now under way, promises to send aloft more rockets than ever before in its 11-year history. And some of them, for the first time ever, will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean instead of dropping into a North Alabama cornfield…

Million Dollar Donation Helps Aviation Students - KFYR-TV | Sean is one of about 50 students in the Bismarck school district taking aviation classes at the Career and Technical Academy on the Bismarck State College ...

December 3 - This Day In Aviation History from Aviation Earth | December 3, 1945 - A de Havilland Sea Vampire fighter becomes the first purely jet-powered airplane to operate from an aircraft carrier, when Lieutenant-Commander E. M. "Winkle" Brown lands his aircraft on the HMS Ocean in England. December 3, 1958 - An aircraft exchange, which will function like the stock markets and commodity exchanges, opens in [...]

The 1982 Air Battles Over the Bekaa Valley from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In 1976, the Lebanese Civil War had been raging for a year when the Syrian military poured across the border into the region to ostensibly stabilize the situation. Securing the Bekaa Valley and the main Beirut-Damascus highway that crossed the central part of the country with massive numbers of troops and armor, soon the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its Muslim allies in Lebanon were receiving support from the Syrians…
 
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