Sunday, December 12, 2010

Indy Transponder 12-DEC-2010 2345z

VIDEO: 2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow from CavokBlog
On November 13, there was the Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow 2010 , at Naval Station Pensacola, Fla., when the Air Demonstration Squadron, U.S. Navy, the Blue Angels make their final presentation of the year in its home base. In the above video can be seen the presentation of the ...

Tricolour Arrows - S. Massenza
The most famous aerobatic pilots in the world, the world famous' Tricolor Arrows, "visited the distillery," Casimiro Bernardino Poli, "...

Skycatcher highlights EAA sweepstakes from General Aviation News 
A Cessna 162 Skycatcher tops the list of prizes in the 2011 EAA Share the Spirit Sweepstakes, open at WinAPlane.com now through the end of EAA AirVenture 2011. ...

Few Exhibit Spaces Remaining For U.S. Sport Aviation Expo from Aviation Blogs 
The chairman of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, scheduled for Jan. 20-23, 2011 at Sebring Regional Airport, reports that exhibitor response seems as good as or better than in years past. ...

Win A Day With Leon Haslam And The Blades - londonbikers.com
This will give one entry into the draw for a flight in a Blades aerobatic aircraft. Your support will cost £2 per text, plus your standard network message ...

Air show promises top-flight fun - The National
AL AIN // Around 130000 people are expected to attend the Al Ain Aerobatic Show in February, organisers say, promising an even more adrenaline-charged event ...

Historic flight re-enactment ends up in the poo - ABC News
Ben Buckley, of Gippsland, was the pilot of a plane re-enacting the first powered, controlled flight, in an Australian-designed and built plane in 1910. ...

Wartime Flying Just Beginning Of Memorable Career from Aviation Blogs 
Being a firsthand witness to the end of World War II in Europe was just one of many noteworthy assignments in John T. “Jack” Race’s seven decades as a pilot.
After the war, Mr. Race spent 34 years as a commercial airline pilot for the then-mighty Pan American World Airways. During that time, he had a number of interesting encounters, like that time in the early 1960s when he was invited to a state dinner in Moscow and got to shake hands with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
And then there was that unforgettable flight in which ...
   
Wilmer F. Bailey - The Durango Herald
As a navigator on B-17 bombers in World War II, he was based in Italy from 1944 to 1945. He went on to serve in the Air Force Reserves for 12 years after ...

Flying club invite takes writer to higher plane - Chicago Sun-Times
As such, with the economy still sluggish, “nationwide, there has been a reduction in general aviation flying, just as there have been reductions in many ...

Italian Air Force secret involvement in Vietnam war? by David Cenciotti
In the last week I had the opportunity to discuss about his researches with Mr. Diego Verdegiglio who is currently writing a book about the Italian involvement in the Vietnam war. During his studies on the topic he has heard of an unofficial (covert) employment, between 1963 and 1975, of some Italian Élite corps and of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) in Vietnam, as a consequence of a secret agreement between ...

IMAGES: Hornets with 90 years of special paint on the tail of the RAAF - Cavok/Translated
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) celebrates 90 years in 2011, and to celebrate the date painted an F/A-18C Hornet aircraft from their with a special mark on the tail of the aircraft. ...

Historic 747 Reaches a Grim Destination from Aviation Blogs 
Frustrated owners in South Korea, unable to profit from their piece of aviation history, have it demolished. ...

Today In Aviation History – December 12. 12 12 2010. In 1941… World War II: USMC F4F “Wildcats” sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. In 1941… World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, ...

Yesterday from Neptunus Lex 
... But not before I leave you this really quite nice video taken last weekend by an even lovelier lass I had the honor to fly with, who was with her beau – a Gulfstream G550 pilot, and one of the few men whose work I have recently found cause to envy. She had not done much flying, but neither it seems, was she entirely passive. ...

SpaceX Dragon's secret payload revealed: Le Brouere cheese (video) from Engadget 
It looks like the Air Force isn't the only organization with its secrets. While we still don't know the exact nature of the testing the X-37B space plane underwent during its seven months in orbit, we have learned what, exactly, the SpaceX Dragon was carrying during its time spent in low-earth orbit. That's right: a wheel of  ...

The rise and fall of Rocketplane from Personal Spaceflight 
Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an extended account of George French and his involvement with Rocketplane, the company that, for a time, was developing both suborbital and orbital vehicles (the latter under a NASA COTS agreement) before running into financial problems and eventually going bankrupt. French had long been interested in space, but it was a trip to Space Camp in 1990 that provided an ...

"I'm Just Sayin'" UCAP #215 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Building airplanes really fast... Updates on a couple of crashes... and to chain or not to chain. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #215 "I'm Just Sayin'"

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