Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Indy Transponder 14-DEC-2010 1130z

Steve Hinton wins ICAS Award from Planes Of Fame News | Steve Hinton wins the Art Scholl Memorial Showmanship Award…

Reno 1979 (the last flight of the Baron) - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion from http://www.aafo.com/ Reno 1979 (the last flight of the Baron) Air Racin' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ6EwiSIbx4
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First flight in the world of a privately owned MiG-29!!! - FIRST FLIGHT IN THE WORLD OF A PRIVATELY OWNED MIG-29 FULCRUM BY AIR USA IN QUINCY ILLINOIS; DECEMBER 10TH, 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq92ZC5cYoM

Another member of the 'Greatest Generation' passes on in Destin - Destin Log | As bombardier he was assigned to the 95th Bomb Group and was sent to England where he flew 30 combat missions in the B-17. He was later assigned to the 55th ...

Timeless Voices - Robert Tank from eaavideo.org | After washing out of pilot training, Robert Tank served as a B-17 bombardier with the 364th Bomb Squadron of the 305th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force during World War II. His plane was shot down on Nov. 26, 1943 and Robert became a POW at Stalag Luft 1…

2010 MCAS Miramar Airshow Gallery Added from Randy Rothhaar Photography | A new gallery with about 300 images from the 2010 MCAS Miramar Airshow was added to the site tonight. Now on to editing images from the 2010 Aviation Nation Airshow at Nellis AFB and breaking in my new Canon 7D body:

Air race star Hall announces calendar, will fly during Sydney's New Year's Eve celebrations | Matt Hall Racing - Air race star Matt Hall will end 2010 on a high by flying his MXS-R race plane around the Sydney Harbour foreshore as part of the city's famed New Year's Eve Celebrations. The New Year's Eve display is just one of several exciting performances Hall announced as part of his new look calendar this week…

Hot Fast and Loud. from Windsor International Air Show by Sounds of Freedom III - 12,000 Horsepower
375 Miles Per Hour - Air Show Speed Record, World's Fastest Jet Truck, Not bad for a Chevy. See it in Windsor next September. Think he'll have the nerve to take on Pete? Just watch.................

BBC News - The Millionaires who flew to war from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ They were called the Millionaires' Squadron, a dashing young group of well-heeled sportsmen and adventurers with a passion for danger and high jinks. But they were also a very effective fighting unit, placed in the front line of defence against German invasion in the Battle of Britain…

Aviation museum receives F-100D flown by Goddard - Macon Telegraph | Ultimately, the jet will be displayed in the aviation museum's Hangar One, which houses several Vietnam-era aircraft exhibits. Fighter pilots develop a ...

F-104C World Altitude Mark from American Aerospace by seattlepiblog@whiteeagleaerospace.com (John Terry White) Fifty-one years ago this week, USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan zoomed a modified USAF/Lockheed F-104C Starfighter to a world altitude record of 103,395.5 feet above mean sea level.  The flight originated from and recovered at the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards Air Force Base, California. On Tuesday, 14 July 1959, the USSR established a...

WW II author gives talk at Combat Air Museum – KSNT | Sharp spoke at the combat air museum at Forbes Field on Moday, December 13th. Following the presentation he signed copies of his new book…

March Field Air Museum: Discussion group takes wing - Press-Enterprise | Aviation history has seen a number of attempts at roadable airplanes, with varying degrees of success. Sarh will review these past projects and he will ...


Phantom Ray Takes A Piggyback Ride On NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from Aero-News Network | Boeing Says Trip Brings The UAS One Step Closer To Its First Flight Securely attached to the top of one of NASA's modified B747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), the Boeing Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system took off at 1340 CST Monday for a test flight at Lambert International Airport…

"How We Did It" — Red Bull Glider Skydiver Transfer - Say, how did those guys pull off that skydiver glider-to-glider transfer that's getting some much attention on YouTube and Red Bull's site? Here's the inside story from Ewald Roithner, the lead pilot. He spoke with AVweb's Paul Bertorelli…

December 14 - This Day In Aviation History from Aviation Earth | December 14, 1903 - Wilbur Wright makes the first and unsuccessful attempt at powered flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. His aircraft stalls after 3 ½ seconds in the air and crash-lands 105 feet away. December 14, 1965 - A Learjet 23 executive transport shows off its impressive capabilities by climbing to 40,000 feet in [...]

There isn't a jalopy in this bunch of rockets from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | It looks like Pete Alway's Rockets of the World is featured on Jalopnik.  That's big time e-publicity, but too bad they didn't provide a link where people can order the book. Click the photo above for the big one. Click the 1st link for the ARA Press/Saturn Press web site:
 

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