Indy Transponder 05-JAN-2011 0230z

EAA No. 2 Carl Schultz Dies - EAA
Carl E. Schultz, EAA 2, who helped found the EAA, serving as the organization’s first vice-president, died on December 25. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1918, Carl spent his entire life devoted to airplanes, flying, sawmills, his family, and, most of all, his “bride,” Pearl. Schultz soloed in 1937 and earned his airframe and powerplant certificate around the same time. Aside from a brief stint as a co-pilot for BF Goodrich in the 1940s, Carl’s mastery of metal and mechanics served him well throughout his professional career as an aircraft mechanic and later in the research engineering departments of several major small engine manufacturers. His mechanical acumen was present at chapter meetings too, as one Chapter 18 member remarked, “He always had some tool or gadget to demonstrate or some helpful trick or technique to explain that would make our lives easier.”

Blue Angels to visit Seattle Wednesday - Northwest Cable News
by KING 5 News SEATTLE -- The Blue Angels will bring their familiar Seafair roar to the Puget Sound Wednesday as they visit the Northwest for a day of ...

Blue Angel jet stopping in Tukwila Jan. 5 - PNW Local News
The Blue Angels are a traditional summer spectacle here on the Puget Sound, roaring through the annual Seafair celebration. But on Jan. ...

Blue Angels Arrive in El Centro - Imperial Valley Weekly
The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels, will arrive at Naval Air Facility El Centro, CA on Jan. 3, 2011 to prepare for the 2011 show season ...
   
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame to Honor Four Inductees and Belt of Orion Recipient - AMTOnline.com
This year's inductees' achievements span the spectrum of Canada's rich aviation history. They are recognized for playing integral roles in the development ...

John Crichton named to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame from Aviation.ca News
OTTAWA - NAV CANADA is pleased to announce that John Crichton, President & CEO, has been selected to be a member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame. He will be officially inducted to the Hall on May...

Navy To Be Showcased from Pacific Flyer 
Current naval aircraft in the legendary paint schemes of their predecessors will be one of many highlights of the week-long Centennial of Naval Aviation celebration at EAA AirVenture 2011, which will be held July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
“The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration” is one of the “Tier 1” events supported by the United States Navy, ...
   
2011-12 to be celebrated as Civil Aviation Centenary Year - Zee News
To commemorate it, the year 2011-2012 will be celebrated as Civil Aviation Centenary Year. "Indian Civil Aviation is completing 100 years on 18th February, ...

Sabreliner Corporation Perryville, MO Facility Preparing to Launch Centennial Aircraft This Week from The Aero Experience
Sabreliner Corporation Perryville, MO Facility is scheduled to hand off the Centennial of U.S. Naval Aviation aircraft to the Navy this week.  Visit again Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for more coverage of this exciting event!
 
EAA Skiplane Fly-In set for Saturday, Jan. 22 - Oshkosh Northwestern
22, at the EAA AirVenture Museum's Pioneer Airport in Oshkosh. In past years, more than 25 skiplanes landed at Pioneer Airport to participate in the event, ...

Leo Oldenburg always gave back to the community - Galena Gazette
He made 29 bombing runs over Germany in a B-17 "Flying Fortress" with a crew of nine other men. In a 2007 Gazette interview, he said he remembered one ...

Hoover To Be Honored - Pacific Flyer
Hoover enjoyed a remarkable air show and air racing career after flying 59 missions in World War II and escaping a POW camp by commandeering a German Focke-Wulf 190 in April 1945. Upon his return to the U.S., Hoover enrolled in test ...

That Beautiful Waco QCF-2 from Pacific Flyer 
Story, Photos by Jack Watson
The Waco F-2 is considered by many the highest performance light aircraft of the Golden Era ever produced in this country.
Introduced in 1931, it was an instant sensation. It had such spectacular rate of climb that it was once matched against an autogiro, and won. ...

Vintage Planes Featured from Pacific Flyer 
Vintage aircraft and attractions and special programming will honor early aviation pioneers through a commemoration of centennial of air mail service during EAA AirVenture 2011.
The 100th anniversary commemoration of air mail service will focus on the aircraft and people of the pre-World War II era when air mail pioneers laid many important foundations for modern aviation, including aircraft, routes, and navigation aids. ...

Taking my sister for a ride (literally) from Life on the Road as a Pilot 
In my new life as an unemployed multiengine turbine jet pilot training to be a single engine piston instructor, there are a few harsh realities I have had to come to terms with. First and foremost, the 40 or so hours I have logged in Cessna 172s/182s over the last 15 years did not make me proficient in class (the airplane category, in which I do profess competency, is divided into single-engine land, multi-engine land, single-engine sea, and multi-engine sea classes), no matter how much experience I had in other aircraft. Let me count the ways....

Super Puma / 384 M. E. D. from fox2magazine 
We start the new year back in 2010 and the social contribution of the Air Force. Prominent role for another year, he held the 384 Rescue Squadron Survey, covering 25% of the total evacuation, assuming of course that those other fliers in the Air Force can not perform either due to bad weather or lack of infrastructure in remote and isolated areas. ...

F-35C Joint Strike Fighter from Navy Gold 
During the week before Halloween this year, I was invited down to Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth to capture the final photos for the project of the Navy variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C. It took 4 tries to get airborne after a series of test related snags and delays, but in the end, the team got the shots we needed on Halloween Sunday. Here with an expanded edit of that material…

From X planes today - Early Ballooning

Ice Pilots Season 2 debuts Jan 12th from PPRuNe Forums 
... Ice Pilots NWT is back. The hit docu-series following the adventures of renegade Arctic airline  ...

Bombshell Beauty – January 2011 from Pacific Flyer 
Scott Slocum is the photographer for a popular series of aviation calendars with beautiful models decorating photogenic aircraft. Every year he prints a "My Bombshells" calendar which has just hit the market. ...

Astronaut Marsha Ivins Leaves NASA - PRNewswire
"Marsha's incredible depth of mission experience and technical expertise has been a tremendous asset to this office," said Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We have relied on her expertise for years in many diverse areas, including but not limited to crew provisions, optimal hardware packing, human ratings development, vehicle habitability and orbiter preflight vehicle checks. Her expertise and dedication to NASA's mission will be sorely missed."
Ivins joined NASA in 1974 as an engineer. She worked on ...

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