Indy Transponder 17-JAN-2011 2345z

Phuket Andaman Airshow dazzles the crowds at Phuket Airpark - Phuket Gazette
PHUKET: The Phuket Andaman Airshow and Fly-In returned yesterday to Phuket Airpark, with a crowd of roughly 400 spectators and private aircraft from all ...

Blog: How Moose Jaw gave a home to the Snowbirds - shropshirestar.com 
Sometimes there is a special Snowbirds flypast down Main Street, which always draws a huge crowd. There is a strong community feeling between the city and ...

Vintage war planes to swing into South Florida - Sun-Sentinel
Three classic World War II planes — a B-24 Liberator, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a P-51 Mustang — will swoop into Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport at 2 ...

Vintage Flying Museum's B-17 Leaves Ft. Worth January 22, 2011 for New Home in ... - PRLog.Org
“Chuckie” is one of only a handful of airworthy B-17s and the only airworthy B-17 Pathfinder in existence. Even though it never saw action during WWII, ...

From Powder Puff Derby to Air Race Classic – Women Pilots in the Air - Barbara Peterson
Within months after the Wright brothers broke the boundaries of flight, more and more men around the world were inventing their own planes and heading up into the wild blue yonder. They sat on top of one of the plane’s wings, and the controls consisted of two levers, and they didn’t wear seatbelts, if you can believe that!
Lots of women wanted to fly too, of course, but they typically were turned down when they ...

New Year-New Race from Snow Eagles Air Racing Team 
Well this year I am planning on competiting in the Air Race Classic again. I may have found a potential partner, who turns out to be a professor at the college where I am receiving my Master's degree. I hope this works out, as she is into racing cars and running races. So now onto ...

Ex-POW recalls WWII - Idaho State Journal
While on a mission escorting B-17 and B-24 bombers on a raid of Berlin on Aug. 27, 1944, the weather got so bad that 1000 aircraft were ordered to turn back ...

Rebuilding the Prototype XP-82 Twin Mustang from Aviation Blogs
Not long ago, Tom Reilly, EAA 802376/Warbirds 552913, and his warbird restoration group got started on a restoration that, when finished, will resurrect one of the rarest airplanes in the world: the Merlin-powered North American P-82 (Twin Mustang) prototype, the only one of an estimated 60 built planned to fly. ...

Son of U-2 pilot Powers hired by Beach aviation museum - The Virginian-Pilot
On Saturday, a B-17 bomber called “Chuckie” will join the collection. Powers, who goes by Gary, has worked for 15 years to create a Cold War Museum. ...

Aviation History & The Role That Long Island Played - Garden City News
Fred Treubig from The Cradle of Aviation Museum will be our guest speaker on Aviation History & the Role that Long Island Played in its Development. ...

Great shot of a Flugzeugbau DG-800 ... from You like airplanes, too?

The Making of the film - Apache Roll
Here is the making of the movie directed by Eric Magnan and produced by Films for the Airborne company Breitling:
3 months of preparation, one week of filming, including more than 20 hours and 2 months of post production for 6 versions of a dynamic film of rare beauty! ...

Doolittle Raiders B-25 Launch Footage 1942 Silent Film Stock from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club 
The 68th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid is approaching. ...

Berlin Airlift – The Story Of A Great Achievement 1949 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club 
The Western powers airlift of supplies to Berlin during the Soviet Blockade of Berlin. Operation Plain Fare . The Berlin blockade. Post Second World War. Germany. Soviet Iron Curtain.. Deutschmark. 24 June 1948. airbridge . Rosinenbomber, or ‘raisin bombers’), 2 million West Berliners with food, fuel and other supplies. At its height one plane reached West Berlin every 30 seconds. ...

Weihe No. 3 to the Regional Air Museum in Angers: a monument - Passionate about aviation
In April 2009, I visited the Regional Museum of L'Air d'Angers, and I was impressed by the quality of the restoration of No. 3 Weihe glider registered F-CRMX. Thanks to the Journal published for 25 years of GPPA (Regional Museum of the Air d'Angers), I could learn more about the history of the glider, built in 1943, restored to flying condition in 1990 and listed building History in 1998: ...

India to soon have its first aviation museum - Prokerala
India will soon have a national aviation museum to commemorate the 100th year of the first domestic flight in the country in 1911, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said Monday.

Wings of Eagles finds temporary nest - Star Gazette
The Wings of Eagles Discovery Center will introduce the public to its new facility Feb. 1, but it's a step the museum will have to repeat in about a year. 
The Wings of Eagles moved out of its former home at 17 Aviation Drive in Big Flats about two weeks ago after ...

Discovery Channel’s ‘Flying Wild Alaska’ to premiere from Aviation Blogs 
It’s not just the spectacular scenery, the crazy flying weather, or the everyday natural hazards that will thrill television viewers who tune in to the new Discovery Channel show about

Michael Salvatore: Aerospace is Art from ASB.tv 
Michael Salvatore Tierney’s photos of Southern California’s top air and space crafts are cutting-edge, extremely unique, and mind blowing. This new series, rightfully titled “Aerospace,”  is presented by Blythe Projects to reflect a journey, the United State’s journey of the race for space. ...

Caption Contest #48 - Ends Wednesday 1.19.11 At 9PM EST by Martt
 It's time for humor and airplanes to mix it up again in the AirPigz Caption Contest. I'm thinking we should see some pretty good ideas bubble up on this pic! Actually, I can imagine a variety of directions for captions to go ...

Photo: flying with bent propeller blades or mobile phone’s camera oddity? by David Cenciotti
These pictures were shot by a friend of mine who was flying a two ship formation with another SF-260EA. The images are beautiful but what make them more interesting is that the propeller blades look bent in both pictures. Is the aircraft flying with a damage propeller or is it an odd effect of taking a picture with a cell ...

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