Indy Transponder 27-JAN-1100z

Ninth annual Atlantic City Airshow set for Aug. 17 - Press of Atlantic City | "The air show has become the signature summer event for Atlantic City," said Jeffrey Vasser, executive director of the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors ...

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 13 - Agricultural aircraft display from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | New Zealand has always been a leader in the aerial application of agricultural chemicals. Much of this is due to the hilly and inaccessible nature of some of New Zealand's productive land. Early on the Tiger Moth was used by replacing the forward cockpit with a hopper. These days the Tiger Moth has been replaced by more modern aircraft such as the Kiwi designed and built PAC Cresco, helicopters and the Air Tractor…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 14 - World War 2 fighters from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | One disappointment of the airshow was the absence of Spitfires. I imagine that the weather had something to do with it, although the Auckland based 2 seater apparently had some minor mechanical issues - better to be safe than sorry though! Ok, I'm over that [!], and was very pleased to see the Vought/ Goodyear FG1D Corsair, ZK-COR, and two Curtis P40 Kittyhawks. These aircraft put on a really good display, but my favourite is and has always been the Corsair. I especially like the final picture with the Corsair pilot looking at the approaching P40 in the background…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 15 - de Havilland Vampire from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | With the demise of the much anticipated de Havilland Venom [it had a landing accident the day before the airshow], it was left to the DH115 Mk.55 Trainer Vampire to represent the post-war British jet industry. ZK-RVM is painted in RNZAF colours, although the registration NZ5712 was never worn by an RNZAF aircraft [the final Vampire has the military registration of NZ5711]…

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 16 - The finale from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | All good things much come to and end, especially so a good airshow. This was not the best airshow I had been to, but certainly very good considering the weather and other factors outside of the control of the organisers! Value for money? Yes - where else can you get a whole day of  entertainment [or aerotainment as the people at the IndyTransponder.com call it!], just a few meters away from the flightline, for as little as NZD$30 a day? Going again? You betcha!...

Wings Over Wairarapa 2011: Post 17 - The real finale! from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | I'm sure there is an ancient saying that goes something like this: Publish post in haste, repent at leisure? A couple of minutes after posting the final Wings Over Wairarapa post, I realised that there were a couple of aircraft I had missed and wanted to highlight. Here they are, in the real finale!...

All Female Catapult Team on Lincoln Launches Success in Support of OEF  www.navy.mil | Fourteen female Sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln's (CVN 72) Air department formed an all-female catapult crew…

Mig-29 from Historic Flight by JeremyDL | Yesterday I joined former Air Force test pilot Doug Russell in the cockpit of the Mig-29UB Fulcrum ("UB" is the designation for two-place) HFF acquired about six years ago. Since then, Tim Morgan and I have had the pleasure of partnership in its restoration. Now some worry that HFF might change focus from Spitfires to Migs, but that will not happen on my watch. We undertook this project to demonstrate a small foundation could restore to top standards, one of the most advanced and elegant aircraft of the modern era. That we did is tribute to the collection of aviation devotees at Arlington Field (in particular, the employees of Morgan Aircraft Restorations), enlightened civil servants from the FAA (who will remain nameless to avoid career implications), talented and hard-working Slovakians who used vacations from jobs maintaining Mig-29s to work on ours, and a Chinese judge who knew what to do…

First Flight For Restored MiG-29 Fighter from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A MiG-29 Soviet-era fighter jet flew for the first time above Washington state this week, after a two-year restoration project by the Historic Flight Foundation. The two-seat MiG-29UB was manufactured in the Soviet Union sometime between 1985 and 1991, and flew with the Ukrainian Air Force until 2005, when it was demilitarized and offered for sale to the public…

Aerobatic training to start at airport - St. Augustine Record ... aerobatic pilots in preparation for the 2011 Air Show season and other competitions, according to a Northeast Florida Regional Airport press release. ...

Aviatrix and Retired Teacher Donates Historic Aircraft and Airport to Lake ... - PAINESVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lake Erie College announced today that it has received a multi-million dollar gift from Lake County resident, ...

Historic Aircraft Collection, Airport, And Endowment Donated To College from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | Lake Erie College announced on Wednesday that it has received a multi-million dollar gift from Lake County resident, Gretchen Reed. The gift includes the Pheasant Run Airport located in Madison, Ohio, one of the largest vintage aircraft collections in the country and a significant endowment to support the property, planes and related…

Saying Goodbye to Iconic 'Huey'. from Alltop RSS | It's not enough for retired Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall to wave goodbye to the Army]s last UH-1 helicopter flying on the West Coast. Crandall, 77, wants to take the controls of the "Huey" himself. "I would fly it tomorrow," said Crandall, a Medal of Honor recipient from Port Orchard. "If I can, I'll be in the cockpit."…

UH-1 Huey with Sharks Teeth from Helikopter Hysterie - The Helicopter Blog by Axel | According to a web source about the 174th Assault Helicopter Company Sharks, they were the first ones and only legitimate ones to display the prominent sharks teeth paint scheme. The 174th AHC has another website, see links below, where they explain all about the unit. They also have links to their Super 8 movies from Vietnam…

Today in Aviation History – January 27 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal


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