Indy Transponder 24-FEB-2011 0730z

Naval Aviation celebrates 100 years of history - Marines.mil | This year marks the centennial anniversary of the birth of Naval Aviation when Navy Capt. Washington I. Chambers, officer in charge of naval aviation, bought the Navy's first two biplanes on May 8, 1911. Aviation has been a part of warfare since the ...

I remember when: Neighborly Blue Angels were godsend after misfortune - Orlando Sentinel | When the Angels were at home between aerobatic performances, they would sit at the pool and make model airplanes, which they later gave away. My wife also liked to sit by the pool, and I would sometimes kid her that she spent more time with the Angels ...

WHELEN BECOMES NEW GOULIAN SPONSOR from Mike Goulian Airshows | The Goulian Aerosports team is very honored to announce that we have signed an associate sponsorship agreement with Whelen Engineering. This partnership will debut at the Sun’ n Fun Fly-In (Lakeland, FL) in late March and Whelen will also be title partner for the team at the 2011 AirVenture (Oshkosh, WI) Convention. More events to be announced later this spring.  Whelen is a leader in aviation ...

   
Air Show committee requests funding - Airdrie Echo | The Airdrie Regional Air Show Committee approached city council last night to ask for funding support for the upcoming show, scheduled to take place July 16 and 17. Mayor Peter Brown, who serves as co-chair of the ...

Historic aircraft hit by VAT bombshell - Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard | The historic aircraft, once part of Britain's nuclear defence, is being prepared for an extended airshow season this summer after a winter overhaul in a hangar at RAF Lyneham. But chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust Dr Robert Pleming warned: ...

Belize Air Show - Belize Blog | The first Belize Fly and Air Show organised for the western Cayo District in Belize was very well attended by almost one thousand spectators, including Belizeans, expats, tourists and aircraft enthusiasts. ...

Photos: AERO INDIA 2011 by srinivas.v

Sky dancing from Looking skyward | Further to my recent post A Dance Through The Sky I received an email from Tim Bastian earlier in the week which included this wonderful photo of him, and his friend Doc, sky dancing in an Extra 300 aerobatic machine ...

XVI Weeks from US Army Golden Knights | Gold Team finnished another training week with over one hundred freefall training jumps per team member. The “New Guys” are performing well above the level they started at seven weeks ago. Gold Team Leader SFC Berentis,  expressed how excited he is to see the new Gold Team members perform at a live demonstration. In these final [...]

2011 National Championship Air Races Welcome Video - YouTube | The Patriots Jet Team is going to fly Reno this year :)   

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne X-51A WaveRider Team Vies for Collier Trophy from AVIATION-NEWS | Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is among seven nominees competing for one of the most prestigious awards in aerospace, the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is being nominated as part of the team that powered the hypersonic X-51A WaveRider vehicle last May in the longest-ever supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) [...]

Dr. Donald E. Jackson: Aviation History Maker! from Featured  By Carl E. Chance | Class 45H, trained by historic veterans of the 99th Pursuit Squadron. Doctor Jackson Graduated at the end of World War II, with the last group of Tuskegee Airmen trained as B-25 Bomber pilots. During World War II, the U.S. military was racially segregated. Reflecting American society and law at the time, most black soldiers and sailors were restricted to labor battalions and other support positions. An experiment in the U.S. Army Air Forces, however, showed that given equal opportunity   ...

Opening Doors to The World of Aviation from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | I am off to my first Women in Aviation Conference.  What is the difference between WAI and WOA? Who are the ninety-nines?

Live ATC sim at Women in Aviation conference from General Aviation News | Precision Flight Controls (PFC) and Pilotedge have teamed to bring a new experience in flight simulation, “Live Air Traffic Control,” when they demonstrate one of the FAA-approved Advanced Aviation Training Devices at the Women in Aviation conference in Reno this week (Feb. 24-26). ...

Timeless Voices - Fenwick "Fen" Lind from eaavideo.org | Fen Lind (1923-2010) flew F4U Corsairs with Marine fighter squadrons VMF-222 and VMF-218 during World War II. After the war he flew for 33 years with Eastern Airlines until retiring in 1983. He was a longtime volunteer during EAA Oshkosh.

Korean War art exhibit opens Feb. 25 at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | An art exhibit featuring more than 30 paintings with scenes from the Korean War and the continuing presence of the U.S. military there will open Feb. 25 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  The paintings, which are on loan from the U.S. Air Force Art Program, can be viewed daily during regular museum hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The artwork is displayed in the museum's Hall of Honor, and admission to the museum and the exhibit is free. ...

Aviation museum set to open new wing - Ottawa Citizen | A new foyer features a Tudor jet — suspended in mid-air — from the Canadian Air Force Snowbirds Aerobatics Squadron. With the new wing, the museum aims to double the number of visitors over the next three years. Currently, the museum, on Aviation ...

B-17 vet back in air aboard a WWII-era bomber - ArmyTimes.com | A day before his final mission aboard a B-17 bomber in World War II, Norbert Swierz sat down on his bunk and jotted down a poem for his mother back in Michigan. “I go so gladly to my fate, whatever it may be. That I would have you shed no tears for me ...

Memories and Milestones - Foothills Sun Gazette | His first assignment was as a co-pilot of a four engine B-17 bomber. Stationed at Bury St. Edmond in England David was flown into the chaotic war torn skies of Europe. Numerous raids commenced throughout early summer. Then alarming news hit home in ...

Walk in Belgium honors WW II U.S. paratroops from Stars and Stripes | For nearly three decades, Americans, Belgians and residents of other nearby lands have met in the Ardennes each February to symbolically march in the footsteps of the 82nd Airborne Division paratroops who fought and died there in World War II. ...

Michael Palin in DC3 from PPRuNe Forums 

The Valiant Air Command 34th Annual Airshow – Warbird Radio LIVE | THURSDAY - Colonel Terry Yon (USA Retired) from the Valiant Air Command Museum in Titusville, Florida joins us on Warbird Radio LIVE. Hear the latest news.

Annual MT Air Show Issue Now on Newsstand from Milcom Monitoring Post | The Annual Monitoring Times Air Show issue is now on sale at newsstands nationwide and so far the reviews by monitors who have seen it is very positive.  ...

How the 747-8I 'Sunrise' colors came to be from Flightblogger | When the curtain fell at the premier of 747-8 Intercontinental in front of a crowd of 10,000, very few people inside Boeing knew what to expect from the livery adorning the company's latest jumbo. "Most people involved with the airplane were not aware of it," says Rob Pollack, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president Advertising, Brand and Market Positioning, and the chief architect behind the Dreamliner brand.  ...

Discovery launch is beginning of end of shuttle program - Orlando Sentinel | CAPE CANAVERAL -- In the past 30 years, Valerie Neal has seen her share of space shuttle launches, first with NASA and then as a manned space flight curator at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum. ...