Thursday, March 24, 2011

Indy Transponder 24-MAR-2011 1030z

Riding with the Blue Angels - WTOK | Three civilians were chosen by the Blue Angels to ride aboard Blue Angel number seven Wednesday afternoon, including one media member, plus a teacher from Choctaw Central High School and the director of the Choctaw Area Council of the Boys Scouts of ...

Ethanol-Powered Plane Takes Us Up Before Airshow Performance - WJHG | Panama City - If you've seen a few unusual-looking aircraft in the skies, there's a good chance they're here for this weekend's Tyndall Gulf Coast Salute to freedom airshow. One of those here for the show is Greg Poe and his Fagen MX2 aerobatics plane. ...

Gulf Coast Salute: Airmen show off flying acrobatics at Tyndall Air Show - The News Herald | Tyndall Air Force Base will host the Gulf Coast Salute 2011 Air Show and Open House on Saturday and Sunday. This year's event will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds in their 57th season since their creation in 1953. The two-day event also will ...

Sun 'n Fun Opens Next Week from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo launches next week in Lakeland, Fla., with a robust schedule of forums, news events, and flight demos. The show, in its 37th year, runs from Tuesday through Sunday, with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of naval aviation, recognition for mission aviation, and the return of the  ...

Carrefour de l'Air at Le Bourget and Fly'in: 26 and 27 March 2011 from Passion pour l'aviation | The next weekend, 26 and 27 March will be held at Le Bourget Air 1st cross, this is the first gathering of aviation museums, a unique event in the heritage: museums, associations, collectors ... Enjoy these two days to find places that put the aircraft in France, and to share with many passionate. Each institution will present its activities, its collections and treasures (artifacts, documents, archives, models ...).  This meeting will be held in the  ...

Acro Paragliding from Latest Vlog | Phew, I'm not sure about this…Felix Rodriguez is an acro paraglider and this fella pushes the envelope to the very end! This clip is sure to get your juices going before the weekend kicks in.
Enjoy!

Black Team Opens the 2011 Season from US Army Golden Knights | Every year brings a new show season. It is the culmination of the months spent in Golden Knights Assessment and Selection, hundreds of training jumps and hours of endless training in Homestead, Florida. After every winter training, the team always has to answer the question, “Was it enough?” This year, Black Team can respond with [...]

Kentucky National Guard Aviator honored at Kentucky Aviation Museum from kentuckyguard | ... Fleming, already the namesake of the Kentucky Army Aviation Support Facility, is being honored today at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, at Bluegrass Field in Lexington. According to ceremony officials, Fleming, a master aviator and descendant of John Fleming for whom Fleming County was named, enlisted in the Kentucky Army National Guard in 1949, retired in 1988 and died in 1999. ...
    
Decorated Air Force pilot dies at 91 - Knoxville News Sentinel | Mr. Needham, a pilot who flew 35 combat missions in a B-17 Flying Fortress - 10 more than required to rotate home - died Tuesday at age 91. He was a longtime and well-known Fountain City businessman and civic leader. Mr. Needham was recalled into ...

Wing Over Wendys - Ask a Flight Instructor | The project is “Wing over Wendys” and it is a book about a group of veteran combat war pilots and aircrew men and women from WW2, Korea, and Vietnam who meet every Monday morning at a Southern California Wendy’s restaurant to honor their service and honor those that never returned from war – Wing’s Over Wendy’s is their story of life, love, sorrow, hope, and love of country. We all need hero’s – and – they are, all our hero’s. Their stories need to be told before their time runs out. These men and women sacrificed for our freedom and this book is for them, their children, and for all of us.

When America stood still for women aviators - Daily Sun | In the first quarter of each year, thousands of women as well as some male aviation professionals from around the globe usually gather at a specific city for the annual Women in Aviation International (WAI) ...

Women of Aviation Week in the April AOPA from Toriaflies | The world’s first licensed female pilot, a French socialite named Raymonde de Laroche, declared in 1910 that flying was ideal for women because it didn’t rely on strength as much as on physical and mental coordination.  No doubt Laroche and ...

Great Bend, Kansas: The center of the aviation universe - General Aviation News | ... The airport was built during World War II and saw service as a training base for B-29 crews. Testament to this is a memorial plaza to honor the B-29, as well as the men and women who kept them flying. ...

Back from Daytona - Lock the Welder | ... For starters, my friend Leo and I found an awsome aircraft museum near Orlando. My other friend Eric, who is a pilot ... told me about it. Anyway we roll down there and find this place; its called “Fantasy of Flight”- a strangly gay name for a place that is anything but. I am going to do a few posts on this place because there is way too much to cover in one. Heres the deal- it is a private museum. The guy who ownes it, and everything inside, is named Kermit. I dont remember his last name, but he is a certified badass. While we were there he flew in from some other airshow in his p-40 Warhawk! ...

Aviation exhibit Saturday at mall - Ithaca Journal | 12:06 pm Three aviation groups will put on a joint exhibit of models, full scale aircraft and hands-on model simulators from 10 am to 5 pm Saturdayat the Shops at Ithaca Mall. As part of the exhibit, the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation will display ...

The number of licenced Disabled Pilots is growing - NewsMaker | (18th to 20th March) Wheelchair bound paraplegic David McPherson, a pilot who is a member of the Deniliquin Aero Club, organised the event. The get together was also supported by charity Wheelies With Wings. 8 aircraft flew in which were all modified ...

Video:  For you radial engine fanatics.... from Jetcareers forums

British Female Typhoon Pilot Takes to Skies to Keep up The Pressure on Gaddafi. from Planenews Aviation News | With a relaxed air that conceals her steely resolve, this is the lone female RAF pilot flying combat missions over Libya. The woman, who has not been named, is one of ten Typhoon pilots deployed to enforce the no- fly zone by North Africa and blast Colonel Gaddafi's aircraft from the skies.

US Bombs F-15 wreckage...was it a Silent Eagle? from Black Horizon | US fighter planes returned to bomb the crash site of the F-15E Strike Eagle that crash-landed Monday night outside the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi, a senior US defense official confirmed Wednesday to FOX News Channel.  Tuesday night's mission was to ensure that none of the sensitive avionics or parts ended up in enemy hands. It was ...

Reagan National Tower Goes Quiet from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A Boeing 737 out of Miami and an Airbus A320 from Chicago landed at Reagan National Airport very early Wednesday morning, without contacting anyone in the tower but wasn't for lack of trying, the Washington Post reported. The inbound flights were handed off from Potomac TRACON to the tower at Reagan National shortly after midnight. When the tower failed to respond, at least one flight requested assistance from Potomac TRACON. Controllers there used a shout line to ...

Photos: Heliports from PPRuNe Forums | An opportunity to showcase the best (and worst) heliports, helipads and helidecks; past, present and future (designs), from around the world.  ...

IMAGES: Track how was the day that the Boeing 747-8I flew for the first time from CavokBlog


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