Saturday, March 26, 2011

Indy Transponder 26-MAR-2011 1130z

RIVERSIDE: Big plane will highlight today's air show - Press-Enterprise | Ray McCorkle, Sarah's grandfather, the head of security for the air show, promised her a tour of the plane including the cockpit. Fowler is the loadmaster for the plane, which is 174 feet long and has a capacity of 170900 pounds. ...

Numbers soaring for air show - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Imagine a box in space that is 1000 feet wide and 5000 feet long from the ground to a mile high sitting over an airport. This is where all the Wings Over Flagler action will happen today and Sunday. ...

Tyndall Base Is Hub Of Activity, Hours Before The Show - WMBB-TV | Spirits are flying high in anticipation of the Tyndall air show this weekend. Thousands of people are expected to descend upon the base to watch some of the most advanced planes in the world take to the sky. Venders started to set out their lemonade ...

CALENDAR OF PERFORMANCES OF PAN-ARROWS TRICOLORI YEAR 2011 - from Aviation-Report.com by Matteo …Officially announced by the Ministry of Defense - Air Force General Staff of the Italian calendar of performances Acrobatic Training Squadron 313 - Tricolour Arrows - aerobatic team:

FOLLONICA AIR SHOW - May 22, 2011 (display)
GAETA AIR SHOW - May 29, 2011 (display)
DAY OF THE REPUBLIC - June 2, 2011 (overflight)
JESOLO AIR SHOW - June 12, 2011 (display)
CARRARA AIR SHOW - June 19, 2011 (display)
GRADE AIR SHOW - June 26, 2011 (display)
CHIOGGIA between sky and sea - July 10, 2011
FANO AIR SHOW - July 31, 2011 (display)
AIR TOUR OF SICILY - August 7, 2011 (display)
LIGNANO AIR SHOW - August 15, 2011 (display)
CAGLIARI AIR SHOW - September 4, 2011 (display)
GALLIPOLI AIR SHOW - September 18, 2011 (display)
Unity Day 'NATIONAL - Armed Forces Day - November 4, 2011 (overflight)

As always a pretty rich program that covers almost the entire peninsula, it certainly indicates a lack of display / contributions abroad. We will keep you informed on the evolution of the main events mentioned above as they become available more information.

Rocky beginnings on Blue Angels planning - Twin Falls Times-News | Before then: Air show organizers have 16 months to plan, raise funds and hash out the other details needed to put on the event. The journey to a US Navy Blue Angels air show in the Magic Valley trolled over some rocky ground Thursday, ... and more »

Reunion of Man and Machine - WKRG-TV | They were convinced to make a stop in Fairhope on their way to an airshow in Meridian, Ms, and meet Fritz. Turns out, Fritz may be one of only two surviving former WWII pilots to fly the Hell Diver. The other lives in Arizona. ...

Fully Restored B-25 Bomber In Town For Tyndall Air Show - American Banking News | “Fully Restored B-25 Bomber In Town For Tyndall Air Show” is categorized as “local”. This video was licensed from Grab Networks. For additional video content, click the “video” tab at the top of this page. If you are a new American Banking & Market ... and more »

Letter: Marking Discovery's last flight - SouthCoastToday.com | But I was the daughter of a World War II B-17 pilot, so I knew a lot more about "things that fly in the sky" than she realized. I grew up during the "Space Age," was addicted to Star Trek, and watched the first moon landing and the Challenger disaster ...

WWII pilot reunites with plane similar to one he flew - WALA-TV FOX10 | Texas Commemorative Air Force pilot Mark Allen has been flying this last-of-its-kind plane for the last five years. “This particular type, the SB2C-L Diver, flew a very, a great deal of missions over the war,” Allen said. “In fact, it sank more tonnage ...

St. Louis Aviation Pioneer Carl "Chub" Wheeler, 99, Honored by Local Daedalian Flight from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | Carl "Chub" Wheeler was honored for a lifetime of achievement in aviation at last night's local Daedalian Flight meeting.  For Wheeler, who will turn 100 years old later this year, that is close to two lifetimes for the rest of us!   He learned to fly at Curtiss-Steinberg Airport (later Parks Airport and now St. Louis Downtown Airport) in 1934, earned his private and transport licenses, operated a flight school, taught Army Air Corps pilots during World War II, managed the renamed Parks Airport in the 1950s, flew corporate DC-3s for Monsanto and the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and continued flying his vintage Fairchild 24 for years after "retirement."…

"Thank you for service" event to be held for veterans - The Tennessean | The event runs from 11 am to 7 pm The organizations participating in this year's event include Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 240, the American Legion Post 17 in Gallatin, Rolling Thunder, Disabled American Veterans, Korea Veterans of America, ...

Arizona woman presents Pope with Guinness World Record medal - Catholic News Agency | Pope Benedict XVI greeted 28-year-old Jessica Cox following his March 23 general audience. Cox, a pilot, earned a Guinness World Record in 2008 for being the first woman to fly an airplane using only her feet. Cox earned the award and official medal in ...

Pilotcast #085 - Adventure Training  from Pilotcast - Aviation Podcast for Pilots, by Pilots | Adventure Training - The PilotCast crew banters around ideas with respected author and CFI Greg Brown, to discover ways to bring the sense of adventure back into flight training. From building a sense of community for new students, to rethinking the flight training curriculum, CFI pay, and becoming a pep-talk-giver yourself, no topics are off limits in this exciting episode…

More than 4. XB-70 Valkyrie  from Planeshots:  

Nuclear Powered B-52  from The Unwanted Blog | In 1952, Fairchild Aircraft was hard at work on the NEPA program (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft), designing a range of airframes for nuclear powerplants. One such study was the N-14 configuration… an all-nuclear modification of the Boeing XB-52. (See APR issue V2N5 for info on the N-22 configuration)…

 
 

Hey there, blimpy boy  from High Power Rocketry by R2K | The dirigible is pretty great, but really the ladders are blowing my mind the most. Can you imagine being at the top of one? What if it starts to roll away?

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