Indy Transponder 27-MAR-2011 1925z

COOKEVILLE’S BILL WALKER DIES IN AIR SHOW CRASH - Cookeville Times | Cookeville's Bill Walker, a well known business man, real estate developer and pilot, died Saturday in an air show plane crash in Flager Beach, Florida. A regular participant in air shows and long-standing member of the Red Thunder team, he was flying a WWII Russion fighter plane that went down during the air show and is believed to have been...


Pensacola celebrates century of naval aviation - blog.al.com | PENSACOLA, FLORIDA -- A Florida Panhandle town is taking note of a century of naval aviation. The Pensacola Bay area is celebrating with Blue Angels air shows, concerts, a visit from the USS Iwo Jima, commissioning ceremonies, exhibits at the National Naval Aviation Museum and more...

Tuskegee Airmen present student essay awards at Fantasy of Flight - General Aviation News | POLK CITY, Fla.  — Several Polk County and Tampa area students in elementary through high school gathered on Friday, March 25 at Fantasy of Flight to receive awards from true aviation heroes of World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen...

‘I love the planes' - Walton Sun | TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE - An aerial circus is being played out over the skies of coastal Bay County. Following a full day of flying Saturday, daredevils and aerobatic displays will transverse the skies again Sunday at the 2011 Gulf Coast Salute Open House & Air Show at Tyndall Air Force Base. The action starts at 9 a.m. The Short family came from Ponce de Leon to see this particular air show...

IMAGENS: Ministério da Defesa da França informou que destruiu mais aviões de Kadhafi na Líbia - cavok.com.br | O Ministério da Defesa da França informou no sábado, dia 26 de março, que suas forças aéreas destruíram pelo menos cinco aviões de combate Galeb do líder líbio, Muammar Gaddafi. Segundo o governo francês, também foram abatidos dois helicópteros de combate Mi-35 “que tentavam” entrar em ação na zona de Misrata...

F-100 will join Collings Foundation collection - General Aviation News | An F-100F Super Sabre will join the Collings Foundation’s Vietnam Memorial Flight on Tuesday, March 29, in honor of Vietnam War Hero and Medal of Honor recipient Col. Bud Day, MISTY pilots and all Vietnam Veterans...

Will be gone for a while... - randpeck.blogspot.com | I'm here with Evan Elliott, Aircraft Collections Technician at the Seattle Museum of Flight Air Park across the street from the main Museum complex. Evan and his friends kindly rolled up a set of stairs to their 747, the City of Everett, and gave me an interior tour. I'd arranged for this a few weeks ahead of time when I first knew that I'd have this long SEA layover. So once again, thanks very much to Evan and his colleagues at the Museum for arranging this tour, as well as to John Wegg at AIRWAYS MAGAZINE...

sad to say - Snow Eagles Racing Team | Unless a partner shows up in the next two weeks, I will be taking this year off from racing. I am still going to fly though and try to work towards my instrument rating. I passed my FAA physical which was not fun at all, never had a doctor measure my tattoos to put in the record for tattoos and scars. Yes, I love tattoos, and I have fallen a lot so I do have scars, but to actually measure them took forever. Well I am going for the FAA Wings Basic to get through my BFR starting next month...

CAP NESA MAS Narrative Episode Nearing Completion - Airspeed | Part 2 of the NESA coverage is coming along, slowly but surely. It’s about 12,000 words at the moment and shows little sign of slowing before it has topped 15,000. It’ll be another characteristic epic-length Airspeed episode. And that’s a good thing...

XFU-1 Corsair prototype - aviationheritage.blogspot.com | The prototype XF4U-1 Corsair prototype was a good bit more colorful than most of its successors, with an unpainted fuselage and yellow wings. Available from Corsair Prototype Print, this original 1940s print would make a nice framed display...

Travel digest: Art in Bloom event and EAA Family Flight Fest - Madison.com | The Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh hosts its annual Family Flight Fest on Saturday and Sunday, April 3. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, visitors can: Get a feel for flying in the Wright Flyer and Hot Seat simulators. | Take part in activities in the KidVenture Gallery. | Build a paper airplane to enter in contests. | Assemble and fly a glider. | Participate in the egg-drop/parachute challenge “Houston, We May Have a Problem.”...