Indy Transponder 05-APR-2011 0300z

    
ABC 13 Anchors Chosen To Be Part of Lynchburg Airshow - WSET | Monday afternoon, the president of the Lynchburg Regional Airshow Jones Stanley presented Len Stevens and Shelley Basinger with letters saying they had been selected to be a part of next month's event. Len will get to take a ride with the Blue Angels ...

COUNTRY STAR AARON TIPPIN, NIGHT AIR SHOW MAKE FOR ‘SUPER SATURDAY’ AT AIRVENTURE 2011 from indytransponder | From sunrise to well past sunset, a “Super Saturday” filled with must-see features, attractions, and activities awaits attendees on July 30 at EAA AirVenture 2011, including country star Aaron Tippin in concert followed by the widely popular Night Air Show and Daher-Socata Fireworks. The 59th annual edition of “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration” will be held July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. ...

Greetings Race Nuts! from Indy Air Race | It’s been said that “It’s a big country – you need a fast airplane,” and we agree!  The Sport Air Racing League exists to promote open course air racing for experimental and production aircraft. If we happen to be 500 feet off the deck with everything forward and racing against the clock, all the better!  With the increasing proliferation of high performance experimental aircraft comes a need for a racing league for experimental pilot/owners who do not have the deep pockets necessary to race at Reno, even in the Sport Class. And we're not leaving out the production classes. Every race nut is welcome. ...

World famous Red Arrows to return to Lakes festival - NW Evening Mail | The RAF team will be a major attraction at the restyled Windermere Air Festival in July. The festival was run for years by the Windermere Rotary Club, founders of the event. But organising the festival has been passed to Bluestone Events of Kendal, ...

Caboolture to host aviation spectacular - Caboolture Shire Herald | Caboolture Aero Club president John Dawson said the club was ``so proud'' to have the festival in Caboolture. ``The quality of the planes that we'll display here on the ground will blow the average enthusiast's mind,'' he said. ...

Air Show Etiquette - JAF Home | As the weather improves in the east i am looking forward to attending at least one air show this year. Even for the non-aviation enthusiast, an air show is a must see. To view the aerial displays is the key element but it is a chance to see and understand a technology that we take for granted. I have observed people who go to these events and never really “get it.”. So go to a show but please do these things: ...

Air show finds there's no such thing as a free lunch - The Canberra Times | Avalon Airshow organisers say the event will fold if Defence chiefs don't relax ''draconian'' hospitality policies, a federal MP has claimed. Western Australian Liberal Warren Jensen has criticised the failure of ...

Some Interviews with Bob Hoover | Movie Monday from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt | The famed Jimmy Doolittle referred to Bob Hoover as “the greatest stick and rudder pilot who ever lived.” Mr Hoover also counts some of the best known aviators and astronauts as personal friends and acquaintances including Orville Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. Of course, none of that is at all surprising when you consider the man was Chuck Yeager’s backup on the first supersonic flight. Mr. Hoover is a fellow Tennessean having been born in Nashville in 1922. He learned to fly at Berry Field, which is now Nashville International Airport. ...

From Evan | I just want to share my 7th grade science project http://www.vimeo.com/21900206 I think all my aviator friends will like it!  Also, there are some new pictures of Eddie Andreini's P-51 at the bottom of this page http://evanflys.com/44-73079 It's almost ready to fly! Evan

Profile 47 - Chance Vought Kingfisher from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles | ... This morning, I started out having breakfast with a medic assigned to McArthur's "return" to the Philippines circa 1944.  Then, a new acquaintance let me know that a pilot assigned to the USS South Dakota (battleship) was not only alive but had sold his Harley last year.  Would he like to have his plane memorialized for all digital-eternity? ...

A Stunningly Simple Solution - Memphis Daily News | Most people interested in World War II history know about and understand the importance of the Boeing B-17's role in winning the war. If you live in Memphis, you probably know about a particular B-17 nicknamed “Memphis Belle,” the first United States ...

Old School Watercolor: 7 Extraordinary WWI Aviation Paintings from ASB.tv | It’s great to see aviation venture outside of its boundaries and enter the realm of other interests and hobbies.  One example is with art.  Take a look at the following vintage watercolor paintings of airplanes from the World War I era!  They were painted by Riccardo Caviglioli (1895-1975), an Italian painter and  ...

Robots discovered the wreckage of French aircraft - mondo | Avion Air France "with 228 passengers and crew members, who first June 2009. The flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, was stormed at high altitudes in the storm with thunder, and then crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. There were no survivors. ...

Lindbergh Foundation Announces First Aviation Green® Alliance Founder from AMTOnline.com | Hawker Beechcraft Corporation has become its first Aviation Green Alliance founding member.

Video: Soyuz TMA-21 Now in Orbit of Earth from Spaceports | Soyuz TMA-21 'Gagarin' / Expedition 27 lifts-off from the Kazakhstan spaceport with American NASA astronaut  ...

Elon Musk Press Conference 11:20 AM Tue. from Spaceports | [Tim] Hughes [of SpaceX] said that SpaceX is planning on pushing ahead to fly the ‘Falcon 9 Heavy,’ which adds two strap-ons to the Falcon 9 first stage, according to The Lurio Report.  The recent SpaceX video shows near the end shows the date “04.05.11,” a silhouette of a Falcon 9 Heavy, and ...