Indy Transponder 07-APR-2011 0429z

Sun 'n Fun 2011 - Air Show Photography - Final Gear | Some airshow pics from this year's Sun 'n Fun. I got too many good ones this time around to post them all, but here's the best of in various categories:

History Takes Flight In WWII Bomber, Fighter Tour - Fredericksburg Standard | Starting this afternoon, the skies over Gillespie County will be home through Friday to several aircraft from World War II and the Vietnam War as part of a three-day “Wings of Freedom Tour”...

Bomber highlighting show - Ennis Daily News | A storied World War II-era bomber will be one of the centerpieces of next month’s Corsicana Airshow. With the distinction of being just one of 12 flyable B-17 Bombers from World War II, Texas Raiders is the most recent to emerge from an eight-year extensive restoration at Houston’s Hobby Airport...

Swoop Champion SFC Greg Windmiller - US Army Golden Knights | When asked as a child, what do you want to be when you grow up? I, unlike other children, had no reservations, no doubt in my mind and no hesitation in answering the question as to what I wanted to do with my life. I longed to be one of my favorite childhood toys. It wasn’t Stretch Armstrong, The Lone Ranger and not even Evel Knievel. Well, ok maybe a little bit of Evel Knievel, but mostly I wanted to be one of those little green army men that came in the plastic bags that we would play with as a child...

Cosford Air Show to get sneak preview of aerobatic display team routine - Flightline UK | Visitors to this year’s Cosford Air Show will be treated to a first look at the new moves of aerobatic flying team The Blades. Comprising four Extra 300 stunt planes flown in an array of intricate manoeuvres, The Blades – now in their sixth consecutive display season...

Airport to honor Bill Walker with plaque - Herald-Citizen | SPARTA -- A memorial plaque will be dedicated at the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport to commemorate a long-time pilot who died recently while performing stunts at a Florida airshow...

FRED CAMPBELL: The few POWs remaining in the Concho Valley represent history - Go San Angelo | SAN ANGELO, Texas — Recently after church my wife and I entered the drive-thru at the Burger King on Knickerbocker Road. The line was long as we moved up to get our hamburgers. When we finally got to the window to pay, the cashier said, "The people in the car behind you are paying for your lunch, and they want to thank you for your service."...

Focke Wulf to fly our skies - Marlborough Express | A vintage Ferrari of the skies is being reassembled at Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre at Blenheim. The Focke Wulf Fw190 should be airworthy and ready to face off against its rival, the Supermarine Spitfire, at the Classic Fighters Airshow at Omaka Airfield during Easter weekend...

Heritage centre has 'good chance' of getting free Skyhawk - Marlborough Express | The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim has made it clear it wants one of the mothballed air force Skyhawks, centre chief executive Jane Orphan says. Defence Minister Wayne Mapp yesterday announced nine of the air force's 17 Skyhawks will be sent to eight aviation museums in New Zealand and one to an Australian museum...

Podcast: WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE! - Warbird Radio | The WIX guys are back tonight with an all new show...

U.S. Navy Battle Cats Land at American Heroes Air Show - Rotor.com | Buckle up for high-flying excitement when the U.S. Navy HSL-43 Battle Cats arrive from their base in San Diego to team up with the American Heroes Air Show – just one part of the admission-free American Heroes Weekend at the Texas Military Forces’ historic Camp Mabry in the heart of Austin...

Friends line up for space shuttle bids - BizJournals.com | In the bid to land one of NASA’s three retired space shuttles, due to be announced next week, it appears as though everyone has a friend in the fight. Earlier today, Washington’s Congressional delegation released a joint statement asking NASA to award Seattle’s Museum of Flight one of the retiring space shuttles...

“Gagarin” Spacecraft Flew Into Space - English Russia | The 50th anniversary of the first manned flight into space is coming up. All Russia is preparing for its celebration. And yesterday, on the 5th of April, the Soyuz-FG rocket and Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft (named after Yuri Gagarin) were launched from ...

International Space Station Expedition 27: Soyuz launch (big photo gallery) - Boing Boing | The Russian Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Ronald Garan, Russian cosmonauts Alexandr Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko, blasts off at the...