Thursday, April 7, 2011

Indy Transponder 07-APR-2011 1030z

Thunderbirds swoop in - Charleston Post Courier | The Air Force Thunderbirds team arrived under a screech of high decibels Wednesday to begin two days of practice before Saturday's 2011 Air Expo at the Charleston Air Force Base. On cue, six sleek F-16 Fighting Falcons touched down after giving base ...

WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 Thunderbirds arrive at Joint Base Charleston - ABC NEWS 4 | "If you never been to an air show before, you can expect to see a lot of jets going fast, flying lower, and very closely next to each other, " Said Captain Nicholas Holmes. "We're expecting between fifty and eighty-thousand people," said Lieutenant ...

BURGER COLUMN: Riding high over the Holy City at 5 Gs - Charleston Post Courier | That's where I was Wednesday afternoon when I flew with Greg Poe, one of the featured performers for this weekend's air show at Charleston Air Force Base. Post and Courier columnist Ken Burger flies with stunt pilot Greg Poe who will perform in ...

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, ...

Wings, Wheels and Wine outgrows annual event - Mudgeee Guardian | After seven years as an annual event, festival managers Mudgee Aero Club have confirmed the event will now occur only every second autumn, citing simple logistics as the reason for the decision. “We're only a small club and it's a big ask for a ...

2011_Wings_Over_Gillespie - ag1caf.org | On June 3-5, 2011 Air Group One (AG-1), the San Diego wing of the Commemorative Air Force, will present the 16th Wings Over Gillespie Air Show at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, CA. Due to the new SR-52 extension that now connects to SR-67, Gillespie Field is now more accessible than ever. AG-1, a long…

Air show could return next year - News-Press Now |The word leaked out at several recent St. Joseph meetings that the community is preparing for another air show in 2012. “The intent of the St. Joseph Metro Chamber, Buchanan County, the city of St. Joseph and the 139th Airlift Wing of the Missouri Air ...

Service Credit Union sponsor for 2011 air show at Pease - Seacoastonline.com | By Charles McMahon PORTSMOUTH — The 2011 Boston-Portsmouth Air Show may be a few months away, but the buzz of a visit from some of the nation's elite pilots and performers is already beginning to ripple throughout the Seacoast. ...

Supermarine Award-Winning Seafire Mk. XV Scheduled for Salute to Veterans Air Show in Columbia, MO  from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | Wes Stricker's 2010 AA Prize-winning warbird Supermarine Seafire will be part of the Salute to Veterans Corporation Airshow this Memorial Day weekend.  See http://salute.org/index.shtm for all of the details!

KEVIN CROMBIE AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP TO TRAIN AT PURDUE from Welcome to Able Flight - Kevin Crombie's mother Trish laughs when she tells the story of one of Kevin's first "flights". It seems that the eight year-old had convinced a friend to tie a rope to Kevin's wheelchair, throw it over a rafter in the family's barn and tie the other end to a riding lawnmower. With the mower they would lift Kevin into the air, allowing him to "fly" his wheelchair. The boys only got caught when it was discovered they had shot a video of Kevin's first aeronautical adventure…

World War II planes take to Hayward sky this weekend - Daily Review Online | The Liberty Foundation -- a nonprofit dedicated to preserving aviation's past -- has brought to town the famous Boeing B-17 Liberty Belle "flying fortress" bomber and the rare Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft. The restored aircrafts will be on ...

'Aeroplane' flight stutters, public unimpressed - Otago Daily Times | Such of the public as have journeyed to the flying grounds at Papakura in the hope of seeing the Walsh aeroplane go up have mostly been greatly disappointed. The occasions upon which it has left the ground have been few, and have in almost every case ...

Air Force's deep ties to shuttle are Dayton's unique advantage - Dayton Daily News | The Dayton Development Coalition, National Aviation Heritage Alliance, National Aviation Hall of Fame, the Air Force Museum Foundation and others have been working behind the scenes, urging the writing of letters to NASA, encouraging fundraising and ...

Naval Air Station celebrates American pride - Shore News Today | Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum (NASW) will celebrate “American Pride Day” on Saturday June 4 in commemoration of the Centennial of Naval Aviation, Cape May County Veterans and NASA astronauts. The event is designed to celebrate the ...

Museum honors space exploration - Arizona Daily Star | A daylong celebration of 50 years of space exploration, named "Yuri's Night" in honor of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, will be held Saturday at the Pima Air & Space Museum, 6000 E. Valencia Road. Yuri's Night will feature presentations ...

Buffalo museum being booted from downtown arena - Danbury News Times | BUFFALO, NY (AP) — A museum that tells the story of western New York's vital role in aviation history is being booted from its home in a Buffalo arena. The NHL's Buffalo Sabres announced Tuesday that they won't renew the HSBC Arena lease for the Ira G ...

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 ...

Prolific Artist, Multiple Events - Litchfield County Times | Mr. Minor's latest effort is “Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic,” whose title succinctly describes the rich and lavishly-illustrated tale from aviation history that the book tells. Mr. Minor will be signing copies of the book, ...

9/11 FIRST RESPONDER AWARDED FIRST ABLE FLIGHT CAREER TRAINING SCHOLARSHIP from Welcome to Able Flight - NYC firefighter Paul Lampasso had injured his knee fighting a fire in Queens and was on limited duty when his brother Albert called him on the morning of September 11, 2001 and asked "Are you seeing this?". Albert was also a member of the FDNY and was off duty that morning. He told Paul he was on his way to pick him up, and the two brothers went to Ground Zero to see what they could do to help. And though his previous injury would soon lead to his forced medical retirement from the fire department, that morning and for days afterward, Paul Lampasso responded…

Frederick Tops Female Flight Drive  from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Frederick Airport in Maryland, home airport of AOPA, earned another distinction during Women of Aviation World Week in March. A total of 22 pilots gave free introductory flights to 185 girls and women to claim the title of Most Female Pilot Friendly Airport in the World. "This accomplishment set a new world record for most girls and women introduced to flying in one day and one location...," said organizer Mireille Goyer, a Vancouver, BC flight school owner. Most of the flying took place outside the sunbelt but regardless of location there were some gritty performances turned in by volunteers trying to hook girls and women on aviation…

Pilots Pitch Aviation to Women - www.youtube.com | Ladies, do you think aviation is just for the boys? CNS-TV Reporter Stephanie Woods talked to some female pilots who want to change your mind, 25 hundred feet up in the air. Published March 16, 2011. Copyright University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

How Time Flies 04/07/11 - Bloomington Pantagraph | April 7, 1936: Aviatrix Amelia Earhart spoke to a crowd at the Coliseum. She spoke of her own experiences and predicted that personal airplanes are not far in the future. Miss Earhart stayed at the Illinois Hotel, and requested no fanfare. ...

Cessna Gives Students an Elegant GIFT  from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler | Feedback, information on what students have done correctly, where they need work, and how to make the necessary improvements, is key to any educational program. Its quality and value depends on a flight instructor’s ability to immediately measure performance against quantifiable standards and articulate specific corrections the student can act on…

CoolPix: Sun-n-Fun Heat Wave - F-22 Raptor Style!  by Martt |  I posted this F-22 Raptor pic as a small version just a few days back in a Sun-n-Fun pic stream, but it's so awesome that I just had to let you see it in a big CoolPix version. The heat waves not only represent the power of the two big Pratt & Whitney F119 engines, they also do some cool things distortion wise with the fuselage and the background off in the distance. The best part to me tho is looking up inside the tailpipes and actually seeing the engines inside… 

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