Saturday, April 23, 2011

Indy Transponder 23-APR-2011 1030z

Pearl Harbor, The Doolittle Raid, And An Epic Film Project: Wounded Tiger by Martt - As of just a few days ago, on April 18th, it’s been 69 years since the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo took place. This event significantly changed America’s involvement in the Pacific side of the war. Led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, 80 courageous airmen took off in their B-25’s from the deck of the USS Hornet about 650 miles from Tokyo in the western Pacific ocean...

Tornado causes injuries as it rips through St. Louis airport – Live Tornado Coverage  by Homeland Security NTARC News - Several people at Lambert Airport in St. Louis were injured Friday after an apparent tornado touched down, spewing debris over the airfield, bursting glass in the concourse and damaging cars atop a parking garage. The tornado was part of a series of strong storms that struck central and eastern Missouri. Unconfirmed tornadoes were reported in [...]

Inaugural Boscobel int'l Air Show begins today - Jamaica Observer | Tomorrow the James Bond Beach will come alive with the world's best aerobatic performers thrilling the crowd with scintillating stunts from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. "Among those set to 'rip up' the skies are stunt pilots such as Fred Cabanas, ...

Bahamas Out Island Students Salutes Sun 'n Fun High Flyers - thebahamasweekly.com | Fort Lauderdale, FL – The presence and participation of The Islands Of The Bahamas at the recent Sun 'n Fun aviation show, Lakeland,, FL, was highlighted by personal, individual presentations made to aviation greats by winners ...

Extreme "Unboxing" Video Goes Airborne – Avweb | It seems reviewers at TheNextWeb.com have realized this because, instead of a desk, they chose the cockpit of a flying Extra aerobatic aircraft in full-flail mode to unbox a new cellphone. The results are, perhaps, predictable -- we don't learn much ...

Plane replica as good as the real thing - 3News NZ | “He has a huge passion for the history and that's reflected in some of machines we'll be seeing this weekend and of course which people can see every weekend at the Aviation Heritage Centre, so very, very fortunate to have some of that calibre in the ...

It's a deal: Skyhawk bound for Bay museum - The Bay of Plenty Times | A Skyhawk fighter jet will go on display at Tauranga aviation museum Classic Flyers. Photo / File. One of the most significant fighter jets in New Zealand's aviation history will soon touch down for the final time - at Tauranga aviation museum Classic ...

Profile 44 - "28" as flown by Harold Thune  from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | And there it is.  "28" - a workaday F6F-5 as flown by Lt. Harold Thune of the USS Intrepid, circa Fall, 1944.  Yesterday morning, Harold signed prints of my hack, passing them down the table to his son, a US Senator, where he too penciled his name…  

Virgin Galactic's Tourist Spaceship Makes Longest Test Flight Yet  from SPACE.com | SpaceShipTwo's fifth glide test lasted more than 14 minutes, the longest yet for the new passenger space plane…

Case M-1 Astronaut Knife  from The Unwanted Blog | Made for the Gemini and Apollo capsules, and sold to the public in the late 1960′s/early 1970′s. Pretty much a machete. Why would astronauts need a machete? Well… just because the capsules were supposed to land in the ocean under the watchful eye of the US Navy doesn’t mean that that’s where they necessarily would land.

Today in Aviation History – April 23  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

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