Indy Transponder 27-APR-2011 0420z

Upcoming airshow lifting Lynchburg's hospitality industry - News Advance | Lynchburg’s first aviation show in 29 years could draw thousands of customers for local businesses. The May 21-22 show featuring the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration team has sold more than 5,000 tickets so far. The VIP and preferred seating tickets are gone, and the rest are selling quickly, said John Barksdale, the air show’s director...

Grumman TBM Avenger / In The Air - Indy Air show | The TBM saw its first combat in WWII during the Battle of Midway as a low level torpedo bomber against the Japanese fleet.  As the war in the Pacific progressed and the US gained the upper hand, there developed a shortage of targets as most of the enemy shipping was on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

I’m Going To Be A Race Pilot! - I Can Fly | Last week, I was so excited when my Kristen Jurn called me up to ask if I wanted to race a Cirrus with her in June for the all women’s air race!  That’s right everyone, I am adding to my many titles, “Race Pilot.”  The race is called The Air Race Classic and it will be from June 20th-24th, race through 11 different states beginning in Iowa City and ending in Mobile, Alabama...

From Airfighters.com:
First Runner Up for April 27, 2011
Top of 24 Hours for April 27, 2011
Third Runner Up for April 27, 2011

Podcast: Mayday! Pilots In Distress Describe 'Punching Out' - NPR | When a military aviator's plane is in trouble — big trouble — sometimes the only option is to "punch out," or bail out of the aircraft in the rocket-powered ejection seat. In Punching Out, Air Force veteran James Cross shares stories of the small number of pilots and aviators who have survived rocketing out of their planes...

B-26 / B-17 WASP Pilot Betty Wall – Warbird Radio LIVE! - Warbird Radio | WEDNESDAY – B-26 / B-17 WASP Pilot Elizabeth ”Betty” Wall joins us for a special Warbird Radio LIVE!  Find out what it was like to fly the B-26 and much more.  Tune in tomorrow morning at 10am (EASTERN) to hear the LIVE broadcast.  For more information on Betty just click on the Quick Link posted below.  Thanks for listening!

Warbird Radio Presents – EAA’s Timeless Voices Interview With Danny Russell - Warbird Radio | EC-47 crew member Danny Russell talks about his experiences in Vietnam during this special Warbird Radio Presents.  Our thanks to the Experimental Aviation Association and Zach Baughman for making this program possible...

Airport renamed after Sawyer - Demopolis Times | The Demopolis City Council voted Thursday to rename its regional airport in honor of its local aviation community’s most prominent member, Julian D. “Buzz” Sawyer. A staple at the now former Demopolis Municipal Airport for 22 years, Sawyer has worked to elevate the status of the facility from a field into one of approximately 25 regional airports in the state...

VIDEO: Eshelman Flying Flounder NX28993 (1942) - AIRBOYD | United News Newsreel (amazing - it flies!)

Plan to scrap U. of I. aviation program stalls - Chicago Tribune | CHAMPAIGN -- A move to close down the University of Illinois' Aviation program as a cost-saving measure has stalled. The Champaign-Urbana campus' faculty-student Senate voted 57-54 Monday against the proposal to shut down the program while continuing to offer an aviation-related master's degree...

VIDEO: STS-134 Astronauts Arrive at Launch Site - Spaceports | STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly and the five members of his crew arrived at the Kennedy Space Center following their flight from Houston in their NASA T-38 aircraft. Kelly, pilot Greg Johnson, mission specialists Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori are scheduled to liftoff at 3:47 pm EDT Friday, April 29, 2011 aboard space shuttle Endeavour...