Sunday, May 1, 2011

Indy Transponder 01-MAY-2011 2115z

'JetMan' Yves Rossy Will Fly Through Grand Canyon On Jet Pack from Aviation | Yves Rossy, nicknamed 'JetMan', is a Swiss engineer and aviator. Being the first man to achieve sustained human flight with a jet pack, Rossy has flown across the Geneva river, the Alps, the English Channel, and partway through the Strait of Gibraltar (he had to ditch in the ocean because of bad weather but was unharmed). He is planning another feat on Friday, May 6 this month. This time, he will be flying across the Grand Canyon in Arizona. ...
   
2011 Beaufort Air Show - ABC NEWS 4 | The Blue Angels, the Navy's flight performance squadron, is the special act. The team is known for its precision flying and formations. "I wanted to come out and hang out for a bit just wanted to say the Marines did a really good job at the air station ...
   
Airport celebrates with air show - Mackay Daily Mercury | HEADS were pointed skywards towards spectacular aerobatics and vintage aircraft yesterday, as thousands of spectators turned up for the 2011 Grand Airshow, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Whitsunday airport. Young and old were treated to the ...

Skies come alive for classic - Toowoomba Chronicle | More than 430 vintage and classic motor vehicles were on display to the large crowd along with about 35 classic motor cycles, trucks, hot rods, utes, military vehicles, racing cars and, of course, the historic planes and warbirds. ...

Wings & Wheels runs this May in Toronto - Autos.ca | The show is produced by the Canadian Air & Space Museum and is its biggest annual fundraiser. Among the vehicles expected on display will be a 1937 LaSalle, 1937 Cord, 1939 Chrysler, 1940 Packard, 1941 Cadillac, and a Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius ...

Aeronautics: Arrows, party Looking for the 120 club - ANSA.it | (ANSA) - PUT (UDINE), 1 MAG - Big party today all'aerobase Rivolto (Udine), where the Arrows tricolor claimed the last acrobatic training before the first official exhibition, Sunday, May 8 at the patrol Bari and 'performed ...

IAF holds air show in Vadodara to cumlinate Guj golden jubilee - IBNLive.com | The air show included thrilling demonstrations of sky diving by the ''Air Devil'' team known for its capability to jump from the height of 30000 feet using hot-air balloons and through micro-light aircraft. The Air Devil sky diving Team is under ...

EDITOR’S BLOG: It’s show time!!! by Flightline UK | After a long winter it’s finally the start of the airshow season with the Shuttleworth Collection’s Spring Air Display getting things underway under clear blue skies, but a brisk cool easterly wind keeping temperatures down.  The forthcoming airshow season is probably going to one of the most challenging for airshow orgainsers.  ...

Golden Knights tandem team and Virginia's First Lady jump at Dinwiddie Airport - Progress Index | Bob McDonnell's daughter, Cailin, parachutes with the Golden Knights at Dinwiddie Airport on Friday. DINWIDDIE - Maureen McDonnell is used to seeing Virginia as the state's first lady - but it's not every day that she sees it falling from 12000 feet. ...

Leap Frogs Get a Jump on Drake Relays, Des Moines Community from U.S. Navy News Headline Stories | The U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, performed for nearly 22,000 track and field enthusiasts during the opening ceremonies of the 102nd Drake Relays, America's Athletic Classic, at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, April 29 and 30. ...

Daredevil races in the sky - The Standard | However, the first air race took place in Missouri, US in 1908. Participants piloted four aircraft around a designated course, says Wikipedia. During the event, two of the pilots went off-course due to strong winds, and the other two successfully ...
   
Honor Flight of Northern Colorado recognizes WWII, Korean War veterans - The Coloradoan | During World War II, Donald Deppe earned the rank of sergeant by renovating munitions that were sent to troops overseas. He served in the Army from 1942-1946 and spent much of his time in Hawaii. Deppe was one of hundreds of World War II and Korean War ...

TheAviatorsTV: I posted 19 photos on Facebook in the album "More Season 2 Filming" 
Photos: Aviator memorialized with courthouse banner - The Times Herald | US Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason "Jake" Moletzsky was killed in a 2009 collision of his plane and a Marine helicopter. At noon Sunday, he was memorialized in his hometown at the Montgomery County Court House. ...

Museum of Aviation aircraft to be moved Monday - The Warner Robins Patriot | An aircraft from the Museum of Aviation will be moved to Robins Air Force Base Monday morning to be re-painted. It will travel about a mile and then be moved through a gate used specifically for moving aircrafts on and off ...

Naval-Aerial Power - Carrier Battle Groups from Aviation by K.P.  | ... As an example of the composition of a typical carrier battle group, here's what the French Charles de Gaulle carrier battle group usually consists of:  the carrier air wing - about 40 aircraft,  a submarine  ...

Another scrub - Endeavour a no-go for Monday. from Black Horizon | No Launch Attempt Monday, Teams to Replace APU Heater Power Box | Technicians and engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are narrowing in on the likely source of what caused heaters on a fuel line for space shuttle Endeavour’s auxiliary power unit-1 (APU-1) to fail on Friday and scrubbing  ...

For Paul Dye (and of course, anyone else) from VAF Forums | A fella posted this on another aviation site I visit. VERY cool!

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