Thursday, May 5, 2011

Indy Transponder 05-MAY-2011 1000z

2011 air show act has new angle - Shreveport Times | Special to The Times Who: Air Combat Command F-22 (below) Demo Team; Tora! Tora! Tora! re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; the Skyhawks Canadian Parachute Demo Team; and aerial demonstration pilots Greg Poe ...

Stunt Plane Pilot Showcases New Bird For Defenders Of Liberty KTBS | The 31st annual Defenders of Liberty Air Show gets underway this weekend and it will play host to some of the best in the United States Air Force, and Greg Poe of Greg Poe Air Shows will also be on hand. For Poe this will be his fifth visit to ...

Look to skies over Smyrna for Great Tennessee Air Show - The Daily News Journal | This weekend's signature aviation event will also include performances by air show legends Gene Soucy and Wing Walker Teresa Stokes; Michael Goulian, USA pilot in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship; Jason Newburg flying the Viper; Cheryl Stearns, ...

World Air Master competition held in Chongqing Xinhua | Pilots and air fans gathered for dazzling aerobatic performances. Colored smoke trails emphasize the flight path, drawing gasps from onlookers. After three days of competing, South African Nigel Hopkins won the World Air Master title with a stunning ...

They're Here! And They're Huge. WWII Bombers Fly Into Ramona - Patch.com | B-17 and B-24 bombers and a P-51B Mustang stunned onlookers who were eagerly awaiting their arrival at Ramona Airport Wednesday. Pilot Jayson Owen of Kodiak, Alaska flew the massive World War II era B-24 bomber into Ramona Airport as part of the Wings ...

Story of audacious retrieval to be subject of museum presentation - The Warner Robins Patriot | The finished product – dubbed “Glacier Girl” – made its first flight in October of 2002, one of only a few flyable P-38s in the world. It is now owned by Rod Lewis and based in San Antonio. Epps said the Schoffner family sold “Glacier Girl” to a broker ...

90-year-old former pilot a part of aviation history - Pensacola News Journal | Former Marine enlisted pilot Burrel Sumner thumbs through one of his four flight logbooks after returning to Sherman Field at Pensacola Naval Air Station Wednesday morning May 4, 2011. The former Marine F4U Corsair pilot returned to the skies in a ...

Two Books We Recommend Highly  from Flight Monkeys | Neal Thompson is a former newspaper reporter who took a chance assignment and turned it into a career change. The request was to write a couple paragraphs for the obituary of a deceased astronaut, Alan Shepard. The career change came as the result of Neal’s realization that there was no serious biography of America’s first man in space...

Today in Aviation History – May 5  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Navy SEAL Black Hawk was no ordinary chopper - abc7.com | Aviation analysts say the remnants of the aircraft reveal they were part of one of the US military's most closely-guarded secret: A stealth Black Hawk helicopter whose existence was only rumored. It had never been seen in public before. ...

Why yes, you may ask about the stealth helicopters  from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza | The wreckage of a downed chopper, blown to smithereens by Navy Seals unwilling to leave it in foreign hands, was the last remnant of their mission left inside Osama Bin Laden's compound. It left under wraps, on the back of a truck laden with Pakistani soldiers. At Wired, David Axe offers a thorough guide to the high-tech mystery copter, and what aviation experts know about it…

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