Indy Transponder 20-MAY-2011 1912z

Navy's Blue Angels set to fly high next weekend - The Daily Journal | MILLVILLE -- The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels touch down at the municipal airport next week to start final preparations for the 2011 Wheels and Wings Airshow. Meanwhile, the hosting Millville Army Air Field Museum says "tickets are selling like hotcakes" for the May 28-29 air show...

VIDEO: Bird's eye preview of the Andrews Air Force Base Airshow - Washington Post | Lieutenant Colonel John Klatt has loved planes all of his life, flying planes for the Air National Guard out of college and earning his wings from the Air Force in Texas. Now, he flies aerobatic planes as well as C-130s and F-16s...

Rockford AirFest 2011 to Honor Two U.S. Navy Rear Admirals - WIFR | Rockford AirFest 2011 will honor two U.S. Navy Rear Admirals, the third-highest rank in the Navy, as the AirFest Honorary Chairmen. Rear Adm. Paul A. Grosklags, a DeKalb native, and Rear Adm. William K. Lescher, a Highland Park native, have each served for approximately three decades. As AirFest Honorary Chairmen, they will be personally recognized at the show, June 4 and 5 at Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD)...

Wings of Freedom Tour Roars Into The Bay Area - Examiner | Soon many Bay Area residents will look to the sky and see a rare and amazing site: two giant World War Two four engine bombers roaring by.  Get ready folks, the Wings of Freedom Tour is coming to a Bay Area Airport near you!  The event is part of a nation-wide, 130 city annual tour courtesy of the non-profit Collings Foundation, based in Stow, Mass.  The Collings Foundation owns and operates a collection of vintage historic aircraft and cars...

CAF to Host WASP Reunion at AIRSHO 2011 - Indy Transponder | Midland, Texas (May 20, 2011) — The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is proud to announce that it will be hosting a reunion of Women Air Service Pilots (WASP) at the 2011 CAF AIRSHO presented by Western National Bank. To date, 28 of the WASP veterans have committed to take part in the reunion. The Best Warbird Show in America returns to the skies Oct. 8-9, 2011, above Midland International Airport between Midland and Odessa, Texas...

B-17 Flying Fortress conservation work begins - BBC | A conservation team has begun a 16-month project to transform a World War II American bomber. The B-17 Flying Fortress, Mary Alice, had been on display at the American Air Museum, part of Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford, in Cambridgeshire...

Spitfire to fly over Yorkshire Air Museum - York Press | An iconic Spitfire is due to fly over the Yorkshire Air Museum during a visit by primary school pupils. An education activity day will be held at the Elvington attraction on Thursday, June 9, involving up to 300 pupils who will take part in activities and workshops with a Second World War theme...

Hailey candy drop reenacts post-WWII Berlin Airlift - Magic Valley | HAILEY — Candy will drop from the sky Thursday afternoon as a pilot flying a vintage Tri-Engine Grumman amphibian plane reenacts the famous candy drops over Berlin during the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and 1949. The candy will drop onto the Wood River High School football field at the end of Fox Acres Road between 4 and 4:30 p.m. Witnesses should assemble on the field by 4...

Southwest Airlines and the Salute Our Troops Weekend - Nuts About Southwest | When we first learned about the opportunity to work with Southwest Airlines and The Palazzo Las Vegas on a “Salute Our Troops” weekend, we had a hard time believing our luck. How often do you have the chance to work with two corporate partners as committed to pulling off such a huge event for our troops?...

Glorious Glosters - PPRuNe | A unique, never before seen line up of the three Gloster-built jet aircraft was created at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton. We were joined by 92-year old former GAC apprentice Sidney Dix, who helped to build the E28 and strapped Gerry Sayers in at Cranwell 70 years ago for the first historic flight.

Paratrooper to recall WWII - Nashoba Publishing | Herb Adams, of Worcester, will be a guest speaker at the Devens Museum open house on Saturday, May 21. The 87-year-old WWII veteran was one of the VIPs who came to a Combat Infantry Association get-together at the museum last month. Among other notables in attendance that Saturday morning was WWII veteran Joe Landry, of Shirley, who will also be a guest speaker at the open house...

Clayton Brukner earns spot in Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame - Battle Creek Enquirer | An aviation pioneer from Battle Creek becomes a member of the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday. Clayton Brukner, who grew up in Battle Creek and graduated from Battle Creek Central High School, was one of the founders of the Waco Aircraft Co., which was once the largest commercial builder of aircraft in the world...

Episode 42 - Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre - Flying Podcast | Continuing with the Lincolnshire theme, today I’m at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre. The centre is home to several WWII aircraft, most notably a Lancaster bomber and a Dakota; both of which are available for taxi rides. I started my podcast interview with Andrew Panton who runs the museum and concluded with a chat with Paddy Green, owner of the resident Dakota...

EAA e-Hotline - EAA | AirVenture to feature largest collection of naval aircraft from all eras -- From the 1911 Curtiss-Ely Pusher that made the first ship-based takeoff and landing to aircraft in the current inventory, AirVenture 2011 will showcase the largest collection of naval aircraft spanning all eras ever assembled in one location.

Airbus gives Concorde's new home a boost - Gazette | AIRBUS has pledged more than £800,000 towards a permanent home for Concorde. The aerospace giant gave the funding pledge, worth £840,000, to The Concorde Trust, which plans to build a Bristol Concorde Aviation Museum at Cribbs Causeway near Filton...

Eurocopter X3 hybrid sets new speed record of 430km/h, readies for next search and rescue mission - Engadget | See that chopper right there? That's the Eurocopter X3, and as of last week, it can cruise at more than half the speed of a commercial jet. Although the helicopter was striving to hit 220 knots, it actually blew past that milestone to maintain 232 knots (450 km or 279.6 miles per hour) in level, stabilized flight -- a new record for this aircraft...

What's On at RAF Museum London - RAF Museum | For much of his distinguished career, Kennington was regularly classed by leading critics as belonging to the ranks of such exceptional portraitists as: Hans Holbein the Younger; Albrecht Dürer; Franz Hals; Van Gogh and Augustus John. Furthermore, many of his artistic contemporaries rated him as one of the finest draughtsman of his day and while among famous contemporaries who admired Kennington’s portraiture were: Winston Churchill...

Sidney Centennial Community has history of flying - Sidney Herald | Believe it or not, Sidney has almost 100 years of aviation in its history. The city’s flying roots date back to 1915 with the first appearance of an airplane which made passes just above the streets. The Sidney Chamber of Commerce contracted a pilot from Kenmare, N.D., Otto W. Simms, to put on a show, taking off and landing at the 500 block of Fifth Avenue S.E. This was the first event in a long and complicated history of flying, a history former pilot and longtime member of the aviation community Don Rees was willing to share with the Herald recently...

Harry Haas: Friday's Fabulos Flyer - Flight To Success | EFHA:  European Federation Historic Aviation. The reason Harry is involved is because he "snapped" in his early twenty's. From that point on, his life has made history. As a child he had been enamored with with aviation, but never dreamed it could be for him. He had collected aviation memorabilia, gathered newspaper clippings, and glued models together.... but, well, I'm going to let Harry share his story...

A Brief History of Unmanned Aircraft - Air & Space | My first experience with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles was in the spring of 2005, when I visited the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California. I was researching an article on close air support, and got a firsthand look at the RQ-2 Pioneer operated by Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron-1. Later that year...

E-Fenix, the Two-Seater Trike - CAFE Blog | Anne Lavrand, Electravia’s General Manager, announced the E-Fenix, the first two-seat electric paratrike.  Developed with Planète Sports & Loisirs, a leisure activities company based on Re Island, off the coast of La Rochelle, France, the trike will carry visitors on discovery flights over the scenic island...

VIDEO: Coalition for Space Exploration Releases PSA - Spaceports | The Coalition for Space Exploration has released a new public service announcement entitled "Closer and Safer." The 60-second piece depicts an astronaut appearing in unexpected places on Earth: in an oceanfront community during a hurricane, beside firefighters in a sweltering blaze and alongside surgeons performing an operation; demonstrating the positive outcome of space technology in our everyday lives.