Indy Transponder 10-JUN-2011 1700z

Paris Air Show set for take-off - CNN International | Solar-powered plane Solar Impulse is expected to take part in flying displays at the 2011 Paris Air Show. (CNN) -- If the smell of jet fuel or the mere sight of a vapor trail is enough to get your pulse racing, then chances are you ...

Shrinersfest opening day is a success - WFIE-TV | Even though the blue angels aren't performing, you can get your picture taken beside their cockpit. The Shriners say they are pleased with Thursday's attendance and expect 30000 people to make it to Shrinersfest this weekend. ...
   
Black Sea Marines, U.S. Air Force Bring “Thunder Over the Black Sea”  - Marines.mil | Crowds of Romanian locals, tourists and groups of US military personnel gathered here on June 8 to watch the “Thunder Over Constanta” air show that was put on by the Romanian Ministry of Tourism. Marines from Black Sea Rotational Force 11, ...

Military’s aerial recon marks 150th anniversary - Air Force Times | Civil War memories take an aerial turn Saturday, with a 150-year-anniversary celebration of the birth of the Balloon Corps on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
   
Air show hopes for a huge birthday success - Swindon Advertiser | ORGANISERS of the world's biggest airshow are hoping for a soaring success to mark the 40th anniversary. And actor Sir David Jason was flying high as he arrived in a Chinook to launch the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF ...

UNIQUE BOMBER JOINS AIR TATTOO 'STARS' from www.airtattoo.com | The legendary Vulcan bomber will be among the stars at next month's Royal International Air Tattoo when it demonstrates its grace and immense power during the airshow's seven-and-a-half-hour flying display at RAF Fairford on July 16-17.

Icon returns to Airshow - Sunderland Echo | A COLD War icon is returning to the skies as part of this year's Sunderland International Airshow. The world's last flying Avro Vulcan bomber is set to wow the crowds at the 2011 event, which takes place on Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, ...

Russian Knights, Swifts aerobatic teams to stay - The Voice of Russia | The Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdiukov has disproved news reports that the Russian Knights and Swifts elite aerobatic teams will be disbanded and merged into one. “The news media are reporting on something I've never known about”, ...

Iowa City Airport to host start of Air Race Classic - Iowa City Press Citizen | The Iowa City Municipal Airport will play a key role in support of women's aviation, as well as Iowa flight history, when it serves as the launch site on June 21 for the 2011 Air Race Classic (ARC), a four-day, 2700-mile race in which women pilots from ...

To do this weekend: Sky Chiefs take flight at air show - Canandaigua, NY - MPNnow | Model plane enthusiasts will take to the skies this weekend at the Canandaigua Sky Chiefs’ annual Larry Bowerman Memorial Fun Fly and Air Show.

Waypoint returns for second airshow - Waypoint AirMed and Rescue Magazine | Building on the success of the inaugural event last year, preparations for Waypoint AirMed & Rescue 2011 in September are in full swing. The combined conference, exhibition and airshow returns to London Oxford Airport, UK, taking place 7-8 September, and promises to be bigger and better than ever. ...

Tribute unveiled to wartime women pilots - Herald Series | To mark the occasion last Wednesday, Mr Jewson provided a 1940s-style lunch, a Spitfire flypast and a live swing band. He said: “I grew more aware that these wonderful women who flew every type of aircraft to the battle stations across the country ...

Sullenberger: "Miracle" plane a part of history - CBS News | The plane that splash-landed in the Hudson River in 2009, making a national hero of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, is being moved to an aviation museum in North Carolina, where it will be put on permanent display.  ...

USAF Museum Series: Part 13 from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by Steve | As part of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War last year, the USAF Museum completely renovated and re-designed that gallery. It is located in the second (middle) hangar, which previously was a rather bright space. They painted the entire interior a darker gray and switched to the more theatrical lighting that is in use in the museum's other two hangars. ...

The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 - Wired Magazine | The Lun ekranoplan weighs 380 tons, has a 148-foot wingspan and can launch six anti-ship missiles from flight. Or rather, it could, before it was retired to a forlorn pier in southern Russia. ...

Bob Alexander ... Friday's Fabulous Flyer from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | ... I doubt he'll move far from aviation. He's building a plane, and I'm hoping he'll bring it down to Renton next year and fly women at our flying event. His Brother is a captain at SWA. His dad, Bob Senior, is a docent at the Seattle Museum of Flight after a long career as an engineer at Lockheed, ...

F-35 To Begin Flying Initial Training from Warplanes Online Community | The first two production F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) will begin flying the initial training syllabus this month at the U.S. Air Force’s test center to determine whether the aircraft is ready to begin pilot training.  The conventional-take-off-and-landing (CTOL) F-35As, Aircraft AF-6 and -7, will complete a two-month maturity evaluation at Edwards AFB, California, flying the syllabus to be used by the JSF integrated training center at Eglin AFB, Florida. ...

Teenage Bethany hits lofty heights - Driffield Today | Bethany, of Woldholme Avenue, Driffield, took to the skies at Hull Aero Club on her 16th birthday on May 31. She achieved the milestone just two years after taking her first flying lesson on her 14th birthday – a present from her stepfather Tony Page. ...

Young Eagles take flight - Georgetown Times | For many of them, they got to experience the excitement of flying for the very first time thanks to the Young Eagles program developed by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) to welcome young people into the world of aviation. ...

Video: Behind-The-Scenes With The Martin Jetpack's 5,000' Flight from AirPigz | Here's a really well done behind-the-scenes look at the extremely successful recent Martin Jetpack flight that went all the way to 5,000 feet, and the test of the ballistic recovery parachute system.

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