Sunday, June 26, 2011

Indy Transponder 26-JUN-2011 1230z

Action's up in the air at Quonset air show - Providence Journal | An Air Force C-5 cargo transport opens wide for tours at the Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show. An estimated 30000 people attended the show, which continues Sunday. Talk about twisting in the wind! ...

Video: A Flight On 'Fat Albert' - Patch.com | It may not fly as fast or as nimbly as the F/A-18 Hornets, but the Blue Angels' Fat Albert is definitely a showstopper. This plane typically carries the cargo, equipment and support team for the Blue ...

We made it! - Air Race ClassicAir Race Classic - Air Race Classic  by ejackson | We made it to the finish! We have no idea how we did..we will find out tomorrow at the awards banquet! We'll keep you posted. For now, we're completing han…

High Country Warbirds Fly In, June 25, 2011  from PHXspotters by Felipe Garcia | Today was the High Country Warbirds Fly-in, held at the Planes of Fame museum in Valle (40G). When I first learned of the event, I wasn’t sure if I would make it, given that this is final exams weekend; to my good luck, my final was at 8 AM, which would give me plenty of time to make the drive up to Valle to see this. So after the final, I jumped in my truck with my roommate and we headed North…

Parachute team plans local jump - Dubuque Telegraph Herald | The Golden Knights parachute team jump will land in the Kennedy Mall parking lot just off Stoneman Road at 7 pm Saturday, July 2, according to Richardson Motors and Dubuque Mining Co. For more than 52 years, members of the US Army Parachute Team have ...

Unveiling a star at Aviation Heritage Park's annual Hangar Party - Bowling Green Daily News | Six years ago, when a small group of aviation buffs set out to create an aviation park in Bowling Green, they barely even had a plan. “Aviation Heritage Park started out as just a discussion,” ...

'Complex air show' quells Monument Fire - Sierra Vista Herald | Stacking the aircraft begins at the top with an overall air boss, who is a flying air traffic controller supervising all the aircraft coming into and out of the drop areas, he said. In some cases there may be a need to separate the fire fighting into ...

Jessica Cox: turning impossibility into accomplishment - Sunday Times.lk | 'A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent': this well known quote by Andy Munthe signified the central theme of the importance of self belief and persistence, in the deliberation by Jessica Cox to over 2000 students on 23 June at ...

Local role in aviation history is significant - Elmira Star-Gazette | Curtiss also trained Lt. Theodore Ellyson, who became US Naval Aviator No. 1. In the following years, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company manufactured hundreds of aircraft for the US Navy. In an age when air travel and even space travel have become ...

S.E.5A replica – homage to a fierce ‘scout’ of WW1  from Shortfinals's Blog | In March 1917, at the height of the savage fighting on the Western Front in France, No. 56 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, (motto, ‘Quid si coelum ruat’, ‘What if the heavens fall?’) took delivery of a new version of a fighter which was fated to become the mount of the some of the Allies leading ‘aces’. The S.E.5A had arrived...

From wind to waves - and back again!  from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The Greek Air Force has just salvaged one of its Mirage 2000 fighters. The aircraft crashed on June 9th, very near the coast of the island of Samos, in relatively shallow water (apparently sustaining remarkably little damage in the process). A team of divers and a recovery barge brought it to the surface. Here, posted by the Greek Air Force, are a series of photographs illustrating the recovery…

 

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